For a Price
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What are the three stories that illustrate the price of fame, fortune, and adventure?
Fame, fortune, adventure, all those things that we want, they all sort of come with a price. And today's three stories demonstrate that. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Surge, and it's about a couple's dream vacation that quickly turns into a nightmare. The second story you'll hear is called Stowaway, and it's about a runaway who wants nothing more than just to go see the world. And the third and final story you'll hear is called The Path Was Traveled, and it's about a group of men who are very, very greedy, and their greed has devastating consequences.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays. So if that's of interest to you, please offer to make the like button their favorite dish, fettuccine alfredo, but replace the alfredo sauce with poisonous sea urchins. Okay, let's get into our first story called Surge.
In October of 2007, Helena Carroll and her fiance John Cullen had saved a little bit of money and they were torn on what to do with it. They knew they should put it aside and put it towards a down payment on a new house, but they also really wanted to go on vacation and lately life had been very stressful for both of them. And so ultimately they decided let's just blow it all on an amazing vacation. And so later that month, they flew off to Thailand. Over the course of their week, they spent most of their time at their resort, sitting in the pool and eating nice food, and they were having this really nice time. And on their last day, they decided they needed to do something a little bit more adventurous.
And so they decided to explore the Namtalu Cave inside of the Khao Sok National Park, which is this 160 million year old rainforest that was not that close to their resort. In fact, it was not really a huge tourist destination because of how cumbersome it was to get there. But from everything they read about this park and specifically this cave they wanted to go in, it was just this breathtaking experience and so they were sold. After signing up for a guided tour, they headed down to the pier where they boarded a boat and drove 90 minutes to the entrance of this park. When they got off, they met their two guides and then walked down to this entrance area where they connected with the other five tourists that were going to be on this tour with them.
Those five people were two Swiss parents and their two teenage daughters, along with a 10-year-old German boy who was there on his own. After everyone had said hello and introduced themselves, they began walking through the park towards this cave. The allure of the Namtalu Cave, which is the cave they were going to be going to, was there was a river that ran through it, where at times as you walked through this cave, you'd have to hold onto a rope and wade through the water, where the water was up to your waist or even up to your neck at times. But it felt safe and controlled, and it was kind of exhilarating for foreign tourists to go through the cave. As they were just about to get to the entrance of the Namtalu Cave, some park rangers happened to walk down the path next to them and they exchanged some words with the two local guides that were leading this tour.
And they told them it's a bad idea to go into the Namtalu Cave because this is the monsoon season. No one's supposed to be in there. And if it starts raining while you're inside the cave, you won't hear it and it will flood the cave and then you'll be trapped. But despite the warning, the group continued on because it hadn't rained that day and there wasn't any rain in the forecast. and the two local guides that were leading this tour were really confident that they were not in danger.
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