No Way Out Vol. XII
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MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
26 min
2 speakers
3 chapters
transcribed 8 hours ago
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What is the premise of today’s “No Way Out” episode?
Today's podcast will feature three stories that involve people who were trapped with no way out. 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 Bread, and it's about a DIY repair at a factory that quickly turns into a disaster. The second story you'll hear is called Dead End, and it's about man who explores this cave that seems like it's sort of an unassuming place, but it quickly turns into a death trap. And the third and final story you'll hear is called The Cage. And it's about urban explorers who discover a horrifying scene during one of their explorations.
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 Friday. So if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Follow Button's house and flip all of their wall-mounted TVs upside down. Okay, let's get into our first story called Bread.
In 1998, Fresha Bakery, which was a bread company in Leicester, England, was all about profits. And their employees knew this, because all the time corners were being cut for the sake of money, even if it was totally dangerous. In May of that year, one of the company's industrial ovens needed a minor repair. One of the cogs inside the oven had come loose and fallen off, and someone just needed to pick it up and put it back on. To picture this oven in your head, think of the scanner you put your luggage through at the airport, the X-ray machine. It's kind of like that. It was this 80-foot long metal tunnel where there was a conveyor belt that ran through it, and you would put dough on one side, and it would run through with the conveyor belt through this oven, and then on the other side it would be fully cooked.
Whenever repairs were needed inside one of these ovens, the procedure was to completely turn off the oven. So not just the heat, but the whole operation needed to be completely shut down, and then the oven would sit for almost a full 24 hours before a mechanic would go in and make the repair. But the mechanic cost money, and every hour that this bread machine was not operational, the company would lose $1,500. And so the managers of this company thought, you know what, that's too much money to be giving up. If we do the repairs ourselves, that saves us on the cost of the mechanic. And if we can find a way to make the repairs while leaving the oven partially running, that will save us a whole bunch of money too.
Someone pointed out that it was possible to turn the heat all the way down in the oven, but allow the conveyor belt to keep rotating through. They just needed to find a way to get in with this conveyor belt moving around them. And so they came up with a plan. Even though the oven sat flush to the ground, there was a side panel that could open up and you could crawl underneath the oven, and right above you would be the conveyor belt. And so they thought, well, hey, if we just remove a couple of sections of the conveyor belt, when that gap in the belt cycles around and is right over someone who is standing underneath it, they can stand up into that gap and kind of be hunched over and walk along inside of the oven, staying in that gap until.
they come across the cog that's gonna be right in the ground, they can pick it up, put it right back on, and keep walking on, staying in the gap until they reach the other side, at which point they could crawl out the exit. And so they began walking around the factory asking for volunteers and they were offering extra pay. Two men, 44-year-old Ian Erickson and 47-year-old David Mays, volunteered for the job. And their managers told them they would do it the next day because they needed time to turn the heat off on the oven and let it cool down first.
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