What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man

This episode of the Wi-Files is brought. to you by the Wellness Company. Frank Smythe had to stop. He was 28,000. ft up Everest and fading. He knew if he. closed his eyes, he wouldn't open them. again. Lots of climbers took their last breath. right here. Some were still frozen in. the ice. But his partner wasn't worried. They just needed a break and a bit of. food. Frank broke a mint cake in half. and held a piece out, but nobody was. there. But Frank knew he wasn't alone.

He experienced something thousands of. people in danger experience, an unseen. presence, calm and familiar, always. there when you're about to die. Scientists call him the third man. They. even built a machine that can summon. him. But what the machine creates and. what survivors describe, they are two. very different things. >> [music].

>> You see, that means your baby is still. alive. Yeah, a human. I'm dying. >> You're not dying. I went to urgent care. yesterday with a scratchy throat. I sat. in the waiting room for 5 hours, and now. I got some worse. What do you mean. worse? >> Well, the guy next to me was coughing. into the magazine basket. And not near. it, human, into it, direct deposit. And then I watched a woman sneeze on the. vending machine and then pressed the. buttons.

>> That's Yeah, that's pretty gross. Well, I the worst part is she got mad too. Wow. Ugh. And then a kid wiped his nose on Gertie, on her hump. She didn't even flinch. She. just stood there and accepted it like. some kind of biological collection site. And the Fever Brothers, they licked the water fountain. W- Why? Well, they dared each other, which means. they dared themselves, human. And there. was no external pressure. It was a.

closed loop system of bad decisions. So, did you even get treated? >> Treated? Yeah, I saw a doctor for like. 90 seconds. He looked at my throat with. a popsicle stick, said "Looks red", charged me $40, and told me to rest and. stay hydrated. >> That's it? That's it. $40 for advice my. gram gram gave me for free. And her cure. for everything was egg salad and a. rosary. So, you went in with a sore. throat and came out. >> out with the plague. The waiting room is. the disease, human. I've quarantined.

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shutting down my H-checkpoint. >> Thank you. Yeah, he just flagged Gertie. at 165°. That's medium well, human. I know, baby. I know. I don't think it's. funny, either. Ernest Shackleton's ship got crushed by. Antarctic pack ice in November 1915. 27. men, three lifeboats, no ship.

They camped on the ice for 5 months, dragging the lifeboats behind them. When. the ice broke apart, they launched the. boats and sailed 200 miles to the. nearest land, but it was nothing more. than a barren rock in the middle of. nowhere. There was no hope of rescue. Nobody knew where they were. So, Shackleton piled into a lifeboat with. five men. They endured hurricane winds. and 20-ft waves for 800 miles. But. finally, they reached South Georgia. Island. That was the good news. The bad news, they landed on the wrong.

side. The whaling station that could. save them was on the north coast. They. were on the south. And between them was. a mountain range nobody crossed. Nobody. even dared to try. But Shackleton was. out of options. He picked two men for. the final push, Tom Crean and Frank. Worsley. They carried 50 ft of rope, a. small axe, and 3 days of food. No tent, no sleeping [music] bags, no good. options. If they stay, they die. Well, I. saw MacGyver get off an island once. All.

he had was a kazoo, a dental dam, and an. extra rigid churro. A rigid churro? Well, it wouldn't work with a flaccid. churro. Okay. Uh but it's nothing to be. ashamed of. It happens to everybody's. churro once in a while. For 36 straight hours, they climbed. They navigated by the stars when they. were lucky enough to have clear sky. Mostly, they just climbed in the dark. At one point, they got pinned. Going. back meant freezing to death. Waiting. meant freezing to death. So, Shackleton.

coiled the rope beneath the three men. like a sled, closed his eyes, and they. pushed off. They slid 2,000 ft screaming the whole. way. Then they hit a snowbank. And somehow, nobody died. They finally stumbled into the whaling. station, filthy and frostbitten, but. alive. Three men just pulled off one of. the greatest survival feats in history. And each of them was hiding a secret. from the others. Only later did they.

learn they all had the same secret. Weeks later, Shackleton admitted it. first. It seemed to me often that we. were four, not three. I said nothing of. it to Crean or Worsley. I could not bring myself to look behind. me. I feared what I might see, or worse, what I might not. Worsley said the same. thing. A presence just outside his field. of vision keeping pace. They never saw. the figure, never heard it speak, but.

all three were sure someone walked with. them across that mountain range. T.S. Eliot wrote about it in his famous poem. The Waste Land. Who is the third who walks always beside. you. When I count, there are only you and I. together. I do not know whether a man or a woman, but who is that on the other side of. you? That line gave the phenomenon its. name, the third man. >> [music]. >> And 11 years later, Charles Lindbergh. tried to cross the Atlantic alone.

But, he wasn't alone for long. >> [music]. >> On May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh. climbed into a single engine plane at. Roosevelt Field on Long Island. He was. going to fly non-stop to Paris, 33 hours. over the open ocean alone. Plenty of. pilots had tried, none made it. >> Oh, you're talking about Sister. Betrayal. What? You said a nun made it.

Sister Betrayal is the only flying nun I. know. >> No, no, nun as in no one. How dare you? Sally Field is not no one. I like her. I. really like her. The problem started before he left the. ground. By the time he hit the Atlantic, he was on his second straight day. without sleep. 22 hours into the flight, he felt himself slipping. As a last. resort, he pointed the plane straight. down and dove. And just before hitting. the water, he pulled up and flew so low.

that waves splashed into the cockpit. Even the icy water wasn't enough. Lindbergh was going to crash and he knew. it. Then, just before he surrendered, the cockpit filled with people. Not one. presence, many. Lindbergh called them. phantoms. They sounded calm, friendly, even familiar. They pointed out a. navigation problem. They helped him. change course. And even though there was. nothing behind his seat but fuel tanks. and not enough room to stretch his legs, he could feel them, all of them, all.

around him, keeping him company, keeping. him awake, keeping him alive. These phantoms speak with human voices. friendly vapor like shapes without. substance. able to appear and disappear at will. I am flying in a region beyond the range. of human experience. where time and space seem to have. altered. The phantoms stayed for hours. They were. comforting. They said he was going to be.

all right. Then just over the horizon he. saw white waves crashing against the. green coast of Ireland land. Lindbergh felt a rush of adrenaline or. relief. It didn't matter. Fuel levels. were good. Instruments were working and. the landing strip was in sight. He was. going to make it. That's when Lindbergh. realized something. The voices were gone. One minute the. cockpit was full of people then nothing. Lindbergh was alone. After 33 hours in the air and almost 60.

hours without sleep Charles Lindbergh. landed safely. He crossed the Atlantic. He made history. He became one of the. most famous admired men in the world. He. published books. He gave hundreds of. interviews and through it all he never. mentioned the voices not once. But 26 years later Charles Lindbergh. took another risk. This time he risked. his reputation. In 1953 he wrote The. Spirit of St. Louis. And this wasn't a. story of bravery and triumph. Lindbergh. wrote about his early struggles and.

regrets and he wrote about that flight. in 1927 when invisible voices saved his. life. He was worried he'd be mocked for. mentioning the third man. Instead he won. the Pulitzer Prize. >> [music]. >> 43 years later on the tallest mountain. wall in the world the third man appeared. again. But this time he couldn't save everyone.

>> On June 29th, 1970, Reinhold Messner and. his brother Gunther reached the summit. of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, nicknamed. the killer mountain for its long deadly. history. They should have been. celebrating. They just became the first. people to climb the [music] tallest. mountain wall on Earth, 1,500 ft of. vertical rock and ice. >> Night gathers, and now my watch begins.

It shall not end until my death. Here he. goes. >> I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. You done? Oh, I was. going to the wall punishment. Take no. wife, father no children. I do that. right now if I could. Oh, you didn't get. your alimony check? Uh, don't blame me, blame the raven. Climbing to the top was easy, but now. Gunther was in trouble. He felt dizzy, his vision blurred. Fluid was leaking. into his lungs, and he knew what this. was, altitude sickness. He didn't know.

how bad, but he knew he [music] couldn't. make the climb back down. So, Reinhold. made a call. They descend a different. side of the mountain. It was a shorter. climb, but that's about all they knew. about the terrain. They weren't prepared. to take a different way down, but this. was Gunther's best chance to live. They. started down slowly, but still Gunther. couldn't keep up. Every time Reinhold. turned to check on him, he was farther. and farther behind. They were 1,000 ft. in the air. Reinhold started to panic.

That's when he noticed the third. climber, not ahead or behind, just to. his right, a few steps back, just. outside his line of sight. Reinhold. never saw the figure directly, but it. kept [music] pace, steady and calm for. hours. Suddenly, there was a third climber with us, descending on my right side. I could sense his presence. But the third man couldn't save. everyone. Near the bottom of the. mountain, an avalanche hit.

Reinhold barely survived, and Gunther. [music] didn't. His remains weren't. found for almost 50 years. In 1985, two British climbers, Joe. Simpson and Simon Yates, were coming. down the west face of Siula Grande when. Joe slipped and shattered his leg. This.

was a bad one. Bone was poking through the skin, and. they were 20,000 ft up, so there'd be no. rescue. So, they worked out a system. They had a 300-ft rope, one end tied. around each man. Simon would lower Joe. down slowly, let him get in place with. his good leg, and then follow down. And. they did this for hours, 3,000 agonizing. ft. Then, a storm hit, and they lost. sight of each other. Simon called out, but the wind was too loud. Suddenly,

Simon felt the rope snap against his. ribs as it went taut. A gust knocked Joe. off the mountain, so his full weight was. pulling on Simon. Simon dug in as best. he could, but his hands were. frostbitten, and he was down to one. anchor. If Joe didn't grab hold soon, they'd both fall. Simon held that rope. for a full hour while the storm got. worse. Then, he heard a dull scrape. His. last anchor was starting to give. He still couldn't see Joe. He screamed.

He begged. [music]. Nothing. Another gust of wind wore. through, and the anchor slipped again. If Simon waited any longer, they'd both. die. He had only one terrible option. He. cut the rope. Joe fell 100 ft into the dark. [music]. Simon assumed he was dead. He should. have been, but he wasn't. Joe landed on a snow bank inside the. crevasse, alive, alone in the dark with. a shattered leg. Above him, a 100-ft. drop he couldn't climb. Below him, a.

bottomless pit. No food, no radio, no. way out. Then he heard a voice. Not his. own thoughts, another voice, clear and. calm. It told him to stop looking for a. way up. The way out was down. Joe couldn't see what was down there, but he went anyway. And for 3 days, the. voice kept talking. Which direction to. crawl, when to rest, when to keep. moving. There was this voice talking to me, and.

it was quite clear. You've got to do this. You've got to do. that. And I do it. Joe dragged a shattered leg over boulder. fields and three glaciers. He dragged. himself all the way back to camp just as. Simon was packing up. Simon looked like. he saw a ghost. Joe said he might have. been saved by one. He wrote about it in. Touching the Void. He didn't believe in. ghosts, or God, or guardian angels, or. any of it. But he believed that voice. was real, and he knew it saved his life.

Two cases, [music] two mountains. One. presence watched a man die and couldn't. stop it. Another pulled a man out of a. hole in the ice. Whatever the third man is, he doesn't. work the same way twice. Cuz 12 years. later, a cave diver lost her lifeline in. 100 ft underwater. She had 20 minutes of. air left. And the stranger who came for. her wasn't invisible. She knew him.

In 1997, Rob Palmer was one of the. world's leading experts on blue hole. diving. He'd spent years mapping. underwater cave systems other divers. wouldn't touch. That summer, he went on a dive in the. Red Sea and he never came back. A few. weeks after Rob died, his widow got back. in the water. Stephanie Schwab was a. geologist. She studied the underwater. caves of the Bahamas. Same territory her.

husband worked. She'd been in those. caves dozens of times. She suited up. alone and descended into a cave called. Mermaid's Lair. >> Yeah, Mermaid's Lair. Oh, that's the. club on Flamingo, right? With the. 24-hour buffet? No, it's a cave. No, you're telling me. Hey, it's the kind of. place where every night is open pole. night. >> An underwater cave. >> Well, on Tuesdays they. >> Okay, that's enough. Cave diving works like this. You clip yourself to a guideline when. you enter. The line is how you find your.

way out. The cave is pitch black. Visibility is measured in inches. If you. lose the guideline, the cave kills you. Stephanie lost the guideline. She had a. limited amount of air in her tanks. She. reached into the dark and felt nothing. Her breathing picked up and breathing. hard at depth burns through air fast. Then, she heard a voice. Stephanie, stop. Wait. Calm down. You're going to be okay.

She knew the voice. It was Rob. She. stopped and felt him right next to her, helping her. Breathe, honey. Just breathe. Trust me, okay? Stephanie slowed her. breathing. She felt her panic. dissipating. Good. Okay, I need you to reach about 3 ft. above your head. Slightly to your left. Don't rush. Just feel around. She reached up and.

felt the guideline. It had been directly. above her the whole time. Good. I knew you could do it. Stay calm. You have plenty of air. You've done this. a hundred times. Follow the line. Don't rush. You're going to be okay. Stephanie followed the line back through. the cave and up to open water. The. moment she broke the surface, the. presence was gone. She never saw her. husband, but she heard him, and he saved.

her, and then he was gone. But [snorts] the most dramatic account. didn't come from a mountain or an ocean. or a cave, it came from inside a burning. skyscraper on Tuesday morning in. September. September 11th, 2001, 9:03 a.m. The.

second plane hit the South Tower between. the 77th and 85th floors. Ron DiFrancesco worked for Euro Brokers. on the 84th floor. When the plane hit, he was below the impact zone by just a. few floors. The people above him were. dead or were going to be. He started. down Stairway A. He made it a few floors. down and ran into two people coming up. They told him the stairway below was. gone, consumed by fire. The smoke made the air unbreathable. The. group turned around and headed for the.

roof hoping for a helicopter. Ron. followed them up a few floors, but then he stopped. The roof was the wrong choice. He didn't. know why. He turned around and went back. down into the smoke alone. The smoke was thick enough to blind him. A collapsed section of wall blocked the. stairs. He tried to climb over it. He. couldn't breathe. His lungs were. burning, so he stopped. He sat down and. decided this was where he was going to. die.

He thought about his wife, thought about. his kids, and then [music] he heard a voice. Get up, Ron. Get up. You can do this. Ron felt a physical presence next to. him, but nobody was there. I was led to the stairs. I don't think something grabbed my hand, but I was definitely led. The presence guided him down through. smoke and fire. At one point, it led him.

directly into the flames. Nobody saying. runs toward fire, [music]. but Ron did. His hands burned, his face. burned, but he made it past the impact. zone. >> [music]. >> Then the voice disappeared. Ron kept. going. He made it to the lobby. He ran. out of the building. He was barely two. blocks away when the South [music] Tower. collapsed. Ron Di Francesco was the last person to. escape the South Tower alive. More than. 600 other people in that building died. that day. Everyone above the 78th floor, [music].

everyone who headed for the roof. Ron says he wouldn't have made it. without the presence he never saw, but. felt. Journalist John Geiger spent five. years collecting accounts like these. Climbers, sailors, soldiers. >> [music]. >> He found hundreds of cases and published. them in a book called The Third Man. Factor. Shackleton [music] in the ice, Lindbergh. over the ocean, Stephanie underwater, and Ron in a burning stairwell. 100. years of stories that nobody could. explain. Then in 2006, neuroscientist in.

Switzerland found a way to summon the. third man. All you have to do is let him open your. skull and stay awake [music] while he. does it. >> [music]. >> You're 22 years old with epilepsy. You're lying on an operating table. Your. skull is open. You're awake because the. doctors need you to tell them what you. feel when they touch your brain.

This is so they know where to cut. Off. by an inch here or a centimeter there, you could lose your ability to speak. You could go [music] into a coma. You. could die. They send a small electrical current. into a region behind your ear. And then. a shadow appears behind you. You can't. see it, but you know it's there. You can. feel it. When you sit up, >> [music]. >> it sits up. When you lie down, it lies. down behind you and wraps its arms. around you. Then the doctors turn off.

the electricity, and the shadow goes. away. You don't feel the presence. anymore. Current on, presence. Current off, nothing. [music] Every single time. They. summoned the third man. The neuroscientist running that surgery. was Olaf Blanke. And until that moment. in 2006, nobody knew where the third man. came from. Blanke's team [music]. stimulated the part of the brain that. tracks where your body is in space. The. left temporoparietal junction. >> A tuna fried potato Funyun. Temporo-.

parietal junction. >> What I say? It takes signals from your muscles, your. inner ear, your eyes, your skin. And it. builds one picture of where you are and. what you're doing. When that system. breaks from exhaustion, oxygen. deprivation, extreme cold, or an. electrode, the brain builds that picture. of you twice. And you're aware of both. But it feels like the second presence. belongs to someone else. In 2014, Blanke took it further. His. team built a robot to mimic human. movement. Blindfolded volunteers stood.

in front of one robot and behind. another, like waiting in line. The. subject then taps the robot in front of. them on the shoulder. The robot behind. copies this in real time and taps the. subject on the shoulder. Fine. But when the robot's reactions were. delayed just by half a second, volunteers felt something. A presence behind them. Not the robot. A. presence, sentient and aware. Some got. so disturbed they asked to stop. Two.

subjects felt even more than one. presence in the room, all from half a. second delay. Blanke's team built a. machine that could create the third man. on demand. The third man experiment. proved that when the brain's prediction. of sensation is interrupted, it. attributes those sensations to an. external agent, in other [music] words, the third man. But, there's a big problem with this. theory. That's not how the third man works at. all.

In 2014, researchers designed a robotic. presence experiment to mimic [music] the. sensed presence in control conditions, and it worked. A presence appeared, but. it was nothing like the third man. Subjects [music] described a shadow. entity that made them uncomfortable, even frightened. [music]. That's not how the third man works. He. doesn't create fear. He takes it away.

Every survivor describes a calming. presence, supportive and encouraging. The mechanism matched, the experience. didn't. So, is the third man real? >> [music]. >> Well, let's break it down. The skeptical. explanation is clean. Under extreme. stress, [music] the brain misfires. It. hallucinates a second person built from. its own signals. Blanke proved it by. stimulating the temporoparietal. junction. Kaplan met three pirate. luncheon. Temporo- Never mind.

Electrode on, ghost appears. Electrode. off, gone. His team reproduced the. effect in healthy people in minutes. [music]. The third man is the brain talking to. itself and not recognizing its own. voice. >> [music]. >> And that explanation fits every. survivor. Shackleton had been awake 36. hours in sub-zero cold. Lindbergh hadn't. slept in over 2 days. Joe Simpson was. hypothermic with [music] a shattered. leg. Rod DeFrancisco was breathing smoke. and carbon monoxide. >> [music].

>> But the glitch theory can't explain the. most important part. The third man is. helpful. Hallucinations from oxygen. deprivation are chaotic. Melting walls, hostile figures, [music] panic. The. third man is the opposite. He's calm. He. gives directions. He knows the way out. And he's [music] consistent. In 1943, the British neurologist Macdonald. Critchley interviewed almost 300. shipwreck survivors. This was 60 years. before Blanc picked up an electrode. Critchley found the same pattern. Calm.

presence, [music]. specific guidance, disappears when the. danger ends. Christians and atheists, [music] 1916 and 2001, mountain climbers. and office workers. All of them describe. the same thing. There's one more theory worth. mentioning. >> [music]. >> In 1976, psychologist Julian Jaynes. argued that ancient humans didn't have. the kind of internal experience that we. have today. >> [music]. >> They heard voices, commands from the. right hemisphere of the brain, and. interpreted them as gods. Jaynes called.

it the bicameral mind. The theory says. that under extreme [music] stress, the. brain reverts to that older operating. system. The command voice comes back. Sounds like [music] science fiction, but. it fits these theories better than a. misfiring brain does. But here's the. question nobody can answer. If the brain makes the third man, why does it make [music] him a savior? Evolution doesn't usually build backup. systems that switch on at the moment of. death. Unless they work.

Systems that are calm, specific, directional. Systems that know which way. to crawl, which way to walk, which way. to swim in the pitch black. If the third. man is a malfunction, he's the most. useful malfunction in the history of. biology. If the brain is doing this on purpose, then we're looking at something in human. consciousness that science hasn't. [music] mapped yet. Something that knows. you need help, and something that shows. up on time. Something that leaves when. you're safe. >> [music]. >> The survivors know what they felt. The.

scientists know what they can prove. And. somewhere in the gap between those two. things, on a mountain, in a cockpit, [music]. inside a cave, in a burning stairwell, the third man was there. And I don't need [music] science to. explain the third man. I don't care who. he is. I'm just glad he's there, [music]. waiting and watching, ready to step in when you need him most.

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Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon. landing alone [music]. on a film set, or were the shadow people. there? [singing]. The Roswell aliens [music]. disproved the smiling [singing] man, I'm told, and his name [music] was Cole. But I can't believe. I'm dancing with the fishes. Head [music] of fish on Thursday nights. with Stacy. and the weather. by the sea all through the night. Lie.

All I ever wanted was to [music] hear. the truth. So the world falls on me off. through the night. >> [music]. >> The mothman sightings of the solar storm.

still [music] come to a god that the. secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planets. above too, [music] project stargate and. what the dark watchers found. >> [music]. >> We're in a simulation, don't you worry. though. The black knight satellite it told. me so. I can't believe. I'm dancing with the beast. >> [music]. >> because they change you.

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