Amazing Survival Stories Part 1 - Ricky Megee #mysterious #mysteries #dissappearance #survival — Transcript

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11. 0:19story this is the first part of a series
12. 0:21of amazing stories of people surviving
13. 0:23in extreme situations
14. 0:25against all odds let's get to it welcome
15. 0:28to story time
16. 0:37on january 23 2006 ricky mcgee
17. 0:41who was 35 years old was driving through
18. 0:45the australian outback
19. 0:46on his way to a new job in western
20. 0:48australia
21. 0:49when something happened now we don't
22. 0:53really know
23. 0:53exactly what it was that happened to him
24. 0:56because he has given different stories
25. 0:58over the years
26. 0:59one was that he picked up a group of
27. 1:01hitchhikers and the next thing he
28. 1:03remembers
29. 1:04uh was waking up in a shallow grave in
30. 1:07the
31. 1:07outback with dingo scratching that
32. 1:10plastic wrapped over him
33. 1:12in another version he said that he
34. 1:14picked up
35. 1:15only one aboriginal hitchhiker who he
36. 1:19thinks must have drugged him drugged his
37. 1:21drink at some point
38. 1:22ended up again with him in a shallow
39. 1:24grave and dingo scratching at him
40. 1:26and yet another story he gave he said
41. 1:29that uh his car broke down
42. 1:31and finally there was another about him
43. 1:33having been carjacked by an armed game
44. 1:36but the police never found evidence of
45. 1:39any crimes whatever the reason for what
46. 1:42happened
47. 1:42uh the reality is is that he found
48. 1:45himself in a most
49. 1:46uh dire situation he woke up in the
50. 1:49middle of nowhere
51. 1:50he was unable to locate his car and
52. 1:52clueless about his exact whereabouts
53. 1:54but one thing was sure he was out in
54. 1:57rugged perilous terrain
55. 1:58the tanami desert which is where he was
56. 2:00can reach up to 40 degrees fahrenheit
57. 2:02during the day
58. 2:03and get very very cold at night and not
59. 2:05only that there are all sorts of
60. 2:07dangerous animals so at the beginning he
61. 2:10started to walk
62. 2:11and he managed to walk for 10 days
63. 2:14or so through the desert thinking
64. 2:16erroneously
65. 2:17that the further he walked the less time
66. 2:19it would take for rescuers to find him
67. 2:21so he kept on walking often losing
68. 2:24consciousness because of heat exhaustion
69. 2:26he claims to have made temporary
70. 2:28shelters using branches and leaves
71. 2:30and says he mainly lived off of eating
72. 2:33frogs
73. 2:34leeches snakes and drinking water from
74. 2:37dams and water holes
75. 2:38when he couldn't find water he drank his
76. 2:40own urine at night he barricaded his
77. 2:42shelter with rocks
78. 2:43to prevent the dingoes from trying to
79. 2:45eat him as he slept
80. 2:46luckily he had some things going for him
81. 2:49one that even though
82. 2:50temperatures were high it was the middle
83. 2:52of wet season
84. 2:53and two there was an abundance of small
85. 2:56animals
86. 2:56he could eat and uh finally he was
87. 3:00lucky enough to find an old windmill
88. 3:02which although decrepit provided him
89. 3:04protection
90. 3:05and shelter but even with this sort of
91. 3:07good luck after
92. 3:08some time being exposed to elements he
93. 3:10was extremely
94. 3:12weak to the extent that he was unable to
95. 3:14travel
96. 3:15as far on his daily foraging expeditions
97. 3:18he also said
98. 3:18that at one point he had like an abscess
99. 3:21on one of his teeth which could have
100. 3:23been fatal for
101. 3:24the for him in that weak state of his so
102. 3:26he pried it out with his car keys
103. 3:28all in all he would survive like this
104. 3:30for 71 days
105. 3:32but still authorities were baffled maybe
106. 3:35are baffled by his case
107. 3:36eventually workers on a remote cattle
108. 3:39ranch
109. 3:39stumbled upon mcgee uh he had become
110. 3:43skeletally thin having lost more than
111. 3:45100 pounds
112. 3:47he was starving sunburned and suffering
113. 3:49from malnutrition
114. 3:50and exposure birndudu station manager
115. 3:53mark clifford
116. 3:54described mcgee as a walking skeleton
117. 3:57when he was brought to the station he
118. 4:00said that the area in which he was found
119. 4:02was one of the most isolated places in
120. 4:05australia
121. 4:05he was taken to a local hospital and
122. 4:07treated for severe dehydration and
123. 4:09malnutrition but besides that
124. 4:11he seemed to be all right and he
125. 4:13recovered quite quickly
126. 4:14what exactly had happened to him remains
127. 4:16a mystery authorities
128. 4:18originally expressed skepticism about
129. 4:20his story
130. 4:21and his vehicle has never been found
131. 4:24this
132. 4:24is how mcgee described his ordeal in his
133. 4:272010 autobiography
134. 4:29left for dead he said that there had
135. 4:31been three men
136. 4:32sitting on the roadside who had run out
137. 4:34of gas and that he had offered to give
138. 4:36one of them
139. 4:37a lift to a gas station mcgee posited
140. 4:40that possibly uh he could have been
141. 4:43stabbed
142. 4:44with a drug syringe during struggle
143. 4:46either way mcgee later recalled feeling
144. 4:48increasingly dazed and confused and then
145. 4:51he blacked out
146. 4:52before he recovered consciousness hours
147. 4:54later he also said that his attackers
148. 4:56did not leave him immediately
149. 4:58they overpowered and stunned him he
150. 5:01later awoke in their camp
151. 5:02they had a gun he said but they never
152. 5:04used it they
153. 5:05brought him water after an unknown
154. 5:07period these carjackers
155. 5:09lifted camp and they disappeared but
156. 5:11before they left they stole his shoes
157. 5:13and left him with uh the 12 and 30 cents
158. 5:17which had been in his pocket the sydney
159. 5:19morning herald suggested
160. 5:20uh that there were some doubts over
161. 5:22elements of the account
162. 5:24and reported that mcgee was attempting
163. 5:27to sell his story
164. 5:28to a commercial television station it
165. 5:30was also reported that the police too
166. 5:32initially had doubts about the story
167. 5:34because of mcgee's
168. 5:35previous minor drug convictions
169. 5:38mcgee denied allegations that his
170. 5:40account was in any way misleading and
171. 5:42even offered to appear live on
172. 5:44television and
173. 5:44eat frogs to prove he was telling the
174. 5:46truth abc radio reported that
175. 5:49mcgee had told his story to them for
176. 5:51free
177. 5:52although only after trying
178. 5:53unsuccessfully to
179. 5:55to persuade the station to match a
180. 5:57fifteen thousand dollar offer
181. 5:59he said he had received from elsewhere
182. 6:01the doctor who treated mcgee and darwin
183. 6:03commented that it was very difficult to
184. 6:05either deny or validate his story
185. 6:08as he said he he was a mess when he came
186. 6:11in but he had also responded so well to
187. 6:13the treatment provided by dietitians
188. 6:15nutritionists and
189. 6:16physicians an expert on outback survival
190. 6:20acknowledged that mcgee's survival was
191. 6:22not as surprising as
192. 6:23one might think it was possible he said
193. 6:26to survive in the bush for up to three
194. 6:27years
195. 6:28and that there are some areas where it's
196. 6:30difficult to survive and
197. 6:31others where you can for example the
198. 6:33area where mcgee was he described as dry
199. 6:36country which
200. 6:37is you know pretty severe country there
201. 6:40other survival experts credit mcgee's
202. 6:42survival on his instinct for solving the
203. 6:45basic requirements of water
204. 6:46food and shelter and also adopting a
205. 6:48survival mindset that helped pull him
206. 6:51through
207. 6:51although it is a very interesting story
208. 6:53and the condition
209. 6:54uh he was in when he was found seems to
210. 6:57point to him having really survived an
211. 6:59extreme situation
212. 7:00i guess we will never know in his book
213. 7:02he describes how he
214. 7:05says he managed to survive in such
215. 7:06conditions
216. 7:08well that's it for today uh leave us a
217. 7:11comment
218. 7:11if you have any theories or thoughts
219. 7:13about ricky mcgee's story what do you
220. 7:15think is it true
221. 7:16is it a setup uh did he do it for fame
222. 7:19and
223. 7:19fortune is it all like a hoax i don't
224. 7:22know
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