1603: The Grave Detector part 2

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In today’s episode of Pretend, we're zeroing in on Dr. Arpad Vass's invention called the Quantum Oscillator—a device straight out of a sci-fi plot with the audacious promise of finding the lost with just a sliver of DNA. Imagine a gadget claiming to pinpoint your long-gone ancestors' graves or track down missing persons with a flicker of electromagnetic waves. Dr. Vass claims that with a bit of your DNA, his Quantum Oscillator could lead him to grave sites with 92% accuracy from a distance as far as 60 miles. Sounds miraculous, right? But hold your horses—does this invention hold up under the scrutiny of science, or is it veering into the realm of pseudoscience? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Apple. David O'Sullivan, a 25-year-old from Ireland, read a book titled Wild by Cheryl Stray.
0:19.0	Wild is a story about a woman who lost everything and then found her way after taking a life-changing hike across the Pacific Crest Trail.
0:29.0	David couldn't put the book down.
0:32.0	And David Arslavan was one of the people who read it and said,
0:35.0	you know what, I want to do this after I get out of college.
0:38.5	I'm talking with Kathy Tar.
0:39.9	Kathy is an avid long distance hiker who has hiked the Pacific Crest Trail countless times.
0:45.8	The Pacific Crest Trail is roughly 2,600 miles long.
0:49.8	Last year in 2023, only 503 hikers completed the entire length of the trail, which starts
0:56.8	at the Mexican border and stretches all the way to Canada.
1:01.0	You almost make it sound like this was a bucket list thing for him, but he wasn't an experienced hiker, right?
1:07.0	Well, he did hike in Ireland, but in Ireland, it doesn't snow and also the mountains are more like ridges.
1:20.0	They're not very tall.
1:22.0	David O'Sullivan started his hike in March of 2017,
1:25.6	near Campo, California.
1:27.5	It's been almost 100 miles and 11 days
1:30.0	since he started his trek.
1:31.9	But David O'Sullivan will never make it to the Canadian border.
1:36.2	When did people realize that he was missing? He was not reported missing for quite some time because the family didn't expect to hear
1:45.5	from him again until he got the Big Bear which would have taken many days to
1:50.1	hike by now is probably a month into it at least since he had gone to see. And so now they're really, really, really upset.
1:59.7	David O'Sullivan's family in Ireland called the Pacific Crest Trail Association, the Irish
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