1604: The Grave Detector part 3

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Arpad Vass touts his Quantum Oscillator, a contraption made of plywood and PVC pipe, as a revolutionary tool capable of locating missing persons' remains with 92% accuracy from up to 60 miles away, using just DNA from fingernail clippings. In a desperate attempt to solve the cold case of Brandy Hall, a Florida firefighter gone missing, Hall's family turned to Dr. Vass and his device. Guided by the oscillator's dubious promise, they believed Brandy could be buried in a specific wooded area. In a fit of hope and despair, Brandy's mother resorted to using a makeshift shovel to dig for her daughter, embodying the heart-wrenching grip of grief and the seductive, yet misleading, appeal of pseudoscience. Ultimately, the search yielded nothing but a painful journey back to square one. In today's episode, we discuss the science behind the Quantum Oscillator. Watch the video of Dr. Vass and the Quantum Oscillator: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3DTrzYM-8N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pretendpod/video/7332889990084578590?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7267660576023873067 YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/ub2kdJZ0JNQ?feature=share Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Battle.
0:08.0	Brandy Hall, a Florida firefighter, disappeared the night of August 17, 2006.
0:18.0	Thirteen years later, police got a new lead.
0:22.0	You could just sense the hope and the desperation in Brandy Hall's
0:24.6	mother's voice. I want to find out who did this to her and justice will be done.
0:29.6	Paul's mother, along with a private investigator, an anthropologist and specially trained dogs
0:35.2	have canvassed different areas that might yield clues.
0:38.7	That anthropologist was Dr. Arpad Voss.
0:42.2	But what the local television reporter didn't mention was that Voss was using
0:46.7	the quantum oscillator to find her.
0:49.4	Using Brandy's mother's DNA, the oscillator led investigators to a plot of land. Once they got there, the
0:55.6	cadaver dogs confirmed the hit. Brandy Hall must be buried here somewhere.
1:00.0	And we essentially dug in the ground in hopes of finding Brandy's remain.
1:04.0	That's the voice of Sergeant Jeff Spears with the Palm Bay Police Department.
1:08.5	Based on the cadaver dogs and what indication they gave us as well as a ground penetrating
1:14.6	radar. There was some reason to believe that there could been or could have been
1:19.1	some disturbed area underground and so we dug that area that we thought that there might be something there and unfortunately we did not locate any human remains.
1:27.0	Dr Voss's machine led police on a wild goose chase.
1:32.0	I'm Javier Leyva and this is pretend. Stories about real people
1:37.7	pretending to be someone else. Oh, So, I just finished a 30 minute ride on my peloton. You know I gotta be honest with you
2:21.8	January it was a slow start, but I feel like now I'm getting back in the rhythm of things and you know what's great and I've said this before is that Peloton you know you work out as hard as you want to or as
2:36.3	little as you want to because really there's a lot of classes to choose from when I wake up in the
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