Speaker 1: I've ever gotten lost or stranded somewhere completely remote. It's
Speaker 1: brooken Jewel in the morning. It's a terrifying feeling when
Speaker 1: you're out in some unfamiliar place, disoriented, with no cell service,
Speaker 1: knowing that you may never find your way back home.
Speaker 1: I got lost in a Target Superstar once. That doesn't count.
Speaker 1: For hours. I couldn't find the exit. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: it was a pretty traumatic experience. Wandered around for hours
Speaker 1: and hours, screaming for help. I to sleep in a
Speaker 1: doggy bed. You're just cowering in the bath section. I
Speaker 1: stopped and arranged a bunch of laundry hampsters hampers in
Speaker 1: the shape of sos, hoping anybody would help me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I almost gave up so many times, and I only
Speaker 1: survived by scavin you got ice cream and TV dinners
Speaker 1: from the frozen food aisle. He gained weight while he
Speaker 1: was lost. Somehow, some way, though, I made it out alive.
Speaker 1: And I'm not the only person who's had a harrowing
Speaker 1: experience like that, because a woman in Hawaii recently got
Speaker 1: lost in the woods for seventeen days, and her story
Speaker 1: has been making international headlines. Her name is Amanda eller.
Speaker 1: She's a thirty five year old yoga instructor, and a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, she ventured off on a three mile
Speaker 1: hike into the Hawaiian jungle. It was supposed to be
Speaker 1: just a short, casual walk in and out of the woods,
Speaker 1: but before she left, she decided that she wanted to
Speaker 1: disconnect from the daily grind and allow herself to get
Speaker 1: in touch with nature, so she made the choice to
Speaker 1: leave her cell phone in the car. I do that stuff,
Speaker 1: like if I go on a walk or something, I'll
Speaker 1: leave it at home. I don't think if you walk
Speaker 1: or I don't walk, or I never leave my phone anywhere.
Speaker 1: He didn't take a picture. He didn't even really walk,
Speaker 1: did Yeah, exactly are you going to take pictures of
Speaker 1: your hike? So leaving her phone behind it's already probably
Speaker 1: a bad idea since she was an unfamiliar territory, but
Speaker 1: she actually made an even worse move than that, because
Speaker 1: while she was out connecting to nature. Amana says that
Speaker 1: she could hear an inner voice that was guiding her
Speaker 1: farther and farther away from her car, and she decided
Speaker 1: to listen to that voice. She said, quote, my heart
Speaker 1: was telling me walk down this path to go right.
Speaker 1: It was so strong, go left, go right. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that's the way she said it. And she said, I'm like, great,
Speaker 1: this voice is so strong that obviously when I turned
Speaker 1: around to go back to my car, it will be
Speaker 1: just as strong. But it wasn't. Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: really what she said. What about her brain telling her
Speaker 1: to stay on the trail? That, yeah, listen to your
Speaker 1: inner voice telling you to go left and go right.
Speaker 1: Hit brain anyway trail. After following her inner voice for
Speaker 1: several hole several hours, she got lost in the dense
Speaker 1: Hawaiian jungle for seventeen days. For the first five to
Speaker 1: eight days of her disappearance, she followed the tracks of
Speaker 1: wild boars and would occasionally see quote a nice looking
Speaker 1: boar den to sleep in, which, according to her, makes
Speaker 1: total sense because according to Chinese New Year, it was
Speaker 1: the year of the boar. Is not everything is a
Speaker 1: cosmic coincidence, Lady, I was thinking to myself, I needed
Speaker 1: a quarter, and I looked down and there was the
Speaker 1: quarter on the ground for you. It was just the
Speaker 1: universe giving me a quarter. However, her strategy backfired though,
Speaker 1: and one of the dins that she was sleeping in,
Speaker 1: had a flash flood and it washed her shoes away.
Speaker 1: So in the jungle, ye keep walking around shoeless. And
Speaker 1: she tried to sleep in the mud because she doesn't
Speaker 1: recommend because I guess it's very cold and it doesn't
Speaker 1: warm up. Did you think why would mud be your option? Like?
Speaker 1: Have you ever watched Survivor? I'm like any of the
Speaker 1: reality shows, nobody's sleeping in mud lady. Around day eight,
Speaker 1: she suffered an ankle injury and couldn't really travel any further.
Speaker 1: She says that she survived by eating mostly berries and
Speaker 1: guava fruit and by meditating. Meanwhile, rescue teams probably found
Speaker 1: her abandon car with her cell phone in it and
Speaker 1: must have been thinking the worst. A few times, Sir,
Speaker 1: helicopters actually flew over her, but they couldn't see her
Speaker 1: through all the trees, and every time they missed her,
Speaker 1: it made her hope meet her go down. That's what
Speaker 1: she said. I helped meet her slowly going down, and
Speaker 1: it was just eating berries and gua fruit. I thought
Speaker 1: of eating a bug, but I wasn't sure if it
Speaker 1: was gluten freeze, so I did not eat that bug.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me she's like twelve days into the juggle,
Speaker 1: barefoot with a broken ankle and her hope meters just dipping.
Speaker 1: I think she has no grasp of reality, which actually
Speaker 1: may have saved her in this whole thing. The best
Speaker 1: thing is everything's organic out. Yeah, that's true. Eventually, I
Speaker 1: mean the fiber I'm getting. She made her way to
Speaker 1: a big waterfall, where she was finally spotted by a
Speaker 1: volunteer rescue team seventeen days after she disappeared. But her
Speaker 1: reaction might have been the weirdest part of the entire story,
Speaker 1: because she says she was very grateful for the experience.
Speaker 1: She thought the time she spent loss in the forest
Speaker 1: was quote a great opportunity to be stripped away from
Speaker 1: all the comforts of this modern world. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you see what was the last Can we put her back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She should bet out of here. Think about how much
Speaker 1: money they spent on the rescue. And you're risking other
Speaker 1: people's lives who were working for you while you're just
Speaker 1: having a yoga retreat in the jungle, is what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. She said that there was a lot of
Speaker 1: beauty in getting lost. She said the whole journey was
Speaker 1: extremely spiritual and I never felt alone. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I never felt fearful. Yeah right, this is why we
Speaker 1: don't have any positivity in our life, because this woman
Speaker 1: has taken it all. Yeah, has all of it. There's
Speaker 1: no more optimism left for anyone else. Telling the entire story,
Speaker 1: the majority of people have been asking question what drugs
Speaker 1: was she on? Where can I get them? But she
Speaker 1: swears she was sober. She said the morning she left
Speaker 1: she had a super food smoothie with a protein bar
Speaker 1: and added, I get high off of life. I get
Speaker 1: high off of people and heart. Okay, that's what drug
Speaker 1: addicts say. Some people think her story is ridiculous, that
Speaker 1: she would be forced, that she should be forced to
Speaker 1: repay all the money that it costs for crews to
Speaker 1: find her. Her family did fund some of the search
Speaker 1: and rescue missions. In fact, while Amanda was lost, she
Speaker 1: raised over seventy thousand dollars. Yeah, well the family did.
Speaker 1: I should say she didn't to get private helicopters in
Speaker 1: the air looking for and after it was all over,
Speaker 1: there was one lesson a man who says that she
Speaker 1: learned that, even though she hates cell phones, next time
Speaker 1: she goes on a hike. She'll bring it along with her,
Speaker 1: and she recommends that everybody keep their phones in hand too.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was so spiritual and so great.
Speaker 1: Why would you? Why wouldn't she just want to do
Speaker 1: it again? Leave the phone in the car. Text in
Speaker 1: at seven, eight, five, and nine two. Have you ever
Speaker 1: gotten lost like that? Your phone taps coming up right
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