I feel fairly confident this writer has flown some planes. I love it when the narration makes it feel more real by including tiny details like that. Really brings it to life.
@@Transilvanian90 he may have been a pilot but he NEVER flew out of Fairbanks nothing he described is right, either the weather, the sun set, and the trees are all wrong. It kind of took me out of the story unfortunately.
I took a tiny plane from Fairbanks to Coldfoot, Alaska. Since it’s up at the arctic circle the pilot had to use 5 different GPS locators to fly since once you get near the magnetic North Pole GPS is almost useless. I never knew that until that flight. It gave me a whole new respect for arctic pilots.
GPS is indeed virtually useless without a functional compass. The two go hand in hand. Although GPS will give your current position, it's no good for navigation without a functional compass. In short GPS can tell you where you are at a given moment. However, it can't give you a corrected* magnetic heading to your destination. *for declination and magnetic deviation.
@@cassiespencer6134 I learned all the way back in Cub Scouts that nothing beats a current topo map of the area you plan to travel through. That and your sighting compass saves a lot of nerves. These two comments about far north considerations gave me the quickest most complete primer on why you want to know _everything_ about the proper use of your compass and maps you can possibly learn! Great info.
@@abcde_fz Absolutely. An up to date topo map and a good compass, along with the knowledge of to how to use them in conjunction with one another is fundamental to land navigation.
@@cassiespencer6134 It's _possible_ that the most important trick I learned, when trying to find civilization if you became unsure of your path, was to remember to line up interim points on your map in such a way as to avoid the 'walking in circles' phenomenon. I figured if that was important enough to mention to someone who was supposedly already equipped with both map and compass, it must be a very good idea. Nice to know even if I can get a GPS and an emergency locator beacon, I can still have some hope with nothing more than map, compass, and pencil! 🙂
@@abcde_fz Topo maps (with a waterproof coating) along with a compass have worked for a very long time and of course don't require battery power. That said GPS is very useful as well and one should become both familiar with and experienced with both. That said, and more importantly is the fact it behooves one to be able to find or erect a shelter and start a fire in 'less than ideal' situations, among a myriad of other abilities.
I think he's my favourite narrator. I often times have trouble concentrating, but something about his voicebor style keeps me with the story the whole way through.
I am so used to these kinds of stories turning out that the protag just doesn't believe the crazy old guy until it's too late that when the first red flag dropped for the plot twist, I think I actually missed it. A good change of pace!
i was looking to make it an early night; that went out the window. when the top narration channel uploads; you change your plans. stephen, your talent and dedication, is 2nd to none. thanks again, for another killer story.
Mr. Lighthouse, your narrative style is so inviting and immersive, it’s nothing short of captivating. Akin to welcoming a weary traveler in for a nice cup of hot tea on a cold night and then proceeding to scare to crap outta them. Something about your delivery reminds me of the great Rod Serling. And I’m here for it!! Bravo to you!!
The only thing that sucks about loving your storytelling so much is when you've watched everything in your catalog no one else's storytelling can even remotely compare. When I see you've posted I get absolutely giddy because I know the next morning I'll have my favorite storyteller to listen to. Thank you for all of your hard work for us who can't wait to hear the next one!!
@@jendubay3782 I'm definitely gonna try these out. I would give anything to find another narrator who I enjoy as much as LH. Thanks so much for the suggestions!!
Dark Night Tales writes really good stuff, his tales always stand out. Your narrations in their cadence, pronunciation, and personality attribution are exceptional as always.
Not really. You can tell that they rewrote the crazy guy. He went from being a survivor character who doesn't trust anyone to a murder suicide guy to "feed the creature". Sloppy at best. Also, search and rescue always operate in groups. It's never just one guy in a plane.
Such a good story! Love your channel, I suffer with horrific anxiety, depression, ocd, panic, and either ADD, ADHD, or Autism. And I'm obsessed with all things horror. Your channel helps me relax and get out of my head. Keep em coming! Also your character voices are always so on point. Very well done sir. I'd love for you to read some of my true scary stories on your channel!
As someone with very light autism and very heavy ADHD, ADD is only for kids. ADHD is what it is in adults. So at least you can strike one off the list! I know what it’s like to have a list of diagnoses and how great it can feel to take one off said list.
Thank you for giving me some listening material during tonight while i'm on my nightshift. I appreciate what you do and hope all is well. Have a good one!
Going thru the story now and my sons and i are all in my room after putting it together so we could all sleep and listen thru a list put together by all of us on our favorite stories from you and thank you for all you do we've been listening to you for a long time and we have NEVER been let down by you. And i wanna thank you for keeping away from so many stories out there being called new and really arent you've done from what i remember but it was way better coming from you
We only get snow in 2 states of Australia & I don’t live in 1 of them. I’m feeling pretty happy about that atm! Great story & production Stephen. ♥️😎✌️
I love listening to these stories while working home alone, doing laundry, cooking. Your narration style sucks me in and is a great distraction from every day tasks. Thank you for bringing excitement and joy to my everyday.
Hour long lighthouse upload: Automatic like. Ten seconds in talking about alaska and being a pilot: Automatic favorite Knowing that there's 47:43s left.. gonna be a good night.
Stephen & DarkNightTales thank you for the video. I know i may sound like a broken record but I really am grateful for your master storyteller self for the SUPERB narration! ✈️👊😄✈️
Yessssss very good - a bush flying horror story! If there is something more rare than the sci-fi horror genre, it´s the aviation horror genre. This genre is literally not existent (well there was at least one movie a decade ago called "Ghosts on a plane" and that´s it) so thank you very much for bringing this awesome story!
This channel is starting to prove itself better than some of the others who push quantity over quality. I'm starting to appreciate your approach much better. And I have to say, I love the overnight security guard story best of all ( the 5th floor with Diane ), I saved that one for sure!
I liked how technical the use of vocabulary was for flying an airplane in at least the first 12 minutes of this video (until I stopped to write this comment), but I do have to correct something a little bit past that. At 12:16, you say that if one of your wings stalls due to a tailwind and loss of power, you would enter an unrecoverable "death spiral." A death spiral is actual aviation terminology, but what you're talking about is a spin. They are, in fact, very different. In a death spiral, the plane enters a bank and the pilot becomes spatially disoriented and the plane flies in a circle. Thinking the plane is at a level bank, the pilot will pull back on the control yoke/column/stick/etc. and tighten the radius of that turn, hence the term spiral. A spin is what the narrator described in the moments before the timestamp. A spin happens when the wings exceed the critical angle of attack, but for whatever reason, only one of them stalls. Spins are easily recoverable, but by my count, the plane was at 500 feet in the story, which at low speed would have indeed been unrecoverable. Now, there is one thing working forward if you lose an engine, as in most planes, the first thing you do when entering a spin is closing the throttle completely to avoid losing too much altitude, and then simply pushing the rudder in the opposite direction as the spin. I'm an avgeek of about 6 years and aspiring airline pilot, so I just had to correct that.
I was under the belief that Bush planes had a very nice glide to them and given altitude they can potentially glide for miles smoothly and controllably.
It probably depends on the model, but things like a fixed landing gear with huge tires can cause a lot of drag, hurting that glide range. I looked up the glide ratio for the DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver aircraft used in this story, and it's a pretty weak 7:1 ratio. That ratio means that it can travel 7000 feet for every 1000 feet of lost altitude. That means that, at the mentioned altitude of 1000 feet (very low), it can only travel 1.32 miles before hitting the ground (or 7000 feet). Smaller, bulkier planes tend to have worse glide ratios, whereas a B737 and B747 have 17:1 glide ratios.
Just heard this on Dark Night Tales the other day. Interesting to hear the subtle differences in the narrations and how they affect the overall emotions in the story.
This is a top-notch level of story-telling. The description of the setting (location, weather conditions, aviation specific terminology) does such a good job of conveing a specialized but otherwise mundane (as in not fictional) profession, easing us into the more fantastical elements to come later on. This is a crucial part of telling a convincing story, especially a horror story that so many authors skip to get to the scary bits, not realizing it is essential to make the reader feel that he has a good grasp of the narrative before sweeping the rug from bellow his feet. I'm so glad the author spent quality time developing the main character and his world before plunging into the fantastical concept itself. Seriously, hats off.
Thank you Stephen for making my morning with this awesome pasta. I always love stories like this because they always make you feel cold and isolated, and make for an amazing story. Top notch work as always. Thank you so much.🖤🖤🖤🖤
I love how this channel gets nothing but positivity. The only criticism I have is that we need more content! (Though I can see that you need time in your life and also that you need time to find the right story)
it also takes a long time to edit, for me a 6 minute video takes over 2 hours to edit. and he usually does 40 minute ones, so im honestly suprised he manages to upload so often.
When mine was going down in a crazy dive; I was so praying I wasn't really there! I landed in Catawissa, PA. I don't know how and I've never gone up again. Now I just roller skate!
"It's far beyond our own primitive understanding. Beyond our evolution. It's perfect." Which is why a drunk madman was able to trick it and lock it in a closet... lol
My family moved to Fairbanks in 1978, the summer before I started 4th grade, and I grew up there. While I never got my pilot's license, I learned to fly bush planes (twin engine six-seater, take-off, basic navigation and landing) as a potential matter of survival😇. This story is really pretty accurate as from the pilot's viewpoint
