I remember it being so unbelievable, that a plane has landed in our families like. A couple of young people on. Were trying to locate with fish finders. They found it, and her. She was a pretty girl. Some of her long hair was caught in the door. She looked like she was actually sleeping. But where was the pilot . They were pretty sure he was heading to mexico. I can remember getting calls to interpol even. 24 years later, a woman uncovers a little white lie. He said that he was actually 43. I was like, so what else have you lied to me about . Was he a monster . Was he romeo . You just dont know. And those are the best stories, arent they . Now, we hear his version of the story. Youre the only person on the planet who knows the truth. It is, in its own strange way, a dissertation on love. Love, intoxicating, impetuous, foolish. Love that lives, like a fugitive. A long Secret Tunnel of regret. Theres a reason that the story of Romeo And Juliet, has held up over centuries. Or maybe, could you tell me . Maybe it wasnt love at all. Maybe it was Something Else altogether. Oh diana, why did you take that ride . Why did you, why did you put your life in his hands . How did it all go so terribly wrong . It began, the way myths sometimes do. With a whispered story. Which started right about here. At traveled, mouth to, ear, to mouth among the camps and cabs and won the cold deep lake in the rockies of northwestern montana. One of the countless Glacial Lakes carved eons ago. Just west of Glacier National park. This one called, little bitter route. Named for the royal local plant, that fed ancient tribes. Now the name for a magical summer place. With this womans grandfather built a cabin in the 19 twenties. In where generation after generation distort up of centuries of memories. It was a Family Gathering place. Wed swim to the rock out there, and stand on it. A simpler time. You have to have a strong constitution is so minute. Lake is beautiful clean water, but it is a little brisk getting in. Twins jim in john young grew up on the shores of the lake to. Free and easy. Back in the days parents did not worry so much. As long as we left at breakfast and were home by dinner, we were fine. We used to meet down here in those swimming and stuff. Camp right here. Swim off the dam. That was kind of the big thing. Its right over here. It sounds so idyllic. Yeah it was fun. It was the summer of 1982. When the whole weird saga began. Jim and john were 15 years old, kim was 20 about to head off to her junior year at college. When she and her mom drove off to the cottage for a final summer visit, and encountered a surprise. As we pulled up we saw someone in this corner of the deck that we did not recognize, and i did not even have the pick up stopped, i was slowing down to pull into the drive there. Mom opened the door and hopped out. To find out who was on our deck. She wouldnt run the other way . Not my mother. So i got the truck in gear, and came up here as quickly as i could. And she was talking to this young man. What did he look like . He did not look like a lake person to me. He was very well kept looking. He had a white, kind of polo shirt and. In it looked like it had just come out of a suitcase. It was just great weight. Kims mother made it clear to the young man no matter how player well dressed, he was trespassing. Were you worried about him . I was actually more worried about my mother, she wanted to know who he was of course, in what he was doing there. And he was very vague in his answers. And i remember asking him, where did you come from . Any pointed over here, and he said, over the mountains. Well again we thought, no one comes from that way. You are not dressed like a hiker or a backpacker. And it did not make sense. How unusual would it be to find a stranger here . This place is been in the family for generations. So . It had never happened. That i am aware of. To have someone on our deck, that we did not know. Anyway, the young stranger was clearly not dangerous. And after the talking to he got from her mom, he got up and wondered off the shoreline, and out of sight. It was maybe 50 yards away, where jim and jon had already encountered him. Maybe earlier that day. But the fellow they saw looks very different. They remember him as not being well kept it all. In fact he was soaking wet, and it appeared, injured. He had some pretty good bruises and scratches, across his neck. You could see it coming out of his shirt. It was pretty good gouges. And he explain this how . He said he had a bare chasing. Through the woods. He said you guys wouldnt have matches or later would you . What did you do . We jumped on her motorbikes and went down to the store down here. Off to buy matches. The sort of thing people would do for a stranger around here. Except well, was it a coincidence . Around the same time as those unusual encounters, some other folks notice that the lake itself, looked kind of odd. There seemed to be a sheen of some sort on the water. Unusual oil slick maybe . Pat walsh was a young Deputy Sheriff at the time. One of the time of the people that saw the oil in the lake was a pilots. In so he informs the deputies at that time, that that is not oil from a boat motor. I was going to say. Theres lots of boats in that. Lake he said thats not oil from about one or. So what . There had been rumors of smugglers around here from time to time. A Smugglers Airplane did it land on the lake . And then take off again . How can an airplane go down in a lake without Anybody Hearing . Probably would not have made much more than a splashing noise. And if you are in a cabin on the shore, if you hear splashed, its not going to be anything to you. Then people around the, lake heard about the young stranger, and wondered, are these incidents somehow related . Jim and john remember that the guy was carrying a duffel bag, wrapped in green plastic. In when they return from the store and gave him those matches, he whipped a fire, and guess what he did. He started to burn, they were probably maps. They just looked like newspapers. And then it went to some clothing and stuff. And he burned everything. There he burnt clothes and everything . Yes. Then they said, this strange man, just slaughtered off. Just like he did after running into kim and her mom. We watched him go a little bit and i, thought this is probably spying on him. So we went inside the cabin. We went inside the cabin, and we watched him through the window. Until he was out of sight. That was basically the last we saw of him. Oh, but not the last they heard of him. Myths in mysteries can lie a round in haunt you for decades. And the revelation that was coming to little bitter route lake, made very sure of that. Coming up. The sheriff believed there was a plane in this lake. And we are trying to locate it with fish finders. But no one was prepared for what they found. She was a pretty girl. And she was a young girl. And it was just a shame. She just looked like she was actually sleeping. That was the erie part about. It when dateline continues. Dat its tough to breathe and tough to keep wondering if this is as good as it gets. But trelegy has shown me that theres still beauty and breath to be had. Because with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open and prevents future flareups. And with one dose a day, trelegy improves Lung Function so i can breathe more freely all day and night. Trelegy wont replace a Rescue Inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Tell your doctor if you have a Heart Condition or high Blood Pressure before taking it. Do not take trelegy more than prescribed. Trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. 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And that the Odd Young Man who onto the shoreline, in court third several locals, was perhaps the pilot. I dont remember being afraid he might come back we are anything like that. So you forgot about it . I think we kind of forgot about it. But naturally the share of heard about all of this. Set a young deputy named jim dupont, to look around. By the time we talk to dupont, back in 2008, hed be looking at a mystery for most of his career. In fact our own video here, hints at how long wed be following the story. Anyway, dupont was assigned the case way back in 1982. Hardly because he was a private pilot, as well as a deputy. So he knew a thing or two about small planes. We and low and behold, in the very spot where twins jimmy johns of the young men had built a fire. We indeed found a little firing, and right away i found, whats called a gust lock. Agus lock . It is a bend piece of metal that actually feats into the yoke of an airplane. In the fire . Burnt up in the fire. Im plus there was some wires, and a jack plug of a microphone jack. And i knew was a mic jack from an airplane. So what then . Actually took that gust doc, and found the 1 50, and indeed it fit the 1 50 that i looked. At a 1 50 would be a cessna one five zero. So, did that mean the rest of the system was indeed in the lead just like the officers were saying . Dupont reported all of this to the boss, the share called in a couple of expert divers. We the sheriff believe that there was a plane in this lake. And bernie and i suited up. We and we were on boats trying to locate it with fish finders. You can only imagine the challenge back then. Technology being what it was. In the 19 eighties, the lake being well over 200 feet deep. Still, the sheriff had confident that they find the plane. And alerted the media. Which certainly came to watch the divers diving, and listen to the sheriff optimistic daily predictions. Overly, optimistic predictions. We texted the media quite a few times, todays the day. We yes, we go out and everybody would work hard and it wouldnt have been. What so they would all go home again. And then the next day, todays the day. Just as everyone was doing with they could do. That went on for days. More than a week. So maybe all of that talk about an airplane and the lake was just that. Talk. And then the share of heard about a Thing Imaging that was new at the time called, side scanning sonar. So they brought one of those in. And lowered way down to the bottom. If we dont get results here today or tomorrow, we will call off the search because theres a limit to the resources and time and effort. But just as the sheriff was about to give up, a breakthrough. When we got a hit on the sonar. We also brought a remote camera with that had an umbilical, basically flow that camera down to the aircraft. There was, the plane. Right there on the video screen. What was it like to see that thing . Do you remember . It was, actually, somewhat satisfying. To know all the hours that you spent out there looking, it was actually there. Except now there was another problem. The plane was more than 250 feet down. Way too deep to safely send the divers. So they use this summers jib camera, the guide hooks onto the airplane, and they pulled it up to the depth of about 100 feet, where the divers were sent down to retrieve it. The water was very clear. They could see the plane almost like it was flying down in the cold water. But then they saw Something Else. The plane wasnt empty. Inside its not pleasant when you see it. The body of a woman. Just a girl really. She was sitting in the Passenger Seat. Seatbelt was still on. Whether to look like . As i recall she was a pretty girl, and she was a young girl. And it was just a shame. The divers each got behind a wing, and short of flew the wings up to the surface. As the plane came out, the crowd watching saw something many of the people here would never forget. The girls hair, was stuck in the door. And her long locks were weaving in the water. The twins were there. Crowded up close. It was a little more than i expected. They pulled it up, and the hair was for. Now never seen a dead person before. They push it over the aircraft, window while the law men moved. In we removed or and Tucker Mediately down to our state pathologists. What sort of condition was or body . She was in excellent condition. She just looked like she was actually sleeping. With that was the eerie part about. The girl in the lake. Who was she . What was she doing alone in the Passenger Seat of a cessna 1 50, at the bottom of montana lake . And if she was the passenger where. Was the pilot . Coming up. A modern twist on shakespeare. What emerged was the suggestion that they were kind of a Romeo And Juliet, that their families have been disapproving of their relationship. 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Because shingles could wake up in you. If youre over 50, talk to your doctor or pharmacist about shingles prevention. If youre over 50, talk to youevents around littlest Bitterroot Lake were beyond puzzling as the autumn chill descended. Events around a little bit arugula, eight were beyond puzzling. And the autumn chill ended. A strange young man, a plane in the lake, the dead girl trapped in the plane, then Deputy Sheriff jim dupont had trouble shaking that image. Everything starts to transform in your, brain of what happened that day. Of what happened to her when she went down. You know knowing that youre doomed type of thing. But where did she come from . And why. A few hundred miles northwest of little bitter, rule across the border in canada, in the heart of british columbia. Is a sweet small city. Where on a monday morning, almost a month before they fish that plane out of the lake, ron peterson, then a constable with the Royal Canadian mounted police, noted unusual activity, out of the airport. I saw the Search And Rescue aircraft, because that always has been a search base. So theyre looking for somebody. When i see things like, that i like to know whats going on. What was going on, was this search. For a small plane gone missing the previous evening. The constable found out it was a Training Aircraft from vancouver, four hours to the west. Which had flown the day before, with two on board, both teenagers. I found that a little bit unusual especially in those, days of his 19 to 20 year olds didnt fly over in small planes. Now in that terrain can be very treacherous. So the constable, though no one asked him to, started poking around. I spoke to the main review will, or he service the aircraft to fill them up with fuel, in the spent the afternoon inside the aircraft on a blanket, in the Emory Organizing Stuff out of the airplane, and putting it in these bags. I wonder if maybe they were smuggling something. We didnt know. Then Constable Peterson went looking for witnesses who may have seen the plane flying by. And yes, several did. They noticed because it had gone up into a narrow win the valley, that posted no fly zone, and not on a flight plan. It buzzed a ski mountain outside of town. In a nearby observatory, with its massive radio telescopes. I spoke to the fellow there, and i said, what happens if someone flies over . Does anything trigger an alarm or anything like that . And he said yes this is a no fly zone over here. And there was a disturbance registered. He said that was a small airplane. He said weve seen them before. After, that no idea where the plane went. And there was no emergency located transmitter on. Board since it was a Training Aircraft, that was not used more than 25 miles from vancouver. Did you think maybe they crashed in the bush somewhere in maybe just in survive . Absolutely. Everyone was looking for this. Plain absolutely. That very same summer monday, a reporter, brandnew, 22 years old, had just started working at the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Margo harper, heard about the missing plane. She dug a little. And came up with the names. The people on board. Jerry ambrozuk, the pilots name is jerry. A 19 year old who had solo just a year before, an immigrant from poland in the age of, ten and a boy scout, with dreams of becoming a commercial airline pilot. In his patched enduring girlfriend, 18 year old dianne babcock. She was a very good student she was a runne