blue ridge mountains begin. and it s sweet here. it s quite lovely. beautiful. reporter: a person can find what really matters up here, said mike hodnett and woody depew. up here so far from the raucous urban world are weekends steeped in the peace and beauty of a natural cathedral. we d ride our mountain bikes, go sit in the river, hike, go rappelling. most of the time you re just you re out there by yourself. and you make your own rules. reporter: and at night? you can go up to the top of the mountain and you can see a lot of stars you didn t know were there. reporter: but down the sides of the mountain, under a thick canopy of leaves many, many nights it s just pitch black. reporter: this is the place, these are the conditions that california prosecutor lisette suder needed to understand. it was september, 26th 1999, one of those pitch black nights, the night mike and woody lived through one of the strangest experiences of their lives. mike and woody were asl
and it s sweet here. it s quite lovely. beautiful. reporter: a person can find what really matters up here, said mike hodnett and woody depew. up here so far from the raucous urban world are weekends steeped in the peace and beauty of a natural cathedral. we d ride our mountain bikes, go sit in the river, hike, go rappelling. most of the time you re just you re out there by yourself. and you make your own rules. reporter: and at night? you can go up to the top of the mountain and you can see a lot of stars you didn t know were there. reporter: but down the sides of the mountain, under a thick canopy of leaves many, many nights it s just pitch black. reporter: this is the place, these are the conditions that california prosecutor lisette suder needed to understand. it was september, 26th 1999, one of those pitch black nights, the night mike and woody lived through one of the strangest experiences of their lives. mike and woody were asleep in separate tents around
of allergic reactions. always carried an epi-pen for emergencies. yet didn t take that to the wilderness that weekend. did that seem strange to you that he d go camping without an epipen if he was subject to this sort of thing? it seemed strange to me that we were spendin so much time talkin about bug bites. it was almost as if we were tryin to steer away from the real issue, which was a fatality crash involving his wife. reporter: it also seem strange he said that by the time the campers saw todd, he displayed no evidence of an allergic reaction. of course, lisette suder and her people interviewed mike and woody too. and they told her, as they told us, that they never forgot how strangely phony todd seemed when he arrived at their campsite that night. he was kind of kinda play-sobbing, i would say, you know? it was it was some horrible acting going on. it wasn t believable. reporter: they also wondered why, on a warm southern night, was todd dressed in several layers
brian: as a proud non-singer, the country has asked me not to sing. what goes through your mind when you are singing like that in a situation like that? well, in that situation, i was like where was the mike? i thought i was supposed to have a mike. i m going to have to phone. this song is already hard to sing. but i just say well, sabrina you have to sing it, sing. what do you think about it going viral? i m seeing like maybe the voice or some other thing in the future for you because it s amazing. it s a blessing. because i was not expecting this at all. steve: yeah. i really wasn t. and it s just great to see all the great comments and all. i m able to write my son and tell him not only does he inspire me but he inspires so many other people. and, you know, it s just been a blessing. steve: sabrina, thank you for telling us the back
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