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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to the official Mister Ball and
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  Speaker 1: Campfire Tonight. I have two awesome stories to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: They are both of the strange variety. In both stories,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a tragedy, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not the tragedy that is the reason we remember these things.
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  Speaker 1: We remember these events, or we still talk about these
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  Speaker 1: events because in both stories there are elements that just
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  Speaker 1: nobody can fully explain. There are truly unexplained phenomena that
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  Speaker 1: our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into tonight's stories. Just
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  Speaker 1: before ten am on November fourteenth, nineteen ninety five, a
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old man named Jeong ran down a dark
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  Speaker 1: street toward a bus stop on the outskirts of Beijing,
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  Speaker 1: which is the capital.
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  Speaker 2: City of China.
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  Speaker 1: Xiong, who worked at a fast food restaurant, had gotten
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  Speaker 1: off work late and so now he had to catch
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  Speaker 1: this bus because it was the last one out of
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  Speaker 1: the area, and if he missed it, he'd be stranded.
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  Speaker 1: So this area where Xiong worked was actually a pretty
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  Speaker 1: historic district in Beijing. It was home to several old
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  Speaker 1: palaces and shrines that were built at the foot of
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  Speaker 1: this mountain called bai Wang Mountain, and so this area
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  Speaker 1: was sort of like a popular tourist area, and so
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  Speaker 1: during the day it was very busy, there was lots
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  Speaker 1: of cabs coming in and out of the area, but
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  Speaker 1: at night it was basically deserted and no caps came
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  Speaker 1: through here. So again, the bus really was his only
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  Speaker 1: shot of getting out here. He wanted to walk on foot,
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  Speaker 1: and that was just not practical, and so Jean continued
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  Speaker 1: running along until he turned the corner and up ahead
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  Speaker 1: he saw the bus stop, and he didn't see the bus.
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  Speaker 1: It was just basically a deserted street. But standing near
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  Speaker 1: the bus stop was this old woman and it appeared
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  Speaker 1: like she was waiting for the bus, which suggested to
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  Speaker 1: Jeong that he had not missed the final bus, because
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  Speaker 1: clearly she was waiting for it too, unless she also
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  Speaker 1: missed it perhaps, but it just seemed like she hadn't,
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  Speaker 1: and so Jeong, who by this point is like kind
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  Speaker 1: of out of breath, he stopped running and he walked
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  Speaker 1: the last distance up to the bus stop where this
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  Speaker 1: woman was, and as he approached her, she kind of
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked at him, like, who are you? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's late at night, she's all alone, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of weird. But she looked at him, and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of just smiled at her to signal like
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  Speaker 1: I'm no threat, you know, I'm just here for the
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  Speaker 1: bus too. And then before the two could even talk,
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  Speaker 1: Jean heard the sound of a bus approaching, and he
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  Speaker 1: turned and here comes bus three seventy five came to
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  Speaker 1: a stop. The old woman climbed on, and Jeng followed
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  Speaker 1: up right after her. A moment later, Jeong was inside
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  Speaker 1: the bus. The doors had closed behind him, the driver
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  Speaker 1: had taken off from the curb. Jeong had had paid
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  Speaker 1: the ticket seller, who was separate from the driver, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in sort of the front right seat, and the woman
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  Speaker 1: who had been in front of him, she also had paid.
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  Speaker 1: She had sat down in the row right next to
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  Speaker 1: the ticket seller, right behind the driver and Jong. Even
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  Speaker 1: though the whole bus was empty. Nobody else is on
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  Speaker 1: here except for these three people. He just sat down
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  Speaker 1: right behind the old woman. So he takes his seat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're driving down the road, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's late at night, he's tired, he's had a long shift,
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  Speaker 1: and so for a little while, Jong just looked out
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  Speaker 1: the window and watched all the you know, Imperial gardens
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  Speaker 1: and the shrines and all the various landmarks that drew
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  Speaker 1: people to the area.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this was again sort of a touristy area.
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  Speaker 1: He's just watching it all pass by. You know, it's late,
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  Speaker 1: it's dark, he can't see much out there. But eventually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, relatively soon after they had started, they passed
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  Speaker 1: by sort of all the touristy stuff and they entered
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  Speaker 1: into this the stretch of road that Jean was very
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  Speaker 1: familiar with. He took Bus three seventy five home all
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  Speaker 1: the time. That this stretch was very desolate. There was
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  Speaker 1: no more buildings, no more anything. It was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of forest and wild on either side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a result, at night, driving this desolate
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  Speaker 1: stretch was very very dark. There was just literally no lights.
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  Speaker 1: And so once they were in this this sort of
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  Speaker 1: desolate stretch. Jong found himself just kind of leaning back
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  Speaker 1: and closing his eyes because it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a ride before he'd get to his stop and
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  Speaker 1: get off the bus, and so he just closed his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and he's trying to kind of nod off, and
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  Speaker 1: they're driving for a little while, and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt himself beginning to fall asleep when suddenly he felt
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  Speaker 1: the bus start to slow down. Now there was no
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  Speaker 1: indication within the bus that anything had happened.
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  Speaker 2: Jong knew that it was way too early to.
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  Speaker 1: Be at the next bus stop, and so immediately he
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  Speaker 1: opened his eyes and he's just kind of looking around
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  Speaker 1: for some queue from the driver or the ticket seller
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  Speaker 1: or even this woman, like what was going on here.
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  Speaker 1: But then the bus came to a full ste and
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  Speaker 1: it's so dark outside that Jong like literally can't see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on out there, and no one's saying anything,
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  Speaker 1: and the driver just kind of inexplicably gets up from
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  Speaker 1: his seat and he walks out of the bus like
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  Speaker 1: he exits the bus, which was odd, like there's no
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  Speaker 1: clear reason for this, and so Jeong, the woman, even
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  Speaker 1: the ticket seller, they're kind of just like peering out
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  Speaker 1: the window out the front window of the bus to
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on. But given how dark it was
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  Speaker 1: outside and the fact that there was really only light
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  Speaker 1: inside the bus, it had the effect of just kind
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  Speaker 1: of making all the interior glass of the bus be
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  Speaker 1: sort of reflective, like really difficult to look out. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: sitting inside of a dark room with a light and
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  Speaker 1: being surrounded by glass, it'd be impossible to look out it.
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  Speaker 1: All you would see was like a mirror effect all
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  Speaker 1: around you. And so for a minute, Jeong and the
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  Speaker 1: others are just kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Like wondering what's happening. What did the driver see?
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  Speaker 1: And then Jeong heard something outside the bus that sounded
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  Speaker 1: like people talking, or maybe thought it was people talking,
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  Speaker 1: And so he pressed his face up to the glass
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  Speaker 1: and put his hands up to it to see if
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  Speaker 1: he could cut through that sort of mirror effect to
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  Speaker 1: see what was going on out there.
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  Speaker 2: And at first it was just darkness.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't see anything, but eventually his eyes adjusted and
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  Speaker 1: on his side of the bus on the road, the
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  Speaker 1: driver clearly was interacting with what looked like multiple people,
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  Speaker 1: like two, maybe even three people that are down there
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  Speaker 1: there didn't appear to be, you know, any other vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: like it just wasn't clear what was happening, but there
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  Speaker 1: was definitely people outside of the bus, and so Jeong
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  Speaker 1: and the others, no one's talking. They're all just kind
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  Speaker 1: of trying to make sense of what's happening. And then
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  Speaker 1: before anybody could ask any questions, the driver comes back
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  Speaker 1: on the bus, sits down in the driver's seat, and
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  Speaker 1: then behind him come these three new people who presumably
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  Speaker 1: were the same people the driver was speaking to outside
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  Speaker 1: the bus. They also are likely the reason the driver
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  Speaker 1: stopped in the first place, although again it's it's very
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  Speaker 1: unclear why they stopped in the first place, like there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason to be stopping here. But you know, Jeong
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  Speaker 1: at this point just wants to get he doesn't really care.
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  Speaker 1: But these three people they come on board the bus,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately Jeong and the woman and the ticket seller
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  Speaker 1: they're all looking at them, like what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: So there were three men and they were all wearing
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  Speaker 1: these these traditional silk robes. There were two in blue
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  Speaker 1: and there was one in red, and the two men
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  Speaker 1: in blue were like physically holding up the third man
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  Speaker 1: in red, almost like he couldn't stand on his own,
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  Speaker 1: like a picture of somebody who was like really intoxicated, like.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't quite stand.
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  Speaker 1: But immediately Jean clocked that this guy didn't look drunk
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  Speaker 1: or something.
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  Speaker 2: He looked hurt, like he was covered.
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  Speaker 1: In mud and like grime, as if he had been
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  Speaker 1: like rolling around on the ground or something, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he had fallen or whatever. Like it wasn't clear,
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  Speaker 1: but something happened to this guy. And the two guys
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  Speaker 1: in blue, who their robes are pristine, they're they're holding
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  Speaker 1: this guy up and they kind of, you know, bring
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  Speaker 1: him into the bus, and then without saying anything to
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  Speaker 1: these people on the bus, they just kind of dragged
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  Speaker 1: this man, who was conscious but again barely able to stand,
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  Speaker 1: down the aisle, past Jeong, past the others, to the
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  Speaker 1: back of the bus where they took their seat, and
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  Speaker 1: then it was like nobody said anything. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: driver didn't acknowledge how bizarre this whole thing was. He
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  Speaker 1: just pulled away and started driving, and then before long
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  Speaker 1: it's like Jeong is just sitting there really unclear, like
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  Speaker 1: what's even happening. But as they're driving along, he just
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  Speaker 1: felt so uncomfortable. The woman right in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: she had gone you know back to looking straight ahead.
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  Speaker 1: She's not paying attention to what's happening behind her. Same
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  Speaker 1: with the ticket seller.
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  Speaker 2: But Jong, he just felt really uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: And specifically what he felt was it just seemed like
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  Speaker 1: the three guys in the back, the silk Robe guys.
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  Speaker 1: One they were completely silent, eerily silent.
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  Speaker 2: And two it just felt like Jeang.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like he could feel them staring at him.
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  Speaker 1: Not just looking straight ahead towards the front of the bus,
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  Speaker 1: but it was like they were.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at him. It was like a primal sense that
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  Speaker 2: Jean had.
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  Speaker 1: And the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: he became, and frankly, the more fearful he became. Like
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  Speaker 1: it was like every little noise behind him was like
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  Speaker 1: confirmation that they were like looking at him, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: moving up the aisle to get closer to him.
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  Speaker 2: But he just he couldn't bring himself to turn around
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  Speaker 2: and look.
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  Speaker 1: It was like he was terrified of what he was
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  Speaker 1: going to see behind him, and so he just he
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  Speaker 1: just stayed glued to a seat, rigidly looking straight ahead.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it was like this whole ride.
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  Speaker 1: He's just like they're staring at me. Something is off,
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  Speaker 1: like what's going on with these guys? And it went
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  Speaker 1: on and on for like ten fifteen minutes of just
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  Speaker 1: this really tense ride. But despite how sort of awful
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  Speaker 1: this ride had become, even though he couldn't fully articulate
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  Speaker 1: exactly why it was just so uncomfortable, despite all that,
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  Speaker 1: Jean is thinking, you know, any minute.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we're gonna get to my stop, I'm gonna get off.
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  Speaker 1: The stupid bus and this is gonna be over and
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  Speaker 1: done with and I'll forget all about this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But before they reached his stop, while they're still.
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  Speaker 1: In this sort of isolated part of the ride where
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  Speaker 1: it's very dark outside, Jong, who again is just sort
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  Speaker 1: of glued, you know, looking straight ahead, he notices the woman,
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  Speaker 1: the woman right in front of him, who.
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  Speaker 2: This whole time has seemingly completely.
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  Speaker 1: Forgot about the guys behind her, Like she's just looking
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead, no big deal. She just all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden turns around and looks towards the back of the bus.
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  Speaker 2: Just one fluid motion, she just turned and looked.
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  Speaker 1: And Jong, he's staring at the woman as she does this,
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  Speaker 1: and he watches as her face goes from you know,
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  Speaker 1: curious and just sort of normal to her eyes going wide,
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  Speaker 1: and she stands up and she just starts screaming and
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  Speaker 1: pointing towards the back of the bus. And then before
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  Speaker 1: Jong can turn around himself, and he's still too scared
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  Speaker 1: to even look, he feels something smack into the side
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  Speaker 1: of his.
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  Speaker 2: Head and so he's like disoriented. It hits him again
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  Speaker 2: and again, and he realizes.
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  Speaker 1: It's the woman who's screaming at whatever's happening in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the bus, and she's hitting him over and
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  Speaker 1: over again with her purse and she's yelling something, and
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  Speaker 1: Jong's like, what is going on.
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  Speaker 2: He's realizing she's screaming thief at Jeong.
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  Speaker 1: She's hitting him in the head, screaming thief Jeong's he's
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  Speaker 1: got no clue why. He doesn't know why she's yelling
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  Speaker 1: at whatever's happening in the back. And before long, the
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  Speaker 1: bus driver just stops the bus and without even asking
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, he just looks at Jong and just
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  Speaker 1: gestures get off the bus, as if Jong is like
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  Speaker 1: the central issue on this bus, not the strange people
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  Speaker 1: we've picked up twenty minutes ago, that no one has
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  Speaker 1: any explanation for, no explanation for why this woman is
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  Speaker 1: screaming about whatever they're doing back there.
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  Speaker 2: The bus driver has just decided that.
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  Speaker 1: Jeong is the issue, and Jong at this point does
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  Speaker 1: just want to get off the bus.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And so without even looking at the back, he just
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  Speaker 1: got up, no questions asked, breeze past the woman who's
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  Speaker 1: still hitting him with her.
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  Speaker 2: Bag, and out the door. He goes. He didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: He knew he had a long walk home, but anything
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  Speaker 1: was better than being in that bus.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Once Jong actually.
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  Speaker 1: Got off the bus, he realized he actually was not
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  Speaker 1: in as bad of a spot as he could have been.
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  Speaker 1: Like he expected to get off and basically be in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere because he knew they were in
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  Speaker 1: this sort of isolated area, But when he got off,
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  Speaker 1: he realized they had sort of just came to the
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  Speaker 1: end of that isolated section and so pretty nearby he
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  Speaker 1: could see a neighborhood, which meant he actually was not
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  Speaker 1: that far away from his home. And so he's thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got a bit of a walk, but again, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on that bus.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even want to.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what's happening on that crazy bus, Like thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just out of there. And so Jeong he just
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  Speaker 1: starts walking towards his home and he's making his way
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  Speaker 1: when he hears something behind him and he immediately stops
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  Speaker 1: because think about think about how how traumatic whatever just
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  Speaker 1: happened was for him. He can't process what's happened. It's
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  Speaker 1: this totally crazy, inexplicable thing. He's on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road now, like he's on edge, and so he
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  Speaker 1: hears something behind him and he just stops. And this time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like on the bus. He does turn around to
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on, and he turns and he sees
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  Speaker 1: he's not alone. Standing behind him on the sidewalk is
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  Speaker 1: the old woman and she's staring right at him, and
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  Speaker 1: so Jeong he's looking at her, and immediately he clocks
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  Speaker 1: that like something's different about her. On the bus, that
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  Speaker 1: expression she had on her face when she screamed at
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  Speaker 1: whatever was in the back of the bus and then
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  Speaker 1: began hitting him with her purse, that expression she had
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  Speaker 1: was like fear and paranoia and even anger.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he saw on her face.
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  Speaker 1: But now she's like smiling and she's looking at him
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  Speaker 1: with this almost like I'm sorry look on her face
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  Speaker 1: like a like please, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about what just happened.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was she was signaling to him like we
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  Speaker 2: need to talk.
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  Speaker 1: And so picking up on that, Jeong like he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to just go over to her and be like what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Like why did you do that to me?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't take anything from you, or like he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to yell at her. But again there was.
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  Speaker 1: Just that look on her that said I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: talk to this woman. And so Jeong he turns and
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  Speaker 1: he walks to this woman and he says to her
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  Speaker 1: like what happened on there? Like what's going on? Like
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  Speaker 1: what did you see? Why did you what happened? And
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  Speaker 1: she looked at him and she was like, I have
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  Speaker 1: to tell you a secret. So that night, unbeknownst to
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  Speaker 1: Jeong and very likely unbeknownst to this woman, this bus
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  Speaker 1: they were on, Bus three seventy five. After they got off,
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  Speaker 1: it would take off and drive off with its strange
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  Speaker 1: occupants on board, and believe it or not, the bus
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  Speaker 1: would vanish.
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  Speaker 2: It would just go missing. Nobody knew where it went.
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  Speaker 1: And then three days later it was found crashed in
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  Speaker 1: a reservoir sixty miles north of where Jeong and this
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  Speaker 1: woman had gotten off, and on board the bus were
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  Speaker 1: three dead bodies.
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  Speaker 2: It was the driver, the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Seller, and then also the man wearing red, the guy
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  Speaker 1: who was needing to be propped up by the other
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  Speaker 1: two men in blue. Now, authorities made no mention of
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  Speaker 1: the the men in blue. It was just these three
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  Speaker 1: people were found on board the bus. Now, it was
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  Speaker 1: determined that all three of them had died from a
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  Speaker 1: broken neck, and so the running assumption was the crash
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  Speaker 1: itself caused them to break their necks and that's what
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  Speaker 1: killed them. But there was a very strange determination about
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the condition of the bodies. So the occupants on board
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  Speaker 1: the bus presumably died within seventy two hours, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the timeframe they were missing and when they were found dead.
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  Speaker 1: But it was determined that their bodies were so decomposed
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  Speaker 1: they likely had been dead for months. The secret that
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  Speaker 1: the old woman told Jong was that when she turned
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  Speaker 1: around on the bus and she looked to the back
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  Speaker 1: and she saw the men.
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  Speaker 2: She said, the men in.
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  Speaker 1: Blue were staring at Jeong with just a look of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: pure evil on their face. She was like, I knew
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: it wasn't right, these were evil spirits and they were
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: after Jeong. It was like she instinctively just knew it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: She didn't know why, she just knew it, and almost
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: like reflexively, she began screaming. And then it was like
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: this thought crossed her mind that she needed to save Jong,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: and the first thing she thought to do was accuse
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: him of being a thief, so the bus driver would
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: stop and kick him off the bus. And so she
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: put on this performance hitting him, calling him a thief,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: basically to save him, to get him off the bus
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: away from what she thought were literally evil spirits.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And so think about this.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: She's telling Jong this on the side of the road.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: They're in the middle of nowhere, their ride is pulling away.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Jong wasn't like, oh boy, thank you so much for
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: saving me from the evil spirits on the bus. He's like, okay, okay,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I get it now. I guess I appreciate it. And
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: then the two of them just took off on their
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: merry way. It wasn't until three days later that Jeong
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: realized whatever caused her to have that reaction literally saved
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: and who knows who the men in blue were, because
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: something happened on that bus, something caused it to vanish
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and then crash into the reservoir, and everybody dies on
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: board with their necks broken and their bodies decomposed more
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: than they should be. Like, none of that makes any sense,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: But all Jeong knows is because of that woman, he
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: was still alive. And so Jong is like a mix
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: between terrified that he was involved in this, but also
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: so thankful that this woman saved his life. But what
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he did when he put it all together, when he
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: found out about this bus and you know what happened
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: on board, you know, the dead bodies and all that,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he went to the authorities and he said there were
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: two other people on the bus that were acting so weird,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the men in blue, you know, the ones the woman
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: basically warned him about being these evil spirits, and he
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: told the authorities. And you know, whether or not they
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: bought the evil spirit line didn't really matter. What they're
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: being told is there were two people acting strange on
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the bus before this all happened. And they went out
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and they looked for the two men in blue, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: they never found.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: No one has any idea who they were.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And so to this day, all the locals all say
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to never take the last bus ride along Route three
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: seventy five.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: On a fall afternoon in eighteen eighty.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Seven, a man named Jean Wilson rode his horse next
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to the Platte River in Wyoming, hurting some cattle that
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: were grazing there.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Next to him was Jean's dog, who.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Was running along dutifully right behind him and sort of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: nipping at the cow's heels to keep them in line.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: So Jean was a ranch hand, and he worked for
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a ranch.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: In the town of Casper, which was about maybe ten
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: miles away from where he was right now. And part
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: of Jean's responsibilities was going out and finding lost cattle
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that wandered too far from the ranch and hurting them
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: back to the pasture.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So on this particular day, the weather was perfect. It's sunny,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: it's beautiful, you know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And generally Jean actually really enjoyed this aspect of his job.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: He liked being out here. But today, even though he
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: should have been like this is a great day, he
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: just felt really, really tired. He had worked many, many
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: hours up until this point, and he really just wanted
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to be done then head back home to where he
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: lived with his wife. They had this little house that
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: was sort of tucked away in the secluded area in
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: this valley, surrounded by hills.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It was like his oasis.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Jean and his wife were like absolute best friends, like
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the very best part of his day. Even on days
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: where he went out and enjoyed his job, still the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: best part of his day was always returning home and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: just catching up with his wife over dinner.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: That was like the thing he looked forward to the most.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And so right now it was like he craved just
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: being home and being with his wife.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: He could not wait.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But Jane, you know, he was a diligent guy, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: he just continued doing his job. You know, he's trotting
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: along the river, he's hurting the cows, and at some point,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: as he's sort of at this point mindlessly doing his
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: job because again he doesn't want to be here anymore,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he looks.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Down and he notices his dog is no longer next
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to him. His dog was always right next.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: To him, you know, helping, you know, doing the hurting,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and his dog's not there. And so he stopped and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he began looking around. And that's when he realized that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: maybe because he was becoming so mindless doing this job today,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that this huge amount of mist had sort of rolled
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: out over the Platte River, like he hadn't noticed that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: there was just all this mist. And as he's looking
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: out seeing this massive cloud of mist, he noticed his
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: dog and his dog was actually kind of going nuts.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The dog had broken off and run to the edge
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of the Platte River and it was sort of like
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: barking like mad, and it had been for some time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: It was like Jeanne just hadn't noticed it. And so
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: he's seeing the mist and he's seen his dog, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: he's like, what's going on over here? He can't see
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: anything on the river. This is a usually pretty well
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: traveled river, but there hadn't been any traffic, no boats
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: are in thing, and so it's a quiet day.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: But it's like he can't see anything out on the river.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: The dog is just.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Going crazy, and so Jeane's like, what what's going on?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: What's out over there? And this is also like very
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: unusual behavior for his dog, Like his dog was very
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: well trained. This is an odd thing for it to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be doing. But you know, Jeane's thinking, there's got to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: be a good reason for it. The dog wouldn't do
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this for no reason, and so Jeane. He lets the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: cattle just continue making their way along the river, but
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he on his horse. He turns and begins making his
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: way over to the dog, who again is is sort
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of stationary by the river's edge, barking and looking out
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: at something in the middle of this mist presumably.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: However, as Jean trotted his.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Way towards the dog, the horse began to react to something.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Jean's horse began to like react to something that Jeane
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: couldn't even see. It started to get really scared. It
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was winnying and sort of unwilling to go any further.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And then finally, when Jeane really tried to get the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: horse to carry on here, the horse actually reared onto
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: its back legs and.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Almost kicked Jeane off of it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Jeane managed to hold on, and when the horse came
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: back down on all fours, he just calmed the horse
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: down and brought it over to a nearby tree. The
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: whole time, the dog is still barking like crazy, looking
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: at something out over the water.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And so now Jeane's like, what is going on here?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: He gets off his horse and he ties it to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a tree, and then on foot, he walks over to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: his dog.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And so he walks over to his dog.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: His dog's you know, yeap man and barking, And as
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: soon as Gene is next to his dog, his dog
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: stops barking, but it continues to be really fixated on
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the water, which again is like utterly covered by mist.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: He can't see anything out in the water. It's quiet,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: like eerily quiet, you know. The mist is almost obscuring
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the sunlight at this point, like they've it's almost like
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: they're inside of a cloud, and it's just him and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: his dog. The dog is fixated on something, and Jean's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: looking out over the water, and then all of a sudden,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it was like the mist began to part, and this enormous,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: like way bigger than he had ever seen in the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Platte River, this huge wooden ship suddenly comes into view.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And so right away Jeane is sort of baffled by
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the ship number one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It seemed fairly obvious that this is the thing that
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: his dog was barking at, and it might have been
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the same thing that the horse was reacting to. But
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Jean's like, why there are ships that go up and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: down this river all the time. The dog, the horse,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they don't react this way to any of those Ships's so,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: what's that about? But more than that, this ship really
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: was just enormous, like looked out of place, it was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so big, and this is this is not a particularly
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: deep river, and so Jean's like, how how is this
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: big of a ship here? And so Jean's almost like
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: fascinated with what he's looking at, you know, he's sort
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of not really worried about the dog anymore, or the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: horse or even his cattle.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: He's just he's looking at the ship, wondering what the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: heck it's doing here, like's whose ship is this?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And so Jane continues to watch as the ship, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: continues just slowly making its way down Platt River, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: as he's staring at it again just sort of fascinated
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: by it. He counts nine sailors on the deck, moving
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: around doing something on the deck.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: But what they were.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Doing on the deck just wasn't immediately clear. They weren't
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: doing sort of obvious sailor things. They were clearly working
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: on something in unison on the deck. There was something
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: they were doing altogether, Like there was this apparent huge
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: tarp almost that sat in the middle of the deck
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of the ship. And they were sort of.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Moving it around, and it appeared like.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: There was something underneath it, but you know, Jane couldn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: see it, and he was too far away to make
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: out what it could be.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And so Gene is just he's staring at this this crew.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He's looking at the ship, and then all of a sudden,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: all nine of the sailors on board the ship, almost
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: like a unison, just stop what they were doing, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: they turned and they all at the exact same time
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: just stared directly at Gene. And it sort of like
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: disarmed Jeane, like he was really, you know, staring intently
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: at them. It was sort of it was like alarming
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to have them all be looking at him all at once,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and so he's sort of taken it back and he's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: looking out at them like.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Are they looking at me? What did I do? What's
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: what's going on here?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And then all at once, these nine people they go
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: back to what they're doing and they begin to lift
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: up this tarp right, so they're revealing what's underneath it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And now, you know, Gene, he's both terrified.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And sort of confused and still just fascinated, and he's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: he's looking out like, what are they.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Going to reveal like this is so weird.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And the tarp comes up, and at first all Jane
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: could see was like this weird mound, like a black
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: mound sitting on the deck of the ship that was
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: underneath this tarp. But as he continued to stare, he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: suddenly realized what he was looking at. It couldn't be possible, Like,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: how how could that be out like that?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense to me? And he was horrified.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He was he was scared, and he's thinking like, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to do, And all of a sudden,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he grabs his dog. He runs back to his horse,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and he thinks, I have to get home. I have
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to get home right now, and so on his horse
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: he goes. He just gets his dog, he abandons the cattle.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: From what he's seen, he doesn't even care. He has
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to make sure that everything back home is okay, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he takes off. He starts galloping as fast as he
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: can back in the direction of that quaint little home
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: he's got down in the hillside, and so over an
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: hour of riding basically at full tilt, he finally crusts
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the hill and by this point he's tried to convince
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: himself that what he saw on board that ship could
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: not have been.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: A real thing.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: But he goes up the hill that looks down into
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the valley where he would normally first see his home.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Except when he looked down into the.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Valley, his home wasn't there anymore. His home was just
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the smoldering black ruin. The home had burned down, apparently
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in the last few hours while he was gone, And
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: so Gene is a mixture of horrified but also weirdly
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: not surprised, and he blazes down the hill. He gets
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to his what remains of his home, and he sees
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that's not all he sees. There is a black mound
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that looked just like the mound he saw on board
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that ship, that is laying on the ground not far from.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Where his house was, And it's the body of his wife.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: That's what he saw out on the ship. He saw
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the dead body of his wife, burned and destroyed, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it was definitely her. He could he could make her
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out from here. It scared him so bad he went
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: back to check. And now he's seeing it in real
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: life now. Of course, for all you folks who are
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: hearing the story, you're gonna think, come on, like this
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: happened in the eighteen hundreds, Like how much of this
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: is really true? What he looked out and he saw
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a ghost ship appear with you know, a premonition or
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a vision of his wife who he's gonna find dead.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Sure, right, well listen to this.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So, after Jeane finds his dead wife, you know, he
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: has this incredible story about how he sort of knew
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about it beforehand by seeing this ghost ship, if you will.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And so he went and told people.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: He told a lot of people about what happened, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: eventually a few years later his story found its way
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to a journalist named Vincent Gaddis, And Vincent Gaddis happened
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to have done all this extensive reporting about the infamous
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Bermuda Triangle, which is just off the coast of Bermuda.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: There's this section of the ocean where all this very
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: strange activity has been reported over many, many years, Like
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: stuff that is basically paranormal in nature consistently is reported
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in this part of the world. And so he had
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: done a lot of research on the Bermuda Triangle, and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: so he's primed to hear stories like Geene's story and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: take them seriously. And so when he heard about Gene's story,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: he began looking into it, and Vincent pretty much immediately
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: discovered that there was absolutely no record of this enormous
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: ship being on the Platte River. In fact, as Vincent found,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it would have been impossible for a ship of that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: size as Gene described, you know, this one hundred foot
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: ship being able to travel on the Platt River. It
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: was too shallow, so there was no record, and it
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: really just it seemed impossible. And so the way Vincent
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: responded to this is, Okay, well, clearly, Jean is a
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: man who's been racked by guilt and shame. He feels
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: probably like he somehow let his wife down by going
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: out that day and she winds up dying in this fire.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: And so this is a man who's just dealing with grief,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and it says grief.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: That has somehow created this story in his mind to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: explain what happened to his wife.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: You know, it seems crazy, but people do crazy things
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: when they are really deeply affected by grief. However, many
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: years later, that same journalist wound up finding out that
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: actually Jane was not the only person who had a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: story like that he discovered that apparently twenty five years
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: before Jean's story, and then sixteen years after Jean's story,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: there were these two other people who specifically reported seeing
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: this enormous ship on the Platte River that apparently had
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the dead body of one of their loved ones on board,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and like all the sailors are looking out at them
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and they're like showing them this dead body. But that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: person that they're seeing was alive as far as these
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: people thought. But then when they went home, they discovered
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that their loved ones were in fact dead.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: It was the same as Jane's story.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: In the years since these sightings, this ship has become
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: known as the Death Ship, and it's widely considered to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: be a death omen both in the Platte River valley
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and also throughout Wyoming. All Right, thank you all so
• 30:53
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• 30:56
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