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  Speaker 1: Today, we have two stories about some friends that just
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  Speaker 1: want to have a fun night out, but at some
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  Speaker 1: point during their fun night out, things take a disastrous
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  Speaker 1: turn for the worse. But before we get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 1: today's stories. Around seven pm on Saturday, August thirteenth, twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old Wang Waijia was with his friends Ma
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  Speaker 1: June and Joe Guoh at an internet cafe in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Taiping, China, watching June play a computer game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Waiga and his friends went to this cafe a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and today they had literally been there for hours by
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  Speaker 1: this point. But now, as June finished up the game
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  Speaker 1: he was playing, Guo announced that he was actually ready
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  Speaker 1: to go do something else now. So the three of
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  Speaker 1: these guys spent a lot of time together, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was at an internet cafe or elsewhere. They were like
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  Speaker 1: really close friends, and generally speaking, Waiga usually just did
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  Speaker 1: whatever June and Guo wanted to do, since they both
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  Speaker 1: had strong opinions, and Wayjo was more of a go
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  Speaker 1: with the flow type of guy. And so now as
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  Speaker 1: Guo decided they were done with games, Weaijo was just like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, cool, Well, why don't we just head back
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  Speaker 1: to one of our places just to hang out. But
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  Speaker 1: Guo he shook his head and said, no way, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's it's Saturday. They didn't have to be up for
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  Speaker 1: school the next day, and so they could stay out
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  Speaker 1: all night if they wanted to. And so we said,
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  Speaker 1: like we got to find something really exciting to do,
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  Speaker 1: like we got to make the most of this night. Now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody had like a great idea of what was going
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  Speaker 1: to be super exciting, and so Gwill was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: well for now, like let's just go outside and we
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  Speaker 1: can smoke first and then we can go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And at this both June and Waja just nodded an
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  Speaker 1: agreement like okay, that's the plan. But in reality, Waga
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really sure if he felt comfortable staying out all
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  Speaker 1: night tonight, because tonight was not just a normal night
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  Speaker 1: like this was an iffy night to stay out all night.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular weekend was not just an ordinary weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually the area's annual Ghost Festival, a time
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  Speaker 1: on the lunar calendar when ghosts apparently would wander the
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  Speaker 1: streets after dark. And Wage's family, along with his friend's
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  Speaker 1: families and frankly a lot of other people in this area,
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  Speaker 1: they took this festival really seriously. They believed the ghosts
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  Speaker 1: really were wandering the streets after dark because they were
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  Speaker 1: just very superstitious. In fact, in this area, this festival
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  Speaker 1: was taken so seriously that businesses would often close early
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  Speaker 1: so people could safely make their way home before nightfall. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Waija himself didn't really necessarily believe in ghosts, you know,
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  Speaker 1: despite his family appearing to very much believe in them.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality was is Waja was just not a
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  Speaker 1: guy who ruffled feathers. He went with the flow. He
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  Speaker 1: was a rule follower. So in his mind, he was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: it's the ghost festival, kind of don't want to stay
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  Speaker 1: out late tonight. But now Guo was already making his
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  Speaker 1: way towards the exit with June, and so Weaija didn't
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  Speaker 1: bother to argue. Instead, he just followed right along and
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  Speaker 1: they went outside to smoke. About an hour later, Waja
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in the passenger seat of his own car
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  Speaker 1: with June behind the wheel and Gwo in the back,
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  Speaker 1: and they were driving down a road in the outskirts
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  Speaker 1: of town. And by this point the sun had set,
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  Speaker 1: and so now they were officially in Ghost Festival territory,
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  Speaker 1: like presumably there are ghosts out now out on the roads.
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  Speaker 1: So after leaving the Internet cafe, the three of them
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  Speaker 1: they had a smoke. But then as they're out there,
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  Speaker 1: they they couldn't come up with a compelling idea for
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  Speaker 1: how to spend the rest of their big night out.
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  Speaker 1: All they came up with is, ah, let's just like
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  Speaker 1: get in the car and drive around and maybe we'll
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  Speaker 1: figure out something to do. Now. Initially, when they hopped
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  Speaker 1: in the car, they're thinking, okay, like it's getting dark out,
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  Speaker 1: like we're gonna be driving around during the ghost festival.
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  Speaker 1: We're bound to find something exciting to do, and so
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  Speaker 1: all of them are like they're amped up. They're in
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  Speaker 1: the car, they're pumped. We're gonna find something fun. But
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  Speaker 1: after a while they were just randomly driving around. No
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  Speaker 1: one's really out because again it's this ghost festival. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: you know, in their homes. There's nothing going on, and
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  Speaker 1: it just became really really boring. They're just like driving
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  Speaker 1: around and nothing's going on. And so at a certain point,
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  Speaker 1: Waja is just feeling so frustrated because it's like he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be out here in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't voice that to his friends, but like he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be out here. He just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be home. And so he just was like, man, like
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  Speaker 1: this is so boring, and he just leaned his head
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  Speaker 1: up against the window and just decided to drift off
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. And so he's like closing his eyes and
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  Speaker 1: he's just laying there and June, who's driving, is just
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  Speaker 1: you know, driving along. They're not really talking, and so
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  Speaker 1: Waja as he's laying there, he suddenly feels the car
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  Speaker 1: come to a screeching stop and glow in the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately reflexively screams at June the driver like, hey, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Drive more carefully, and Waja he's like
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  Speaker 1: looking around, like what just happened? And he looks over
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  Speaker 1: at June who's driving, and June is not paying any
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  Speaker 1: attention to Glow or to Waga. He's just pointing out
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  Speaker 1: the windshield at something on the road and he's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: and so Waja, who's just sort of confused because a
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  Speaker 1: moment ago he was half asleep, he looks from June
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  Speaker 1: out the front windshield to see what he's pointing at.
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  Speaker 1: And there's this woman who's just sitting in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the road. They're out on the outskirts of town,
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  Speaker 1: like there's no really any buildings around or anything. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they're out in the sticks and it's dark out and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's home for the ghost festival, and there's just this
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  Speaker 1: woman sitting on the ground. She's wearing this floral dress,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a bike that she has that's next to her,
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  Speaker 1: just propped up, and she's almost been hit by a car,
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  Speaker 1: like they stopped very close to her. She's almost been
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  Speaker 1: hit by a car, and she's just sitting there staring
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  Speaker 1: blankly at the car. And so June he's he's pointing
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  Speaker 1: at her like he can't believe it. He almost hit her,
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  Speaker 1: and we just like what's going on, and Guo like
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't even know what to make of it. And
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  Speaker 1: at some point June sort of snaps out of it
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  Speaker 1: and he leans out the window and he yells at
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  Speaker 1: the woman to like get out of the way, like
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing, Like get out of the road.
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  Speaker 1: But the woman didn't budge. She just sat there staring
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  Speaker 1: at them, just on the ground, not a care in
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  Speaker 1: the world, just looking right at all three of them.
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  Speaker 1: And so eventually, after sort of the tension in the
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  Speaker 1: car went down a little bit, June just pulled his
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  Speaker 1: head back in the window and he looked at his
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  Speaker 1: friends and he's like, I don't know, and he just
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  Speaker 1: drove around this woman, you know, just avoided her, and
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  Speaker 1: they continued driving along. For the next few hours, the
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  Speaker 1: three boys just continued driving around town looking for something
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  Speaker 1: to do. But there still was nothing to do. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everything's basically abandoned because it's this ghost festival night. Nobody's out,
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  Speaker 1: no businesses are open, there's nothing to do, and what
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  Speaker 1: really had not left any of their minds even though
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  Speaker 1: they really didn't talk about it was that woman, Like
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  Speaker 1: that was so unusual to just see her sitting there
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  Speaker 1: not reacting to nearly being hit, Like the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was just so creepy, made more so because it's the
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  Speaker 1: night of this ghost festival, Like talk about the creepiest
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  Speaker 1: night to see something like that. And so eventually, around
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  Speaker 1: like one am, when the boys are still just driving around,
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  Speaker 1: someone in the car suggests like, hey, let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to that intersection and see if she's still there, Like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just see what she's doing. Now. Keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: it's been hours since they've seen this woman, like hours,
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  Speaker 1: and so they'd drive back around, not really expecting to
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  Speaker 1: see her there. They think that like, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: weird that was, she has to have gotten up and
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  Speaker 1: left by now. But no, they turn onto that road,
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  Speaker 1: which again is outside of the town. It's that there's
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  Speaker 1: no buildings around, it's dark minus their headlights when they
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  Speaker 1: drive down this road, and sure enough, off in the distance,
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  Speaker 1: still sitting in this intersection is this woman. She's unmoved.
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  Speaker 1: She's just sitting there in her dress with a bike
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  Speaker 1: next to her. Just hours later, no change, and so
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  Speaker 1: now it's like the boys can't help but feel really
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  Speaker 1: uneasy here, like this isn't right. Something's wrong with this woman.
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  Speaker 1: I mean also, they can't help but think, like it's
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  Speaker 1: the night of the ghost festival? Are we seeing a ghost?
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  Speaker 1: Like they're terrified. I mean that's the reality is they
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  Speaker 1: were scared. But really, more than anything, what all three
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  Speaker 1: of them are thinking and discussing in the car is
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  Speaker 1: we got to tell someone about her, Like there's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with this woman. What is she doing? Is she
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  Speaker 1: mentally unwell? Is she on drugs? We don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: like this isn't okay. We got to tell someone, But
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  Speaker 1: for now, the three boys decided that they had had
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  Speaker 1: enough fun for one night, and they drove to June's
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  Speaker 1: house and they just all crash there, determined to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what to do with this woman and what they saw.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, and so several hours later, the boys
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  Speaker 1: wake up, they make their way into the kitchen because
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  Speaker 1: they can hear June's mom is in there making breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: and right away June tells his mom what happened the
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  Speaker 1: night before, and as he's regaling her in the details
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  Speaker 1: of the story, June and Guo also chimed in with
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  Speaker 1: their perspective, and then after they were done telling June's mom,
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  Speaker 1: they all sort of expected her, you know, being an
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  Speaker 1: authority figure, to know what to do that she would
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  Speaker 1: very likely say, Okay, we need to call the police,
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  Speaker 1: or we need to call a hospital, or we need
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  Speaker 1: to call some other authority figure and handle this professionally.
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't do any of that. Instead, she just
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  Speaker 1: kind of looked at the boys and she said, you
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  Speaker 1: at first, all three boys were just shocked at how
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  Speaker 1: confidently and she said this, I mean, of course they
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  Speaker 1: knew about the annual Ghost festival, and of course people
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  Speaker 1: in this town were very superstitious, including their own families.
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  Speaker 1: They knew this meant a lot, this festival. But the
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  Speaker 1: idea that we're gonna sit here and literally say that
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  Speaker 1: the woman we saw sitting on the ground last night
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  Speaker 1: was a literal ghost that seemed crazy, And the boys
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  Speaker 1: began saying as much to June's mom, But June's mom
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  Speaker 1: was just really annoyed with them and just basically shot
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  Speaker 1: them down and said, look, you saw a ghost, but
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  Speaker 1: like that's the reason you're not supposed to be out
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  Speaker 1: on the night of the annual ghost festival. It's why
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  Speaker 1: the business is shut down. It's why we all go
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  Speaker 1: home before nightfall. You knew you weren't supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: out at night. You were That's why this happened. Not
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  Speaker 1: to mention these ghosts, they don't just wander around. They
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  Speaker 1: target people. You were targeted. Now, June's mother was not
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  Speaker 1: just throwing that out there. She was referencing one other
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  Speaker 1: aspect of this annual ghost festival that lots of people
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  Speaker 1: in this area believed, which was these ghosts that wandered
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  Speaker 1: around after dark on this one night of the year.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't just wandering around, they were looking for people
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  Speaker 1: to effectively latch onto. And so part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: people believed you need to stay in at night and
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  Speaker 1: avoid being out after dark is because if you basically
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  Speaker 1: interact with one of these ghosts, they could latch onto
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  Speaker 1: you and then you become its target. In some cases,
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  Speaker 1: people believe it just produces really bad luck for you
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  Speaker 1: for potentially months at a stretch. Some other people say
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  Speaker 1: that once you've been targeted by one of these ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: they may try to kill you. Specifically, they may try
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  Speaker 1: to drown you, and so no one really knew, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like this belief that you just never want
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  Speaker 1: to interact with a ghost because it could be very
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  Speaker 1: bad for you. And so June and Guo they still
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  Speaker 1: tried to argue a little with June's mother trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell her that no, this could not possibly be a ghost,
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  Speaker 1: but their voices seem less forceful now and waita like
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  Speaker 1: he was sitting there thinking like, actually, if that was
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  Speaker 1: a ghost, this kind of makes sense. Explains why she
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  Speaker 1: didn't react at all to nearly being hit by a car.
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  Speaker 1: She just sat there. Also, why is she just sitting there?
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  Speaker 1: Strange activity for anybody to be doing. Maybe a ghost
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  Speaker 1: would do that. It also kind of explains why she
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  Speaker 1: was still there hours and hours later, just sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the road like other cars must have
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  Speaker 1: gone by, Like this is not normal behavior. And so
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  Speaker 1: Wage is thinking, wait a minute, maybe this was a ghost. However,
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  Speaker 1: just as Waja really started to feel almost sick with
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  Speaker 1: worry about, you know, the seriousness of what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: he heard June's mom tell them don't be afraid. She said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly what you need to do to stay safe.
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  Speaker 1: Later that same day, Waga parked his car at a
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  Speaker 1: cemetery that was near June's house, and after he parked,
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  Speaker 1: he and June got out, Will Guo stayed behind in
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  Speaker 1: the car. All three of them were very tense. They
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  Speaker 1: were very anxious. And as Waja scanned the headstones and
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  Speaker 1: looked over at a cornfield that was next to the cemetery,
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  Speaker 1: all he was thinking is this this ghost, this ghost
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  Speaker 1: woman is going to at any moment and she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do something to us. But she didn't. And so eventually
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  Speaker 1: Waga and June began walking down the path that would
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  Speaker 1: lead them through all the gravestones, basically deeper into the cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason these two were here and now walking
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  Speaker 1: into the cemetery is because they were following June's mother's
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  Speaker 1: advice for how to stay safe now that they had
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  Speaker 1: potentially come in contact with this this ghost. And so
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  Speaker 1: they had gone out and acquired a stack of ghost money,
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  Speaker 1: and now they were going to go spend it. So
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  Speaker 1: ghost money is a kind of paper sheet in China
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  Speaker 1: that typically is burned when a loved one dies. The
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  Speaker 1: idea is when you burn this money, it sort of
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  Speaker 1: goes to the deceased loved one, and then they have
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  Speaker 1: money for the afterlife, you're basically giving your deceased loved
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  Speaker 1: one currency for the afterlife. But it can also be
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  Speaker 1: a way to buy protection from angry spirits. So Waiga
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  Speaker 1: and his friends have been told to burn ghost money
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  Speaker 1: over their family gra save plots so that their dead
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  Speaker 1: ancestors could essentially pay the ghost, the evil ghost to
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  Speaker 1: leave them alone. Now, they'd already done this at Gwoh's
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  Speaker 1: family plot in a separate cemetery, so that's why Gwo
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  Speaker 1: was staying back in the car, And now they were
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  Speaker 1: going to do June's family plot in this cemetery. And
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  Speaker 1: so Waga and June they continue walking through the cemetery
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  Speaker 1: until finally they reached some of June's ancestors graves. There
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  Speaker 1: they knelt down, they pulled out their ghost money, and
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  Speaker 1: they began to burn the bills, and they're both just
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  Speaker 1: kneeling there burning this money, and with each bill that
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  Speaker 1: crumpled up and smoldered, both of them were feeling like
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  Speaker 1: this enormous wave of relief coming over them. And so
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  Speaker 1: for a little while they're just burning their money and
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  Speaker 1: they're both looking down at the money on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: They're just kneeling there. But then at some point Waja
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  Speaker 1: just looked up and as soon as he did, he
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  Speaker 1: froze because standing right behind June, June can't see this,
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  Speaker 1: and right behind June is that woman in address, and
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  Speaker 1: she's looking at both of them, and Waga was so
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  Speaker 1: scared he shrieked. He jumped up, turned and started running
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  Speaker 1: in the opposite direction. Now June is so startled by
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  Speaker 1: Waja screaming that he jumped up ready to run away himself.
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  Speaker 1: But he's watching Waja take off, and he turns around
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  Speaker 1: because he could tell Wyja saw something behind him, but
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing behind him, and he's thinking he must have
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  Speaker 1: seen the ghost, because why else would he react this way.
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  Speaker 1: But there's there's nobody here, and so June sort of
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  Speaker 1: put together, like what's going on here? Like Wayja clearly
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  Speaker 1: spooked himself or in a cemetery after all. And he
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  Speaker 1: sees Waja and he's running and he's running and he
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  Speaker 1: disappears into the cornfield that was next to the cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: He's just gone, just running, he's gone. Now, this cornfield
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: was pretty massive. It had not been harvested, so the
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: stocks were really tall, and clearly like Waja was on
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: a mission, and so June was not about to just
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: chase after him. Instead, he ran back to the car
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and he grabbed Gwo first, and the two of them
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: went after Waga. However, when they got to the cornfield
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and actually went inside a bit, they quickly realized it
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: was going to be really hard to find anything in
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: this cornfield. I mean, the stalks are so thick and tall,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: it's so dense. I mean, every step was so slow
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and difficult, and they're calling out for Waga, but there's
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: no response. And so after several minutes of only moving
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: you know, like ten fifteen feet or so into this
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: cornfield making no progress, the two of them are like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: what happened to him? Like either the ghost got him,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: or like maybe he's in hiding somewhere. Maybe he's convinced
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: that the ghost is nearby and he's just being quiet
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and he's in hiding, and he's he's somewhere in this cornfield.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: But we got to find him. And so the two
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: friends they back out of the cornfield and they end
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: up calling a bunch of their friends to meet them
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: at this cornfield and help them look for Waga. So
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: all these friends they eventually arrived and all day and
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: into the night, these friends search this cornfield. They're looking
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: everywhere for Waga. Everyone's screaming his name. There's no sign
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of him. Three days later and Waja still had not
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: been found. Now by this point, the parents, Wag's parents
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: had been told they had told police, police had looked
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: for Waga, but there was no sign of him. I mean,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they were still out looking for him. But right now,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: like the talk of the town was where is Waja?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Nobody knew And so on this day, three days after
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the day that Weija went missing, June was sitting in
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: his room just feeling miserable. All he can think about
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: is his friend and what happened to him, Like, you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: he ran off after presumably seeing this ghost, Like did
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the ghost get him? Like all these horrible thoughts are
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: going through his head. And June, as he's sitting in
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: his room, he hears his mom call out to him,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: telling him there's a visitor. And so June he gets up,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he leaves his room, He goes to the front of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the house and he sees a police officer standing in
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the doorway. And this officer would tell June and his
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: mother that they had found Waga and he was dead.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Body was found in a lake that was not far
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: from the cemetery, and that he had drowned. June is
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: completely shocked. I mean, on the one hand, he sort
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: of was expecting bad news at this point, I mean,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: basically everybody was. But to hear that his friend was
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: dead was just horrific. And he, you know, really struggled
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to keep back tears. But you know, before he could
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: really even react to this, the officer went on to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: say that, you know, June, we spoke to Wage's parents
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and they told us that you and Guo were with
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: their son last that you were with him before he vanished,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and so we just want you to tell us, you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: now that we know he passed away, that he drowned,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: we want to know what happened, what did you see,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: like what led to him drowning? And June he just
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: launched into the most detailed version of the story he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: could possibly think of. He took the officer all the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: way back to them at the internet cafe, you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: playing computer games. They decide they're going to stay out
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: all night. They they go outside, they're having a smoke,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they're talking about what they're do. They decide they're going
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to get in the car and just drive around. They're
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: driving around on the night of this this ghost festival.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: They see this woman. They think it's a ghost. Like
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he went through this whole rendition of the ghost being
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: really central to the story, and how the next day
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: June's mom had like said, oh, go burn ghost money
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in the cemetery to protect yourself from the spirits. They
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: go to the cemetery and they're burning the ghost money,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but then Waja, he gets so scared. June's convinced it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: because he sees the ghost again, this woman, and he
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: takes off running into the cornfield. So he tells the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: officer like every little detail, and he knew that even
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in a place like this where people did, for the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: most part, believe in ghosts, he knew his story like
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: really hinged on a ghost made wage to do this,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and he knew that it was like totally preposterous in
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: some ways. But he's he thinks he's telling him the truth.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And so he tells the officer all this stuff, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the officer's just staring at him, and he's he's clearly
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: very skeptical. And then at some point after June is
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: done and he's just waiting for the officer. The officer
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: looks at him and he asks him one question that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: once June answers, once he answers, honestly, it completely explains
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: everything that happened. It would turn out that woman who
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: was sitting in the middle of the road that sort
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: of became the centerpiece of this whole ordeal was not
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a ghost. In fact, she wasn't even real. Because the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: three friends, June, Guo, and Waga, on the night they
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: decide to have their big night, they're going to stay
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: out all night. When they went out for a smoke,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: they didn't smoke cigarettes. They smoked methamphetamine, which can cause
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you to hallucinate, and so they were high on meth
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: driving around and hallucinated that woman. But they all believed
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: they saw it, and it felt so real, and it
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: was on the same night as this annual ghost festival
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that it felt so real that even the next day,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: when they were no longer high, they still believed they
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: had seen it. And then June's mom confirmed, yep, that
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was a ghost, because she and ghosts. And so they
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: set out to the cemetery and they're gonna, you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: burn this ghost money to save themselves from these evil spirits.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And what do they do Before they head out to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the cemetery, They smoke more myth and waja. He has
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: another hallucination. He thinks he sees the ghost ran into
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the cornfield, not realizing that deep in the cornfield was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a lake. He fell into it, and he was high
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: on meth and didn't know how to swim, and so
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: he drowned. On the night of August twenty eight, two
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: thousand and four, a twenty one year old named John
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Hutcherson leaned over a bar in Marrietta, Georgia and asked
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the bartender for another beer. John by this point had
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: completely lost track of how many drinks he had had
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in the past few hours, but he was sure it
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: had been a lot, because by this point the room
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: was starting to spend. However, he had no plans to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: stop drinking anytime soon. After all, it was only midnight,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: which was very early for John, and he was having
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a great time, and the bar was packed and there
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was loud music playing, and John was also on a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: winning streak playing pool, and so while he waited for
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: his beer, John looked over at the pool table he
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: had left his best friend Frankie there a few minutes ago,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: but now as he was looking over there, he didn't
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: see Frankie anymore. So John and Frankie had been very
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: close ever since high school, and this night out they
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: were having was sort of like a typical Saturday for them.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Every week they would meet at this bar, they would
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: get exceptionally drunk, and they would basically stay out all night.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: But on this night, they were both a lot drunker
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: than usual, and now Frankie was gone, and so as
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: John very drunkenly looked around the bar to see if
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: he could find Frankie, he noticed a girl he didn't
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: recognize at the end of the bar. She was very
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: cute and she appeared to be smiling at him, and so,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you know, John sees her and forgets all about his
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: friend Frankie being gone and just smiles back at this girl.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And then a moment later, the bartender hands him his beer,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and you know, John's feeling really confident. He takes his
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: beer and he begins walking towards this girl. However, before
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: he actually reached her, he felt a hand on his
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: arm and he turned to see Frankie, who looked just awful.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: He looked so pale, he smelled like vomit. And Frankie
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: told John, you know, as well as he could because
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he's so drunk, he's mumbling everything. He just said he
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: felt horrible and it was time to go now. John
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: was really disappointed because even though he was really really
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: drunk too, he wasn't as bad as Frankie. Like, John
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: had not reached the nauseous and vomiting phase of extreme intoxication,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and so he's thinking, man, like, there are a couple
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: more hours still closing, and I really want to talk
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to this girl. But he was Frankie's ride, and Frankie
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: had to go home clearly, and so if he was
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: going home, John had to go home too. So John
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: just chugged his beer put it back on the bar,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and then he turned and kind of waved at the girl,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: being like, sorry, I gotta go. And then John pulled
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: his car keys out of his pocket, and so John
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and Frankie they head outside to the parking lot and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: John goes to his truck and he climbs into the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: driver's seat, and as he's fumbling with the keys to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: start the car, Frankie had gone around to the other
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: side and stumbled his way into the passenger seat, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: even though he's like wrecked drunk, he's like totally out
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of it. Frankie looks over at John and sees him
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: unable to even start the car, and he's like, hey,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: are you sure you're good to drive? And John looks
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: over at Frankie and he's like, of course, I'm just fine.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I do this every single week. We always get home safe.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, Frankie's like, all right, you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: know whatever, let's just go. And so John he eventually
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: manages to turn the car on, he throws it in gear,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and he began to pull out of the parking lot
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: onto the road. But as he did, I mean he
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: really had to squint his eyes just to see the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: road clearly. I mean, his whole world is totally spinning
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: because of how intoxicated he was. And then as soon
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: as he actually began driving down the main road on
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the way home, the first thing he did is he's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: like hitting the curb and swerving back onto the road,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: but he was, you know, basically steady. You know, he's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: totally wasted, but he's basically hanging on. And then the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: rest of the drive was just a blur. I mean
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: John was white knuckling it the rest of the way.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: You know, he's driving along, he sees the gas station
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that he always passed on the way home, so that's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a familiar landmark. He's going the right way. He eventually
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: passes a familiar billboard. But then at some point his
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: eyes like snap back into focus because he's he realizes
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: he's swerving off the road onto the shoulder, but he
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: swerves back just in time to avoid hitting a telephone pole,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, man, like I got this. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: stay focused. And then somehow, some way, eventually he winds
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: up in front of Frankie's house, and so he drops
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: his friend off and then back on the road he goes,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you know, navigating now at this point, like with one
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: eye shut, and he eventually finds this way to his
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: parents' house where he was staying, and from there he
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: climbed out of his car. He walked up the driveway,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he unlocked the front door, and then stumbled up to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: his room, where he immediately just fell into his bed
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and passed out. The next thing John knew he heard
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: voices and then he felt somebody grab his arm and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: shake him. And then when he opened his eyes, his
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: vision was very blurry, but eventually it came into focus
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and he saw that he was clearly in his bedroom,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in his bed, on top of his blankets, but he
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: had no idea how he got there. He looked down
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and noticed he was still wearing the same clothes he
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: had worn the night before, but they were sticky and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: they were dirty. And then there were also these two
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: figures who were standing over him, repeating his name over
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and over again, almost angrily. John looked at these two
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and didn't really know who they were, but then he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: noticed they were both wearing matching uniforms. They were police officers,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and these officers were very angrily asking John what happened
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: last night? Like what did you do? What happened the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: night before? But John, like he still is sort of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like trying to figure out what's even going on. He
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: really doesn't have a good memory of anything that happened
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the night before. I mean, all he can just quickly
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: remember is like he was at that bar, he saw
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that girl, He drove franky home like he knew he
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: was drunk on the right home, but he got home
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: like he didn't know what else. They were trying to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: figure out about what happened the night before. And so
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: when he finally opened his mouth to be like what
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: is going on because he was still basically drunk, it
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: just came out of his mouth like this incoherent babbling.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: He's like, what's going on here? And the two officers
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they were just over it and they just grabbed John
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and literally pulled him out of the bed. They whipped
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: his hands behind his back, they handcuffed him, and John,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: who's like what is happening? They lead him out of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: his bedroom downstairs, passed his mom and dad, who were
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: staring at him like what is going on? And even
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: though John again is basically like borderline incoherent, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in passing by his parents, he's hoping they're going to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, officers, why are you arresting my son?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But instead, as he's led past them, he looks at
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: his mom and dad and they're not about to put
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: up some fight. They're crying. They're holding each other and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: crying like they clearly know something bad has happened and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: they can't stop what's happening to their son. And so
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the officers they walked John in handcuffs out the front door,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and they walk him over to his truck in the driveway.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And when they got there, the officers just stopped and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: gestured for John to have a look inside. And so
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: John he's sort of looking at the officers like, Okay,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: what's going on with my truck? And he turned and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he just sort of squinted and looked through the window
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: into the car, and there was this large object in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the passenger seat that he didn't remember being there the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: night before. Then as he looked more closely, he realized
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: with horror what it was. So the night before John
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: did drive when he absolutely should not have. He was
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: clearly way past the legal limit for driving. He should
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: never have been driving, totally unsafe for others, for him,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: shouldn't happen, but he did. He drove. And so he
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and Frankie they're they're driving home, and John, in his
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: limited memory, recalled, you know, this sort of like blurry
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: ride home. You know, we're basically as dangerous as it was.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: He got them home, but at one point he remembered
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: almost hitting a telephone pole and he swerved just in time,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and he narrowly avoided it. And in some ways that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: was true. He did avoid smashing into the telephone pole,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: but he didn't avoid an incident. So Frankie, because he
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was so nauseous from having drank too much, he had
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: his head out the window as they were driving along,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: trying to get some fresh air. And when John drove
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: too close to that telephone pole and swerved at the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: last second, Frankie's head was still out the window, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: his head was decapitated by one of the tension wires
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: coming off the pole, the tight wire that holds that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: pole into the ground, one of them. It's like a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: guillotine and they're speeding past it, and Frankie's neck hit
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the wire off one his head, but his body remained
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in the passenger seat of the car, and John was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: so belligerently drunk that he didn't see he had just
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: killed his friend, nor did he see his friend's body
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: or a part of his body still in his car.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And so when John drunkenly arrived at Frankie's house and
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: he's like, all right, bye, he thought maybe Frankie got
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: out of the car, but clearly he didn't. He was
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just there dead in his passenger seat. And then John
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: just drove back to his parents' house and just left
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the car on the driveway with his friend's body inside,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and up to his bedroom he went and passed out,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: having no idea what he had just done. A few
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: months later, John would plead guilty to vehicular homicide and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: he was sentenced to five years in prison. Thank you
• 31:55
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• 31:57
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