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If you hear this chant… RUN Campfire Stories with MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: So today's story is a very creepy one.
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Speaker 2: In fact, it's so unsettling at times that you're very
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Speaker 2: likely going to think it's just fake. But there was
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Speaker 2: a pretty incredible discovery that was made in the early
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Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds that very likely means this story is true.
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Speaker 2: But before we get into that incredible campfire story, as
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Speaker 2: you can see, I'm literally sitting by a campfire, and honestly,
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Speaker 2: it was just because you know what I sort of
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Speaker 2: do is I tell scary campfire stories a lot of
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Speaker 2: the times, but I never actually sit by a fire.
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Speaker 2: And so we decided why not literally make a campfire
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Speaker 2: and tell a spooky story by it. And if this
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Speaker 2: vibe is something you guys like, I'm more than happy
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Speaker 2: to do more of these because this sort of breaks
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Speaker 2: it up, it's cool, it sort of adds a new
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Speaker 2: flavor to the channel. And so let us know if
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Speaker 2: you enjoy this vibe, and we'll do more. And I
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Speaker 2: think that generally speaking, when we do camp fire literal
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Speaker 2: campfire stories, I'm gonna lean towards the stories that are
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Speaker 2: of the spookier variety. But before we get into today's story,
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Speaker 2: if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious,
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Speaker 2: delivered in story format. Then you come to the right campfire,
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Speaker 2: because that's all we do, and we upload two, three,
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Speaker 2: even four times every week. So if that's of interest
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Speaker 2: to you, please invite the light button to come to
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Speaker 2: your campfire and cook some snores with you. But don't
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Speaker 2: tell them you've secretly put firecrackers in their marshmallows. Okay,
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Speaker 2: let's get into today's story. Hundreds of years ago, there
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Speaker 2: was this young indigenous warrior who was on his way
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Speaker 2: to the center of his village.
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Speaker 1: And his village was located.
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Speaker 2: In this heavily forested rolling hills area of modern day
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Speaker 2: Richland County, Wisconsin. He was a member of the ho
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Speaker 2: Chunk Nation. It was this indigenous tribe and that's where
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Speaker 2: they called home. And as this young warrior, the strong,
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Speaker 2: brave young man, is walking towards the village center, he
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Speaker 2: had been called there by his tribal chief. He sort
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Speaker 2: of had an idea of why he was being called there.
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Speaker 2: And sure enough, when he got to the village center
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Speaker 2: and he sees his tribal chief who's standing there with
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Speaker 2: nine of the other strongest and bravest men of the tribe,
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Speaker 2: this warrior knew, you know, his hunch was correct. So
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Speaker 2: two days earlier, three teenage boys that were members of
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Speaker 2: this tribe, they had gone out deer hunting in the
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Speaker 2: wilds right outside of their village. Again, this is a
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Speaker 2: heavily forested, beautiful rolling hills area, and these teenagers had
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Speaker 2: not come back. They had just been gone now for
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Speaker 2: forty eight hours, and their respective families were worried, and
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Speaker 2: they had been, you know, telling the tribal chief that
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Speaker 2: they really needed to send out a search party for them.
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Speaker 2: But the chief had sort of held off, in part
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Speaker 2: because it wasn't entirely uncommon for hunters, even young hunters,
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Speaker 2: to go out for a couple of days at a time.
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Speaker 2: But the family, they just had, they had a bad
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Speaker 2: feeling about it. And so finally, you know, the tribal
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Speaker 2: chief relented two days in and he was calling a
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Speaker 2: search party together to go look for these young men.
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Speaker 2: And so the warrior who's walked into the village center here,
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Speaker 2: he was being asked by the tribal chief to lead
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Speaker 2: this search party effort. He was going to be in
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Speaker 2: charge of these these nine other men, and so, you know,
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Speaker 2: the warrior in truth, he sort of felt like it
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Speaker 2: was overkill to put together this this huge search party
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Speaker 2: for these teenagers that in his mind he really did
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Speaker 2: think they were just fine. But he didn't want to
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Speaker 2: undermine the tribal chief, and so he said, of course,
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Speaker 2: I'll go do it. And so the warrior, along with
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Speaker 2: the nine other you know, strong brave members of the tribe,
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Speaker 2: they gather up some weapons and some food and water.
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Speaker 2: Because they didn't know how long the search was going
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Speaker 2: to take. They said goodbye to the to the members
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Speaker 2: of the village, and then they exited the village in
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Speaker 2: the same direction that basically all the hunters would go
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Speaker 2: when they would go on hunting expeditions.
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Speaker 1: There was like sort of a well worn.
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Speaker 2: Path that led out into the into the wilds of
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Speaker 2: the forest. And so the warrior who's again leading the
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Speaker 2: search party, you know, he was a skilled hunter himself,
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Speaker 2: and as he's walking along this well worn trail, he
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Speaker 2: quickly found the tracks of these teenage boys. So they
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Speaker 2: identified the tracks, and you know, right away, the warriors thinking,
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Speaker 2: you know, this is going to be, you know, no
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Speaker 2: big deal. We're going to follow these tracks. We're going
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Speaker 2: to find the kids. They probably are out camping somewhere
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Speaker 2: we'll give them a stern talking to and bring them
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Speaker 2: back home and that'll be that. But you know, as
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Speaker 2: they're they're following the tracks along the well worn trail,
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Speaker 2: eventually the tracks they deviate and they leave the trail
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Speaker 2: and they start kind of veering off into not really
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Speaker 2: uncharted territory, but certainly areas that were not necessarily known
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Speaker 2: for good hunting. You know, this tribe where they were,
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Speaker 2: you know, prolific hunters, and so they knew this area
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Speaker 2: extremely well, and they really had the designated areas that
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Speaker 2: were the best. And so already they're seeing that these
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Speaker 2: boys they're doing something different or they're doing something that's
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Speaker 2: not advantageous for hunting. But either way, they're they're following
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Speaker 2: these tracks that are going from miles and miles just
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Speaker 2: into the wild. And also as they're moving along here,
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Speaker 2: they start to notice that there's there's no point at
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Speaker 2: which the boys stopped. There's no you know, tracks that
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Speaker 2: indicated they came to a stop and rested or you know,
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Speaker 2: stood still and tried to kill a deer or something.
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Speaker 2: It was like they were just on a mission, hiking
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Speaker 2: deep into the wilds. And so, you know, the warriors
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Speaker 2: keeping a lot of these insights to himself, and he's
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Speaker 2: just following the tracks. But after hours of this, when
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Speaker 2: and they still have not found the boys, they eventually
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Speaker 2: found themselves at the top of this ravine, and as
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Speaker 2: they're looking down into it, they realized that they've gone
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Speaker 2: so far not only away from their village, but so
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Speaker 2: far off the beaten paths that they were familiar with
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Speaker 2: from all their hunting, that they knew this was an
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Speaker 2: area that they really had never been to before, and
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Speaker 2: they had no idea, you know, what was down in
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Speaker 2: the ravine or what was beyond. I mean, this is
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Speaker 2: sort of uncharted territory for the warrior and the search party.
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Speaker 2: But what they didn't know is that the tracks of
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Speaker 2: these teenage boys continued down into this ravine, and so
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Speaker 2: down the ravine they went. And then when they got
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Speaker 2: to the bottom of this this steep ravine, the trees
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Speaker 2: kind of cleared out a little bit, and right in
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Speaker 2: front of them where the tracks continued is this opening
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Speaker 2: to a cave. And it's so dark inside that they
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Speaker 2: really have no sense of how far back it goes
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Speaker 2: or anything, but they see the tracks that they're following
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Speaker 2: of the teenagers lead into that cave, but there are
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Speaker 2: no tracks coming back out again, and so presumably the
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Speaker 2: teenage boys, for reasons totally unknown, have hiked all the
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Speaker 2: way out here have gone into that cave, and that's
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Speaker 2: where they are. But again, from the outside, the warrior
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Speaker 2: and the others, they can't see these teenagers, and so naturally,
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Speaker 2: you know, the group, they walk up to the mouth
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Speaker 2: of the cave and even up close, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: starting to get a little bit dark outside, but there's
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Speaker 2: still some daylight. Even up close. They really they can't
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Speaker 2: see very far into the cave. It's just very dark.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's clearly big enough inside that you could
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Speaker 2: walk for a great distance or a pretty decent distance,
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Speaker 2: but at some point it must sort of bend off
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Speaker 2: and go in a different direction, and they can't see
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Speaker 2: the teenagers inside of there. And so the warrior at
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Speaker 2: this point, you know, has a level of apprehension here
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Speaker 2: because he doesn't know this cave, he doesn't know this area.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't know what's happened to these teenagers. He doesn't
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Speaker 2: know if they're okay or not in there. He doesn't
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Speaker 2: know if he's a predator or something inside of this cave,
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Speaker 2: And so what he does is he decides, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to send two of my men of the search
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Speaker 2: party in there to scout this out, and the rest
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Speaker 2: of us will stay out here and just wait. And
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Speaker 2: so he designates the two who say okay, and they
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Speaker 2: go into the to the cave. And so the warrior
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Speaker 2: and the seven other men that he's with, they're just
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Speaker 2: standing outside of the cave and they're really they're listening
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Speaker 2: intently because these two men that are going in, they're
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Speaker 2: they're calling out the names of the missing teenagers. They're yelling,
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Speaker 2: and you know, all they can hear from from the
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Speaker 2: outside is just the sound of the two men yelling.
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Speaker 2: They're not hearing any response from the teenagers. It's just
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Speaker 2: quiet inside of the cave. And again from the warrior
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Speaker 2: and the other search party members perspective, they can only
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Speaker 2: see the two men that have gone in for a
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Speaker 2: little while and then they kind of disappear into the darkness,
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Speaker 2: but they could still kind of hear them, and so
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Speaker 2: they're calling out for the boys' names.
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Speaker 1: They're calling and calling.
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Speaker 2: And then around the same time that the Warrior and
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Speaker 2: the others he was with lost sight of the two
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Speaker 2: men that went in. Looking for the boys. At the
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Speaker 2: same time that they lost sight of them, they stopped
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Speaker 2: making noise. It's like the cave went completely silent. And
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Speaker 2: so for about five minutes or so, the warrior and
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Speaker 2: the others, they're just kind of anxiously waiting, you know,
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Speaker 2: what's going on in there, but it's completely silent. Ten
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Speaker 2: minutes goes by, and then fifteen and it's still it
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Speaker 2: is dead silence. There's nothing coming out of the cave.
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Speaker 2: It's just eerily quiet. And so the warrior at this
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Speaker 2: point he tells the others to stay put, and he
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Speaker 2: just steps a little ways into the cave, just enough
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Speaker 2: that you know, he was sort of inside the entrance
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Speaker 2: of the cave, and he began calling out the name
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Speaker 2: of the two men who went in and now they're
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Speaker 2: missing as well. He's calling their names out. As he's
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Speaker 2: yelling their names and sort of echoing through what appears
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Speaker 2: to be a vast cave system, but there's no response,
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Speaker 2: at least not at first. You know, if there had
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Speaker 2: been no response, it would have told him at least okay,
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Speaker 2: maybe they're hurt, or they're too far away, I can't
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Speaker 2: hear them. But instead he did get a sort of response,
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Speaker 2: but he couldn't make any sense of it. He heard
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Speaker 2: what sounded like a wailing sound coming from deep inside
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Speaker 2: of this cave, way way deep inside. This whail that
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Speaker 2: at first it sounded like like one voice, and then
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Speaker 2: it sounded like multiple voices kind of layered on top
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Speaker 2: of each other.
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Speaker 1: And then with this sudden.
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Speaker 2: Realization, the warrior understood what he was hearing. It was.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't a cry. He was hearing a chant, and
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Speaker 2: it was a very particular chant, very particular to the
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Speaker 2: Ho Chunk nation. It was the chant that warriors did
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Speaker 2: before they died. It was literally known as the death song.
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Speaker 2: And as soon as the main warrior is hearing the
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Speaker 2: death song being chanted deep inside of this cave, the
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Speaker 2: other men he's with, these seven others who know exactly
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Speaker 2: what that song is, they all sprung forward and said,
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Speaker 2: what do we do?
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Speaker 1: We have to go in.
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Speaker 2: There's something, And before the lead warrior could tell them
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Speaker 2: what to do, six of the other men just charged
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Speaker 2: into the cave, you know, chasing down their brothers because
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Speaker 2: they believe they're about to die. They would never be
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Speaker 2: singing that song, chanting that song if they weren't in
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Speaker 2: real danger, and so the lead warrior and the one
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Speaker 2: other guy that stayed back. They stayed put, you know,
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Speaker 2: just kind of waiting to see what would happen. And
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Speaker 2: they're listening to these six others, you know, go running
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Speaker 2: into the cave and they disappear into the darkness, and
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Speaker 2: they're yelling over and over again for their brothers, and
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Speaker 2: they can still hear that chanting, that death song, reverberating
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Speaker 2: off the walls.
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Speaker 1: But then suddenly the cave goes silent again.
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Speaker 2: The chanting stops. All the calling from the six men
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Speaker 2: that went in that stopped too. It's silent again, and
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Speaker 2: it's just the lead warrior still in the mouth of
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Speaker 2: the cave, next to the one guy, and now they're
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Speaker 2: scared and they're just listening for anything, but it's just
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Speaker 2: completely quiet. And then before the lead warrior or the
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Speaker 2: other guy could do anything, that rhythmic chanting began again,
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Speaker 2: the death song, but now it was clearly far more
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Speaker 2: than just a couple of voices. It was this rhythmic loud,
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Speaker 2: multiple voices layered on top of each other, deep inside
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Speaker 2: of this cave, chanting the death song over and over again.
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Speaker 2: At this point, the lead warrior in the other he
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Speaker 2: had a decision to make. Deep down, he knew it
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Speaker 2: was his responsibility, you know, his moral responsibility here. It
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Speaker 2: was code to go in there and if you have
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Speaker 2: to sacrifice yourself to get these guys out of there.
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Speaker 2: But he also thought, logically, something bad is happening inside
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Speaker 2: of this cave, and if me and the other go
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Speaker 2: in there right now, we're not coming out again, and
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Speaker 2: no one's gonna know what happened. There'll be no saving.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's just gonna perish. And so, even though it sort
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Speaker 2: of went against every fiber in his body, the lead warrior,
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Speaker 2: as this death song is reverberating off the walls, he
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Speaker 2: and the other they turned and they ran miles and
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Speaker 2: miles all the way back to their village. And by
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Speaker 2: the time they got there it was dark out, and
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Speaker 2: they know breathlessly told the tribal chief what had happened,
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Speaker 2: and he said, tomorrow, first thing in the morning, first light,
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Speaker 2: we're going to go back to that cave and we're
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Speaker 2: going to get those boys out of there. And so,
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Speaker 2: sure enough, the next morning, at first light, the tribal chief,
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Speaker 2: the lead warrior and the other man that he was with,
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Speaker 2: the two that had come running back from the cave.
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Speaker 2: They along with about one hundred other members of this village,
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Speaker 2: they banded together and out into the wild. They went,
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Speaker 2: retracing these steps all the way back to the cave.
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Speaker 2: And when they got there, the cave was still. It
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Speaker 2: was quiet, there was still light outside, but there was
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Speaker 2: no sign that anybody had come back out of the cave.
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Speaker 2: All the tracks that went into the cave still had
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Speaker 2: not come back out again. So they believe at this
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Speaker 2: point still, you know, their loved ones are in this cave.
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Speaker 2: They don't know what's happened to them, but they're in there,
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Speaker 2: and they have to figure out what's going on now.
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Speaker 2: At this point, the the lead warrior didn't really know
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Speaker 2: what the plan was. I mean, he remembered what happened
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Speaker 2: the day before and really anybody who went into the
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Speaker 2: cave was seemingly swallowed whole, and so he didn't really
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Speaker 2: have a sense of how they were going to do this.
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Speaker 2: But the tribal chief he spoke up and he said,
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Speaker 2: I have a plan. We're not going to break up
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Speaker 2: into groups and go into this cave onesie twoesie and
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Speaker 2: see what happens.
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Speaker 1: We're going to go as one big group.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna lock hands in one big line, so they
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Speaker 2: were always connected. Never let go of the person's hands
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Speaker 2: that are left and right of you. And the lead
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Speaker 2: warrior and the other man, they're going to lead us
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Speaker 2: into the cave and the direction of where they heard
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Speaker 2: their brothers when they went in there, and we're all
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Speaker 2: going to trail and as one, we're going to walk
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Speaker 2: into this cave until we find our missing people and
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Speaker 2: we're going to get them out of there. And so
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Speaker 2: the lead warrior thought this was actually a brilliant idea.
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Speaker 2: You know, we'll all be together, we'll be holding on
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Speaker 2: to each other. Nothing can happen to us this way.
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Speaker 2: And so the lead warrior was second in line. The
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Speaker 2: man who was leading the line was basically the other guy.
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Speaker 2: He was with the two that had run back. He
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Speaker 2: was the other guy. So he's in front, the lead
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Speaker 2: warrior is second. He's locked hands with this guy, and
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Speaker 2: then behind him is basically about one hundred other people,
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Speaker 2: all you know, holding onto each other's hands, one big line.
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Speaker 2: And when they were ready, the lead warrior and the
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Speaker 2: man in front of him, they began moving into this cave.
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Speaker 1: And so into the cave they went.
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Speaker 2: And as they're walking, they can tell pretty quickly that
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Speaker 2: the cave it sort of turns to the right. You
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Speaker 2: have to walk in, you know, maybe fifty or so
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Speaker 2: feet into the cave, but then it sharp rights, and
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Speaker 2: so there's enough light coming in that you can basically
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Speaker 2: walk all the way up to that turn. But then
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Speaker 2: when the lead warrior and the man in front of
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Speaker 2: him made that sharp right and they began walking that way,
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Speaker 2: it was utterly pitch black. No light reached that section
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Speaker 2: of the tunnel, but you know, they're leading the line,
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Speaker 2: and so they're still just moving along and the whole
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Speaker 2: lines following them pretty slowly. And as they're walking, the
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Speaker 2: lead warrior it's like he kept trying to blink his
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Speaker 2: eyes to just try to capture anything, but he can't
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Speaker 2: see anything in his pitch black and he's just gripping
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Speaker 2: onto the men in front and behind him as tight
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Speaker 2: as he can to show solidarity, like we're here together,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna be okay. And as they're walking, the lead
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Speaker 2: guy kept calling out the names of the many men
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Speaker 2: at this point that we're lost in this cave, but
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Speaker 2: there's no response. And as they're walking and shuffling along again,
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Speaker 2: they can't see anything. The walls are getting tight. They
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Speaker 2: hear from somewhere deep in the cave the death song.
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Speaker 2: The chant begins low and slow, and it begins to
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Speaker 2: build and gets louder and louder and louder. And at
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Speaker 2: this point, because they're all locked together, you can't really
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Speaker 2: get out very quickly.
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Speaker 1: There. They're well into the cave at.
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Speaker 2: This point, they can't see anything, and it's like the
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Speaker 2: walls are echoing and it's booming in their chest, this chant,
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Speaker 2: this chant that's only done when you're on the brink
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Speaker 2: of death. And so as they're walking along, you know,
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Speaker 2: lead lawyer, he's trying to grip as hard as he
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Speaker 2: can to the man in front and behind him, showing
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Speaker 2: them keep going, it's gonna be okay.
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Speaker 1: But then he felt the hand of the man in
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Speaker 1: front of him.
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Speaker 2: The line leader goes slack, and before he could grab.
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Speaker 1: It again, the man's hand was out.
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Speaker 2: Of his and he's reaching out in front of him
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Speaker 2: and he can't see him, but he can't feel him either.
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Speaker 1: It was like he vanished. And so now the lead warrior,
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Speaker 1: he's the front of the line. He has no idea.
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Speaker 2: What's going on, and he wants to just stop and
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Speaker 2: turn and leave. It's getting so overwhelming, and he's about
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Speaker 2: to do that, but he just feels like there's this
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Speaker 2: force pulling him deeper into the cave.
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Speaker 1: And then before he can do anything else, he opens.
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Speaker 2: His mouth and he begins to chant the death song.
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Speaker 2: At the same time this is happening deep inside of
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Speaker 2: this cave. The tribal chief, along with a couple of
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Speaker 2: others who had not joined the line, they were still
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Speaker 2: outside of the cave. They've heard something going on in
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Speaker 2: the cave, but it's dull.
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Speaker 1: They can't really.
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Speaker 2: Hear too much. You know, there's something going on, but
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Speaker 2: there's one hundred people walking into the cave. Resumed, there'd
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Speaker 2: be noise, but suddenly there was this obvious commotion, panic
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Speaker 2: erupting from deep inside of the cave. And before he
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Speaker 2: knew it, all these people are coming running out of
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Speaker 2: the cave, scared to death. They come bombing out of
18:14
Speaker 2: the cave, and at this point the tribal chief knows
18:16
Speaker 2: something horrible's happened. As we rounds everybody up, he does
18:19
Speaker 2: a head count and realizes over a dozen people are gone.
18:23
Speaker 2: They did not come back out again, and the cave
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Speaker 2: that minutes ago was full of this death song and
18:28
Speaker 2: chaos and panic is silent once again.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the tribal chief.
18:35
Speaker 2: Sort of designated that it must be the case that
18:38
Speaker 2: there's something evil inside of this cave. There's an evil spirit,
18:43
Speaker 2: there's something in this cave that is taking our people
18:47
Speaker 2: and they're vanishing, they're being swallowed hole by this cave.
18:49
Speaker 2: It's evil.
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Speaker 1: And so from that moment he.
18:52
Speaker 2: Forbid anyone from the tribe of ever stepping foot in
18:56
Speaker 2: this cave again. We cannot lose anyone else. Our best
19:00
Speaker 2: bet is to go back to the village and hope
19:04
Speaker 2: that these men, these brave warriors, eventually find their way
19:09
Speaker 2: out again. And so the tribal chief and the rest
19:13
Speaker 2: of these devastated villagers back to the village they went,
19:18
Speaker 2: and over the next couple of days and weeks, no
19:21
Speaker 2: one came out of that cave. And as weeks turned
19:24
Speaker 2: into months, it's like the villagers they just they couldn't
19:27
Speaker 2: really move on because they were not able to collect
19:30
Speaker 2: their loved one's bodies or get any sort of closure.
19:34
Speaker 2: It's just this unbelievable mystery, this terrifying mystery that had
19:37
Speaker 2: ripped the entire tribe apart. And so eventually, after months
19:43
Speaker 2: and months had passed and still no one has any
19:46
Speaker 2: idea what's happened. No one's come out of that cave,
19:49
Speaker 2: the tribal chief finally just said, we are going to
19:52
Speaker 2: basically board up the cave. We're going to cover it
19:54
Speaker 2: with rocks. Effectively, it is now a tomb. And that'll
19:58
Speaker 2: be that. No one will ever go back in this cave,
20:00
Speaker 2: will never claim another life. And so that's what they did.
20:03
Speaker 2: They use huge boulders and they completely blocked the entrance
20:07
Speaker 2: and that was it.
20:08
Speaker 1: Now, that was the story that the ho Chunk Nation passed.
20:11
Speaker 2: Down for generations about what happened to all those people,
20:15
Speaker 2: the warriors and the teenagers and all these people, that
20:18
Speaker 2: they were swallowed alive by this cave. And over many years,
20:22
Speaker 2: I mean many members of this tribe you know, that
20:24
Speaker 2: heard the story. They didn't know what to make of it,
20:27
Speaker 2: you know, is it real?
20:28
Speaker 1: Is it just folklore?
20:29
Speaker 2: You know, we don't know. But then in nineteen thirty,
20:34
Speaker 2: so hundreds of years later, a chilling discovery was made.
20:39
Speaker 2: So in nineteen thirty, there was this guy named Paul
20:42
Speaker 2: Seffert who in Richland County, Wisconsin. He was sort of
20:46
Speaker 2: a well known antique dealer, and something he really liked
20:49
Speaker 2: to do was he would go hiking in the forests
20:52
Speaker 2: of Richland County, the Rolling Hills, and he would look
20:55
Speaker 2: for indigenous artifacts that were left behind from you know,
20:59
Speaker 2: like the Hoach nation and other indigenous tribes that were
21:02
Speaker 2: in the area. Sometimes he'd find, you know, an arrowhead
21:04
Speaker 2: or something on the ground, or pottery or whatever it was.
21:07
Speaker 2: But he liked hiking, he liked being out in nature,
21:09
Speaker 2: and this was something he would look for and you know,
21:11
Speaker 2: if he found something good enough, he could sell it
21:13
Speaker 2: in his antique shop. And so he's out walking the
21:16
Speaker 2: hills of Richland County and he's well off the trail.
21:19
Speaker 2: He's sort of out in the sticks, and he finds
21:21
Speaker 2: this ravine and he walks down the ravine and it
21:24
Speaker 2: comes to this clearing of sorts and he notices on
21:28
Speaker 2: the other side of the ravine the slope that goes
21:31
Speaker 2: back up. He saw what looked to be almost like
21:34
Speaker 2: a memorial or something like a stack of rocks that
21:36
Speaker 2: looks sort of out of place, and there was a
21:39
Speaker 2: moss and grass that's sort of grown over it. But
21:41
Speaker 2: he just he immediately identified that there's a mound of
21:44
Speaker 2: something here that looks a little bit out of place,
21:47
Speaker 2: and so he walks over and he begins sort of
21:50
Speaker 2: pulling off some of the rocks, and he realizes pretty
21:53
Speaker 2: quickly that this was put here on purpose, this pile
21:55
Speaker 2: of rocks, there, these boulders and all this this was
21:58
Speaker 2: put here on purpose. And so after pulling off enough
22:01
Speaker 2: of these rocks, he realizes that there is a cave
22:04
Speaker 2: on the other side. Now, it would take quite a
22:07
Speaker 2: bit of work to pull off enough rocks that he
22:09
Speaker 2: could actually get himself inside of this cave, but eventually
22:12
Speaker 2: he did. And once he was inside of this cave,
22:15
Speaker 2: the same cave the ho Chunk Nation had dealt with
22:18
Speaker 2: hundreds of years earlier, he's like, wow, like this this
22:21
Speaker 2: cave has been blocked off. I wonder what's inside of here.
22:25
Speaker 2: Maybe there are incredible indigenous artifacts inside of the ere.
22:28
Speaker 2: And so, feeling really motivated to explore this cave, he left,
22:33
Speaker 2: went back, got some basic supplies, including a lantern, and
22:37
Speaker 2: then he came back another day. You know, because this
22:39
Speaker 2: is well off the beaten path, no one's going to
22:41
Speaker 2: stumble upon this, And into the cave he went. And
22:45
Speaker 2: so he's in this cave and he walks, you know,
22:48
Speaker 2: all the way to the end where it banks to
22:49
Speaker 2: the right. He turns and he starts walking, and the
22:53
Speaker 2: ceiling of this cave begins to come down, and it's
22:55
Speaker 2: getting really tight on him. But he's so excited to
22:58
Speaker 2: see to see what's in here, because he knows this
23:00
Speaker 2: has been blocked off on purpose. There's something in here.
23:03
Speaker 2: And so eventually the.
23:04
Speaker 3: Ceiling gets so low that he's crawling with his lantern,
23:08
Speaker 3: and right as he's thinking, this is so narrow, I
23:11
Speaker 3: don't know if I can fit, he pulls himself under
23:13
Speaker 3: this one really low section and.
23:16
Speaker 1: Everything just opens up.
23:18
Speaker 2: It's like this grand cathedral in the middle of this cave.
23:22
Speaker 2: And he holds out his light. He kind of stands
23:24
Speaker 2: up and he holds out his light and it's just
23:26
Speaker 2: this massive, massive space, and.
23:29
Speaker 1: Right away he sees something on the ground.
23:33
Speaker 2: There are all these neat rows of human skeletons, and
23:38
Speaker 2: they're all positioned the same way. It's like they're kneeling
23:41
Speaker 2: with their hands over their head, like they're bowing. All
23:44
Speaker 2: of them. He couldn't even count how many skeletons are
23:46
Speaker 2: all positioned here, right in the middle of this cavern,
23:50
Speaker 2: and so he's looking at all of these bodies and
23:52
Speaker 2: he's gasping. He can't believe it. And he brings the
23:55
Speaker 2: light sort of in the direction that all these bodies
23:58
Speaker 2: are aiming towards. All the bodies are praying towards and
24:02
Speaker 2: carved into the rock as this enormous chair, like a throne,
24:07
Speaker 2: and there was nothing on the throne. And Paul, when
24:11
Speaker 2: he saw that and all these bodies and just the
24:13
Speaker 2: fact that he's deep inside of this cave, he was spooked.
24:16
Speaker 2: Even though there could have been a seat of artifacts
24:19
Speaker 2: he could have taken, he just turned and he bolted.
24:21
Speaker 2: He crawled out of there, and he left the cave
24:23
Speaker 2: as fast as he could. And the reason we know
24:26
Speaker 2: about the story is because Paul, after this experience, he
24:30
Speaker 2: got in touch with a local newspaper. It's called the
24:32
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Journal, and he spoke to a journalist about what
24:35
Speaker 2: he saw and they reported it. They reported that he
24:39
Speaker 2: found these skeletons in this throne and it's inside of
24:42
Speaker 2: this cave that was blocked off. And you know, there's
24:44
Speaker 2: allusions to the story of the ho Chunk Nation. It's
24:47
Speaker 2: like this totally cryptic story. But in nineteen thirty and
24:52
Speaker 2: even still today, were left with a couple of distinct questions,
24:56
Speaker 2: One what happened to all these people? And two who
25:02
Speaker 2: or what was sitting.
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Speaker 1: On that throne?
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