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The most credible cases of BROKEN REALITY... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you two stories. The first
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Speaker 1: story is about this woman in China who goes on
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Speaker 1: a hike into this beautiful forest and it quickly spirals
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Speaker 1: into a complete nightmare. And the second story is about
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Speaker 1: the small village in Taiwan where this very strange event
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Speaker 1: happens and it spooks the villagers so badly that the
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Speaker 1: Taiwanese government actually investigated and what they discovered defies any
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Speaker 1: logical explanation. But before we get into those stories, if
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Speaker 1: the morning of February sixteenth, twenty twenty, a thirty nine
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Speaker 1: year old woman named Fay stepped out of a convenience
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Speaker 1: store in a small village in China, she was wearing
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Speaker 1: a bright red distinctive coat, and in her hands were
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of snacks that she had just purchased.
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Speaker 1: So Fay had lived in this village her whole life.
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Speaker 1: She was a very simple person, and she had a
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Speaker 1: really specific daily schedule that she basically always adhered to,
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Speaker 1: and it was she would get up early, she would
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Speaker 1: throw in her jacket, and she would head out to
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Speaker 1: this convenience store get some snacks, and then she would
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Speaker 1: either go back home or she lived with her husband,
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Speaker 1: or she would go to her parents' house or her
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Speaker 1: sister's house to pay them a visit. And that was
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Speaker 1: basically what she did every single day. And so this
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Speaker 1: day had started exactly the same as every other day.
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Speaker 1: And after she left the store, and she began eating
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Speaker 1: some snacks and you know, thinking about where she was
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Speaker 1: going to go next, whether it was her house or
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Speaker 1: a relative's house. She's walking down this road when suddenly
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Speaker 1: she hears people calling out to her, and so she
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Speaker 1: stops and she turns and there are these five people
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Speaker 1: that are clustered together standing at the top of this trailhead.
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Speaker 1: So Fay's village was home to this beautiful hiking trail
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Speaker 1: that started right where these people were standing. The trail
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Speaker 1: went up this mountain side and up into this huge
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Speaker 1: forest where there were all these ponds and waterfalls. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was strikingly beautiful. And that area, the forest with
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Speaker 1: all the ponds, was called the eighteen Ponds of the
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Speaker 1: Dragon King. It was called that because there were literally
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Speaker 1: eighteen ponds sort of scattered throughout this forest. And then
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Speaker 1: also the village where Fay lived that was right up
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Speaker 1: against it. Well, it meant dragon King in Chinese. But
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Speaker 1: even though Fay had grown up here, she had never
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Speaker 1: once gone on that hiking trail. She had heard about it,
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Speaker 1: and loads of her friends and family had all been
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Speaker 1: up there and talked about it striking beauty, but Fay
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Speaker 1: she had always stayed away. But there was actually pretty
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Speaker 1: good reason for that. So Faye, when she was younger,
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Speaker 1: she had this tumor and in order to get rid
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Speaker 1: of it, she had to take all this medication that
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Speaker 1: was pretty physically harmful and left her with some pretty
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Speaker 1: serious long term effects. And even though the tumor you know,
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Speaker 1: did go away and she recovered, you know, that process
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Speaker 1: of recovering and taking all those medications and going to
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Speaker 1: the doctor. It sort of instilled in her this mentality
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Speaker 1: that she was frail and delicate and that she shouldn't
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Speaker 1: take any chances and risk getting hurt. And so she
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Speaker 1: really never did anything that was even remotely risky or
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Speaker 1: even perceived to be risky, like, for example, hiking up
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Speaker 1: into the mountains too risky for her, and so she
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Speaker 1: avoided it. And instead, you know, she kind of developed
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Speaker 1: this really simple, safe, daily routine of getting snacks and
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Speaker 1: visiting family and that's all she ever did. And while
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Speaker 1: in some ways this did, you know, keep face safe,
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Speaker 1: it also made her very isolated and lonely. You know,
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Speaker 1: she didn't really have any friends or do anything. She
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Speaker 1: was just kind of stuck in her waist. And so
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Speaker 1: Fay is on this road and these villagers, the five
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Speaker 1: villagers over at the trailhead, have just deliberately called to
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Speaker 1: her by name. They're saying, hey, Fae over here, and
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Speaker 1: face turned and she's looking at them, and they're clearly
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go hike up into the eighteen pawns
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Speaker 1: of the Dragon King. And they tell her, hey, come
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Speaker 1: with us, come hiking with us, like, come check it out.
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Speaker 1: And for Fay, this was so unusual this was not
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Speaker 1: even remotely how her life went. That there was something
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Speaker 1: in her that, for a second just felt really excited.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she did sort of rely on her schedule,
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Speaker 1: in her discipline of doing the same thing every day.
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Speaker 1: It kept her safe, but like this sudden invitation from
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Speaker 1: these people, these villagers, it just felt like why not,
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Speaker 1: why not do something different for once. And she's also thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, how dangerous can it be? You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: with other people. They seem really competent. You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: this is a good idea. Maybe I'll just go with them,
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Speaker 1: you know, what the heck, see what happens. And so
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Speaker 1: Fey found herself just sort of drifting over to these
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Speaker 1: very friendly five people and saying, you know what, what
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Speaker 1: the heck, yeah, talking with you, I've never been up there.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's great, let's go. So sure enough, Faye
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Speaker 1: and her new found five friends from the village they
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Speaker 1: begin hiking up this trail and over the next couple
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Speaker 1: of hours, I mean, Fay is seeing a beautiful landscape
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Speaker 1: that she was so close to her whole life that
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Speaker 1: now she's seeing for the first time, and it's like revelatory.
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Speaker 1: She can't believe that She's lived this close to this
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Speaker 1: majesty for so long and she's never seen it like
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Speaker 1: this was. This was a life changing experience for her.
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Speaker 1: And so her mood is just so good. And these
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Speaker 1: five people are so wonderful, and they're all chattering and
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Speaker 1: talking about their lives and you know, Phase opening up
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Speaker 1: about hers and her health scares and all these different things.
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Speaker 1: And eventually they make their way into this forest, which
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Speaker 1: is really dense, but they eventually reach one of these ponds,
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Speaker 1: one of the eighteen pawds, and it's got this huge
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Speaker 1: clearing and all the sunlight's pouring in and there's a
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Speaker 1: waterfall leading into the pond. I mean, it's truly stunningly beautiful.
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Speaker 1: And Fay's friends they all take a seat right on
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Speaker 1: the shore of the pond and then they break out
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Speaker 1: some snacks and Fay she sits down. She's got those
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Speaker 1: snacks she bought from the convenience store, and they base
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Speaker 1: have a picnic right on the shore. And for Fay,
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Speaker 1: it was like this was the most amazing day, potentially
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Speaker 1: of her whole life. She had broken out of her
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Speaker 1: comfort zone. She had met these wonderful people who were
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Speaker 1: so inclusive, and here she is experiencing this unbelievable natural beauty,
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Speaker 1: like the day couldn't get any better. But as she
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Speaker 1: was sitting there on the side of the pond, enjoying
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Speaker 1: this beautiful scene, she started to feel really intensely fatigued.
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Speaker 1: And at first she's thinking, oh, of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't really get out much and exercise much, and
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Speaker 1: I just hiked up this mountain into this forest. Of
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Speaker 1: course I'm tired. But she felt herself kind of slumping
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Speaker 1: back on the rock she was on and almost like
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Speaker 1: positioning herself like she might lay down and sleep. And
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Speaker 1: then before long it was like the world around her
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Speaker 1: began getting hazy, and you know, she could see her
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Speaker 1: friends still talking and they weren't really looking at her,
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Speaker 1: They're just kind of enjoying their food. And then it
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Speaker 1: was like Faye just could not keep her eyes open,
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Speaker 1: and she put her head down, closed her eyes and
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Speaker 1: she fell asleep. When Fay woke up again, she was
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Speaker 1: still laying in that same spot, but now it was dark,
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Speaker 1: and also her five friends were gone. She was all
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Speaker 1: alone next to this pond in the middle of this forest.
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Speaker 1: And for Fay it was like immediately this jolt of
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Speaker 1: panic rocketed through her. She starts looking around for these
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Speaker 1: you know, friends of hers. They've got to be here somewhere.
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Speaker 1: They wouldn't just abandon her. They were so nice. How
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Speaker 1: could this possibly be? But she's looking around and all
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Speaker 1: she can see is just darkness. I mean, there's some
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Speaker 1: moonlight coming through the clearing over the pond, but when
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Speaker 1: she looked into the tree line, it was just all
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Speaker 1: dark and there's no one. All she can hear is
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Speaker 1: birds and insects, you know, night sounds. And remember, Faye
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Speaker 1: is not somebody who would ever find herself in this position.
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Speaker 1: This is so far out of her comfort zone alone
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Speaker 1: at night in this forest, in this austere environment. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: it felt very austere, and she's terrified. And at the
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Speaker 1: same time, her mind starts telling her, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: this whole thing was a trap. Those five people weren't
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Speaker 1: my friends. They brought me up here, they tricked me,
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Speaker 1: they drugged me. Or maybe they've left and they're gonna
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Speaker 1: come back and hurt me. And so she's thinking like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm in danger. I have to get out of here.
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Speaker 1: And she turns and she looks at the trail that
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Speaker 1: brought them up here, and all she sees is just
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Speaker 1: this dark tree line and there's this cut path through
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Speaker 1: the trees that's basically pitch black, and she's thinking, I
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Speaker 1: have to walk through that alone in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night. She didn't have a light or anything that
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Speaker 1: would help guide her way out of here. But as
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Speaker 1: she's sitting there panicking, she's thinking, I have to go
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Speaker 1: right now, like it's life or death. And so she
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Speaker 1: stands up, and immediately she feels really weak on her feet,
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Speaker 1: like she's super fatigue still, but it's like adrenaline is
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Speaker 1: coursing through her body. She's got to get out of here,
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Speaker 1: and she starts stumbling her way into the tree line
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Speaker 1: where it's super dark, and she's trying to stay on
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Speaker 1: this trail, but she keeps deviating because it's so dark,
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Speaker 1: and she's bumping into trees, and she keeps hearing noises
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Speaker 1: all around her that she's convinced are these five people
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Speaker 1: coming back to hurt her or animals or she doesn't
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. She is in full panic mode here.
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Speaker 1: But just for hours, or what felt like hours, she
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Speaker 1: just stumbled through these trails, you know, getting completely disoriented,
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Speaker 1: and finally she comes to the stream, and she just stops,
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Speaker 1: and she's sitting there and she realizes, you know, the
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Speaker 1: sun is starting to come up, so she kneels down
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Speaker 1: and she scoops some water into her mouth, and right
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Speaker 1: as the sun comes up across the mountain side, there's
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Speaker 1: enough light that miraculously she realizes she can actually see
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Speaker 1: a path down the side of the mountain that she
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Speaker 1: believes will bring her back to her village, like she's
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Speaker 1: going to get out of here unscathed, presumably, And so
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Speaker 1: she kind of catches her breath, she gets another step
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Speaker 1: from the stream, and then with the help of the sunlight,
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Speaker 1: she navigated her way to this trail that she could see,
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Speaker 1: and down the mountain she went. And as she was
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Speaker 1: going down this mountain, she looked down towards her village
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Speaker 1: and she saw clearly there was a big group of people,
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Speaker 1: presumably villagers out looking for her, that were right down
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Speaker 1: on the trail, sort of like the beginning of the trail,
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Speaker 1: and fag you know, she's waving and calling out to them,
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Speaker 1: and a few of the people in the crowd they're
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Speaker 1: looking up at her, and maybe from the distance they
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Speaker 1: couldn't really tell who she was or what she was doing,
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Speaker 1: but there was some level of recognition, but she couldn't
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Speaker 1: really tell what the reaction of the crowd was. But
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Speaker 1: she had gotten their attention, and Fay's so excited, and
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Speaker 1: down the hill she goes. Suddenly she feels totally rejuvenated
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Speaker 1: because she's going to be okay. And she gets closer
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Speaker 1: to this big crowd of people and she sees now
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Speaker 1: it's friends, it's family, it's definitely her people. But the
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Speaker 1: looks on their faces are not the looks that Fay
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Speaker 1: is expecting. I mean, she did understand that, you know, clearly,
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Speaker 1: I've been out here at least for several hours. They
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Speaker 1: must have organized the search party. They've been worried about me.
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Speaker 1: But here I am like they got to be relieved now, right,
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Speaker 1: like they found me. But no, the looks on all
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Speaker 1: these people's faces were of shock, were of horror, not
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Speaker 1: really sure what to make of Fay coming down the
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Speaker 1: mountain side toward them. And then when Fay got close
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Speaker 1: enough to the group that she could actually make out
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Speaker 1: individual faces, Fay saw her sister in the crowd, and
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Speaker 1: she waved towards sister and said, hey, I'm okay, it's okay,
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Speaker 1: everything's fine, come on, everything's fine, and Fay's sister kind
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Speaker 1: of broke ranks very hesitantly, and then she finally jogs
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Speaker 1: up to Fay and the two embrace and it's this
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Speaker 1: really emotional moment and Fay's sister says to Faye, where
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Speaker 1: have you been? And Fay kind of steps back from
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Speaker 1: her and says, oh, you know, yesterday or a few
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Speaker 1: hours ago. I don't know. I kind of lost track
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Speaker 1: of time, but I think it was yesterday. I saw
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Speaker 1: these five people, and you know, we kind of made
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Speaker 1: our way into the mountains. I don't know, I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have done it, but I fell asleep, and you know
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Speaker 1: here I am. I'm so sorry if I scared you,
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Speaker 1: you know, but I really I'm okay. But Fay's sister,
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Speaker 1: it's like she was hearing what Fay was saying but
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Speaker 1: couldn't process it. And eventually her sister kind of stepped
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Speaker 1: back and looked at Faye and just said, I can't
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Speaker 1: be true. You've been gone for seventeen days. Fay didn't
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Speaker 1: really have time to appreciate what she had just been told,
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Speaker 1: nor did the group really have time to appreciate that
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Speaker 1: Faye apparently has shown back up again because pretty much
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Speaker 1: immediately Faye was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered
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Speaker 1: she had lost sixty pounds. She was horribly malnourished and dehydrated.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't understand how she was still alive.
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Speaker 1: And while Fay is being treated, she began to hear
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Speaker 1: like what had happened over the past seventeen days she
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Speaker 1: had been gone. You know, they had security footage that
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Speaker 1: showed when Fay went into the woods because she had
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Speaker 1: on that bright red distinctive coat. They caught her walking
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Speaker 1: into the forest. There she goes, so they knew she
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Speaker 1: was up in the seven and a half mile stretch,
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Speaker 1: which is this, you know, eighteen Pawns of the Dragon King.
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Speaker 1: It's a distinctive seven and a half mile plot. They
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Speaker 1: knew she had to be up there. And also because
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Speaker 1: this was around the time of COVID, there were really
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Speaker 1: strict checkpoints of all the other villages in the area,
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Speaker 1: so anybody going in and out of these villages they'd
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Speaker 1: be documented. And they knew Fay had not gone into
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Speaker 1: any of the surrounding villages, so she had to be
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen Pawns of the Dragon King. That seven
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Speaker 1: and a half mile stretch. But despite launching a huge
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Speaker 1: search party into that seven and a half mile stretch
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Speaker 1: to go look for her, and also firing off fireworks
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Speaker 1: left and right to try to get her attention, not
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Speaker 1: only did nobody find any trace of Fae, but Faye
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Speaker 1: would also say, I never heard fireworks, I never heard
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Speaker 1: or saw any searchers. From her perspective, it literally felt
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Speaker 1: like she had just fallen asleep for a few hours
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Speaker 1: and woken up, and here she was, not seventeen days.
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Speaker 1: But eventually Fay would actually go into detail about the
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Speaker 1: specifics of what she remembered about this ordeal. Namely, she
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Speaker 1: would talk about those five people, her new friends, who
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Speaker 1: sort of encouraged her to go up into the eighteen
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Speaker 1: pawns of the Dragon King, and she remembered their names,
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Speaker 1: what they looked like, she remembered discussion she had with them,
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Speaker 1: and she painted them as wonderful people. But it's like
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Speaker 1: she just woke up and they were gone, and so
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Speaker 1: she thought, you know, maybe they had tricked her, and
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe they drugged her, and that's why she
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Speaker 1: can't remember this stuff, or she didn't know what, but
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Speaker 1: she couldn't reconcile the fact that they seemed like such
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Speaker 1: nice people but must have had something to do with
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Speaker 1: what's happened here. But after Fay said that her family,
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Speaker 1: they kind of looked at each other like, Fay, those
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Speaker 1: can't be the five people you were with, And Fay's
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Speaker 1: like why, and they're like, because the five people you
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Speaker 1: named and described, they've been dead for a long time now.
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Speaker 1: Faye was incredulous. But when they reviewed the security footage
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Speaker 1: that showed Fay clearly in her bright red distinctive coat
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Speaker 1: walking up the trail into the Eighteen Ponds, there was
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Speaker 1: nobody else with her. Those five people, they're not on camera.
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Speaker 1: So the Eighteen Ponds of the Dragon King is not
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Speaker 1: just a beautiful hiking destination, it's also believed to be haunted.
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Speaker 1: Locals claim that when they look up at the mountain
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Speaker 1: side that the trail passes through, and then up to
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Speaker 1: that forest as well, they can sometimes see these eerie
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Speaker 1: blue lights moving around in the trees that nobody can explain.
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Speaker 1: There's a story that, you know, people that have died,
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Speaker 1: their spirits sort of haunt this area looking for living
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Speaker 1: people to switch places with. In fact, when Fay began
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Speaker 1: coming down the mountain, side, and she looked and saw
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Speaker 1: that huge crowd of people that she believed was basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, her search party out to look for her. Well,
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Speaker 1: in reality, that wasn't the case. One of the locals
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Speaker 1: had looked up and seen what he thought was another
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Speaker 1: one of those lights, not a blue light, but a
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Speaker 1: red light. It was Faye's red jacket. He had seen
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Speaker 1: this red thing bouncing around off in the distance and
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Speaker 1: he thought it was, you know, one of these strange lights,
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Speaker 1: a ghost, let's say. And so he had told people
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Speaker 1: in the village, and everybody was really excited and they
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Speaker 1: ran out to go see what it was, and it
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Speaker 1: sort of was a ghost. It was Fay, who'd been
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Speaker 1: gone for seventeen days, coming down the mountain, and nobody
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Speaker 1: could believe it. They were so shocked. And so to
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Speaker 1: this day, nobody knows what actually happened to Faye. All
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Speaker 1: we know is we have her on camera disappearing into
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Speaker 1: this trail, into this forest in the mountain side and
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Speaker 1: then turning back up seventeen days later. Keep in mind,
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Speaker 1: before this, the longest anybody had survived out there after
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Speaker 1: getting lost was twelve days. And it was this young
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Speaker 1: young man who was really fit who barely survived. Fay
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Speaker 1: was in horrible shape and she was out there for
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Speaker 1: seventeen days, but somehow she showed up alive. Fay still
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Speaker 1: lives in the village today and her story, at least
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Speaker 1: from her perspective, has never changed. Thank you to Betterhelp
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Speaker 1: for sponsoring this video and for allowing me to talk
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Speaker 1: about therapy and how it helped get me to where
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Speaker 1: I am today. When I got out of the military
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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, that was arguably one of the hardest
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Speaker 1: times in my entire life. You know. Even though I
16:32
Speaker 1: was surrounded by friends and family and everybody wanted me
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Speaker 1: to be successful as a civilian, I just wasn't able
16:39
Speaker 1: to kind of reacclimate back into the civilian world. It
16:42
Speaker 1: was like my mindset was still trapped in the military
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Speaker 1: and I just couldn't make the jump. And so as
16:47
Speaker 1: a result, I kind of bottled up my emotions and
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Speaker 1: sort of got easily frustrated with everybody around me. I
16:52
Speaker 1: was mad all the time, but I was kind of
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Speaker 1: blind to it. I actually thought I was just fine.
16:57
Speaker 1: It was not until my friends and family intervene and
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Speaker 1: told me, like, you really need to get some serious
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Speaker 1: help here. Like you're kind of falling apart, you need
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Speaker 1: some help. And I took their advice and I did
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Speaker 1: go see a therapist, and honestly, that changed my life
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Speaker 1: in early twenty eighteen, when I actually saw a therapist.
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Speaker 1: first month of therapy. One morning in the spring of
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine, a middle aged civil engineer named Wu
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Speaker 1: Chew biked through his rural town in Taiwan. He was
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Speaker 1: on his way home from work, and normally he sort
18:35
Speaker 1: of enjoyed this bike ride home. He would take his
18:38
Speaker 1: time and look at the beautiful temple in all the marketplaces.
18:41
Speaker 1: But today he was not looking at the scenery. He
18:44
Speaker 1: was in a huge rush because he'd gotten word that
18:47
Speaker 1: his wife had become horribly sick, and so Wu is
18:49
Speaker 1: peddling as fast as he possibly can, trying to get
18:52
Speaker 1: home to his wife to help her and take care
18:54
Speaker 1: of her. But as he got to his neighborhood, he
18:58
Speaker 1: started to realize that he was really gassed. Like literally
19:02
Speaker 1: pedaling to his house was just unbelievably exhausting. Now he
19:05
Speaker 1: was sort of sprinting. But at the same time, Wu
19:08
Speaker 1: was a pretty athletic guy, and so this type of
19:11
Speaker 1: a ride was something that he should have been able
19:12
Speaker 1: to handle, but it just sort of seemed like there
19:15
Speaker 1: was a weight attached to him, like he was pulling
19:17
Speaker 1: an extra hundred pounds or something. But regardless, Wu pushed
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Speaker 1: through the pain, knowing he had to get to his
19:22
Speaker 1: wife at all costs, and he turned the corner onto
19:25
Speaker 1: his street, and as he was making his final approach
19:27
Speaker 1: to his house, he saw one of his neighbors. And
19:30
Speaker 1: even though Wu was completely in a rush, he was
19:33
Speaker 1: also very polite. And so even though he's like, you know,
19:35
Speaker 1: sweating and hustling, he still took the time to turn
19:39
Speaker 1: and waved to his neighbor. And his neighbor, who clearly
19:42
Speaker 1: looked at Wu, made eye contact with him, saw it
19:45
Speaker 1: was Wu. Instead of waving back, they kind of scowled
19:48
Speaker 1: at Wu like they were disgusted by him. They didn't
19:51
Speaker 1: wave back, and they turned and just went the other way.
19:54
Speaker 1: And Wu's like, what was that about? What did I do?
19:56
Speaker 1: But again, Wu has to get home, so he sort
19:58
Speaker 1: of wrote that off, and he's like, okay, keep on
19:59
Speaker 1: pet He gets even closer to his house and then
20:02
Speaker 1: it just so happens another neighbor comes outside, and again
20:05
Speaker 1: Wu's politeness comes through and he's still, He's like sweating profusely.
20:08
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, how are you? And this neighbor as well,
20:11
Speaker 1: looks at Wu with this look of total disdain on
20:14
Speaker 1: their face, like there's something wrong with Wu. And Wu's like,
20:17
Speaker 1: what did I do? What's going on here? And so
20:20
Speaker 1: that neighbor does not wave back. They go back inside
20:22
Speaker 1: their house. But again Wu like really can't focus on
20:25
Speaker 1: this weirdness with his neighbors. He needs to get home
20:27
Speaker 1: to his wife, and so again with his heavy legs,
20:30
Speaker 1: he finally gets to his house, parks his bike, and
20:33
Speaker 1: runs inside to see his wife. Wu would find his
20:35
Speaker 1: wife in their bedroom, in bed, and she was looking
20:38
Speaker 1: very pale and sick. Her name was Lyn wang Yao.
20:41
Speaker 1: She was thirty seven years old, and generally speaking, she
20:44
Speaker 1: was a pretty frail person who was sort of prone
20:47
Speaker 1: to minor illnesses all the time, and so, you know,
20:49
Speaker 1: Wu was sort of accustomed to her not doing so well.
20:52
Speaker 1: But as soon as he saw his wife, he could
20:54
Speaker 1: tell that whatever was going on with her was serious.
20:57
Speaker 1: This was not one of her typical ballots of you know,
20:59
Speaker 1: minor illnesses. Something was wrong here and so Wu immediately
21:02
Speaker 1: began to tend to his wife. He made her some
21:05
Speaker 1: soup and some tea, but you know, Lynn barely could
21:07
Speaker 1: sip either of them. And Linn also she had this
21:10
Speaker 1: fever that just kept getting worse and worse, and you know,
21:13
Speaker 1: Wu was hoping she would break the fever at some point.
21:15
Speaker 1: But you know, all night as Wu is up tending
21:18
Speaker 1: to her, her fever just kept getting worse. And so
21:21
Speaker 1: Wu he really didn't know what to do. And this
21:23
Speaker 1: is nineteen fifty nine. They're in a rural village in Taiwan,
21:26
Speaker 1: and so it was difficult to get to a hospital,
21:28
Speaker 1: and so Wu really wanted to find a way to
21:30
Speaker 1: treat his wife at home, and he was just praying
21:33
Speaker 1: that you know, over the next twenty four hours or so,
21:35
Speaker 1: she would show signs of getting better. But over the
21:37
Speaker 1: next couple of days, Linn did not get better. Her
21:40
Speaker 1: fever never broke. She basically stopped eating and drinking, and
21:44
Speaker 1: it was like she was drifting in and out of consciousness.
21:46
Speaker 1: And then finally, after three days of this, Wu knew, like,
21:49
Speaker 1: if I don't get my wife to a hospital, no
21:52
Speaker 1: matter how hard it is to do that, like she
21:54
Speaker 1: might not make it. The primary hurdle for Wu to
21:56
Speaker 1: get Linn to the hospital was actually just transportation. He
22:00
Speaker 1: didn't have a car, but he did know that one
22:02
Speaker 1: of his neighbors on his street had a donkey cart,
22:04
Speaker 1: and so he could maybe load his wife into that
22:07
Speaker 1: and they could get her to the hospital in the cart.
22:08
Speaker 1: And so Wu he went outside and he found the
22:11
Speaker 1: neighbor who happened to be outside actually with their donkey cart,
22:14
Speaker 1: and he flagged them down and he asked them if
22:17
Speaker 1: they'd be willing to transport Linn to the hospital and
22:19
Speaker 1: their cart. But just like a few days earlier, when
22:22
Speaker 1: Wu had been biking on his street and his neighbors
22:25
Speaker 1: had been totally weird to him and sort of looked
22:27
Speaker 1: at him with these obvious looks of disgust, this neighbor,
22:30
Speaker 1: who knew Wu really well, looked at Wu and basically
22:33
Speaker 1: gave him one of those looks like you gross person,
22:36
Speaker 1: you know, and he turned around like he wasn't even
22:38
Speaker 1: going to talk to Wu. But then Wu, in desperation
22:41
Speaker 1: just says, look, my wife, she's dying. She needs to
22:44
Speaker 1: get to the hospital. Please do it for her. And
22:47
Speaker 1: at that this neighbor, you know, clearly, despite their misgivings,
22:50
Speaker 1: sort of turns back around and says, fine, you know,
22:52
Speaker 1: we can use the cart and get her to the hospital.
22:54
Speaker 1: And so Wu and this neighbor they go into Wu's house,
22:57
Speaker 1: they scoop up Linn, they put her on the cart,
22:59
Speaker 1: and it takes several hours, but they do eventually get
23:02
Speaker 1: her to the hospital. And by the time they're there,
23:04
Speaker 1: like Lynn, is basically unconscious. They rush her inside and
23:08
Speaker 1: the doctors and nurses they try to do everything they
23:10
Speaker 1: can to stabilize Linn, but as soon as she was admitted,
23:14
Speaker 1: it was like her condition only got worse and worse,
23:17
Speaker 1: and that night she slipped into a coma and then
23:19
Speaker 1: she died. Wu was devastated. He and the neighbor took
23:22
Speaker 1: Linn's body, put it back on the donkey cart, and
23:25
Speaker 1: brought it back to their town, and then Wu began
23:27
Speaker 1: setting up for a funeral service. So in Taiwan, it's
23:30
Speaker 1: customary during funerals to have the body of the loved
23:33
Speaker 1: one be brought into the house where it stays for
23:36
Speaker 1: seven days before they're cremated, and so Wu, after getting
23:39
Speaker 1: Lyn's body back home, he put her into a coffin,
23:42
Speaker 1: set her up in the living room, and then over
23:44
Speaker 1: the next several days Wu was at home next to
23:47
Speaker 1: his dead wife as friends and family and even the
23:50
Speaker 1: neighbors who you know clearly had some issue with Wu,
23:53
Speaker 1: they all came in to pay their respects. And while
23:55
Speaker 1: this was happening, I mean Wu who was already devastated
23:58
Speaker 1: at the loss of his wife, you know, as he
24:00
Speaker 1: would listen to people come in and pray over the
24:02
Speaker 1: body and sort of talk to the body as if
24:05
Speaker 1: she was still alive and talk about how wonderful she was.
24:08
Speaker 1: You know, it really hit Wu hard because it was
24:10
Speaker 1: like he was suddenly realizing how different his life was
24:13
Speaker 1: going to be without his wife. I mean, Lynn was
24:15
Speaker 1: a very simple woman. You know, she was illiterate, she
24:18
Speaker 1: really didn't travel, and she was very introverted and quiet.
24:21
Speaker 1: But she was a wonderful wife. She took care of Wu,
24:24
Speaker 1: she cared about him deeply, She was a wonderful cook,
24:26
Speaker 1: and just generally she made people around her feel safe
24:30
Speaker 1: and happy. And so, you know, Wu, it's like he
24:33
Speaker 1: just found himself over and over having these fits of
24:35
Speaker 1: just crying, like he can't believe that Lynn is now gone.
24:39
Speaker 1: But on the third day after Lynn had passed away,
24:43
Speaker 1: So now we're about halfway through this funeral service, which
24:45
Speaker 1: takes about a week. Wu was in his living room
24:48
Speaker 1: dealing with this overwhelming sadness about losing his wife, and
24:51
Speaker 1: there's this procession of people coming in and out of
24:53
Speaker 1: the house. And as Wu was sitting there, you know,
24:55
Speaker 1: there was sort of a cadence and a rhythm to
24:57
Speaker 1: how the days were going. But at some point, it
24:59
Speaker 1: was like everybody in the room just suddenly went completely silent,
25:04
Speaker 1: and then people began to gasp. And Wu he was
25:06
Speaker 1: sort of head down dealing with his sadness, and he
25:08
Speaker 1: sort of noticed the change in the room, and he
25:11
Speaker 1: heard people gasping, and he looked up and he noticed
25:14
Speaker 1: a few of the mourners. They weren't just gasping, they
25:17
Speaker 1: were open mouthed and horrified, and they were looking at
25:20
Speaker 1: the casket. And so Wu went from the mourners and
25:23
Speaker 1: he looks over at the casket and there in this
25:27
Speaker 1: open casket is Lynn, except now she's sitting upright looking
25:31
Speaker 1: around the room, clearly alive. Now. At first Wu's reaction was, oh,
25:36
Speaker 1: my goodness, my wife must have just slipped into a
25:39
Speaker 1: really deep coma, so deep that the doctors could not
25:43
Speaker 1: distinguish it from death. And so this is a mistake.
25:46
Speaker 1: Like she was never dead. She's just you know, waken
25:48
Speaker 1: up from her coma. But at the same time, as
25:51
Speaker 1: Wu's having this immediate reaction to seeing his wife sitting
25:54
Speaker 1: up in her coffin, He's thinking, but over these three
25:57
Speaker 1: days that I've not left her side, I've been with
25:59
Speaker 1: her her body the whole time. She's not moved, she's
26:02
Speaker 1: not made a sound, she's certainly not had anything to
26:05
Speaker 1: eat or drink. Like this just doesn't seem possible. And
26:09
Speaker 1: so Wu and the other mourners, you know, after the
26:11
Speaker 1: shock of seeing this sort of wore off. Everybody kind
26:14
Speaker 1: of jumped into action and they rushed over to the casket,
26:17
Speaker 1: and they very gently lifted Lynn out of the casket
26:20
Speaker 1: and they carried her over to her bed and they
26:22
Speaker 1: laid her down, and Lynn immediately kind of gestured for water.
26:25
Speaker 1: You know, she was too weak to speak, you know,
26:27
Speaker 1: she had lost a bunch of weight, but she's gesturing
26:29
Speaker 1: for water, and it'say, give her some water, and she
26:31
Speaker 1: SIPs the water. And everyone's looking at Wu like, we
26:34
Speaker 1: have to get her to the hospital, like what else
26:36
Speaker 1: can we possibly do? But Wu, he's looking at his
26:39
Speaker 1: wife and she's so frail. She really seems like now
26:42
Speaker 1: she is on the precipice of dying here, and he's thinking,
26:45
Speaker 1: you know, she can't survive another donkey cart ride to
26:48
Speaker 1: the hospital, and so we have to keep her here
26:51
Speaker 1: and hope that she, you know, recovers enough that maybe
26:54
Speaker 1: in a day or two we could bring her to
26:55
Speaker 1: the hospital, but certainly not now. And so over the
26:58
Speaker 1: next couple of hours, Wu, along with some friends and family,
27:01
Speaker 1: just stayed by Lynn's bedside, constantly checking on her, making
27:05
Speaker 1: sure she really was alive. And you know, she was
27:07
Speaker 1: albeit you know, very subdued, but she continued to drink
27:10
Speaker 1: water and had a little food, and amazingly, over the
27:14
Speaker 1: span of only a few hours, Linn went from basically
27:18
Speaker 1: literally being dead to actually seeming to get a whole
27:22
Speaker 1: lot better in fact, to the point where you know,
27:24
Speaker 1: Lynn was actually sitting up in bed and you know,
27:26
Speaker 1: stretching and moving around as if she was completely fine.
27:30
Speaker 1: In fact, in Wu's opinion, it almost seemed like within
27:32
Speaker 1: a few hours she was actually physically almost better off
27:36
Speaker 1: than she was normally when she was alive, Like it
27:39
Speaker 1: was a miracle how quickly she was recovering. And so
27:41
Speaker 1: by that night, when Lynn really did seem like she
27:44
Speaker 1: was effectively back to her normal self. You know, the
27:46
Speaker 1: mourners all left and said okay, well I guess Lin's okay,
27:49
Speaker 1: and they left and then it was just Wu and Linn.
27:52
Speaker 1: And Wu had no idea how to handle any of this.
27:54
Speaker 1: He was just so grateful that his wife was alive,
27:57
Speaker 1: even though again none of this made any sense. This
28:00
Speaker 1: is so shocking, but he's just grateful that she's alive.
28:03
Speaker 1: The next day, when they woke up, Lynn was so
28:06
Speaker 1: much better that she was out of bed, walking around
28:09
Speaker 1: the house, you know, really excited to face the day.
28:11
Speaker 1: And Wu's like, dude, you were dead yesterday, like what's
28:14
Speaker 1: going on here? But Lynn said to him, Hey, I
28:16
Speaker 1: want to go out on a walk. You want to
28:18
Speaker 1: go on a walk with me, go to the temple.
28:20
Speaker 1: And Wu he's looking at Lynn still like unable to
28:23
Speaker 1: comprehend what's happened here, but he's thinking, you know, she
28:26
Speaker 1: does seem like she's in great health right now, and
28:28
Speaker 1: if she wants to go for a walk, great, I'll
28:30
Speaker 1: go with. And so the two of them went outside
28:32
Speaker 1: and they began to walk. And as they're walking, I mean, Wu,
28:36
Speaker 1: he's a pretty athletic guy. Remember, he found himself barely
28:40
Speaker 1: able to keep pace with Lynn, who was like speed
28:42
Speaker 1: walking towards the temple. And on top of that, as
28:45
Speaker 1: they're walking, and Wu's like, you know, gassed as He's
28:47
Speaker 1: trying to keep up with his wife. Periodically, neighbors would
28:51
Speaker 1: you know, wave to Lynn and Wu and for just
28:53
Speaker 1: a brief second they would chat. And as Wu listen
28:55
Speaker 1: to Lynn speak, he began to notice something really strange
28:59
Speaker 1: that Linn. And you know, maybe he didn't notice it before,
29:01
Speaker 1: but he was definitely noticing it when she was speaking
29:03
Speaker 1: to other people, she just sounded different, like her accent
29:07
Speaker 1: was different. It did not sound like his wife. And
29:10
Speaker 1: the weirdness around Lynn's miraculous recovery only got more weird
29:14
Speaker 1: over time. Before Lynn died and came back to life,
29:18
Speaker 1: she had been illiterate, but now she was not only
29:21
Speaker 1: able to read, but she could also read and speak
29:24
Speaker 1: fluent Mandarin, a language she didn't know before she died. Also,
29:28
Speaker 1: Lynn used to be a really skilled cook who loved
29:31
Speaker 1: cooking meat dishes in particular, but now that Lynn has recovered,
29:36
Speaker 1: she no longer wanted to eat meat. She said she
29:38
Speaker 1: was a vegetarian. And basically stopped cooking. Also, Lynn began
29:42
Speaker 1: speaking with real authority about the professions of accounting and bookkeeping.
29:47
Speaker 1: And then also she advised her husband to quit his
29:49
Speaker 1: job as an engineer and open up a building material
29:52
Speaker 1: shop in town because there was a real need for
29:54
Speaker 1: it and he'd make real money that way. And believe
29:56
Speaker 1: it or not, like Woo, he doesn't understand what's going
29:59
Speaker 1: on with his wife, but she really seemed like a
30:01
Speaker 1: force to be reckoned with now. And however, she had
30:04
Speaker 1: gained all this extra knowledge. It really seemed like she
30:06
Speaker 1: was sharp these days. And so he was like, all right,
30:10
Speaker 1: and he quits his job as an engineer, opens up
30:13
Speaker 1: this building material shop, and really quickly he and his
30:16
Speaker 1: wife began making real money, more money than they had
30:19
Speaker 1: ever made before. And while all this was happening, Wu
30:22
Speaker 1: and Linn became the biggest curiosity in town. I mean,
30:25
Speaker 1: the story of how Linn had miraculously come back to
30:28
Speaker 1: life with all these bizarre personality changes. You know, not
30:32
Speaker 1: only was that spreading all around town, but it eventually
30:35
Speaker 1: spread all across the country. It was like everybody was
30:38
Speaker 1: talking about Linn. In fact, this story spread so far
30:41
Speaker 1: that it eventually reached the Taiwanese government, and when they
30:44
Speaker 1: heard about it, they were so intrigued they decided they
30:48
Speaker 1: would investigate. And so on March seventeenth, nineteen sixty two,
30:51
Speaker 1: the Taiwanese government sent for Lynn, and Lynn was very
30:55
Speaker 1: happy to go. She was ready to tell her story
30:57
Speaker 1: and answer any questions they had. This was all just
30:59
Speaker 1: kind of exciting the idea that the government wanted to
31:02
Speaker 1: know how she had made this unbelievable recovery. And so
31:05
Speaker 1: the government they scoop her up and they bring her
31:07
Speaker 1: to this army hospital and they tell her she's going
31:09
Speaker 1: to be meeting with the chief physician there. And so
31:11
Speaker 1: the chief physician, he's inside of the room. He's waiting
31:14
Speaker 1: for Lynn. He's never met her before, he's only been
31:17
Speaker 1: told roughly what the story is. You know, there's this
31:19
Speaker 1: woman who's acting really funny after coming back from the dead,
31:22
Speaker 1: and okay, fine, I'm going to talk to her and
31:24
Speaker 1: see what's going on. And so Lynn she walks in
31:27
Speaker 1: the room and the chief physician he looks at her.
31:29
Speaker 1: She's an ordinary looking woman, and she walks over to him,
31:32
Speaker 1: and before he can even begin a line of questioning,
31:35
Speaker 1: Lynn looks at him like with a double take, like
31:38
Speaker 1: there's a moment of recognition, and she says to the
31:40
Speaker 1: chief physician, uncle, and the chief physician is like, why
31:45
Speaker 1: are you calling me uncle? And then Lynn would go
31:47
Speaker 1: on to explain why she had just called him uncle,
31:50
Speaker 1: and the chief physician was so shocked by her story
31:53
Speaker 1: that he left the room and he called for his wife.
31:56
Speaker 1: And then when his wife came to the hospital, he
31:58
Speaker 1: didn't tell her what was going on. He just said,
32:00
Speaker 1: come with me. She walks into the room with the
32:02
Speaker 1: chief physician, he and his wife and Lynn, who's never
32:05
Speaker 1: met this woman, and the woman has never met Lynn.
32:07
Speaker 1: They see each other for the first time and Lynn
32:10
Speaker 1: looks at her and just goes Auntie. And it was
32:12
Speaker 1: at this point that Lynn revealed to the chief physician
32:16
Speaker 1: and his wife that Lynn really was not her name.
32:19
Speaker 1: That's what people called her, but that wasn't who she was.
32:22
Speaker 1: Her real name was Ju shu Wa. And the chief
32:26
Speaker 1: physician and his wife literally couldn't believe it because they
32:30
Speaker 1: had not given any information about their personal lives to Lynn.
32:33
Speaker 1: They've only listened to her story and she just offered
32:37
Speaker 1: up what she claims her name is. She's called them
32:39
Speaker 1: uncle and Auntie, And wouldn't you know it, the chief
32:41
Speaker 1: physician and his wife they did have a niece whose
32:44
Speaker 1: name was Ju Sho Wa, and a year earlier, she
32:49
Speaker 1: their niece, had gone missing. She had gone missing during
32:52
Speaker 1: the Chinese Civil War, and she had been presumed dead,
32:55
Speaker 1: but nobody had ever found her body. According to Lynn,
32:58
Speaker 1: Ju did die during that war. She was robbed and
33:01
Speaker 1: murdered by a group of fishermen, and then after she
33:03
Speaker 1: was killed, her spirit was sort of stuck in this
33:06
Speaker 1: purgatory for some time. But then a year after Ju's death,
33:09
Speaker 1: when Lynn died, Lynn said that Ju's spirit entered Lin's body,
33:15
Speaker 1: and thus, you know, she came back to life. Ju did,
33:18
Speaker 1: but in a different body. And so Lynn basically was
33:20
Speaker 1: telling the chief physician and his wife that she was Ju.
33:25
Speaker 1: She had been reincarnated in Lin's body. And as crazy
33:28
Speaker 1: as this story sounded, the chief physician and his wife
33:31
Speaker 1: couldn't help but notice that as Lynn was speaking, her
33:35
Speaker 1: accent was exactly like Jew's. In fact, just generally speaking,
33:40
Speaker 1: Lynn was acting exactly like their niece. She really did
33:44
Speaker 1: seem like the reincarnated version of Ju. And then when
33:47
Speaker 1: they dug deeper and spoke more to Lynn and also
33:50
Speaker 1: her husband. Wu. The physician and his wife learned that,
33:53
Speaker 1: you know, Lynn, when she woke up and was reincarnated,
33:57
Speaker 1: suddenly she was a vegetarian, just like Ju. Suddenly, you know,
34:01
Speaker 1: Lynn was interested in accounting and bookkeeping. Well that was
34:04
Speaker 1: something that Hu was interested in. And also the biggest
34:07
Speaker 1: one was that Lynn had been illiterate, but then she
34:11
Speaker 1: wakes up and suddenly she reads and speaks Mandarin fluently,
34:15
Speaker 1: the language that Ju read and spoke. And so the
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Speaker 1: chief physician, he couldn't help but start to believe that
34:21
Speaker 1: maybe Lynn was telling the truth here, you know, maybe
34:24
Speaker 1: this really was his niece's reincarnated spirit. And so as
34:28
Speaker 1: sort of strange as it was, he told the Taiwanese
34:30
Speaker 1: government that, you know what, there's something weird happening here,
34:33
Speaker 1: and you know, I can't help but believe that maybe
34:36
Speaker 1: there's some truth to the story. But if we really
34:38
Speaker 1: want to pressure test it, Lynn claims that she knows
34:42
Speaker 1: who killed my niece, like she knows who killed her
34:45
Speaker 1: because now she's you. She said it was this particular
34:48
Speaker 1: group of fishermen, and actually Lynn had given the names
34:51
Speaker 1: of these fishermen that apparently robbed and killed Ju, And
34:54
Speaker 1: so the chief physician told the government, why don't we
34:57
Speaker 1: investigate my niece's disappearance as a murder and go talk
35:00
Speaker 1: to those fishermen and see if that holds up. And
35:02
Speaker 1: so that's what the government did. They tracked these fishermen down,
35:06
Speaker 1: but unfortunately only one of them was still alive. But
35:09
Speaker 1: they interviewed this guy, and Lynn would actually say that
35:13
Speaker 1: particular fisherman, he was not one of the aggressors. He
35:16
Speaker 1: was actually the only fisherman in the group who tried
35:18
Speaker 1: to save Ju, even though obviously she did get killed,
35:21
Speaker 1: but that fisherman had tried to stop what was happening
35:24
Speaker 1: to her. And when the government talked to him, he
35:27
Speaker 1: would say that, yes, unfortunately she was killed and I
35:30
Speaker 1: did try to stop it, but I just couldn't. Keep
35:32
Speaker 1: in mind, this fisherman had not been given any information.
35:36
Speaker 1: This is entirely like a brand new investigation. He has
35:39
Speaker 1: no idea what they know. But he basically exactly mirrored
35:43
Speaker 1: what Lynn said happened. And so based on this, they
35:46
Speaker 1: actually closed Ju's shoe was case. It was labeled a disappearance,
35:50
Speaker 1: they changed it to a murder, and they labeled her
35:53
Speaker 1: killers as the fishermen who were deceased at the time,
35:56
Speaker 1: but they were labeled as her killers, and they closed
35:59
Speaker 1: the case entirely on a reincarnated spirits testimony. And there's
36:04
Speaker 1: one more thing. Back in the beginning of the story,
36:06
Speaker 1: when Wu is hustling home, biking as fast as he
36:09
Speaker 1: can to get to his sick wife and he has
36:12
Speaker 1: those weird encounters with his neighbors, Well, it would turn
36:15
Speaker 1: out when those neighbors were interviewed, they would say that
36:18
Speaker 1: the reason they gave those looks to Wu, those looks
36:20
Speaker 1: of disgust and disdain, is because one they knew Wu
36:25
Speaker 1: was married to Lynn, and they were also aware of
36:27
Speaker 1: that she was sick in bed. But here comes Wu
36:29
Speaker 1: pedaling up the road, and he's got this woman sitting
36:32
Speaker 1: on the back of his bike that is clearly not
36:35
Speaker 1: his wife. And so everyone's reaction to that is Wu
36:38
Speaker 1: is having an affair on his poor wife who's sick
36:41
Speaker 1: in bed. What a horrible person. Now, Wu swore there
36:44
Speaker 1: was no woman on his bike, but he would recall
36:47
Speaker 1: that the bike did feel really heavy, like he was
36:50
Speaker 1: pulling extra weight at the end there. Later, Lynn would
36:52
Speaker 1: say that actually Ju's spirit had come down and hopped
36:56
Speaker 1: on the back of Wu's bike and it was her
36:59
Speaker 1: basically riding a you know, hitching a ride up to
37:01
Speaker 1: their house. She was the woman that the neighbors were seeing.
37:04
Speaker 1: But woo, you know, he was so focused on getting
37:06
Speaker 1: home even though he felt that heavy weight, he never
37:09
Speaker 1: turned around and so he didn't see her. And then
37:11
Speaker 1: once Lynn passed away, Ju's spirit, who was now at
37:14
Speaker 1: the home sort of waiting for this to happen, she
37:17
Speaker 1: switched places with her. For the rest of her life,
37:19
Speaker 1: Lynn would live as Ju, and she would become a
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Speaker 1: community and spiritual leader. And she would pass away in
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen at the age of ninety seven, and at
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Speaker 1: her funeral there would be banners hung that actually said
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Speaker 1: both names Lynn and Ju. And so if reincarnation is real,
37:36
Speaker 1: this story might just be one of the most credible
37:38
Speaker 1: cases ever recorded. Thank you so much for watching. Let
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