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  Speaker 1: Japan is comprised of four major islands. The northernmost island
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  Speaker 1: is called Hakkaido, and on Hakkaido there is this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: national park called Dycet Susan that is nicknamed the Playground
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  Speaker 1: of the Gods because the is basically all these huge
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  Speaker 1: mountains that stretch up into the clouds. The tallest mountain
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  Speaker 1: inside of this park is Mount asa Hidake, which reaches
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  Speaker 1: an elevation over seventy five hundred feet and it is
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  Speaker 1: a very popular hiking destination.
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  Speaker 2: The trail that brings you to the.
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  Speaker 1: Summit of Mount Asahidake is considered relatively straightforward. It's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much just a straight line, but there is one very
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  Speaker 1: tricky spot on the way up. As you get closer
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  Speaker 1: and closer to the summit, the trees begin to disappear
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  Speaker 1: and you're left with this kind of open landscape where
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  Speaker 1: the trail becomes fairly ambiguous. It's hard to know where
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  Speaker 1: you're going, and so hikers are instructed to look for
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  Speaker 1: a landmark, which is this big square boulder that's known
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  Speaker 1: as Safe Rock. And once you get to Safe Rock,
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  Speaker 1: apparently the rest of the trail is easy to identify
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  Speaker 1: and follow all the way up to the summit. There's
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  Speaker 1: a catch, though. In the same area as Safe Rock
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  Speaker 1: is another large square boulder that looks exactly like Safe Rock,
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  Speaker 1: and this impostor is called false Safe Rock. If a
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  Speaker 1: hiker confuses false Safe Rock for the real thing and
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  Speaker 1: then attempts to take the path leading away from the impostor,
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  Speaker 1: they will be led down a path that many people
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  Speaker 1: have gotten lost on.
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  Speaker 2: At first, it will feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like you are making progress towards the summit of the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually the trail begins to gradually go downhill. Now
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  Speaker 1: you would think that would be a fairly obvious red flag.
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  Speaker 1: If the trail is going down and you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: go up to the summit, that probably something's gone wrong here,
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  Speaker 1: you've taken a wrong turn. But put yourself in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of someone who's made this mistake. In their mind,
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  Speaker 1: they reached the landmark of Safe Rock, although it was
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  Speaker 1: the impostor False Safe Rock, and so they think they're
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  Speaker 1: on the right path. And if this is their first
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  Speaker 1: time being on this mountain, which a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: it is, they probably convince themselves that they've gone the
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  Speaker 1: right way and just keep on going. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you just keep ongoing and you don't recognize this mistake,
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  Speaker 1: about a mile away from False Safe Rock, you enter
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  Speaker 1: into this valley that's completely overgrown with thick bamboo. It's
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  Speaker 1: very swampy, and there's lots of very steep cliff drop offs.
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  Speaker 1: And once you go inside of this area, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see anything because the bamboo's so tall and so thick,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's very easy to get turned around, and
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to accidentally walk off of a cliff,
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  Speaker 1: and so over the years, hikers who have accidentally taken
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  Speaker 1: the trail leading away from False Safe Rock have gotten
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  Speaker 1: lost in this treacherous area, and not all of them
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  Speaker 1: have come back.
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  Speaker 2: In July of nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Nine, two men from Tokyo were hiking up the trail
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  Speaker 1: towards the summit of Mount Asadake when they reached what
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  Speaker 1: they believed was Save Rock.
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  Speaker 2: However it was not. It was False Safe Rock, and
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  Speaker 2: so when they followed the trail leading away.
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  Speaker 1: From False Safe Rock, it was not long before they
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  Speaker 1: were lost in that valley overgrown with bamboo. That night,
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  Speaker 1: when these two men did not come home, their friends
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  Speaker 1: and family called the police and.
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  Speaker 2: They start was launched for them.
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  Speaker 1: Over the first couple of days, there was no luck.
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  Speaker 1: They could not find these two guys. They had no
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  Speaker 1: idea where they had gone. They looked all over the
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  Speaker 1: swampy area, thinking that's where they might be, but they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find them. But then, on July twenty fourth, a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter was flying over the mountain over an area that
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  Speaker 1: had not really been thoroughly searched. It was just to
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  Speaker 1: the east of that valley with all the bamboo, where
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  Speaker 1: they expected them to be.
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  Speaker 2: And this helicopter pilot. As he went.
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  Speaker 1: Around a corner, he got a view down to the
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  Speaker 1: mid section of the mountain and he saw this big,
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  Speaker 1: wide open clearing, and right in the middle of this
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  Speaker 1: clearing are three huge letters.
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  Speaker 2: They are spelled using birch logs, and the three letters
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  Speaker 2: are so.
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  Speaker 1: SOS is an international code used to signal extreme distress
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  Speaker 1: people who go missing or who get stranded somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: They will try to spell the three.
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  Speaker 1: Letters SOS as big as they possibly can, and then
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  Speaker 1: they will camp out near their signal in hopes that
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  Speaker 1: someone will see it and then come and rescue them.
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  Speaker 1: This helicopter pilot that's seen this distress signs immediately flew
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  Speaker 1: over the letters, expecting to look down and see the
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  Speaker 1: two missing hikers from Tokyo. But when he was hovering
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  Speaker 1: over the SOS and he's looking down, there was no
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  Speaker 1: one there, despite the fact that this was a wide
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  Speaker 1: open area.
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  Speaker 2: They're not in the Bamboo Valley anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, he signaled to the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: search party that he had found their SOS signal, and
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  Speaker 1: before long more helicopters and search teams were brought over
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  Speaker 1: to that area, and then several hours later a search
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  Speaker 1: team that was on the ground, who was walking about
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  Speaker 1: two miles north of this SOS signal, saw these two
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  Speaker 1: very haggard looking guys come out of the bamboo brush
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  Speaker 1: and they come walking up towards them, and it turns out.
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  Speaker 2: It was the missing men from Tokyo.
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  Speaker 1: They were very ragged, they were dehydrated and famished, and
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  Speaker 1: they were kind of on the brink of death.
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  Speaker 2: But they were alive and they were.
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  Speaker 1: Extremely happy to have been found, and so a helicopter
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  Speaker 1: was brought in. The two men were flown out to
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  Speaker 1: the nearest hospital, and then after receiving medical care, it
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  Speaker 1: was determined they would both make full recoveries. Cited by
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  Speaker 1: this news, the pilot and some of the other rescuers
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  Speaker 1: went to the men's hospital room to pay them a visit,
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  Speaker 1: and over the course of their conversation, the pilot brings
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  Speaker 1: up to the two men that they were really smart
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  Speaker 1: to build that SOS signal, that in fact, had they
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  Speaker 1: not built the SOS, it's unlikely anyone would have found them.
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as the two men heard this, they
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  Speaker 1: kind of reacted to it. They looked at each other,
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  Speaker 1: and they looked at the pilot and.
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  Speaker 2: They said, what SOS signal? We didn't make an SOS signal.
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  Speaker 1: After asking the men several questions to make sure they
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  Speaker 1: really didn't make this signal, the pilot and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the searchers said, you know, we have to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the mountain. We have to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the SOS signal because somebody else has made it and.
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  Speaker 2: They need our help.
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  Speaker 1: And so early the next morning, these searchers went back
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  Speaker 1: out to the mountain, back to the SOS signal to scour.
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  Speaker 2: The area all over again.
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  Speaker 1: And shortly after they began the search, one of the
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  Speaker 1: searchers found this deep hole underneath the roots of a tree,
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  Speaker 1: and in this hole was a backpack. In this backpack,
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  Speaker 1: amongst other things, was a driver's license and an audio recorder.
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  Speaker 1: The license belonged to a twenty five year old Japanese
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  Speaker 1: man named Kenji Iwamura, who five years earlier had been
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  Speaker 1: staying at a lodge near the mountain, and one day
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  Speaker 1: he had left, and on his way out, he had
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  Speaker 1: told the owner of this lodge that he was going
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  Speaker 1: for a hike to the summit of Mount Asadake. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of days later, when Kenji was supposed to check
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  Speaker 1: out of the lodge. He didn't, and so the owner
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  Speaker 1: went to his room. He knocked, but there was no answer,
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  Speaker 1: and so the owner.
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  Speaker 2: Used his master key.
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  Speaker 1: He opened the door, and when he looked inside, there
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  Speaker 1: was no Kenji, but all of his belongings were still there.
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  Speaker 1: And so the owner thought that was odd because the
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  Speaker 1: last time he saw him he was going out for
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  Speaker 1: the hike. And so he put two and two together
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  Speaker 1: and thought, you know what, I think this guy's in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So he called the police and reported him missing.
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  Speaker 1: A search is launched for Kenji, but Kenji was never found,
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  Speaker 1: and so there was always this mystery about what happened
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  Speaker 1: to him. Fast forward back to nineteen eighty nine, and
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  Speaker 1: these searchers are looking at this backpack that just looked
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  Speaker 1: at this license, and then one of the searchers reaches
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  Speaker 1: in and pulls out the audio recorder and hits a
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  Speaker 1: play button. What they heard was very disturbing. It was
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  Speaker 1: the sound of a young man, presumably who was very distressed,
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  Speaker 1: who was calling out for help. And it's believed this
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  Speaker 1: young man is Kenji in Japanese. He very slowly and
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  Speaker 1: deliberately says, I'm stuck on a cliff. I can't move, SOS.
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  Speaker 1: Please help me. I'm at the spot where I first
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  Speaker 1: saw the helicopter, but the bamboo is too thick. I
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  Speaker 1: can't move. Please lift me up out of here, SOS.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a clip of the actual recording. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed fairly obvious to police that, based on the
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  Speaker 1: proximity of the backpack to the SOS letters and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the recording, which was in the backpack had
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  Speaker 1: Kenji literally saying SOOS. He says this on the recording,
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  Speaker 1: that Kenji must have been the one who built this
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  Speaker 1: SOS sign. He must have built it back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four when he got lost.
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  Speaker 2: And so, now that the.
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  Speaker 1: Police believed they had solved the mystery of who built
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  Speaker 1: the SOS sign, they now needed to figure out where
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  Speaker 1: this person went, Where was Kenji?
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  Speaker 2: And so Over the next several hours, searchers.
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  Speaker 1: Continued to look around the immediate area of where this
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  Speaker 1: backpack was found, and soon they would discover something that,
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  Speaker 1: according to police, solved this five year old mystery.
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  Speaker 2: They figured out what happened to Kenji.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there is no official police narrative, at least not online,
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  Speaker 1: that explains step by step.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to Kenji.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm about to share with you is what
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  Speaker 1: I was able to deduce from all of the official
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  Speaker 1: reporting that.
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  Speaker 2: I could find online.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four, Kenji left his lodge and headed
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  Speaker 1: for the summit of Mount Asahidake, and on the way up,
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  Speaker 1: he most likely mistook the false safe rock for the
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  Speaker 1: safe rock, and just like the two men from Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: would do five years later, Kenji went down the wrong
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  Speaker 1: path and got lost in that valley covered in bamboo.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, Kenji stopped trying to find his way
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  Speaker 1: back to the trail and instead try to.
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  Speaker 2: Just go down the mountain any way he could.
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  Speaker 1: And so as he's making his way through this very
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  Speaker 1: thick vegetation in this bamboo, he eventually gets to a
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  Speaker 1: point where he lowers himself down over this ledge and
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  Speaker 1: he lands on this cliff. And as soon as he lands,
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  Speaker 1: he looks over the edge and he realizes he can't
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  Speaker 1: go any farther. It's too steep, it's too dangerous. But
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  Speaker 1: when he turns around to try to climb back up,
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  Speaker 1: it's also too steep. So he was trapped on this ledge.
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  Speaker 1: And so there on this cliff ledge, he sits and waits,
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  Speaker 1: hoping that someone has reported him missing and they will
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  Speaker 1: come and find him before he dies. And at some point,
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  Speaker 1: as he's sitting there waiting, a helicopter flies overhead, and
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  Speaker 1: Kenji most likely was elated. He probably believed they saw
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  Speaker 1: him and he thought he was going to get rescued,
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  Speaker 1: but the helicopter would eventually just fly away, giving no
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  Speaker 1: indication of whether they had actually seen Kenji. And so
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  Speaker 1: for what must have been at least a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: Kenji sat on this ledge expecting this helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: To come back.
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  Speaker 1: But over time he gradually came to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: that helicopter had probably not seen him and they were
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  Speaker 1: not coming back. There was no rescue party inbound for him,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was around that time, as he's having
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  Speaker 1: this horrible realization that he pulls out that audio recorder
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  Speaker 1: and he records that very eerie and distressing message where
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  Speaker 1: he's calling out for help and saying that he's stuck
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  Speaker 1: on this ledge. And then after he was done, at
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  Speaker 1: some point, Kenji came to the conclusion that his best
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  Speaker 1: chance at survival was not waiting for some helicopter to
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  Speaker 1: potentially come back, because at this point that seemed really unlikely. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: his best chance, and perhaps only chance, was to try
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  Speaker 1: to climb down this cliff right in front of him
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  Speaker 1: that he had already determined was way too dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: And so Kenji lowered.
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  Speaker 1: Himself and began climbing down this cliff, and miraculously he
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  Speaker 1: got all the way to the bottom where the ground
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  Speaker 1: leveled off, without serious injury. And so from that point
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  Speaker 1: he just kept on walking down the mountain, trudging through
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  Speaker 1: all this bamboo until he actually leaves the bamboo and
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  Speaker 1: enters this huge clearing on the side of the mountain
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  Speaker 1: where basically gets devoid of any vegetation besides some birch
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  Speaker 1: trees off in the distance. And it was in this
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  Speaker 1: clearing that Kenji would construct that SOS signal, believing that
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  Speaker 1: was his ticket out of there.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately it was not.
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  Speaker 1: Five years later, after searchers had just located Kenji's backpack
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  Speaker 1: underneath the.
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  Speaker 2: Roots of that tree, they would.
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  Speaker 1: Go on to make that huge discovery that solved the
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  Speaker 1: five year mystery, and that discovery was a partial human
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  Speaker 1: skeleton laying nearby, and eventually that skeleton would be determined
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  Speaker 1: to be Kenji's. And at this point the police said
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  Speaker 1: they were not suspecting foul play in Kenji's death. However,
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  Speaker 1: they did not release his exact cause of death. It's
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  Speaker 1: unclear if they just could not determine it or if
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to release it publicly, but either way,
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  Speaker 1: we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that the police just closed the case
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  Speaker 1: and said, Okay, we're done. But to the people who
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  Speaker 1: had been closely following this story, because this was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal at the time in nineteen eighty nine, they
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  Speaker 1: thought the police were kind of missing something. There was
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  Speaker 1: this obvious, huge discrepancy that they all figured the police
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  Speaker 1: were going to address at some point, and now it seemed.
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  Speaker 2: Like they weren't. And a lot of people felt like,
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  Speaker 2: this is not a discrepancy.
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  Speaker 1: You can just sweep under the rug. This is a
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  Speaker 1: really big deal. And that discrepancy was how could Kenji.
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  Speaker 2: Have made that SOS signal? As a reminder?
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  Speaker 1: The three letters SOS that was found in that clearing,
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  Speaker 1: they were made with.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen birch tree logs.
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  Speaker 1: Each letter was sixteen feet tall and ten feet wide,
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  Speaker 1: and each log, each birch tree log that made these
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  Speaker 1: letters up, they were all about the same length and
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have been expertly cut, indicating they had been
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  Speaker 1: chopped with an axe.
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  Speaker 2: Or some other cutting tool.
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  Speaker 1: And where this sos was actually located in that clearing,
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  Speaker 1: it was several hundred feet away from the other birch trees. So,
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  Speaker 1: on top of the enormous effort that would go into
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  Speaker 1: cutting down nineteen trees with an axe, and I can
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  Speaker 1: assure you that cutting down a tree with an axe
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  Speaker 1: or a hatchet is way harder than you think it is,
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  Speaker 1: Kenji would have also had to expend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: additional energy just dragging the felled logs over to the
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  Speaker 1: area where he actually built the signal.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, this was.
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  Speaker 1: A gargantuan task that even for someone who was fit
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  Speaker 1: and healthy and strong in the best of conditions, they
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  Speaker 1: would still struggle with this. And so the idea that Kenji,
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  Speaker 1: after being missing in the wild for several days, he's
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  Speaker 1: probably dehydrated, he's spamished, he's tired, he's sore, he's scared,
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  Speaker 1: he's in the worst possible shape you can be in,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that he pulled this off is kind of unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, the person who did Kenji's autopsy would
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  Speaker 1: say that Kenji was not physically capable of putting together
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  Speaker 1: that SOS signal.
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  Speaker 2: He was just too weak. And there's another complication to
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  Speaker 2: factor in.
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  Speaker 1: There was no axe or any other cutting tool found
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near the SOS signal, near the skeleton, near the backpack,
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  Speaker 1: nowhere there was no cutting tool. So either Kenji did
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  Speaker 1: have an axe and somehow mustered the superhuman strength necessary
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  Speaker 1: to chop down nineteen trees, and then he built this
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  Speaker 1: SOS signal, in which case why didn't the authorities find
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  Speaker 1: the axe?
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  Speaker 2: Or Kenji did not have an ax, in.
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  Speaker 1: Which case why were there nineteen perfectly cut birch logs
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  Speaker 1: just laying around in an area that virtually no one
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  Speaker 1: went intentionally When the police just would not answer these
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  Speaker 1: simple questions about the acts, people began coming up with
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  Speaker 1: their own theories as to what happened. The most prominent
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  Speaker 1: theory was that Kenji was not actually alone. This would
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  Speaker 1: explain how he went about building that SOS signal. He
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  Speaker 1: had help, and it would also explain why Kenji's family,
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  Speaker 1: when they heard that audio recording for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: they said, that doesn't sound like our son. And so,
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  Speaker 1: according to this additional person theory, that recording wasn't of Kenji.
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  Speaker 1: It was of this other person, this additional person. People
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  Speaker 1: who subscribe to this theory also point out that originally
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  Speaker 1: the skeleton was not classified as belonging to Kenji. It
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  Speaker 1: was classified as belonging to some unknown female.
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  Speaker 2: With Type OH blood.
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  Speaker 1: The media and the public went crazy at this revelation,
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  Speaker 1: and very quickly the police were being hit with lots
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  Speaker 1: of questions about this development, which they had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what to say about it, and so they looked kind
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  Speaker 1: of bad in the media. They didn't have very many answers,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any leads. The pressure was building, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: then all of the sudden, the police say, oh, we
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: looked at the bones again, and.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: It turns out they were not Type O blood female.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: They were actually Type A blood male, which conveniently is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the same sex and blood type as Kenji. Some say
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: this was a pure fabrication by police to very conveniently
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  Speaker 1: tie up all the loose ends of a case they
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: were doing a very bad job solving that. In reality,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: those were not Kenji's bones. Kenji's still somewhere out there,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't found him yet, and those bones belonged to
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  Speaker 1: some unknown female with type oh blood.
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  Speaker 2: And she was the additional person.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is, even if this additional person theory
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