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  Speaker 1: Located in the far northwestern section of Canada is the
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  Speaker 1: aptly named Northwest Territories. It is a massive swath of
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  Speaker 1: land that virtually nobody lives inside of. To make that
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  Speaker 1: point crystal clear, consider the following. The country of Germany
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  Speaker 1: has a population of eighty three million people, give or take.
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  Speaker 1: The Northwest Territories is four times as large as Germany,
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  Speaker 1: but only has a population of about fifty thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to being this huge and mostly unoccupied space,
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  Speaker 1: the Northwest Territories are almost completely wild. Think dense forests,
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  Speaker 1: huge mountains, massive rivers and lakes, and lots and lots
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  Speaker 1: of really big animals. Even for highly experienced outdoors men
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  Speaker 1: and women, the Northwest Territories can be a truly hazardous place.
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  Speaker 1: And within this truly hazardous place, there is one part
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  Speaker 1: that is the most hazardous, and it's right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the Northwest Territories and it's this eleven thousand
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  Speaker 1: square mile stretch of just pure wilderness that's called the
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  Speaker 1: Nahani Valley. In nineteen seventy six, the Nahani Valley was
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  Speaker 1: made into a national park. But don't let that fool you.
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  Speaker 1: This is not some family park that anybody can go to.
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  Speaker 1: There are no tourist accommodations, so there's no hotel, there's
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  Speaker 1: really nothing inside of it, and there are no roads
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  Speaker 1: that lead into this park.
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  Speaker 3: The only way you can get inside this valley is.
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  Speaker 1: By plane or by boat, or by very stressful and
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  Speaker 1: difficult overland hike.
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  Speaker 3: But for those who are.
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  Speaker 1: Able and willing to make the effort to get inside
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  Speaker 1: of this valley, you have the opportunity to explore one
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  Speaker 1: of the most beautiful places on the planet, because this
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  Speaker 1: section of the world is almost completely untouched by man.
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  Speaker 1: It is really nature at its purest form. However, there's
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  Speaker 1: a catch. This valley is said to be haunted. Over
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  Speaker 1: the last ten thousand years, the handful of native tribes
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  Speaker 1: that have attempted to settle inside of the Nahani Valley
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  Speaker 1: have all either suddenly disappeared without a trace, like the
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  Speaker 1: Naha tribe that literally overnight just was gone, leaving behind.
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  Speaker 3: Their shelters, their food, their supplies, just gone.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows what happened to them, or the tribes
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  Speaker 1: have abruptly fled, claiming they were being terrorized or stoked
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  Speaker 1: by creatures lurking in the forest, like these white demons
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  Speaker 1: and these large wolves they called wahilahs.
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  Speaker 3: Now, of course, this just sounds like folklore, and it
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  Speaker 3: might very well be that that's all. It is folklore.
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  Speaker 1: But starting in the early nineteen hundreds, some very strange
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  Speaker 1: things started happening in the Nahani Valley that were not folklore.
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  Speaker 1: These things happened, and they were horrifying. These were horrifying,
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  Speaker 1: real events, and they might, depending on your viewpoint, give
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  Speaker 1: credit to some of the theories that the native tribes
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  Speaker 1: people have about this valley, which is there's something evil
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  Speaker 1: lurking out in this forest, but we just don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. In nineteen oh four, three brothers, Willie
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  Speaker 1: Frank and Charlie MacLeod, who all lived in the Northwest Territories,
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  Speaker 1: decided they wanted to go looking for gold in the
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  Speaker 1: Nahani Valley. They figured, because so few people had ever
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  Speaker 1: been inside of this valley that if there was gold
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  Speaker 1: to be found, then certainly it had not been found yet.
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  Speaker 3: And so after a very.
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  Speaker 1: Long and arduous journey using sled dogs and trains and
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  Speaker 1: homemade boats, they finally slipped into the valley and found
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  Speaker 1: themselves on what's called the Flat River, which runs right through.
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  Speaker 3: The center of the Nahani Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Flat River is kind of ironically named because
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  Speaker 1: it's anything but flat. It's actually more like a rapid
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  Speaker 1: at certain points, but either way, the three brothers they're
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  Speaker 1: on their boat, they're making their way up the Flat River,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point they pull off onto the river
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  Speaker 1: bank and they set up camp. And then once their
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  Speaker 1: camp is set up, they go down to the river
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  Speaker 1: and they put their gold sluices in the water. A
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  Speaker 1: gold sluice is this long, skinny box that's usually made
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  Speaker 1: of wood, and it has a strainer on one side,
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  Speaker 1: and gold miners will put it in the water submerged,
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  Speaker 1: and they will kind of shovel the sediment on the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the water into this little funnel, and the
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  Speaker 1: big stuff will get stopped by the strainer and the
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  Speaker 1: dirt and the water will just kind of flow out
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  Speaker 1: the side. And so the idea is you can trap
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  Speaker 1: gold nuggets inside of the sluice. And so the three
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  Speaker 1: brothers they get their sluices up and they start looking
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  Speaker 1: for gold, and right away they hit Peter, there is
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  Speaker 1: tons of gold in this river.
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  Speaker 3: And so all day, all night they get all this gold.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning they do the same thing, and by
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  Speaker 1: the time all their containers are literally filled to the
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  Speaker 1: brim with gold. They decide, you know, hey, let's go
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  Speaker 1: back and turn this in, get some money for it,
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  Speaker 1: and then come back out here. So they pack up
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  Speaker 1: their tent, they pack up all their supplies, and they
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  Speaker 1: put everything back in their boat. They get out onto
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  Speaker 1: Flat River, and at some point, very early on in
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  Speaker 1: their journey back, the boat capsizes and the boat actually
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  Speaker 1: breaks apart from the strength of the rapids of Flat River,
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  Speaker 1: and so the boat actually just sinks, and much of
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  Speaker 1: their supplies sink, including all of their gold. But the
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  Speaker 1: three brothers are able to grab some of their supplies
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  Speaker 1: like the rifle and some lumber and some of their
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  Speaker 1: mining supplies, and they swim it all to shore it
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  Speaker 1: catch their breath. They're totally devastated at the loss of
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  Speaker 1: the gold, but they're alive. They have enough supplies to survive,
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  Speaker 1: and so they figure all they can do is maybe
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  Speaker 1: try to go back to their original site, try to
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  Speaker 1: get some more gold, because they did still have a sluice,
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  Speaker 1: and then try to get out of there and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, regroup and come back another time. And so,
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  Speaker 1: using some of the lumber they recovered from their broken boat,
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  Speaker 1: and then also by cutting down some trees, they literally
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  Speaker 1: fashioned another boat and then hopped back on the flat
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  Speaker 1: river and they went back up to that site where
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  Speaker 1: they'd found gold earlier.
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  Speaker 3: They set up their sluice, they set up.
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  Speaker 1: Their camp again, and this time they didn't find any gold.
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  Speaker 1: So all day, this very disappointing day, that they've already
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  Speaker 1: lost all their gold, now they're not finding any more gold.
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  Speaker 1: And so that night, when they went to bed, they
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  Speaker 1: decided that the next day they were just going to leave,
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  Speaker 1: and so the next day they get up, they pack up,
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  Speaker 1: they hop back on the flat river on this new
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  Speaker 1: boat they built, and they're able to make their way
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  Speaker 1: out of the valley and.
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  Speaker 3: Get back to their homes. As soon as they get back.
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  Speaker 1: Home, the two younger brothers, Willie and Frank, start talking
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  Speaker 1: about how they want to go back into Nahani Valley
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  Speaker 1: and go get more gold, because now they know there's
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  Speaker 1: gold out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we didn't find it that second time, but we
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  Speaker 1: know it's out there. Charlie, the older brother, he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get the gold, but he felt like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that was a close call with the.
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  Speaker 3: Boat flipping over. I don't know if it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm actually not going to go. You guys can go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to stay.
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  Speaker 1: And so several months goes by and Frank and Willy
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  Speaker 1: have been doing all this preparation for this additional trip
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  Speaker 1: into the valley, and finally in nineteen oh five they're ready,
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  Speaker 1: and so Willie, Frank and a third man called Robert Weir,
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  Speaker 1: who was a friend of theirs. He was going to
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  Speaker 1: replace Charlie. The three of them, they make their way
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  Speaker 1: up into the valley. Now, they didn't tell anyone how
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  Speaker 1: long they were going to be gone for, and so
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  Speaker 1: when they didn't send any word and no one had
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  Speaker 1: heard from them in weeks, Charlie was actually not that
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  Speaker 1: concerned because he knew there was lots of gold to
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  Speaker 1: be had out in the Nahani Valley, and so he
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  Speaker 1: figured they must have struck it rich and now they've
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  Speaker 1: decided to live out there long term, or at least
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  Speaker 1: maybe through the summer or maybe the next year, And
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  Speaker 1: so he wasn't concerned. And because he wasn't concerned, nobody
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  Speaker 1: else was concerned about these three men, And so weeks
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  Speaker 1: turned into months turned into a year, and still no
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  Speaker 1: one's heard from these three men. No one's heard from
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  Speaker 1: Wi Frank or from Robert. But still Charlie maintains that
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  Speaker 1: nothing can be wrong because there's three of them out there.
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  Speaker 1: They're incredibly experienced. There is a ton of gold out there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're just killing it and they're just acquiring
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  Speaker 1: all this gold, and we're going to see them in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of months maybe, and everything's going to
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  Speaker 1: be just fine.
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  Speaker 3: But a whole other year would go by, So they've
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  Speaker 3: been out there for two years and no one has
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  Speaker 3: heard from them.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point, Charlie thinks to himself, Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go out and see if they're okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so he rounds up four other people from his
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  Speaker 1: town and he mounts an expedition to head back into
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  Speaker 1: the Nahani Valley to go find his two brothers and
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  Speaker 1: find Robert Weir. Charlie and his search party. Eventually, after
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  Speaker 1: yet another long and arduous journey, they get into Nahani
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  Speaker 1: Valley and they get onto the Flat River, and so
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  Speaker 1: they start making their way upstream along Flat River. So
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  Speaker 1: it must have been a very treacherous journey getting through
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  Speaker 1: the rapids of this river. And the whole time they're
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  Speaker 1: scanning the left and the right side hoping to see
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  Speaker 1: some sign of life. They're looking for any indication that
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  Speaker 1: these three men are out here and just fine. But
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  Speaker 1: they didn't see any sign of them. And so they
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  Speaker 1: finally made their way all the way up to the
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  Speaker 1: very end of Flat River, or I should say the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning of Flat River, where it breaks off from
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  Speaker 1: a much larger river called the South Nahani River. And
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  Speaker 1: once they turned onto the south Nahani River. They began
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  Speaker 1: going downstream, and again they're looking on either side for
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  Speaker 1: any sign of these three men. There's no sign of them.
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  Speaker 1: And then the river they're on takes a very sharp turn.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually called the Big Bend, and it's about a
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  Speaker 1: forty five degree turn, and as soon as you make
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  Speaker 1: that turn, it dumps you into this ten mile stretch
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  Speaker 1: of river called Second Canyon. Now, along South Nahani River,
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  Speaker 1: which is about three hundred and fifty miles long, there
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  Speaker 1: are these four canyons that the water passes through, and
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  Speaker 1: they're labeled Fourth Canyon, Third Canyon, Second Canyon, and First Canyon.
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  Speaker 3: And these canyons are massive.
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  Speaker 1: These sheer cliffs on either side of the river shoot
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  Speaker 1: up up to three thousand feet above the water, and
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  Speaker 1: in some parts the water is act actually just as deep,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of feet deep. And Second Canyon is unique because
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  Speaker 1: the cliff faces are as sheer as you're going to get,
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  Speaker 1: and the cliff faces almost butt up exactly up against
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  Speaker 1: the water, so there's really very little shoreline on either side.
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  Speaker 1: So once you're in this ten mile stretch, you're basically
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  Speaker 1: boxed in. You have thousands of feet of water below you.
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  Speaker 1: You have these massive cliffs on either side, and there's
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  Speaker 1: really nowhere to go. You need to get through this
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  Speaker 1: section of the river before you can effectively get onto
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  Speaker 1: the shoreline and take.
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  Speaker 3: A break from being in your boat.
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  Speaker 1: And along these cliffs are these openings you see high
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  Speaker 1: up all over the cliffs on both sides, that are
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  Speaker 1: openings to these massive cave systems inside of these thousands
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  Speaker 1: of feet tall cliffs.
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  Speaker 3: And because of how difficult it is to.
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  Speaker 1: Not only get to Nahani Valley but also to get
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  Speaker 1: up to these different cave openings, nobody's gone inside of them.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what's inside of these caves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: save for the few that are down low enough that
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  Speaker 1: people can explore. So as you're passing through Second Canyon,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like you're being watched because there's all these
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  Speaker 1: openings but you can't see into them, and you're just
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  Speaker 1: forced to go down this ten mile stretch and you
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  Speaker 1: can't really go anywhere, and whatever's watching you, it's watching you.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as Charlie and his search party entered into
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  Speaker 1: Second Canyon, it would have immediately gotten darker, because that's
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  Speaker 1: another part of being in Second Canyon, These huge cliff
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  Speaker 1: walls of this canyon obscure the sunlight, and so they
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  Speaker 1: would have entered into this canyon, it would have gotten darker,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very windy inside of Second Canyon, so the
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  Speaker 1: winds would have picked up, so it's dark, very strange
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  Speaker 1: setting for them to be in, and they would have
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  Speaker 1: been looking on either side at these little strips of
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  Speaker 1: shoreline on either side, barely big enough for a boat
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  Speaker 1: to be They would have been looking for any sign
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  Speaker 1: of life, but they didn't see anything.
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  Speaker 3: As they're making.
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  Speaker 1: Their way down this ten mile stretch, as they're getting
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  Speaker 1: closer and closer to actually entering into First Canyon, which
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  Speaker 1: is the next canyon you would enter into, these sides
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  Speaker 1: of the river start to get slightly larger where you
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  Speaker 1: could actually beach a boat.
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  Speaker 3: There's some trees on the left hand side.
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  Speaker 1: Right before exiting Second Canyon, they notice there is actually
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  Speaker 1: a tent perched within some trees, and so the search
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  Speaker 1: party naturally goes right over to the shoreline they hop out.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as they step foot on land and
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  Speaker 1: they have a clearer view of this tent and what's
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  Speaker 1: outside of it, they notice there is a body clearly
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  Speaker 1: lying on the ground outside of the tent, and so
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and the search party they run over and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they're up close, they can tell this body
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  Speaker 1: is missing its head, and they see the clothes on
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  Speaker 1: this body are totally charred and burned.
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  Speaker 3: And whoever this was, they were reaching with their right
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  Speaker 3: arm when they died.
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  Speaker 1: And right outside of the reach of their right arm
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  Speaker 1: was a rifle that was propped up against a tree.
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  Speaker 1: And so they walk around this one body, and they
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  Speaker 1: go around towards the backside of the tent where the
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  Speaker 1: opening to this tent is, and they find.
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  Speaker 3: Another body, another very.
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  Speaker 1: Badly decomposed body, and its position kind of halfway in
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  Speaker 1: the tent and halfway out of the tent, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a blanket kind of partially obscuring this person's body. And
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  Speaker 1: when they move the blanket, they see this body two
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  Speaker 1: is missing its head. So Charlie and the search party
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  Speaker 1: they continue to search around the camp in hopes of
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  Speaker 1: finding the heads of these two people to try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out who they are, but they never find the heads. However,
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  Speaker 1: they do find some personal effects both in the pockets
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  Speaker 1: of these two bodies and then also inside the tent
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  Speaker 1: that would confirm these are Charlie's brothers. As for the
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  Speaker 1: third man that had been with them, Robert Weir, he
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  Speaker 1: was not at the campsite, and in fact, he would
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  Speaker 1: never actually be found officially. However, a little ways down
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  Speaker 1: the river another partial skeleton would be found several months
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  Speaker 1: later that was attributed to Robert.
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  Speaker 3: However, that was not one.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred percent confirmed to be Robert. The only other interesting
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  Speaker 1: thing that was found at this campsite was a carving
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  Speaker 1: in a nearby tree, and it just said we have
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  Speaker 1: found a fine prospect, indicating that Charlie's brothers had found gold.
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  Speaker 1: But there was no gold either on them or in
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  Speaker 1: their camp or in the river nearby.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing. There was no gold.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie and a search party would leave the valley and
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with the mounted police, who would come
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  Speaker 1: out to the site where the brothers had been found.
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  Speaker 1: They would launch an investigation, and ultimately they would come
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  Speaker 1: to the conclusion that all three of these men, the
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  Speaker 1: two brothers and Robert, had starved to death, and then
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  Speaker 1: after they had perished, animals had taken them off, which
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  Speaker 1: is why Robert was found so far away, and why
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  Speaker 1: these skulls were missing from the two brothers. Now Charlie
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  Speaker 1: did not believe that. He believed they had been attacked
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  Speaker 1: by native tribes in the area, but the police were
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  Speaker 1: not buying that. They said this was a natural thing,
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  Speaker 1: this was an accident, and so that's that. When the
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  Speaker 1: story of these two decapitated men made the news, people
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  Speaker 1: went crazy about this. People were very divided about what
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  Speaker 1: they thought really happened. There was a percentage of people
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  Speaker 1: that believed that partial skeleton that was found that was
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  Speaker 1: not Robert Weir, he had not died, He had murdered
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  Speaker 1: the two brothers, decapitated them, and then made off with
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  Speaker 1: their goal. The other percentage of people believed that all
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  Speaker 1: three men, the two brothers and Robert, had been attacked
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  Speaker 1: by a person, a group of people, an animal.
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  Speaker 3: A creature, something.
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  Speaker 1: There was some sort of attack, and that's why the
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  Speaker 1: two brothers were in those positions that indicated they had
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  Speaker 1: encountered something horrifying, with one brother reaching for the gun
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  Speaker 1: and the other appearing to have leapt from his bed
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  Speaker 1: before he ultimately died. But regardless of which side you
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  Speaker 1: fell on, pretty much everybody at the time who heard
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  Speaker 1: about the story became terrified of the Nahani Valley, specifically,
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  Speaker 1: they became terrified of that stretch in Second Canyon where
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  Speaker 1: the two brothers had been found, and so actually that
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  Speaker 1: stretch got renamed the Headless Valley, and from that point forward,
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  Speaker 1: that's all it was known as. And so even though
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  Speaker 1: there were obvious gold prospects in the Headless Valley and
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  Speaker 1: all along the South Nahani River and the Flat River,
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  Speaker 1: people after the story broke were just not prepared to
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  Speaker 1: risk going in there and potentially becoming another victim, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: so people kind of stayed away from Nahani Valley. Eight
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: years later, though, in nineteen thirteen, a gold prospector named
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Martin Jorgensen decided, you know what, I'm not gonna let
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: some scary stories about some headless men and you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: ghosts and killers on the loose. I'm not gonna let
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: any of that get in the way of me taking
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: gold out of Nahani Valley. So all on his own,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Martin makes the arduous trek inside of Nahani Valley. He
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: makes his way up Flat River, and he finally finds
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: a spot about seventy miles upstream of where Headless Valley was,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually built a one room cabin because he
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: was going to stay there through the winter, and then
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the plan was he would meet up with his partners
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the following summer, and so right after he got there,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: he set up his sluices and he started mining for gold,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and apparently he found a lot of it, because he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: sent word back to his partners outside of the valley
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: that he had made it rich, and so his partners
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: were really excited to meet up with him the following
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: summer and see how much he got because they planned
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: on going back into the valley with him that summer.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: So that summer rolls around, his partners go to the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: meting spot right outside the valley, but Martin doesn't show up,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and so as partners, they stay outside at this meeting
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: space for several days until finally, you know, when he
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't show up, they decide, you know, we have to
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: go in there and see if he is okay, because
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: at this point he should have been here. There's no excuse.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And so they end up going into the Nahani Valley.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: They make their way up Flat River and they go
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: roughly to the area where they knew he was staying
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: based on the message he had sent earlier. He had
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: described where he was staying, and they actually found his
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: cabin where I should say, they found what was left
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: of his cabin. His cabin had been completely torched, burned
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to the ground, and laying on the ground next to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the burned out cabin was the burned out remains of
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: another headless corpse, and this corpse belonged to Martin Jorgensen.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: The police did a thorough investigation, but they were never
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: able to determine what actually killed him. The police did
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not connect Martin's death with the two McLeod brothers deaths,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: even though they were all decapitated. They were in roughly
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the same area, and it happened within a few years
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of each other, and they looked very, very similar. Even
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: though that all was true, the police said, nope, these
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: are totally separate. Martin died for some reason, and then
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: animals took parts of him away, and that's why his
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: skull is missing. Martin's skull was never located, and the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: gold that Martin claimed to have struck it rich with
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was also not at the cabin, not on him. There
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: was no gold anywhere in the vicinity. When Martin's death
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: made the news, people went crazy, and despite the police
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: assuring everyone that his death was not connected to the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: McLeod brothers' deaths, even though the police were saying that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the public didn't see it that way. It was just
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: too easy to connect one decapitation with two other decapitations
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that have happened close together in a relatively short timeframe,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and so a lot of people assumed there must be
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: a killer on the loose somewhere in Nahani Valley. Seven
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: years later, in nineteen twenty one, the rumors of a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: killer on the loose were still alive and well when
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: gold prospector John O'Brien and his partner decided, you know what,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: despite the rumors of the so called killer or whatever's
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: going on in the Nahani Valley, let's go into the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Nahani Valley and try our hand.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Let's try to get some gold.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And so the two of them made their way into
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the valley and they set up camp in Headless Valley,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not far from where the McLeod brothers had been found decapitated.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: They set up their camp and they're there for a
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: couple of days.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: They're doing well, they're finding gold, and then at some
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: point John tells his partner that he's going to go
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: out and check all of their traps along the river,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and he'll be back in about eight.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Or nine days.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And so his partner waits eight or nine days and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: John doesn't come back. A couple of days after that
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: goes by, and now John's pass due, and so the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: partner decides he has to go out looking for him.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And so there was another gold prospector in the area,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and so this partner contacted him, and the two of
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: them went to the river and began walking upstream until
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: they found John.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: And he had frozen to death. But it was very
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: interesting the way he was positioned. He was sitting in
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: front of this obviously previous lit campfire. He wasn't hunched over,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: he didn't look like he was in pain. He looked
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: like he was just enjoying the fire. There was nothing
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: on his face that indicated discomfort or pain or fear.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: He was even holding the matchbook in his hand.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It was like he was just sitting there and enjoying
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the fire when something caused him to suddenly freeze.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: In fact, witnesses would.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Say John looked like he had been flash frozen, as
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: if it had happened in a matter of seconds, because
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it didn't look like he had reacted properly to freezing
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to death, and the police when they came out, they
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: would say, you know, this is odd, this is odd
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the way he's positioned. But ultimately he died because he
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: froze to death, and so there's no foul play here
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and so no further investigation is needed. Five years later,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty six, a hunting party that included a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: young woman named Annie Lafferty was camping out along the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: flat river inside of Headless Valley, and so that night
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: they're all kind of joking around the fire, and then
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: at some point they decide to all go to sleep,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and then the next day when everybody gets up, Annie
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is no longer in camp, and there's no sign of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: where she went, and so they begin by yelling out
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and walking around the immediate vicinity to see maybe if
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: she stepped away for a minute.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: But Annie's just gone and no one knows where she went.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So the hunting party spends the rest of the day
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: looking for Annie, but there's no sign of her.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: They ultimately leave the valley, they tell police.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Police come out. There's this huge search, but Annie's never found.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Several months later, a man named Charlie, who happened to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: have been out near Flat River, near this hunting party
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: when they were out there. But Charlie himself was not
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: in the hunting party. He didn't know Annie. He was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: just in the vicinity. He overheard someone talking about a
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: member of that hunting party, specifically a woman going missing,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and when he heard that, he knew he had to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: tell police what he had seen that night out near
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Flat River. So he goes to police and he explains
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that that night, when he knew there was this hunting
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: party over there, he could hear them.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He knew they were over there, he said. At some
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: point he went to bed and then he woke up
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: when he heard the sound.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Of rocks falling into the river in front of him.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: He was sleeping along the river's edge. So he sits
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: up and he looks out across the river. It's totally dark,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: but there's some moonlight, and he's kind of looking around
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: wondering what's causing the sound, but he can't see it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And then he hears it again and he can tell
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's off to his left. And these are not huge rocks.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: These are like medium to small sized rocks, like rocks
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you could just pick up and throw. And so he's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: looking and all of a sudden, he sees, maybe a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: couple hundred yards away, through some sparse trees, he sees
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a naked.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Woman, a white naked woman, running on all fours up
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: this mountain side.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And as she's running up the mountainside, her feet in
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: her hands are knocking little rocks into the river down below.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: She's right on the edge of this cliff.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And as she's running up this hill, she stops and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: she turns, and he gets a good look at her face,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and Charlie would say he was so taken aback by
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: her face. It looked like she was possessed. There was
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: something wrong with her face. And so Charlie instinctively ducked
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: down and chose not to follow her, even though he
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: knew anybody running naked anywhere in the wilds is doomed,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: but he felt like he could not go near this woman.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: There was something wrong with this woman. And so the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: police they take this story down and they say, hey,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you know, this is what Annie looked like. And Charlie
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: would say, I mean, I think that's her. I think
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that matches her description. And so universally it's believed this
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: woman galloping up this hillside in the middle of the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: night naked was Annie. The police ultimately would not investigate
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Annie's disappearance any further because at the time Charlie was
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: telling them this piece of information, she had already been
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: gone for.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Months, and the assumption was she was dead.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Four years later, in nineteen thirty one, another gold prospector
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: decides to try their luck in Headless Valley.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: A man named Phil powers. He makes his way into
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the valley, he.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Finds a spot off a flat river, He builds a cabin,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and then shortly thereafter his cabin burns to the ground
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: with him inside of it. Now, his skeleton was intact,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: but the strange thing about his death is based on
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the origin of the fire, which would have been on
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the roof. He should have had an opportunity to climb
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: out of the cabin before it burned down, giving rise
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to the theory that he was actually dead before the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: fire started. However, the police said this was an accident
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: caused by Phil doing something with the stove pipe that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: led to a catching a fire, and this was just
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: all one big accident. But the vast majority of people
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that have followed along to this point with all of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: these strange deaths, they were just not buying it. Five
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: years later, in nineteen thirty six, two more gold prospectors,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: William Epler and Joseph Mulholland, they entered the Headless Valley
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to try their luck, and shortly after arriving and getting
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: set up, they went missing. A search party came out
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to look for them, and they found their cabin, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: just like Phil Powers, it had burned to the ground,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But William and Joseph.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Were not in the ashes, they were not anywhere nearby.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: In fact, they were never found.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: No one has any idea what happened to them, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: no one knows what caused the fire. Nine years later,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in nineteen forty five, yet another gold prospector named Ernest
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Savard entered the Headless Valley to go looking for gold,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and then when he did not leave the valley for
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: an intended rendezvous with some of his partners, his partners
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: went looking for him, and they would find him inside
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of a sleeping bag, laying down decapitated, right along the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: flat river inside of the Headless Valley, and so the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: police would come out. They would do an investigation, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: they would call this an accident where he starved to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: death or he died of hypothermia, and then after he
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: was dead, animals must have come in and removed his skull,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and that's why we can't find it. And so the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: police did not, at least not publicly connect his death
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to all of the other decapitations in that small area.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: One year later, in nineteen forty six, another gold miner
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: named John Patterson went into Headless Valley and he went missing,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and so the search party went in looking for him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And John would never be found.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But on one of the last nights that the search
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: party was in the Headless Valley, they were camping out
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: near Flat River. Some native tribespeople came into their camp
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and they warned them about some white figures that were
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: walking around the valley that night. They're down near the river,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they're out in the forest, they're kind of all around here,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and so you really need to be careful.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: You don't want them to see you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: And then these tribes people just left, and so the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: search party is absolutely horrified. They know about the rumors
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of this place. They're out here looking for someone that's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: gone missing in this place, and all night all they
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: hear are distant howls and screams that they hadn't heard
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: in the previous nights. They're hearing these whaling sounds coming
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: from all around them, like these things that are out
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: there were intentionally trying to scare them to get them
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to leave.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: It felt like they were not supposed to be there.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: The next day, first thing, when they got up and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: they left, the leader of that search party would say
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: he just felt like the whole valley was totally sinister,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and that constant whaling.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: They heard the night before. He said he will never forget.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: From the mid nineteen forties onward, there have been far
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: less strange incidents reported inside of Nahani Valley, but one
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: could have trip give you that to the fact that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: far less people have been going into Nahani Valley ever
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: since the nineteen forties, and in recent times, huge segments
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of the park have been permanently closed. The park has
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: said the reason they're doing that is to protect that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: segment of the park, but other people have speculated that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: at least part of the reason why they're closing these segments,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: many of which are right near the Headless Valley, is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: because they're trying to protect people from getting anywhere near
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that's lurking inside of that park. But regardless,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: it is still a fact that over the last century
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: there have.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Been dozens and dozens and dozens.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Of people that have either gone missing or who have
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: died under very mysterious circumstances inside of this valley.
• 27:44
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• 27:47
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