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This bus will claim your soul Campfire Stories with MrBallen - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to the official Mister Ball and
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  Speaker 1: Campfire Tonight. I have two awesome stories to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: They are both of the strange variety. In both stories,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a tragedy, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not the tragedy that is the reason we remember these things.
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  Speaker 1: We remember these events, or we still talk about these
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  Speaker 1: events because in both stories there are elements that just
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  Speaker 1: nobody can fully explain. There are truly unexplained phenomena that
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  Speaker 1: are fascinating, that are terrifying, and I know you're going
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  Speaker 1: Just before ten am on November fourteenth, nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen year old man named Jeong ran down a
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  Speaker 1: dark street toward a bus stop on the outskirts of Beijing,
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  Speaker 1: which is the capital city of China. Xiong, who worked
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  Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant, had gotten off work late
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  Speaker 1: and so now he had to catch this bus because
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  Speaker 1: it was the last one out of the area, and
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  Speaker 1: if he missed it, he'd be stranded. So this area
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  Speaker 1: where Jeong worked was actually a pretty historic district in Beijing.
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  Speaker 1: It was home to several old palaces and shrines that
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  Speaker 1: were built at the foot of this mountain called bai
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  Speaker 1: Wang Mountain, and so this area was sort of like
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  Speaker 1: a popular tourist area, and so during the day it
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  Speaker 1: was very busy there was lots of cabs coming in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the area, but at night it was
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  Speaker 1: basically deserted and no cabs came through here. So again,
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  Speaker 1: the bus really was his only shot of getting out here.
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  Speaker 1: Us he wanted to walk on foot and that was
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  Speaker 1: just not practical, and so Jean continued running along until
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  Speaker 1: he turned the corner and up ahead he saw the
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  Speaker 1: bus stop, and he didn't see the bus. It was
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  Speaker 1: just basically a deserted street. But standing near the bus
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  Speaker 1: stop was this old woman and it appeared like she
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for the bus, which suggested to Jeong that
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  Speaker 1: he had not missed the final bus, because clearly she
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for it too, unless she also missed it perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seemed like she hadn't, and so Jeong,
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  Speaker 1: who by this point is like kind of about a breath,
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  Speaker 1: he stopped running and he walked the last distance up
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  Speaker 1: to the bus stop where this woman was, and as
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  Speaker 1: he approached her, she kind of turned and looked at him, like,
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  Speaker 1: who are you? You know, it's late at night, she's
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  Speaker 1: all alone, you know, it's just kind of weird. But
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  Speaker 1: she looked at him, and he kind of just smiled
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  Speaker 1: at her to signal like I'm no threat, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here for the bus too. And then before
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  Speaker 1: the two could even talk, Jean heard the sound of
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  Speaker 1: a bus approaching, and he turned and here comes bus
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  Speaker 1: three seventy five came to a stop. The old woman
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  Speaker 1: climbed on, and Jeng followed up right after her. A
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  Speaker 1: moment later, Jeong was inside the bus. The doors had
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  Speaker 1: closed behind him, the driver had taken off from the curb.
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  Speaker 1: Jeong had had paid the ticket seller, who was separate
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  Speaker 1: from the driver, sitting in sort of the front right seat,
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  Speaker 1: and the woman who had been in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: she also had paid. She had sat down in the
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  Speaker 1: row right next to the ticket seller, right behind the
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  Speaker 1: driver and Jong. Even though the whole bus was empty.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else is on here except for these three people.
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  Speaker 1: He just sat down right behind.
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  Speaker 2: The old woman. So he takes his seat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're driving down the road, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's late at night, he's tired, he's had a long shift,
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  Speaker 1: and so for a little while, Jong just looked out
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  Speaker 1: the window and watched all the you know, Imperial gardens
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  Speaker 1: and the shrines and all the various landmarks that drew
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  Speaker 1: people to the area. You know, this was again sort
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  Speaker 1: of a touristy area. He's just watching it all pass by.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's late, it's dark, he can't see much
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  Speaker 1: out there. But eventually, you know, relatively soon after they
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  Speaker 1: had started, they passed by sort of all the touristy
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  Speaker 1: stuff and they entered into this this stretch of road
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  Speaker 1: that Jean was very familiar with. He took Bus three
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  Speaker 1: seventy five home all the time that this stretch was
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  Speaker 1: very desolate. There was no more buildings, no more anything.
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  Speaker 1: It was just kind of forest and wild on either
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  Speaker 1: side of the road. And so as a result, at night,
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  Speaker 1: driving this desolate stretch was.
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  Speaker 2: Very very dark. There was just literally no lights.
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  Speaker 1: And so once they were in this this sort of
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  Speaker 1: desolate stretch. Jong found himself just kind of leaning back
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  Speaker 1: and closing his eyes because it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a ride before he'd get to his stop and
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  Speaker 1: get off the bus, and so he just closed his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and he's trying to kind of nod off, and
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  Speaker 1: they're driving for a little while, and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt himself beginning to fall asleep when suddenly he felt
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  Speaker 1: the bus start to slow down. Now there was no
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  Speaker 1: indication within the bus that anything had happened. Jong knew
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  Speaker 1: that it was way too early to be at the
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  Speaker 1: next bus stop, and so immediately he opened his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and he's just kind of looking around for some queue
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  Speaker 1: from the driver or the ticket seller or even this woman,
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  Speaker 1: like what was going on here. But then the bus
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  Speaker 1: came to a full set and it's so dark outside
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  Speaker 1: that Jong like literally can't see what's going on out there,
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  Speaker 1: and no one's saying anything, and the driver just kind
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  Speaker 1: of inexplicably gets up from his seat and he walks
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  Speaker 1: out of the bus like he exits the bus, which
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  Speaker 1: was odd, like there's no clear reason for this, and
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  Speaker 1: so Jeong, the woman, even the ticket seller, they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of just like peering out the window out the front
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  Speaker 1: window of the bus to see what's going on. But
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  Speaker 1: given how dark it was outside and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there was really only light inside the bus, it had
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  Speaker 1: the effect of just kind of making all the interior
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  Speaker 1: glass of the bus be sort of reflective, like really
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  Speaker 1: difficult to look out. Imagine sitting inside of a dark
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  Speaker 1: room with a light and being surrounded by glass, it'd
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  Speaker 1: be impossible to look out it. All you would see
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  Speaker 1: was like a mirror effect all around you. And so
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, Jeong and the others are just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like wondering what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: What did the driver see?
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  Speaker 1: And then Jeong heard something outside the bus that sounded
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  Speaker 1: like people talking, or maybe thought it was people talking,
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  Speaker 1: And so he pressed his face up to the glass
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  Speaker 1: and put his hands up to it to see if
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  Speaker 1: he could cut through that sort of mirror effect to
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  Speaker 1: see what was going on out there.
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  Speaker 2: And at first it was just darkness. He couldn't see anything, but.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually his eyes adjusted and on his side of the
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  Speaker 1: bus on the road, the driver clearly was interacting with
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  Speaker 1: what looked like multiple people, like two, maybe even three
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  Speaker 1: people that are down there there didn't appear to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, any other vehicle, like it just wasn't clear
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, but there was definitely people outside of
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  Speaker 1: the bus, and so Jeong and the others, no one's talking.
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  Speaker 1: They're all just kind of trying to make sense of
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. And then before anybody could ask any questions,
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  Speaker 1: the driver comes back on the bus, sits down in
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  Speaker 1: the driver's seat, and then behind him come these three
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  Speaker 1: new people who presumably were the same people the driver
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  Speaker 1: was speaking to outside the bus. They also are likely
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  Speaker 1: the reason the driver stopped in the first place, although
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  Speaker 1: again it's it's very unclear why they stopped in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, like there's no reason to be stopping here.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Jeong at this point just wants to
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  Speaker 1: get he doesn't really care. But these three people they
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  Speaker 1: come on board the bus, and immediately Jeong and the
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  Speaker 1: woman and the ticket seller they're all looking at them,
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  Speaker 1: like what's going on here. So there were three men
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  Speaker 1: and they were all wearing these these traditional silk robes.
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  Speaker 1: There were two in blue and there was one in red,
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  Speaker 1: and the two men in blue were like physically holding
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  Speaker 1: up the third man in red, almost like he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: stand on his own, like a picture somebody who was
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  Speaker 1: like really intoxicated, like he couldn't quite stand. But immediately
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  Speaker 1: Jean clocked that this guy didn't look drunk or something.
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  Speaker 1: He looked hurt, like he was covered in mud and
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  Speaker 1: like grime, as if he had been like rolling around
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  Speaker 1: on the ground or something, or you know, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: had fallen or whatever. Like it wasn't clear, but something
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  Speaker 1: happened to this guy. And the two guys in blue,
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  Speaker 1: who their robes are pristine, they're they're holding this guy
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  Speaker 1: up and they kind of, you know, bring him into
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  Speaker 1: the bus and then without saying anything to these people
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  Speaker 1: on the bus, they just kind of dragged this man,
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  Speaker 1: who was conscious but again barely able to stand down
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  Speaker 1: the aisle past. Jeong passed the others to the back
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  Speaker 1: of the bus where they took their seat, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was like nobody said anything. You know, the driver
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  Speaker 1: didn't acknowledge how bizarre this whole thing was. He just
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  Speaker 1: pulled away and started driving. And then before long it's
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  Speaker 1: like Jeong is just sitting there really unclear, like what's
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  Speaker 1: even happening. But as they're driving along, he just felt
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  Speaker 1: so uncomfortable. The woman right in front of him, she
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  Speaker 1: had gone you know back to looking straight ahead, She's
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  Speaker 1: not paying attention to what's happening behind her.
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  Speaker 2: Same with a ticket seller. But Jong, he just felt
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  Speaker 2: really uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: And specifically what he felt was it just seemed like
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  Speaker 1: the three guys in.
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  Speaker 2: The back, the silk Robe guys.
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  Speaker 1: One they were completely silent, eerily silent, and two it
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  Speaker 1: just felt like Jeang. It was almost like he could
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  Speaker 1: feel them staring at him. Not just looking straight ahead
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  Speaker 1: towards the front of the bus, but it was like
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  Speaker 1: they were looking at him.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a primal sense that Jean had.
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  Speaker 1: And the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: he became, and frankly, the more fearful he became. Like
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  Speaker 1: it was like every little noise behind him was like
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  Speaker 1: confirmation that they were like looking at him, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: moving up the aisle to get closer to him.
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  Speaker 2: But he just he.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't bring himself to turn around and look. It was
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  Speaker 1: like he was terrified of what he was going to
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  Speaker 1: see behind him, and so he just he.
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  Speaker 2: Just stayed glued to a seat, rigidly looking straight ahead.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it was like this whole ride, he's just
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  Speaker 2: like they're staring at me. Something is off, like what's
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  Speaker 2: going on with these guys?
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  Speaker 1: And it went on and on for like ten fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes of just this really tense ride. But despite how
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  Speaker 1: sort of awful this ride had become, even though he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't fully articulate exactly why it was just so uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: despite all that, Jean is thinking, you know, any minute now,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get to my stop, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 1: off the stupid bus and this is gonna be over
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  Speaker 1: and done with and I'll forget all about this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But before they reached.
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  Speaker 1: His stop, while they're still in this sort of isolated
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  Speaker 1: part of the ride where it's very dark outside, Jong,
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  Speaker 1: who again is just sort of glued, you know, looking
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead, he notices the woman, the woman right in
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  Speaker 1: front of him, who this whole time has seemingly completely
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  Speaker 1: forgot about the guys behind her, Like she's just looking
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead, no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: She just all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: Turns around and looks towards the back of the bus.
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  Speaker 1: Just one fluid motion, she just turned and looked. And Jong,
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  Speaker 1: he's staring at the woman as she does this, and
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  Speaker 1: he watches as her face goes from you know, curious
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  Speaker 1: and just sort of normal to her eyes going wide,
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  Speaker 1: and she stands up and she just starts screaming and
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  Speaker 1: pointing towards the back of the bus. And then before
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  Speaker 1: Jong can turn around himself, and he's still too scared
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  Speaker 1: to even look, he feels something smack into the side
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  Speaker 1: of his head.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's like disoriented. It hits him again and again,
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  Speaker 2: and he realizes it's the woman who's screaming.
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  Speaker 1: At whatever's happening in the back of the bus, and
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  Speaker 1: she's hitting him over and over again with her purse
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  Speaker 1: and she's yelling something, and Jeong's like, what is going on.
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  Speaker 2: He's realizing she's screaming thief at Jeong. She's hitting him
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  Speaker 2: in the head, screaming thief. Jong's he's got no clue why.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't know why she's yelling at whatever's happening in
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  Speaker 2: the back. And before long, the bus driver just stops
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  Speaker 2: the bus.
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  Speaker 1: And without even asking what's going on, he just looks
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  Speaker 1: at Jeong and just gestures get off the bus, as
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  Speaker 1: if Jong is like the central issue on this bus,
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  Speaker 1: not the strange people we've picked up twenty minutes ago,
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  Speaker 1: that no one has any explanation for, no explanation for
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  Speaker 1: why this woman is screaming about whatever they're doing back there.
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  Speaker 2: The bus driver has just decided that Jeong is.
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  Speaker 1: The issue, and Jong at this point does just want
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  Speaker 1: to get off the bus.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to be here, and so.
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  Speaker 1: Without even looking at the back, he just got up,
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  Speaker 1: no questions asked, breathe past the woman who's still hitting
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  Speaker 1: him with her bag, and out the door he goes.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: He knew he had a long walk home, but anything
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  Speaker 1: was better than being in that bus.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Once Jong actually.
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  Speaker 1: Got off the bus, he realized he actually was not
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  Speaker 1: in as bad of a spot as he could have been.
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  Speaker 1: Like he expected to get off and basically be in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere because he knew they were in
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  Speaker 1: this sort of isolated area, But when he got off,
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  Speaker 1: he realized they had sort of just came to the
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  Speaker 1: end of that isolated section and so pretty nearby he
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  Speaker 1: could see a neighborhood, which meant he actually was.
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  Speaker 2: Not that far away from his home.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's thinking, Okay, I got a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a walk, but again, thank goodness, I'm not on that bus.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even want to.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what's happening on that crazy bus. Like, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just out of there. And so Jeong he just
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  Speaker 1: starts walking towards his home and he's making his way
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  Speaker 1: when he hears something behind him and he immediately stops
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  Speaker 1: because think about think about how how traumatic whatever just
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  Speaker 1: happened was for him. He can't process what's happened. It's
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  Speaker 1: this totally crazy, inexplicable thing. He's on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road now, like he's on edge, and so he
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  Speaker 1: hears something behind him and he just stops.
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  Speaker 2: And this time, I'm like on the bus.
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  Speaker 1: He does turn around to see what's going on, and
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  Speaker 1: he turns and he sees he's not alone. Standing behind
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  Speaker 1: him on the sidewalk is the old woman and she's
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  Speaker 1: staring right at him, and so Jeong he's looking at her,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately he clocks that like something's different about her.
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  Speaker 1: On the bus, that expression she had on her face
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  Speaker 1: when she screamed at whatever was in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the bus and then began hitting him with her purse,
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  Speaker 1: that expression she had was like fear and paranoia and
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  Speaker 1: even anger.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he saw on her face.
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  Speaker 1: But now she's like smiling and she's looking at him
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  Speaker 1: with this almost like I'm sorry look on her face
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  Speaker 1: like a I please, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about what just happened. Like it was she was signaling
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  Speaker 1: to him like we need to talk. And so picking
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  Speaker 1: up on that, Jeong like he wanted to just go
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: over to her and be like what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like why did you do that to me?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't take anything from you, like he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: yell at her, but again there was just that look
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  Speaker 1: on that said like I gotta go talk to this woman.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jeong he turns and he walks to this
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  Speaker 1: woman and he says to her like what happened on there?
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  Speaker 1: Like what's going on? Like what did you see? Why
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  Speaker 1: did you what happened? And she looked at him and
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  Speaker 1: she was like, I have to tell you a secret.
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  Speaker 1: So that night, unbeknownst to Jeong and very likely unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to this woman, this bus they were on, Bus three
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  Speaker 1: seventy five. After they got off, it would take off
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  Speaker 1: and drive off with its strange occupants on board, and
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, the bus would vanish.
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  Speaker 2: It would just go missing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knew where it went, and then three days later
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  Speaker 1: it was found crashed in a reservoir sixty miles north
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  Speaker 1: of where Jeong and this woman had gotten off, and
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  Speaker 1: on board the bus were three dead bodies.
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  Speaker 2: It was the driver, the.
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  Speaker 1: Ticket seller, and then also the man wearing red, the
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  Speaker 1: guy who was needing to be propped up by the
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  Speaker 1: other two men in blue. Now, authorities made no mention
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  Speaker 1: of the the men in blue. It was just these
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: three people were found on board the bus. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: was determined that all three of them had died from
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: a broken neck, and so the running assumption was the
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: crash itself caused them to break their necks and that's
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  Speaker 1: what killed them. But there was a very strange determination
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: about the condition of the bodies. So the occupants on
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: board the bus presumably died within seventy two hours, because
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: that's the timeframe they were missing and when they were
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: found dead. But it was determined that their bodies were
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: so decomposed they likely had been dead for months. The
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  Speaker 1: secret that the old woman told Jong was that when
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: she turned around on the bus and she looked to
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  Speaker 1: the back and she saw the men. She said, the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: men in blue were staring at Jeong with just a
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: look of pure evil on their face. She was like,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't right, these were evil spirits and
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: they were after Joan. It was like she instinctively just
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: knew it. She didn't know why, she just knew it,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: and almost like reflexively, she began screaming. And then it
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: was like this thought crossed her mind that she needed
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: to save Jeong and the first thing she thought to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: do was accuse him of being a thief so the
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: bus driver would stop and kick him off the bus.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And so she put on this performance hitting him, calling
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: him a thief, basically to save him, to get him
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: off the bus away from what she thought were literally
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: evil spirits.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And so think about this.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: She's telling Jong this on the side of the road.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: They're in the middle of nowhere, their ride is pulling away.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Jong wasn't like, oh boy, thank you so much for
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: saving me from the evil spirits on the bus. He's like, okay, okay,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I get it now. I guess I appreciate it. And
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: then the two of them just took off on.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Their merry way.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It wasn't until three days later that Jeong realized whatever
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: caused her to have that reaction literally saved and who
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: knows who the men in blue were, because something happened
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: on that bus, something caused it to vanish and then
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: crash into the reservoir and everybody dies on board with
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: their necks broken and their bodies decomposed more than they
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: should be. Like, none of that makes any sense, But
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: all Jeong knows is because of that woman, he was
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: still alive. And so Jong is like a mix between
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: terrified that he was involved in this, but also so
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: thankful that this woman saved his life. But what he
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: did when he put it all together, when he found
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: out about this bus and you know what happened on board,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: you know, the dead bodies and all that, he went
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: to the authorities and he said there were two other
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: people on the bus that were acting so weird, the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: men in blue, you know, the ones the woman basically
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: warned him about being these evil spirits, and he told
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the authorities. And you know, whether or not they bought
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the evil spirit line didn't really matter. What they're being
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: told is there were two people acting strange on the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: bus before this all happened. And they went out and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: they looked for the two men in blue, and they
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: never found.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: H No one has any idea who they were.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And so to this day, all the locals all say
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to never take the last bus ride along Route three
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: seventy five. On a fall afternoon in eighteen eighty seven,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a man named Jean Wilson rode his horse next to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the Platte River in Wyoming, hurting some cattle that were
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: grazing there.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Next to him was Jean's dog.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Who was running along dutifully right behind him and sort
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of nipping at the cow's heels to keep them in line.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: So Jean was a ranch hand, and he worked for
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a ranch in the town of Casper, which was about
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: maybe ten miles away from where he was right now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And part of Jean's responsibilities was going out and finding
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: lost cattle that wandered too far from the ranch and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: hurting them back to the pasture. So on this particular day,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the weather was perfect, it's sunny, it's beautiful, you know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And generally Jane actually really enjoyed this aspect of his job.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: He liked being out here.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But today, even though he should have been like, this
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: is a great day, he just felt really, really tired.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: He had worked many, many hours up until this point,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and he really just wanted to be done then head
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: back home to where he lived with his wife.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: They had this little.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: House that was sort of tucked away in the secluded
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: area in this valley, surrounded by hills.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It was like his oasis.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Jean and his wife were like absolute best friends, like
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the very best part of his day. Even on days
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: where he went out and enjoyed his job, still the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: best part of his day was always returning home and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: just catching up with his wife over dinner. That was
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: like the thing he looked forward to the most. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: so right now it was like he craved just being
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: home and being with his wife.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: He could not wait.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But Jane, you know, he was a diligent guy, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: he just continued doing his job. You know, he's trotting
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: along the river, he's hurting the cows, and at some point,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: as he's sort of at this point mindlessly doing his
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: job because again he doesn't want to be here anymore,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he looks down and he notices his dog is no
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: longer next to him.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: His dog was always right next to.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Him, you know, helping, you know, doing the hurting, and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: his dog's not there. And so he stopped and he
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: began looking around. And that's when he realized that maybe
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: because he was becoming so mindless doing this job today
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that this huge amount of mist had sort of rolled
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: out over the Platte River, like he hadn't noticed that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: there was just all this mist.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: And as he's looking out seeing this.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Massive cloud of mist, he noticed his dog and his
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: dog was actually kind of going nuts. The dog had
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: broken off and run to the edge of the Platte
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: River and it was sort of like barking like mad,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and it had been for some time.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: It was like Jeane just hadn't noticed it. And so
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: he's seeing the mist and he's seeing his dog, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: he's like, what's going on over here? He can't see
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: anything on the river.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: This is a usually pretty well traveled river, but there
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: hadn't been any traffic, no boats are in and so
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's a quiet day.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: But it's like he can't see anything out on the river.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The dog is just going crazy, and so Jeane's like,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: what what's going on?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: What's out over there?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And this is also like very unusual behavior for his dog,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Like his dog was very well trained. This is an
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: odd thing for it to be doing. But you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Jeane's thinking, there's got to be a good reason for it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: The dog wouldn't do this for no reason, and so Jeane.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: He lets the cattle just continue making their way along
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the river, but he on his horse. He turns and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: begins making his way over to the dog, who again
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: is sort of stationary by the river's edge, barking and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: looking out at something in the middle of this mist presumably. However,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: as Jean trotted his way towards the dog, the horse
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: began to react to something. Jean's horse began to like
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: react to something that Jeanne couldn't even see. It started
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to get really scared. It was winnying and sort of
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: unwilling to go any further. And then finally, when Jeane
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: really tried to get the horse to carry on here,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the horse actually reared onto its back legs and almost
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: kicked Jeane off of it. Jeane managed to hold on,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and when the horse came back down on all fours,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: he just calmed the horse down and brought it over
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to a nearby tree. The whole time, the dog is
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: still barking like crazy, looking at something out.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Over the water, And so now Jean's like, what is
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: going on here?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: He gets off his horse and he ties it to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a tree, and then on foot, he walks.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Over to his dog. And so he walks over to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: his dog.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: His dog's you know, yeaping and barking, And as soon
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: as Gene is next to his dog, his dog stops barking,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: but it continues to be really fixated on the water,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: which again is like utterly covered by mist. He can't
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: see anything out on the water. It's quiet, like eerily quiet,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you know. The mist is almost obscuring the sunlight at
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: this point, like they it's almost like they're inside of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a cloud and it's just him and his dog. The
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: dog is fixated on something, and Jean's looking out over
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the water, and then all.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Of a sudden, it was like the mist began to.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Part, and this enormous, like way bigger than he had
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: ever seen in the Platte River, this huge wooden ship
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: suddenly comes into view.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And so right away Jeane is sort of baffled by
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the ship number one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It seemed fairly obvious that this is the thing that
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: his dog was sparking at, and it might have been
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the same thing that the horse was reacting to. But
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Jean's like, why there are ships that go up and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: down this river all the time. The dog, the horse,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they don't react this way to any of those ships,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: so what's that about. But more than that, this ship
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: really was just enormous, like looked out of place. It
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was so big, and this is this is not a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: particularly deep river, and so Jean's like, how how is
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: this big of a ship here? And so Jean's almost
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like fascinated with what he's looking at, you know, he's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: sort of not really worried about the dog anymore, or
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the horse or even his cattle. He's just he's looking
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at the ship, wondering what the heck it's doing here,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Like who's whose ship is this? And so Jane continues
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to watch as the ship, you know, continues just slowly
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: making its way down plat Rim, and as he's staring
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: at it again just sort of fascinated by it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: He counts nine.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Sailors on the deck, moving around doing something on the deck.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But what they were doing on the deck just wasn't
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: immediately clear. They weren't doing sort of obvious sailor things.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: They were clearly working on something in unison on the deck.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: There was something they were doing altogether, Like there was
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: this apparent huge tarp almost that sat in the middle
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of the deck of the ship, and they were sort
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of moving it around, and it appeared like there was
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: something underneath it, but you know, Jeane couldn't see it,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and he was too far away to make out what
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it could be. And so Gene is just he's staring
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: at this this this crew.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: He's looking at the ship.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, all nine of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: sailors on board the ship, almost like a unison, just
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: stop what they were doing, and they turned and they
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: all at the exact same time just stared directly at Gene.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: And it sort of like disarmed Jane. Like he was really,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you know, staring intently at them.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: It was sort of it was like alarming to have
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: them all be looking at him all at once, and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: so he's sort of taken it back and he's looking
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: out at them like.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Are they looking at me? What did I do? What's
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: what's going on here?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And then all at once, these nine people they go
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: back to what they're doing and they begin to lift
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: up this tarp right, so they're revealing what's underneath it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And now, you know, Gene, he's both terrified and sort
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of confused, and it's still just fascinated, and he's he's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: looking out like what are they going to reveal? Like
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this is so weird? And the tarp comes up, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: at first all Gene could see was like this weird mound,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: like a black mound sitting on the deck of the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: ship that was underneath this tarp. But as he continued
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: to stare, he suddenly realized what he was looking at
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it couldn't be possible, Like, how how could that be
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: out like that?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense to me? And he was horrified.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He was he was scared, and he's thinking like, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: don't even know what to do, And all of a sudden,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he grabs his dog. He runs back to his horse,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and he thinks, I have to get home. I have
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to get home right now, and so on his horse
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: he goes. He just gets his dog, he abandons the cattle.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: From what he's seen, he doesn't even care. He has
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to make sure that everything back home is okay, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: he takes off. He starts galloping as fast as he
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: can back in the direction of that quaint little home
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: he's got down in the hillside, and so over an
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: hour of riding basically at full tilt, he finally crusts
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the hill and by this point he's tried to convince
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: himself that what he saw on.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Board that ship could not have been a real thing.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But he goes up the hill that looks.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Down into the valley where he would normally first see
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: his home. Except when he looked down into the valley,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: his home wasn't there anymore. His home was just the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: smoldering black ruin. The home had burned down, apparently in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the last few hours while he was gone, And so
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Gene is a mixture of horrified but also weirdly not surprised,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and he blazes down the hill. He gets to his
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: what remains of his home, and he sees that's not
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: all he sees. There is a black mound that looked
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: just like the mound he saw on board that ship,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that is laying on the ground not far from where
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: his house was, And it's the body of his wife.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: That's what he saw out on the ship. He saw
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the dead body of his wife, burned and destroyed, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it was definitely her. He could he could make her
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out from here. It scared him so bad he went
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: back to check. And now he's seeing it in real
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: life now. Of course, for all you folks who are
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: hearing the story, you're gonna think, come on, like this
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: happened in the eighteen hundreds, Like how much of this
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: is really true? What he looked out and he saw
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a ghost ship appear with you know, a premonition or
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a vision of his wife who he's gonna find dead.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Sure, right, well listen to this.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So, after Jane finds his dead wife, you know, he
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: has this incredible story about how he sort of knew
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about it beforehand by seeing this ghost ship, if you will.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And so he went and told people.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: He told a lot of people about what happened, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: eventually a few years later his story found its way
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to a journalist named Vincent Gaddis, And Vincent Gaddis happened
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to have done all this extensive reporting about the infamous
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Bermuda Triangle, which is just off the coast of Bermuda.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: There's this section of the ocean.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Where all this very strange activity has been reported over many,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: many years, Like stuff that is basically paranormal in nature
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: consistently is reported in this part of the world. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: so he had done a lot of research on the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Bermuda Triangle, and so he's primed to hear stories like
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Geene's story and take them seriously.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And so when he heard.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: About Jene's story, he began looking into it, and Vincent
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: pretty much immediately discovered that there was absolutely no record
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of this enormous ship being on the Platte River. In fact,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: as Vincent found, it would have been impossible for a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: ship of that size as Jane described, you know, this
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: one hundred foot ship being able to travel on the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Platte River. It was too shallow, so there was no record,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and it really just it seemed impossible. And so the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: way Vincent responded to this is Okay, well, clearly, Jean
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: is a man who's been racked by guilt and shame.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: He feels probably like he somehow let his wife down
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: by going out that day and she winds up dying
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in this fire. And so this is a man who's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: just dealing with grief, and it's his grief that has
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: somehow created this story in his mind to explain what
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: happened to his wife. You know, it seems crazy, but
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: people do crazy things when they are really deeply affected
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: by grief. However, many years later, that same journalist wound
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: up finding out that actually Jane was not the only
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: person who had a story like this. He discovered that
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: apparently twenty five years before Jean's story, and then sixteen
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: years after Jean's story, there were these two other people
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: who specifically reported seeing this enormous ship on the Platte
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: River that apparently had the dead body of one of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: their loved ones on board, and like all the sailors
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: are looking out at them and they're like showing them
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: this dead body. But that person that they're seeing was
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: alive as far as these people thought. But then when
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: they went home, they discovered that their loved ones were
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: in fact dead.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It was the same as Jane's story.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: In the years since these sightings, this ship has become
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: known as the Death Ship, and it's widely considered to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: be a death omen both in the Platte River valley
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and also throughout Wyoming. All right, thank you all so
• 30:53
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• 30:56
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