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Did this hiker find a PORTAL to another dimension - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In South China, there is this one hundred kilometer long
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Speaker 1: wilderness trail called the MacLehose Trail, and at first glance,
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Speaker 1: it just seems like a pretty normal, beautiful hiking trail
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Speaker 1: until you begin to research what other hikers have said
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Speaker 1: about what they experienced out on that trail. Let's just
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Speaker 1: say some of their experiences are genuinely terrifying, and today
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you one of those experiences. It's
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Speaker 1: about this man who goes solo hiking out on the
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Speaker 1: MacLehose Trail and he comes in contact with something that
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Speaker 1: neither he nor anybody else can explain. But before we
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Speaker 1: into today's story on the morning of June eighteenth, twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: a forty five year old hiker named Jong Hun Pung
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Speaker 1: stood at the entrance to the famous Maclahose Wilderness trail
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Speaker 1: in southern China. He reached into his backpack, pulled out
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Speaker 1: his phone, aimed it at the trail, and took a photo. Now,
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Speaker 1: this trail was very beautiful, which is why he was
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Speaker 1: taking a photo of it, but it also had a
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Speaker 1: reputation for being a very dangerous trail. It was located
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Speaker 1: in an area called the Sai Kung Peninsula, and the
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Speaker 1: trail itself was about one hundred kilometers long or sixty
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Speaker 1: two miles, and it went through forests and mountains and streams,
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Speaker 1: and the weather along this trail was very unpredictable, with
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Speaker 1: sudden storms rolling in and just wreaking havoc. But Jeong
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Speaker 1: was feeling very confident about this hike because he himself
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Speaker 1: was an experienced hiker. While he maybe hadn't done this
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Speaker 1: particular trail, had hiked similar trails, and also the weather
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Speaker 1: appeared to be holding up. However, before Jean could even
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Speaker 1: take a step onto this trail, the sky suddenly turned
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Speaker 1: this dark greenish hue and there was a loud thunderclap,
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Speaker 1: I mean basically instantly there was this massive storm overhead.
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Speaker 1: Jean couldn't believe it. He just stood there watching as
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable storm rolled in, wondering what he should do.
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Speaker 1: I mean again, he had not prepared for a storm.
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Speaker 1: It was supposed to be nice out. But as he's
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Speaker 1: kind of weighing whether or not he should just turn
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Speaker 1: around and head back home because it was now too dangerous,
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Speaker 1: the sky just as suddenly as this all began, cleared
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Speaker 1: and it was suddenly beautiful and bright out and the
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Speaker 1: storm was gone. Now. At first, Jean was not entirely
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Speaker 1: convinced that the storm was now just magically gone, and
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Speaker 1: so for a few minutes he just stood there, waiting
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Speaker 1: in case it came back. But it didn't. The sky
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Speaker 1: remained beautiful and clear, and so eventually Jeong posted that
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Speaker 1: photo he had taken of the trail, and he captioned
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Speaker 1: it with something to the effect of, you know, very
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Speaker 1: strange weather out here, but I'm continuing my Hikefter posting
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Speaker 1: the photo, he put his phone away and began walking
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Speaker 1: down the MacLehose trail. At first, as Jeong headed off
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Speaker 1: into the forest, he made good time. It was warm
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Speaker 1: out but not too hot, and his pack was fairly light.
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Speaker 1: And also the views were just stunning. Every time he
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Speaker 1: came to a rise on the trail, he could look
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Speaker 1: out and see the waves of the South China Sea,
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Speaker 1: and the air was so clear and crisp. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was a really relaxing and beautiful place to be,
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Speaker 1: certainly a big change from what he was used to,
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Speaker 1: which was the noise and crowds of the city. And
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Speaker 1: so Jeong just continued on on his hike, stopping periodically
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Speaker 1: to take more photos. But after about an hour of
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Speaker 1: this hike, when things were still going really well, Jong
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Speaker 1: reached this fairly steep incline on the trail and he
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Speaker 1: began walking up it. You know, there had been past
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Speaker 1: inclines on the trail and he had been fine, but
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Speaker 1: as he began maneuvering up this particular incline, he began
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Speaker 1: to feel kind of woozy. In fact, more specifically, he
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Speaker 1: began to feel like the air all around him was
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Speaker 1: getting really hot, like somebody was turning up the temperature
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Speaker 1: all around him. And so JEONGI stopped as he was
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Speaker 1: making his way up this incline, to kind of catch
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Speaker 1: his breath, but as he did that, the heat just
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Speaker 1: got worse and worse. He became delirious, and as he
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Speaker 1: was almost towards the top of this hill, it was
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Speaker 1: like he just couldn't go any further, and the world
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Speaker 1: began to spin all around him, and before long he
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Speaker 1: was tumbling to the ground and blacking out. The next
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Speaker 1: thing Jeong became aware of was the feeling of grass
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Speaker 1: pressed up against his cheek. He was laying on the trail,
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Speaker 1: so he kind of opened his eyes and he sat
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Speaker 1: up for a second, and he was very disoriented. You know,
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Speaker 1: we didn't know how long he had been out for.
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Speaker 1: He figured it was only a couple of minutes. But
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Speaker 1: as he kind of got his bearings, the first thing
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Speaker 1: he noticed is the sky was now totally dark, and
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Speaker 1: when he had passed out, it was broad daylight. And
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Speaker 1: so he was thinking, that can't possibly be true. I
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Speaker 1: can't have been here for hours. That's not possible. And
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Speaker 1: so he began to think to himself, like, oh, I
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Speaker 1: guess another storm has rolled in. That's why the sky
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Speaker 1: is so dark. It's not nighttime. But then when he
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Speaker 1: reached into his bag and pulled out his phone and
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Speaker 1: saw the time and saw it was eight o'clock at night.
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Speaker 1: He realized there was no storm. It really is nighttime.
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Speaker 1: He had been unconscious on this trail for apparently like
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Speaker 1: twelve hours, and so as Jeong just stared at his
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Speaker 1: phone and disbelieve his phone began to ring and it
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Speaker 1: was his wife, and so Jean's thinking, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be home right now. My wife is
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Speaker 1: definitely worried about me, and so pretty quickly he kind
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Speaker 1: of composed himself, even though again he has no idea
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Speaker 1: what's happening here, and he answers the call, and as
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Speaker 1: cheerful as he could, he told his wife that everything
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Speaker 1: was fine, he was just running late and he would
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Speaker 1: be home soon, and so she said okay. And then
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Speaker 1: after Jean hung up with her, he put his phone
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Speaker 1: back in his backpack and pulled out a flashlight, and
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Speaker 1: then he stood up and kind of checked himself over
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Speaker 1: for cuts and scrapes and bruises. You know, he had
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Speaker 1: no idea what condition he was in here, but after
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Speaker 1: checking himself over, he seemed okay. I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: still very disoriented and confused, but physically he was okay,
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Speaker 1: and then again, even though he doesn't understand what's happening here,
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Speaker 1: he's just thinking, Okay, I got to turn around, get
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Speaker 1: back to the car, and get home as quickly as possible.
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Speaker 1: And so he slung his back and with his flashlight
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Speaker 1: out in front of him, he just started hoofing it
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Speaker 1: back down the trail in the direction of his car. Now,
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Speaker 1: as Joan walked along, he was feeling very unsettled, but
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Speaker 1: he kept telling himself that, you know, independent of whatever's
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Speaker 1: happened here, he was going to be home soon and
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Speaker 1: everything was going to be fine. However, not long into
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Speaker 1: his return trip towards his car, he began to get
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Speaker 1: this unbelievably bad feeling, like something was just totally wrong here.
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Speaker 1: And as he began having this feeling, he suddenly took
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Speaker 1: stock of the fact that the forest he was in,
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Speaker 1: which had been so alive with life and sound and everything,
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Speaker 1: was now completely silent. No insects, no animals, The stream
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Speaker 1: nearby was making no sound. It was like he was
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Speaker 1: in a void and it was so eerie, and he
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Speaker 1: stopped and just listened, and it was like the whole
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Speaker 1: world was on mute. And so Jeong, who now is
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Speaker 1: starting to feel scared, just began scanning his flashlight all
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Speaker 1: around him, not even sure what he was looking for.
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Speaker 1: But as he did, he had another realization. Suddenly the
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Speaker 1: area he was in did not look familiar at all.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he had only walked maybe several paces away
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Speaker 1: from where he had just fallen to the trail and
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Speaker 1: passed out, But now as he looked around, it was
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Speaker 1: like he was in a totally different section of the forest.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he looked back where he had fallen, and
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Speaker 1: even in the grass where he would have been it
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Speaker 1: was untouched. There was no impression on the ground from
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Speaker 1: where he would have been laying for twelve hours, like
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Speaker 1: he had been transported somewhere else without knowing it. Now,
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Speaker 1: when Jean spoke to his wife on the phone, he
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Speaker 1: was very careful not to alarm her, even though he
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Speaker 1: had sort of a growing sense of panic inside of him.
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Speaker 1: But now, you know, the whole situation was sort of
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Speaker 1: out of hand. He really didn't understand what was happening,
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Speaker 1: and he knew he needed help, and so he reached
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Speaker 1: into his backpack to pull out his phone to call
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Speaker 1: for help. Except when he reached into his bag, there
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Speaker 1: was nothing there. His phone was gone. His supplies were gone.
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Speaker 1: The bag was totally empty, even though literally minutes before
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Speaker 1: it had been full, Like there was no way he
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Speaker 1: just randomly lost this stuff. It had been there, and
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Speaker 1: now it was gone. And so Jean desperately looked on
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Speaker 1: the ground with his flashlight and he walked back in
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Speaker 1: the direction where he believed he had fallen, even though
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Speaker 1: it didn't look like the same place. He's looking all
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Speaker 1: over the place, like, you know, maybe he did drop
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Speaker 1: his stuff, but he didn't. It was just gone. And so,
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Speaker 1: now really feeling scared, Jeong just completely lost his composure
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Speaker 1: and began screaming at the top of his lungs for help,
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Speaker 1: but he heard nothing in response, just silence. And then
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Speaker 1: not long after that, Jong's head began to feel heavy again,
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Speaker 1: and then he sank to the ground, put his head
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Speaker 1: in the dirt, and he closed his eyes. Hey guys,
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Speaker 1: see you guys soon. When Jeong woke up, it was
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Speaker 1: bright out and he also was now magically back at
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Speaker 1: the original spot where he had passed out on that
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Speaker 1: steep incline. And the first thing he did as soon
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Speaker 1: as he came to is he reached into his bag,
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Speaker 1: hoping that his phone and other supplies would have just
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Speaker 1: materialized by now, but no, when he reached inside the bag,
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Speaker 1: it was still empty. And so on the one hand,
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Speaker 1: Jong still is like, what is going on here? I
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Speaker 1: don't understand what's happening, And then the other he was
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Speaker 1: also becoming acutely aware that because he doesn't have his phone,
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Speaker 1: he can't call for help, like he's stuck out here,
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Speaker 1: and so he's wondering, like what is he going to
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Speaker 1: do here, and then it dawns on him that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's been at least several hours since he last spoke
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Speaker 1: to his wife, and she was expecting him home the
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Speaker 1: night before, and so by now, certainly because he hasn't
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Speaker 1: come home, she must have called the police, and so
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Speaker 1: maybe there was already a search party out here looking
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Speaker 1: for him. And so, suddenly, feeling kind of hopeful that
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Speaker 1: that was actually happening, Jong, despite his confusion and disorientation here,
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Speaker 1: just scooped up his backpack, put it on, and began
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Speaker 1: walking down the trail back in the direction towards his car.
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Speaker 1: And as he walked, Jong periodically would call out, hoping
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Speaker 1: that again some searchers or other hikers were nearby who
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Speaker 1: would hear him and come to his aid. But after
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Speaker 1: hiking for over an hour, he still had not reached
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Speaker 1: his car. The forest was still eerily silent, like everything
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Speaker 1: was silent. He hadn't seen or heard anybody else. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's totally alone here, and Song started to wonder if
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Speaker 1: maybe his best bet was not to try to hike
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Speaker 1: out of here, but instead to just stay put and
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Speaker 1: wait for, hopefully the search party, if there was one,
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Speaker 1: out there to come find him, or maybe some other
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Speaker 1: hiker to come find him. However, as he was considering this,
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Speaker 1: he looked up ahead where the trail kind of turned,
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Speaker 1: and he saw there was this pond, a pond he
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Speaker 1: had not seen on the way in, but nonetheless, there
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Speaker 1: was a pond basically right over there, and from his
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Speaker 1: perspective he could see kind of through the trees on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the pond appeared to be a person.
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Speaker 1: Jeong suddenly felt this enormous sense of relief. Here was
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Speaker 1: the person who was going to help him and get
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Speaker 1: him out of here. And so Jeong began walking towards
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Speaker 1: this person, and as he did, he cupped his hands
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Speaker 1: and he called out a hello to get this person's attention. Now,
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Speaker 1: when Jeong did this, he believed this person would either
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Speaker 1: one hear him, turn around and see what Jeong wanted,
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Speaker 1: or two they wouldn't hear him and they would just
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Speaker 1: continue to stand there with their back to him. But
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Speaker 1: neither of those things happened. When Jong called out this
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Speaker 1: very hearty hello, this person just instantly began sprinting away
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Speaker 1: from Jeong without even turning to look at him. They
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Speaker 1: just begin taking off into the trees, and Jong he's
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Speaker 1: thinking like this is a crisis for him. He has
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Speaker 1: no idea what's happening here. This is the first person
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Speaker 1: he's seen. He needs them, and so instinctively, Jeong just
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Speaker 1: took off running after them, calling out the whole time,
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Speaker 1: trying to reassure them that he was not a threat.
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Speaker 1: He didn't mean to scare them. He needs their help,
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Speaker 1: and so he gets to the pond, he runs around
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Speaker 1: the perimeter. He can still see this person running off
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Speaker 1: into the woods, and Jong like he's so exhausted from
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Speaker 1: the lack of water and food, he's not feeling his best,
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Speaker 1: but somehow, through adrenaline alone, he starts gaining on this
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Speaker 1: person and eventually he closes the distance on this person
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Speaker 1: as they're weaving through the trees, and suddenly this person
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Speaker 1: just stops and they don't turn around to look at Yong.
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Speaker 1: They just stop in the middle of the woods, and
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Speaker 1: Jong he almost barrels into them because he had been
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Speaker 1: running so quickly, and he too, he just stops, staring
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Speaker 1: at the back of this person who still has not
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Speaker 1: turned around to look at him at any point, and
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Speaker 1: Jeng says to them, please, I need your help, and Jeong.
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Speaker 1: He's panting, he's totally out of breath. And this person
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Speaker 1: who's been running at top speed the whole time, they're
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Speaker 1: not out of breath. They're not even moving. They're stationary,
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Speaker 1: just with their back to Jean. And suddenly, as Jeong
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Speaker 1: is staring at this person, realizing that something feels off here,
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Speaker 1: the person begins to turn around to look at him,
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Speaker 1: and as they do, Jeong suddenly feels this incredible sense
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Speaker 1: of dread, like he chased this person down. He needs
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Speaker 1: their help. But now that they're turning around to face him,
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Speaker 1: something feels wrong and he doesn't want to see him.
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Speaker 1: Something's off here. And then the person fully turns around
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Speaker 1: and looks at Jean, and Jeng is suddenly so terrified
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Speaker 1: of what he sees. He holds his breath and just
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Speaker 1: stays there, frozen to the spot, staring. He can't believe
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Speaker 1: what he's looking at. This was not a person. This
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Speaker 1: was some sort of shadowy figure with no face, and
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Speaker 1: it was now staring directly at Jean and Jong. Again,
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Speaker 1: he's so scared he can't move. He's holding his breath,
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Speaker 1: just looking right back at them. And then suddenly this
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Speaker 1: figure takes an aggressive step towards Jeong, and then another
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Speaker 1: and another, until suddenly they're inches away from Jeang, and
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Speaker 1: Jean is so terrified he just closes his eyes, expecting
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Speaker 1: to die at any second. And then when he opens
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Speaker 1: his eyes, the figure's just gone. For about five minutes,
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Speaker 1: Jeong just stood there shaking, an utter disbelief of what
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Speaker 1: he had just experienced. I mean, this whole thing had
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Speaker 1: been terrifying, but this specific interaction with this shadow figure
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Speaker 1: was horrifying, and he had no idea how to process it.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, after a few minutes, Jeng's
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Speaker 1: thinking to himself, I don't want to stay around here
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Speaker 1: to try to figure out what's going on. I need
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Speaker 1: to get out of here. And so Jean finally, after
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Speaker 1: mustering the courage, he turns to start walking back towards
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Speaker 1: the pond and back up to the trail. But when
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Speaker 1: he turns around, the pond isn't there anymore. It's just
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Speaker 1: this endless expanse of trees. The pond should have been
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Speaker 1: right there, and it's gone. And also, when Jang he
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Speaker 1: took off running after this this shadow figure, it was
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Speaker 1: daylight and now it's darkness. It's total darkness, and so
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Speaker 1: once again Jong has somehow gone to a new location
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Speaker 1: and jumped through time several hours at least, with no
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Speaker 1: idea how that had even happened. And also as he's
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Speaker 1: having this realization that once again it's like space time
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Speaker 1: has changed all around him, he starts to have that
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Speaker 1: heaviness in his head. Things start to swim all around him,
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Speaker 1: and before long he's fallen to the ground and he's
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Speaker 1: closing his eyes. When Jong woke up again, it was
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Speaker 1: now suddenly bright out. So again more time has passed.
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Speaker 1: He was not just passed out for a minute or two,
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Speaker 1: it was several hours at least. And also Jong was
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Speaker 1: now magically laying right next to the pond that had
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Speaker 1: vanished the night before after this figure had showed up.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point Jong is seriously thinking to
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Speaker 1: himself that he must have lost his mind, that's what's
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Speaker 1: happening here. He's gone insane or does he have some
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Speaker 1: horrible head injury that's like causing hallucinations or something like.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't know. But at the same time, all he
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Speaker 1: can do at this point is just get up, try
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Speaker 1: to get back to the trail, and try to get
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Speaker 1: back to his car and get back home. That's all
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Speaker 1: he can do, and so that's what he did. Jong
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Speaker 1: made his way back up to the trail and began
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Speaker 1: walking down the trail in the direction that he believed
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Speaker 1: was back towards his car. But after hiking for a while,
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Speaker 1: things did not look any more familiar. It was like
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Speaker 1: he was hiking down a brand new trail that he
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Speaker 1: had never been on before. The forest continued to be
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Speaker 1: eerily silent, and every time he called out for help,
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Speaker 1: he got nothing in response. And then eventually Jeong reached
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Speaker 1: the section of the trail that kind of sloped down,
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Speaker 1: and when he got there and he looked out ahead
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Speaker 1: of him, he saw down below there was this huge cemetery.
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Speaker 1: Now Jong had studied this entire area before coming out
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Speaker 1: on this hike, and he knew there was no cemetery
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the MacLehose trail, like, this can't
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Speaker 1: be here. But remember by this point, Jong has seen
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Speaker 1: and experienced things that he cannot understand, so he doesn't
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Speaker 1: even know what's real and what's not anymore. And so
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Speaker 1: as he's looking at the cemetery, he told himself, this
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Speaker 1: has got to be some hallucination. This can't be here.
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Speaker 1: But after walking down the hill and entering the cemetery,
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Speaker 1: he reached out and touched the headstones and they were
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Speaker 1: very real. This cemetery, absolutely, for right now anyways, was
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Speaker 1: real and right in front of him. And as he
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Speaker 1: looked at the dates on these headstones, he could tell
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Speaker 1: the cemetery was at least two hundred years old. And
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Speaker 1: so as Jeong is taking in this new information, he
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Speaker 1: looks up and he sees a couple hundred meters away
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Speaker 1: from him is a group of what appears to be
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Speaker 1: people clustered around a grave, and for a moment, Jong
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Speaker 1: feels this unbelievable sense of relief. Here we go, there's
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Speaker 1: some people here, you know, they're visiting their relatives. They
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Speaker 1: can help me. But before Jeong ran over there and
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Speaker 1: asked for their help, he watched one of them sort
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Speaker 1: of turn their bodies and they looked back at Jeong,
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Speaker 1: and instantly Jong's body was overcome with terror once again,
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Speaker 1: because this person was not a person. This was a faceless,
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Speaker 1: dark figure, just like the one he had encountered near
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Speaker 1: the pond, and there was this horrible sense that this
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Speaker 1: thing was looking right at him, and so horrified, Jeanng
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Speaker 1: just turned and ran away. That night, Jong found himself
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Speaker 1: inexplicably back at that small pond. Didn't even know how
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Speaker 1: he got there, but at this point he wasn't questioning
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Speaker 1: anything because he didn't understand any of this. And as
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Speaker 1: he was next to this pond, at some point he
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Speaker 1: had that heaviness come over him, and before long he
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Speaker 1: was on the ground closing his eyes. However, this time,
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Speaker 1: as he sort of slept or became unconscious, he entered
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Speaker 1: into this sort of dream state where he became aware
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Speaker 1: that there were whispers all around him. Somebody or something
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Speaker 1: was trying to communicate with him, and at first he
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell what it was. Then he realized it was
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Speaker 1: like the earth was talking to him. It was like
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Speaker 1: the rocks and the nearby water were literally speaking to him,
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Speaker 1: and for some reason this felt sort of comforting, even
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Speaker 1: though again he has no idea what to make of this.
18:56
Speaker 1: And then when Joan woke up again, it was bright
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Speaker 1: out and all of a sudden, Jean was aware that
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Speaker 1: the forest was alive again. There were sounds coming from everywhere, animals, insects,
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Speaker 1: there was water sounds. It was like things were back
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Speaker 1: to normal. And Jong he also had this incredible clear
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Speaker 1: headedness that he hadn't had for the past several days.
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Speaker 1: It really was like things had gone back to normal.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeong stood up and he heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of running water nearby, and he followed it to a stream,
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Speaker 1: and so he decided he would just follow the stream
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Speaker 1: right on out of the MacLehose trail, like this was
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Speaker 1: going to be the way he would get out of here.
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Speaker 1: But after walking for hours and hours along the stream,
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Speaker 1: he still had not found his way out. The sun
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Speaker 1: was now directly overhead beaming down on him. He was
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Speaker 1: so hot, he was tired, He was moving slower and slower.
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Speaker 1: His optimism was beginning to fade. And then he looked
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Speaker 1: up and just up ahead he saw something that destroyed
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Speaker 1: any of the optimism he had left, because right up
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Speaker 1: ahead were three more shadow figures with their back to him.
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Speaker 1: It was like they were blocking his way towards freedom.
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Speaker 1: And so as Jeong tensed up and prepared to turn
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Speaker 1: and run back deeper into this trail that he was
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Speaker 1: trying to escape, one of these shadow figures turned and
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Speaker 1: they looked directly at Jean, and when they did, everything changed,
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Speaker 1: because Jong instantly realized this was no shadow figure. This
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Speaker 1: was a real person. They had a face, and they
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Speaker 1: were calling out to him, saying, hey, do you need
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Speaker 1: any help? And Jong was so relieved, so happy, he
20:27
Speaker 1: couldn't even say anything back. He just fell to his
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Speaker 1: knees and wept tears of joy. He was finally saved.
20:34
Speaker 1: It would turn out Jong's wife had called the police
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Speaker 1: on that first night when Jong didn't come home, and
20:39
Speaker 1: so the whole time Jean was out in the woods
20:41
Speaker 1: over these several days, there was actually a massive search
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Speaker 1: party out there looking for him. However, none of the
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Speaker 1: searchers claimed to have seen or heard Jong at any point,
20:51
Speaker 1: and Jong did not see or hear any of the searchers.
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Speaker 1: Those people at the end who finally rescued him were
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Speaker 1: just random hikers that happened to see him, but somehow,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that Jang really could not have gone
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Speaker 1: very far from his car, I mean, he really didn't
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Speaker 1: cover a huge distance on this trail when this whole
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Speaker 1: experience began. Despite that, the searchers never heard or saw
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Speaker 1: Jong at any point, and Jong obviously never heard or
21:16
Speaker 1: saw any of them. So they're basically in the exact
21:19
Speaker 1: same area looking for each other, but nobody sees each other.
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Speaker 1: After being discovered by those three real people on MacLehose Trail,
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Speaker 1: Jong was taken to a hospital where he was examined
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Speaker 1: and it was determined there was nothing physically wrong with
21:31
Speaker 1: him other than he had not had much to eat
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Speaker 1: or drink in several days. In fact, the official explanation
21:37
Speaker 1: for what happened to Jeong was just that he was
21:40
Speaker 1: really dehydrated. However, Jong didn't buy that explanation, and when
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Speaker 1: Jong left the hospital and got back home, he immediately
21:47
Speaker 1: began digging into the history of the MacLehose Trail, and
21:50
Speaker 1: he would quickly discover that he was not the first
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Speaker 1: person to have a totally wild, bizarre, borderline paranormal experience
21:59
Speaker 1: out on that trail. It would turn out the Maclihose
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Speaker 1: Trail cuts across a geographic line called the Sai Kung Barrier.
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Speaker 1: This is an area of the Sai Kung Peninsula that
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Speaker 1: is generally considered to be a portal to other dimensions,
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Speaker 1: and there have been enough people to have other worldly
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Speaker 1: experiences out on this trail that loosely match what Jean
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Speaker 1: claims to have seen and experienced that they dubbed the
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Speaker 1: area this trail is in as the Bermuda Triangle of
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Speaker 1: South China, and adding even more intrigue to this area
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Speaker 1: is the fact that several other very experienced hikers have
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Speaker 1: gone missing along this trail, and they've had huge search
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Speaker 1: parties sent out for them, but they were never found.
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Speaker 1: Jong would eventually share his story of what happened to
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Speaker 1: him out on the trail in a thirty five hundred
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Speaker 1: word essay that he posted on social media. He and
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Speaker 1: many others believed that when he first fell and collapsed
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Speaker 1: on the trail, that he actually fell through the Sai
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Speaker 1: Kung barrier and entered another dimension, that for those days
22:56
Speaker 1: that he was wandering around having no idea what was
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Speaker 1: happening to him, that he wasn't really in this dimension anymore,
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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Jeng believed the only reason he was able
23:05
Speaker 1: to escape this other dimension was because on his final
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Speaker 1: night in this other place, he began to hear the
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Speaker 1: sounds of the rocks and the water whispering to him.
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Speaker 1: He said, the only reason he was able to hear
23:16
Speaker 1: that was because he had sort of accepted his fate,
23:19
Speaker 1: that here he was in this totally strange world that
23:22
Speaker 1: he couldn't understand and didn't have any real expectation to
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Speaker 1: escape from, and it was that sort of resignation that
23:28
Speaker 1: he allowed himself to feel that kind of put him
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Speaker 1: in touch with this dimension, and he believes that's what
23:33
Speaker 1: ultimately allowed him to come back home. Despite those who
23:36
Speaker 1: doubt him, Jong stands by his version of events. While
23:39
Speaker 1: his time on the trail did not cause him any
23:41
Speaker 1: physical harm, to this day, he is still haunted by it.
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