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Run, before she takes your legs Campfire Stories with MrBallen - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: So tonight, I have a great story to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: It sort of reminds me of when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I used to go camping with my family once a
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  Speaker 1: year out in western Massachusetts, and we'd sit around a
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  Speaker 1: campfire just like this, and my parents would tell me
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  Speaker 1: and my sister's ghost stories and it was sort of
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  Speaker 1: unclear how true the stories really were, but they were
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  Speaker 1: always terrifying. And this story that I'm going to share
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  Speaker 1: with you tonight is from Japan, and it happened about
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  Speaker 1: fifty years ago, and over the last fifty years, it's
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  Speaker 1: been shared many, many times, and there are many versions
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  Speaker 1: of the story, so it's sort of up to you
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how much you really believe is true here,
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  Speaker 1: but it is a genuinely frightening story. Also, according to
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  Speaker 1: some versions of the story, once you hear it, you
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  Speaker 1: only have three days left to live unless you follow
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  Speaker 1: really specific instructions, which I'll give you at the end.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into tonight's.
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  Speaker 1: Campfire story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark
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  Speaker 1: weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into tonight's story. Late on
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  Speaker 1: a winter night in the nineteen seventies, a middle aged
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  Speaker 1: train driver named Takashi Eto along with his assistant. We're
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the front seat of a small cargo train
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  Speaker 1: that was hurtling along the tracks in Hakaido, Japan.
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  Speaker 2: So this was just a two car train.
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  Speaker 1: There was a cargo train in back, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was the front train that you know, Takashi and.
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  Speaker 2: His assistant were in.
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  Speaker 1: There were no passengers behind them, so it's just these
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  Speaker 1: two and the area that they were driving through was
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  Speaker 1: this very desolate area and basically outside, if they looked
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  Speaker 1: out their windshield, all they would have seen was just
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  Speaker 1: basically snow and ice and just pitch black darkness and
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  Speaker 1: the train's headlights pointing straight ahead. That would have been
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  Speaker 1: all they could see was whatever, you know, was in
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  Speaker 1: the headlights. And as they were driving along, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they had shut all the windows to the car that
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  Speaker 1: they were in, but it was so cold outside and
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  Speaker 1: the wind was whipping and they're, you know, they're driving
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  Speaker 1: right into the wind that some of the cold air
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  Speaker 1: was coming in one of the windows, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's freezing cold out there. It was starting to get
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  Speaker 1: really cold inside the cabin, and so you know, both
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  Speaker 1: men are starting to shiver, and so at some point
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  Speaker 1: Takashi turns to his assistant and he just tells him to, hey,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and open up the heating vent on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: So there was just this little vent that you could
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  Speaker 1: open up that would basically expose the engine to the
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  Speaker 1: main cabin, and so some heat would come up from
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  Speaker 1: the engine, but it would get really hot really quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and so you couldn't do it for very long. But
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  Speaker 1: it was getting pretty cold, so the situation called for it,
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  Speaker 1: and so Takashi sort of had one eye half focused
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  Speaker 1: out the windshield, sort of roughly following along with the
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  Speaker 1: direction they were going, and then the rest of his
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  Speaker 1: attention was just on his assistant, who was doing this
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  Speaker 1: mundane task of crouching down and sliding open this vent here,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point, you know, the assistant managed to
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  Speaker 1: open up the heating box, and right as he did,
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  Speaker 1: something caught to Kashi's eye outside of the train. Now,
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  Speaker 1: remember it's the middle of the night, it's the dead
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  Speaker 1: of winter. There's really nothing out there. And even though,
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  Speaker 1: of course it's Takashi's job to pay attention to what's
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  Speaker 1: out in front of them, there's no expectation he's going
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  Speaker 1: to see anything on the tracks at all until he
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  Speaker 1: gets to the next stop, which was quite a ways away,
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  Speaker 1: and so the fact that anything caught his attention was alarming.
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  Speaker 1: And he turns and he looks out the windshield, and
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  Speaker 1: he can't believe what he sees.
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  Speaker 2: Right in the middle of the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: Just several dozen yards ahead of the speeding train, is
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  Speaker 1: a woman. She's just standing in the middle of the tracks,
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  Speaker 1: looking up at the train and doesn't even appear to
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  Speaker 1: be trying to move, but she clearly sees the train
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  Speaker 1: barreling down on her. She looks terrified, and Takashi and
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  Speaker 1: the assistant they look at each other. They start trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the train to stop, but there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: The train's going way too fast, it's way too heavy,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's like they throw the brakes on, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to stop, but there's nothing they can do.
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  Speaker 2: And this woman she's just not moving.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually the train smashes into her, and like
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  Speaker 1: Takashi and the assistant are like, oh my god, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe it. And the train it eventually comes to
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  Speaker 1: a grinding stop, you know, several hundred yards away. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally when it's actually stopped, it's like Takashi and
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  Speaker 1: the assistant they.
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  Speaker 2: Know what's happened. They've just they've just killed someone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's clearly an accident, but like the shock
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  Speaker 1: of this was unbelievable. And so finally, you know, Takashi
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  Speaker 1: he looks at the assistant and he's like, we have.
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  Speaker 2: To go out and see if she's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they both knew there was no chance, like
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  Speaker 1: there's no chance she's alive after being hit by the train.
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  Speaker 1: But out they go, and sort of apprehensively, they began
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  Speaker 1: walking in the snow towards the back of the train.
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  Speaker 2: Now neither of them had a lighting source.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have a flashlight or anything like that, and
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  Speaker 1: they're going towards the back of the train, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the advantage of the headlights shining where they
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  Speaker 1: need to go. All they have are the tail lights
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  Speaker 1: of the train, which are now flashing red. And so
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  Speaker 1: as they're walking through the snow and the wind is
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  Speaker 1: whipping and it's pitch black out there, and of course
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  Speaker 1: these two men, they're in shock about what they've just seen.
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  Speaker 1: They can't believe, like, what was she doing out here?
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  Speaker 2: Like what happened?
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  Speaker 1: They're walking and all they're seeing out in front of
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  Speaker 1: them is darkness and the occasional flash of red light
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  Speaker 1: that sort of roughly illuminated the snow out beyond the
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  Speaker 1: train and then back to darkness, and they know somewhere
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  Speaker 1: out there behind the train is this woman who almost
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  Speaker 1: certainly is dead.
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  Speaker 2: So it means that there's like a dead body out there.
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  Speaker 1: And so Takashi and the assistant they start making their
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  Speaker 1: way back towards the back of a cargo train, and
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  Speaker 1: then they begin walking beyond where the train was, basically
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  Speaker 1: along the tracks they had just covered, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: up ahead, periodically illuminated by these red lights, was this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mound on the tracks. It looked very much
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  Speaker 1: like a body, and sure enough, as Takashi got closer,
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  Speaker 1: he realized it was it was the woman, and almost
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  Speaker 1: immediately he could tell one she was definitely dead, and
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  Speaker 1: in some ways, you know, he kind of hoped maybe,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there was some miracle that she had survived somehow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe, but definitely confirmed that she's dead. And
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  Speaker 1: the second thing was he could sort of see what
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  Speaker 1: happened here. Her foot appeared to be wedged in the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: She must have been stuck in the tracks, and even
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  Speaker 1: though it looked like she wasn't trying to move, it
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  Speaker 1: might have been because she literally couldn't, and so she
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  Speaker 1: was trapped and we.
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  Speaker 2: Hit her and we killed her. But that wasn't all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this scene was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, her body was destroyed, but more than that,
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  Speaker 1: part of her body was missing. All they saw on
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  Speaker 1: the tracks were actually just her legs. It was just
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  Speaker 1: her lower half, and she had these lace up dance
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  Speaker 1: shoes that would have been very difficult to take off.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The dance shoes sort of gave away that this was
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  Speaker 1: the woman. You know, they look like feminine legs, feminine feet.
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  Speaker 2: But again, her upper half is just gone.
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  Speaker 1: And so Takashi and the assistant, they sort of look
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  Speaker 1: around in the general vicinity to see, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: her upper half is nearby. And again all they have
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  Speaker 1: is this periodic red flashing light across the snow, and
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  Speaker 1: it's dark, it's cold, the wind is whipping, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: just the little ways off the tracks, they see another
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  Speaker 1: sort of heap on the ground and there's nothing else
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  Speaker 1: out here, so this has got to be the woman's
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  Speaker 1: upper body, and so they cross over the tracks. They
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  Speaker 1: leave behind the lower half, and they see there's a
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  Speaker 1: trail of blood across the snow, and when they get
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  Speaker 1: to this this second mound, it is this woman's upper body.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, the scene.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been horrible for anyone to find this,
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  Speaker 1: but it was especially so because as they walked up
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  Speaker 1: to this woman's clearly you know, dead upper half, she
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  Speaker 1: was looking right at them. I mean her arms were
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  Speaker 1: outstretched and her eyes were open, and her torso it's
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  Speaker 1: positioned in such a way that she was almost like
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  Speaker 1: staring at them, and they walk up to her and
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  Speaker 1: her face. Tikashi would say that it was almost like
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  Speaker 1: she was looking at him with an accusatory look, like
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  Speaker 1: she was mad at him for not having stopped the train.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't you see I.
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  Speaker 1: Was trapped on the train, Like that's what Takashi's thinking, Like,
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  Speaker 1: this dead woman is mad at me. She looks like
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  Speaker 1: she's furious with me, and so, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: very hard, but they continued walking towards her to you know,
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  Speaker 1: just really confirm that she's definitely dead.
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  Speaker 2: This is not like a second person here, but.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was clearly just the upper half of this woman,
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  Speaker 1: and she was definitely dead. And despite the very unsettling
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  Speaker 1: nature of the way her body was positioned, ultimately Takashi
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  Speaker 1: and the assistant, you know, just turned around and began
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  Speaker 1: walking back towards the train. Now, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies Japan. They don't have cell phones. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't even have radios, Like, they didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: good way to get in touch with anyone. They clearly
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  Speaker 1: knew they needed to tell authorities what happened here, but realistically,
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  Speaker 1: the only way to do that was to go to
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  Speaker 1: the train, and then one of them would have to
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  Speaker 1: basically walk to the nearest civilization and get help that way,
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  Speaker 1: while the other person stayed with the train and also
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  Speaker 1: with the woman and so the two of them they
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  Speaker 1: get back to the train, they get inside of that
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  Speaker 1: front car, inside of the enclosed warm space, and they
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  Speaker 1: shut the doors and they sort of just look at
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  Speaker 1: each other like, Okay, you know this is obviously horrible,
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  Speaker 1: but like what are we going to do? And Takashi,
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  Speaker 1: being the more senior of the two, said, well, look
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  Speaker 1: I will I'll stay here with the train. You, the assistant,
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  Speaker 1: go out and get help. You know, I'll be here
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  Speaker 1: was sort of daunting to have to walk off into
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  Speaker 1: the darkness and the freezing cold.
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  Speaker 2: It almost was like a relief to get away from
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  Speaker 2: the scene. I mean, this was truly horrific.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, Takashi watched as the assistant bundled
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  Speaker 1: up in his jacket and he headed out the side
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  Speaker 1: of the car door and then off into the darkness
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  Speaker 1: he went. And then Takashi was left alone inside of
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  Speaker 1: the train with you know, this woman's body behind them
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  Speaker 1: on the tracks. And so shortly after the assistant had gone, Takashi,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's just sitting inside of this unmoving train car.
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  Speaker 1: And remember they had that heating vent open, and even
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  Speaker 1: though the train was not moving, there was still quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of heat that was coming up into the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was actually getting quite toasty inside of
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  Speaker 1: this this train car, and Takashi is literally just not moving.
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  Speaker 1: He's just sitting there waiting, you know, just trying not
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  Speaker 1: to let his mind wander to this horrible thing that's
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  Speaker 1: happened behind him. And he found himself actually feeling kind
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  Speaker 1: of tired. I mean, he had had a really long day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he'd been up for nearly twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and so suddenly he was like man,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I ought to just lay down and close my
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  Speaker 1: eyes for a minute, because obviously when they come back here,
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  Speaker 1: they'll wake me up like no problem. And so Takashi
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  Speaker 1: did eventually get down on the ground right next to
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  Speaker 1: that vent, so really getting the maximum amount of heat,
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  Speaker 1: and he curled up and he closed his eyes. But
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  Speaker 1: pretty much immediately once Takashi closed his eyes and effectively
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  Speaker 1: attempted to sleep, all he could see in his mind
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  Speaker 1: was that woman standing on the tracks looking up at
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  Speaker 1: him before she was struck by the train. And then
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  Speaker 1: he would try to, you know, force himself not to
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  Speaker 1: think about that, you know, telling himself it really was
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  Speaker 1: an accident. He could not have stopped the train. And
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  Speaker 1: also they rounded a corner before they saw her. Was
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  Speaker 1: it like they could have seen her if they hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been fiddling around with the heating vent beforehand, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have seen her. They had to turn that corner and
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  Speaker 1: then they saw her, Like there was no way to
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  Speaker 1: avoid this, this was an accident. But it's like he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get that image of the woman out of his mind,
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  Speaker 1: and then if he managed not to think about her
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  Speaker 1: on the tracks, his mind would then jump to seeing
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  Speaker 1: her upper half positioned on the snow, with her eyes
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  Speaker 1: still open, looking at him with this, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: his mind, the sort of accusatory look on her face.
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  Speaker 2: And so he can't sleep, but like.
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  Speaker 1: He's so exhausted from the day and he's just so
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  Speaker 1: worn out. It's so traumatic that eventually, after you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes or so, he did begin to feel himself
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  Speaker 1: sort of allowing himself to drift off to sleep, Like
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  Speaker 1: he did have these horrible thoughts, but he felt himself
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  Speaker 1: getting closer to finally being able to get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And right at that point, right as he's.
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  Speaker 1: Teetering on actually sleeping, he hears something outside.
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  Speaker 2: Now, remember it's late at night.
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  Speaker 1: The wind is whipping, you know, it's the middle of winter,
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  Speaker 1: and so there had been this ongoing ambiance of the
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  Speaker 1: howling wind, and like nighttime winter sounds outside, there are
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  Speaker 1: animals out there, I mean, there's lots of noises going
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  Speaker 1: on here.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever this sound was, he just couldn't quite place it.
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  Speaker 1: It almost sounded like metallic, like something was scraping against
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  Speaker 1: something else, like maybe two pieces of metal were grinding
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  Speaker 1: together like shsh, But he again he couldn't quite tell
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  Speaker 1: what it was how far away it was, but it
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  Speaker 1: really stood out right away amongst all the other noises
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  Speaker 1: he was hearing. And so we just he's laying there
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and he's listening to the sound. He
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  Speaker 1: can't quite place how close or far away it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for all he knows, it could be way
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  Speaker 1: off in the distance, or it could be right in
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  Speaker 1: the cargo train behind him.
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  Speaker 2: And so as he.
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  Speaker 1: Hears this sound, which is sort of periodic, he tells
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  Speaker 1: himself like, oh, maybe it's maybe it's my assistant. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's back with help, you know, maybe they've maybe he
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  Speaker 1: found someone really quickly, you know, because it's only been
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  Speaker 1: like ten minutes since he left. But then he's thinking like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way, like, I know, we're sort of in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, We're in this really desolate part
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  Speaker 1: of Japan, Like, there's no way he would have just
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  Speaker 1: magically found help that quickly. So it can't be my
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  Speaker 1: assistant unless maybe he's turned around for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, why would he do that? And so
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  Speaker 2: he's sort of picturing like, what were the.
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  Speaker 1: Reasons that it could be the assistant, And as he's
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  Speaker 1: doing that, the sound is getting louder, and it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: getting closer, and the sound is again it's like a.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a.
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  Speaker 1: Grinding sort of like movement, almost like something's coming towards him.
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  Speaker 1: And he can tell now that the sound, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: is definitely near, like the cargo train, like it's right
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  Speaker 1: behind where he is, and the way he's laying his
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  Speaker 1: head is towards the front of the train, so his
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  Speaker 1: feet are close to the door, the door that led
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  Speaker 1: out into the open and then would eventually lead you
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  Speaker 1: to the cargo train behind.
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  Speaker 2: And so he started to get sort of apprehensive, like
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  Speaker 2: what is that? Is it like an animal like it?
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  Speaker 2: Could it be the wind?
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  Speaker 1: Is it like somehow whipping against the train in some
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  Speaker 1: way that it's making this strange sound? And all the while,
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  Speaker 1: this grinding sort of like rhythmic sound is getting louder
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  Speaker 1: and louder and sort of faster and faster. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: as the sound is so loud that it's practically echoing
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: inside of this room he's in, he hears the door
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  Speaker 1: to where he is slide open, and he turns and
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  Speaker 1: he looks to see what is coming into the train,
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  Speaker 1: and when he sees what.
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  Speaker 2: It is, he starts to scream.
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  Speaker 1: About an hour later, Takashi's assistant, who had managed to
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  Speaker 1: go get help, was in the backseat of a police
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  Speaker 1: cruiser along with two police officers who were driving in
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the direction of this train. There was actually a road
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: that kind of cut out into this sort of desolate
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: area that overlooked the train tracks, and sure enough they
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: pulled into this this sort of carve out on the road,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and the assistant pointed, and there it was. There was
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the train sort of off in the distance, sort of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: walking distance from where the car was. And so the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: cops that they parked and all three of them they
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: get out, and the police officers they had flashlights and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: so it was much easier to navigate the sort of
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: barren terrain here, and they walked away from the car
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: down to the train. Now, remember, obviously there has been
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a tragedy here. You know, this woman was struck by
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the train, and of course the police know this by
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: this point, and the assistant knows that's what they're walking
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: up to, you know, the scene of this woman being killed.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: But there really wasn't anything, you know, sort of darker
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: than that, Like this was a terrible accident, but it's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: sort of like we just got to follow protocol.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Now we got to go down there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: We've got to figure out what happened and sort of
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: you know, follow process, if you will. And so the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: three of them, they know what they're walking into, right,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: they're going to meet Takashi's he's waiting in the train,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and they're going to take it from there.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: And so they're.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Walking through the darkness and they're shining their lights and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the assistant is behind the two police officers and they're
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: walking up to the train, and when they get close
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: enough to the train, the assistant begins yelling out for
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Takashi to let him know, like, hey, we're here, you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: we're here, like, come on out. But Takashi doesn't call back,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: he doesn't come out of the train. But again this
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: is not like hugely alarming.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: The assistant's like, okay, you know, maybe he's just maybe
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: he fell asleep inside of the train car. And so
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the two police officers and the assistant they make their
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: way over to the door that leads into the front
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: car of the train and they slide it open and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they step inside. It's a very small space, and you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Takashi's not in there, and there's no sign of anything
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: bad that's happened. He's just not in here. And so
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the assistant's like, OK, that's weird. You know, it's sort
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of odd that he didn't respond to us calling for him.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: He's not in here, but you know, maybe he's in
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the cargo train, you know, the second car for some reason.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: And so they leave the front.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Train car and they go into the cargo train car,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and Takashi's not in there either. And so at this
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: point the cops are looking at the assistant like what's
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: going on here? Like where would Takashi be. It's the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: middle of the night, like it's just pure barren wasteland.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: It's ice and snow everywhere. Why would he leave? And
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: so the assistant's like, you know, maybe maybe he left
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and he's with the body. You know, maybe he was
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: just standing with the body or something. And so the
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: two police officers and the assistant they begin walking towards
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the back of the train and then begin following the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: tracks towards where you know, the lower half of this
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: woman is, according to the assistant, And so down the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: tracks they go, and sure enough, eventually they see up
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: ahead had the legs, the legs that are sort of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: still stuck in the tracks. And as they're shining the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: light and they're calling out for Takashi, there's no answer,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and Takashi.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Is nowhere to be found.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And so now the assistant's really getting worried, like it
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: didn't make any sense.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Where could he have gone.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: The only other place that made any sense was maybe
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: over near the torso. But the assistant knows, like, of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: all places that at least he would want to be,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: it would not be near the upper half. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: that was so creepy, the way the body was positioned,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the way it was, it was staring at them, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he knew Takashi had been really unsettled by it, so
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: why would he go over to that? But he told
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the cops, like, hey, shine the lights sort of over there,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: off the tracks, because the upper half of this woman,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that's where she is. Maybe he's over there, And so
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: they shine their lights in the direction of where the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: upper half was, and there's there's no Takashi and there's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: no upper half, there is no torso.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: The woman's torso is gone, and.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Where it was very clearly is this the huge sort
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: of like flattened section of snow with blood everywhere, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it's like this just horrible scene. But there's there's no
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: upper body, so Takashi's gone and this woman's body, her
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: upper half anyways, is gone.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: And so now, like.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The assistant and the officers, they really don't know what
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: to make of this. But the first thought, at least
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: from the assistant was maybe a bear came through and was,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you know, basically taking a woman's body to go eat
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: it or something, and maybe Takashi was out here and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: maybe he got chased off by the bear or worse,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: maybe he got attacked by the bear. And this sort
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of made sense like, oh my god, like is there
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a bear nearby? Like do we need to go in
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the train.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Just to seek safety here?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And so the police officers they're sort of scanning their
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: lights around trying to see if maybe Takashi's nearby, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: at some point they noticed there's actually bootprints that leave
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: where the torso had been, and they sort of took
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: off into the night, sort of away from the train, sort.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Of off into the distance.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Now there didn't appear to be any bear tracks around,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: but again they're thinking that's what it could be. But
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: they see these bootprints, and they're like, we gotta go check.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We got to see if maybe these prints will lead
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: us to Takashi. And so Takashi and the two officers
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: they begin following these tracks, and as they do, they
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: see the prints, these boot prints get farther and farther apart,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like Takashi was running, like his stride was getting longer
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and longer, and there's blood everywhere, like this drag mark of.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Blood all over the snow.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And they follow these prints all the way past the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: train way off into the night, where they finally stop
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in front of this huge utility pole.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And at this point they're looking around like where's Takashi,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Like where did he go?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Like there's nothing down here, and then at some point
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: they hear something above them, and so the police officers
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: with their flashlights, they shine up towards the top of
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this utility pole, where at the top there was this
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: fairly large metal platform, and as they shine their lights up,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they see Takashi and he's draped over the edge of
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: this platform, totally lifeless. His arms are dangling down and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: he's got this horrible, huge wound across his stomach.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He's bled all over he's clearly deceased, and so they're.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Shining their lights up at him, and like the shock
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of seeing Takashi is is horrible.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: They back up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, my godness, is there a bear here?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Did the bear somehow get up there with Takashi? What's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: making that noise up there? And they're shining their lights
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and at some point they hear a noise again, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: then as their lights are aimed towards Takashi in this platform,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this figure sort of emerges above Takashi, like it crawled
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: over ta Kashi, and it peered down at the two
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: cops and the assistant, and it was the woman's torso
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it's like her upper half.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: She sort of looked down at them.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Blood's all over her, and she's sort of clutching on
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to Takashi, and then in one move she sort of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: thrust herself over his body and began pulling herself down
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the pole towards the men. And the men they immediately
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: start yelling and they turn and they start running, and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: as they're running off, all they can hear behind.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Them is chick, chick, which is the sound of this
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: woman dragging herself through the snow. Towards them.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately, the assistant did not make it. The woman
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: caught up to him, but the two police officers they
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: were able to run back to their car. They got
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in and they sped off towards the station, and they
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: told people what was going on at this train, and
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: they couldn't even describe it really without it sounding totally
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: made up. And so eventually, you know, reinforcements head back
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to the train and when they get there they find
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the assistant. He clearly had been caught by this woman
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: on his way to the car, and he was destroyed.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: His stomach was ripped wide open.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: He was dead.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But you know, the authorities they searched everywhere, and they
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't find this woman.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Her upper half was just gone.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Her legs were still stuck in the tracks, but the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: murderous upper half of.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Her was gone, and they never found her.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Today, it's said that the animated top half of this
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: woman's corpse still haunts the railroad.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Tracks in Akkaido.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: She's known as Tiki Tiki because that is the name
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that was given to sort of encapsulate the sound that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: she would make as she pulled herself through the snow.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: The sort of ch sound became Tiki Tiki.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Now, according to some versions of this story, after you've
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: heard the legend of Tiki Tiki like you have now,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you only have three days before she shows up to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: get you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: But it is possible to survive it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Before she slices you in half across your midsection, she'll
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: pause to ask you one question, and if you answer
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this question correctly, she'll let you live.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: The question is do you need your legs?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And the only correct answer, spoken exactly like this, is yes,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I need them right now. All right, thank you all
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: so much for joining me tonight at the campfire. And
• 25:07
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• 25:18
  Speaker 2: All right, until next time, I see ya,