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Speaker 1: So today's story is a very creepy one. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it's so unsettling at times that you're very likely going
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Speaker 1: to think it's just fake. But there was a pretty
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Speaker 1: incredible discovery that was made in the early nineteen hundreds
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Speaker 1: that very likely means this story is true.
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Speaker 2: But before we.
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Speaker 1: Get into that incredible campfire story, as you can see,
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Speaker 1: I'm literally sitting by a campfire, and honestly, it was
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Speaker 1: just because you know what I sort of do is
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Speaker 1: I tell scary campfire stories a lot of the times,
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Speaker 1: but I never actually sit by a fire. And so
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Speaker 1: we decided why not literally make a campfire and tell
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Speaker 1: a spooky story by it. And if this vibe is
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Speaker 1: something you guys like, I'm more than happy to do
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Speaker 1: more of these because this sort of breaks it up,
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Speaker 1: it's cool, it sort of adds a new flavor to
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Speaker 1: the channel. And so let us know if you enjoy
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Speaker 1: this vibe, and we'll do more. And I think that
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Speaker 1: generally speaking, when we do camp fire literal campfire stories,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean towards the stories that are of the
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Speaker 1: spookier variety. But before we get into today's story, if
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Speaker 1: you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious, delivered
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Speaker 1: in story format.
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Speaker 2: Then you come to the right campfire, because that's all.
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Speaker 1: We do, and we upload two, three, even four times
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Speaker 1: every week. So if that's of interest to you, please
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Speaker 1: invite the light button to come to your campfire and
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Speaker 1: cook some snores with you. But don't tell them you've
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Speaker 1: secretly put firecrackers in their marshmallows. Okay, let's get into
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Speaker 1: today's story. Hundreds of years ago, there was this young
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Speaker 1: indigenous warrior who was on his way to the center
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Speaker 1: of his village.
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Speaker 2: And his village was located.
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Speaker 1: In this heavily forested rolling hills area of modern day.
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Speaker 2: Richland County, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: He was a member of the ho Chunk nation, was
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Speaker 1: this indigenous tribe, and that's where they called home. And
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Speaker 1: as this young warrior, the strong, brave young man, is
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Speaker 1: walking towards the village center, he had been called there
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Speaker 1: by his tribal chief. He sort of had an idea
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Speaker 1: of why he was being called there, And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: when he got to the village center and he sees
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Speaker 1: his tribal chief who's standing there with nine of the
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Speaker 1: other strongest and bravest men of the tribe, this warrior knew,
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Speaker 1: you know, his hunch was correct. So two days earlier,
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Speaker 1: three teenage boys that were members of this tribe, they
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Speaker 1: had gone out deer hunting in the wilds right outside
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Speaker 1: of their village. Again, this is a heavily forested, beautiful
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Speaker 1: rolling hills area, and these teenagers.
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Speaker 2: Had not come back.
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Speaker 1: They had just been gone now for forty eight hours,
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Speaker 1: and their respective families were worried, and they had been,
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Speaker 1: you know, telling the tribal chief that they really needed
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Speaker 1: to send out a search party for them. But the
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Speaker 1: chief had sort of held off, in part because it
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Speaker 1: wasn't entirely uncommon for hunters, even young hunters, to go
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Speaker 1: out for a couple of days at a time. But
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Speaker 1: the family, they just had, they had a bad feeling
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Speaker 1: about it. And so finally, you know, the tribal chief
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Speaker 1: relented two days in and he was calling a search
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Speaker 1: party together to go look for these young men. And
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Speaker 1: so the warrior who's walked into the village center here,
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Speaker 1: he was being asked by the tribal chief to lead
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Speaker 1: this search party effort. He was going to be in
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Speaker 1: charge of these these nine other men, and so, you know,
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Speaker 1: the warrior in truth, he sort of felt like it
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Speaker 1: was overkill to put together this this huge search party
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Speaker 1: for these teenagers that in his mind he really did
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Speaker 1: think they were just fine. But he didn't want to
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Speaker 1: undermine the tribal chief, and so he said, of course,
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Speaker 1: I'll go do it. And so the warrior, along with
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Speaker 1: the nine other you know, strong brave members of the tribe,
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Speaker 1: they gather up some weapons and some food and water.
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Speaker 1: Because they didn't know how long the search was going
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Speaker 1: to take. They said goodbye to the to the members
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Speaker 1: of the village, and then they exited the village in
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Speaker 1: the same direction that basically all the hunters would go
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Speaker 1: when they would go on hunting expeditions. There was like
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Speaker 1: sort of a well worn path that led out into
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Speaker 1: the wilds of the forest. And so the warrior who's
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Speaker 1: again leading the search party, you know, he was a
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Speaker 1: skilled hunter himself, and as he's walking along this well
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Speaker 1: worn trail, he quickly found the tracks of these teenage boys.
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Speaker 1: So they identify the tracks, and you know, right away
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Speaker 1: the warriors thinking, you know, this is going to be
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Speaker 1: you know, no big deal. We're going to follow these tracks.
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Speaker 1: We're going to find the kids. They probably are out
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Speaker 1: camping somewhere. We'll give them a stern talking to and
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Speaker 1: bring them back home and that'll be that. But you know,
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Speaker 1: as they're they're following the tracks along the well worn trail,
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Speaker 1: eventually the tracks they deviate and they leave the trail
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Speaker 1: and they start kind of veering off into not really
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Speaker 1: uncharted territory, but certainly areas that were not necessarily known
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Speaker 1: for good hunting. You know, this tribe where they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, prolific hunters, and so they knew this area
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Speaker 1: extremely well, and they really had the designated areas that
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Speaker 1: were the best. And so already they're seeing that these
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Speaker 1: boys they're doing something different or they're doing something that's
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Speaker 1: not advantageous for hunting. But either way, they're they're following
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Speaker 1: these tracks that are going for miles and miles just
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Speaker 1: into the wild. And also as they're moving along here,
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Speaker 1: they start to notice that there's there's no point at
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Speaker 1: which the boys stopped. There's no you know, tracks that
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Speaker 1: indicated they came to a stop and rested or you know,
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Speaker 1: stood still and tried to kill a deer or something.
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Speaker 1: It was like they were just on a mission, hiking
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Speaker 1: deep into the wilds. And so, you know, the warriors
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Speaker 1: keeping a lot of these insights to himself, and he's
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Speaker 1: just following the tracks. But after hours of this, when
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Speaker 1: they still have not found the boys, they eventually found
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Speaker 1: themselves at the top of this ravine, and as they're
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Speaker 1: looking down into it, they realized that they've gone so
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Speaker 1: far not only away from their village, but so far
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Speaker 1: off the beaten paths that they were familiar with from
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Speaker 1: all they're hunting, that they knew this was an area
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Speaker 1: that they really had never been to before, and they
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Speaker 1: had no idea, you know, what was down in the
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Speaker 1: ravine or what was beyond. I mean, this is sort
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Speaker 1: of uncharted territory for the warrior and the search party.
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Speaker 1: But what they did know is that the tracks of
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Speaker 1: these teenage boys continued down into this ravine, and so
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Speaker 1: down the ravine they went.
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Speaker 2: And then when they got to the bottom of this this.
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Speaker 1: Steep ravine, the trees kind of cleared out a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and right in front of them where the tracks continued
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Speaker 1: is this opening to a cave.
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Speaker 2: And it's so dark inside that they really have.
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Speaker 1: No sense of how far back it goes or anything,
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Speaker 1: but they see the tracks that they're following of the
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Speaker 1: teenagers lead into that cave. But there are no tracks
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Speaker 1: coming back out again, and so presumably the teenage boys,
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Speaker 1: for reasons totally unknown, have hiked all the way out here,
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Speaker 1: have gone into that cave, and that's where they are.
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Speaker 1: But again, from the outside, the warrior and the others,
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Speaker 1: they can't see these teenagers, and so naturally, you know,
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Speaker 1: the group, they walk up to the mouth of the
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Speaker 1: cave and even up close, you know, it's starting to
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Speaker 1: get a little bit dark outside, but there's still some daylight.
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Speaker 2: Even up close. They really they can't see very far
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Speaker 2: into the cave. It's just very dark.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's clearly big enough inside that you could
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Speaker 1: walk for a great distance or a pretty decent distance,
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Speaker 1: but at some point it must sort of bend off
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Speaker 1: and go in a different direction, and they can't see
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Speaker 1: the teenagers inside of there.
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Speaker 2: And so the warrior at.
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Speaker 1: This point, you know, has a level of apprehension here
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't know this cave, he doesn't know this area.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't know what's happened to these teenagers. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: know if they're okay or not in there. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: know if he's a predator or something inside of this cave.
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Speaker 1: And so what he does is he decides, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to send two of my men of the search
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Speaker 1: party in there to scout this out, and the rest
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Speaker 1: of us will stay out here and just wait. And
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Speaker 1: so he designates the two who say okay, and they
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Speaker 1: go into.
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Speaker 2: The to the cave.
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Speaker 1: And so the warrior and the seven other men that
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Speaker 1: he's with, they're just standing outside of the cave, and
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Speaker 1: they're really they're listening intently because these two men that
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Speaker 1: are going in there, they're calling out the names of
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Speaker 1: the missing teenagers. They're yelling, and you know, all they
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Speaker 1: can hear from from the outside is just the sound
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Speaker 1: of the two men yelling. They're not hearing any response
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Speaker 1: from the teenagers.
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Speaker 2: It's just quiet inside of the cave.
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Speaker 1: And again from the warrior and the other search party
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Speaker 1: members perspective, they can only see the two men that
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Speaker 1: have gone in for a little while and then they
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Speaker 1: kind of disappear into the darkness, but they could still
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Speaker 1: kind of hear them as they're calling out for the
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Speaker 1: boys' names.
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Speaker 2: They're calling and calling.
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Speaker 1: And then around the same time that the Warrior and
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Speaker 1: the others he was with lost sight of the two
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Speaker 1: men that went in looking for the boys. The same
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Speaker 1: time that they lost sight of them, they stopped making noise.
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Speaker 1: It's like the cave went completely silent. And so for
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Speaker 1: about five minutes or so, the warrior and the others,
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Speaker 1: they're just kind of anxiously waiting, you know, what's going
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Speaker 1: on in there.
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Speaker 2: But it's completely silent.
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Speaker 1: Ten minutes goes by, and then fifteen and it's still
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Speaker 1: it is dead silence.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing coming out of the cave. It's just eerily quiet.
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Speaker 1: And so the warrior at this point he tells the
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Speaker 1: others to stay put, and he just steps a little
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Speaker 1: ways into the cave, just enough that you know, he
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Speaker 1: was sort of inside the entrance of the cave, and
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Speaker 1: he began calling out the name of the two men
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Speaker 1: who went in and now they're missing as well.
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Speaker 2: He's calling their names out. As he's yelling their.
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Speaker 1: Names, it's sort of echoing through what appears to be
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Speaker 1: a vast cave system.
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Speaker 2: But there's no response, at least not at first.
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Speaker 1: You know, if there had been no response, it would
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Speaker 1: have told him at least okay, maybe they're hurt, or
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Speaker 1: they're too far away, I can't hear them. But instead
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Speaker 1: he did get a sort of response, but he couldn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense of it. He heard what sounded like
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Speaker 1: a wailing sound coming from deep inside of this cave,
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Speaker 1: way way deep inside this whil that At first it
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Speaker 1: sounded like like one voice, and then it sounded like
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Speaker 1: multiple voices kind of.
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Speaker 2: Layered on top of each other.
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Speaker 1: And then with this sudden realization, the warrior understood what
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Speaker 1: he was hearing.
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Speaker 2: It was. It wasn't a cry.
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Speaker 1: He was hearing a chant, and it was a very
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Speaker 1: particular chant, very particular to the Ho Chunk nation. It
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Speaker 1: was the chant that warriors did before they died. It
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Speaker 1: was literally known as the death song. And as soon
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Speaker 1: as the main warrior is hearing the death song being
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Speaker 1: chanted deep inside of this cave, the other men he's with,
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Speaker 1: these seven others who know exactly what that song is,
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Speaker 1: they all sprung forward and said, what do we do?
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Speaker 2: We have to go in.
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Speaker 1: There's something, And before the lead warrior could tell them
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Speaker 1: what to do, six of the other men just charged
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Speaker 1: into the cave, you know, chasing down their brothers because
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Speaker 1: they believe they're about to die. They would never be
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Speaker 1: singing that song, chanting that song if they weren't in
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Speaker 1: real danger. And so the lead warrior and the one
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Speaker 1: other guy that stayed back. They stayed put, you know,
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Speaker 1: just kind of waiting to see what would happen. And
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Speaker 1: they're listening to these six others, you know, go running
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Speaker 1: into the cave and they disappear into the darkness, and
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Speaker 1: they're yelling over and over again for their brothers, and
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Speaker 1: they can still hear that chanting, that death song, reverberating
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Speaker 1: off the walls. But then suddenly the cave goes silent again.
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Speaker 2: The chanting stops.
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Speaker 1: All the calling from the six men that went in
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Speaker 1: that stopped too. It's silent again, and it's just the
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Speaker 1: lead warrior still in the mouth of the cave, next
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Speaker 1: to the one guy, and now they're scared and they're
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Speaker 1: just listening for anything.
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Speaker 2: But it's just completely quiet.
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Speaker 1: And then before the lead warrior or the other guy
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Speaker 1: could do anything, that rhythmic chanting began again, the death song,
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Speaker 1: but now it was clearly far more than just a
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Speaker 1: couple of voices. It was this rhythmic loud, multiple voices
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Speaker 1: layered on top of each other, deep inside of this cave,
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Speaker 1: chanting the death song over and over again. At this point,
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Speaker 1: the lead warrior in the other he had a decision
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Speaker 1: to make. Deep down, he knew it was his responsibility,
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Speaker 1: you know, his moral responsibility here.
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Speaker 2: It was code to go in.
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Speaker 1: There, and if you have to sacrifice yourself to get
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Speaker 1: these guys out of there. But he also thought, logically,
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Speaker 1: something bad is happening inside of this cave, and if
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Speaker 1: me and the other go in there right now, we're
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Speaker 1: not coming out again, and no one's gonna know what happened.
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Speaker 1: There'll be no saving. Everyone's just gonna perish. And so,
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Speaker 1: even though it sort of went against every fiber in
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Speaker 1: his body, the lead warrior, as this death song is
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Speaker 1: reverberating off the walls, he and the other they turned
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Speaker 1: and they ran miles and miles all the way back
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Speaker 1: to their village. And by the time they got there
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Speaker 1: it was dark out, and they know breathlessly told the
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Speaker 1: tribal chief what had happened, and he said, tomorrow, first
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Speaker 1: thing in the morning, first light, we're going to go
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Speaker 1: back to that cave and we're going to get those
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Speaker 1: boys out of there. And so, sure enough, the next morning,
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Speaker 1: at first light, the tribal chief, the lead warrior and
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Speaker 1: the other man that he was with, the two that
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Speaker 1: had come running back from the cave. They along with
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Speaker 1: about one hundred other members of this village, they a
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Speaker 1: banded together and out into the wild. They went, retracing
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Speaker 1: these steps all the way back to the cave.
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Speaker 2: And when they got.
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Speaker 1: There, the cave was still. It was quiet, and there
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Speaker 1: was still light outside, but there was no sign that
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Speaker 1: anybody had come back out of the cave. All the
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Speaker 1: tracks that went into the cave still had not come
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Speaker 1: back out again. So they believe at this point still,
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Speaker 1: you know, their loved ones are in this cave. They
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Speaker 1: don't know what's happened to them, but they're in there,
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Speaker 1: and they have to figure out what's going on now.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the the lead warrior didn't really know
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Speaker 1: what the plan was. I mean, he remembered what happened
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Speaker 1: the day before and really anybody who went into the
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Speaker 1: cave was seemingly swallowed whole, and so he didn't really
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Speaker 1: have a sense of how they were going to do this.
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Speaker 1: But the tribal chief he spoke up and he said,
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Speaker 1: I have a plan.
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Speaker 2: We're not gonna break up.
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Speaker 1: Into groups and go into this cave onesie, twosie and
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Speaker 1: see what happens. We're going to go as one big
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Speaker 1: group we're gonna lock hands in one big line, so
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Speaker 1: they were always connected, never let go of the person's
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Speaker 1: hands that are left and right of you. And the
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Speaker 1: lead warrior and the other man, they're going to lead
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Speaker 1: us into the cave and the direction of where they
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Speaker 1: heard their brothers when they went in there, and we're
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Speaker 1: all going to trail and as one, we're going to
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Speaker 1: walk into this cave until we find our missing.
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Speaker 2: People and we're going to get them out of there.
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Speaker 1: And so the lead warrior thought this was actually a
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Speaker 1: brilliant idea. You know, we'll all be together, we'll be
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Speaker 1: holding on to each other. Nothing can happen to us
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Speaker 1: this way. And so the lead warrior was second in line.
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Speaker 1: The man who was leading the line was basically the
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Speaker 1: other guy. He was with the two that had run back.
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Speaker 1: He was the other guy. So he's in front, the
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Speaker 1: lead warrior is second. He's locked hands with this guy,
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Speaker 1: and then behind him is basically about one hundred other people,
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Speaker 1: all you know, holding onto each other's hands, one big line.
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Speaker 1: And when they were ready, the lead warrior and the
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Speaker 1: man in front of him, they began moving into this cave.
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Speaker 2: And so into the cave they.
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Speaker 1: Went, and as they're walking, they can tell pretty quickly
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Speaker 1: that the cave it sort of turns to the right.
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Speaker 1: You have to walk in, you know, maybe fifty or
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Speaker 1: so feet into the cave, but then it sharp rights,
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Speaker 1: and so there's enough light coming in that you can.
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Speaker 2: Basically walk all the way up to that turn.
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Speaker 1: But then when the lead warrior and the man in
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Speaker 1: front of him made that sharp right and they began
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Speaker 1: walking that.
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Speaker 2: Way, it was utterly pitch black.
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Speaker 1: No light reached that section of the tunnel. But you know,
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Speaker 1: they're leading the line, and so they're still just moving
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Speaker 1: along and the whole lines following them pretty slowly.
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Speaker 2: And as they're.
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Speaker 1: Walking, the lead warrior it's like he kept trying to
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Speaker 1: blink his eyes to just try to capture anything, but
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Speaker 1: he can't see anything in his pitch black and he's
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Speaker 1: just gripping onto the men in front and behind him
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Speaker 1: as tight as he can to show solidarity, like we're
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Speaker 1: here together, we're gonna be okay. And as they're walking,
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Speaker 1: the lead guy kept calling out the names.
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Speaker 2: Of the many men at this point that we're lost
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Speaker 2: in this cave, but there's no response.
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Speaker 1: And as they're walking and shuffling along again, they can't
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Speaker 1: see anything.
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Speaker 2: The walls are getting tight.
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Speaker 1: They hear from somewhere deep in the cave the death song.
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Speaker 2: The chant begins low and slow.
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Speaker 1: And it begins to build and gets louder and louder
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Speaker 1: and louder. And at this point, because they're all locked together,
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Speaker 1: you can't really get out very quickly.
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Speaker 2: They're they're well into.
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Speaker 1: The cave at this point, they can't see anything, and
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Speaker 1: it's like the walls are echoing and it's booming in
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Speaker 1: their chest, this chant, this chant that's only done when
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Speaker 1: you're on the brink of death. And so as they're
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Speaker 1: walking along, you know, lead warrior, he's trying to grip
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Speaker 1: as hard as he can to the man in front
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Speaker 1: and behind him, showing them keep going, it's gonna be okay.
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Speaker 1: But then he felt the hand of the man in
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Speaker 1: front of him. The line leader goes slack, and before
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Speaker 1: he could grab it again, the man's hand was out
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Speaker 1: of his and he's reaching out in front of him
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Speaker 1: and he can't see him, but he can't feel him either.
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Speaker 2: It was like he vanished.
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Speaker 1: And so now the lead warrior, he's the front of
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Speaker 1: the line. He has no idea what's going on, and
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Speaker 1: he wants to just stop and turn and leave. It's
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Speaker 1: getting so overwhelming, and he's about to do that, but
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Speaker 1: he just feels like there's this force pulling him deeper
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Speaker 1: into the cave.
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Speaker 2: And then before he can do anything.
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Speaker 1: Else, he opens his mouth and he begins to chant
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Speaker 1: the death song. At the same time this is happening
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Speaker 1: deep inside of this cave. The tribal chief, along with
17:47
Speaker 1: a couple of others who had not joined the line,
17:49
Speaker 1: they were still outside of the cave. They've heard something
17:52
Speaker 1: going on in the cave, but it's dull.
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Speaker 2: They can't really hear too much.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's something going on, but there's one hundred
17:58
Speaker 1: people walking into the cave. Resumed, there'd be noise, but
18:02
Speaker 1: suddenly there was this obvious commotion, panic erupting from deep
18:07
Speaker 1: inside of the cave. And before he knew it, all
18:09
Speaker 1: these people are coming.
18:10
Speaker 2: Running out of the cave, scared to death.
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Speaker 1: They come bombing out of the cave, and at this
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Speaker 1: point the tribal chief knows something horrible's happened. As we
18:18
Speaker 1: rounds everybody up, he does a head count and realizes
18:21
Speaker 1: over a dozen people are gone. They did not come
18:24
Speaker 1: back out again, and the cave that minutes ago was
18:26
Speaker 1: full of this death song and chaos and panic is
18:30
Speaker 1: silent once again. At this point, the tribal chief sort
18:35
Speaker 1: of designated that it must be the case that there's
18:38
Speaker 1: something evil inside of this cave.
18:42
Speaker 2: There's an evil spirit, there's.
18:43
Speaker 1: Something in this cave that is taking our people and
18:47
Speaker 1: they're vanishing, they're being swallowed hole by this cave.
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Speaker 2: It's evil.
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Speaker 1: And so from that moment he forbid anyone from the
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Speaker 1: tribe of ever stepping foot in this cave again. We
18:57
Speaker 1: cannot lose anyone else.
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Speaker 2: Our best bet is to go back to the village
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Speaker 2: and hope that these men.
19:05
Speaker 1: These brave warriors, eventually find their way out again. And
19:11
Speaker 1: so the tribal chief and the rest of these these
19:14
Speaker 1: devastated villagers back to the village they went, and over
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Speaker 1: the next couple of days and weeks, no one came
19:21
Speaker 1: out of that cave. And as weeks turned into months,
19:25
Speaker 1: it's like the villagers they just they couldn't really move
19:28
Speaker 1: on because they were not able to collect their loved
19:30
Speaker 1: one's bodies or get any sort of closure. It's just
19:34
Speaker 1: this unbelievable mystery, this terrifying mystery that had ripped the
19:38
Speaker 1: entire tribe apart. And so eventually, after months and months
19:43
Speaker 1: had passed and still no one has any idea what's happened.
19:47
Speaker 1: No one's come out of that cave, the tribal chief
19:49
Speaker 1: finally just said, we are going to basically board up
19:53
Speaker 1: the cave. We're going to cover it with rocks. Effectively
19:56
Speaker 1: it is now a tomb. And that'll be that no
19:58
Speaker 1: one will ever go back in this cable, never.
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Speaker 2: Claim another life. And so that's what they did.
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Speaker 1: They use huge boulders and they completely blocked the entrance
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Speaker 1: and that was it. Now, that was the story that
20:10
Speaker 1: the Ho Chunk Nation passed down for generations about what
20:13
Speaker 1: happened to all those people, the warriors and the teenagers
20:16
Speaker 1: and all these people, that.
20:18
Speaker 2: They were swallowed alive by this cave.
20:21
Speaker 1: And over many years, I mean many members of this
20:24
Speaker 1: tribe you know, that heard the story. They didn't know
20:26
Speaker 1: what to make of it, you know, is it real?
20:28
Speaker 2: Is it just folklore? You know, we don't know.
20:31
Speaker 1: But then in nineteen thirty, so hundreds of years later,
20:36
Speaker 1: a chilling discovery was made. So in nineteen thirty, there
20:41
Speaker 1: was this guy named Paul Seaffert who in Richland County Wisconsin.
20:45
Speaker 1: He was sort of a well known antique dealer, and
20:48
Speaker 1: something he really liked to do was he would go
20:50
Speaker 1: hiking in the forests of Richland County, the Rolling Hills,
20:54
Speaker 1: and he would look for indigenous artifacts that were left
20:57
Speaker 1: behind from you know, like the Hoche nation and other indigenous.
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Speaker 2: Tribes that were in the area.
21:02
Speaker 1: Sometimes he'd find, you know, an arrowhead or something on
21:05
Speaker 1: the ground, or pottery or whatever it was. But he
21:08
Speaker 1: liked hiking, he liked being out in nature, and this
21:10
Speaker 1: was something he would look for, and you know, if
21:11
Speaker 1: he found something good enough, he could sell it in
21:13
Speaker 1: his antique shop. And so he's out walking the hills
21:17
Speaker 1: of Richland County and he's well off the trail.
21:19
Speaker 2: He's sort of out in the sticks.
21:21
Speaker 1: And he finds this ravine and he walks down the
21:23
Speaker 1: ravine and it comes to this clearing of sorts and
21:27
Speaker 1: he notices on the other side of the ravine the
21:30
Speaker 1: slope that goes back up.
21:31
Speaker 2: He saw what looked to be almost like a.
21:34
Speaker 1: Memorial or something with a stack of rocks that looks
21:36
Speaker 1: sort of out of place, and there.
21:38
Speaker 2: Was a moss and grass that's sort of grown over it.
21:41
Speaker 1: But he just he immediately identified that there's a mound
21:44
Speaker 1: of something here that looks a little bit out of place,
21:47
Speaker 1: and so he walks over and he begins sort of
21:50
Speaker 1: pulling off some of the rocks, and he realizes pretty
21:53
Speaker 1: quickly that this was put here on purpose, this pile
21:55
Speaker 1: of rocks, are these boulders and all.
21:57
Speaker 2: This this was put here on purpose.
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Speaker 1: And so after pulling off enough of these rocks, he
22:02
Speaker 1: realizes that there is a cave on the other side. Now,
22:06
Speaker 1: it would take quite a bit of work to pull
22:08
Speaker 1: off enough rocks that he could actually get himself inside
22:11
Speaker 1: of this cave, but eventually he did.
22:13
Speaker 2: And once he was inside.
22:14
Speaker 1: Of this cave, the same cave the ho Chunk Nation
22:17
Speaker 1: had dealt with hundreds of years earlier, He's like, wow,
22:21
Speaker 1: like this this cave has been blocked off.
22:24
Speaker 2: I wonder what's inside of here.
22:25
Speaker 1: Maybe there are incredible indigenous artifacts inside of the ear
22:28
Speaker 1: And so, feeling really motivated to explore this cave, he left,
22:33
Speaker 1: went back, got some basic supplies, including a lantern, and
22:37
Speaker 1: then he came back another day. You know, because this
22:39
Speaker 1: is well off the beaten paths, no one's going to
22:41
Speaker 1: stumble upon this and into the cave, he went, and
22:45
Speaker 1: so he's in this cave and he walks, you know,
22:48
Speaker 1: all the way to the end where it banks to
22:49
Speaker 1: the right. He turns and he starts walking, and the
22:53
Speaker 1: ceiling of this cave begins to come down, and it's getting.
22:55
Speaker 2: Really tight on him.
22:56
Speaker 1: But he's so excited to see to see what's in here,
22:59
Speaker 1: because he knows this has been blocked off on purpose.
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Speaker 2: There's something in here.
23:03
Speaker 3: And so eventually the ceiling gets so low that he's
23:06
Speaker 3: crawling with his lantern. And right as he's thinking, this
23:10
Speaker 3: is so narrow, I don't know if I can fit,
23:12
Speaker 3: he pulls himself under this one really low section and.
23:16
Speaker 2: Everything just opens up. It's like this grand cathedral in
23:20
Speaker 2: the middle of this cave. And he holds out his light.
23:23
Speaker 2: He kind of stands up and he holds out his
23:25
Speaker 2: light and it's just this massive, massive space.
23:28
Speaker 1: And right away he sees something on the ground.
23:33
Speaker 2: There are all.
23:33
Speaker 1: These neat rows of human skeletons, and they're all positioned
23:39
Speaker 1: the same way. It's like they're kneeling with their hands
23:42
Speaker 1: over their head, like they're bowing all of them. They
23:44
Speaker 1: couldn't even count how many skeletons are all positioned here.
23:47
Speaker 2: Right in the middle of this cavern. And so he's
23:50
Speaker 2: looking at all of these bodies. He's gasping. He can't
23:53
Speaker 2: believe it.
23:54
Speaker 1: And he brings the light sort of in the direction
23:57
Speaker 1: that all these bodies are aiming towards. All the bodies
23:59
Speaker 1: are praying towards and carved into the rock as this
24:04
Speaker 1: enormous chair, like a throne, and there was nothing on
24:08
Speaker 1: the throne. And Paul when he saw that and all
24:12
Speaker 1: these bodies and just the fact that he's deep inside of.
24:14
Speaker 2: This cave, he was spooked.
24:16
Speaker 1: Even though there could have been a seat of artifacts
24:19
Speaker 1: he could have taken, he just turned and he bolted.
24:21
Speaker 1: He crawled out of there, and he left the cave
24:23
Speaker 1: as fast as he could. And the reason we know
24:26
Speaker 1: about the story is because Paul, after this experience, he
24:30
Speaker 1: got in touch with a local newspaper. It's called the
24:32
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal, and he spoke to a journalist about what
24:35
Speaker 1: he saw and they reported it. They reported that he
24:39
Speaker 1: found these skeletons in this throne and it's inside of
24:42
Speaker 1: this cave that was blocked off. And you know, there's
24:44
Speaker 1: allusions to the story of the ho Chunk Nation. It's
24:47
Speaker 1: like this totally cryptic story, But in nineteen thirty and
24:52
Speaker 1: even still today, were left with a couple of distinct questions.
24:56
Speaker 2: One what happened to all these people? And two? Who
25:02
Speaker 2: or what was sitting on that throne?
25:08
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