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Did this hiker find a PORTAL to another dimension_ · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In South China, there is this one hundred kilometer long
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Speaker 1: wilderness trail called the MacLehose Trail, and at first glance,
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Speaker 1: it just seems like a pretty normal, beautiful hiking trail
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Speaker 1: until you begin to research what other hikers have said
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Speaker 1: about what they experienced out on that trail. Let's just
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Speaker 1: say some of their experiences are genuinely terrifying, and today
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you one of those experiences. It's
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Speaker 1: about this man who goes solo hiking out on the
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Speaker 1: MacLehose Trail and he comes in contact with something that
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Speaker 1: neither he nor anybody else can explain. But before we
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story on the morning of June eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, a forty five year old hiker named Jong
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Speaker 1: Shun Pung stood at the entrance to the famous Maclahose
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Speaker 1: Wilderness Trail in southern China.
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Speaker 2: He reached into his backpack, pulled out his phone, aimed
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Speaker 2: it at the trail, and took a photo.
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Speaker 1: Now, this trail was very beautiful, which is why he
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Speaker 1: was taking a photo of it, but it also had
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Speaker 1: a reputation for being a very dangerous trail. It was
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Speaker 1: located in an area called the Sai Kung Peninsula, and
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Speaker 1: the trail itself was about one hundred kilometers long or
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Speaker 1: sixty two miles, and it went through forests and mountains
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Speaker 1: and streams, and the weather along this trail was very unpredictable,
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Speaker 1: with sudden storms rolling in and just wreaking havoc. But
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Speaker 1: Jeong was feeling very confident about this hike because he
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Speaker 1: himself was an experienced hiker. While he maybe hadn't done
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Speaker 1: this particular trail, had hiked similar trails, and also the
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Speaker 1: weather appeared to be holding up. However, before Jean could
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Speaker 1: even take a step onto this trail, the sky suddenly
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Speaker 1: turned this dark greenish hue, and there was a loud thunderclap,
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Speaker 1: I mean basically instantly there was this massive storm overhead.
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Speaker 2: Jean couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: He just stood there watching as this unbelievable storm rolled in,
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Speaker 1: wondering what he should do. I mean again, he had
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Speaker 1: not prepared for a storm. It was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: nice out. But as he's kind of weighing whether or
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Speaker 1: not he should just turn around and head back home
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Speaker 1: because it was now too dangerous, the sky just as
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Speaker 1: suddenly as this all began, cleared and it was suddenly
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Speaker 1: beautiful and bright out and the.
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Speaker 2: Storm was gone. Now.
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Speaker 1: At first, Jong was not entirely convinced that the storm
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Speaker 1: was now just magically gone, and so for a few
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Speaker 1: minutes he just stood there waiting in case it came back.
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Speaker 2: But it didn't.
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Speaker 1: The sky remained beautiful and clear, and so eventually Jeong
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Speaker 1: posted that photo he had taken of the trail, and
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Speaker 1: he captioned it with something to the effect of, you know,
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Speaker 1: very strange weather out here, but I'm continuing my hike.
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Speaker 1: And then after posting the photo, he put his phone
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Speaker 1: away and began walking down the MacLehose trail. At first,
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Speaker 1: as Jeong headed off into the forest.
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Speaker 2: He made good time.
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Speaker 1: It was warm out but not too hot, and his
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Speaker 1: pack was fairly light. And also the views were just stunning.
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Speaker 1: Every time he came to a rise on the trail,
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Speaker 1: he could look out and see the waves of the
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Speaker 1: South China Sea, and the air was so clear and crisp.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a really relaxing and beautiful place
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Speaker 1: to be, certainly a big change from what he was
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Speaker 1: used to, which was the noise and crowds.
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Speaker 2: Of the city.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeong just continued on on his hike, stopping
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Speaker 1: periodically to take more photos. But after about an hour
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Speaker 1: of this hike, when things were still going really well,
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Speaker 1: Jeong reached this fairly steep incline on the trail and
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Speaker 1: he began walking up it. You know, there had been
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Speaker 1: past inclines on the trail and he had been fine,
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Speaker 1: but as he began maneuvering up this particular incline, he
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Speaker 1: began to feel kind of woozy. In fact, more specifically,
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Speaker 1: he began to feel like the air all around him
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Speaker 1: was getting really hot, like somebody was turning up the
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Speaker 1: temperature all around him. And so Jogi stopped as he
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Speaker 1: was making his way up this incline to kind of
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Speaker 1: catch his breath, but as he did that, the heat
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Speaker 1: just got worse and worse. He became delirious, and as
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Speaker 1: he was almost towards the top of this hill, it
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Speaker 1: was like he just couldn't go any further and the
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Speaker 1: world began to spin all around him, and before long
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Speaker 1: he was tumbling to the ground and blacking out. The
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Speaker 1: next thing Jeong became aware of was the feeling of
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Speaker 1: grass pressed up against his cheek. He was laying on
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Speaker 1: the trail, so he kind of opened his eyes. He
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Speaker 1: sat up for a second. He was very disoriented, you know,
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Speaker 1: he didn't know how long he had been out for.
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Speaker 1: He figured it was only a couple of minutes. But
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Speaker 1: as he kind of got his bearings, the first thing
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Speaker 1: he noticed is the sky was now totally dark, and
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Speaker 1: when he had passed out, it was broad daylight. And
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Speaker 1: so he's thinking, that can't possibly be true. I can't
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Speaker 1: have been here for hours. That's not possible. And so
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Speaker 1: he began to think to himself, like, oh, I guess
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Speaker 1: another storm has rolled in.
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Speaker 2: That's why the sky is so dark.
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Speaker 1: It's not nighttime. But then when he reached into his
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Speaker 1: bag and pulled out his phone and saw the time
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Speaker 1: and saw it was eight o'clock at night. He realized
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Speaker 1: there was no storm. It really is nighttime. He had
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Speaker 1: been unconscious on this trail for apparently like twelve hours,
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Speaker 1: and so as Jong just stared at his phone and
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Speaker 1: disbelieve his phone began to ring and it was his wife,
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Speaker 1: and so Jeong's thinking, oh, my goodness, I'm supposed to
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Speaker 1: be home right now. My wife is definitely worried about me,
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Speaker 1: and so pretty quickly he kind of composed himself, even
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Speaker 1: though again he has no idea what's happening here, and
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Speaker 1: he answers the call, and as cheerful as he could,
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Speaker 1: he told his wife that everything was fine, he was
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Speaker 1: just running late and he would be home soon, and
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Speaker 1: so she said okay. And then after Jean hung up
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Speaker 1: with her, he put his phone back in his backpack
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Speaker 1: and pulled out a flashlight, and then he stood up
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Speaker 1: and kind of checked himself over for.
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Speaker 2: Cuts and scrapes and bruises.
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Speaker 1: You know, he had no idea what condition he was
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Speaker 1: in here, but after checking himself over, he seemed okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was still very disoriented and confused, but
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Speaker 1: physically he was okay, and then again, even though he
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Speaker 1: doesn't understand what's happening here, he's just thinking, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: got to turn around, get back to the car, and
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Speaker 1: get home as quickly as possible. So he slung his
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Speaker 1: back and with his flash light out in front of him,
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Speaker 1: he just started hoofing it back down the trail in
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Speaker 1: the direction of his car. Now, as Jeong walked along,
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Speaker 1: he was feeling very unsettled, but he kept telling himself that,
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Speaker 1: you know, independent of whatever's happened here, he was going
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Speaker 1: to be home soon and everything was going to be fine. However,
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Speaker 1: not long into his return trip towards his car, he
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Speaker 1: began to get this unbelievably bad feeling, like something was
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Speaker 1: just totally wrong here. And as he began having this feeling,
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Speaker 1: he suddenly took stock of the fact that the forest
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Speaker 1: he was in, which had been so alive with life
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Speaker 1: and sound and everything, was now completely silent. No insects,
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Speaker 1: no animals, The stream nearby was making no sound. It
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Speaker 1: was like he was in a void and it was
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Speaker 1: so eerie, and he stopped and just listened, and it
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Speaker 1: was like the.
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Speaker 2: Whole world was on mute.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeong, who now is starting to feel scared,
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Speaker 1: just began scanning his flashlight all around him, not even
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Speaker 1: sure what he was looking for. But as he did,
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Speaker 1: he had another realization. Suddenly the area he was in
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Speaker 1: did not look familiar at all. I mean, he had
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Speaker 1: only walked maybe several paces away from where he had
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Speaker 1: just fallen to the trail and passed.
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Speaker 2: Out, But now as he looked.
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Speaker 1: Around, it was like he was in a totally different
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Speaker 1: section of the forest. I mean, he looked back where
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Speaker 1: he had fallen, and even in the grass where he
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Speaker 1: would have been it was untouched. There was no impression
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Speaker 1: on the ground from where he would have been laying
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Speaker 1: for twelve hours, like he'd been transported somewhere else without
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Speaker 1: knowing it. Now, when Jeong spoke to his wife on
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Speaker 1: the phone, he was very careful not to alarm her,
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Speaker 1: even though he had sort of a growing sense of
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Speaker 1: panic inside of him. But now you know, the whole
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Speaker 1: situation was sort of out of hand. He really didn't
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Speaker 1: understand what was happening, and he knew he needed help,
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Speaker 1: and so he reached into his backpack to pull out
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Speaker 1: his phone to call for help. Except when he reached
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Speaker 1: into his bag, there was nothing there. His phone was gone,
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Speaker 1: his supplies were gone. The bag was totally empty, even
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Speaker 1: though literally minutes before it had been full, Like there
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Speaker 1: was no way he just randomly lost the stuff.
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Speaker 2: It had been there, and now it was gone.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeong desperately looked on the ground with his
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Speaker 1: flashlight and he walked back in the direction where he
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Speaker 1: believed he had fallen, even though it didn't look like.
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Speaker 2: The same place.
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Speaker 1: He's looking all over the place, like, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: he did drop his stuff, but he didn't.
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Speaker 2: It was just gone.
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Speaker 1: And so, now really feeling scared, Jeong just completely lost
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Speaker 1: his composure and began screaming at the top of his
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Speaker 1: lungs for help, but he heard nothing in response, just silence.
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Speaker 1: And then not long after that, Jong's head began to
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Speaker 1: feel heavy again, and then he sank to the ground,
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Speaker 1: put his head in the dirt, and he closed his eyes.
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Speaker 1: When Jong woke up, it was bright out, and he
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Speaker 1: also was now magically back at the original spot where
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Speaker 1: he had passed out on that steep incline. And the
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Speaker 1: first thing he did as soon as he came to
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Speaker 1: is he reached into his bag, hoping that his phone
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Speaker 1: and other supplies would have just materialized by now, but no,
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Speaker 1: when he reached inside the bag, it was still empty.
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Speaker 1: And so on the one hand, Jong still is like,
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Speaker 1: what is going on here? I don't understand what's happening,
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Speaker 1: And then the other he was also becoming acutely aware
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Speaker 1: that because he doesn't have his phone, he can't call
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Speaker 1: for help, like he's stuck out here, and so he's wondering,
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Speaker 1: like what is he going to do here, and then
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Speaker 1: it dawns on him that, you know, it's been at
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Speaker 1: least several hours since he last spoke to his wife,
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Speaker 1: and she was expecting him home the night before, and
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Speaker 1: so by now, certainly because he hasn't come home, she
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Speaker 1: must have called the police, and so maybe there was
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Speaker 1: already a search party out here looking for him. And so, suddenly,
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Speaker 1: feeling kind of hopeful that that was actually happening, Jeong,
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Speaker 1: despite his confusion and disorientation here, just scooped up his backpack,
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Speaker 1: put it on, and began walking down the trail back
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Speaker 1: in the direction towards his car. And as he walked,
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Speaker 1: Jong periodically would call out, hoping that again some searchers
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Speaker 1: or other hikers were nearby who would hear him and
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Speaker 1: come to his aid. But after hiking for over an hour,
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Speaker 1: he still had not reached his car. The forest was
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Speaker 1: still eerily silent, like everything was silent. He hadn't seen
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Speaker 1: or heard anybody else. I mean, he's totally alone here,
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Speaker 1: and Soong started to wonder if maybe his best bet
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Speaker 1: was not to try to hike out of here, but
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Speaker 1: instead to just stay put and wait for, hopefully the
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Speaker 1: search party, if there was one, out there to come
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Speaker 1: find him, or maybe some other hiker to come find him. However,
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Speaker 1: as he was considering this, he looked up ahead where
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Speaker 1: the trail kind of turned, and he saw there was
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Speaker 1: this pond, a pond he had not seen on the
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Speaker 1: way in, but nonetheless, there was a pond basically right
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Speaker 1: over there, and from his perspective he could see kind
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Speaker 1: of through the trees on the other side of the
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Speaker 1: pond appeared to be a person. Jong suddenly felt this
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Speaker 1: enormous sense of relief. Here was the person who was
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Speaker 1: going to help him and get him out of here.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeong began walking towards this person, and as
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Speaker 1: he did, he cupped his hands and he called out
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Speaker 1: a hello to get this person's attention. Now, when Jeong
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Speaker 1: did this, he believed this person would either one hear him,
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Speaker 1: turn around and see what Jong wanted, or two they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't hear him and they would just continue to stand
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Speaker 1: there with their back to him. But neither of those
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Speaker 1: things happened. When Jong called out this very hearty hello,
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Speaker 1: this person just instantly began sprinting away from Jong without
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Speaker 1: even turning to look at him. They just began taking
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Speaker 1: off into the trees, and Jong he's thinking like this
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Speaker 1: is a crisis for him. He has no idea what's
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Speaker 1: happening here. This is the first person he's seen. He
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Speaker 1: needs them, and so instinctively, Jeong just took off running
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Speaker 1: after them, calling out the whole time, trying to reassure
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Speaker 1: them that he was not a threat. He didn't mean
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Speaker 1: to scare them. He needs their help, and so he
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Speaker 1: gets to the pond, he runs around the perimeter. He
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Speaker 1: can still see this person running off into the woods,
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Speaker 1: and Jong like he's so exhausted from the lack of
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Speaker 1: water and food, he's not feeling his best, but somehow,
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Speaker 1: through adrenaline alone, he starts gaining on this person and
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Speaker 1: eventually he closes the distance on this person as they're
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Speaker 1: weaving through the trees, and suddenly this person just stops
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Speaker 1: and they don't turn around to look at Yong. They
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Speaker 1: just stop in the middle of the woods, and Jong
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Speaker 1: he almost barrels into them because he had been running
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Speaker 1: so quickly, and he too, he just stops, staring at
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Speaker 1: the back of this person who still has not turned
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Speaker 1: around to look at him at any point, and Jean
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Speaker 1: says to them, please, I need your help, and Jeong.
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Speaker 1: He's panting, he's.
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Speaker 2: Totally out of breath.
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Speaker 1: And this person who's been running at top speed the
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Speaker 1: whole time, they're not out of breath. They're not even moving.
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Speaker 1: They're stationary, just with their back to Jean. And suddenly,
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Speaker 1: as Jeong is staring at this person, realizing that something
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Speaker 1: feels off here, the person begins to turn around to
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Speaker 1: look at him, and as they do, Jeong suddenly feels
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Speaker 1: this incredible sense of dread, like he chased this person down.
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Speaker 2: He needs their help. But now that they're turning around.
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Speaker 1: To face him, something feels wrong and he doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to see him.
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Speaker 2: Something's off here.
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Speaker 1: And then the person fully turns around and looks at Jeng,
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Speaker 1: and Jeong is suddenly so terrified of what he sees.
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Speaker 1: He holds his breath and just stays there, frozen to
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Speaker 1: the spot, staring. He can't believe what he's looking at.
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Speaker 1: This was not a person. This was some sort of
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Speaker 1: shadowy figure with no face, and it was now staring
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Speaker 1: directly at Jean and Jong. Again, he's so scared, he
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Speaker 1: can't move, he's holding his breath, he's just looking right
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Speaker 1: back at them. And then suddenly this figure takes an
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Speaker 1: aggressive step towards Jeong, and then another and another, until
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Speaker 1: suddenly they're inches away from Jang, and Jean is so
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Speaker 1: terrified he just closes his eyes, expecting to die at
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Speaker 1: any second. And then when he opens his eyes, the
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Speaker 1: figure's just gone. For about five minutes, Jeong just stood
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Speaker 1: there shaking, an utter disbelief of what he had just experienced.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this whole thing had been terrifying, but this
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Speaker 1: specific interaction with this shadow figure was horrifying, and he
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Speaker 1: had no idea how to process it. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, after a few minutes, Jeong's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to stay around here to try to
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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on.
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Speaker 2: I need to get out of here.
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Speaker 1: And so Jeang finally, after mustering the courage, he turns
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Speaker 1: to start walking back towards the pond and back up
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Speaker 1: to the trail. But when he turns around, the pond
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Speaker 1: isn't there anymore. It's just this endless expanse of trees.
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Speaker 1: The pond should have been right there, and it's gone.
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Speaker 1: And also, when Jang took off running after this this
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Speaker 1: shadow figure, it was daylight and now it's darkness. It's
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Speaker 1: total darkness. And so once again Jong has somehow gone
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Speaker 1: to a new location and jumped through time several hours
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Speaker 1: at least, with no idea how that had even happened.
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Speaker 1: And also as he's having this realization that once again
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Speaker 1: it's like space time has changed all around him, he
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Speaker 1: starts to have that heaviness in his head. Things start
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Speaker 1: to swim all around him, and before long he's fallen
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Speaker 1: to the ground and he's closing his eyes. When Jong
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Speaker 1: woke up again, it was now suddenly bright out. So
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Speaker 1: again more time has passed. He was not just passed
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Speaker 1: out for a minute or two, it was several hours
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Speaker 1: at least. And also Jong was now magically laying right
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Speaker 1: next to the pond that had vanished the night before
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Speaker 1: after this figure had showed up. And so at this point,
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Speaker 1: Jeong is seriously thinking to himself that he must have
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Speaker 1: lost his mind, that's.
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Speaker 2: What's happening here.
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Speaker 1: He's gone insane or does he have some horrible head
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Speaker 1: injury that's like causing hallucinations or something like.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't know.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, all he can do at
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Speaker 1: this point is just get up, try to get back
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Speaker 1: to the trail, and try to get back to his car.
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Speaker 1: And get back home. That's all he can do, and
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Speaker 1: so that's what he did. Jong made his way back
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Speaker 1: up to the trail and began walking down the trail
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Speaker 1: in the direction that he believed was back towards his car.
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Speaker 1: But after hiking for a while, things did not look
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Speaker 1: any more familiar. It was like he was hiking down
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Speaker 1: a brand new trail that he had never been on before.
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Speaker 1: The forest continued to be eerily silent, and every time
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Speaker 1: he called out for help, he got nothing in response.
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Speaker 1: And then eventually Jong reached the section of the trail
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Speaker 1: that kind of sloped down, and when he got there
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Speaker 1: and he looked out ahead of him, he saw down
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Speaker 1: below there was this huge cemetery. Now Jong had studied
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Speaker 1: this entire area before coming out on this hike, and
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Speaker 1: he knew there was no cemetery in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the MacLehose trail, like this can't be here. But remember,
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Speaker 1: by this point, Jong has seen and experienced things that
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Speaker 1: he cannot understand, so he doesn't even know what's real
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Speaker 1: and what's not anymore. And so as he's looking at
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Speaker 1: the cemetery, he told himself, this has got to be
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Speaker 1: some hallucination. This can't be here. But after walking down
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Speaker 1: the hill and entering the cemetery, he reached out and
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Speaker 1: touched the headstones and they were very real. This cemetery, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: for right now anyways, was real and right in front
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Speaker 1: of him. And as he looked at the dates on
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Speaker 1: these headstones, he could tell the cemetery was at least
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Speaker 1: two hundred years old. And so as Jeong is taking
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Speaker 1: in this new information, he looks up and he sees
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Speaker 1: a couple hundred meters away from him is a group
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Speaker 1: of what appears to be people clustered around a grave.
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Speaker 1: And for a moment, Jeong feels this unbelievable sense of relief.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: There's some people here, you know, they're visiting their relatives.
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Speaker 1: They can help me. But before Jeong ran over there
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Speaker 1: and asked for their help, he watched one of them
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Speaker 1: sort of turn their bodies and they looked back at Jeong,
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Speaker 1: and instantly Jong's body was overcome with terror once again,
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Speaker 1: because this person was not a person. This was a faceless,
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Speaker 1: dark figure, just like the one he'd encountered near the pond,
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Speaker 1: and there was this horrible sense that this thing was
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Speaker 1: looking right at him, and so horrified, Jeanng just turned
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Speaker 1: and ran away. That night, Jeong found himself inexplicably back
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Speaker 1: at that small pond. Didn't even know how he got there,
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Speaker 1: but at this point he wasn't questioning anything because he
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Speaker 1: didn't understand any of this. And as he was next
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Speaker 1: to this pond, at some point he had that heaviness
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Speaker 1: come over him, and before long he was on the
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Speaker 1: ground closing his eyes. However, this time, as he sort
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Speaker 1: of slept or became unconscious, he entered into this sort
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Speaker 1: of dream state where he became aware that there were
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Speaker 1: whispers all around him. Somebody or something was trying to
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Speaker 1: communicate with him, and at first he couldn't tell what
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Speaker 1: it was. Then he realized it was like the earth
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Speaker 1: was talking to him. It was like the rocks and
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Speaker 1: the nearby water were literally speaking to him, and for
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Speaker 1: some reason this felt sort of comforting, even though again
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Speaker 1: he has no idea what to make of this. And
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Speaker 1: then when Joang woke up again, it was bright out,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Jean was aware that the
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Speaker 1: forest was alive again. There were sounds coming from everywhere, animals, insects,
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Speaker 1: there was water sounds. It was like things were back
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Speaker 1: to normal, and Jong he also had this incredible clear
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Speaker 1: headedness that he hadn't had for the past several days.
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Speaker 1: It really was like things had gone back to normal.
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Speaker 1: And so Jean stood up and he heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of running water nearby, and he followed it to a stream,
19:23
Speaker 1: and so he decided he would just follow the stream
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Speaker 1: right on out of the MacLehose trail, like this was
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Speaker 1: going to be the way he would get out of here.
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Speaker 1: But after walking for hours and hours along the stream,
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Speaker 1: he still had not found his way out. The sun
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Speaker 1: was now directly overhead beaming down on him. He was
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Speaker 1: so hot, he was tired, He was moving slower and slower.
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Speaker 1: His optimism was beginning to fade. And then he looked
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Speaker 1: up and just up ahead he saw something that destroyed
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Speaker 1: any of the optimism he had left, because right up
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Speaker 1: ahead were three more shadow figures with their back to him.
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Speaker 1: It was like they were blocking his way towards freedom.
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Speaker 1: And so as Jeong tensed up and prepared to turn
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Speaker 1: and run back deeper into this trail that he was
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Speaker 1: trying to escape, one of these shadow figures turned and
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Speaker 1: they looked directly at Jean. And when they did, everything changed,
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Speaker 1: because Jeong instantly realized this was no shadow figure, this
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Speaker 1: was a real person. They had a face, and they
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Speaker 1: were calling out to him, saying, hey, do you need
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Speaker 1: any help? And Jong was so relieved, so happy, he
20:27
Speaker 1: couldn't even say anything back. He just fell to his
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Speaker 1: knees and wept tears of joy. He was finally saved.
20:34
Speaker 1: It would turn out Jong's wife had called the police
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Speaker 1: on that first night when Jong didn't come home, and
20:39
Speaker 1: so the whole time Jeong was out in the woods
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Speaker 1: over these several days, there was actually a massive search
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Speaker 1: party out there looking for him. However, none of the
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Speaker 1: searchers claimed to have seen or heard Jong at any point,
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Speaker 1: and Jong did not see or hear any of the searchers.
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Speaker 1: Those people at the end who finally rescued him were
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Speaker 1: just random hikers that.
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Speaker 2: Happened to see him.
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Speaker 1: But somehow despite the fact that Jang really could not
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Speaker 1: have gone very far from his car, I mean, he
21:05
Speaker 1: really didn't cover a huge distance on this trail when
21:08
Speaker 1: this whole experience began.
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Speaker 2: Despite that, the.
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Speaker 1: Searchers never heard or saw Jong at any point, and
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Speaker 1: Jong obviously never heard or saw any of them.
21:17
Speaker 2: So they're basically in the.
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Speaker 1: Exact same area looking for each other, but nobody sees
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Speaker 1: each other. After being discovered by those three real people
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Speaker 1: on MacLehose Trail, Jong was taken to a hospital where
21:28
Speaker 1: he was examined and it was determined there was nothing
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Speaker 1: physically wrong with him other than he had not had
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Speaker 1: much to eat or drink in several days. In fact,
21:36
Speaker 1: the official explanation for what happened to Jeong was just that.
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Speaker 2: He was really dehydrated.
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Speaker 1: However, Jong didn't buy that explanation, and when Jong left
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Speaker 1: the hospital and got back home, he immediately began digging
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Speaker 1: into the history of the MacLehose Trail, and he would
21:51
Speaker 1: quickly discover that he was not the first person to
21:54
Speaker 1: have a totally wild, bizarre, borderline paranormal experience out on
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Speaker 1: that trail. It would turn out the MacLehose Trail cuts
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Speaker 1: across a geographic line called the Sai Kung Barrier. This
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Speaker 1: is an area of the Sai Kung Peninsula that is
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Speaker 1: generally considered to be a portal to other dimensions, and
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Speaker 1: there have been enough people to have other worldly experiences
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Speaker 1: out on this trail that loosely match what Jean claims
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Speaker 1: to have seen and experienced that they dubbed the area
22:22
Speaker 1: this trail is in as the Bermuda Triangle of South China,
22:26
Speaker 1: And adding even more intrigue to this area is the
22:29
Speaker 1: fact that several other very experienced hikers have gone missing
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Speaker 1: along this trail, and they've had huge search parties sent
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Speaker 1: out for them, but they were never found. Jong would
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Speaker 1: eventually share his story of what happened to him out
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Speaker 1: on the trail in a thirty five hundred word essay
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Speaker 1: that he posted on social media. He and many others
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Speaker 1: believed that when he first fell and collapsed on the trail,
22:50
Speaker 1: that he actually fell through the Sai Kung barrier and
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Speaker 1: entered another dimension. That for those days that he was
22:57
Speaker 1: wandering around having no idea what was happening to him,
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Speaker 1: that he wasn't really in this dimension anymore, he was
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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Jeng believed the only reason he was able
23:05
Speaker 1: to escape this other dimension was because on his final
23:08
Speaker 1: night in this other place, he began to hear the
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Speaker 1: sounds of the rocks and.
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Speaker 2: The water whispering to him.
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Speaker 1: He said, the only reason he was able to hear
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Speaker 1: that was because he had sort of accepted his fate
23:19
Speaker 1: that here he was in this totally strange world, that
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Speaker 1: he couldn't understand and didn't have any real expectation to
23:25
Speaker 1: escape from. And it was that sort of resignation that
23:28
Speaker 1: he allowed himself to feel that kind of put him
23:30
Speaker 1: in touch with this dimension, and he believes that's what
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Speaker 1: ultimately allowed him to come back home. Despite those who
23:36
Speaker 1: doubt him, Jong stands by his version of events. While
23:39
Speaker 1: his time on the trail did not cause him any
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Speaker 1: physical harm, to this day, he is still haunted by it.
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