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Thailand's most convincing GHOST STORY Campfire Stories with MrBallen - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Tonight, I'm going to tell you a very famous story
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  Speaker 1: from Thailand. This story was recommended to me by a fan, actually,
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  Speaker 1: This is like classic scary campfire storytelling. But before we
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into tonight's story. One morning in the
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  Speaker 1: early eighteen fifties, a young man named Mak wrote a
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  Speaker 1: small boat through canal in Prakanong, Thailand, which is a
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  Speaker 1: very rural community southeast of Bangkok, and Mock was rowing
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  Speaker 1: as fast as he possibly could because where he was
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  Speaker 1: going was home and he could not wait to get there.
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  Speaker 1: So Mak had been away for almost an entire year
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  Speaker 1: by this point, and that was because around a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: he'd been drafted into the Thai military and forced to
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  Speaker 1: go fight in war against the neighboring country of Burmont.
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  Speaker 1: And for Mack, getting drafted had really come at like
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  Speaker 1: the absolute worst possible time because at the time, his
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  Speaker 1: wife May Knock had been just a couple of months
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  Speaker 1: pregnant with their first child, and so he had had
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  Speaker 1: to just you know, basically leave her behind to give
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  Speaker 1: birth on her own, which was obviously really difficult for
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  Speaker 1: her and for him, like he wanted to be there
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  Speaker 1: for her and he couldn't. And also, this is eighteen
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  Speaker 1: fifties in rural Thailand, so once he was gone, like
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  Speaker 1: there were no phones or really any way to send
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  Speaker 1: letters back and forth. So really, ever since Mak had left,
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  Speaker 1: he'd had literally zero communication with his wife, so he
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  Speaker 1: has no idea how she's doing, how the baby's doing, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's off fighting in a war. And
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  Speaker 1: in fact, he actually got hurt while he was fighting
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  Speaker 1: and had to spend months in a military hospital recovering.
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  Speaker 1: But his wife had no idea, so Mock rode even faster,
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  Speaker 1: and finally he.
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  Speaker 2: Saw his home in the distance. It was a wooden
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  Speaker 2: house that stood.
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  Speaker 1: On tall stilts right on the edge of the canal,
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  Speaker 1: with a large balcony that overlooked the water, and it
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  Speaker 1: was surrounded by lime trees and thick forest. And it
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  Speaker 1: was at least a mile away from the nearest neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a pretty secluded place, but it was a
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  Speaker 1: place he desperately missed.
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  Speaker 2: As Mok neared these small dog.
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  Speaker 1: In front of his house, he began excitedly calling out
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  Speaker 1: for his wife, and as he did, he began tying
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  Speaker 1: up the boat, expecting at any moment to see his
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  Speaker 1: wife come running outside with the baby. But his wife didn't.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't call back, she didn't come out. It was
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  Speaker 1: just quiet, and for a moment, you know, Mock had
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  Speaker 1: this horrible thought that maybe something had happened to her
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  Speaker 1: while he was gone.
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  Speaker 2: Like how would he know?
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  Speaker 1: But then he heard the door open and out came
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  Speaker 1: his wife with a big grin on her face, and
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  Speaker 1: she was clutching their baby against her chest.
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  Speaker 2: She began calling.
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  Speaker 1: Out to him, and Mock saw there were tears of
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  Speaker 1: joy streaming down her face, and he leapt out of
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  Speaker 1: the boat and he ran to her. A few days later,
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  Speaker 1: Mock woke up inside of his home and he rolled
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  Speaker 1: over in bed and saw his wife still asleep, and
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  Speaker 1: he also saw their baby slipping in a small hammock
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  Speaker 1: right beside the bed. And as Mock looked at his
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  Speaker 1: little family, he felt almost deliriously happy. I mean, ever
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  Speaker 1: since he had gotten home, it was like Mock had
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  Speaker 1: entered this just perfect life, like just uttered demess stick bliss.
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  Speaker 1: His baby would turn out to be a boy, which
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  Speaker 1: he was really excited about because he had sort of
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  Speaker 1: secretly wanted a son. And you know, over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, he had had a chance to basically
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  Speaker 1: tell his wife all of his crazy war stories, and
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  Speaker 1: she had listened really intently, and she also had gone
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  Speaker 1: out of her way to cook him all his favorite meals,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was just so grateful to be back
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  Speaker 1: here that he literally had not left their home at
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  Speaker 1: all since he got back. He just stayed home and
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  Speaker 1: just enjoyed this unbelievable homecoming. But on this particular morning,
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  Speaker 1: Mock knew he would have to leave because he had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the market because their kitchen was basically empty,
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  Speaker 1: so they needed food. And so Mock he climbed out
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  Speaker 1: of bed and as quietly as he could, he got dressed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying hard not to wake up the baby
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  Speaker 1: or his wife. And then when he was ready to
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  Speaker 1: actually leave, he walked over to his wife and he
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  Speaker 1: gently leaned down and just told her that, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to leave now, I'll be back soon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Mock didn't really expect much of a reaction from his wife.
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  Speaker 2: He figured she would just sort of say, okay, you know,
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  Speaker 2: see you soon.
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  Speaker 1: But no, as soon as she heard he was leaving,
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  Speaker 1: it's like her eyes opened wide and she almost looked panicked,
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  Speaker 1: and she sat up in bed and she grabbed Mok's
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  Speaker 1: arm and she actually shouted no, and in fact, she
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  Speaker 1: said it so loudly that she woke up their baby.
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  Speaker 2: And so the baby's.
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  Speaker 1: Crying, and Mock at first he just stared at his
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  Speaker 1: wife in total confusion, like what is she doing here?
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  Speaker 1: And then he said, you know, like what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you care so much if I leave? Like
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong? And may not his wife, you know, still
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  Speaker 1: clutching his arm. She just kept shaking her head, saying no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't leave. And then she looked away like she
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  Speaker 1: was like trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Find the words or something.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally she looked back at him, and it
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  Speaker 1: was clear she had sort of calmed down a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and she said to him that, you know, you've been
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  Speaker 1: gone for so long. She just didn't want him to
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  Speaker 1: leave again. She said what she wanted him to do
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  Speaker 1: was just stay home right here, like, don't leave her,
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  Speaker 1: don't leave their son, please, Like something bad's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: if you leave.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to stay here.
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  Speaker 1: And when Mak heard this, it was actually kind of touching,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that his wife was so protective of him
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't want him to leave. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: liked that, but you know, he smiled and he told
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  Speaker 1: her like, yeah, but somebody has to go get food here.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to go. I'm going to get his food.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back, you know in a few minutes. This
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  Speaker 2: is not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And then he gave his wife a hug and a kiss,
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  Speaker 1: and she's looking at him like don't you do this,
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  Speaker 1: But he said, look, I'll be back.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as possible. And then he turned and he left.
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  Speaker 1: A little while later, and Mock had arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: fruit stand in the market. The market was in the
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  Speaker 1: village center, which was a few miles from his house,
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  Speaker 1: but he had walked here as quickly as he could, because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he had promised his wife he'd be back
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as he could. And when Mack went to
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  Speaker 1: the man who owned the fruit stand to purchase, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the items that he had picked out, the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the fruit stand looked at Mock and seemed genuinely surprised
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  Speaker 1: to see him, and then he gave Mak an almost
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  Speaker 1: sympathetic look and then asked him, like, how are you
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  Speaker 1: doing now. Mock and the fruit stand owner were not friends,
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  Speaker 1: but this village was so small that everybody who lived
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  Speaker 1: there knew everybody else, and so like an interaction like
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  Speaker 1: this was not unusual. Not to mention the fact that
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  Speaker 1: basically everybody knew Mock had gone to war, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know he had just gotten back. And so Mock
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  Speaker 1: assumed that what he was asking about was basically like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can see.
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  Speaker 2: You're back from the war. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Mock told the owner that, you know, the war had
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  Speaker 1: been terrible, but you know, now he was finally home.
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  Speaker 2: He was back with his wife and his son. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's so happy to have a son, and so really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, despite.
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  Speaker 1: The war, he'd never been better, Like his life was
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  Speaker 1: perfect right now. But the owner of the fruit stand,
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  Speaker 1: when he heard this, he actually looked back at Mock
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  Speaker 1: with a pretty confused look on his face and was like,
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  Speaker 1: your wife is home, And Mock was like, yeah, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, Like where else would she be.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit stand owner was confused for a second and
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  Speaker 1: then just sort of shook his head and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had heard something different, So I was
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  Speaker 1: just confused, And then sort of awkwardly, the fruit standowner
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  Speaker 1: changed the subject and just said, okay, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to buy. Later that morning, Mock returned
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  Speaker 1: to his home, now carrying several bags of food, and
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  Speaker 1: as he approached his home from a distance, he saw
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  Speaker 1: his wife out on the balcony feeding their baby, but
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  Speaker 1: from the looks of it, his wife was just.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of staring off into space.
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  Speaker 1: Mock called out to her, and it kind of snapped
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  Speaker 1: her back to reality, and she turned to him and
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  Speaker 1: she broke into this huge smile, and then she got
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  Speaker 1: up and she walked off the balcony into the house.
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  Speaker 1: And then when Mock got inside, she found her waiting
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  Speaker 1: for him in the kitchen, and for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: she looked really happy and relieved to see him back.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, few, thank goodness, nothing happened to you
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  Speaker 1: while you were away for twenty minutes. You know, her
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  Speaker 1: panic was gone. She was happy to have him back,
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  Speaker 1: and Mock was happy to see her. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, he also couldn't stop thinking about that strange
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  Speaker 1: interaction and he had had with the fruit stand owner.
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  Speaker 2: How he had been like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, your wife's home, Like it was a question as
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  Speaker 1: if he knew something that he wasn't saying, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mock was just thinking about it. And so as he
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  Speaker 1: put the food away, he told his wife, you know
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  Speaker 1: what the guy had said, and how odd it was.
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  Speaker 2: And Mak's wife, when she heard.
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  Speaker 1: This, she got really angry, and she told Mok that
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  Speaker 1: this was exactly why she had worried about him leaving
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  Speaker 1: the house in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: She said that ever since he had.
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  Speaker 1: Left to go to war, people in their village had
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  Speaker 1: been talking about her NonStop spreading all kinds of horrible rumors,
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  Speaker 1: and so Mock asked her, like, what kind of rumors?
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? But his wife did not elaborate.
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  Speaker 1: She just angrily shook her head and then stormed back
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  Speaker 1: out onto the balcony. A couple of days later, Mock
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  Speaker 1: was out in the forest that surrounded his home, chopping
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  Speaker 1: down trees for firewood. He and his wife had not
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  Speaker 1: talked any more about the situation with the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the fruit stand, and you know, the rumors that people
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  Speaker 1: in the town were supposedly spreading about her. Mock was
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  Speaker 1: ultimately just sort of puzzled by his wife's behavior. Before
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  Speaker 1: he had left for the war, she had always been
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  Speaker 1: very logical and independent, and so the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: suddenly seemed to care so much about what other people
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  Speaker 1: were saying about her, and the way she never wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Mock to leave her site was just odd.
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  Speaker 1: The only reasonable explanation Mock could come up with was that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for the last year, his wife had spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time all alone with a brand new
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  Speaker 1: baby and with lots of fear that her husband was
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  Speaker 1: never going to come home.
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  Speaker 2: Like that would take a toll on you.
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  Speaker 1: And so his hope was that, you know, now that
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  Speaker 1: he was home, that she would just you know, get better.
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  Speaker 1: So he was trying his best to just go about
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  Speaker 1: his life like normal. But I mean, just that morning,
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  Speaker 1: when he had told his wife he was going to
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  Speaker 1: go out and get some firewood, she had started sobbing
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  Speaker 1: and begging him not to go, and it had taken
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  Speaker 1: him like a full half an hour to calm her
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  Speaker 1: down and convince her to let him go because they
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  Speaker 1: needed the firewood. And so Mak really didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to make of this. He just hoped that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in time, this would get better.
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  Speaker 2: And so Mak just went about.
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  Speaker 1: His morning, you know, chopping down trees to get some firewood.
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  Speaker 1: And at some point, as he was literally chopping down
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  Speaker 1: a tree, he heard footsteps coming from behind him, and
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  Speaker 1: when he turned around, he sort of half expected to
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  Speaker 1: see his wife, but he didn't. He was sort of
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  Speaker 1: surprised to see it was this elderly man in a
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  Speaker 1: long robe walking directly towards him, like, clearly, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is coming to talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: For a second, Mack actually didn't know who this guy was,
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  Speaker 1: but then he realized based on what he was wearing
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  Speaker 1: that he was a monk, and then as he got
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  Speaker 1: closer he could see that it actually is someone who
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  Speaker 1: lived and worked at a Buddhist temple in their village,
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  Speaker 1: and so this was not a total stranger.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, this monk was.
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  Speaker 1: More like a community leader of sorts, and so as
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  Speaker 1: Mak is sort of putting this together, he figured that
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  Speaker 1: the reason this guy was coming over was just to
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  Speaker 1: you know, welcome him home from the war, and so
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  Speaker 1: Mak lowered his axe and smiled.
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  Speaker 2: And waved, but the monk didn't smile back.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, he walked right up next to Mak, really close
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  Speaker 1: to him, and he looked around the forest in sort
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  Speaker 1: of a paranoid way, and then, in almost a whisper,
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  Speaker 1: he asked.
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  Speaker 2: Mock if he was alone.
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  Speaker 1: Mock was definitely weirded out by this and didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any idea why this guy was acting this way, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mock said, yes, I am alone. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: the monk seemed to relax, and he told Mock that
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  Speaker 1: he really needed to tell him about his wife, and
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  Speaker 1: Mock kind of perked up, like, what are you talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and the monk said that Mak's wife had become convinced
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  Speaker 1: that people in their village were spreading rumors about her,
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  Speaker 1: and she'd begun going around town terrorizing people to get
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  Speaker 1: back at them. At this point, the monk leaned back
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  Speaker 1: and gave Mock this expectant look, like he thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: Mock was going to apologize for his wife's behavior or something.
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  Speaker 1: But to Mock, this information didn't make sense. His wife
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  Speaker 1: definitely had talked about people spreading rumors about her, and
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  Speaker 1: she was acting pretty strange and paranoid.
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  Speaker 2: But to Mock, this information didn't make any sense. On
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  Speaker 2: the one hand, you know, his wife had, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that she believed people were spreading these awful rumors
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  Speaker 1: about her, so Mak had heard that. But the idea
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  Speaker 1: that she was really doing anything about it other than
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  Speaker 1: being upset was just false. I mean, how could she
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  Speaker 1: be out terrorizing anybody when she literally was at the
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  Speaker 1: house with him, like all day long.
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  Speaker 2: She couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: He was with her, he would have seen it, so
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  Speaker 1: as respectfully as he could. Mack told the monk that
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  Speaker 1: he must be confused, because there was just no way
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  Speaker 1: his wife was acting on any of her suspicions. She
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  Speaker 1: might be upset about this stuff, but she's not terrorizing anyone.
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  Speaker 1: But the monk just shook his head and told Mok
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  Speaker 1: straight up that no, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone else in the village.
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  Speaker 1: Knew there was something seriously wrong with his wife. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows it. You're the only.
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  Speaker 2: One who doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: And before Mock could say anything else, the monk said
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  Speaker 1: to him, if he was smart, he would leave his
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  Speaker 1: wife right now and he would never look back. And
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  Speaker 1: when Mak heard this, he did not believe the monk. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he actually realized that his wife must be telling the
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  Speaker 1: truth about how awful everybody was being spreading these terrible
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  Speaker 1: rumors about her. Like she wasn't being paranoid at all.
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  Speaker 1: She had all the reason in the world to think
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  Speaker 1: people were out to get.
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  Speaker 2: Her or something.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point Mock dropped the polite act and
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  Speaker 1: just told the monk.
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  Speaker 2: To leave him and his family alone.
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  Speaker 1: And then Mok gathered up the wood that he had
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  Speaker 1: chopped down and began heading back towards his house. But
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, Mock just couldn't get the conversation he
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  Speaker 1: had had with the monk out of his mind. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: mostly he was just angry at whoever was making up
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  Speaker 1: these weird rumors. About his wife that was causing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people like the monk and maybe the fruit stand owner
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  Speaker 1: to say the weird things they were saying. But also
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  Speaker 1: Mock didn't know what these rumors actually were. He just
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  Speaker 1: knew that something was being said about his wife it
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  Speaker 1: was upsetting his wife, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Know what the details were.
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  Speaker 1: He figured if he did have the context, have the details,
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  Speaker 1: then he could shut the rumors down much more effectively.
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  Speaker 1: But he also really didn't want to bring this up
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  Speaker 1: to his wife again because he knew it would just
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  Speaker 1: really upset her. So he decided that what he needed
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  Speaker 1: to do was go back into the village market and
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  Speaker 1: go talk to that fruit stand owner. Clearly he knew
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  Speaker 1: more than he was letting on. So that morning, Mock
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  Speaker 1: got up and as quietly as he could, he snuck
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  Speaker 1: out of the house while his wife and son were
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: still asleep, and he hurried off to the market. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: even though it was barely dawn by the time he
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: got there, there was already a bunch of people that
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: were setting up their stands. However, when Mock made his
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: way over to where the fruit stand had been when
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: he had gone there a couple days earlier, he found
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: it was empty, and for some reason that Mock just
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: couldn't even explain, this immediately gave him a really bad feeling.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So instead of waiting around to see if maybe the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: owner of the fruit stand showed up later, Mock decided
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he would just go to the guy's house since he
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: knew where he lived. So Mock left the village center
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: and jogged to this guy's house. There was a wooden
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: building up on stilts, just like Mok's house, except it
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: was further away from the canal. When Mock got there,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: he climbed up a ladder to the porch, and then
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: he knocked on the front door, but nobody answered, and
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: so he knocked again, but.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Still there was no answer.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: And then Mock pressed his ear to the door, but
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: he heard nothing. It was like eerily silent, and at
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: this point Mock just could not shake this feeling that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: something was really wrong here, like with the fruit stand owner.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: So he just reached down and tried the doorknob, and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the door swung right open. But as soon as it did,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Mock smelled something absolutely rancid inside of this home, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: so at this point Mock he covered his nose with
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: his hand and continued yelling for the fruit stand owner
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and began walking slowly into the home looking around for
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the guy, but there was no movement inside of the home,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: and he's calling out over and over again, and then
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: eventually he notices something on the ground and he looks
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: down and he sees it's the fruit stand owner and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: he was just covered in blood and obviously dead.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Mack sprinted out of the house.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: He climbed down the ladder and just began running away
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: as fast as he could. And he knew that what
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: he should be doing is going back to the village
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: center to tell someone about what he had just found,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: but Mock just couldn't bring himself to do it because
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he just had this gut feeling that even though he
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: had no idea if his wife was in any way
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: involved with this death, he just felt like, based on
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the rumors and the weird stuff with his wife, that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: everybody was gonna blame her. So instead of running towards
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the village center, Mock just began running towards his own house,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and when he got close, he slowed down, sort of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: caught his breath, and he hoped that it was still
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: early enough that his wife and son would still be asleep,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and he could just sort of sneak back in and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you know, figure out what to do from there, but
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: without alerting his wife and having to explain what was
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: going on. However, just then he was close enough to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: his house that he could see the balcony that overlooked
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the water, and he looked up and he saw his
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: wife was clearly awake. She was out on the balcony
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: with the baby on her hip. However, she didn't seem
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to notice Mock approaching. And so Mock, you know, he's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: just walking slowly towards the house, thinking, you know how
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: he's going to explain where he's been to his wife.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: He figured she's probably.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Upset with him, he didn't know, but he's watching her
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and she, again not aware of Mok. She reaches up
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and she grabs a lime off a nearby lime tree
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: that was sort of dangling over the balcony, and so
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: she grabs the fruit and she pulls it off the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: tree and she drops it. She fumbles the lime, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the lime falls on the balcony and actually goes and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: falls between one of the slats on the floorboards. Balcony
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: is up on stilts like the whole house is, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so the balcony was seven feet off the ground, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so when the lime fell through the floorboards, it actually
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: fell seven.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Feet to the ground below.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And so Mock, you know, he's watching this happen, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: this is not like some meaningful event to him. He's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: just sort of, you know, clocking that she's dropped this lime,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and he's thinking, she's gonna, you know, grab a different lime, right,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But no, he watched as his wife sort of almost robotically,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: kneeled down and then put her arm into the slat
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: that this lime had fallen through.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Again. She still has not seen Mock yet, and he
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: watched as.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Her arm began to like stretch away from her body
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and down her arm went. It stretched nearly seven feet
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: until her hand grabbed the lime on the ground. And
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: then her arm was making these horrible crackling sounds as
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it retracted back up, back up through the floorboards. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: then she had her lime. And it was at that
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: point that she turned and looked at Mock. Mock at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: this point was horrified, and he just turned and ran.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: And this time he.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Went directly to the center of the village, to the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Buddhist temple where that monk had come from, the one
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that had basically tried to warn him about his wife.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And so Maki begins pounding on the door of this temple,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: begging the monks to let him inside and.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: To hide him from his wife. And eventually the door's opened.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: The monks immediately let him side, and they do hide him,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and for a little while, he's just like beside himself. Mock,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: he like can't even process what he just saw. He's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he's telling himself that, you know, that couldn't have happened.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Her arm couldn't have stretched that far, but like it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: looks so real. He couldn't reconcile what he had just experienced.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: And the monks, for the most part, just kind of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: let Mock have his moment of just being totally upset.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But then eventually, when Mock kind of calmed down, the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: monk who had originally come to him to warn him
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: about his wife, he came over to Mock and he said,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you the truth about your wife.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: But they told Mock that in order to do that,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Mock was going to have to agree to do something
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that was going to be incredibly painful. They would need
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: him to allow them to exhume his beloved wife's long
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: dead corpse. It would turn out that what everyone in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the village knew but Mack did not know, was that
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: his wife and son had both died during childbirth while
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he was away in the war.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: His wife's body had literally been in the ground for months, but.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Apparently her ghost was still around and very attached to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Mock and would not let anybody get between them. It
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: was not until Mock did give the monks permission to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: exhume his wife's body that they could finally stop this haunting,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and so the monks ultimately carved out a circular shaped
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: piece of her skull and performed a Buddhist ritual to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: trap her spirit inside. Today in Pracanang, the village where
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Mok and his wife and his son had lived, is
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: now home to a permanent shrine.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Too may knock. She's seen by some as.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: A very dangerous and terrifying ghost, and by others as
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a symbol of love that is so powerful it transcends death.
• 22:24
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• 22:26
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• 22:40
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