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Boys night turned horror show - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today we have two stories about some friends that just
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  Speaker 1: want to have a fun night out. But at some
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  Speaker 1: point during their fun night out, things take a disastrous
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  Speaker 1: turn for the worse. But before we get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's stories. Around 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday, August 13, 2011, 19-year-old Wang Weijie was with
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  Speaker 1: his friends Ma Jun and Zhou Guo at an internet
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  Speaker 1: cafe in the city of Taiping, China, watching Jun play
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  Speaker 1: a computer game. Now, Weijie and his friends went to
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  Speaker 1: this cafe a lot, and today they had literally been
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  Speaker 1: there for hours by this point. But now, as Jun
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  Speaker 1: finished up the game he was playing, Guo announced that
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  Speaker 1: he was actually ready to go do something else now.
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  Speaker 1: So the three of these guys spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time together, whether it was at an internet cafe or elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: They were like really close friends.
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  Speaker 1: And generally speaking, Weijia usually just did whatever Jun and
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  Speaker 1: Guo wanted to do, since they both had strong opinions,
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  Speaker 1: and Weijia was more of a go-with-the-flow type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: And so now, as Guo decided they were done with games...
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  Speaker 1: Weijia was just like, all right, cool. Well, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we just head back to one of our places just
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  Speaker 1: to hang out? But Guo, he shook his head and said,
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  Speaker 1: no way. Like it's Saturday. They didn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: up for school the next day. And so they could
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  Speaker 1: stay out all night if they wanted to. And so
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  Speaker 1: he said, like, we got to find something really exciting
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  Speaker 1: to do. Like we got to make the most of
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  Speaker 1: this night. Now, nobody had like a great idea of
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  Speaker 1: what was going to be super exciting. And so Guo
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  Speaker 1: was like, all right, well, for now, like, let's just
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  Speaker 1: go outside and we can smoke first. And then we
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  Speaker 1: can go from there. And at this, both Jun and
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  Speaker 1: Weijia just nodded in agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Like, okay, that's the plan.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, Weijia wasn't really sure if he felt
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  Speaker 1: comfortable staying out all night tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Because tonight was not just a normal night. Like, this
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  Speaker 2: was an iffy night to stay out all night.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular weekend was not just an ordinary weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually the area's annual ghost festival, a time
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  Speaker 1: on the lunar calendar when ghosts apparently would wander the
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  Speaker 1: streets after dark. And Wage's family, along with his friends' families,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly a lot of other people in this area, they.
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  Speaker 2: Took this festival really seriously.
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  Speaker 1: They believed the ghosts really were out wandering the streets
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  Speaker 1: after dark because they were just very superstitious. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in this area, this festival was taken so seriously that
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  Speaker 1: businesses would often close early so people could safely make
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  Speaker 1: their way home before nightfall. Now, Weija himself didn't really
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  Speaker 1: necessarily believe in ghosts, you know, despite his family appearing
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  Speaker 1: to very much believe in them. But the reality was
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  Speaker 1: is Weijia was just not a guy who ruffled feathers.
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  Speaker 1: He went with the flow. He was a rule follower.
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  Speaker 1: So in his mind, he was thinking, eh, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Festival. Kind of don't want to stay out late tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But now, Guo was already making his way towards the
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  Speaker 1: exit with Jun, and so Weijia didn't bother to argue.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, he just followed right along, and they went outside
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  Speaker 2: to smoke.
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  Speaker 1: About an hour later, Weijia was sitting in the passenger
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  Speaker 1: seat of his own car with Jun behind the wheel
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  Speaker 1: and Guo in the back. and they were driving down
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  Speaker 1: a road in the outskirts of town. And by this point,
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  Speaker 1: the sun had set, and so now they were officially
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  Speaker 1: in ghost festival territory. Like, presumably, there are ghosts out now,
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  Speaker 1: out on the roads. So after leaving the internet cafe,
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  Speaker 1: the three of them, they had a smoke, but then
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  Speaker 1: as they're out there, they couldn't come up with a
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  Speaker 1: compelling idea for how to spend the rest of their
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  Speaker 1: big night out. All they came up with is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's just like get in the car and drive around
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  Speaker 1: and maybe we'll figure out something to do. Now, initially,
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  Speaker 1: when they hopped in the car, they're thinking, OK, like
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  Speaker 1: it's getting dark out, like we're gonna be driving around
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  Speaker 1: during the Ghost Festival. We're bound to find something exciting
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  Speaker 1: to do. And so all of them are like they're
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  Speaker 1: amped up. They're in the car.
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  Speaker 2: They're pumped.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to find something fun. But after a while,
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  Speaker 1: they were just randomly driving around. No one's really out because, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's this Ghost Festival. Everybody's, you know, in their homes.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing going on. And it just became really, really boring.
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  Speaker 1: They're just like driving around and nothing's going on. And
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  Speaker 1: so at a certain point, Weijia is just feeling so
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  Speaker 1: frustrated because it's like he didn't want to be out
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  Speaker 1: here in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't voice that to his friends, but like he
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be out here. He just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be home.
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  Speaker 1: And so he just was like, man, like, this is
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  Speaker 1: so boring. And he just leaned his head up against
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  Speaker 1: the window and just decided to drift off to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's like closing his eyes and he's just
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  Speaker 1: laying there. And Jun, who's driving, is just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: driving along. They're not really talking. And so Weijia, as
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  Speaker 1: he's laying there, he suddenly feels the car come to
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  Speaker 1: a screeching stop. And Guo, in the back seat, immediately,
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  Speaker 1: reflexively screams.
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  Speaker 2: At Jun, the driver, like, hey, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Drive more carefully. And Weijia, he's like looking around like,
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  Speaker 2: what just happened?
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  Speaker 1: And he looks over at Jun, who's driving, and Jun
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  Speaker 1: is not paying any attention to Guo or to Weijia.
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  Speaker 2: He's just pointing out the windshield at something on the road.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, look.
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  Speaker 1: And so Weija, who's just sort of confused because a
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  Speaker 1: moment ago he was half asleep. He looks from June
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  Speaker 1: out the front windshield to see what he's pointing at.
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  Speaker 1: And there's this woman who's just sitting in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the road. They're out on the outskirts of town.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's no really any buildings around or anything. Like
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  Speaker 1: they're out in the sticks and it's dark out and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's home for the ghost festival. And there's just this
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  Speaker 1: woman sitting on the ground. She's wearing this floral dress
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  Speaker 1: and there's a bike that she has that's next to
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  Speaker 1: her just propped up. And she's almost been hit by
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  Speaker 1: a car. Like they stopped very close to her. She's
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  Speaker 1: almost been hit by a car and she's just sitting
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  Speaker 1: there staring blankly at the car. And so June, he's
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  Speaker 1: pointing at her like he can't believe it. He almost
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  Speaker 1: hit her and we just like, what's going on? And Guo,
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  Speaker 1: like he doesn't even know what to make of it.
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  Speaker 1: And at some point, June sort of snaps out of
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  Speaker 1: it and he leans out the window and he yells
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  Speaker 1: at the woman to like, get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what are you doing? Like, get out of the road.
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  Speaker 2: But the woman didn't budge.
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  Speaker 1: She just sat there staring at them, just on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: not a care in the world, just looking right at
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  Speaker 1: all three of them. And so eventually, after sort of
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  Speaker 1: the tension in the car went down a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: June just pulled his head back in the window and
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  Speaker 1: he looked at his friends and he's like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And he just drove around this woman, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: avoided her.
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  Speaker 2: And they continued driving along.
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  Speaker 1: For the next few hours, the three boys just continued
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  Speaker 1: driving around town, looking for something to do.
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  Speaker 2: But there still was nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everything's basically abandoned because it's this ghost festival night.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's out. No businesses are open. There's nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: And what really had not left any of their minds,
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  Speaker 1: even though they really didn't talk about it, was that woman. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that was so unusual to just see her sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: not reacting to nearly being hit. Like, the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was just so creepy, made more so because it's the
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  Speaker 1: night of this ghost festival. Like, talk about the creepiest
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  Speaker 1: night to see something like that. And so eventually, around
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  Speaker 1: like 1 a.m., when the boys are still just driving around,
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  Speaker 1: someone in the car suggests, like, hey, let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to that intersection and see if she's still there.
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  Speaker 2: Like, let's just see what she's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, keep in mind, it's been years hours since they've
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  Speaker 1: seen this woman, like hours. And so they drive back around,
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  Speaker 1: not really expecting to see her there. They think that like,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how weird that was, she has to have
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  Speaker 1: gotten up and left by now. But no, they turn
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  Speaker 1: onto that road, which again is outside of the town.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, there's no buildings around. It's dark minus their headlights.
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  Speaker 1: When they drive down this road and sure enough, off
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, still sitting in this intersection is this woman.
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  Speaker 2: She's unmoved.
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  Speaker 1: She's just sitting there in her dress wearing with a
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  Speaker 1: bike next to her, just hours later, no change. And
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  Speaker 1: so now it's like the boys can't help but feel
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  Speaker 1: really uneasy here. Like this isn't right. Something's wrong with
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  Speaker 1: this woman. I mean, also they can't help but think
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  Speaker 1: like it's the night of the ghost festival. Are we
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  Speaker 1: seeing a ghost? Like they're terrified. I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 1: reality is they were scared. But really more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: what all three of them are thinking and discussing in
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  Speaker 1: the car is we got to tell someone about Like,
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  Speaker 1: there's something wrong with this woman.
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  Speaker 2: What is she doing? Is she mentally unwell? Is she
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  Speaker 2: on drugs? We don't know. But like, this isn't okay.
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  Speaker 2: We got to tell someone.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, the three boys decided that they had
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  Speaker 1: had enough fun for one night.
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  Speaker 2: And they drove to June's house.
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  Speaker 1: And they just all crashed there, determined to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what to do with this woman and what they saw
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  Speaker 1: the next day. And so several hours later, the boys
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  Speaker 1: wake up. They make their way into the kitchen because
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  Speaker 1: they can hear June's mom is in there making breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: And right away... June tells his mom what happened the
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  Speaker 1: night before. And as he's regaling her in the details
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  Speaker 1: of the story, June and Guo also chimed in with
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  Speaker 1: their perspective. And then after they were done telling June's mom,
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  Speaker 1: they all sort of expected her, you know, being an
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  Speaker 1: authority figure, to know what to do. That she would
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  Speaker 1: very likely say, okay, we need to call the police
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  Speaker 1: or we need to call a hospital or we need
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  Speaker 1: to call some other authority figure and handle this professionally.
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't do any of that. Instead, she just
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  Speaker 1: Now, at first, all three boys were just shocked at
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  Speaker 1: how confidently and calmly she said this. I mean, of
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  Speaker 1: course they knew about the annual ghost festival. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: people in this town were very superstitious, including their own families.
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  Speaker 1: They knew this meant a lot, this festival. But the
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  Speaker 1: idea that we're going to sit here and literally say
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  Speaker 1: that the woman we saw sitting on the ground last
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  Speaker 1: night was a literal ghost, that seemed crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And the boys began saying as much to June's mom.
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  Speaker 1: But June's mom was just really annoyed with them and
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  Speaker 1: just basically shot them down and said, look, you saw
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  Speaker 1: a ghost. But like, that's the reason you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be out on the night of the annual ghost festival.
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  Speaker 1: It's why the business is shut down. It's why we
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  Speaker 1: all go home before nightfall. You knew you weren't supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be out at night.
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  Speaker 2: You were. That's why this happened. Not to mention these ghosts,
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  Speaker 2: they don't just wander around.
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  Speaker 1: They target people. You were targeted. Now, June's mother was
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  Speaker 1: not just throwing that out there. She was referencing one
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  Speaker 1: other aspect of this annual ghost festival that lots of
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  Speaker 1: people in this area believed, which was these ghosts that
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  Speaker 1: wandered around after dark on this one night of the year,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't just wandering around. They were looking for people
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  Speaker 1: to effectively latch onto. And so part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: people believed you need to stay in at night and
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  Speaker 1: avoid being out after dark is because if you basically
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  Speaker 1: interact with one of these ghosts, They could latch on
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  Speaker 1: to you, and then you become its target. In some cases,
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  Speaker 1: people believe it just produces really bad luck for you
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  Speaker 1: for potentially months at a stretch. Some other people say
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  Speaker 1: that once you've been targeted by one of these ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: they may try to kill you. Specifically, they may try
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  Speaker 1: to drown you. And so no one really knew, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like this belief that you just never want
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  Speaker 1: to interact with a ghost because it could be very
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  Speaker 1: bad for you. And so June and Guo, they still
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  Speaker 1: tried to argue a little with June's mother, trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell her that, no.
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  Speaker 2: This could not possibly be a ghost. But their voices
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  Speaker 2: seemed less forceful now.
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  Speaker 1: And Wei Jia, he was sitting there thinking, like, actually,
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  Speaker 1: if that was a ghost, this kind of makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It explains why she didn't react at all to nearly
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  Speaker 1: being hit by a car. She just sat there. Also,
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  Speaker 1: why is she just sitting there? strange activity for anybody
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  Speaker 1: to be doing. Maybe a ghost would do that. It
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  Speaker 1: also kind of explains why she was still there hours
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  Speaker 1: and hours later, just sitting in the middle of the road.
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  Speaker 2: Like other cars.
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  Speaker 1: Must have gone by. Like this is not normal behavior.
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  Speaker 1: And so Wage is thinking, wait a minute, maybe this
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  Speaker 1: was a ghost. However, just as Wage really started to
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  Speaker 1: feel almost sick with worry about, you know, the seriousness
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  Speaker 1: of what had happened, he heard June's mom tell them,
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  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. She said, look, I know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you need to do to stay safe. Later that same day,
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  Speaker 1: Weijia parked his car at a cemetery that was near
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  Speaker 1: Jun's house. And after he parked, he and Jun got
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  Speaker 1: out while Guo stayed behind in the car. All three
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  Speaker 1: of them were very tense. They were very anxious. And
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  Speaker 1: as Weijia scanned the headstones and looked over at a
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  Speaker 1: cornfield that was next to the cemetery, all he was
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  Speaker 1: thinking is this ghost, this ghost woman is going to
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  Speaker 1: appear at any moment and she's going to do something
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  Speaker 1: to us.
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  Speaker 2: But she didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And so eventually, Weijia and Jun began walking down the
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  Speaker 1: path that would lead them through all the gravestones, basically
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  Speaker 1: deeper into the cemetery. So the reason these two were
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  Speaker 1: here and now walking into the cemetery is because they
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  Speaker 1: were following Jun's mother's advice for how to stay safe
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  Speaker 1: now that they had potentially come in contact with this ghost.
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  Speaker 2: And so they had gone out.
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  Speaker 1: And acquired a stack of ghost money, and now they
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  Speaker 1: were going to go spend it. So ghost money is
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  Speaker 1: a kind of paper sheet in Chinese that typically is
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  Speaker 1: burned when a loved one dies. The idea is when
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  Speaker 1: you burn this money, it sort of goes to the
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  Speaker 1: deceased loved.
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  Speaker 2: One, and then they have money for the afterlife.
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  Speaker 1: You're basically giving your deceased loved one currency for the afterlife.
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  Speaker 1: But it can also be a way to buy protection
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  Speaker 1: from angry spirits. So Weija and his friends have been
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  Speaker 1: told to burn ghost money over their family grave plots
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  Speaker 1: so that their dead ancestors could essentially pay the ghost,
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  Speaker 1: the evil ghost, to leave them alone. Now, they'd already
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  Speaker 1: done this at Guo's family plot in a separate cemetery,
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  Speaker 1: so that's why Guo was staying back in the car.
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  Speaker 1: And now they were going to do Jun's family plot
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  Speaker 1: in this cemetery. And so Weijia and Jun, they continue
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  Speaker 1: walking through the cemetery until finally they reach some of
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  Speaker 1: Jun's ancestors' graves. There, they knelt down, they pulled out
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  Speaker 1: their ghost money, and they began to burn the bills.
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  Speaker 1: And they're both just kneeling there, burning this money. And
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  Speaker 1: with each you know, bill that crumpled up and smoldered,
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  Speaker 1: both of them were feeling like this enormous wave of
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  Speaker 1: relief coming over them. And so for a little while,
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  Speaker 1: they're just burning their money and they're both looking down
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  Speaker 1: at the money on the ground. They're just kneeling there.
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  Speaker 1: But then at some point, Weijia just looked up. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he did, he froze.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Because standing right behind June, June can't see this, right
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: behind June is that woman in a dress. And she's
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: looking at both of them.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And Weijia was so scared, he shrieked, he jumped up, turned,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and started running in the opposite direction. Now, Jun is
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: so startled by Weijia screaming that he jumped up, ready
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to run away himself. But he's watching Weijia take off,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and he turns around because he could tell Weijia saw
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: something behind him. But there's nothing behind him. And he's
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: thinking he must have seen the ghost because why else
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: would he react this way? But there's nobody here. And
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: so June sort of put together like what's going on here.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Like Weija clearly spooked himself. We're in a cemetery after all.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And he sees Weija and he's running and he's running
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and he disappears into the cornfield that was next to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the cemetery.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: He's just gone. Just running. He's gone.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Now, this cornfield was pretty massive. It had not been harvested.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: So the stocks were really tall. And clearly, like, Weijia
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: was on a mission, and so Jun was not about
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to just chase after him. Instead, he ran back to
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the car, and he grabbed Guo first. And the two
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: of them went after Weijia. However, when they got to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the cornfield and actually went inside of it, they quickly
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: realized it was going to be really hard to find
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: anything in this cornfield.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, the stalks are so thick and tall. It's
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: so dense. I mean, every step was so slow and difficult.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And they're calling out for Weijia, but there's no response.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And so after several minutes of only moving, you know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: like 10, 15 feet or so into this cornfield, making
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: no progress, the two of them are like, what happened
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to him? Like either the ghost got him or like
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: maybe he's in hiding somewhere. Maybe he's convinced that the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: ghost is nearby and he's just being quiet and he's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in hiding and he's somewhere in this cornfield, but we
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: got to find him. And so the two friends, they
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: back out of the cornfield and they end up calling
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a bunch of their friends to meet them at this cornfield.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and help them look for Weija. So all these friends,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: they eventually arrive, and all day and into the night,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: these friends search this cornfield. They're looking everywhere for Weija.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Everyone's screaming his name. There's no sign of him. Three
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: days later, and Weija still had not been found. Now,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: by this point, the parents, Weija's parents, had been told.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: They had told police. Police had looked.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: For Weija, but there was no sign of him. I mean,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they were still out looking for him, but right now,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Like the talk of.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: The town was, where is Weija? Nobody knew.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And so on this day, three days after the day
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: that Weija went missing, Jun was sitting in his room,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: just feeling miserable. All he can think about is his
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: friend and what happened to him. Like, you know, he
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: ran off after presumably seeing this ghost. Like, did the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: ghost get him? Like all these horrible thoughts are going
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: through his head. And Jun, as he's sitting in his room,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: he hears his mom call out to him, telling him
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: there's a visitor. And so Jun, he gets up, he
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: leaves his room, he goes to the front of the house,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and he sees a police officer standing in the doorway.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And this officer would tell Jun and his mother that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: they had found Weija, and he was dead. His body
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: was found in a lake that was not far from
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the cemetery, and that he had drowned.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Jun is completely shocked.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, on the one hand, he sort of was
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: expecting bad news at this point. I mean, basically everybody was.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But to hear that his friend was dead was just horrific,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and he you know, really struggled to keep back tears. But,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you know, before he could really even react to this,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the officer went on to say that, you know, June,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: we spoke to Wage's parents and they told us that
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you and Guo were with their son last, that you
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: were with him before he vanished.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And so we just want.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You to tell us, you know, now that we know
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: he passed away, that he drowned, We want to know
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: What did you see? What led to him drowning?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And June, he just launched into the most detailed version
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of the story he could possibly think of. He took
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the officer all the way back to them at the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: internet cafe, you know, playing computer games. They decide they're
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: going to stay out all night. They go outside. They're
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: having a smoke. They're talking about what they're going to do.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: They decide they're going to get in the car and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: just drive around. They're driving around on the night of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: this ghost festival. They see this woman. They think it's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a ghost. Like, he went through this whole rendition of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the ghost being really central to the story and how
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the next day, June's mom had, like, said, oh, go
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: burn ghost money in the cemetery to protect yourself from
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the spirits. They go to the cemetery, and they're burning
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the ghost money. But then, wager, he gets so scared.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: June's convinced it's because he sees the ghost again, this woman,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and he takes off running.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Into the cornfield.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So he tells the officer like every little detail. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he knew that even in a place like this, where
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: people did, for the most part, believe in ghosts, he
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: knew his story like really hinged.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: On a ghost made Weija do this.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: And he knew that it was like totally preposterous in
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: some ways, but he thinks he's telling him the truth.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And so he tells the officer all this stuff. And
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the officer is just staring at him. And he's clearly
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: very skeptical. But And then at some point after Jun
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is done and he's just waiting for the officer, the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: officer looks at him and he asks him one question
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that once Jun answers, once he answers honestly, it completely
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: explains everything that happened. It would turn out that woman
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: who was sitting in the middle of the road that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: sort of became the centerpiece of this whole ordeal was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not a ghost.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: In fact, she wasn't even real.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Because the three friends, Jun, Guo, and Weijia, On the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: night they decide to have their big night, they're going
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to stay out all night. When they went out for
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a smoke, they didn't smoke cigarettes. They smoked methamphetamine, which
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: can cause you to hallucinate. And so they were high
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: on meth driving around and hallucinated that woman.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: But they all, you know, believed they saw it. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: it felt so real.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And it was on the same night as this annual
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: ghost festival that it felt so real that even the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: next day when they were no longer high, They still
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: believed they had seen it. And then June's mom confirmed, yep,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that was a ghost because she believes in ghosts. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: so they set out to the cemetery and they're going to,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know, burn this ghost money to save themselves from
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: these evil spirits. And what do they do before they
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: head out to the cemetery?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: They smoke more meth. And Weija, he has another hallucination.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He thinks he sees the ghost, ran into the cornfield,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not realizing that deep in the cornfield was a lake.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: He fell into it. and he was high on meth
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and didn't know how to swim, and so he drowned.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: On the night of August 28, 2004, a 21-year-old named
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: John Hutcherson leaned over a bar in Marietta, Georgia, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: asked the bartender for another beer. John, by this point,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: had completely lost track of how many drinks he had
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: had in the past few hours, but he was sure
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it had been a lot, because by this point, the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: room was starting to spin.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: However, he had no plans to stop drinking anytime soon.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: After all, it was only midnight, which was very early
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: for John, and he was having a great time, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the bar was packed, and there was loud music playing,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and John was also on a winning streak playing pool.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And so while he waited for his beer, John looked
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: over at the pool table. He had left his best
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: friend Frankie there a few minutes ago, but now as
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he was looking over there, he didn't see Frankie anymore.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So John and Frankie had been very close ever since
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: high school.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: And this night out.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They were having was sort of like a typical Saturday
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: for them. Every week they would meet at this bar,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: they would get exceptionally drunk, and they would basically stay
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: out all night.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: But on this night, they were both a lot drunker
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: than usual. And now Frankie was gone.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And so as John very drunkenly looked around the bar
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to see if he could find Frankie, he noticed a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: girl he didn't recognize at the end of the bar.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: She was very cute and she appeared to be smiling
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: at him. And so, you know, John sees her and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: forgets all about his friend Frankie being gone and just
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: smiles back at this girl. And then a moment later,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the bartender hands him his beer and, you know, John's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: feeling really confident. He takes his beer and He begins
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: walking towards this girl.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: However, before he.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Actually reached her, he felt a hand on his arm
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and he turned to see Frankie, who looked just awful.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: He looked so pale. He smelled like vomit.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And Frankie told John, you know, as well as he
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: could because he's so drunk. He's mumbling everything. He just
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: said he felt horrible and it was time to go. Now,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: John was really disappointed because even though he was really,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: really drunk too, He wasn't as bad as Frankie. Like,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: John had not reached the nauseous and vomiting phase of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: extreme intoxication. And so he's thinking, man, like, there are
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a couple more hours till closing, and I really want
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to talk to this girl. But he was Frankie's ride,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and Frankie had to go home, clearly. And so if
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: he was going home, John had to go home too.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So John just chugged his beer, put it back on
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the bar, and then he turned and kind of waved
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: at the girl, being like.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I gotta go. And then John... pulled his car
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: keys out of his pocket.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And so John and Frankie, they head outside to the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: parking lot, and John goes to his truck, and he
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: climbs into the driver's seat. And as he's fumbling with
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the keys to start the car, Frankie... had gone around
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to the other side and stumbled his way into the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: passenger seat. And even though he's like wrecked drunk, he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: like totally out of it. Frankie looks over at John
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and sees him unable to even start the car. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, are you sure you're good to drive?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And John looks over at Frankie and he's like, of course,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just fine. I do this every single week. We
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: always get home safe. And so at this point, Frankie's like,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: all right, you know, whatever, let's just go.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And so John, he eventually manages to turn the car on.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: He throws it in gear.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: He began to pull out of the parking lot onto
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the road, but as he did, I mean, he really
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: had to squint his eyes just to see the road clearly.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, his whole world is totally spinning because of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: how intoxicated he was. And then as soon as he
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: actually began driving down the main road on the way home,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the first thing he did is he's like hitting the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: curb and swerving back onto the road, but he was,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you know, basically steady. You know, he's totally wasted, but
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he's basically hanging on. And then the rest of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: drive was just a blur. I mean, John was white
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: knuckling it the rest of the way, you know, He's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: driving along, he sees the gas station that he always
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: passed on the way home, so that's a familiar landmark,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he's going the right way.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: He eventually passes a familiar.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Billboard, but then at some point his eyes snap back
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: into focus because he realizes he's swerving off the road
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: onto the shoulder, but he swerves back just in time
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to avoid hitting.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: A telephone pole. And he's like, oh, man, like, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: got this. Like, stay focused.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And then somehow, someway, eventually, he winds up in front
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of Frankie's house.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And so he drops his friend off.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: And then back on the road he goes, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: navigating now at this point, like, with one eye shut.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And he eventually finds his way to his parents' house
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: where he was staying. And from there, he climbed out
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of his car. He walked up the driveway. He unlocked
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the front door and then stumbled up to his room
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: where he immediately just fell into his bed and passed out.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: The next thing John knew, he heard voices, and then
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: he felt somebody grab his arm and shake him.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: And then when he opened his eyes.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: His vision was very blurry, but eventually it came into focus,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and he saw that he was clearly in his bedroom,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in his bed, on top of his blankets, but he
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: had no idea how he got there. He looked down
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and noticed he was still wearing the same clothes he
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: had worn the night before, but they were sticky and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: they were dirty. And then there were also these two
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: figures who were standing over him, repeating his name, over
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and over again, almost angrily. John looked at these two
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and didn't really know who they were, but then he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: noticed they were both wearing matching uniforms.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: They were police officers.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And these officers were very angrily asking John, what happened
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: last night?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Like, what did you do? What happened the night before?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But John, like, he still is sort of like trying
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to figure out what's even going on. He really doesn't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: have a good memory of anything that happened the night before.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, all he can just quickly remember is Like
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: At that bar. He saw that girl.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: He drove Frankie home. Like he knew he was drunk
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: on the ride home, but he got home. Like he
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: didn't know what else they were trying to figure out
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: about what happened the night before. And so when he
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: finally opened his mouth to be like, what is going on?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Because he was still basically drunk. It just came out
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: of his mouth like this incoherent babbling.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: He's like, what's going on here?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And the two officers, they were just over it. And
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they just grabbed John and literally pulled him out of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the bed. They whipped his hands behind his back. They
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: handcuffed him. And John, who's like, What is happening? They
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: lead him out of his bedroom, downstairs, past his mom.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And dad who are staring at him like, what is
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: going on?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And even though John, again, is basically like borderline incoherent,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you know, in passing by his parents, he's hoping they're
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: going to be like, hey, officers, why are you arresting
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: my son? But instead, as he's led past them, he
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: looks at his mom and dad and they're not about
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to put up some fight.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: They're crying.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They're holding each other and crying like they clearly know
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: something bad has happened. and they can't stop what's happening
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to their son. And so the officers, they walk John
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: in handcuffs out the front door, and they walk him
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: over to his truck in the driveway. And when they
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: got there, the officers just stopped and gestured for John
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to have a look inside. And so John, he's sort
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of looking at the officers like, okay, what's going on
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: with my truck? And he turned and he just sort
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of squinted and looked through the window into the car.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And there was this large object in the passenger seat
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: that he didn't remember being there the night before. Then
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: as he looked more closely... he realized with horror what
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it was. So the night before, John did drive when
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: he absolutely should not have. He was clearly way past
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the legal limit for driving. He should never have been driving,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: totally unsafe for others, for him.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't have happened, but he did. He drove.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And so he and Frankie, they're driving home, and John,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in his limited memory, recalled, you know, this sort of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: like blurry ride home, you know, where basically as dangerous
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: as it was, he got them home, But at one point,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: he remembered almost hitting a telephone pole and he swerved
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: just in time and he narrowly avoided it. And in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: some ways, that was true. He did avoid smashing into
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the telephone pole, but he didn't avoid an incident. So Frankie,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: because he was so nauseous from having drank too much,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: he had his head out the window as they were
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: driving along trying to get some fresh air and And
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: when John drove too close to that telephone pole and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: swerved at the last second, Frankie's head was still out
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the window, and his head was decapitated by one of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the tension wires coming off the pole. The tight wire
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that holds that pole into the ground, one of them.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's like a guillotine, and they're speeding past it, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Frankie's neck hit the wire off on his head.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: But his body remained intact.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: In the passenger seat of the car, and John was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: so belligerently drunk that he didn't see he had just
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: killed his friend, nor did he see his friend's body,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: or a part of his body, still in his car.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And so when John drunkenly arrived at Frankie's house.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: He was like, alright, bye! He thought maybe Frankie got
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: out of the car, but... Clearly he didn't. He was
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: just there, dead, in his passenger seat.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And then John just drove back to his parents' house
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and just left the car in the driveway with his
• 31:35
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