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If-you-hear-a-bell-ringing-in-this-forest-RUN · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: into today's story. In June of twenty nineteen, an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old girl named Bella wrapped up her first year
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  Speaker 1: in college and headed home for the summer. Her family
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  Speaker 1: lived just outside of the small town in France that
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  Speaker 1: was tucked up in the mountains and surround by this
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  Speaker 1: huge forest, and so growing up, Bella spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of her time out in this forest, either by herself
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  Speaker 1: or with her father or other members of her family,
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  Speaker 1: and so she knew the forest like the back of
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  Speaker 1: her hand. Her favorite place to go in this forest
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  Speaker 1: was the man made lake that sat kind of at
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  Speaker 1: the center of this forest. It wasn't huge, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a beautiful view as very peaceful, and so she
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  Speaker 1: liked going out there. The way she would get to
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  Speaker 1: it is she would leave her house, she would hop
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  Speaker 1: in her car. She would drive a couple of miles
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  Speaker 1: down the road and she would pull off into the
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  Speaker 1: shoulder of this road. And there was no signage that
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  Speaker 1: said this was the pull off to get to the
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  Speaker 1: man made lake. This was an area that she and
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  Speaker 1: her family had discovered that there was this particular trail
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  Speaker 1: you could take, and so she would pull off at
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  Speaker 1: this shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: She would get out, and she would turn away.
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  Speaker 1: From the road and just walk directly into the trees
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  Speaker 1: which butted right up against the road. And very quickly
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  Speaker 1: after walking into the woods, after going through some thick underbrush,
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  Speaker 1: she would reach this kind of clearing and she would
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  Speaker 1: see up ahead this little stream, and off to the
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  Speaker 1: left side of this stream is what looked like this
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  Speaker 1: kind of beaten up little foot path, but actually what
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  Speaker 1: it was was an animal trail. So animals just kind
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  Speaker 1: of made their way around this area all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and so it kind of carved out a path, and
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  Speaker 1: so Bello would walk down to this animal path and
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  Speaker 1: she would walk along the path that kind of went
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  Speaker 1: parallel with the stream, and she would walk for maybe
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  Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes until this animal path veered hard
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  Speaker 1: to the left, kind of went away from the stream.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, Bella would abandon the animal path and
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  Speaker 1: just continue walking along this stream, both stepping in the
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  Speaker 1: stream on some rocks and standing on either side when
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  Speaker 1: she could, and she would follow this stream due north,
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  Speaker 1: just going straight into the heart of this forest for
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  Speaker 1: about an hour, walking at a fairly leisurely pace, until
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  Speaker 1: the stream connected with this east to west running river.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point Bella would turn left facing west
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  Speaker 1: and she would follow along this river bank about twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes until the river fed into the man made lake.
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  Speaker 1: And so she would stay at the lake, sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a rock, enjoy the view and look at the animals.
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  Speaker 2: And listen to nature all around her.
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  Speaker 1: And then at some point she would turn around and
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  Speaker 1: reach trace her steps all the way back to her
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  Speaker 1: car for reference. One leg of this journey from car
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  Speaker 1: to lake or from lake to car took about two hours.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the reason Bella really enjoyed being in these
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  Speaker 1: woods and being at this lake was because it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of felt like they were hers. Because up until
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  Speaker 1: this summer in twenty nineteen, the only other people that
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  Speaker 1: Bella had ever seen anywhere in this forest or near
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  Speaker 1: this lake were other members of her family, so it
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  Speaker 1: really felt very private. So in June of that year,
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  Speaker 1: Bella comes home from college and almost immediately she wants
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  Speaker 1: to go out to the man made lake because she
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been in months. She's been in school, and so
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  Speaker 1: she's eager to get back to someplace that she kind
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  Speaker 1: of considered to be her happy place. So one morning,
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  Speaker 1: she gets up early and by herself, she leaves her house.
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  Speaker 1: She hops in her car, She drives the couple miles
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  Speaker 1: down the road. She pulls off onto that shoulder, She
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  Speaker 1: parks her car, she hops out, She turns.
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  Speaker 2: Away from the road. She walks into the forest.
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  Speaker 1: She finds the stream and starts walking along that animal
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  Speaker 1: path right to the side of the stream. She walks
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  Speaker 1: for a few until she reaches the point where the
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  Speaker 1: trail kind of cuts to the left and she just
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  Speaker 1: stays on the stream and is just continuing walking along
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  Speaker 1: the stream. And about thirty minutes later, when she was
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  Speaker 1: maybe one or two miles short of the east West
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  Speaker 1: Running River, she hears a bell somewhere off in the distance,
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  Speaker 1: way out in front of her, out towards the river.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds just like a chime, a single chime, And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she hears it, she stops because there's
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  Speaker 1: never any people out here ever, and that bell sound
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  Speaker 1: came from somewhere in the forest, and so she stops
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  Speaker 1: because she's not really sure if she actually heard that,
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  Speaker 1: because it could have just been her mind playing tricks
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  Speaker 1: on her or something. And so she stops and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of listens for a second, and then she starts
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  Speaker 1: to hear this bell just continuously start ringing.
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  Speaker 2: Now the ringing was not uniform, It was constant.
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  Speaker 1: But it was kind of sporadic, as if you were
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  Speaker 1: holding a bell and kind of bringing it randomly, like
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  Speaker 1: you might see the sports game. And so she's thinking
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  Speaker 1: to herself, you know, is there a dog that got
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  Speaker 1: lost somewhere up ahead and it's got a bell on
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  Speaker 1: its collar, And that's the sound I'm hearing. But as
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  Speaker 1: she's sitting there listening to this kind of sporadic bell sound.
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  Speaker 1: She's thinking, that's way too loud to be some RinkyDink
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  Speaker 1: bell on a pet's collar, So it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: something more robust. Did maybe somebody have a bell inside
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  Speaker 1: of a box and that box got on the river
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  Speaker 1: and it's floated down river and it's like crashing into
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  Speaker 1: rocks or something. I mean, she's going through these very
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  Speaker 1: strange scenarios in her head, but she's not concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the bell. She's actually pretty intrigued. And since the sound
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  Speaker 1: of this bell seemed to be coming from the direction
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  Speaker 1: she was already traveling, she decided she would just keep
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  Speaker 1: on walking and hopefully see whatever it was that was
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  Speaker 1: causing this bell sound. And so Bella just began walking
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  Speaker 1: along the stream again, kind of listening to this bell
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  Speaker 1: and thinking about what it was going to be. And
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  Speaker 1: after about five minutes of her starting to walk again,
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  Speaker 1: the bell just stops. It goes totally silent, and when
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  Speaker 1: it does, it actually kind of startles Bella because she'd
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  Speaker 1: been listening to it so intently, and so she stops
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  Speaker 1: and she's listening, kind of expecting it to go off
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  Speaker 1: some more, but it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: All she hears are the sounds of nature around her.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Bella didn't have an explanation for what this spell
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  Speaker 1: was or why it stopped, but she really just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that worried about it. She figured there was some sort
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  Speaker 1: of explanation for it. There had to be, and so
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  Speaker 1: she just kind of shrugged and kept on walking and
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  Speaker 1: put her focus back on getting to the lake. About
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  Speaker 1: ten or fifteen minutes later, Bella was still walking along
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  Speaker 1: the stream. She was still maybe a half mile or
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  Speaker 1: a mile short of the east to west running river
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  Speaker 1: when she sees up ahead on the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the stream. As she's walking, there appears to be something
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  Speaker 1: laying on the ground that.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like it could be an animal or a rock.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't really know what it is, and.
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  Speaker 1: As she gets closer, she realizes it's a beaver laying
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, and this beaver.
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  Speaker 2: Is missing its head. Now, this is a huge forest,
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  Speaker 2: and Bella would have known that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, of course, there are wild animals all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, and so finding the body of an animal
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  Speaker 1: that had been attacked by another animal was not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: That's nature.
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  Speaker 1: But what did strike Bella as odd was the cut
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  Speaker 1: on this beaver's neck was unbelievably neat and uniform, as
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  Speaker 1: if its head had been very carefully removed with a
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  Speaker 1: very sharp knife. And the beaver's head was nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: be found. It certainly did not have the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: having its head removed from some predator, and its teeth
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  Speaker 1: that would have been very rough.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the rest of the.
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  Speaker 1: Beaver's body was intact, so whatever killed this beaver was
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  Speaker 1: not interested in eating the beaver. As Bella stood over
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  Speaker 1: this beaver and was just staring at it, she also
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  Speaker 1: noted that there was no smell. Normally, when something dies,
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  Speaker 1: it begins to smell very quickly. It's part of the
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  Speaker 1: decomposition process, and so for there not to be a
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  Speaker 1: smell indicated to Bella that this beaver must have been
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  Speaker 1: killed fairly recently.
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  Speaker 2: And then when.
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  Speaker 1: Bella kind of gently prodded the body with her foot,
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  Speaker 1: she realized the beaver's body was still fairly limp, so
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  Speaker 1: rigor mortis had not set in. Rigor mortis is another
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  Speaker 1: part of the decomposition process where the body kind of
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  Speaker 1: stiffens up, and that happens fairly soon after death. And
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  Speaker 1: so as Bella is realizing this beaver must have died
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  Speaker 1: very recently. It dawns on her that most likely whoever
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  Speaker 1: or whatever has killed the beaver is probably somewhere nearby,
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  Speaker 1: and Bella can't help but connect this dead beaver to
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  Speaker 1: that bell she was hearing earlier, which before meant nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but considering the bell was roughly coming from the same
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  Speaker 1: area where this beaver has now been found, it made
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  Speaker 1: her uneasy, and so Bella found herself whipping her head around,
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  Speaker 1: looking out into the trees, seeing if you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: some person, a hunter or somebody that would kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Explain what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: But there was nothing, and so Bella felt herself starting
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  Speaker 1: to panic a little bit. But then she stopped herself
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  Speaker 1: and said, calm down, it's broad daylight. I have been
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  Speaker 1: coming to these woods for years and years. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen another person. I've never encountered some predatory animal. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure everything is perfectly fine. I got nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: And so she stepped over the beaver and kept on walking.
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  Speaker 1: Bella would eventually reach the east west running river. She
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  Speaker 1: would turn left and walk forward. Twenty minutes alongside this river,
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  Speaker 1: she'd reached the man made lake. She enjoyed the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: view and the scenery, and then at some point she
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  Speaker 1: turned around and began retracing her footsteps. She walked past
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  Speaker 1: the beaber on the ground all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: her car, and she went home. A week later, Bella
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  Speaker 1: was sitting around her house when she felt pretty bored
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  Speaker 1: and decided kind of abruptly that in order to cure
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  Speaker 1: her boredom, she would go back to the place she
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  Speaker 1: loved so much, the man made lake. And so she
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  Speaker 1: told her parents where she was going, and then she
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  Speaker 1: left the house, hopped in her car, drove to the
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  Speaker 1: pull off and parked and entered the woods at six pm.
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  Speaker 1: Sunset that night was at nine pm, and so Bella
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  Speaker 1: knew this would need to be a fairly quick turnaround
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  Speaker 1: so she didn't get trapped in the woods in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: And so Bella finds the animal trail.
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  Speaker 1: She follows along the stream until the trail goes left
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  Speaker 1: and she stays.
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  Speaker 2: On the stream.
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  Speaker 1: She continues walking on the stream when she starts to
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  Speaker 1: hear the distant sound of thunder. So she looks up
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  Speaker 1: into the sky through the trees and she could see
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  Speaker 1: the sky is starting to get dark, but she's still
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hours away from sunset, and so between
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  Speaker 1: the thunder and the dark skies, she knows.
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  Speaker 2: A storm is rolling in.
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  Speaker 1: But she is determined to get to that lake, and
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  Speaker 1: so instead of you know, turning around and saying, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come back another time, she just starts jogging along
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  Speaker 1: the stream to get there as fast as she possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: And almost immediately as she's jogging, the rain drops start
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  Speaker 1: to fall, and by the time she passes the beaver
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  Speaker 1: corpse on the ground, it hadn't moved.
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  Speaker 2: The rain was really coming down.
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  Speaker 1: And then about fifteen minutes after the corpse, when she
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  Speaker 1: hit the east west running river, that's when the rain
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  Speaker 1: was at a full down corp Still, Bella turned at
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  Speaker 1: the river and continued west towards the man made Lake
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  Speaker 1: as if she was going to go all the way,
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  Speaker 1: but only about a minute or two into this final leg,
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  Speaker 1: she still had about twenty minutes to get to the lake.
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  Speaker 1: She stops herself and she looks at her watch and
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  Speaker 1: she can see it's after eight o'clock already, and she's
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  Speaker 1: thinking to herself, you know, if I turn around right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna take me over an hour to get back
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  Speaker 1: to my car sun sets at nine pm. It's after
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  Speaker 1: eight pm now, so already I know I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have to navigate this forest at night in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just for a little bit at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and if I go all the way to the lake
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  Speaker 1: and then come all the way back to the car,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the forest after dark for
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  Speaker 1: quite a while, maybe up to an hour. And she's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm confident I can do that, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also pouring rain, I'm cold. If I get lost, this
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  Speaker 1: could turn into a very bad situation. And so she
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  Speaker 1: ultimately decides that, even though she really wants to keep going,
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  Speaker 1: she needs to turn around. She needs to head back,
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  Speaker 1: And so she turns around and she walks back up
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  Speaker 1: alongside this east west running river to where the stream
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  Speaker 1: fed into that river. She turns and begins walking south
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  Speaker 1: along this stream, headed back towards the car. On her walk,
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  Speaker 1: because the visibility was starting to get quite bad because
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  Speaker 1: it was so dark, she had her head down at
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  Speaker 1: the ground because she didn't want a trip.
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  Speaker 2: She stepping on rocks, she's stepping on muddy areas.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to make sure her footing is solid, and
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  Speaker 1: so her head is down, the rain is pounding all
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  Speaker 1: around her, and she's walking for about fifteen minutes when
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, something hits her in the top
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  Speaker 1: of the head, and so reflexively she looks up and
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  Speaker 1: kind of puts her hands in front of her face
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  Speaker 1: to protect herself, and she sees what she had just
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  Speaker 1: run into. It was the weiber corpse. It was hanging
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  Speaker 1: from a string that was dangling off a branch right
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  Speaker 1: above her, and this beaver's head had been retrieved and
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  Speaker 1: the head had been stitched onto the front paws of
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  Speaker 1: this beaver. And so she's looking at this beaver that's
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  Speaker 1: dangling from this rope, it's carrying its own head, and
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  Speaker 1: she's walked square into it. And her first reaction was
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  Speaker 1: basically to gag. She was going to vomit, she was
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  Speaker 1: so disgusted. And then she began frantically rubbing at her
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  Speaker 1: hair where this thing had made contact with her, because
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  Speaker 1: there could be juices from the decomposition that got on her.
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  Speaker 1: And then after frantically kind of patting at her head
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  Speaker 1: for a second, she stops and something really terrifying dawns
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  Speaker 1: on her. Whoever strung this beaver up to this tree
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  Speaker 1: and then stitched its head onto its paws. They had
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  Speaker 1: done that in the last thirty minutes, because thirty minutes earlier,
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  Speaker 1: when she was on her way in, she remembered passing
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  Speaker 1: the beaver carcass on the ground she saw it. It
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  Speaker 1: had not moved from where it was the week before
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  Speaker 1: when she first saw it. And now this beaver is
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  Speaker 1: strung up in the tree, and so as the wheels
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  Speaker 1: are turning in Bella's head, she realizes that if someone
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  Speaker 1: has just done this, then they are probably nearby. And
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  Speaker 1: at this point it really starting to get dark. The
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  Speaker 1: rain is pounding all around her, and she starts whipping
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  Speaker 1: her head around, looking in all directions to see if
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  Speaker 1: there's someone out there that did this. But as she's looking,
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  Speaker 1: all she sees is just dark forest in all directions,
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  Speaker 1: and she knows she's at least one hour even if
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  Speaker 1: she runs from her car, and so suddenly she is
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  Speaker 1: totally panicked, and in an effort to calm herself down,
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  Speaker 1: she says to herself, Okay, I need to get out here,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to walk. If I start running right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to turn into a complete nightmare. I
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  Speaker 1: just have to try to walk, and so she walks
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  Speaker 1: around this dangling beaver corpse and starts walking along the stream,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as she's past that corpse, she feels
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  Speaker 1: the hairs on the back of her neck standing up.
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  Speaker 2: She can hear movement behind her. She doesn't know what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It could be a deer, it could be some animal,
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  Speaker 1: but she's too afraid to turn around. And even though
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  Speaker 1: she was trying to tell herself to calm down, just
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  Speaker 1: keep walking, You're safe, you're freaking yourself out.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is okay. As she's walking, she could.
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  Speaker 1: Feel herself starting to speed up, until finally she was
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  Speaker 1: just running down this stream, sprinting actually away from this
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  Speaker 1: beaver in whatever it was that was moving around in
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  Speaker 1: that area. And at some point she got so winded
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  Speaker 1: from sprinting so fast that she came to a stop,
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  Speaker 1: maybe five or six minutes after seeing this beaver.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as.
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  Speaker 1: She comes to a stop and she's walking, she still
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  Speaker 1: hasn't turned around yet, she hears the sound of that bell,
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  Speaker 1: and right away it's the exact same sound she had
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  Speaker 1: heard the week before. It's that kind of constant, sporadic
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  Speaker 1: sound of someone ringing a bell, but in.
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  Speaker 2: Her panic state. She doesn't know where.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming from. She's so scared, her anxiety is so high.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't know if it's behind her, if it's off
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  Speaker 1: to the side. It's now completely dark out, and so
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  Speaker 1: she is full blown terrified. There is someone or something
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  Speaker 1: behind her that has strung this fever up, that's probably
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  Speaker 1: watching her, and she can't see them, even though she's
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: beyond winded, she can barely breathe. She just starts sprinting
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  Speaker 1: as fast as she can. And as she's stumbling and
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: falling on the rocks and tripping because she's not really
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: looking where she's going, in the background and all around her,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: she's here hearing this bell chiming, and she's hearing something
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  Speaker 1: moving around in the woods behind her. And she pulls
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: her phone out of her pocket, her iPhone, and as
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: she's running, she dials her father. She puts the phone
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: to her ears. She's crying, she's panting, she can barely breathe.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Her father picks up, and she's so relieved to hear
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: his voice, but she can't even make a sentence. She
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: just starts crying and wailing and pleading with him, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: come out to the forest, meet me. At the spot
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  Speaker 1: where the trail veers away from the stream.
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  Speaker 2: Meet me there.
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  Speaker 1: There's someone in the forest that's chasing me, and I
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: can't see them.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Her father on the other end of the phone.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: He didn't know what to make of this, but he
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: could hear the primal fear in his daughter's voice, and
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: so he didn't ask any questions.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: He said, stay on the line. I'm coming to meet
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: you right now. So Bella is.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Father and mother with Bella on the line, they run
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: out of their house. They hop in their car. They
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: speed a couple miles down the road. They park next
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: to their daughter's car, and as they're running into the woods,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: they can hear, way off in the woods, the sound
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: of the bell.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: They can hear the bell. They hear their daughter screaming
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: on the phone. They can hear the bell coming through.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: The phone, and she's begging them to please come into
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  Speaker 1: the woods, come in here, save me.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Since the parents run into the woods and they begin
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: running up the stream.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Bella, who's way out in the woods, She's still
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: ten or fifteen minutes away from her parents.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: She is barely able to run. At this point.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: She's exhausted almost all of her energy, and as she's
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to her parents, the sporadic bell
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: sound is getting louder and louder and louder, like whatever
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it is is gaining on her, and she can hear
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  Speaker 1: behind her all these sticks and branches they're breaking, as
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: if something.
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  Speaker 2: Is coming up to her.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, when it feels like this bell is right
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: behind her head, she just kind of stops in defeat.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: She's too far away from her parents, she can't get
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: to them in time, and so it was almost like
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: she had to turn around and finally look at whatever
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: it was that was behind her, and so terrified, beyond words,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Bella who can barely breathe. She's so scared and so tired.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: She slowly turns around. Now when she turns around and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: she's facing the other direction, she's looking across this clearing.
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  Speaker 1: She just happened to run past this clearing, and because
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: it was a clearing, there was a little bit of
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: moonlight that was coming down through the trees just enough
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to illuminate this space that was about fifty feet wide.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And as she's looking across this clearing, at first she
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't see anything, and then this tall, dark figure walks
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: into the clearing, and as soon as it steps in,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: she can see it's got a bell at its waist,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and with every step it took, it would violently ring
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the bell, causing.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: The ringing sound.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And so this thing starts moving into the clearing, and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: as Bella is staring at it, it was like time
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to slow down. She could not process what she was
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: looking at. She didn't know what she was looking at all.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: She knew is whatever or whoever this is, they're coming
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: straight at me. And so Bella suddenly got this unbelievable
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: adrenaline rush. It was like her body went into autopilot
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to save her. And she turned around and began sprinting
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: faster than she had ever sprinted in her life. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: as she ran, all she could hear was the sound
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of that bell, which she now knew represented steps this
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: thing was taking. And so the bell was getting faster
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and faster and louder and louder, and she knew it
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: was daining on her, and she began lying and screaming
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: out loud that I'm on the phone with the police.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: They're right up ahead, they're gonna be here any moment.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: But whatever it was that was behind her. They weren't faithed.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: They were just charging ahead, gaining on her second by second. Meanwhile,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: her parents had made it to the meeting spot, but
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: her father he felt like, I can't just sit here,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and he just starts charging into the woods. He can
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: hear his daughter screaming. He can hear this bell getting
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: louder and louder. He just starts running towards it, and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: sure enough, seconds later he sees his daughter confounding out
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of the forest and she leaps into his arms. He
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: just grabs her, turns around and runs with her back
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to the meeting spot. He grabs his wife, and the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: three of them just charge out of the forest back
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to the parking lot, back in their car, and they
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: speed off in the car. All of them are crying.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They don't know what to make of what just happened.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Bella is trying to describe it, but she can't. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: her parents, they had been on the phone listening to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: their daughter screaming, and all they kept saying to each other,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the parents was I heard the bell.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I heard the bell. I heard the bell, as if
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the bell.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Confirm their worst nightmares that there really was someone or
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: something out in those woods.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: That was trying to do harm to their child.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: They would drive straight to the police station where Bella
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: would file a report about what she experienced out in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the forest, and then afterwards her parents, as a precaution,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: took her to the hospital where she was determined to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be okay besides some bumps and bruises from falling down.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: The following morning, the police went out to the forest
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to the area where Bella had explained where she had been,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and they searched all along that animal foot trail and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: all along the stream, but they never found any sign
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: of this dark figure with the bell. Bella would tell
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: police that she had a handbag and as she was
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: running back, she dropped the bag.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: She remembered where she dropped.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: It along the stream, but when the police went to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that area, the bag was gone. Also, the beaver was
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: no longer there. It was not tied up to the tree,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it was done on the ground.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It was gone.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: The only thing police found that was out of the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ordinary was they found a little ways off from the stream,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: basically along the path that Bella would have been running on,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: they found a t shirt neatly full placed underneath a rock.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: But the police and Bella and her family have no
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: idea what that signifies. Ultimately, the police told Bella and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: her family that more than likely what she ran into
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was some kind of mentally unstable person that was living
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: out in the woods, and perhaps when Bella came into
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the woods, they felt like she was on their property,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and so they kind of tried to scare her off.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: But Bella has a hard time accepting that she felt
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: like as she was running from whoever was behind her,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that she was in mortal danger, that had it not
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: been for her father.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Running into the woods and literally.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Grabbing her and running with her the rest of the way,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that she may not have gotten out of the woods
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: at all, that she might have been attacked and killed by.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Whoever this was.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: She also can't help when she looks back at the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: entire experience thinking about that moment when she turned around
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and looked across that clearing and saw this figure come
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: into the moonlight for the first time, that when it
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: came into the moonlight, the way it was moving, the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: steps it was taking, they weren't normal, they were abnormal.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: There was just something off about this thing's movement that
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it didn't seem like she was looking at a person,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but rather some big animal. But regardless, since her ordeal,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: there have been no strange sightings out in those woods. However,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: almost no one ever goes in those woods except for
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Bella and her family, and Bella and her family they
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: don't go in those woods anymore.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: So whoever or whatever is out there is still just
• 21:22
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• 21:23
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• 21:26
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• 21:27
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• 21:30
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