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Speaker 1: Bridgewater is a production of I Heart Radio three D

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Speaker 1: Audio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey For a

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Speaker 1: full exposure, listen with headphones. Listener discretion advised. Um, thank

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Speaker 1: you for having you over. And I know this is

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Speaker 1: a bit strange. Can I get you anything? Water or

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Speaker 1: a beer? Water is fine? You have a lovely home. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: it's walking distance in my office, so you don't mind

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Speaker 1: if I have a drink to you know, it's been

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Speaker 1: a bit of a weird day. It's actually been weird

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Speaker 1: few days here. Have a seat, so okay, So you

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Speaker 1: said you recognize these symbols. Yes, I think so. Well,

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Speaker 1: can you tell me what you think you know? I

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Speaker 1: think you should probably go Wait wait, Officer Maria, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're afraid of, but I promise you

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Speaker 1: anything that you say that's going to stay between us. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you won't put it in your book. Okay, I promise

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Speaker 1: that I will anonymize anything. I'm sorry. I'm not usually

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Speaker 1: I'm a cop in one of the weirdest parts of

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Speaker 1: the state because there isn't a lot that frightens me.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe in ghosts or monsters or UFOs. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're in agreement there. Really, you don't believe even a

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Speaker 1: little bit of it. No, I mean I think that

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Speaker 1: maybe did. When I was a kid. I think it

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Speaker 1: was a lot easier to think of my dad being

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Speaker 1: taken by a Sasquatch and acknowledging that human beings can

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Speaker 1: be capable of such terrible things. You think he was murdered, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you. That's been the prevailing theory among

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Speaker 1: the police since the eighties. I think a lot has

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Speaker 1: been blamed on the gathering. Yeah, that's what Anne said. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: despite what you've heard, Anne isn't crazy. So you're familiar

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Speaker 1: with the gathering. Man wasn't that well before your time?

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Speaker 1: It was, but they never really left Freetown tried to

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Speaker 1: drive them out. But the gathering is still around, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's smaller than it was in the seventies, I think,

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Speaker 1: and more underground, but they're still active. And huh so

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Speaker 1: the police, the police think that they have something to

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Speaker 1: do with this missing hiker. No, the police don't know

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Speaker 1: that the gathering still exists. Then how do you know

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Speaker 1: my girlfriend is a member? Oh? I see, her name

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Speaker 1: is Katie Frank's Katie isn't the hiker you talked to earlier.

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Speaker 1: Oh you see what, I'm talking to you instead of

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Speaker 1: my boss. Wait, Haddock doesn't know that she's your girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: No one on the forced US um that, because are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you worried about? Um about? I don't know? Oh

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Speaker 1: oh no, not at all. No, No one will care that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gates. Me having a girlfriend wouldn't be a problem.

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Speaker 1: The fact that I have a girlfriend who's a member

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Speaker 1: of a group that doesn't have the cleanest history with

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Speaker 1: Katie didn't mention the gathering when she reported her missing friend. No, okay,

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Speaker 1: don't you think that that would be relevant information. Daniel

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Speaker 1: isn't part of the gathering. Yeah, but if Katie is

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Speaker 1: and he went missing after going hiking with her, she

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Speaker 1: were involved, why would she report it? I know my

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Speaker 1: girlfriend and the gathering have nothing to do with this.

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Speaker 1: It's just a spiritual group Katie joined after her mother

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Speaker 1: passed away, and it's been a really positive influence on

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Speaker 1: her life. That's what most cultists would say. It's not

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Speaker 1: a cult, Officer, Batista, it's by definition. I know what

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, but I've checked them out and I've spent

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Speaker 1: hours talking to Katie about who they are and what

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Speaker 1: they do. They're harmless. Wait, so what does all of

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Speaker 1: this have to do with the symbols. You said that

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Speaker 1: you've seen them before. They're used by the gathering. Cool.

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Speaker 1: So Katie lied to me. She didn't want suspicion being

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Speaker 1: cast on the gathering again. But you're here telling me

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Speaker 1: into a rock the day after my father's badge was found.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the two are related. Asson at Ledge

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Speaker 1: has been a meeting place for the Gathering for decades.

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Speaker 1: It would make sense that they'd leave messages for each

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Speaker 1: other there. That's what you think. This is a message

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Speaker 1: from the gathering to its members. It's how they tell

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Speaker 1: each other where meetings are. They'll carved symbols into trees

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Speaker 1: would they need to communicate where they're meeting. They're constantly moving.

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Speaker 1: finding them. Freetown, Forest, Hacko, Mock Swamp. They're big places.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get lost, so they leave symbols and

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Speaker 1: you so she would know how to read these symbols. No,

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Speaker 1: this particular symbol system is only for core members. Katie

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Speaker 1: isn't one of those. She's not She's not deeply involved

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Speaker 1: help you translate that would be someone familiar with Wampa

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Speaker 1: dog symbols. I'm pretty sure that's what the system is

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Speaker 1: me like this, with all this secrecy and subterfuge, and

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Speaker 1: you seem so nervous telling me this, Maria, are you

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Speaker 1: sure the gathering isn't dangerous? They aren't, I promise not

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Speaker 1: to us anyway. What does that mean? Katie? She she

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Speaker 1: isn't on the inside, but she's been hearing things. These

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Speaker 1: The only other time they've carved on that particular rock

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Speaker 1: I have no idea, but whatever it is, it's just beginning.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Katie would be willing to talk to

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Speaker 1: you again, even if she can't translate the symbols. I

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Speaker 1: bet the Gathering has a lot of insight into the

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater Triangle. They could be a great resource for the book.

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Speaker 1: I'm really not sure that I want to be using

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Speaker 1: a cult as a reference. Well, they're as reliable as

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Speaker 1: anyone else who claims to have had paranormal experience. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know. Batista texted me this morning

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Speaker 1: again asking that I not tell anyone what she told me,

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Speaker 1: not even Anne. Have you heard from her? And I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I know, and I I really think

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Speaker 1: I think that now that I have some of my

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Speaker 1: Anne just wants to turn this into something that it's not.

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Speaker 1: entirely stable. The police files that she had, She's got

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Speaker 1: that she'd gone over again and again and again. And

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Speaker 1: I know, But what is she trying to figure out?

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Speaker 1: It's been forty years. She isn't going to solve the

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Speaker 1: mystery of what happened to my dad, and it's just

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Speaker 1: not going to happen, right. But maybe there's something else

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Speaker 1: which Batista seemed to believe as well. The gathering is

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Speaker 1: gearing up for something exactly. Maybe that's what Anne is

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Speaker 1: trying to solve, using for two year old case files

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Speaker 1: to predict cult activity. Now, all right, well, let's just

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Speaker 1: let's just look over the files. Maybe we'll start to

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Speaker 1: see what she sees I've already looked them over dozens

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Speaker 1: of times in the last twenty four hours. I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to sound like an I didn't sleep much last night.

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's lecture. No, it's all right. It's about Dighton Rock,

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Speaker 1: which I know backwards and forwards. I could do it

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Speaker 1: in my sleep. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, I think

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Speaker 1: there was something about Dighton in the files, and I

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Speaker 1: thought you said you were working on your thesis last night. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: helping you out is kind of part of that, and

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Speaker 1: these are now part of your books. So no regrets,

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Speaker 1: except I haven't decided that yet. Come on, a scholar

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Speaker 1: writing about the Bridgewater Triangle who actually has a personal

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Speaker 1: connection to it. You know that's too good to pass up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I love exploiting my childhood trauma for book sales.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that was completely out

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Speaker 1: you're not wrong. Maybe you know I have been thinking

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Speaker 1: about it, making the book more personal or probably would

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Speaker 1: help book sales. No, I really don't think there's much

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Speaker 1: new information in here. It's the same legends as always sure,

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Speaker 1: but the first person perspective, Uh here here it is,

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Speaker 1: um yep. They went to go look at Dighton Rock

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Speaker 1: just listen to this. October one, Becker and I went

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Speaker 1: They moved at their features back fifteen years back. Demmi,

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Speaker 1: you know, the worst sense of timing of anybody that

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jemy's got the fluke. Gosh, the poor kids.

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Speaker 1: So maybe I got something and I'm just hallucinating. But anyway, no,

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Speaker 1: you weren't hallucinating. I felt it too. I should have

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Speaker 1: told you the same weird symbols that have always been there.

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Speaker 1: so far, so far, that doesn't seem to be a connection.

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Speaker 1: RAJ Hank Becker, the dynamic duo. I think the symbols

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Speaker 1: the gathering. Literally, how many times do I have to

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Speaker 1: tell you anydio? I forget every time. It's a stupid

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Speaker 1: for with them. Captain wants us to keep an eye,

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Speaker 1: but they can't be responsible for all the weird ship

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Speaker 1: that's been happening around here. But these symbols, they Becker,

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Speaker 1: I wish you were here. I always think better with

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Speaker 1: you on it. I wish I were there too. So

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Speaker 1: we'll do another patrol this weekend see if we can't

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Speaker 1: figure out a pattern to that placement of these carvings. Hey, Jeremy,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing up? And that's nothing? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not nothing. Okay. The humming, the warmth that could

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Speaker 1: and the humming could have been uh, fluorescent lights or

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Speaker 1: some construction outside. All right, you really really think your

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Speaker 1: dad didn't consider that? I mean, he wrote it down.

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Speaker 1: It clearly was significant. He was just being thorough. Your

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Speaker 1: dad thought there was a connection between carvings in Freetown

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Speaker 1: what strange things? What strange things? Where should we start?

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Speaker 1: His badge being found, the missing hiker, the woman last

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Speaker 1: can't believe that. You can stand to watch local news.

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