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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protip. When camping, leave a SOS sign. You never know if your sign might save somebody.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I go out into the woods and leave a new one every weekend. We all have to do our part.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I weirdly don't find this creepy, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's because the terrain is difficult and it's very perfect timing, but not creepy?

Before I read it, I thought it was going to be some deserted island and a living person, who wasn't them, made it for them. Kinda like a "get off my island" type deal, but creepy because they didn't know a living person was nearby, which could've been bad.

But instead it's just lost people get lost close to a place where someone got lost previously, and it just so happens a helicopter flew by and saw the sign from the previous person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Just make SOS signs whenever you're going on a hike in case someone gets lost there. It's just being nice to your fellow hikers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The body that was found was of another missing person, but he didn't have the strength to create the sign, or the tools to do so.

Meaning at least one unknown person came to grief in that area.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It had to have been him, it's too coincidental otherwise. They believed it possible until they checked his remains and said he was too weak but he may not have always been, he could have died months after making the sign too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This was my thought too. Plus they thought the remains were female for quite some time. Not sure I entirely trust Japan's forensic abilities at the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The terrain is difficult to escape. This was supported by the fact that a few days after the incident was discovered, a news media interview team who visited the site was unable to escape from the area and was rescued.[11][6] lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That story just keeps on giving. Really mysterious, possibly all just a mix of coincidence and speculation due to lack of evidence, but great source for a fictional story

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy creepers. The wiki is horrifying. Your movie script is set, just don't have the helicopter show up until after the unwinding of the horror is complete, maybe throw in a caretaker or local perp still active in the area.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still missing mans belongings stuffed in a tree with a female (maybe?) skeleton found near the sign, man deemed far to weak to have built the sign. No tools found, a recording of a man screaming for help, and the felled birch tree sign made of logs thats estimated to have taken 2 days to build. Sign was estiamted to be built 2 yrs before.

Better than most horror movies plots.