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.
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.
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.
But it wasn’t just one person that was previously lost there. Possibly three other times …
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The female remains.
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the ID and recodeings of a man from '84
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whoever made the SOS
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That but they don’t know how he made the SOS sign. Its huge, those are trees not branches. The ID they found is from one guy, did he make the sign? Add in the video, a man calling for help but he says “The place is where I first met the helicopter.” What helicopter? Why was there a helicopter? Oh and the parents of the man whose ID was found say that isn’t his voice on the video. But it was his video tape.
The parents just said that they couldn’t confirm that it was him, not that it wasn’t him. Also, audio not video
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
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.
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
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.
it is actually fairly difficult to determine sex based off of just bones. there’s a considerable overlap in any dimension one might use to decide
These are fully grown trees we’re talking about, he had no tools to cut them down with, or the strength to move them.
It seems more likely, given all the gear he did have, that there is a tool lost somewhere in the area.
Just because he had a bunch of electronics gear, doesn’t mean he had an axe.
Well it seems more likely, given it is an enclosed area that has been searched at this point that there isn’t another missing body but rather one of the bodies had a tool that is now missing.
I don’t think it means he had an axe I think it is very clear he had carrying capacity and planned his trip and so it is more likely to me that we haven’t found what enabled him to do it rather than we haven’t found who did it.
Protip. When camping, leave a SOS sign. You never know if your sign might save somebody.
I go out into the woods and leave a new one every weekend. We all have to do our part.
