Shadowing Practice: I Actually Went to The Appalachian Mountains *WARNING* - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Many reported cases of people going missing in the Appalachian Mountains The search area has expanded as the day stretch into a full week since the youngster was reported missing.
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Many reported cases of people going missing in the Appalachian Mountains The search area has expanded as the day stretch into a full week since the youngster was reported missing.
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that are never found, with people posting videos of them feeling weird, hearing whistling, and even seeing figures.
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What is going on here?
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The flashback in here?
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Oh!
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Skinwalker!
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Hello?
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Yo, the flashback!
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In case you didn't notice, I'm in the Appalachian Mountains right now.
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We're going to try to figure out all the theories and see if this is just a trend on TikTok or if it's something real.
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I'm going to start with my first lead of weird stuff happening in the Appalachian Mountains, Dustin.
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Dustin is a TikToker who had this video blow up.
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No, because I'm freaking out, guys.
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So I just Snapchatted my friend, right?
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Like, I have tried to...
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In the back of this video, there is this face.
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A bunch of people commented on it, trying to figure out what it is, if this is real, and he also acted oblivious.
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A bunch of people started going crazy, creating theories around this.
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It's going absolutely viral on TikTok right now.
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And later, he ended up posting even more weird stuff that happened at that location and other locations in the Appalachian Mountains.
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He saw a figure, bro.
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That's crazy.
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That's crazy.
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I have to figure out if this is true or not.
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We talked to the guy.
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He followed me back.
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We DMed back and forth.
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He doesn't want to say where the location is because basically he said the business is scared it will hurt the business So we tried to find the location of this place to see if we could get any paranormal activity there But after searching for literally hours,
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we just we couldn't which is when I did a little bit more research on Dustin I looked at many of his older videos on the Appalachian Mountains and to be honest the further back I went the more just they looked like skits They looked completely fake Honestly,
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my theory is that he's just making skits even though a ton of people believe that it's real This is just my theory for now, but this whole lead seemed like a dead end.
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But there are still so many other stories and videos on the Appalachian Mountains.
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So I looked into a bunch and came up with three theories of what people think is out there that I'll explain and look for more later.
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Theory one, feral people.
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Basically wild people that for many years have been rumored to live in the mountains.
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Theory two, skinwalkers.
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Basically ancient witch creatures that can shapeshift.
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And finally, theory three, ghosts.
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people believe a lot of spots are haunted, which I will go to and test later on.
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This trail goes deep into the smoky Appalachian Mountains.
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We're just excited to find feral people, probably because they're the most likely real.
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Well, they, I think they are real.
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Oh, whoa, what is that?
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We're in a Minecraft multiplayer world right now.
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I think we're getting into the abandoned town.
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For theory one, this six-year-old boy went missing in this exact national park that we're in.
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Literally where we're at right now.
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Went completely missing.
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For a while, they thought he wandered off, but they didn't think he could have got that far that quick.
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So the father basically put out, I think it was like $25,000 to anyone who could find him.
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The Green Beret went searching after him.
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Basically, what I'm trying to emphasize here is insane amounts of people went looking after him and found nothing.
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The creepiest part is the dad said a few minutes after he went missing, in the direction he went missing, they heard multiple terrifying screams.
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Which literally gives me goosebumps right now.
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That's a real story, and we hear people talking about screams in the Appalachian Mountains.
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So that like almost that correlates really well and that's honestly so terrifying.
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That way?
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Yeah.
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All right, Arzu.
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Don't spook me like that, buddy.
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Dude, I'm actually scared of feral people now.
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I'm guessing these footprints of shoes are not feral people.
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I don't think they would have shoes.
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All right, let's keep going down the path.
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I don't know.
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My friend Tommy even told me a story.
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I'll probably put the clip in real quick.
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I've heard stories from people who go camping, and they set up their campsites.
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They go to, like, go fish or whatever.
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They come back.
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Their The campsite is now occupied by wild people, like feral people.
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There's nothing we can do to really look for feral people, to be honest.
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That's the one thing we shouldn't have to find.
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They'll probably find us.
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I swear I heard something.
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Like what?
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Like cracking and then heavy breathing.
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So many different theories up here.
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I think that's why like so many people talk about the Appalachian Mountains.
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But the next theory is skinwalkers, because a lot of people were saying like, Skinwalkers wouldn't be out here.
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They're Navajo, and we're not anywhere near Navajo areas.
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But other people are like, oh, well, they can travel like anyone else.
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A lot of people hear whistling.
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All right, I say we go somewhere deep in the forest.
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Search for skinwalkers.
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Oh, my gosh.
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This looks like where I would get jumped by a skinwalker.
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So there's a few things that you're never supposed to do, especially in these areas.
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Just one, say its name, Skinwalker.
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Two, whistle.
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Let's play it like the penis game.
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Before we call the Skinwalkers to our current location, Skinwalker!
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Skinwalker!
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Last time we called for Skinwalkers, we literally heard a terrifying scream.
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It's not like these other things where you get points or something.
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You literally get the hard cash back.
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But quickly, I'm going to show you how Upside works.
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You just open the app, put it in your card, and it will show you where you can earn money.
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Or you can scan the QR code.
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And a little later, I got the money from Upside.
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So I'll start, I'll start.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker.
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Skinwalker!
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Skinwalker!
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Skinwalker!
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Skinwalker!
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High up and...
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Skinwalker!
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Park Ranger coming for us right now.
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That's a real enemy, bro.
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Surprise park over.
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Dude, we're done for if we see something.
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I think it's just shadows, see?
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I feel like I can't hear anything over there.
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I'll aim the light over there as I whistle.
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Wait, was it that one?
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Actually, it might have been the other one.
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Me when I see your mom.
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Loki, yeah, we just did like everything that should attract one.
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You know, walkers and more like skin all talkers.
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That was actually a good one.
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That was a good one.
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Respect.
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So for the final theory, we ended up having to drive a little bit further to find these abandoned houses in the mountains that people believed ghosts were at.
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But after a lot of searching in the dark, this area used to be kind of like a vacation spot.
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And also it was a area that a lot of people wanted to start like logging.
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Always need more wood, am I right?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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A lot of people died due to logging incidents.
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And then also there was a train derailment.
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So that's kind of the story of it.
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A lot of people died here.
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A lot of people claim to have uneasy feelings here.
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People had died.
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And there's no denying there's a creepy feel when you're there.
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I've even gone there with a spirit box and gotten some intelligent conversation.
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But there's a ton more.
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Boom.
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House right there.
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Boom.
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House right there.
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Boom, idiot.
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Oh, shit.
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What is that?
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It's a bird, dude.
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Oh.
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I actually kind of feel bad for the bird now.
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He was sleeping.
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Damn.
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That scared the...
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Oh, Jesus.
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The plan was to set up ghost gear to use, but I wanted to check out the house first, which is when it started to get weird.
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So I'm just gonna literally set this up.
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Let me turn on this mic too.
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So this is the place where people said they feel uneasy in.
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Do you feel uneasy?
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I feel like you think that both hands work.
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Let's look around a little.
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I'm gonna leave that right there.
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Let me make sure this works.
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Yep, works.
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Okay.
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Okay, um.
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There's the bathroom.
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You think I could take a, you think I could take a shit in there?
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Oh wait.
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Hello?
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My light's freaking out.
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My light's going on and off.
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Broke.
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Broke.
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My light's freaking out, bro.
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Look at it.
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It's flickering.
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Hello?
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Dude, I'm shaking.
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Hello?
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Bro, I gotta figure it out now.
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Yo!
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Wait, stop.
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Dude, I hear something.
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There's someone 100% in there.
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There's someone in there.
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I think so.
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Dude, I heard of dad's footsteps.
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We should get in the car.
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Dude, I'm spooked right now.
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A part of me does not want to leave, though.
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If you're just a normal dude, I'd love to say hello to know you're not a ghost trying to kill us.
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Dude, but how did we look in every room?
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Bro, that literally could have been feral people.
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I mean this is a bro thing like this would be the perfect place.
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There's literally shelter food
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We now knew for sure something weird was going on But we still didn't know what it was or even get to use the ghost equipment I couldn't leave here without answers So we went to a different abandoned house much further away so we would be safe to try one more time
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Alright, so I have the music detector.
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By the way guys, I didn't even show you how it worked Step in front of this.
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It doesn't work with like wind.
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Like I placed it in a convenient spot.
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Ghosts got to walk downstairs to leave.
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All right, any ghosts here?
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Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts.
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There's a lot of people talk about the Appalachian Mountains, say there's all sorts of stuff like feral people or skinwalkers or ghosts.
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Actually, they say there's ghosts in this house.
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They say you are a ghost.
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You might not know that you're ghosts.
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and I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you are.
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But hey, that's not such a bad thing.
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I mean, you can levitate, I think.
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Maybe you could help me out and I'll just step on that stair right there.
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Are there feral people out here?
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Could you just step in front of that, please?
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Okay, are there skinwalkers or some sort of flesh creature out here?
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Could you just step in front of that?
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Are there any people that live in this house?
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I heard there were loggers that lived here.
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Is there something after the man Dustin Fraser?
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Walk down the damn stairs.
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Look at this.
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All you got to do is go.
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Look.
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It's that easy.
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Just don't step on it, please.
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I watch these ghost videos from tons of YouTubers.
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Tons.
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And they all get crazy stuff.
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Look at this.
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There's actually hundreds of ghost videos.
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Oh.
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Bro stayed on the step.
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Now he's standing on business.
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Alright buddy, buddy.
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You can hop off the step now.
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This motherfucker won't get on the step, won't get off the step now.
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Alright, we get it.
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Yo, the flashlight in your pants just turned on.
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That's crazy.
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Hey, don't touch me there, buddy.
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Bro just grabbed you.
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For real.
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This guy's handsy.
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Oh, that means there's multiple, bro.
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No way he reached over there from that step.
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That was kind of crazy.
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Let me get in there.
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And it just doesn't want to stop.
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All right, mate.
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Are you good?
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I could have swore I heard something move in the bush.
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I'm going to the front of the house now.
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Sam and Colby seem to experience some of the craziest stuff in ghost history.
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Ghosts, I think, just love them.
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I think ghosts literally hate me.
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The only problem is they only collab with people with millions of subscribers.
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How many subscribers do I have Ethan?
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Not a million.
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So I need to get to not a million multiple million.
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I mean, I'd be really happy with a million.
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So please subscribe so I can hopefully get in one of their videos.
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It would mean the world to me.
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We didn't end up getting any more activity or hearing or seeing anything weird, so we left.
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And then the next day I saw this video.
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I am a film student and yes, the videos were for entertainment.
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So, just wanted to say, for the people who I misled, who don't want to follow me anymore, I understand.
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I was correct.
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Dustin was making skits.
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But as for all the other videos and stories, I have no idea.
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After learning about feral people, though, I will say I think that's where most of the conspiracies come from.
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This is a real thing, with many people confirmed missing.
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And that's probably the best theory out there.
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As for the whistling, I don't know.
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Maybe it's all fake.
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Maybe there's also skinwalkers.
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Or maybe that's something feral people do.
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We heard something which I guess could have been a feral person, but it was really weird because my flashlight turned off right as it happened.
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So what do you guys think?
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I'd love to hear your opinion.
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Please subscribe and also follow my Instagram.
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I post a lot of sneak peeks on there.
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Help me get to 10k and I'll do something cool.
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This YouTube video titled "I Actually Went to The Appalachian Mountains *WARNING*" engages viewers with a thrilling exploration of mysterious disappearances and local legends. Practicing English speaking using this video allows learners to immerse themselves in a realistic context filled with suspense and curiosity. By shadowing the speaker, you can enhance your fluency in discussing intriguing topics that are not only captivating but also useful in everyday conversation. Utilizing this content for IELTS speaking practice can help you develop the ability to articulate your thoughts on complex narratives, improve your storytelling techniques, and employ engaging language effectively.
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- Reported Speech: The phrase "Many reported cases of people going missing" utilizes reported speech to convey information about previous events. This structure is vital for discussing news and informing others about situations.
- Present Continuous Tense: The expression "I'm going to try to figure out" is in the present continuous form, indicating immediate actions or future plans. This tense helps convey intent and ongoing actions.
- Conditional Structures: The use of conditional phrases like "if it's something real" showcases how to express hypothetical situations, which is essential for making suggestions or discussing alternatives.
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- Mysterious: The word "mysterious" can be tricky to pronounce due to the blend of sounds. Emphasizing the middle syllable can help clarify your speech.
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