In this episode **Spooky Coop** explores chilling accounts of **serial killers** and **reality glitches**. The hosts first detail the crimes of **Sergey Ryakovski**, a Soviet murderer known as the **Hyena** who exploited the social collapse of the late 1980s. The discussion then shifts to the **Mandela Effect** and a woman’s account of sliding into a **parallel timeline** where her career and family life were fundamentally altered. Most notably, the hosts recount a personal meeting with an elderly man who claimed to be from an **alternate history** where the atomic bombing of **Hiroshima** never occurred. He allegedly slipped into our world through a **suicide forest**, carrying artifacts from a life that officially never existed in this reality. These stories collectively highlight the **eerie intersections** between historical tragedy, human psychology, and the potential for **multiversal shifts**.
. The Jagged Edge of History: Sergey Ryakovski ("The Hyena")
2. This Week in Spooky Coop News
3. Glitches in the Matrix & Alternate Timelines
### Dialogue Script: Spooky Coop (Episode 59)
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** This week on Spooky Coop, episode number 59, Paul and Michelle talk about the Russian killer nicknamed the Hyena, followed by one man's high strangeness account about a glitch in the Matrix in Hiroshima, Japan[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Hi everyone, I'm Paul[1].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** And I'm Michelle[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And you're in the spooky coop. Welcome to the spooky cool in five four shak[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Hello Michelle[1].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Hey Paul[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** How are you today?[1]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Oh, better than average[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Better than average. Awesome. Awesome[1].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. I uh I'm going to be a little slower this week because I had I had my flu shot earlier in the week and yesterday I had my COVID shot[1].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** I think we're ready[2]. The conversation usually stops at Andre Chicalt, Chicatalo, Chicettolo, whatever you pronounce it. He's the monster in the history books, but history is a civ, Michelle. The big rocks get caught, but the smaller, sharper, more jagged ones, they slip through[2]. Today, Today we're looking at one of the jagged rocks or not the jagger rocks, one of the jagged rocks. A man who operated in the absolute blind spot of history. We're going back to the late 1980s in Moscow. That was literally falling apart at the time. The Soviet Union was gasping its last breaths. And in that chaos, a man named, of course, you gave me the name A man named Sergey Rocka. You said[2]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...revenge is sweet after that last episode debacle you threw me into. Sergey Rikovski[3].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** No, it's got to be[3]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Ryakovski. Ryakovski[3].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** R Y A K I H O V S K Y. Say it the way you want[3].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Like I said, Ryakovski[3]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...found his hunting ground[3]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...in Russia[3].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah, in Russia[3].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** The Soviet Union. They called him the hyena[3].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And if you've never heard the name, that's exactly how he wanted it[3].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah, he was like not well known. Anyway, Paul, you have to set the stage for these people. They just don't probably don't know it[3].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** It was at the time total instability. The police were underfunded and many were on the take. The bureaucracy was paralle ized and the public was terrified. People were worried about food shortages and the collapse of their government and the rule of laws around them. They weren't looking for a man in the woods[4].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** They were looking for toilet paper. Sounds familiar. And that's when[4]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...and bread[4].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** That's when you did to me again. That's when Ra[4]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Ryakovski[4].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Ryakovski That's when Sergey[4]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yes[4].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...he thrived on this um to his neighbors. He was just a construction worker, a husband, a father, just the nice guy next door. Somebody you'd say, "Hey, you know, my radiator's, you know, bummed out in the car. Would you come help me?"[4]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And, you know, he was just that guy. He, nobody knew he was an apex predator in the land[5].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Between 1988 and 1993, he killed at least 19 people, but the experts think that number is conservative. He didn't he didn't have a type. That's what you know the the archetypical type that he's attracted to that must have made him even worse and harder to catch[5].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** So he he would kill everybody and anybody. He was non-discriminatory in his prey. That's what makes monsters tell me[5].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Pray tell me that's what makes makes monsters makes monsters like him so difficult to track. He killed men, women, the elderly. He didn't care. He was an opportunist[5].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Wow. Yeah. You know, let's talk about that. Let's talk about that creep factor. Why the hyena? Why wasn't he just called uh you know the lizard or something? Why the nickname? This is was this was given to him by the press. It was a behavior trait. During the interrogation when he was caught, detectives would press him for details on his crimes like he was uh you know like he was how he desecrated his victims. He always did the same thing. Let's not even talk about it. It was horrible. And he would instead of crying out saying I didn't do it or you know getting angry saying how dare you he would just giggle and laugh. A high-pitched wheezing uncontrollable laughter. It was like the whole thing was a joke that only he understood but told the investigators that he was cleansing society. He felt he was removing the drags, the homeless, the intoxicated, the vulnerable. He saw himself as a necessary evil. Yeah, that was weird[6].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Let me rephrase that. He saw himself as a necessary evil[7].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Evil. And that's the laughing that got him the name the hyena[7].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. And it was a god complex. That, you know, I mean, that freaks me out. You know, Paul, that absolutely freaks me out. You know, it was so simple. He just he just wasn't killing. He thought he was like auditing humanity. He didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought himself as um a helper, you know, trying to strengthen the herd. He was not choosing victims so much as he was culling culling humanity[7].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Really?[8]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. Creepy[8].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Um the detective said the atmosphere the detective said the atmosphere was uh in the apartment was like suffering. It was like he was walking into a museum of misery. It didn't need explanation to know what was going on. It was like the environment. It created the family to to live in that environment was so creepy. No wonder he got away with things[8].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** So Oh, what do you do with a man like this? He was sentenced to death. And before this happened, Russia put a moratorium on the death penalty. He spent his final years in a prison colony, eventually dying of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a miserable and horrible way to die[8].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. You know, you'd think that they got rid of it by now[9].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. And that was in 2005[9].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** You know, my mother had TB when she was a kid and she didn't even know it. Everyone just thought She had a terrible cold. It wasn't until in in her 80s. It wasn't until in her 80s. She had it as a little girl[9].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** That's like thinking you had mono for a year, but you just found you found out you were just really really bored just[9]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** No, seriously. When she was in her 80s and she got lung cancer[9]. Um, they took X-rays and the doctor said, "So, when did you have tuberculosis?"[9]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...the total number. what they were able to verify. Yes[10],
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...there was a five-year window[10]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...where the country was totally busy collapsing. I don't know if you call it that[10].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** He didn't he didn't go into stamp collecting during that time. We can be pretty sure about that[10].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** No. How many of the hyena How many And the other thing, how many other hyenas were out there? I mean, this was ripe for serial kill[10],
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...right? That's the true horror of this case. It's not just the crimes. It's the realization that monsters don't need a dark forest to hide in. They just need a society that's too distracted to look for them[10].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. I mean, it was like perfect timing for that. And listen, and if you're listening to this and you're walking home tonight, just remember when the shadows are empty, maybe they're not. You know, right now our, you know, you never know[11].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Mhm[11].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** You never know. And anyway, we have another story[11].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Ah, but before our next story[11].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Oh, that's right[11].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** It's time once again for[11]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...this week in Spooky Coop News[11].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** This week in Spooky Coop news, a $1 million Bigfoot bounty just dropped. Hard Mountain Dew launched its first ever Bigfoot bounty on September 16th, offering $1 million to anyone 21 or over who can submit verified proof the legendary Crypted exists. Submissions are judged through November 30th by a panel of co-developed Bigfoot docuer people, including Bryce Johnson[11].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. How much Bigfoot? How much Mountain Dew Uh, hard stuff you have to drink to[12]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** I don't know. I don't drink Mountain Dew[12].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** It's Mountain Dew liquor[12].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Coffee does me fine[12].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Okay[12],
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...thank you. Widow sues psychic over $78,500 curse cleanse. A New Jersey woman is suing a Bergen County psychic alleging she was charged escalating fees, including $65,000 to lift a curse on her inheritance. While trying to contact her late husband, the psychic denies wrongdoing says the money covered months of counseling and crystals and has agreed to return the widow's late husband's jewelry. The case is headed to a jury trial[12].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Well, that's funny[13]. The psychic should know how it's going to turn out[13].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** They should. I was expecting that. I saw it in my future. Star Trek fans set a live long and prosper world record. Fans descended on London's Science Museum this week to break the Guinness World Record for the most people performing the Vulcan salute simultaneously marking the franchise's 60th anniversary[13].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Do you remember our daughter was born with such little pointy years that at like 5 years old and three from 3 to 5 years old or so, we'd have her stand there and do the Vulcan salute and say, "Live long and prosper." She had no idea why she was saying it and everyone thought she was adorable until she figured it out[13].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Dozens gather to scream at the ocean. More than 100 people gathered on a San Francisco beach this week for a mass Guttural scream session. Why weren't we there? I don't know[13].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Why did you wait so long to bring it back?[14]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And they they waved this is the best part. And they waved the 12,055 $5 late fee[14].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Oh, darn it[14].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** How magn magnanimous of them[14]. Emu on the run sparks police chase. An emu escaped a petting zoo in Rockland County, New York, leading officers on a drone and genuine pursuit through the downtown before it was safely recovered[14].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Pursued by a drone[14], was it wearing like leather and uh and like a long leather?[14]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Madam Madame Benoa leather panty hose. I dare you to do this to your I'm sorry[14].
*(Excerpt continuation)*
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Yeah. Um, everyone knows about the Mandela effect, right?[15]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** But we're not talking about like[15]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...I like to call it the Ed McMahon effect[15].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. I I I you know, people remember him showing up with a big check at people's house and saying[15]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ..."Yes[15],"
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...but it never happened[15].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** I I still remember that in my consciousness. that too. You know, Ed McMahon was[15]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...publisher sweep stakes[15].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Ed McMahon was from LOL[15].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Mhm[15].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Mhm[15].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Close to our hearts. Yeah. God rest his soul[15].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** God rest his soul. Anyway, um let's start with one everyone knows in the Mandela effect. We're not talking about uh the about the Lego logos. Yeah. No, we're not talking about the uh what we're talk like we're not talking Yeah. the Shazam phenomenon. How many people thousands of people believe distin remember that in the ' 90s a movie came out with a with Simbad in it and he played a genie[15].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** The sound you hear coming from the west is that fart a massive collective brain just made[16].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Oh, stop[16].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** This is this is reality. This is a reality from some place bleeding through to this one. This is entirely possible that our consciousness shifted from one timeline to another. Not everyone, just the people that remember that movie[16].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Mhm[16].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** It's It's like a ghost of another reality that still exists some few inches away to the left. It's like, wow. It's how do we get here? We slipped. You know, it's not a glitch in our heads. It's a glitch in the universe[16].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** That song Time Warp is very appropriate right now. Just a jump to the left[17].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. But I did, you know, I didn't do the pelvic thrill. Ah, but it it's allegorical and it's pretty close. Maybe the universe just decided that the particular group of those who jumped the timeline needed a new perspective, but realizing you have an extra movie in your memory that no one else remembers or your Curious George has a tale. Isn't[17]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...how many people remember George has a tale? I would have thought for sure Cur Curious George has a tale, but look[17],
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...I wasn't watching Curious George, so I don't know. You would know better than myself[18].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah, he doesn't have a tail[18].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** He has no tail[18].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** I would have sworn he did[18].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Uhhuh[18].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Like the Bernsteeen Bears[18].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** They're not the Bernsteeen Bears[18].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Anyway, um Go ahead[18].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** But what happens when it's not so simple? You know, when new things happen, the really bizarre[18],
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...a woman named Clara reported that she swears she had a wonderfully normal life. She worked at a company named Going that was a manufacturer of mobile computing devices. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Jim. and they had two daughters, Beth and Jackie. The story says she was driving to work one day when she saw what she described as a bright blue green flash of light that almost made her lose control of her car. She kept driving to work. The roads were the same. But when she returned, when she turned the corner, excuse me, onto the street where the company her company named Going was, there was a shopping mall. Yeah. She was totally like freaked. She was incredibly confused. She thought she might have been on the wrong road, like she turned away, but nothing was familiar. She pulled over and looked around to see where she was. She said her cell phone told her that she was in the correct place. She also said her cell phone was a different color, but you know, um she said that uh you know, she was in the right place, she was where she was going, but um she so she called her her company didn't seem to be there. there's a strip mall there[18].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** So, um she decided to call her house, call her house and her and and talk to her daughter[19]. Um and when she talked to her daughter, her daughter was absolutely shocked because uh her her husband had left them 5 years before and divorced and they were out of their family[19].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yep. Yep[19].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** And she told her daughter that she was coming home She said she had enough. She She didn't know what was going on. Maybe somebody uh you know put some kind of weird something weird in her wedies. I don't know[19]. She turned around and she started driving home and um she thought maybe she was still dreaming or something, but she knew she wasn't. No such luck[19].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah[20]. So, our final story is even more bizarre. Michelle, why don't you introduce us?[20]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** So, we this happened to Paul and I. Um, no, we didn't get in the alternate timeline. But anyway, our final[20]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...some people argued that we have[20]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...some people argue that we live in our own timeline. Our final story is yet even more bizarre. It's really, really weird. Okay, there's this there was this small man from Japan. His name was Oh, what was it? Asami[20].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Asamu Sodom[20].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Oh, yeah. That's right. Asamu Sodom. I didn't write the name down. I said, you know, the name. Okay. Um Paul and I met him several maybe decades ago, wasn't it? Decades ago when we were hiking. Um it he was very interesting to talk to. He gave off this energy though that wasn't quite right[20].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. Do you remember what he told us? It was in his own words um Um it he said he failed through time[21].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** He said he he he asked us if we'd listen cuz I mean we were just talking. Right[21].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Paul and I were really enthralled in what was going on. It was just really really[21]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. The more he talked the more it consumed us, wasn't it?[21]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. But also the more it was hard to believe. The more he talked more Paul and I just kept looking at him wondering until he proved it later[21].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Right[21].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah[21]. He had an old worn ID in his phone. photos[21].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah, it was really wild[22].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** It sends chills down my spine just thinking about it. So, let's not keep our wonderful spooky Coopers on Pins and Needles. Let's tell them about[22]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...this amazing break in the Matrix story[22].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Oh, yeah. This was wild. It's[22]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...a story you have probably never heard before[22]. Yeah. Well, anyway, as we already mentioned, Paul and I were hiking up Pac Pac-Man. It's funny. We started hiking. We must have hiked that mountain close to 60 times that summer. Anyway, we're at the top of it of the area. There's this little picnic area and there's some old picnic tables up there. People go up there. They have little sitdowns and stuff, right?[22]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** And there was this little old Japanese guy sitting at one of the tables all by himself. And every other table had like families eating and having their little picnics up there. Paul and I were exhausted. We didn't want to sit down on some rocks or something. So, we asked him if we could sit at the other side of the table. And he said, "Sure, come on and sit." And um so he told us his name and um[23]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...it was Aia[23].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Some Yeah. And um[23]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...Samo Aio Sorum[23].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. So we sat down um for a while and we were all looking at the mountains and somehow we started talking and it moved into spirituality cuz he started talking about the mountains and the the life that comes from the mountains and then like most of our conversations end up happening it slipped into paranormal stuff[23].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. From the beginning the old man had a a bit of sadness about him as he was looking far into the distance when we first got there. And when we started talking to him about the paranormal, his look got sadder and further away. Then he asked with all seriousness, "Do you think under c certain special circumstances people can cross from one time to another?" And you and I, we both said yes, we believe that[24].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. Which I think surprised[24]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...There's a lot of stuff we believe and[24]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...I think that surprised him[24].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** And then um we started to talk about things like, you know, like the Mandela effect and and stuff until he finally stopped and he said that that's not exactly what he meant. And then he said he's m he's been experiencing more than that[25].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Mhm[25].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** And that it was, you know, so different that he was in a world that was so different and that he had been there for more than 40 years and he just wanted to get back to his own world and wanted to know if we knew how[25].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. He began to tell us a story and said he was born in 19 1926 in the Honduri neighborhood of Hiroshima. That's that's I'm I'm reading from what we wrote down, so I I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right[25].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Hiroshima[26].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. No, not Hiroshima. Honduri[26].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Okay[26].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Everybody knows how to spell. How do I pronounce Hroshima? Come on[26].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Hiroshima. Hiroshima[26].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** His parents, himself, and a younger sister, Kiyoko, and a brother, Utah or Yata. I think it's Utah. They had a[26]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...been so long ago, it's hard to[26]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...He said they had a wonderful life. They went to school there. He he got into a respected paid college after school and was a on on track for a good future. Now, if you think of the time he was born in 1926, now he's in a trade school. Go ahead[26].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. His sister was learning nursing and his young brother was he was doing pretty well pretty well in school and he and his sister were hoping to save money to move their parents out of the area where they lived[27].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. He said that a war broke out across the across the world. I typed across the world so we'd remember, but I think he went, you know, on the other side of the world, right?[27]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Right[27].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And when he was a young man, uh, when he was a young man, this happened, but Jap Japan stayed out of it. They never gave into foolishness of Hitler wanting to have a Pacific front force and there was no Pearl Harbor attack, no nuclear bomb attack, and the US troops did not have did not get involved get Russia involved in the fight and there was no need to battle on the Pacific front. And the way the war ended was quick. There was never a Berlin wall. There was ne and Hitler was caught and tried and imprisoned in his timeline[27].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And mo most important to our new companion was all his friends and family were still alive in the other world. Yet in this world, all he knew was horror. In this place, all his family, even his very self, were made into ashes under the scorching silver cloud of an atomic blast[28].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. He called it the scorching silver cloud. I remember that so clearly[28].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. O he was talking about his family back in his time. Honestly, and honestly, the more he talked, the more real his emotions became, but the more his story became harder to believe[28].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...someone's burying your soul. And I remember thinking, you know, what do we do? Turn to him and go, "Have a nice day." And then walk away. It was just very difficult. He got so much into the story[29]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...cuz what do you what do you say? Did he read like Ray Bradberry or something?[29]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** So it was right about then that uh he he said he wanted to show us his proof. He said he always carried his old wallet and from that place with him and he warned that it was very old and almost falling apart. So c you know he told please be careful with it and he handed it to us. In the wallet there was what we could only guess was like a driver's license. It was all written in Japanese with a faded photo of a young man hand that sort of resembled him. What was really breathtaking were the pictured dogeared black and white photos of people from the past. Uh, one was a school graduation photo of his sister uh or or some type of whether it's college or nursing school. We couldn't tell. And it was from the year around 1950, I believe[29].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Um, and then the next thing he told us kind of answered the questions you and I were planning to ask[30]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...because he went on[30],
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...right? He his answer actually answered two questions. Uh, one of which we we didn't even think about. Both answers came out in the story he told. Uh, so let me tell you what he said. It happened when he was 30 years old. His best friend Tomio was very depressed. His wife of of seven years had[30]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...Tomio's wife. Yeah[30].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Tomio's wife had died of cancer and wanted to and He wanted to follow her. And there's a place in Japan um it's uh it's there there in this world too. It's called oh boy aka Akagara juk where people who wish to take their lives go. The trees there are said to make it very easy. Tomio was going there. He said[30]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...I looked that up after and if I remember correctly it's like the suicide forest[31].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Suicide forest. Yeah. He said he followed his friend after he after he left. Um and and uh he was his best friend and he wanted him to live obviously and to heal in time. His friend got there before he did and he saw his car, Tomio's car. So he he ran into the forest after him. He believed he saw his friend from behind walking down a path and shouted to him. He fell to his knees with dizziness. When he got to his feet, all signs of his friend were gone. So something happened in that moment. He was dizzy and felt lost. He looked for for Tomio a bit longer, but he never found him. Yeah[31].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** And when he got to his car, the whole world had changed. His car was no longer there. Tomio's car was there, but his wasn't. And he assumed it had been stolen. He waited for Tomio all day, hoping he would come back. And through the night, and Tomio didn't return. And noticing that Tomio, he left his keys in the car. So, he took the car and drove home to tell his family. That's when he realized everything had changed[32].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah. He stopped he stopped his story there. Um cleared his throat. He had like a tear in his eye and Not long after that, he realized that he but you know he went back with the story and then he said he realized he was the victim of a terrible trick of those woods. He blamed it all on the woods. He checked public records and they all showed that all his family, even himself, had lived and died already[32].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...and he had been living in his shoes in this awful world ever since. He said[33],
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** "Yeah." Yeah. Well, that that is a story that that's the wildest story to date that I know of[33].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. I've been thinking about it for a long time[33].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Right. It was, you know, as crazy as it sounded, it was just the details that he kept pouring out one after after the other after the other. He'd obviously been, you know, there was something happened to him somewhere along the way[33].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** So, is it real or this is this a man who just couldn't couldn't deal with losing his family in an atomic bomb attack?[33]
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Yeah, I don't know[34].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah, that picture[34]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...I mean was it a real picture or was it something he found and that was you know who knows[34]...
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** ...and that happened even before[34].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Never discount the possibilities[34].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** You can't but you also can't discount the ide dear that[34]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...it might not have been because we didn't have the firstirhand knowledge[34].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Yeah. What I take from this story is the endless possibilities of what could be around us and in our lives[34],
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...right?[34]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** You know, things strange things happen every day[34].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** Cows turn themselves inside out. All we can say is keep an open mind[35],
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...right?[35]
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** It's not our not for us to judge[35].
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** Nope[35].
**Speaker 1 (Paul):** You know, so dear listeners, after that I guess it's kind of a lengthy episode. We're we're we're grateful that you joined us. Thank you everyone in America and around the world for dropping by. Be good to each other. Take care of one another. Love one another. Until next time when we see you[35]...
**Speaker 2 (Michelle):** ...in the Spooky Coop[35].