Jungle Fall in East Timor: Saved by Goats
2/26/20261 hr
A French former acrobat moves to the southeast Asian paradise of East Timor. One sunny day, Morgan Segui decides to trek to the top of a nearby sacred mountain. After reaching the summit, however, his thrill-seeking backfires. Caught in the baking late afternoon heat, with an empty water bottle and a long way back down, Morgan is hopelessly lost. But that’s just the start. After a brutal accident in the jungle, he’ll accept his fate… until an unexpected arrival appears through the trees, offering a tiny flash of hope…
A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hop...
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[waves lapping] It's dusk on June the 14th, 2019, in Southeast Asia. On the island of Atauro, a tiny sun-soaked oasis off the coast of East Timor, the dark silhouette of a mountain looms imperiously over the forests, fields, and foothills. [insects chirping] This is Mount Manukoko, and according to local folklore, this 1,000-meter peak is more than just a mountain. It's a sacred place, where the boundary between the physical world and the spiritual world is porous and fragile. By day, there is a clear dividing line between these two realms, but at night, the line dissolves, and so the legend goes, the mountain becomes the domain of spirits. Some islanders believe that you must not set foot here after dark or risk antagonizing the supernatural forces