Episode 89: Haunted Hostel in New Zealand

Odd Trails

Cryptic County

True Crime, Arts, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Stories in this episode:

- Haunted Hostel in NZ, by Abby
- The First Time My Mom Visited Me, by Colleen
- I Experienced My Own Death, by The_Number0
- The Indigo Man, by Emma D.
- Humanoid/Crawler/Cryptid Encounter, by Girthquake2654

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1:25.0	During my junior year of college, I studied abroad at a university on the south island of New Zealand.
1:33.0	Towards the end of the semester, my roommate and I wanted to try and fit in one last weekend hiking trip
1:40.0	before we had to leave and go home to the US.
1:43.0	We decided to go to Milford Sound, which is a fjord on the south island.
1:48.0	It's possible to see dolphins and penguins while hiking out there, it's an amazing place.
1:54.0	New Zealand's seasons are the opposite of ours in the US, so it was pretty cold and rainy at that point.
2:00.0	It was now the off season for hikers, so when we made it to the hostel, there was nobody else staying there.
2:07.0	No one was even there to check us in, we had to get a key from a lock box.
2:12.0	It was a little unsettling since my roommate and I were the only ones in this large hostel.
2:18.0	It was kind of tucked away in the woods, and it was nighttime and raining when we got there.
2:23.0	When we walked around, it sort of felt like a liminal space.
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