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Real Survival Stories

Jungle Fall in East Timor: Saved by Goats

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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 Hopkins. Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's dusk on June the 14th, 2019, in Southeast Asia.

0:51.0

On the island of Ataru, a tiny sun-soaked oasis off the coast of East Timor,

0:56.0

the dark silhouette of a mountain looms imperiously over the forests, fields and foothills. This is Mount Manukoko, and according to local folklore, this thousand-meter

1:05.6

peak is more than just a mountain. It's a sacred place, where the boundary between the physical world and the spiritual

1:12.1

world is porous and fragile. By day, there is a clear dividing line between these two realms.

1:21.0

But at night, the line dissolves. And so the legend goes, the mountain becomes the domain of spirits.

1:30.3

Some islanders believe that you must not set foot here after dark,

1:33.3

or risk antagonizing the supernatural forces set to dwell there.

1:37.3

Those who ignore the warning do so at their own peril.

1:43.3

On this particular summer's night, partway up one of Manukoko's densely do so at their own peril.

1:44.3

On this particular summer's night, partway up one of Manukoko's densely wooded slopes,

1:50.1

something moves through the darkening jungle.

1:54.6

A hunched, howling figure, stumbling blindly over the ground. It's a strange, frightening creature,

2:03.6

like a man that's stripped of all obvious humanity.

2:07.6

Its naked body is smeared with blood and filth,

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