The Asahi-dake SOS

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Searchers looking for two lost hikers see a massive SOS sign made from birch logs. The two hikers say they didn't make the sign. That's when the human remains and strange tape recordings turn up.

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0:00.0	If you'll indulge me for just a minute, I'd like to play for you what I consider to be one of the most
0:06.0	harrowing, frightening, and saddest bits of audio that I have ever come across in all of my research for this show.
0:14.0	It's a man and he's recording himself.
0:26.6	He appears to be lost on a mountainside and he calls out for help over and over again.
0:31.6	S-O-S.
0:32.6	S-O-S. He-un-E-E-E-E-U-E-E-A-E-E-U-E-E All these many years later, we're still not sure why he made this tape, and we're not even 100% sure who he was.
0:52.3	And that may not even be the strangest thing about the Mount Asidaki SOS.
0:59.8	Featuring Jerry Swaney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney,
1:06.7	this is The Shocking Details.
1:10.6	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
1:14.7	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
1:19.0	I'm your host, Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni. And we've got another interesting, even you might say, shocking story for you this week.
1:23.9	This story is actually a few decades old, and it comes out of the country of Japan.
1:30.1	Yeah. And Vincent, you actually dug this story up. Do you want to give us a quick intro to it?
1:35.6	Yeah, I'd be, I'd be happy to. Yeah. As I often am, I was out on Reddit a few months ago,
1:41.6	trolling around, looking for cool stories to read about, whether they'd
1:44.6	be germane to the podcast or, you know, otherwise. And I read a post on the Unsolved Mysteries
1:50.4	subreddit that kind of blew my mind. But, you know, when you think about it, there's a lot of stuff
1:55.5	that goes into a Reddit post. Like, who knows where any of this comes from, right? Oh, yeah. You got to definitely do a little double checking.
2:02.6	Yeah, I mean, I didn't know where this person got her facts from, his or her facts from.
2:05.8	Yeah.
2:05.9	So as I often do, I decided to do a little investigation of my own.
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