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Sounds.

Sounds like an experience.

I just worry, you know, if there's nothing and you've come all the way out here.

I know.

I'm totally prepared for there to be nothing.

That's what I want to find out.

And you won't be crushed if it's the latter?

Sarah Larson was days away from meeting Charlie Brill for the first time when this recording was made,

a meeting that would forever alter the course of her life.

The pair had planned a trip to Ong's Hat, a ghost town in the Pine Barons of New Jersey,

rumored to be the site of a gateway to another dimension.

Privately, Charlie assumed this was nothing more than a fun urban legend.

But Sarah had grown invested in the possibility that the stories had some merit.

I mean, at least it'll be an answer of some kind.

I don't know.

Yeah, I definitely want some answers.

Something concrete would be cool.

Yeah.

Oh, man, I'm going to get really excited now, Sarah. I haven't done something like this a long time. I mean, just like gone on a road trip with anybody, let alone. It's going to be fun.

For Charlie, the real draw was spending time with Sarah, someone he'd gotten to know online and developed a burgeoning if one-sided attraction to.

Would this trip and its promise of adventure and the paranormal be enough to forge a relationship?

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