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So it's time for some theories.

Now, you might think this is all just sort of kind of, oh, just so everyday

occurrences, people disappear, people die, whatever, you know, but actually there's this particular

area has kind of a, I don't know if you'd call it a dark reputation among the locals that

goes back a long way. So this is not just recent internet kind of stuff.

But the Chinese, apparently the Chinese people see this area as kind of a boundary between two worlds.

Is that an apt way of putting this, the way they look at it?

I believe this is part of the folklore of the, what's called the Haka people.

Yeah. Again, these were Han Chinese that moved south. They're culturally distinct from the

Cantonese, or the majority of people living in this area. Yeah. They saw these forests as

having some type of spiritual power and being sort of the boundary between the spirit world and our world.

Yeah.

This is why it's called the barrier, right?

It's just like sort of an error in translation because boundaries and barriers are

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