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You'll wake from a shallow sleep.

For a moment, you think it's morning already.

But then you remember, it's still night. During the summer in Finland, midnight is indistinguishable from dawn.

From where you lay inside your tent, the night sounds perfectly peaceful. Crickets chirps softly outside.

Not far away, the lake's gentle waves lap rhythmically against the shore. It's idyllic.

And yet, you can't shake the sense that something is wrong.

Something imminent.

Then you hear it.

A crunch of foliage outside the tent.

Then a quick twang, the sound of a rope snapping.

Someone is cutting the cords that hold up your tent.

You try to escape, but the tent is already collapsed down around you.

Smothering your cries for help.

You You know, I'm going to be able to June 4th, 1960. A pair of motorcycles drive through the countryside of southern Finland,

carrying four teenagers

and their camping gear.

On one motorcycle sits SEPO Boisman and his girlfriend Anya Tuliki Maki.

The other is driven by Niels Gustafsson, with his girlfriend, Myla Bjorkland in the back.

Myla's 16th birthday is coming up, so it's the perfect excuse for the friends to escape the city for a weekend camping trip.

And soon, their destination, Lake Bodom, comes into view.

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