The Tape Library - Archive of the Paranormal & the Unexplained - The Horrifying Legends of Hoia Baciu | The Worlds Most Haunted Forest

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

Hoia Baciu is a mysterious forest in the heart of Transylvania that is home to many terrifying legends. From sightings of UFOs, the disembodied voices of spirits to strange animal sightings, this plac...e has it all. Join me as we delve into the most haunted forest in Romania, or possible the world. Support the channel with Patreon - www.patreon.com/thetapelibrary Do you have a supernatural story to share? Drop me an email at thetapelibrary@protonmail.com You can check out The Tape Library in audio form on all of your favourite podcast providers. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thetapelibrary Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Tape-Library/100094332411836/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thetapelibrary Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime. Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels. All other footage used under fair use. CHAPTERS 00:00 The Missing Girl of Hoia Baciu 02:41 Welcome to The Tape Library 04:14 The Legends of Hoia Baciu 11:10 Alexandru Sift 15:52 The Hoia Baciu UFO 19:44 Adrian Pătruţ 26:26 Modern Encounters 33:38 What Really Happened? 35:48 An Announcement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:05 The exact date is unknown, but at some point in the early 20th century, the young girl was walking alone in the fields of Transylvania. Just five years old, she had wandered away from her parents, from her home, and was walking up a hill towards a darkened tree line. This tree line was the opening to a forest that many locals tried to steer clear of. Did the girl walk away all by herself? curious to check out the forest, or like so many others have claimed in recent years. Did she feel somehow drawn to the location? Did she hear the voices, the giggling on the air that others report? Did she see the lights?
Starting point is 00:00:57 The girl walked alone through the trees as the sun began to set. The strange twisting, deformed trees, heading further and further north until she found it. The most famous spot in this entire forest, the round meadow. A near perfectly round clearing in which barely any plant life will grow. Then, nothing. The girl's family quickly realised that their child was gone, and search parties were formed. Witnesses spoke of how they saw a young girl heading in the direction of the forest, and so the search expanded out there, but there was nothing.
Starting point is 00:01:39 not a trace of the young girl ever having been there. For months they looked, but she was gone, leaving behind only small footprints, headed towards the clearing. After years, the family finally had to come to terms with the idea that their little girl was not coming back. But then, she did. Found after being missing for five years, walking out of the same forest she had vanished in.
Starting point is 00:02:08 now ten years old, but still dressed in the same clothes she had been wearing on the night she walked out there, barely a scratch or hair out of place. Her clothes tighter and shorter, but in perfect condition. The local authorities quickly questioned the girl and asked where had she been. What happened to her? She told them she just went to play in the woods. She had only been gone a little while. She had no memory of what had happened. over the last five years.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Welcome to Tape Library. Tonight we're covering a location that many of you have requested I get into over the last few months. We're going to be looking at the Romanian forest of Huya Bachu. That, depending on who you ask, is either a place of strange natural anomalies, a hotspot for UFO sightings, or the most haunted forest in the world. Whatever the truth may be, this is an air. area steeped in terrifying local folklore, and we're going to get into as much of it tonight as possible. A bit like our visit to Hoska Castle. A lot of the stories about this place have existed for years
Starting point is 00:03:19 and spread through word of mouth, so we're going to be focusing on the legends here. Just bear that in mind and take what you hear with a pinch of salt. That being said, there is also quite a bit of video and photographic evidence that we'll be getting into as well. While the stories of Huayabatu spread back hundreds of years, it's only a bit of. It's only a bit of video and photographic evidence that we'll be getting into as well. really gained worldwide infamy in the 1960s and continues to this day to be a location that brings together people from all walks of life with an interest in the unexplained so get yourself a warm drink dim the lights and get comfortable it's time to get into the horrifying legends of hoia batchu Romania's Bermuda Triangle.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Huya Batchu is located right by Kluge Napolka, in northwestern Romania, the unofficial capital of Transylvania, obviously an area of the world that is steeped in legends and stunning gothic architecture. The perfect location for a haunted wood, if I do say so myself. The area is home to the oldest recorded settlement in Romania, a Neolithic site that is estimated as being from around 6,500 BC. From the 1960s until the 1990s, various excavations of the area have been done, finding all sorts of artefacts, homes, and even the remains of tombs. The dark legends of Huayabatu can be traced back this far, as it is claimed by some that
Starting point is 00:05:01 residents of this long-forgotten settlement were attacked by a rival tribe. Up to 200 people were apparently marched into the forests surrounding the settlement, and then were brutally massacred by their captors, though it would be thousands of years later that the forest would be given its name, seemingly due to another local legend about a shepherd. It said that at some point a sheepherder was walking his sheep through the nearby fields, stopping briefly to let them graze as and when they wanted. When he spotted something through the trees, a perfect large round plain of grass, what looked like an untouched clearing in the woods, the perfect place for his large flock of sheep. He began shepherding them through the twisting trees and towards the clearing. The man took
Starting point is 00:05:55 200 sheep into the forest that day. None returned. The shepherd and his sheep were never heard from again. Leaving behind, no trace. Over the years it is estimated that 1,000 people have got into the forest and never returned. But not everyone who goes missing in the forest is gone for good, much like the legend of the little girl from the start of our story, some simply walk into the woods and are enjoying a lovely walk in nature, only to venture out of the trees back towards the city, to discover a search party out looking for them. The people who would gone for the walk, come out convinced they were only there for an hour or two, only to discover they had been missing for much longer than that. Days in some cases, or in the situation
Starting point is 00:06:46 with a little girl, even years, these lapses in time are pretty common place. Although in most instances, they are simply minutes or hours lost, it is still a terrifying situation. One other specific story of a disappearance is that of a woman who became separated from her friends, while out walking one day in the forest. Eventually they found her, hours later, wandering around just outside, almost in a daze. They asked her what happened to her, but she was convinced she had only been gone for a few minutes. It was during their conversation and the woman felt something in her pocket, something that hadn't been there before. She then apparently produced a coin, a coin that seemed to date back to the 1500s. During winter months,
Starting point is 00:07:41 reports have been made of footsteps in the snow that approached the clearing in the forest before just stopping, as though the person walking just vanished into thin air. Others that vanish in the woods but are later found are unfortunately discovered in a much more grisly way. The forest has become something of a hotspot for suicides over the years, with a number of people being found, hanging from the trees. This seems to be a sensible time to segue into how being in the forest fills. The most common experiences people seem to have within the forest are of its seemingly messing with their emotions and even body at times.
Starting point is 00:08:25 It is said by many that being in the forest seems to play on the emotions that you take in with you. If you are happy when you enter, you feel overjoyed with the wonder and the beauty of the forest. But if you are feeling low, it amplifies that depression, painting the forest as a dark and foreboding and depressing world. People will often report feeling suddenly nauseous while walking around the forest, even actually throwing up unexpectedly. Headaches and migraines are often brought on, almost instantly upon entering.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Visitors will often feel disorientated. Many have reported getting home and being shocked to discover what looks like scratches and even burns on their skin, even if it was completely covered by a jacket. All this, like with much of the phenomena that we'll talk about shortly, seems to increase the deeper you go into the forest. And more specifically, the closer you get to the round meadow, the strange clearing that seems to ignite the imaginations of so many. There is something about the forest that saw it develop an interest from the scientific community, and that is the strangeness of the trees. From a distance, it just looks like your typical forest, but so many of the trees are growing in strange positions, covered in scars and scabs, even appearing burnt at times, while oddly growing
Starting point is 00:09:56 trees aren't that unusual. It's the sheer number of them that seem to be growing almost horizontally that has caused such an interest from those interested in nature. In some cases, as many as eight trunks could be seen growing out of a single root, and apparently, as with everything else in this forest, the closer you get to the clearing, the stranger the trees get. The clearing itself appears to be something of a natural oddity as well. There's very little all growing. It. The shepherds in the area claim that the clearing has remained identical for at least 450 years. Attempts have been made to grow trees and other foliage in the clearing, but nothing other
Starting point is 00:10:39 the low level of grass will grow, and leaving the area looking perfectly pristine, as though it will almost be maintained by someone to keep it that way. Numerous experiments have been carried out in the forest by various scientific teams from all around the world, with the soil being tested by many of those groups, but they can find no reason why plant life will refuse to grow in the clearing, nor can they definitively explain the strange growth patterns of the trees. Oyabatjewers always had a mysterious reputation with the locals and throughout Romania as a whole.
Starting point is 00:11:17 But it would be the 1950s and 60s that this reputation would spread worldwide. Now, from the sources I found online, there are a handful of folks. photos that were taken in the 50s and 60s, that are credited to two men, who will be an important part of our story going forward, but in multiple places whose photo is credited to who is jumbled up. I think I've got the right order here, but please don't shoot me if I've made a mistake. Around 1953, a biologist by the name of Alexander Sift, began frequently visiting the forest. He had become fascinated by the strange stories around it, and was intrigued to see the place for himself. He could have had no way of knowing that what he would experience on this trip would change his life forever.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Alexander arrived at the forest that day with his gear, a camera and his father. His main reason for being there was to look at the peculiar tree growth he had heard so much about. The first thing he encountered, however, was a sound. A sound that he described as almost like teeth chattering. an exaggerated clamping together of teeth that could be heard from some distance. The men's destination that day was to reach the circle clearing. The location he had been told had the highest percentage of deformed trees. The closer and closer Alexander got, the more he began to experience.
Starting point is 00:12:47 He quickly began to feel unwell. The Austin reported nausea and headaches, hitting him the further they ventured into the forest. But then he began to hear things, things that were even more disturbing than the chattering. He began to hear voices, specifically the voices of children, giggling and whispering to one another as he walked. It wasn't quite like they were actually there, though. Many who experienced the phenomena of hearing the children's voices in the forest say they are faint and feel like they are being carried by the wind.
Starting point is 00:13:24 then he started to see things both Alexander and his father became convinced that they could see shadows of other men or more specifically men that were shadows often just out of the corners of their eyes when they were turned to look there would be nothing but this wasn't just something that could be passed off as an optical illusion it kept happening to the extent where both men became convinced that whatever these were, were following them. Alexander was feeling an overwhelming feeling of anxiety at this point, but the scientist in him told himself that there was some sort of rational explanation for all of this, and that if he left now, what hoped did he have of uncovering the secrets this forest seemed to be holding? Bravely he ventured on, the whole time with these shadows following behind. And numerous moments Alexander attempted to get photos of the shadows, But with limited success, it was during these attempts, however, that Alexander captured some of the most famous images taken in Huayabatu. Now, full transparency, I've heard conflicting reports of what happened here.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Some say Alexander saw a strange light in the sky above one of the grassy plains next to the forest and captured a picture of it. But another said that Alexander had no idea there was anything in the sky, that he simply was taking photographs. and it was only after developing them, that he witnessed the strange aerial phenomena in the photograph. The latter version of events is something that appears to have been echoed throughout the decades that follow. Countless people have reported taking photographs in the forest, only to discover strange lights in the images, once they were developed. The phenomena that is being captured, seemingly being invisible to the naked eye.
Starting point is 00:15:18 These many people include Alexander himself, who, after visiting that one time, became a... obsessed with Huabatu, making his study of the forest his life's work, and capturing many strange photos between the 60s and his eventual death in the 90s. However, many of those photographs and documents were later stolen. Shortly after his death, someone broke into his property and took much of his research into Huya Batu, apparently leaving everything else in the property alone. While Siff's initial picture, did cause quite a stir. It was a photograph taken in the late 60s that truly put the forest on the worldwide stage
Starting point is 00:16:01 when it came to mysterious locations. On August 18th, 1968, military technician Emil Barnier was out for a sunny afternoon walk with his then girlfriend and their two friends. They had set themselves up in the soon-to-be infamous clearing in the forest, and were having a pleasant picnic, laughing at a pleasant picnic, laughing at a joking with one another, completely unaware that their lives were about to change forever. He had walked away from his group to collect wood when his girlfriend started shouting for him to return. They had seen something. Emile rushed back to his group to see them all standing there, staring up at the sky. There, above them, was a metallic-shaped saucer. Amil quickly grabbed his camera and started snapping photos
Starting point is 00:16:55 he then claims that the object started to flash brightly before beginning to twist all while being completely silent as it did then out of nowhere the object shot off into the distance at an alarming speed now I'm a little skeptical of this photo but seemingly at the time it was taken very seriously What is interesting is that the apparent object in the sky
Starting point is 00:17:24 does bear a striking resemblance to another famous UFO photograph from just a few years earlier. The Santa Ana craft in California The photograph was spread very quickly throughout the world by people who were interested in this sort of thing and both the photograph and the original negatives were tested and highly scrutinised to see if there were any attempts at altering the photos
Starting point is 00:17:49 But seemingly they were not. Whatever is in this image was apparently there at least, when the photograph was taken. One suggestion that is often used to debunk this image is that it is a weather balloon. However, apparently no records of a weather balloon being deployed in the area at this time can be found. If this photograph was a fake, however, it begs to question why Emil would do this. At this time in history the country was under control of the Communist Party and Emil as a military technician must have known that going public with this photo
Starting point is 00:18:27 would not be seen as a positive career move for him. Apparently soon after releasing the photo, Emil was visited by numerous strange individuals who had a lot of questions about what he saw. Soon after this he was taken directly to the central offices of the Communist Party and was questioned at length by multiple officers, who then forced him to hand over the photographs and the negatives. They promised to return them once their inquiries were completed,
Starting point is 00:18:56 but never did. He quickly lost his job after this interrogation, and the government of the time refused to engage in any conversation about paranormal phenomena or UFOs that were being reported around Hoya Bachu. This story, however, made Hoya Batchu. made Huabatu infamous around the world, and saw Alexander Siff double down on his research into the forest, soon being joined by teams from all around the world, who would come and aid him in his experiments, while also conducting their own. Frustratingly, the phenomena seemed to come in waves,
Starting point is 00:19:32 making it very difficult to record detailed data. Months would go by with very little reported activity, and then out of nowhere lots of strange phenomena would happen, in quick succession. In 1974, Sift was joined by a chemist by the name of Adrian Petrude, a man who would become Siff's closest friend while working on the project, and who also dedicated his life to studying the phenomena in the forest. Continuing Siff's work long after his death and even into the present day, if you have ever watched any investigations into Hueh Batchu, you will certainly have seen Adrian Petrude. The man has a very distinctive look, and is without a doubt the foremost expert on the forest now.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Petrute went on to become the president of the Romanian Parasicology Society, but his personal work is very focused on Huabatu. Throughout the years he has reported experiencing much the same phenomena everyone else has, from the physical sensations through to the strange sounds and even seeing things. But Petrude seems very convinced that whatever is taking, place in the forest is something that can be explained by science. They just don't know what the answer is yet. One of his leading suspicions is the potential that infrasound could be at play. Sound waves that while we're inaudible to the human ear can cause a whole host of
Starting point is 00:21:00 effects on our bodies, including increased levels of fear. Infrasound is often used as a potential explanation in many haunted house cases. While that may explain some of the physical symptoms. It doesn't explain the photographs or reported sightings people make, but could radiation be at play? The apparent burns appearing on people's bodies, strangely growing plants, and sickness does seem to play into that narrative. But tests have been done on the area and found nothing really of note. Despite these seemingly rational explanations, Petrude does back up Sif sightings of the glowing objects in the sky, claiming to have not only seen them himself,
Starting point is 00:21:46 but to having seen many photographs that reveal them, even though they were not apparently visibly present when the photo was taken. Petrude also claims he has one very strange story from one of his early visits to the area in 1975. He claims that he found, along with a large group of other researchers, the ruins of an old building. While no one in the group had seen these ruins before, they had only made a few trips out,
Starting point is 00:22:16 and the forest is close to 700 acres large. They took numerous photographs, but for some reason Petrude couldn't get the ruins out of his head in the following weeks. Something about them just stuck with him. But he didn't know why. When he returned to Huabatu, he decided to head straight for the ruins to investigate them further, but no matter how hard he tried.
Starting point is 00:22:39 tried, he couldn't find them again. The rest of the group all backed up where they thought the ruins were, but none of them could locate them either. Stranger still, the photographs they had taken of the ruins were bare. No trace of the remains of the building were visible in any of the photographs. Butruth states that there are two distinct types of phenomena in the forest. The aerial, often invisible to the naked eye, but lights and strange objects that show up in photographs. When they can be seen in person, sometimes they are totally stationary, other times they move quickly through the sky. These sightings have even been reported from the city, with inhabitants of the high-rise blocks there, seeing objects floating
Starting point is 00:23:27 over the forest. The other type of phenomena is what he refers to as bioforms. These are visual apparitions that take on the appearance of plants, animals or even people. Oftentimes there is something off about these apparitions that gives them away as not real, or at least not real in the sense that we often think of them. Animals that should not be seen in the Romanian forest, such as buzzards and leopards, have been spotted. People report seeing the faces of loved ones in the trees, some of whom are long dead. Others still very much. alive but living their lives miles away from the forest, the latter of which chills me to the bone for some reason.
Starting point is 00:24:14 People will see others walking through the trees and then they just vanish. Fragments of people appear out of thin air, just parts of a face or body floating in the air, and one of the most commonly recorded phenomena is strange lights at ground level. Little glowing lights off in the distance of the tree line, surrounding the outside of the forest, pointed towards those brave enough to camp there, as though these lights were watching them. The first time I saw clips of this phenomena, I instantly assumed it was simply other people in the forest with torches, but strangely some have captured images of these lights, moving up into the trees, or even the sky. Other researchers and television crews who have
Starting point is 00:25:03 investigated the area, have brought along thermal cameras and pointed them in the direction of these lights. But no heat signature appears to be given off, suggesting that these lights are not fires, nor are they people. The story told by the locals in the area about these lights is that these are the long-forgotten spirits of those early massacred settlers, still stuck here, thousands of years later. With all this, the site has become something of a destination, not just for tourists, but also for those who see Huayabatu, there's a site of spiritual power. Everyone from yoga teachers to wikkins to self-described Satanists
Starting point is 00:25:49 apparently visited the forest to soak up its otherworldly qualities, many of them speculating what is behind the strange phenomena in the forest. Many believe that the clearing is some sort of gateway to another dimension, and that all the strange sightings are beings passing from one world into another. One tour guide has told a story of how he arrived in the forest one day to discover a group of 60 people standing around the clearing when he asked them what they were doing They told him they were attempting to open the gate With its growing fame the forest has become a very popular destination for people to visit and in some cases even camp, many walk away disappointed, not encountering anything strange.
Starting point is 00:26:40 But there are still an alarming number who do. A member of a local non-profit group who helps maintain the forest told a story about he and a small group camping in the woods late one night. As they attempted to sleep, they heard footsteps outside their tent, initially thinking it may be a deer, They carefully opened the tent to try and see if they could see it. But there was nothing there. Just five minutes passed and the footsteps returned. Louder this time. Again, when they tried to investigate, there was nothing.
Starting point is 00:27:19 It wasn't like the creature ran off or anything. The sound just stopped. The third time, it became apparent that this was no deer. The footsteps were, of something large, very large, with one man claiming he thought it might be a horse running around outside the tent. Time after time they would investigate, find nothing, get back into their sleeping bags, only for the sound to immediately start again, as though it were to toying with them. They did not get much sleep that night, and most of the group refused to camp
Starting point is 00:28:00 in the forest again. Another group of campers were out walking near the clearing, when they stumbled upon a man limping around through the trees. The man stared at the group and they asked if he was okay. He simply asked how to get back to the city. Not saying anything further, the group took him to the path that led to the clearing where the rest of their friends were camped. If he followed that path through the clearing and onwards, it would lead to the clearing. It would lead to the clearing, him out of the woods. But the friends at the campsite never saw the man. The group ended up looking for him, fearing he may have fallen and been injured, in what would have been a short walk. But he was just gone. Another group, walking through the woods one night, were laughing and
Starting point is 00:28:51 joking about the stories that were told about the forest. The man of the back of the group stopped. It became fascinated by one of the trees. Something about it just grabbed his attention. As he was staring at it, he was suddenly hit with a wave of anxiety. He then realised his friends were all gone. They had continued walking without him, and he had no idea how long he had been standing there. Then, out of nowhere, right next to his ear,
Starting point is 00:29:23 he heard the loud screams of the woman. When he spun around to realise he was all alone, he quickly started running, catching up to his friends who claimed they hadn't heard anything. Luckily, he didn't become one of those that go missing in the forest. The trees taking on this mesmerizing quality has been reported numerous times, with some claiming they become convinced that the trees are talking to them, or that they see them moving, even when there is no wind. Then there is the old woman.
Starting point is 00:29:58 An apparition that has been reported by many, including one television crew, who found themselves driving through the roads that surround the forest. Late one night, they had become lost and were growing increasingly agitated, that they couldn't figure out where they were. When the driver had the slam on the brakes,
Starting point is 00:30:19 his companions all looked at him. The driver sat there, breathing heavily, clearly terrified before telling everyone else in the car that he had just hit a woman strangely none of them had seen a thing or even felt the impact but he was convinced they had hit an old woman they all got out and did an extensive search
Starting point is 00:30:43 there was no damage to the van and after searching a one kilometre wide perimeter around the vehicle they could find no woman I wasn't sure if I should include this, but let's finish up our exploration of Hoyabatu with one final incident. Now I've said in the past that I find myself quite sceptical when it comes to ghost hunting shows. While I don't want to call anyone out for outright faking things, I do think there's a tendency to just put people in a creepy dark location
Starting point is 00:31:16 and then basically watch as they react to every possible noise like it's a demon about to eat their heads. But there is one clip from a sci-fi channel show that might be one of the most famous pieces of Hoyabatu evidence, and it would be wrong to not include it. It comes from an episode of Destination Truth from, I believe, around 2009. If you can track down this episode,
Starting point is 00:31:42 it's well worth a watch, if not just for the moment where the investigation team attempts to fly over the round meadow only for the plane's roof to literally rip off forcing them to land but I want to talk about something that happens later that night
Starting point is 00:31:58 the team are doing individual investigations in the centre of the clearing one by one they sit in the centre with cameras set up around them while the rest of the team watch on monitors from further away the cameraman is the second person to get involved in this experiment he says into his walkie-talkie that he thinks he can hear something,
Starting point is 00:32:25 like distant female voices. When suddenly, from a seated position, he is thrown backwards. The crew rushed to the man's location and find him on the floor several feet away, his camera thrown to the floor elsewhere. The man is obviously shaken up and the medics check him over, giving him water, but he just keeps claiming he feels itchy. They roll up his jacket sleeve to reveal fresh scratches up his arm. The man then describes what happened.
Starting point is 00:33:02 He says that it felt like a wind came down from above and then shot into his body, throwing him backwards. While this could obviously have been faked somehow, it is weird. The speed at which the man flies out of shot, is astounding, happening in just a fraction of a frame from being sat on the floor. His arm flailing behind him as he moves, almost as though something were pulling him. So what is the truth of
Starting point is 00:33:39 Huibatu? This case just reminds me of Hoska Castle so much. You have that mixture of modern-day paranormal investigations, mixed in with a dark history that has likely been twisted for throughout time. But then you can also add UFOs into the mix, turning this forest into a captivating world of high strangeness. I don't think many of the photos are super intriguing in terms of evidence, but some of them really are undeniably creepy. A few people have suggested with Hoska Castle that the hole that was opened there sent up gas that caused hallucinations, creating the initial strange reports of the area, which then put it into people's heads that this was a place
Starting point is 00:34:27 where the mystical could happen, leading some to just trick themselves into thinking they had experienced stuff, with others making stories up, clouding the truth even further. Could something similar be happening here? Something natural that is causing hallucinations and sickness in individuals, combined with photographic anomalies, and fake stories.
Starting point is 00:34:52 Other more out-there theories are that this is indeed a gateway between other dimensions. Some say it might be a place where the dead become trapped, their spirits lost in this strange forest. And of course there are others who believe
Starting point is 00:35:09 that this is a location of importance for beings from another world. And maybe even that the clearing was created when it was used as a landing spot for UFOs. So what do you think?
Starting point is 00:35:26 As always, I want to hear your thoughts and veries on this one. So please do leave me a comment or drop me an email. A huge thank you to everyone who suggested this story. I wasn't sure there was enough to it for a full episode initially. But as always seems to happen, the more you dig into a strange location, the more strangeness starts leaking out. That's all for this entry into the same. the tape library, but I do have a quick announcement to thrown at the end here. Those of you who
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