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Woman’s Photo Went Viral Due To Something Hidden In The Background
Unless you’re a celebrity or have a massive social media following for some other reason, you don’t typically expect photos of your personal life to go viral. But that’s just what happened when one mother posted photos of herself and her friend vacationing in Canada. The images seemed ordinary enough– just some friends posing in front of a valley at the top of a trail. It wasn’t until she looked much closer that the woman realized what was hidden in the background. Read on to discover what made an ordinary hiking photo seem so extraordinary.
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unless you're a celebrity or have a
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massive social media following for some
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other reason you don't typically expect
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photos of your personal life to go viral
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but that's just what happened when one
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mother posted photos of herself and her
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friend vacation in Canada
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the images seemed ordinary enough just
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some friends posing in front of a valley
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at the top of a trail
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it wasn't until she lived much closer
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that the woman realized what was hidden
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in the background before we start can we
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channel the woman and her friend had
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gone to Dundas Peak a popular hiking
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spot in Hamilton Canada given all of the
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incredible views you can capture at this
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park it's no surprise that thousands of
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people visit each year
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this stunning perspective makes it a
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great spa for photographers and models
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and regular visitors enjoy feeling like
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models while they show off their bravery
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and pose on the cliffs
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the thrill of sitting on the edge of a
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cliff is an attractive quality of the
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park to song
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The Mystery of the photograph all
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started when a woman named Kim decided
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to visit the park with her friend she
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felt she needed a break from her
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everyday life as a mom to go and do
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something adventurous
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Kim and her friend had decided on the
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park for its sweeping views and daring
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reputation
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they first got the idea from the
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friend's cousin who had shown them a
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picture of himself on the famous Cliffs
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Kim and her friend braced themselves for
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the moderate 2.4 mile hike though it
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wouldn't be terribly long they would be
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going uphill to reach the peak with the
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gorgeous views the women made it to the
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site where other hikers were also taking
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photographs they decided to take turns
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snapping photos of one another so that
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one could play photographer while the
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other played model Kim and her friend
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agreed that they would try to recreate
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the photo that had initially inspired
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them to go on the hike
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the friend's cousin had posed on the
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edge of the peak while this friend took
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a photo from the side
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unlike the popular pose where the model
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is looking straight ahead the angle they
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were going for would show their faces
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they figured that if they were lucky
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they might find someone who would take a
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picture of them both
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the women took turns so that one took
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the photo while the other posed
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first up was Kim's friend so she headed
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up to sit on the Rock the same way that
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her cousin had
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and she adjusted to find a comfortable
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position sheet of is something glimmer
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below she looked around to try to find
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what it was that had caught her eye
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then she discovered that the item was
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dangling from a branch and reached down
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to grab it despite the rocky landscape
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and awkward angle leaning off a huge
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precipice Ken was curious enough to risk
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it
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the branch that the keys hung from was
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only three feet below but when you're
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hanging over a cliff the stakes are much
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higher Kim joined her friend to see what
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was happening the women looked at the
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keys then at one another
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they knew that they could save someone a
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lot of trouble if they reached out for
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the keys so Kim swung her arm out to
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grab them while her friend kept Kim
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stable thankfully they snagged the keys
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without any issue after the friends
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retrieved the keys they went on with
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their photo shoot sure enough they were
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able to find someone to grab a picture
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of them together before they went on
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their way back to the car
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but something was weighing heavily on
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their minds who was the owner of the
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keys before they knew it dusk was
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approaching and a hiking trail started
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to feel a little less welcoming they've
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read back to the nearly empty parking
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lot hoping that they would find the car
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that the missing Keys belong to
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Kim and her friend returned to the
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parking lot as the sun disappeared
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beyond the trees they were able to
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easily discern which vehicle the missing
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Keys belonged to since all of the cars
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were nearly gone though the car was
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still there the owner was nowhere in
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sight they didn't want to stay out in
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the cold as the sky grew darker so they
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decided to leave the keys on top of the
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car on the driver's side it's hard to
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say what would have caused someone to
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leave or misplace their keys in the
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forest and leave their care there were
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the keys you into the vehicle could
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someone still be out there looking for
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them a week later the women discovered
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who the owner of the car was after it
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appeared on the news
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the two wish the stranger and those
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investigating all the best but before
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long the mystery faded from their minds
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it wasn't until another month had gone
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by that dumbest peak resurfaced in their
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lives one day Ken logged onto her social
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media and discovered that the photograph
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of her friend's cousin had gone viral
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due to a post on Reddit the user had
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seen something in his photograph that
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would immediately make the hairs on the
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back of her neck stand up at first
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glance the image of that captured the
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cousin at Douglas Peak seemed perfectly
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normal after all it was this image that
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convinced Kim and her friend to go to
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the hiking trail in the first place the
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cousin stands out since he's an
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all-black attire and the trees are
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mostly thin and barren they zoom into
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the photo as far as they could without
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lowering the quality so much that they
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couldn't make anything out oh in the
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middle of the image appear to be a
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figure in a white top and dark bottoms
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standing on the Cliffside this shook Kim
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and her friend because they were sure
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there was no way to safely access that
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area
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could this person also be the owner of a
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lost keys
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the first thing that Kim and her friend
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thought to do was to look back at their
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photographs it was a trick of light or
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something on the Rock oddly enough the
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figure was not in any of their pictures
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this was especially odd since the women
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had made sure to recreate the cousin's
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photo by posing at the same spot and
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getting the right angle after all they
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discovered a woman had gone missing from
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the park as they began to think about
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the series of events they started to
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wonder if the figure could be the woman
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who had gone missing
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since Kim and her friend couldn't figure
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out the mystery they decided to take to
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social media for some help she then
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explained what appeared to be in the
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photograph
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she stated that she was sure there was
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no way to access that part of the cliff
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then she figured out what she needed to
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piece the mystery together
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Kim figured that between her her friend
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and her friend's cousin
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they didn't have a ton of material to go
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on it was still possible that what was
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in the photo wasn't a person at all in
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order to feel more reassured Ken wanted
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to look at more photos to see if any
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other ones had a similar effect
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she decided to add to the end of her
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social media post a request to her
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followers Kim asked them if they would
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send her any photos that they have at
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the same location
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since the photo had already gone viral
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she was sure there would be plenty of
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people out there who would be interested
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in the story and willing to contribute
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to the picture collection
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Kim sent off her post and awaited the
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responses
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people starting contributing their
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theories about what the figure could be
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some thought that it was the Ghost of
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one of the missing hikers of the past
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others believed it had to have been a
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technological problem or something with
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the light
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still others claim that there is a trail
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that leads to the area the figure was
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seen they were sure that the figure
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wasn't an optical illusion or a ghost
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but merely another hiker the search for
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the truth came to a tentative end when
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one Reddit user claimed that it was them
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who was captured in the photo they said
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that they had been at dungus Peak the
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same day that the mysterious photo was
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taken
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furthermore they remembered wearing a
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light gray sweater in dark jeans it
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seemed that all of the hype was over
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exaggerated still it's possible that the
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person was only saying it was them to
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put an end to the discussion
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perhaps we'll never know the truth but
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it's fun to think about