In 1989, two missing hikers were rescued from a mountain in Japan and were told the enormous SOS sign they had built helped locate them. The hikers were confused, revealing they made no such SOS sign leaving investigators to realize there was someone else on the mountain. Today we follow the confusing tale of the SOS Sign Incident.

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