In July 2002, two sisters set out on a typical summer vacation by passenger train. A brief phone call with their father was their last: the girls mentioned a fellow passenger who had been enthusiastically describing picturesque forest trails and an old quarry near the tracks. They got off at the next station, and after that, all contact with the outside world was lost. A massive search yielded no results—the forest left no trace.

Fifteen years had passed when an exhausted woman suddenly appeared at a roadside establishment, bearing marks from heavy restraints on her arms. The fingerprint check stunned even experienced law enforcement officers: it was the older of the two girls. She insisted that she had just escaped from an underground bunker and that her younger sister was still in the kidnapper’s hands. But when investigators found the bunker she had described, a shocking discovery awaited them...

This story is presented as an author’s reconstruction. The characters’ last names, place names, and specific details of the events have been changed or generalized to preserve confidentiality and the integrity of the narrative. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

🚩Friends, when traveling or on vacation, always remain vigilant about spontaneous advice or offers from casual acquaintances.

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