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S9: Ep6: The German Girl Shrine

S9: Ep6: The German Girl Shrine

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Tonight, we travel to the quiet, forested island of Pulau Ubin, Singapore, a place that feels frozen in time, where the jungle hums, the quarry lakes shimmer, and the past refuses to stay buried.

Hidden deep along a dusty trail stands a shrine unlike anything else in Singapore. It’s filled with dolls, lipstick, perfume, and offerings meant for a young woman whose real name… we still don’t know. Some say she was running for her life when the British came to arrest her family at the start of World War I. Others believe she slipped, fell, or perhaps chose her own fate on the cliffs above......

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