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NARRATOR:

Bitcoin. Secrets. Betrayal.

LAUREN:

This whole area feels empty. Not just small-town empty. Something else.

Why would Uncle Ted—or anyone—willingly isolate themselves out here?

What was Uncle Ted running from?

NARRATOR:

It started with a voice memo, two sisters, a mysterious inheritance, and an uncle no one had seen in years.

LAUREN:

Ellie, quick question.

How did we never stop to ask, hey—why does Dad's brother live in a spooky hermit mansion in the middle of nowhere?

ELLIE:

It’s a scenic drive, Lauren. Not the Oregon Trail.

NARRATOR:

When Lauren gets summoned to a remote cabin to handle her late uncle’s estate, she finds something he left behind.

Something that doesn’t quite add up.

LAUREN:

You’re telling me the guy who couldn’t pay his property taxes was secretly sitting on a pile of digital gold?

LAWYER:

Ted was full of contradictions. Eccentric. Unpredictable.

He regularly joked about losing all his wealth in a boating accident.

But I wouldn’t bet on it.

BEN:

Wait, wait, wait—have you seen the price of Bitcoin lately?

If Uncle Ted had even, like, a couple bitcoin, we’re talking serious cash.

NARRATOR:

The deeper she goes, the stranger it gets.

And the clock is ticking.

Wait—something’s off.

LAUREN:

What am I supposed to do?

Wander the woods with a metal detector hoping to stumble across a golden USB drive?

Or a treasure chest labeled: magic internet money inside?

You do get how insane this sounds, right?

NARRATOR:

But what she found wasn’t treasure.

It was a trail—left behind by a man who didn’t trust anyone.

Not even his own blood.

UNCLE TED (recording):

No one is coming to save me.

No one is coming to save you.

If you don’t believe it or don’t get it...

Sorry, I don’t have time to explain it to you.

HANK:

Don’t underestimate Ted.

You know, he wasn’t the kind of guy to leave loose ends.

Everything he did had a reason—even if nobody else saw it at the time.

LAUREN:

Look, I am not getting sucked into some bogus treasure hunt.

I came here to sign paperwork, not play detective.

NARRATOR:

Voicemails. Group chats. Encrypted files.

A mystery stitched together from fragments left behind.

LAUREN:

There was someone else here.

EX-BOYFRIEND:

He wanted you—or someone—to find it.

LAWYER:

Buried. Hidden. Who knows?

LAUREN:

What aren’t you telling me?

HANK:

Never know what’s lurking in these woods.

LAUREN:

Oh my God. What is happening?

ELLIE:

Call me back, Lauren. Please.

NARRATOR:

Paper Street Studios presents Mysteries of the Bitcoin Citadel—

a fiction podcast told through voice memos, group chats, and buried secrets.

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