10 REAL Search and Rescue HORROR Stories | Forest Sounds and Relaxing Sounds - Darkness Prevails

subscribe click the notification bell and follow me at dark prevails on Twitter and you'll never miss a new scary video birds chirping wind blowing through leaves as you stand there in the forest you remember this is why you go hiking the fresh air around you and the absence of the noises of humanity its pleasant but as you continue to walk those peaceful trails the sounds come to a halt entirely there's a new kind of silence if you begin to wonder want you've just stepped into the sounds are gone now and do you realize you recognize nothing around you and do no longer feel alone enjoy these allegedly true scary search-and-rescue stories with the relaxing sounds of the forest one the last hide-and-seek by Gregor I was 9 years old when I had the most traumatic experience of my life I lived with my father in West Virginia it was a small town next to a very calm forest in a small pond dad worked most of the time luckily for me though there were two families that lived nearby the family that lived to the north had a son my age named Durden and the neighbors to the east had twins named michael and matthew we went to the same school together the four of us we even had the same teacher a few times over the years at home we spent nearly every day together especially days like this one when my dad wasn't home we were outdoor kids and our favorite game to play was hide-and-seek one person seeks the others hide and the rule is you can't move from your hiding spot not until you're found it was fun and suspenseful but never more suspenseful than it was that day that day we went deeper into the woods maybe a little deeper than we were supposed to it was dirt and stern to seek I remember the other three of us running in opposite directions trying to stifle our laughter I found my hiding spot quickly under a collapsed tree with leafy branches making a sort of natural teepee I waited there for several minutes but oddly I never heard Durden say the usual ready or not here I come when ten minutes turned into thirty minutes of waiting I climbed out from under the tree and I ran back to where I'd last seen Durden Matthew and Michael were already there where's Durden I asked Matthew shook his head and Michael continued to look around for any trace of em four hours we searched for Durden we looked until it was dark and our childhood fears of getting reprimanded by angry parents forced us to head back home it wasn't long until my father received a call from dirt Anne's mother asking where he was my father confronted me I cried I broke down and told him about our game that had gone wrong over the next two weeks a search and rescue operation was called into effect police officers firefighters and local parents all searched the nearby woods but nothing turned up nothing until the beginning of the third week that was when the only people still looking were Darden's parents and a volunteer Forest Service group they finally found Durden they told me he wasn't alive but they never told me the truth of what happened instead my father forbade me from ever stepping foot into those woods he made sure that any time I spent out I'd was under his own watchful eyes it wasn't until I visited my father over Thanksgiving in 2017 that I finally learn the truth well some of it I was 32 then my father said to me with an expression more chilling than I'd ever seen him wear burden he was in the trees what does that mean I asked did he get stuck in a tree I was confused and ready to hear the truth no son dürdane was in the trees several of them parts and splatters of him everywhere the only place he wasn't was on the ground I was shocked stunned breath stolen from my chest what how does that happen who did that to him I didn't realize I was raising my voice slowly getting angry no one knows Greg ain't no one had any clue for the past 23 years I guess you now know why I kept you out of those woods after his disappearance that's really all there is to this story you might be wanting to know more but I don't I'd rather not know what caused my childhood friend to virtually become splattered all over the forest just be careful because even in these modern days there are mysteries dangerous mysteries that can take your loved ones away from you in the blink of an eye to the ghostly Mayday by the madness of ROS I'm in the Coast Guard and was stationed in Oregon for about three and a half years during those years I saw some pretty horrible things a boat that went down right before my eyes a man who breathed his very last and a child who had lost his life when his schizophrenic mother threw him off of a bridge that's just to name a few most of these things are unfortunately pretty average to your day-to-day life as a guardsman but there has always been something about the sea that has held some form of mystery or another in November of 2014 we were contacted by our sister station that there was a boat going down and that they had contacted the sector where all the search-and-rescue calls got vetted through the command center that we needed to launch one of our SAR boats or search and rescue boats they already had a helicopter and wrote we quickly loaded up and found ourselves at a breaking bar the waves easily reaching 12 feet high with consistent Whitecaps we pressed on our vessel able to take the nasty weather and ferried on now we could hear the fishing vessel Artemis on channel 16 the International hailing and distress Channel if you're ever in a pickle and need to get a hold of the Coast Guard that's the channel 2 SOS on they were begging for someone to come in to help we got their information like how big their vessel was how much they were carrying how many people and of course the rate at which the water was entering the hull unfortunately as we neared the field of view all communication went silent the helicopter called us up on our encrypted channel and said that there was no fishing vessel to be seen at the reported location they had just up and disappeared they requested that we search the area for debris to make sure it wasn't a faux distress call and so we did we found a sheen of oil and a couple of bits and baubles that read Artemis on it was obvious that the ship had indeed met a watery end but where were the men on board we searched and searched for 36 hours or more looking for any signs of the crew but at the end of it there was no one to be found living or otherwise with heavy hearts we called off all our efforts and went back to operations as normal getting ready for the upcoming holiday season this is when stuff started getting pretty freaky about a week after the search me and my best friend Kevin who also happened to be my boss we're sitting in the communications room just talking twenty hundred hours I believe or a p.m. for non-military folks and we weren't expecting any other traffic to come over the radio that night as kevin opened his mouth to respond to a joke i'd said the radio circuitry lit up red signifying a call was coming over channel 16 a distant voice called over the radio even though it didn't sound like a voice that would be of this world it was Hollow and sounded faraway like someone was shouting into a tin mug while falling down a well a shiver shot up my spine as I leaned forward and responded to the call you need to distress this is Coast Guard Station Marble Bay what is your position in nature of distress over I returned the call as the radio began to go absolutely bananas all of our radio started to light up a static poured through the speakers Kevin and I raced around trying to turn the radios down and the static finally faded into nothing a horrible silence filled the room as we both looked over at one another wondering what the heck and just happened check the lines of barring Kevin instructed as I pulled up our interactive map and watched as the two red lines crossed over one another revealing a small spot on the chart to indicate where the call had come from no freaking way he said slowly shaking his head it was the exact same position where the Artemis had gone down we called the sector to make sure that they had heard the call as well but they said it was all quiet on their end that they hadn't heard any calls for help we wrote it off as a folk call but I to this day nearly three years later believed that the voice was from the lost crew of the Artemis calling out for help one last time before their souls were lost forever in the briny depths of the sea please note that marble bay is a made-up name for this story 3 my dad and the creature in the woods by the tardis lady this is my father's story he doesn't like to talk about it but once you get him drinking he won't shut up about it from about 2008 to 2013 my dad worked for the Multnomah County Search and Rescue Department in the Portland metro area he absolutely loved the work but the job itself was grueling and often had really terrible payoff whether it be the remains of people or drugged-out lost hikers there were plenty of them however my dad always told me that there were things in those woods that's not even God himself could have placed on this earth in November of 2013 my dad was called out to go and hunt down a missing runaway girl in the Mount Hood wilderness normally their department didn't deal with kids up that far east but they had recalled all of their northern Oregon teams to help search for this girl since my dad had two kids about the same age at home he quickly packed up his bag and went to help my father was one of the best climbers on the team easily rappelling 200-foot cliffs without batting an eye and his team was given a very gnarly part of the grid pattern but it was customary on all searches he and his team loaded up and headed down that way they worked all the way towards sunset belaying down the cliffside screaming this girl's name when the Sun started to set over the canyon most of the team were radioed back in and they packed up because they weren't allowed to climb up and down cliffs in the dark my dad was the last one that they were going to pull up but as he was getting ready to head up the cliff an eerie shriek like that of a her on but much louder echoed through the otherwise silent once my father swears the hair on the back of his neck stood up he turned around to see someone know something standing about 100 feet back in the underbrush its eyes reflecting his head lab now deer are a common sight in the woods but my father being the avid outdoorsman he was knew that this was no deer especially when the thing actually stood up on two legs like any bipedal would and my dad finally saw the creature holy the thing was tall and skinny with an impossibly large mouth that was split open by glistening jagged teeth its abnormally long scrawny arms hung limply at its side the hands of this monstrosity coming to fine talons wear fingernail should have been on its head were a pair of antlers like a mockery of an elk or deer my dad couldn't move he couldn't have gone anywhere even if he had wanted to he and the creature watched one another for a few more seconds until it gave one more agonizingly horrifying shriek and turned away from my dad silently creeping back into the woods when my dad retold the story he forgot to mention one little detail and the light of the Setting Sun he could see the creatures fingers were stained with the dried liquidy red the team began to halt my father of the clips I'd just as the Sun sunk below the horizon his team tried to ask my father what was wrong but he was convinced that he had been hallucinating in the cold mountain air they walked back to their base camp and my father drove home in silence I remember seeing my father that night because I've never seen a grown man let alone my father look so haunted so terrified the next day they went back to the grid and hunted further into the next square as the morning turned to afternoon a shrill cry was heard from one of the female volunteers my dad and his crew practically sprinted to where the screaming was coming from there half concealed under a bush was what was left of the young girl I won't go into any more detail there my dad couldn't help but think when he saw the girl but perhaps the unnatural looking creature he saw the night before had something to do with it my father is no longer part of the search-and-rescue team for lights in the sky by Regis I volunteered once and only once for search and rescue as an introvert I didn't like to go outside let alone crowd around others screaming the name of a missing person but when that person is a childhood friend well you better believe I stepped up my game and helped out in the cause his name was Ryan and he had gotten himself lost in the nearby National Forest there were four of us in our group separated by about five meters each as we fanned out searching every inch of those woods even my quiet self was shouting desperately for Ryan it was around 15 minutes past nightfall when something bizarre happened something terrifying one second everything was dark and then the next blindingly bright lights filled the sky above us as if someone without us knowing and set up thousands of skylights above the trees they came on without a noise and surprised us so much that the four of us fell onto our backs covering our faces for the next minute the lights were there but after that they suddenly switched off after a massive near deafening whistling noise everything went back to normal when we picked ourselves up we were dumbfounded for a moment but nevertheless went back to looking for Ryan we found him not too long after Ward him along with literally every other member of the search team had reported seeing those lights and none of us have an explanation for it five he didn't make it by beam Castiel and Sam I've worked as a paramedic for a while now I mainly go out with search and rescue teams to treat people who are found my best friend Judah as a nurse we work together at the same hospital he had a day off so he volunteered to go with us on that day we got an alert that a 25 year old man had been missing for days and had been spotted by a man who was hiking we loaded up and took off I was in the back of the ambulance they told me not to join the search directly instead they'd need me their immediate if they brought him out of the woods so as I was setting up the gurney I got a call when they found the body of the guy even though they swore they had just seen him then there's the really creepy part I was talking to some of the police one of them was a friend named James I remember him being in front of me behind him in the distance was the tree line suddenly I saw a figure standing there and soon I could make it out it was the man who was lying on the gurney like a perfect copy of him he was standing there staring at all of us who were talking I was breathless as fast as he appeared in the tree line he walked back and disappeared in the trees I had no explanation for it how was I seeing the same man twice a man that was no longer alive being in this sort of occupation you know just how many people go missing in the woods some of which there cases are unsolved or strange and now I have a newfound interest curiosity or respect for those cases maybe something bizarre is at work here sex the wild fire by anonymous I am a Native American wildland firefighter and often a search and rescue officer from the National Park Service for the sake of my job I will not tell you my name or place I work but I need to get this story off of my chest as it has shaken me to my very core I hope that there is someone out there listening that will at least know that there are things in the dense forests that we as humans cannot comprehend when I was a Probie and the wildland service I had a mentor whose was combs combs had served in the Marine Corps and was deployed three times so basically he was a hardcore mentor many cadets wanted him as their mentor he was a thick and burly man with many tattoos tattoos of the names of his brothers from the service and many who had fallen in combat I've had many memories of him waking me up and having me run a four mile trail with the firefighter hose over my shoulder he was in many ways a father to me and my crew one day I mustered the courage to ask him about a tattoo he had on his forearm that read absence of light I asked him about it while he had me doing my routine exercises he replied but growing up he had encountered some very strange but fascinating things that he'd never forget a bit shaken up he said I was done for the day and had me go home after a few more months of physical military-style training I was ready for my first wildfire on my way to the base combs looked at me and said what you might see out here we cannot speak of in our world we often look for life in the absence of space and other planets when we should be looking in our own backyards soon we arrived at a camp a sort of makeshift station with other crews there were 10 of us and all including me and combs we ate dinner together that night then got a measly three hours of sleep before combs woke me up and the crew got ready we drank some coffee quickly and then went out to fight the wild fire part of the job was also to keep an eye out and search for people who may have been caught in it and this is where the bizarre happens I remember spraying a thick line of water fiercely into the fire which seemed to drink it up infinitely it was my first experience fighting a blaze like that and it really showed me how intimidating it really was it felt nearly pointless or futile but I kept on going at one point I swear I saw someone come from the fire waving me down crying for help I could very clearly see and hear the person there but none of the other crew reacted to them I went up the combs and said that we need to save that person but he put his hand on my shoulder and said that's no person I was confused I turned around and looked at the figure it was no longer screaming or a waving rather standing there its figure being shifted and morphed in the flames yet they no longer tried to act like they were in pain I had never been more confused later on combs told me sometimes you will see things in the fire that will try to get you to come in but if you do you'll never come out joining this service I had no idea what I was really getting myself into seven when I got lost by Jonathan back when I was a kid around the age of 13 I would go for walks in the woods just to tramping around in the leaves during the fall or trudging through the snow during the winter my favorite of the seasons there was a certain walk that I'll never forget it was winter a bad one and I had gone into the woods fully clothed by which I mean I was wearing four or five different layers my walk was slow and cold that day but I didn't pay it much mind I was more focused on my footsteps trying not to get stuck in a hole that I couldn't see through the snow it was because of that snow being so heavy that I soon realized I no longer recognized where I was better yet I didn't know which way was back that's when it all started first I was nervous heading back the way I thought I'd come from but only making myself more lost an hour later I was in a full-blown panic unsure of whether I should stay put or keep going and risk getting more and more lost when the Sun was beginning to set I was crying cold tears I wouldn't be making it home that night not unless someone found me i curled up under a tree absolutely freezing the snow coming down harder now for hours I shivered there waiting for someone to come waiting for a miracle it was in that darkness that I saw someone I didn't even hear them approach but there they were a tall bulky figure clothed in darkness standing beside the tree that I was under I smiled but quickly stopped myself from speaking a word it wasn't a person it wasn't a human at all their foot which was on the ground near my head wasn't a foot when I saw it up close standing in a thinner part of the snow I know how ridiculous it's going to sound but it appeared to be a hoof whatever it was that was standing next to me was leaning against the tree one hand or claw on the bark as it was only inches away from me I couldn't see its face very well but I could see that it wasn't looking at me I remember wanting to soil myself but I was afraid that it would smell me if I did so I shook my eyes hard and I waited I heard it sniffed the air a few times then finally it walked away still for the next hour I didn't dare whimper sometime early in the morning a search party found me it consisted of my parents uncle cousins and some police they said that I was covered in so much snow they were surprised they saw me at all it was okay despite nearly getting frostbitten but I couldn't stop wondering what did I see that night and what would have happened if it could have seen me eight my worst search-and-rescue experience by Bardo in my mid-20s I worked as a volunteer search and rescue officer for a tri-state area in the Midwest it was darn near the epicenter of dozens of yearly disappearances from the sounds of it you'd think I'd have seen some serious or strange stuff over the years but not so much most everyone is found and those that weren't found like that were simply taken by bad weather all very real and all very explainable that being said I do recall one experience that had me really freaked out we were called in to join a search party a young girl had gone missing from her family's campsite when I met up with them the parents were a nervous wreck and just wanted to see their daughter home safe we combed the forest for hours and around midnight we finally found her the five year old girl was clutching a stuffed horse when she saw me and Carl another volunteer officer she looked up and smiled she was perfectly fine perfectly clean too as if she had been set there the entire time and nothing had touched her I gave her a real smile and melt down to her level hey are you Sara I said she nodded I bet you miss your mommy and daddy huh they're worried about you you want me to take you to them once again she nodded I gladly picked her up and we made our way to her parents at a nearby ranger station while we walked I asked her a few questions it got weird when I asked her what happened she replied a big man took me I was stunned so she had been kidnapped this was going to drive the cops into a frenzy I asked her who did it and she said the FIR man I thought I misunderstood her and asked again the man with fur he's taller than you and he doesn't talk but he's real soft chills went over my body at that point I was done asking questions my creep and weird factor couldn't go any higher than that I returned the girl to her relieved and loving parents and everything was fine I told the police about what she said but they didn't look into it just the incoherent ramblings of a lost child they said but I couldn't tell but keep thinking about it who in the world had taken her and who were want is the firm n9 the screaming buying Vivian this is a quick and chilling experience I had while performing a search and rescue it was November and still pretty warm in the mountains we were looking for a couple of what gotten lost their family had called for help after they were 4 hours late for a barbecue I had personally started looking into those hikers two hours back and I was now walking through the woods wordlessly when something startled me it was a scream a woman's scream it was definitely human because the scream was speaking something a very audible pair of words saying help us instantly I got chills mostly because the screaming had come from directly above us no not further the mountain but upwards like into the sky and above the trees I wasn't sure at first what was going on and then it came again another help us desperately hitting us from directly above it was like someone was at the top of the trees calling down to us but obviously there was no one there I searched the area fervently for half an hour but there was nothing to be found and no other screaming came after that when I regrouped to get some water and take a rest I was quickly told that the couple had been found several hours ago literally seconds after I left the search they'd been recovered they were fine and after questioning them myself they never made or heard any screaming but still who did make that screaming and ten the last one in line by David this experience is hard for me to recollect because I lost a very close loved one in this story but I believe it's a story that is very fitting for this community I was 14 my family were outdoor freaks constantly camping and hiking and kayaking my mom dad aunt and uncle and I several times a month would go explore new regions forests and parks with backpacks on our backs and walking sticks with our names on it in hand and it was a bit crunchy but I loved it my family was close back then and definitely in shape one day we were hiking a lightly trodden trail through a thick evergreen forest in Ohio the trail wasn't very wide so we each walked in line one after the other my father in front and my uncle and back I remember it being quiet we were heading up a steep hill so no one was speaking because everyone was out of breath I was directly in line in front of my uncle when I looked back last my uncle was maybe a yard from me I remember him smiling at me and cleaning off his glasses but only two minutes later the moment I heard that loud thud right after the sound of rapid footsteps behind me when I looked back my uncle was gone I had no earthly idea that that would be the last day I ever saw my uncle he was never found and you can even still see his face on those bulletin boards with missing people on them it's been five years now and if he's out there I don't think he's alive I can honestly say that no one knows what happened my parents heard it too and they think he fell and tumbled into a quick demise but I was the closest and from what I heard those footsteps began in the forest they didn't come from him they were coming from something out in the woods near us I know it sounds horrible but I think something took my uncle maybe a mountain lion her Panther maybe it can and still does happen these days especially to those who are last in line when you step into the wilderness you never know if you'll be coming back out of them we seem to forget as people but we're still part of the food chain that anything that can go wrong will go wrong and it could happen to you so before you lose yourself in the woods and wonder if the search and rescue teams can find you remember many missing person cases remain unsolved good night be sure to like share comment and subscribe if you enjoyed the video you can send me your 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five comments I'm always late you were pretty early in my book so here you go anyways thank you all for watching and I hope you enjoyed this video more scary stories are soon to come here are the credits to my patrons who continue to donate thank you until next time stay safe out there and stay creepy

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Length: 38min 51sec (2331 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 15 2018