20 Scary Park Ranger & Deep Woods Stories

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I've worked as a park ranger for a little under ten years most of which I spent working at Yosemite National Park honestly this job is pretty mundane most of the time the most exciting things being random deer mutilations in teenage party sites one day however I was doing my usual rounds and making sure everyone was out of the public facilities for the night I was locking up the doors to the bathrooms when I heard what I thought was a little girl whispering it was ever so faint and if it wasn't such a still day I wouldn't have heard it I sat there for a moment and didn't hear anything further so and I started walking to where my truck was parked to make my way to my next stop when I heard it again a faint whisper of a little girl I stopped and looked around and listened very closely yet again I couldn't hear anything nor could I see anything starting to feel a little creeped out I quickly made my way to the truck and hopped in I started the truck up and began to quickly take off when I saw it a ghostly figure what I can only describe as an emaciated female she has long pale limbs with a rubbery looking skin her eyes were pitch black and mouth gates wide open like her jaw was broken I freaked the hell out and floored it out of there like a bat out of hell I didn't lock the gate for that area and gotten some serious shit the next day for it but there was no way in hell I was going to face whatever ghost demon monster thing that was I've never seen or heard anything like that sense and I really hope I never do again being a forest ranger isn't always as cool as it sounds usually it's pretty boring it can get very redundant but on occasion we see some pretty spooky things out here in the Ocala National Forest the story I'm going to share with you today happens somewhere around the Lake George area recently and I have been extra vigilant while roaming the woods we have had several reports of what people thought could be an exotic pet loose some people reported seeing a chimpanzee and others a Bigfoots I had been looking for any sign of chimp or chimpanzees in the area scouring the ground for droppings looking through the trees etc I honestly thought people were just freaked out by the recent pictures of what some lady alleged was a skunk ape I felt like it sparked a reaction of hysteria I personally never been one to believe much of the Bigfoot stuff but this day still makes me think twice sometimes as I was exploring around like George I heard was sounded like a very large branch snapped from high above me I couldn't quite place where it came from since the birds were very loud that morning I tried to shrug it off but I have this incredible feeling of being watched I started to walk back towards the way I came when suddenly the wits went quiet no birds no bugs not even the winds just eerie silence I heard another branch snap but this time much closer than before I began to really get nervous because I have never experienced the woods this silent before not even with Bobcats Panthers or wolves around I began to walk at a brisk pace to try and not look like fleeing prey but I get about 200 feet away when I hear a loud wailing which I can only describe as monkey like suddenly sticks and rocks are being tossed at me from the tops of the trees and a whirlwind of noise erupts I run as fast as I possibly can to get to my vehicle and get the hell out of there the thing that freaked me out the most though is that there was nothing in the trees they were completely empty I looked up and it was fall time so most of the trees were pretty bare I still have no idea what happened that day and I just don't really talk about it because I don't want to sound insane I have worked as a forest ranger for some time now I've not seen too many crazy things the things I have seen her absolutely terrifying to me mean another ranger were assigned to escort an archaeologist around the park to survey some areas for a potential dig site for some project or something honestly these things are really boring so I didn't really pay much attention to them we were climbing a slight incline to get a better view in point of the valley we sat up there for about 20 minutes taking pictures and samples of the dirt and whatnot seemingly out of nowhere archaeologist guy starts yelling for us to come over frantically we come and see what the fuss is about he is pointing into the valley and what seems to be a bear walking on two legs carrying a deer in his shoulders seemingly effortlessly I wasn't really too fazed by this it made light of it saying it was more than likely a bear but the other Ranger was pale faced and looked horrified he said that was no bear and nothing was running with the deer and his shoulders directly at us we all started to panic and scramble to get to our ATVs and take off like we had seen Satan himself don't know if we saw a Bigfoot or a deformed bear that day but honestly scared the crap out of me I'm an avid hunter I go every season and I love it more often than not I don't kill any game and I just love getting out and into the woods I don't know if you're familiar with hunting season in Pennsylvania but during late November a rifle season is in full swing it was already the second week of the season and I had yet to bag any deer so I was eager to get to it early in the morning and I did I normally get up at around 5:00 a.m. and drive to my hunting spot it's private land that my grandfather owns him and I are the only two I hunt on it and the rest is posted to Hunter's and the only others on that land are employed on my grandfather's farm I had originally planned on calling my grandfather when I woke up and asking him if he wanted to tag along but the weather was more than horrendous in the morning the snow was pouring down and the wind was really strong and I love hunting in the snow but it almost made me decide not to go so I knew he wouldn't want to the roads were really bad so it took me a bit longer to drive there normally the Sun would be starting to rise by now however it was overcast and snowing regardless of the snow I walked up to my spot it was directly behind my grandfather's house over hill and back about a hundred to 150 yards almost immediately upon sitting in my spot I hear things moving all around me honestly I didn't pay too much attention to it it could have been a number of things but it was still pitch-black and the thought of it was kind of creeping me out but there wasn't much I could do it's not like I can shoot at anything so I just ignored it and continued to wait it wasn't much longer after that that I began hearing something walking just over the ridge to my right at this point there's barely enough light to see my feet so even if it was a deer it was still nothing I could do however I could tell it wasn't a deer I just assumed it was my grandfather walking to his spots which is just a short walk from mine but the lights in the house were off and if he was up here I'm sure he'd let me know prior even if it wasn't him well it was a hunter I'll be it hunting illegally I still wanted to let him know I was here so I turned on my flashlight and pointed into his direction flashing it several times again even if it was a deer I couldn't shoot it so I felt it was better to be safe rather than sorry nothing happened after that after I flashed my light then though he stopped which was really odd I didn't see them to her back or hear them so I figured they either a sat down right there after seeing my light which was considered extremely rude or be I didn't hear them walk off I just assumed it was the latter an hour or so passes and finally the first sights of daylight start to shine through it's still snowing and the snow was falling in entire snow balls rather than snowflakes so his ability is pretty limited I around this time notice that an odd-looking lump protruding from a group of trees the shrubs atop the hill that separates me my granddad's house right where I had movement earlier it looked like a mound of dirt however it was sticking out from the side of a tree so obviously it wasn't hurt naturally I raised my rifle to take a closer look I could tell immediately that I was looking at the side of an older-style camouflaged coat it took a minute but it finally clicked I was a person over there I just thought it was a hunter so I didn't know what to do about it I knew if he was something on our land illegally and from that I could see he wasn't wearing anything orange which is required of all hunters during the rifle season and I could tell just from looking whoever this was wasn't my grandfather i sat there for a minute debating my next move but I decided to call my granddad at the risk of blowing his stunt if that was actually him over there so without taking my eyes off the sky I pulled up my phone and dialed his number to my dismay he picked up and I told him what was going on so he told me that he'd make his way up but I sided on my own to give this guy a whistle to let him know I see him but he didn't react at all after a few minutes I started to walk up to this guy after walking a short distance I could clearly see this guy who was sound asleep tucked in between a shrub and a couple of trees he obviously thought out here was a great place to lay down as I would never be able to see him and his coat was not stuck out and as I thought he had no orange on I gave him another whistle much louder and he woke right up almost immediately shuffling over to hide his exposed coat he had a nasty scruffy beard and a grey hat honestly he looked like a harmless a home old homeless man probably in his 50s but he had a perfect view of my granddad's home from his spot and I had a pretty good idea that he was planning to do once my grand I left what's this guy realize he'd been caught and he saw six five mad yeah I carrying a rifle he started freaking out his face went pale and almost instantly he tried to feed me some bullshit that he gotten lost during a drive with a group of other hunters a drive has a coordinator pushed through a thicket in order to drive deer to Hunter sitting at the edge of the designated driving area however the closest public game land is miles from the spot so I knew it was a lie he just wanted to keep on going on about how he was lost and how he fell asleep he even went as far to make up a fake name on the spot I just stood there and listened making sure he didn't give me any fishy movements I couldn't help but think that what this guy was going to do to my grandfather God knows if he had the chance and the thoughts pissed me off in 2004 I was fifteen years old living in central Minnesota I had hunted on my grandparents property east of sandstone since I was 12 it had been fairly successful each year that season was the same as most going hunting with my dad and older brother for opening weekend and then trying to get out hunting whenever I could after that I think it was around the second weekend when I had one of the most serious experiences of my life on this particular day after an unsuccessful morning hunt my brother and I were walking back to the main house of the woods and decided to walk out to the road instead of trudging through a snowy field parked on the property about 40 yards off the road was a pickup truck we didn't recognize it we approached cautiously but the truck was abandoned and there were tracks leading off into the woods in several directions in the front of the dash was a pile of mail addressed to someone with the last name gamble a name not associated with any of my family or nearby neighbors my brother and I decided that we just had back home and let her dad know about it since there was little else we could do or knew what to do when we said the name we had seen in the window on the mail my grandmother immediately recognized the name oh that's a lady who was a few miles away from here my dad jumped on the four-wheeler to go see if the truck was stuck or broken down and offer to help but when he got down there a mere 20 minutes after my brother and I initially saw the truck it was gone without any cause for alarm we all basically forgot about it as we had a warm lunch and swapped hunting live stories from the morning after a post lunch nap we all mapped out the morning hunting strategies and we headed out to our stands until dark this is when the story gets good I was sitting in my stand lost and thought but constantly gazing around and trying to spot movement or flashes abroad and why I was deep in thick brush on the edge of a swamp that borders our hardwood stand on trees it was a favorite spot for the afternoon hunts to get deer as they migrate towards the fields as it gets dark suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of brown to my right I strive to identify exactly what it was before I saw it again has it slipped behind a pile of brush once again I figure it'd be about 50 yards away and moving my way I lifted my 3030 Western field lever action to my waist as I stood in the stand and silently slipped the safety to my off position for several long minutes I saw and heard nothing I began to question if I had seen anything at all or if my imagination was finally taking over after me being fooled by squirrels for several hours when suddenly I heard a low noise coming from the thick brush it sounded like a growl growl sound my first thought was that a wounded deer was going through its dying moments from the neighbor's property to the east suddenly the low growl turned into a distinct ground snarl my mind immediately went from lurking for a wounded deer to looking for a bear it wasn't uncommon to see bears in the area but the thought of one being so close was both exciting and nerve-wracking to a 15 year old me the grouse grew louder and I saw the brush moved slightly as the unseen bear moved closer to my stand I placed the safety back on my weapon but kept it at my waist the growling stopped and then it turned into a snarl and screaming sound that caused my heart to immediately drop in my chest in pure fear I had never heard a bear make that sound and I suddenly knew it was a wild cat of some sorts the brush movement that I finally saw the animal for the first time about 35 yards away I had gone from expecting a deer to a bear to a wild cat of some sorts and while I wasn't wrong I did not expect in the least what I saw in front of me 35 yards away in the woods of Minnesota on a November day was a Bengal tiger that had been eight feet long with orange and black stripes a bangle tiger I had seen them in books and at the zoo I had no frame were referenced of what I was witnessing I immediately threw up my gun I turn the safety off and a hammer cocked my hands shook and I thought I was going to throw up while it was likely less than 30 seconds I felt like I was staring in shock of the tiger for at least an hour before it snarls screamed once more and bounded into the woods to the north I stood in my stand for several minutes and so my leg shaking became paralyzing as the adrenaline more loft and the reality of what just happened came over me I asked myself over and over if I had just seen something that was real in my frozen fear I contemplated shooting the apparition in front of me since in my sights the entire time but I didn't because I wasn't convinced that it was really real I didn't have a cell phone so contacted my brother her dad was impossible to do but I do know one thing I did not want to be in the woods in the dark with that thing nearby I was also less than eager to immediately get down and walk to the house with him nearby so I sat in the stand for 20 minutes in the ready position looking for any set of the tiger when I didn't see anything I got out of my stand and started the longest walk back to the house possible I walked the entire 1/4 mile through the woods with the gun up in the ready position every twig breaking made me feel like a tiger was leaping towards me in the growing darkness needless to say my family was skeptical when I rushed to tell the story of the evenings hunt they believed I had seen something but the tiger part was hard to swallow they figured it was likely a wildcat or a mountain lion at most but I insisted that I had seen when I had seen regardless we began to get ready for Wednesday night church and the conversation continued until we got inside church the small country church is composed of mostly extended family members and so we had several relatives visiting for hunting that were mingling and talking about their hunts less far I immediately walked up to my cousin Skye who owned and hunted the land adjacent to my grandparents my dad jokes that he heard a ridiculous story that I made up about my evening I was barely into the story with my cousin exclaimed oh you saw the tiger - my dad was floored and I was vindicated slowly the story began unfolding with answers the white truck belonging to the Campbells was the connection piece Cynthia gamble lived several miles from our property and owned a large Wildcat sanctuary while the cats were all in cages and tied with GPS monitors apparently one had escaped and several neighbors reported seeing it she went and looked for it and by the following day we had heard from those that knew the Gamble's of the cat had been returned but there was never any official word that I gotten loose being that far out in the country was little population and evil lighter traffic sightings of the cat by others than the family are limited if they happened at all everything went back to normal and I had a killer story to share with no one that believed I went camping with three of my buddies John Bennett's and Kyle we do this every year it's kind of a burro trip to reconnect with each other we were all fresh out of college and decided to go to our yearly camping trip in August we are from Oregon and ended up camping in the woods there like we usually do at the same point the first day was great we set up our spots explored the area and by the time the Sun was setting we set up a campfire made dinner after a few too many beers and some s'mores we decided to go to sleep it was a perfect way to end the day our second day was basically the same thing hiking food one too many beers but this night we ended up being not so perfect I remember watching some videos on YouTube and we were laughing and it was interesting as we finished the rest of the beers we were wrestling around with each other like guys do and John stop messing around and froze everyone was confused but John claimed he heard something nearby I told him it was most likely a squirrel and he said no it was most definitely not he was scaring me at this point and I decided to resume the tackling session and I took him down we forgot about the whole thing until about 10 minutes later we were tired from wrestling and joking around so we decided to put the fire out in head into the tent we had a six person tent for anybody wondering so we were all in one tent just as our only light source besides our flashlights went out I heard us like cackle I assumed it was one of those boys because we were all clearly a bit buzzed so everything is fine I wanted to see what was so funny so I turned the flashlight directly into Bennett's face I thought he was the one laughing Bennett's face was white as a ghost he looked at me and said did you guys hear that I said the Laughing and Kyle said that wasn't you we were all shaken and decided to go into the tent silence as we got into the tent I pulled out an axe that I used to cut the wood it was the only source of protection we had I was on the very end of the tent with Kyle and John and in the middle was Bennett we were all silence but I knew we were all wide awake after hearing the Laughing we weren't exactly at an actual campsite where there were other people around we just walked into the woods found an open spot and set up camp here we were about a mile from our car with barely any cell signal so I guess you could say we weren't exactly in the safest position if there was a crazy maniac around I got tired so I dozed off I have no idea how long I was sleeping before I heard laughing again it's hard to describe other than it sounded menacing it was frozen and I didn't move I didn't even try to look over to see if my buddies were awake the act was under my pillow as I mustered enough strength to move to get the axe I saw what looked like someone's finger pressed up against the tent circling around the tent someone was definitely outside walking around her tent laughing when they got to the front part of where the tent entrance was they stopped about five seconds went by before the person furiously shook the tent and screamed that's when I knew my buddies were awake as well because Kyle screamed like a little girl right after whoever was behind the tent laughed and again walked off we laid there the rest of the night wide awake indefinitely sober we didn't want to move out of pure fear that whoever was out there was still there when the Sun came up we packed up everything and walked back to our car we still go camping every year but this time we go to legit camping sites I now bring a judge or a gun with me and not just a tax whoever was outside our campsite could have easily been a deranged homeless person psychopath serial killer meth head or just an asshole playing a prank on us but I sure as hell won't camp in a rural place anymore stay safe out there it's a dangerous world we live in November last year me and my friend has started to drive up a car to Scotland to do some fishing and eventually make her way to Edinburgh after the first day of catching some salmon and brown trout we stored our catchers in the cooler box after contemplating whether to sleep in the car tonight as we have left quite late to set up camp at around 4:30 ish and the Sun was going down eventually I said let's set up a fire and cook the fish I didn't drive all the way to Scotland to sleep in the car my friend agreed as we set off looking for a spot to camp we found a little wooded area next to a car park near a farm we looked into it prior and apparently you can basically camp anywhere in Scotland as long as you left the place as you found it so we grabbed all of our shit out of the car and started setting up our campsites 20 minutes later we had a fire going to fold up chairs and to tense up my tent was out of view from my friend this will be relevant later we were glad we chose to camp outside instead of sleeping in the car as we smoked a few joints and we reminisced about school life and etc my friends struggled to keep his eyes open as I checked my phone 2:00 a.m. he called it a night crawling into his tent and zipping it shut I sat there with my feet up on my friend's now empty chair listening to sounds of the wildlife I shut off the torch in had hung up on the tree next to us leaving in the darkness apart from the burning embers from the coal it must have been 3 or so minutes before I started to hear the crunching of leaves and snapping of twigs as seemed to be coming toward me being a quite rational person I passed it off as a fox drawn to the scraps of food we might have laying around I was quickly proven wrong when I heard a sniffle like someone with a coal clear in their nose my hai quickly turned from chilled out to paranoia as I feel a heavy dread come over me my mind raced why the fuck would someone to be here in the woods at 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. why are they coming towards me i slowly reached down the pocket and felt my heart drop as I didn't feel the smooth blade of my pocketknife shit must have left it in the tent all the while I hear the shredding coming closer and closer and my heartbeat racing how the darkness I see a middle-aged man clean-shaven parted hair around 510 slowly creeping toward me almost in all fours like a predator trying to stay out of sight i sat there paralyzed and I'm gonna speak my mouth was so dry that I could hardly swallow that's when I realized he hadn't even seen me being under the tree with no light source I must have blended in also with there only being 1/10 in view I guess he thought my friend was the only one camping here he got closer to the tent and half breathed it hath whispered come on do it in a raspy voice creep the fuck out and unable to bear the thought of what he might do next oi can I help you he jumped up in shock and his whole demeanor changed he looked at me mumbling Ling awkward as he scurried back out of the woods i sat there still trying to comprehend what had just happened and what I saw then I saw headlights of a car turn on and drive away I woke my friend up and he could not tell what had happened but he could see how shook up I was without full explanation from me he would let me grab bell tower gear and we slept in the car that night with the doors locked we live in a small town on the outskirts of a large city it's a small street in a few small forest nearby me and my best friend who at the time were maybe seven were over at our other good friend's house we opened the back fence door and his dog ran off this was odd because she was very well trained she never disobeyed him so we waited outside in the driveway we were facing toward the creek in his back yard and behind the creek was another Street than a small forest we turned the corner around his little shed to look over since we enjoyed the view we see something massive walking between the two trees it seemed to hide behind one after we saw it both me and my friend almost peed herself this thing was massive seven or eight feet and covered in hair and it had a weird disfigured face now you might be thinking this is just a child's imagination but my friend saw too so I can't really write it off as just that I didn't really have a wild imagination either even when I did I could always tell the difference between that inside my head and what the real world was never really exaggerated either plus my friend saw too so I know it's true still to this day we talked about what we saw in the woods that day we don't really know what it was or what it could be but it definitely is one of the creepiest things I have ever experienced my friend and I live in the southeastern area of Wisconsin we love to go Bigfoot hunting my friend lives in a subdivision near some woods when we go to an empty lot in throw rocks and bash logs on the side of trees we never really had an encounter until we decided to stay late and possibly stay the night it was about 10:30 and I was about 5 feet away from the edge of the forest just throwing rocks but I stopped as I heard something moving very slowly through the woods the rustling stopped and a rock the size of a softball came flying towards me and landed about 1 or 2 feet away from me I took this as a warning and yelled to my friend that we needed to go we began sprinting towards our bikes when we heard it running through the brush it sounded like a bear or something shaking the trees Ashley wrote our bikes away my friend asked what the heck was that I was too scared to speak my friends and I never slept that night the next day we did some research here nearby there have been quite a few Bigfoot sightings we know it wasn't a bear because bears don't live this far south in Wisconsin some of you may not believe this but just know I swear to God I'm not lying being a forest ranger I have seen a lot of creepy and unexplainable things in the woods to save your time I will spare you all the little encounters and just share the one encounter that sticks with me day to day I was walking deep within the woods I was trying to map my way out and do an excursion kind of on my off time I didn't get very much time off from the park so anytime that I could just get off into the woods but myself and camp was definitely time that I utilized I was walking through the woods trying to find my way to where I wanted to go I would usually go off trail and I was struck by this weird feeling I kind of felt like I was being watched but I kind of shrugged it off as me just you know maybe being paranoid or something I found a nice little clearing about 500 feet up and I decided this is where I will do camp for the day I started setting up my tents and got a fire going soon it became to be in dark as I was sitting around the fire cooking some hot dogs that had brought along the way I noticed that feeling of being washed came again but here's the creepy part most people would say that they see these creepy eyes or these crazy colors in the sky or whatnot I didn't see anything like that but what I saw was something much more terrifying what looked like to be a man hanging from a noose was just on the outside of the light of my camp all I could see was the silhouette of two feet dangling about six feet up in the air what was really odd is that none of these trees had branches these raw pine trees so I freaked the hell out I've summed my flashlight there but there was nothing there maybe I was just worrying and I was overtired or something so I go back in my tent and try to sleep it off I have nothing but nightmares and awful dreams all night and wake up and probably about 6:00 in the morning the Sun is starting to come up so I packed my stuff quickly you can get the hell out of there but if all my years being in the woods and being a survivalist and things of that nature I still have no idea what that was when I was younger I was one of those kids who was all about being outdoors I was in the Boy Scouts as soon as I was old enough to join and stayed in until I was 18 in Boy Scouts there is a group called the order of the arrow or oa2 my young mind it was like the special forces of scouting and I was so excited when I was told I had been selected to join their prestigious ranks so I packed my bags and went to camp del resto New Mexico and I was ready to see what I would have to do would you become a know a to join Oh a you have to go through a trial weekend I was say not much more of that because the trials that we had to go through are secrets the last night though we were split up into groups of four given map coordinates a compass and a barebone minimum of what we would need and told to survive for the night and then to report to a second set of coordinates in the morning myself and the three Scout started on our way and we were hiking for about five hours before we found a small clearing and confirmed it was our camping spots from the Northeast to the east there was a thick thorny bramble we tried to find a way to explore it but the waist-high vines were impossible to get through without something to cut them so we ignored it and went on just exploring a bit around the camp and goofing off as night came we all started with set down and to make a fire this would be our only source of light for the night we stayed up for a bit after dark chatting and telling stupid jokes and just having fun talking before we went to bed we had one small tent and still myself and one of the other Scouts slept outside near the fire while the other two slept inside I don't remember the time because none of us had packed a watch but it was well after the fire had gone out I was shaken awake by one of the other Scouts he whispered in a quiet voice that would sometimes crack with fear there's someone outside our camp sites he then pointed up moving from north to east outside the clearing was a bright blue ball of light the odd thing was the core was bright but did not seem to cast a light on the trees it was more like glowing than producing light per se I stared at it nervously and curious as he quietly bellied crawled and woke the other two up but it's just some other group messing around one of the other Scouts said is he rubbed the sleep from his eyes not trying to be quiet like the first warner i had the light didn't seem to do anything different from its motions as the fourth scout said but wait that is where the bran boy is it was then that we realized how smooth the light was moving and how dead quiet the forest around us was nothing was making a noise and not even the moving light I watched it for some time before accidentally falling asleep again when I woke up everyone else was already packing to make it to the rendezvous point they said that whatever it was last night made them feel scared and I was the only one to sleep after seeing it the rest had remade the fire before it faded away and they stayed up on watch sadly this is where the excitement of the story ends we packed up and made it to the point without incidents [Music] before I start this story let me give you a little insight on myself I grew up in a very military strict family from the moment I turned five my dad taught me everything I know now from fighting to survival skills my dad being an ex-navy seal nothing really scares me I'm not trying to paint myself as a must feel this person in the world but I am also a paranormal investigator not something I talk about at work but after having my fair share of experiences I grew to love it and it always interested me so from putting away some of the worst people in the world and my fair share of seeing the creepiest shit nothing honestly scares me this story takes place several summers ago two of my friends Craig and Justin Justin also being in law enforcement and the other a firefighter decided to go camping I always felt so comfortable in the woods as I said my dad taught me everything I know we would spend days in the woods just living off the land my friend knew of a very remote area of the New Hampshire I don't recall the location I was actually really excited because I hadn't been camping in years it took us some time to find a good spot to get a good idea of the area I felt like we were in another planet entirely we set up our tents gathered up some firewood and all of us have brought MREs to eat we sat around talking for what felt like hours we all grew pretty tired and decided to head to bed I settled into my tent and quickly passed out I was awoken by probably 3 a.m. to this horrible feeling the only way to explain it is the need to fight or I was about to die now I always carry a gun on me my beretta 92s it really never leaves my side i sat up and looked around my tent it was small enough that there wasn't much space here's the creepy part I remember my father used to tell me to listen to the woods the animals and night crawlers they will go silent and something's wrong you won't hear a single thing that's it I heard nothing the first time in my life I felt fear I have had my fair share of demonic hauntings and this doesn't even come close I peered out of the tent we had set the tent up on a good elevation facing an open field about a hundred yards or so away mind you it was full moon and brightest heck something was standing there I can only begin to describe this thing as a mammal half lizard thing the best way I can describe it is that it looked like half of the body of a horse it had a lizard-like face and what I can only describe as spikes coming from the back and one hell of a set of teeth at first I seriously thought someone was in a costume messing with us but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was getting from this thing and unearthly one I did notice it looks it was looking at something I couldn't make out what kind of animal it was but it was probably the size of a raccoon it looked like it was trying to sneak by but the animal just randomly fell on its side and just let this thing take it I was absolutely terrified I knew if this thing headed our way no.9 Miller is going to do anything to it I could even hear it breathing all the way from my tent what only sounds like something breathing through pudding I crawled to my friend's tent keeping a low profile in a small relief I noticed my friend Craig was also awake he was looking at the same thing I was we waited as a thing just stood there looking around then it started to make its way for the tree lines we could hear smashing through the trees and then silence Craig and I just laid there for what felt like hours until the Sun came up still absolutely terrified justin woke up of course he heard nothing and not believing a single word of what we said we packed up that day and I have never been back to those woods I seriously it was always afraid to tell a story I'll probably be sent for a psych evaluation and I don't care because I am NOT making this crap up I'm a 17 year old male living in the Midwest my sophomore year of high school my friends peer pressured me into joining the track team I thought that this was a good idea because I wanted to improve my stamina so due to this fact I was asked to join the long-distance track team to practice our small team would run in the woods and then to a lake these woods are mostly used for off-road biking so we would run in the forest in the dirt pass that the bikes would make after school we would run in these woods every day time to time we saw a deer these deer would get very close so much so that one would only need to take three or four feet to maybe even pet one these woods were fun to run in because they could be so secluded the last day I ran in these woods it was just another day due to my poor stamina I was pretty far behind the rest of the group and I have produced a fairly painful side cramp in fact I stopped to take a breather let me give you a layout of the path I was on the bike path is cut into a slow dividing it into two parts the upper half is surrounded in trees and above that is just more woods the other half of the slope leads to ponds and more woods as I was admiring the nature I heard a loud snap high up in the woods and so many scary stories people say they get that feeling where they feel dread or the hair on their neck stands up this feeling is very real as I got this feeling turning around I accepted to see deer yet to my utter horror I saw a man the man was pretty far away but I saw his jeans and long sleeve checkered shirt a bit of background on myself I am currently a third degree black belt in Taekwondo going on 15 years of practicing martial arts still with my knowledge of self-defense I was put off and began a light jog to my utter horror the man began to sprint down the hill the creepiest part of his sudden sprint was how he used the trees to propel himself I suddenly realized why he was running he was trying to cut me off realizing I could not outrun him I said a silent prayer as I ripped off an old stick of a fallen tree the man finally made it down the hill I was face to face with what I believe was a homeless man the smell was a very pungent his eyes were bloodshot and he had unkept a beard i warn't in a fuck-off and I raised the stick the man smiled and said words I will never forget all I want to do is play at this comment I closed the distance delivering a kick into his groin he moaned and began to stumble I brought down the stick as hard as I could breaking it over his head the man fell on the path would utter fear in my heart I ran as hard and as fast as I could my coach was waiting for me at the end of the forest path she could see that I looked fearful and asked me what was wrong I smiled weakly and told her nothing and I decided not to tell my coach anything because I didn't really think she'd believe me after a few days I decided to tell my parents who immediately told me to tell my coach I told her the next practice and we did not run in those woods again to this day over a year later I still have decided not to enter those woods in the fall of 2016 a friend and I decided to go hiking late in the afternoon in a densely wooded wilderness area in the mountains not far from Fayetteville Arkansas my friend Rick was close to 60 at the time and recovering from a triple bypass he had undergone around 16 months earlier we had been hiking these trails for about a year following his operation to strengthen his cardiovascular health that day a weekday I hiked with a bottle of water my wallet and my keys but nothing else nothing to protect myself the trail we picked is a popular weekend hiking spot that we had taken dozens of times before we were both comfortable with the high and had never had a problem on that path or any other for that matter while Rick is order and at the time a little more feeble after his health problems I was in my mid-40s well over six feet tall and in pretty good shape so I wasn't really very worried about our safety the trail we were on is on a state park adjacent to federal park land it's an outdoors enthusiasts dream most of our trek that day was completely uneventful we just enjoyed the autumn leaves and chatted casually as the Sun dropped lower in the evening sky we had seen nobody else that day which was probably to be expected given that we chose to hike late on a weekday we'd completed about four miles of the six mile loop up to that point and it was as uneventful as any other on our way back to the car and about two miles from Park area we spotted someone through an opening in the trees I saw a young woman probably a college student she was on the trail ahead of us and moving in our direction at first glance I paid her very little attention as the distance between us disappeared that changed I did not know her so I could not have mistaken but there was something about her posture and expression that just seemed off now she got closer it struck me that she had some semi panicked look on her face and was moving quite quickly but she was in athletic gear so maybe she was just doing some cardio or something she occasionally turned her head and stared over her shoulder I followed her eyes and eventually noted that another woman about 50 yards behind her was walking up the path through the trees the second woman was not wearing hiking gear in fact her clothing struck me as totally inappropriate it was a warm afternoon and we were all well inside a wooded state park area four miles away from any homes but she was wearing semi formal offish casual attire and a light jackets I thought the clothes must have been secondhand because they were tattered and ill-fitting and they definitely didn't look washed she was a fit athletic looking woman who couldn't have been more than 25 or 30 years of age it was too bizarre the clothes were wrong for the trail and they were wrong for the age everything about her was off her shoes struck me as being even more peculiar when she got closer I noticed she was Werner scuffed leather flash casual shoes with no ankle support I found a completely odd because you just don't see people on this trail just as she was and you never see them wearing shoes like that my hiking partner Rick hadn't appeared to notice anything odd as he was completely involved in the conversation and just kept talking the second woman briefly glanced up and we made eye contact as she neared us the alarm bells were going off in my head there was something in her eyes that made me feel uncomfortable I don't know what she was thinking if I'm being honest but I swear she had content in her face part of me wondered whether I'd have be offending her by staring so I diverted my eyes and kept walking I tried to tell myself that maybe she was homeless maybe she was wearing the only thing she had and I was just being rude but the warning bells were still going off in my head I'm not a paranoid person so having my sixth sense going off like that was very unsettling I have a fantastic peripheral vision so I turned my face toward Rick and acted like I was listening to him but I was watching the creepy woman out of the corner of my eye the moment we passed she spun her head around study us and she slowed her pace my internal alarms grew louder out of the corner of my eye I saw her come to a stop and drop her face toward at the ground her body half turned on the trail it was very odd behavior Rick and I kept walking around 50 yards further we made it around a bend in the path and I looked back at the woman before the trees obscured her view she was still standing there her face was down but she was staring a hole through us out of the corner of her eyes that was the first time I realized that I couldn't see her hands one was inside her jacket pocket and the other was hidden from my view on the other side of her body it creeped the hell out of me the hair on the back of my neck stood up for half a mile I didn't see her again it had begun to wonder whether the first woman the co-ed had felt danger as well clearly she had I thought and that's why she was practically running through the woods at dusk it also struck me that that woman was stopping and studying Rick and me like she was deciding on whom to follow we weren't moving as fast we were walking as quickly as Rick could manage and he was clearly more feeble than a co-ed but those thoughts and my senses and I felt very uneasy so I periodically checked behind us at certain points to the woods I could see more than 100 yards and nothing I began to worry about the co adding my hair stood up for a second time as I felt the strongest sensation of being watched again thinking that was paranoid and half mocking myself for being afraid of the creepy woman I turned my head around to assure myself she was not back there I was wrong she was there following with her head down and moving briskly about a hundred yards behind us but with her hands hidden I turned my head back to the trail in front of us and kept walking still trying to convince myself that there was nothing out of the ordinary happening that I was just being rude because she was dressed like a homeless woman about 200 yards further along the path I turned my head back to Rick and my heart raced a bit she had closed half the distance each time we walk around a bend in the woods obscured her location she would emerge closer and closer to us I told myself that I was just being paranoid but nevertheless I tried to get Rick to pick up the pace by this time he was clearly aware that we were being followed and he was pretty uncomfortable as well though to his credit he did keep walking with half a mile to go before we reached the parking area I turned my head once again and she was just ten feet behind us I hadn't seen or heard her get that close and it freaked me out I literally jumped one of her hands was in her pockets and the other was behind her back I've got the distinct feeling she had a weapon of some kind and as she had no fear of despite the fact that I was considerably taller I'll be as several years older there was no mistaking her demeanor she meant to do us harm well at the very least she intended to intimidate us I weed my car keys between my knuckles I handed my water bottle in a wreck and made an obvious fist with my left hand with a half mile left in her hike I thought to myself if this is nothing she'll pass us in move on as clearly she's moving a lot faster than we are I was accustomed to people overtaking us but she didn't pass and never acted like she knew we were there which was the creepiest parts I kept my head toward turns her as I walked and tried to get her to make eye contact but she didn't look me in the eyes at first she kept acting like neither Ric nor I were on the path a few feet ahead of her and she followed so closely behind I was completely unnerved and that made me angry I wanted her to see how pissed I was and to convey with a look that messing with me was a mistake when she finally did make eye contact with me I glared at clenched my fists there was an instant where I couldn't read her expression she was simply blank but as she studied my face she appeared simultaneously agitated and a little less confident I was conveying one thing on my face back is the fuck off and at this point I didn't give a damn if it appeared rude she apparently thought better of whatever she was doing and slowed her pace so that the distance between us grew to about 20 feet but she was tense and catch whatever she had in her hand and behind her I never saw her hands I knew she had a weapon though and I believe she meant to do his harm but I also know she recognized that I was ready to fight I was mentally prepared to charge at her if I saw a gun or a knife as I knew Rick could not run her I thought to myself I just have to surprise her I also realized that I needed to have her in front of us a few hundred feet further about a quarter mile away from where her car was parked she still was stalking us and I had enough I was in equal measures afraid and furious I told Rick that we were going to stop and let her pass loud enough for her to hear it just as I was getting ready to stop on the trail and make her walk in front of us she veered into a small clearing plowing through waist-high brush crossed a ditch and scurried through a tree line to a road that ran through the woods in between the main road in the parking area I kept my eyes on her the entire time she had a car it was parked alongside the little service road partially hidden by shrubs not in the parking lots the last time we made eye contact just before she climbs in her car it was clear from the expression on her face that she was very angry I glared at her expressing my own anger and kept walking when her car started and she drove away Rick got quiet before asking me what in the hell was she doing did she have a gun I told him I didn't know I never saw a weapon we walked back to our car without saying another word once the engine was on and the doors were shut we chatted a bit more and decided to call the authorities and report the incident and to make sure to have them check the poor co-ed who had passed first to this day I have no idea what the creepy woman was planning to do I don't know she wanted to rob us harmless Garris I have no idea I'm just thankful she decided better of it I have hiked that trail more than 50 times since then but I've never seen her again I live in northern New South Wales Australia in an area where the bush is quite dense now I've always been into the paranormal and have experienced a few situations that just cannot be explained the one I'm about to tell is the most freakiest one so far so here's a back story that links into the story I'm about to tell so I live with my parents and my two brothers about a year back we were staying with some friends in a tiny desert town with a population of 200 I know it is very tiny we heard about an older man who lived in one of the houses and was murdered about four years back the local suspected the murderer to be a dodgy dirty homeless man who was lingering around the children and just being completely and utterly creepy so they kicked him out of the town this man had a tattoo on his forehead saying mom now fast forward to when we were camping in the bush we went for a drive on a day that I was going to have a shower in a place where you paid about two bucks for a shower a fewer camping close by anyway we parked and notice a man with a small puppy trying to hitchhike me being a nice person decided to ask him where he was going and let him know my father could probably drive him now when I sit in my back passenger seat it sometimes looks like I'm the one driving so I'm assuming he thought I was alone as he seemed perfectly fine at first but then hesitant when he noticed our Rottweiler and the rest of my family they gave him a lift while I had my shower I don't know why but I got a bad feeling they took a little bit longer than usual they came back and shocked it was the same fucking man with a tattoo on his head from that small town which coincidentally bumped into this possible killer who was last seen in a complete different state four years ago he was wearing a hat when I spoke to him so I didn't see the tattoo my parents told me how crazy bad the vibes were and how quiet everyone was they even stopped and dropped him off at a public spot so they did not feel that safe at all with him now we are driving back to the camp and we're cracking jokes about how we would be waiting you back at the camp for us with coffee my family was terrible with a sense of humor we got to the camp at light at night and it was dark we had two big tents and we slept in a big kitchen tent I was somehow still in a bit shaken sense but I somehow I decided to grab a knife and put it next to my bed you know just in case I was cleaning off my knife when it hurts something walking behind the tent I called out to my little brother and he replied that he was in the campfire with everyone else including the dog I suddenly became very frightened and without even thinking look next to me inside the food tents and the only way I can describe it was that I seen this old dirty man crouching down in the dark breathing heavily and looking me dead in the eyes I froze for a second his screams like I have never before and I began running to everyone else I was getting ready to call the police but once my dad walked in with a huge dick it was like he just vanished it was just like it didn't make sense there was so much food in that tent that no one could have really been in it without crushing everything plus nothing was even moved when we looked inside when things settled down and we couldn't find anything around we eventually all tried going to sleep after about 10 minutes of trying to sleep and still horrify from weather the fuck I had just seen I started hearing footsteps around the tent it went on for about five minutes I listened very carefully this thing had two feet and it sounded heavy and big to try and possibly scare it off I told my brother very loudly they grabbed the knife and see what's outside everyone else admitted to hearing it also my dog started barking and followed my brother outside she then chased whatever-it-was into the forest my brother couldn't see it but he said it was running our dog and it sounded as if it were dragging something heavy after about 15 minutes we tried going back to sleep just before I managed to get some sleep a voice from outside very faintly said my dog's name my dog didn't make a sound for the rest of the night now I don't know if this had absolutely anything to do with that day but I fell asleep that night in my face towards the tarp wall I had the craziest vivid nightmare I'll try to explain the nightmare as I can it was like I was face to face with an autopsy of a young blond American girl she was speaking into my ear going into details about how she was murdered how her body was found and how good her life was beforehand I tried looking away from the body but everywhere I turned my head I was just looking at a different part of the body while she still spoke this dream went on until she said a name of a man and then I woke up I don't remember the name and it was not familiar to me anyway that was probably the scariest strangest night I have ever experienced and I no longer enjoy camping I hope you enjoyed my story as much as I enjoy listening to everyone else's experiences this story happened to me when I was hiking in the woods it was about 3 a.m. so there was no light yet there is rarely people up there and there are no trails it's mostly trees in Hills and wild cows I was walking down a hill and I thought why not do some exploring so I decided to go down a few more hills and - I was on flat ground I looked around and saw what looked like a trailer I decided to go into it I had my gun in my hand just in case some crazy bear or something tried to kill me anyway when I was inside the trailer I nearly threw up it smelled like sulfur but extremely bad I walked further into it and saw a bed a bag in some books on black magic then I left because I couldn't stand that smell anymore I left the trailer and continued walking I came across a house well maybe a bit bigger I was like why not go in there and so I went in it I saw the same books and I was kind of creeped out then I went upstairs and saw that there was some stuff on the second floor I heard something move and I got a terrible feeling of bad energy then I decided to yell for whatever reason whoever was up there I said I know you're up there motherfucker say something but that was complete silence I shot my gun through the roof and this time heard a scuffle the Sun had started rising now so I decided it was best to leave before I left I saw something written on the stair it said house of spirits I booked it out of there and I felt the same feeling of being watched and scared I turned around and there was a man on the roof he was staring at me he had a long beard and long hair he was smiling at me and I felt so disturbed I shot out the man and yell to him but he kept smiling I ran back to keep an eye on him and I booked it into the truck I always see that man around town but I guess he doesn't recognize me a few years have passed and my father's friends know him he is always at the library he gives everyone bad biases stuff but I'm lucky to be alive he was a devil worshiper and could have killed me and no one would have known where to find our car anyway I won't be going near their house again this happened about two to three years ago I live in northwestern Montana and it was my senior year summer and I was going through some personal stuff that year and I thought the best way to escape from that was to get off the grid and go camping in the forest my plan was to go on a hiking trail that not a lot of people hike on and get to this small campsite I packed my gear that everyone brings on hiking trips food water tents bear spray etc when I left it was after work and it took a couple hours to reach the beginning of the trail the hike was ten miles into the forest which had winding paths rocky areas and thick and overgrown brush that at times was hard to see the trail because of how old ruined the trail has been with the lack of people taking it the trail just led you deeper into the mountains the hike was pretty uneventful until I reached the campground when you come out of the trail into the campground the first thing you see is a small open area about 30 to 50 feet just just enough to hold a couple of tents and when you look in front you can see a small lake with trees packed together tight and it's hard to see through right above the Rocky Mountains sticking up high in position to where the sub goes over the surrounding area is covered in pine trees making it hard to see more than 20 feet in front of you when I reach the campground I set up my tent right away because the Sun was going down fast in the mountains when I reached the campground I set up my tent right away because the Sun was going down fast and what the mountains there it grew dark quick and since I have had nothing to eat I got a fire going and put some food on and here's where it starts to begin nightfall came the night was calm and just a small breeze was coming to make the trees just move enough to where it starts to make kuroky noises the night was pretty chilly and I made a pretty good fire about an hour into the night I got this foul smell that just seemed to linger around it must have been coming from the wind matter is what I thought anyway but the smell was strong and felt like it was right next to me I threw another log on the fire and then I hear this scream of what sounded like a woman next to me coming from the direction where the whim is coming from at least I think it freaked the hell out of me because I thought I was the only person up here I didn't see any other tents and there's no place to set up tents other than a spot I'm in and the scream didn't come from the trail I came from the visibility that night came from the campfire and the moon reflecting off the lake so I couldn't see far but I reached into my backpack and pulled out a flashlight and just slowly started scanning the area for a woman I owe back are you okay what's wrong and the woman yelled back help me so I said where are you are you hurt trying to find the source of the sound there was a small pause and then she yelled back come here but there was something off about the voice I just kept thinking to myself now woman didn't sound like she was hurting or anything was really it's attacking her so that raised a red flag in my mind and everything I said seemed like it didn't matter to the woman like she was just trying to lure me out of the campsite with some two words help me right after that I reached into my backpack and pulled out my hand gun and kept scanning the forest after a bit I could hear far in the distance oak making noises and right after the elk finished I hear the loudest high-pitched screech that I've ever heard in my life in the same direction the girl was yelling at me from and after the screech I hear movement in the direction of the elk with the bushes moving violently until the bushes became unmoving and the campground came to a standstill again after the thing ran away the foul smell went with it and though the rest of the night was calm except for the same screeching in the distance was sounded like it was miles away just echoing through the mountains I have never been more scared in my life so I waited until dawn packed up my things and headed home I haven't told anyone my story but if you have any idea what this could be please let me know I guess I should start by saying this happened in early September of 2016 I'm a 25 year old female that lives in a really rural part of northern Arkansas with my fiance near the lake to be exact it's gorgeous lots of open farmland plenty of woods and barely any neighbors it's what my soul always wanted I am an only child also and have been pretty much spoiled my whole life my father for as long as I can remember would randomly bring home toys not just little toys I'm talking go-karts dune buggies and even four-wheelers so since I was young I knew how to drive just about any off-road vehicle and I loved it we even had jet skis at one point my parents were very laid back with me to the point that they would nap during the day and let me ride the dune buggies until dark I forgot to mention I just recently moved full-time to the property for years we would only visit the land on the weekends so it's a different feeling knowing you don't have to go back to town my parents live about three hours away from the land so seeing them on the weekend is a treat they bring up all kinds of goodies the land is beautiful about 30 acres more than half of which is cleared years ago a small farm was here the old barn still stands and of course a pond with a ton of frogs one night we all got wild hare and decided to go for a night ride my father now has a jeep so him and my fiance started to ride together me and my mother decided to ride separate on the wheelers these four wheelers are fairly new automatic so they are ready to ride a while and damn it I also forgot to mention that four miles outside of the property is the Cherokee Wildlife Reservation so there are miles and miles of woods and dirt trails so many that you could be gone all night behind the property about 20 minutes out is a creek once you pass through it you will go up the mountain on the other side of Cherokee there's also a crap ton of logging roads before you get to the logging trails there's a dirt road you have to take I have taken this road for years I have had some wind feelings out there but this night will be the night that I will always remember until I die my dad fiance Alcorn aunt had gone ahead of us five minutes ahead of us to be exact my mother and I had been out making to drink yes my wheeler was a cup holder and I was gonna bring alcohol with me damn it after we pass through the creek and up the mountain I noticed the beams of my mother's wheeler start to dim normally they do this because you're a fan to cool engine has kicked on so I didn't think anything of it I want to let you know that there are houses near the end of this road in near the beginning so there's a gap of about five miles long zve woods and an occasional dirt road for gas as well by the way gas wells are everywhere up here as we get closer to the trail we are supposed to take my mother's wheeler starts backfiring we stop first I'm gonna see what's going on when it dies now like I said I've been out in these woods my whole life I wasn't afraid at all no weird things or feelings or anything my mother calls to my dad and tells him what's going on but no calls are getting through they must be going down the mountain my mother said with an aggravated tone I turn off my wheeler but leave the lights on the road is narrow so narrow that two cars can barely squeeze by I don't want some drunk guy flying around the corner not seeing us as my mother tries calling my dad again I start looking at her wheeler something isn't right with it there's power to it but no fuel is getting to the engine which could be a lot of things causing that so I get my phone out and text my fiance letting him know we were stuck in the middle of the road we were sitting there for a good ten minutes when all the hairs and my body start to stand up I immediately looking look in the direction of the headlights to see a man walking from the pitch darkness he had no light and he said nothing it took a second for my brain to register what I was seeing as my mother finally got my dad on the phone I whispered to her sternly mom cuz the guy walking up on us now my mother tends to panic at times I never took my eyes off him he was still far enough away that I couldn't make out much features my mother is freaking out and I tell her to leave the shit and jump on my four-wheeler as she does I yell to the guy who was obviously getting closer hello what the hell he said nothing this seriously freaks me out like who the hell walks down a pitch-dark road in the middle of the night without a light and not say something as you approach other strangers that's when it dawned on me he must have been creeping in the woods down the road voices echo like crazy out there so he probably knew we were woman normally I keep a 38 on me but my silly ass left it at home out of all times this would be the one time that I forgot it I start my wheeler up and my mother hops on the man is still getting closer now I can make out a red flannel shirt and dirty jeans dark hair but not much more he had a gun not in his hand but visible on his head he still wasn't saying a word which makes us kind of panic even more he also was not looking at us but rather at the ground I realized I can't back up because I can't see a damn thing behind us so I threw it high and took path past him as we passed him he just stood there facing and following our direction yet never looking up at us it was pretty disturbing we make it near through the creeks him my mother was able to tell my dad everything he immediately turned around when he heard us yelling he was at the wheeler in about four minutes as we met back at the wheeler the guy is there on his own wheeler my mother and I just sat there staring at this weirdo he never gave me or my mother eye contact and ended up heading to the creek to talk as we all shut our vehicles off my dad asked us so uh where did he come from I told him the darkness he just walked up without a light from the road my fiance chimes in he had a wheeler in and tow straps y'all didn't talk to him or anything my mother and I just stared at him with open mouth this guy was going to take our wheeler he never asked us if we needed help he didn't say or do anything but act weird the man had told my dad his wife and her people yelling in their driveway we didn't even pass their driveway the next day me and my fiancee head to the same spot to check out this driveway we reached just about halfway there when the four-wheeler had died and just a few hundred yards down the road was an overgrown driveway we drove up and decided to walk the rest of the way tucked far behind the woods was a run-down barn my cabin with no power no vehicles and no signs of recent life and definitely no sign of a wife there was an outhouse behind the barn as we walked up to the windows we noticed the man's wheeler sitting behind the barn I looked at my fiancee who had a worried look on his face inside the barn was stuff that you would expect to see in a garage no indication that someone was living there Hazrat backed away slowly I start to notice that there were vans hidden in the woods like a homestead they were run down and I'm pretty sure they didn't run but still and that's when my fiance grabbed my hand we quickly got back to the Jeep on the way back home I told him about the vans he said that he nursed them too he noticed them at the same time he noticed the man staring at them from inside the barn always bring protection if you're going to be in the middle of nowhere one time while driving in the middle of nowhere in France with a friend the whole night just felt so eerie for some reason I won't get into all the prior details but when we parked in front of our hotel it was strangely quiet and dark all of a sudden a group of people in a trance-like state started walking out of the woods from different areas all around the parking lot the woods were just about a foot away from where we parked our car it was so creepy and intense the first person to come out of the woods was a lady she didn't even acknowledge us as she walked right in front and beside our car she was so trance tapped more people hide in the woods than you would think or imagine another day I was walking in the woods in my backyard I often walked alone in there feeling safe and solace once I was pretty far in I turned around a bend and was scared out of my wits to see ass naked man just laying there on the side of the path he must have been slinking his way through the woods to get there before I did or maybe he was just laying there for a long time just waiting for someone to see him or walk into him I ran like a bat out of hell thinking he was going to kill me it's safe to say there are a lot of creepy people as well as creepy creatures lurking out in the woods just outside of our homes before I tell you my story I must give you a bit of background I live in the state of Idaho in the US I work on a farm and live in a very small town and live just down the road about an hour from where this happened but when I heard a story from a neighbor curiosity got the best of me my friend Bill told me the story of the water babies we were at my house in the garage bill was talking with my dad about fixing something in the house the talk moved on to hunting stories then stories about seeing weird things in the woods my dad has a ton of stories like that handed down from my grandpa after a few stories bill told the tale like this you see if the story behind the water babies is that too maine native tribes in the area the Shoshone and the banach or as they call themselves the show bonds would perform an ancient ritual nobody remembers any specifics of the ritual it's lost to history but the purpose is fairly well known whenever a set of twins were born the show bonds would take the babies to the marsh with a Blackfoot and Snake rivers joins that would throw the babies in the water and the one that floated was kept and the ritual was ended the belief is that the twin is good and the other twin is evil and they believed that the good one would float to the surface but this meant a lot of babies drowned whether one or both the twins died anyways it is said that if you drive to Tilden bridge which overlooks the smaller of the two rivers and shut your car off you will hear odd noises small thuds and thumps as if something is crawling all over your car I have heard of water babies before and seen the Tilden bridge but I never joined him the two together in my mind after bill told us what water babies were he told me that after his brother experienced the noises and his friends they drove away from the bridge on a dirt road the next morning Bill's brother got up to find his car not only caked in dust but covered in small hand footprints I scoffed at this it's a fairly lesser-known local legend although old-timers are dying out so it's not as well-known anymore and I never believed it and so one night two years ago a group of me my friends I was the one driving and my cousin in the cab and my girlfriend in the middle front seats her best friend in the passenger and the other two girls were in the back we wanted to spook out the girls and in all honesty we all were pretty creeped out as it was we told them we were looking for ghosts and it was a moonlit night so if we did see anything we would be kind of screwed this amped up the fear of the unknown factor big time I was driving so I parked and turned my pickup off the middle of the bridge it is a rarely used bridge due to it being in the middle of nowhere so I felt comfortable parking on the bridge we sat in the darkness for a minute expecting something to freak us out the car was full of us kids being loud and goofing off so it wasn't too creepy after a minute or two we decided to leave nothing because it was too spooky and nothing was happening the mist of the river rolled over my trucks windows which made everything look more horrifying to tell you the truth we all decided to do something else so I turned the key in nothing happened the girls thought I was playing around and telling me to push it in the clutch or just joking idiots let's go my girlfriend told me not funny okay just go I told her that the car was an automatic and had no clutch the girls grew quiet and I saw them go pale in the moonlight I tried for about a half an hour to get this car to start but it just wouldn't work I was too scared to get out and pop the hood everyone was on the verge of a nervous breakdown I kept turning the key and my girlfriend's best friend in the passenger seat had her window down a small bit through the small slit of the window we heard a baby screaming not too far from the river bottoms mind you we were miles from the nearest town or any farms so it couldn't have been some baby a little ways off cuz we were in the middle of nowhere like I said before we were literally like a half an hour from the nearest town we then started hearing soft thuds and bumps of the roof and hood of the truck we all freaked out after a few turns the engine still wouldn't go until we heard a thud and felt the truck move forward a bit I turned the key one last time and it started up we pulled out of there as fast as we could over the dirt road we were all done with doing anything else that night so I took everyone home when everyone was dropped off at home I drove back to my house parked the truck in the driveway and ran inside the next morning my dad yelled at me for letting kids climb over the truck during the night I told him I wasn't I wasn't even here any kids last night he led me to the driveway to the truck and said see all the hand and footprints all over the truck was covered in dust from the dirt road and as he pointed to it I noticed small handprints and footprints on the hood and in the bed it's been two years but I will never go back to Tilden Bridge again I have experienced some weird crap in my life but all I know is that I believe in Bill's story

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Channel: Swamp Dweller

Views: 307,249

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Keywords: Park Ranger stories, Forest Ranger stories, Swamp Dweller, Search & Rescue stories, missing 411, deep woods exploration, state park stories

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Length: 87min 41sec (5261 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 06 2018

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