25 UNEXPLAINED & DISTURBING Creatures Seen in the Woods

the horror at the edge of the forest from lost in the south i want to share a memory that has haunted me since i was a kid paint a background of horror that it believed should surely give you pause when the moon begins to rise this is the reason i won't go near any forest or even dimly lit areas when the sun begins to go down when the last rays of beautiful bright lights start to cast diminishing shadows across the world don't get me wrong there was a time when i loved running around at night playing tag or hide and seek at night as a kid are probably some of the best games i'd played and moments that i shared with people that i've since lost touch with over the years but then again after that one summer night many years ago we all kind of just stopped hanging out with one another outside of school i grew up in a densely wooded area in the deep south the kind that would have miles of nothing but huge trees packed tight on both sides of the road before you'd ever see a house i lived in a small neighborhood of maybe 15 houses that made up about four streets off the main road i didn't mind much because that meant i always had someone to play with we were the only kids for miles and in the summer it seemed like there would always be some kids running through a backyard to get to someone else's house during the day and when the sun would start to set you may see those same kids rushing off to home trying to beat the streetlights coming on now on one particularly cool july afternoon just as the sun was beginning to set i was sitting at the top of the steepest of the streets in our neighborhood looking at the little dirt road at the bottom i was with my best friend danny and we were waiting for the cars that we knew were down that dirt road to leave you see at the end of this dirt road maybe 150 yards from the main road there was a small group of workers they were building two new homes and seeing how danny and me were wanting to build a new fort we needed supplies now i know what you're thinking no we weren't going to steal their things but we two kids figured there would be plenty of scrap wood and nails lying around the spare stuff that was destined for the trash dumpster anyway stuff we figured no one would even know was gone the problem was we had been sitting there for almost an hour already and we hadn't seen anyone come down that road or turn to leave finally after what felt like an eternity of sitting in the same spot staring at the same dirt road that disappeared back behind the same stand of way too tall trees i'd had enough i stood up and told danny to come on because i figured screw it they must have already left before we even got there by now there really wasn't any light left in the sky and i was mad at myself for waiting so long to start down the dirt road but i'd been sure that i saw the workers leaving at the same time right before dark every day that week worst case we jump behind some trees on the side of the road if we saw headlights coming down it took maybe five minutes to walk down that dirt road but it was dark and the light from the flashlight he had somehow thought to bring didn't really do much in the way of lighting up the road if anything it made the shadows on the sides of the road look way darker than they should but we did come into the big clearing that had been cut out of the trees for the houses that were being built when you first come into that clearing the houses are sitting opposite of each other maybe 40 yards between them it appeared as if they would be building more houses there beside those some time later but for now i was more interested in the fact that the house that was almost finished had a light on inside and there was a truck parked beside the house by then danny and i had already stopped we were looking at listening for any sound of someone inside maybe they were working late or packing up tools to carry home for the weekend because some of those guys do have a lot of stuff to pack up when they're done we didn't hear anyone though nobody was walking around no one was coming outside with tools in their hands no one was loading things into the truck without really thinking about it much we had already snuck right up to the house and were standing in front of the open doorless entryway with its makeshift steps that looked like they shouldn't have been able to support the weight of a full-grown man going up and down them either way i slowly crept up the steps just far enough to poke my head inside and look around i could see all the way through most of the house they hadn't put up the sheetrock yet in a lot of places but i didn't see anyone inside i jumped back down the steps and told danny that the guy must have left his truck there rode home with someone else i guess maybe he'd be back later but right now we needed to hurry because our moms would already be mad that we took so long to get home from playing in the first place we quickly started looking through the big pile of used wood that had been thrown out beside the house hoping for some big pieces we could use for walls after gathering up and testing the small load of scrap wood for weight to make sure it wasn't too heavy to carry we went back inside the house to see if they had left any open boxes of nails lying around that wouldn't be missed i found what i was looking for but it wasn't a small box of nails it was a big metal folger's coffee can that looked like they had been pouring just any loose nails or screws that had been left over into it i was wearing one of those short sleeved shirts that still had a hood and front pocket on it but would never really be warm enough in the winter to wear so i grabbed a handful and shoved them into my front pocket of my shirt starting back to the door when i heard danny fall behind me i turned around to see him lying in what appeared to be paint paint that someone had forgotten to clean up after it was spilled i laughed a little and gave him a hand up and that's when we heard it someone was walking around outside but it didn't really sound right it sounded slow almost like each step was thought out or deliberate like whoever it was already knew we were inside and was purposefully walking around the back of the house like he wanted us to know he was there we freaked out taking off out of the front entryway jumping down the steps running off leaving the small pile of wood we had collected and dashing towards the small spot in the trees where the dirt road was leading back to safety the safety of our neighborhood and street lights that would illuminate our way home the problem was whoever had been behind the house walking slowly around was now to the right of us just far enough into the trees that i could only make out his shadow but his shadow looked funny to me as i ran full speed for the end of the road i glanced to the right looking for the shadow but it was running off to the left of us now and it was closer close enough i could see that it wasn't a person it was too tall to be a man plus no man had ever had ears that stuck up and back a little coming to a point just behind the head of what i swear to christ i thought was a werewolf the long snout the eyes that seemed to just faintly glow a dull green but still the thing was in shadows and i was running scared thinking i was about to be killed so it wasn't like i could make out everything perfectly that thing was big though my god it was huge my dad was six foot three and this thing even slightly bent over running and mostly covered in shadows was way taller than my dad was we were almost to the end when this thing was suddenly behind us it happened so fast it had just been beside us but now in the blink of an eye it was just right there so impossibly close i thought it was going to grab me at any moment and rip me apart just then i remembered why my shirt felt heavy it was flopping up and down as i ran for my life a big old bunch of nails i had the nails in the front pocket of my almost hoodie shirt i quickly reached in and pulled out what i could dropping them behind me as we kept on running i was sure this thing was so big that it probably wouldn't even feel it but i soon heard a yelping snarling pained kind of sound followed by what i hoped was the creature falling i could not believe my luck it had stepped on those nails just then danny and i burst through the tree line breathing heavily as we started running up the street maybe a little slower but still we pushed on up the steep road to the top before we stopped underneath the bright glow of the street lights as we looked down at the trees we had just run through the trees that should have been the last place i ever breathed another breath of air into my lungs we saw it just standing outside the trees we could see it good now and it brightened me to the very core of my being never have i experienced such raw fear in my life as that one moment when i thought it was going to start running up that street after us because i knew that it had been playing with us before i knew it was much faster much stronger than it had been i knew i had gotten lucky with those nails and that if this thing started to run after us then it would be sure to catch us in a matter of seconds it didn't though it's like it just took one step back then the trees or maybe the darkness itself just swallowed it up again but that was fine and i was darn near in tears with relief as we turned and ran up my walkway to the front door of my house we ran in straight to my room closing and locking my window as my mom shouted after us asking where in the world we had been we didn't say anything to my mom and dad about what had happened i mean come on they're not going to believe that a couple of kids ran from a freaking werewolf anyway we didn't sleep that night at all we were way too scared that thing was going to come out of the woods behind my house and get us but as night wore on the sun began to finally come up again i got the courage to look outside the window there seemed to be nothing there or at least i thought there was nothing as i scanned outside the sun began to shine on the ground outside the window and i could see prince in the soft earth huge paw prints this thing this beast was at my window last night standing there it knew it was my window i know this because when i investigated outside after that mine was the only one with paw prints under it i freaked out and went inside but i stopped in the living room i could hear my parents hush whispers in the kitchen i snuck a little closer to the doorway going into the kitchen so i could hear what they were seeing apparently my dad's friend who was a cop said they found a man's body that morning after responding to his wife's frantic call about her husband never coming home from work that night and how it was weird because in 27 years the guy was always home before nine on fridays so when she called for the fifth time throughout the night they finally went just after dawn and discovered that the guy's truck was still there they had found blood inside the house and i instantly knew that dany hadn't slipped in paint it was the man's blood they did not find the man's body right away not all of it they found his legs just at the edge of the trees behind the house and his head wasn't too far from that but the rest of them they found in a tree about 50 yards from the house this thing had carried him up the tree to eat him slowly and i guess it decided to leave it there when it heard us snooping around the house after that our parents didn't really let us do much the rest of the summer was pretty much spent indoors but i was fine with that because i knew it wasn't a mountain lion or a bear that killed that man and dragged his half-eaten torso 25 feet up a tree it was a werewolf and it knew where i lived it had stood outside my window for god knows how long but why didn't it kill me maybe this will help some of you feel a bit better knowing you're not alone in this like i said you're not crazy these creatures are real and they're just outside skulking around waiting for someone to slip up and come a little too close there's something in with the cows from username 38272 i was 13 at the time my family and i lived in the country because we needed more privacy we had a lot of cows big cows so my dad my big brother and i would do head counts on the cows regularly to keep track of them our family had 60 acres of land in nevada containing 37 cows one day we were doing a head count we counted 37 all of them were there a couple of hours later my dad caught the cows going crazy he looked on the cameras and saw the cows going nuts running as fast as they could from something they ran all the way from the south pasture to the north one the three of us did another head count there and there was only 36 now i figured one of them was still down in the south pasture i went looking for it i found it lying down on its side at first i thought it had fallen asleep i went to take a closer look then i saw that it wasn't breathing my dad and my brother soon joined me my dad wrapped his head around the situation and told my brother to get the truck we had a cow to bury later on at two in the morning i heard a loud noise coming from the woods i decided to go check it out i grabbed a flashlight and went out when i got there there was a huge hull where we had buried the cow a trail of blood was leading out of it going deep into the woods i followed it thinking that some stupid bear or something dug it up and wanted to eat it quietly i followed the blood trail i stumbled upon what appeared to be a deer upon closer inspection it wasn't some deer it was this thing that had no fur and it had weird looking arms and it was terrifyingly tall it was eating the cow we had just buried i ran as fast as i could back to the house waking up my mom and dad telling them what happened they didn't believe me they said i probably had a bad dream i protested but my dad said he didn't want to hear any more of it and told me to go back to bed i went back to bed as he said but my dreams were filled with visions of the thing i saw in the woods eating that cow in the morning i went to check on the cows once again they were running around as if something was chasing them i couldn't help but assume what was doing the chasing i ran to my mom and dad again by the time we got to the cows another one was missing we scanned the fence in the property and all we found was a hole in the fence large enough for a cow or a similarly large creature my dad said the cow escaped but i know exactly what got a hold of it ever since then i fought tooth and nail to have less and less to do with the cows because i was so afraid that that antlered creature might just take me instead when i turned 26 i moved to las vegas putting an end to my scary experiences beast in northwestern florida from scaredmonkey99 i recently went to a ranch in the middle of nowhere to go horseback riding now this place is absolutely huge and surrounded by forest and me being a believer in the supernatural chose to go on a two-hour sunset ride hoping to see something the sun was still up when i pulled up to the ranch in my red dodge dakota i was greeted by three or four different dogs the ranch is also a dog shelter i walked around to the back of the house and was greeted by another dog and my two trail guides we talked for a moment and i signed some papers and i was soon saddled up on a large mare by the name of saffron i was then shown the basics of movement after that i waited for my trail guides to mount their horses and we were on our way with one of the dogs trailing behind us the first hour went by quickly and uneventfully with us trekking through the woods stopping every once in a while to drink some water and give the horses a snack it started getting dark about an hour 15 minutes into the ride and that's when the noises started they were hardly audible or noticeable at first just a random faint sound of a twig snapping from the pressure of being stepped on the crunching of fallen leaves being walked over and the rustle of underbrush here and there just noises you hear in the woods on a normal basis but soon enough all other noises went quiet as though all the small creatures were afraid to make noise for fear of being killed the horses also started to get spooked at this time and needed constant reassurance the sun had just dipped below the horizon and there wasn't long left on the ride so we started on our way back to the ranch with a small amount of light still coming from the sky it was a good 30 minutes by walking everything was still and the trail guides were spooked there was fear in the air i could feel it it was easy to tell the sound of rustling and branches snapping was louder than before closer than before we started to pick up the pace at some point about 20 minutes away from the ranch i looked behind me to ask the rear trail guide a question when i saw something large and dark streaking across the trail where we had been moments before and my heart jumped the trail guide saw my expression and turned around to see nothing there they looked at me and asked why i looked so scared and i told them with all honesty oh probably just one of the dogs they said with a hint of uneasiness in their voice from then on i kept glancing around and searching for the black mass i'd seen not two minutes later i turned around again and my face went pale the trail guide saw my face once more and looked back with me they proceeded to scream about a hundred feet behind us a large black figure stood on hind legs in the middle of the trail with a deer and one of its massive claws it wasn't a bear not with the way its claws were wrapped around the deer's neck like that and it stood nearly as tall as me on the back of the horse i'm six foot five and the horse i was on came up to my shoulders while standing the creature's head was long with an open maw dripping with blood or saliva its arms were unusually long too and its knees bent backwards like a dog's it was covered head to massive paw in sleek pitch black fur the trail guide screamed spooking the horses into a mad dash for the ranch with their riders holding on for dear life unable to look behind us we got back to the ranch in record time quickly dismounting and ran for the house once inside the trail guide who had been in front asked what happened the other trail guide and i looked at each other and decided it was the best not to tell the truth we told them we had seen a large bear and it scared us in the horses the trail guide who saw it walked me out of my truck rifle in hand i got in and floored it out of there on the drive out of the country i felt as if i was being followed i felt eyes on me until i finally got inside city limits and even then i didn't feel safe until i was home let's just say i won't be going back to that ranch anytime soon blue creek skinwalker from chris m this happened to me back in 2002 when i was seven or eight years old i lived in ulaga oklahoma at the time and my dad took me to blue creek to go fishing well it was more sewn off the beaten path hunting trail connected to blue creek which was part of oologah lake anyway i fished at a small stone bridge near the entrance to the area while he went further up the creek i was perfectly happy to be alone catching perch and one small catfish as the sun started setting that's when things got unsettling i was still fishing and minding my own business when i heard what sounded like a mixture of wine and laughter off in the distance i thought nothing of it people came out there all the time for hunting and fishing a few minutes passed and i heard it again but it sounded closer it sounded exactly the same too i wasn't scared yet and i'd chalk that up to me being too young to recognize something was wrong then i heard it a third time and it was even closer with the exact same tone as before like it was a recording at this point i was spooked and began looking around i heard it once more along with a rustling sound in the nearby brush i panicked then and ran up the creek bank where my dad was i told him what happened and we left soon after we never went back there i had more or less brushed it off as a strange animal but then i started listening to a lot of stories on here and some of them made me think of back then i decided to ask my dad about it and what he told me disturbed me he said he had heard it too that day but only for a little while and he had hoped it was just an animal when i came running up to him and told him what happened he didn't mention what he heard to avoid scaring me whatever it was probably saw me as an easier target needless to say i have no intention of returning to that place something huge and dangerous lives in our small lake from seb 32 i live in southern florida and in my neighborhood we have a variety of lakes there are large lakes connected to other lakes and some that are just one small canal which don't connect into any other waterway i've lived in my neighborhood which i enjoy fishing in and i have for my whole life you're probably wondering that i shouldn't be fishing too much in those lakes it is southern florida and can be dangerous now before going fishing i would often go to bass pro a place where you can get any type of bait and tackle for fishing just before the whole isolation things went down i'd recently gone there to pick up some fresh chicken livers for catfish fishing the catfish we usually have are placos bullhead catfish and channel catfish the biggest ones we have in the lakes are the channel catfish who can be about 3 feet long and 70 pounds there soon came a day that changed my opinions on these lakes and it happened only about a month ago as of riding this now for me fishing was pretty much the only thing i could do while being isolated i'd been fishing for about an hour in the separate lakes which connected into others and at one point i decided to try my luck in the small lake that didn't connect to any other i had no luck in the others so i went over there this lake was probably 150 feet across and about 30 feet wide so you can get the idea of how small it is it was gradually getting darker then it was around five o'clock i think i cast my line into the water a good twenty feet away waiting for it to sink to the bottom catfish are bottom feeders after all after waiting about five minutes and playing around on my phone i felt a sharp tug i waited then set the hook within a few seconds i saw a small bullhead catfish about a foot long squirming around in the water as i was getting the fish to the bank something i didn't see tugged on my line but with such a powerful strike that the rod nearly broke in too and that rod could handle a hundred pounds my line snapped and i fell backwards hard the catfish was gone and so was the rest of my line what could have done that a catfish so huge i'd seen big catfish in the lake but not one that could break my line that easily as i mentioned before you had to beware of certain dangers in the lakes around here which included alligators but in these parts all the alligators were removed or exterminated unless the people had missed some which i doubted because when all of them had been removed the people had captured about 50 of them and that's a lot of gators snakehead fish an invasive species that had been eating the fish in our lakes for a few years couldn't have been responsible either my line was graded and could withstand teeth and no snakehead can outmuscle 100 pounds of breaking strength i had no hooks on me and besides it was getting dark i decided to wrap it up and go home i could use some chicken liver for tomorrow i'd get up early and get out again i wondered though what could that thing have been as i got up the next morning at around eight i got ready to go again i'd start at the same lake where i'd nearly caught the other catfish i positioned myself a good distance away from the bank thinking that indeed it may have been an alligator so it would be a good idea to stay away from the edge as i cast my line i happened to look to my left and to my surprise i saw a dead bullseye snakehead that invasive fish i mentioned it had been cut in half i didn't know what kind of predator could have done that to a snakehead and the idea of an alligator filled my thoughts again as i left my line for one moment i headed over to the dead fish it was clearly split in half innards played i could see the visible teeth marks on it too and these were huge teeth even if it was a gator it wouldn't have left the fish here and would have eaten it within moments suddenly my neighbor mr tom stepped up to me hey son i saw that fish last night it just washed up on the bank and along came the rest of it a couple seconds later i asked do you think it could have been a gator mr tom shook his head no alligator would have done that i haven't seen one since they took them all out besides they would have come up and sung themselves after all and i ain't seen none of that must be another type of fish it was true an alligator or crocodile would have to come up and sun themselves every once in a while something strange was going on in this league i think mr tom and he went back into his house i continued fishing for a while and then i felt another hard tug i reeled in a smaller blue catfish after about a minute to my shock as i was taking the hook out of its mouth i happened to glance over at the water and what i saw made me jump back i could make out a shadow about five feet from the bank just sitting there yeah there are plants and tall weeds in the water but these were not weeds no weeds could have been this shape plus the water is clean it couldn't be a pile of litter and this shadow was big i swear on my life the front of it looked like an oval with a flat head the shadow had to have been at least 25 feet and this lake could get 40 feet deep you can call me crazy but i'm not kidding this thing seemed to have fins on the side like a shark but these fins were bigger and wider than a shark i couldn't see much else i desperately tried to look for a tail of some kind then i saw it slowly seemed to sink when the last of the shadow was gone i looked at the catfish it was nearly dead feebly flopping around i realized i'd been staring at the shadow for a while i quickly threw the fish back in the water [Music] i quickly packed up my stuff and prepared to leave thinking i probably would never come back to this lake that's when i heard a splash i whipped my head around and saw a giant head it was a sort of grayish color it was clamping the catfish i had just thrown back in its jaws and these jaws were full of razor sharp teeth at least four inches in length suddenly the head dipped back into the water along with it the catfish i was in disbelief horrified of what i'd just seen the head was definitely not a shark or alligators and when i researched this thing later to see what it could have been the only thing similar to what i saw was the dunkleosteus a prehistoric sea creature i couldn't see the tail of the thing in the lake so i couldn't match its tail or body with this prehistoric monster the teeth were a bit different not bony and looking like a guillotine like the teeth of a dunkleosteus the creature i saw in the lake had razor-sharp teeth and about two rows the creature was also about 20 to 25 feet long adedunkeliostius was said to be about 30 feet so i don't know what the heck i saw but i've since stopped fishing in that lake my questions are could it have been a dunkleosteus but how could it be something that supposedly went extinct for millions of years and what the heck is it doing in a freshwater lake that's not even as big as a regular-sized canal could there be a passageway and how can it not have been seen by anyone else but me there are so many answers i'd like to know i don't even know what something like that would do to me if it got a hold of me especially being able to rip apart a catfish like that just in case when i fish in the other lakes i stay away from the bank and i never put as much as a finger in the water to release fish i just throw them back a good distance away from the edge i'm not making this up again you can call me crazy think of this story or me what you will but all i'm saying is there's something in the smallest lake in my neighborhood lurking beneath the shallows and i don't think it's a gator or crocodile don't go to elk island national park from drift i live around the edmonton canada area this took place two years ago i was 17 years old at the time and i had become curious about alleged skinwalkers in the elk island national park area knowing the people in my school who talked about it i knew this could probably just be a rumor from some drunk teenagers thinking a deer was a skinwalker at night either way me and my friends wanted to see if the legends were true to this day i don't know why i let myself get peer pressured into this after my friends called me a chicken keep in mind i was 17 at the time and somehow being called a chicken got me to go on the most regretful trip of my life so we decided before class started that me and for this story we'll call him tom would sneak through a hole in the gate i walked past this area while the hall was very small it was big enough to get in we were going to sneak in our friends who were 19 and had their permits to camp at the local canadian national parks they agreed to help us get in now at this camping trip my two friends that were going to help us get in already found a good area where they wanted to set up camp for the night it was about two and a half miles into dense woods this was followed by a nearly invisible path that curved to the right believe it or not it was even more dense than the main road that could barely fit an average car the only thing telling us it was an actual road was a sign that said dear ahead the whole idea sounded sketchy to me at the rate we were going we would get to our spot in less than half an hour they were speeding through the woods in one of the most bumpy roads i've ever been on unsurprisingly the car soon broke down right as we got to the side path this meant we had to walk the rest of the way one of the friends tried to pull up his gps on his phone so we would know where we were going but his phone didn't turn on i asked do you know where we're going and he seemed not to hear me or he ignored me because he whispered to himself i swear i charged my phone before i left we all stopped to look around us we could feel we were being watched then suddenly we heard footsteps around us the sound of dry sticks being cracked in the silent forest made me afraid for my life we also couldn't see the thing that was doing this but then it all stopped it seemed like we all thought the same thing because at the same time we all ran back to the car as we were running i could hear the sound of something running behind us then i heard tom's voice help soon i heard the voice again in the far distance stop it faded really fast and was coming from deeper into the woods a sudden surge of courage came over me i turned around to where i heard the voice of my friend while running i heard nothing for a while then i took a break on a log but then i heard tom's voice calling for help again and it wasn't far from me now i ran over to the voice i was soon greeted by a large clearing which was illuminated by moonlight i heard tom again saying stop but this time it sounded gurgly but it also sounded distorted i looked all around me but i still didn't see anything i knew at this point whatever was trying to get my attention probably wasn't actually tom then right behind me i heard do you know where we're going it sounded more like me this time then it said again do you know where we're going this time it was more deep and distorted somehow i managed to get the courage to turn around and i saw the most horrific thing i've ever seen there was a creature there on all fours that had a normal right arm but slightly bent but the left arm was completely bent the opposite direction that an arm is meant to its left leg was missing foot but the right leg had a stump with a weird wolf looking paw its glowing yellow eyes looked into mine then it stood up i am six foot one and this thing was overlapping me by about two feet that's when i saw the dark red substance dripping from its jaw while we stared at each other it opened its mouth and said help its mouth moved like a puppet unnaturally its voice was much too deep to be tom's i was frozen but it said one more thing that gives me goosebumps even still leave now i swear it carried the sound at the w and now for an entire minute i said nothing then ran off back towards the direction of the road when i found the road i saw that the car was gone they must have gotten in it without me gotten it working somehow this left me having to walk the most horrific walk in my life but by then all the sounds came back the crickets frogs all making their usual sounds this gave me comfort what i saw in that forest i cannot explain and the terror i felt cannot be described after that day i would love to say that i moved on but the memory of that thing will never leave me just remember if you're going to camp or visit elk island national park you've already made a big mistake possible alien encounter from mr anonymous i don't know what happened and i don't want to assume anything but here we go a couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and i were camping in our backyard like we've done numerous times before we were drinking some wine by the campfire and making s'mores we decided to retire into the tent around 2am i had managed to set up a tv and ps4 so that we could entertain ourselves before going to sleep we cuddled and she fell asleep around 2 30 am and i fell asleep shortly after i woke up around 4 30. i needed to use the bathroom pretty bad i didn't want to wake my girlfriend up though as the zipper to the tent was kind of loud so i used a bottle to the right of me i turned to go back to sleep when i noticed that my girlfriend was gone i'm startled and immediately worried i call out her name but i don't get a response i threw on my shoes and grabbed the flashlight fast as i could then ran out of the tent looking for her she has walked in her sleep before in the past though not since we've been together which has been two and a half years so this was odd and sudden i couldn't find her in the pitch blackness of the yard so i ran to the downstairs sliding glass door and began to yell her name finally i hear her voice from upstairs she's yelling for me asking if everything is okay as my voice sounded really shaky i asked her why she just up and left me in the tent like that but she said i didn't i have no idea how the heck i got inside let alone on the futon upstairs i called bullcrap because if you sleepwalk you don't close the tint zipper back up and close all the doors behind you we went to go look for her phone because she had no recollection of even going inside the tent even though she had only had a half bottle of wine we aren't lightweights in the least it usually takes a bottle and a half each for us to get drunk i searched around we managed to find her shoes phone and glasses inside the tent i don't know what happened but i know that's not sleepwalking i've seen people do that before and she's done it in the past it's nothing like she's been through before i also want to point out that i'm a very light sleeper i would wake up to the slightest noise quite annoying actually so i would have heard her get out of the tent especially the rustling of the sleeping bags yet her side was made perfectly like instead of getting out of the sleeping bag she had simply vanished into thin air and reappeared in the house also one last thing my girlfriend reminded me about that night that it was the only night we had slept without our dog or cat in the tent with us so if something had wanted to take her out of the tint perhaps it was feeling a bit more brave but who knows thanks for listening and i'd like to hear what you think may have happened goat man in jamaica from my instagram is jose underscore faw i was 14 years old it was saturday and we were going camping in one of the more rural parts of jamaica i won't name the place for privacy reasons now i'm 5 foot 3 and have a medium frame build and we were going from where we lived to about an hour and a half worth of driving away i'll read the rest of this in present tense at the request of the author when we get there we get our stuff from the truck and begin hiking to find a good spot we come across a nice calm crisp looking stream so we decide to get some dinner right away about two hours later we pack up and start moving again by now it's about 4 30 pm and we find a good enough spot to set up camp all of a sudden though we pick up this awful pungent smell it honestly smelled like expired sour cream and rotten eggs mixed in a toilet that hadn't been cleaned for years then left in the sun and it was close i feel chills go down my spine and a wave of dread rush over me when i hear the shrillest most ear piercing screech i'd ever heard in my life i grabbed the sawed-off double barrel shotgun and run inside the tent but i managed to fall asleep soon despite it only being 6 pm at about 2 am i awake to the sound of a branch snapping and to make matters worse i had to use the bathroom now i'm a horror movie enthusiast i knew all too well what not to do in situations like this so i lie still with the double barrel still in my hand ready to fire if i have to fast forward about 10 minutes later when i hear my uncle scream i quickly wake my dad who was sleeping next to me and slowly walk out thinking he's just playing a trick on us or hoping i guess but nothing could ever prepare me for what i see this thing was at least eight feet tall and it exuded the same smell i described earlier it has two horns sticking out of its head and it stands on two awfully man-like legs i was assuming i was in heck looking at the devil himself within no more than two awfully long seconds i fire at the thing's leg it jolts back in a way that is human-like a little too human then it happens this creature turns around and acknowledges us almost as if it wants to speak and by god i swear it does i don't exactly remember what it said but it speaks in a deep raspy manly voice i remember it having hellish red gleaming eyes that stared through my soul i fire again this time into its back which seemed to be covered with white dirty disgusting looking fur after five seconds or so the creature runs off into the woods leaving a trail of what appeared to be blood i look over at my uncle he's almost in tears as for my dad he's just frozen i don't know how i'm not as well we all stay in one tent packing things up planning to book it back to the truck as soon as the sun comes up after about seven hours the sun finally comes up and we all do as planned when we get to the truck we started and drive out of there like a bat out of heck on the right home we don't say a word not until we get home you'd think the story ends there right well not all fairy tales have happy endings i'll tell you that about two weeks later we go down to the countryside to look for my aunt uncle and cousins the drive was about three hours away from where we lived so we go to spend the night with them when we get there we see them all standing on the front patio waiting for us with a look of joy on their faces now this place was about five acres of empty woodland area but it had great lighting around the house from the led solar powered lights anyway after about 10 minutes of talking and catching up we all go inside and make our way to the bathrooms to freshen up when i'm finished i get out and make my way to the room i'm staying in two of my cousins brian and mario out of the six are in the room playing forza horizon 4 on the ps4 when it's about 10 pm i decide i'm going to bed i say my good nights and go up to the room it's dark and i don't bother to turn on the light i just go straight over to the bed and tuck myself in i hear the door open at one point but brush it off as my cousin's coming in about two hours later mario comes in turns on the light and screams i'll never forget the look on his face when i ask what's wrong he looks as if he had just killed someone accidentally he's in total awe because the thing that had been in the room with me was not my cousin it was the thing we'd seen before and we both are now watching it walk to the open window descend and walk away into the woods as if nothing happened it moved so human-like so disgusting so purposefully everyone runs upstairs and asks what happened we finish telling them the story and brian simply says goat man fortunately this was the last time i personally had an experience with this creature and i hope it remains to be the last time but sometimes i wonder what would have happened if i had turned on the light or if mario didn't come in when he did or if he had laid down next to this thing without bothering to turn on the light himself i'm glad i don't know it screamed from the night runner i live in minnesota but i went to wisconsin for a boy scout camping trip we were going to tomahawk which is what the boy scout troop camp is called i thought it'd be fun but that feeling was about to change when on the third day i was going to the store just for a souvenir i bought a hatchet as i was on my way back i looked for my friend thomas but he wasn't around after giving up on looking i went ahead back to camp mind you by then it was dark out and i had no source of light just some people in the distance i cursed in my head about my friend just leaving me there wondering why he did after about five minutes of walking i hear this faint scream it was distant but it was just eerie enough that i wanted to start running but then the screen got louder closer even though i thought i would be at camp by now it scared me out of my skin then came a growl right behind me without thinking i looked behind me i saw something it was paler than gray kind of a whitish tint its face still gives me night terrors just thinking about it i heard it crashing through the forest eventually and thank god i made it back to camp after running away from it in my panic though i did end up tripping over a route i fell causing myself to bleed my scout master came and helped me up and my friend ended up getting in trouble for leaving me but end of story i still don't know what the thing was and i still have no idea how it was capable of traveling a few hundred yards in a few seconds because i know the scream wasn't that close and then suddenly it was growling next to me if you have any clue let me know skinwalker in shreve ohio from pat it was 2009 me and my best friend b were camping in the backyard in rural shreve ohio i grew up on a couple of acres of land surrounded by roughly 1500 acres of farmland as we were camping and youtubing skateboard videos we began to hear coyotes off in the woods to our left this is really common where i'm from and generally they don't bother us the coyotes were yelling and being loud but then they just stopped making any noise at all this was the first thing that really had us on edge then out of nowhere we hear a different noise the sound of a large dog sniffing right outside our tent we were pretty freaked out as this was the closest to coyote had ever been to us but then a large human-like hand lays itself on the tint door where we could see it we were just silent too afraid to do anything we sit there wondering what on earth we could do out of nowhere something huge begins to crawl underneath the tent i'm not sure why it was so desperate to get under it the whole time it was growling viciously too my friend grabbed the hammer we used for the tent stakes and all at once he starts to hit the thing where he felt the head was instead of a yelp like any dog would this creature growled even worse it sounded demonic after hitting it a few more times we ran as fast as we could through the tent door and across an acre yard through the door to my garage every time i glanced behind us i saw this massive shadow following close behind maybe i didn't look long enough at it when i glanced as i didn't make anything out more than a black silhouette then again it was dark and in the middle of nowhere we get inside and that's really where the tale ends i remember being terribly scared for the whole night and i never trusted those woods again sure i'm not entirely certain it was a skinwalker but that's what comes to mind as it sounded like and behaved like a large dog but its hand was definitely shaped like a person's but i know it wasn't human werewolf sighting from the mad miller in spring of last year there have been reports from sheep farmers along the dutch german border especially in the eastern dutch provinces and way down in the southeast of the country these shepherds have reported several cases of their sheep and on some occasions even their sheepdogs being slaughtered but not eaten these cases have been on the news several times for if the killers would have been wolves like many suspected they were displaying some off behavior namely wolves don't just kill their prey and leave it behind nor would they consider fighting one or several sheep dogs on a normal occasion and lastly they would never invade human territory especially not on their own not to mention the territory was being guarded by dogs and electric fences in the meadows still there have been reportings of sheep and sheepdogs being killed and sometimes being partially eaten in the southeast there were 11 sheep six of which were lambs slaughtered but left untouched beyond that there was no trace found of the killer save for the deep tooth marks in the torn throats of the dead sheep as well as one pawprent with a length of about seven inches after those killings there was a period of silence until there came new reports of the killings in the east having been done by wolves this was said to have been confirmed by dna tests coming from the bite marks on the dead sheep roughly a year later there is now a small pack of wolves living on the biggest dutch national park valuaa and there have been no more reports of sheep being killed not in the news anyway the killer of the eleven sheep in the southeast has also been confirmed to have been a wolf but this was never supported by dna results or further arguments other than young wolves that are looking for a territory to kill sheep on farms to show other wolves whose boss but this contradicts the statement that wolves wouldn't dare to approach human settlements guarded by dogs and an electric fence it was all quite suspicious i loved going into the woods at nightfall so much so that i've done it at least three times this year though visiting a forest after sunset or before dawn is still illegal here i would often take a short walk right before sunset and leave when it was almost completely dark wearing dark clothes so the foresters or creepy people would not spot me easily i don't know why i'm addicted to hikes especially nocturnal hikes in the woods i felt a really strong call of the wild if you'd call it that ever since the first time i went off trail in the summer of 2017. when i go out to visit the woods either going off trail or not not even the time of day matters i'm always energetic and excited about it i would even dare to say that i wanted to go hunting out some occasions i would feel the urge to hunt when i'd see a deer or rabbit run by but i have neither a license nor weapons so i'm pretty sure i wouldn't be able to do any of that a few weeks ago as of riding this at the start of autumn i went for another night hike in the forest i had to bring my flashlight since it was cloudy and rainy outside as always i went there on my mountain bike chaining it to a pole before i'd set off into the darkness between the trees i saw the last people walking back to their cars and homes as i walked into the opposite direction it had become completely dark when i made it to the middle of the forest i silently enjoyed the cold the scents and sounds of the woods and i had nearly forgotten about my encounter in these same woods almost two years ago after having set myself down on a wooden bench nearby i heard the faint bleeding of sheep from about 200 meters away from me i stood up and began to walk in the direction of the noise mostly because the bleeding sounded rather distressed as if the sheep were panicking and trying to flee from something i was already surprised that i could hear it from that far away anyway but what surprised me at least just as much was that i could smell the scent of the sheep as well the wind was blowing in my direction but still i didn't know i was capable of this i should mention it's quite normal to encounter a flock of sheep here in these woods as local shepherds have their sheep stay in several places to control the weeds growing there one day you might find them on the moor and the other day you'd find them stationed near the bank of a lake a low fairly easily removable makeshift electric fence would hold the sheep from wandering off and losing the flock tonight the flock had been placed on a small more about 200 meters from where i sat on a bench it took me some time walking toward the pin before i could see the sheep as the flock was hidden by bushes from my direction though what i saw when i arrived at the pin kind of shocked me because not only were the animals running around frantically trying to escape but there were two slaughtered sheep lying in a small puddle of blood i could see that their throats had been torn open by jaws that seemed bigger than those of a dog or even a wolf there were no signs of the fence having been touched though what i did notice were a scramble of enormous canine looking paw prints around the sheep's corpses and around the pen as if the killer had carefully been walking around at first meticulously choosing its prey before stepping inside and making its move the sight was of course shocking and terrifying but weirdly enough not for me i wasn't as shocked and scared as i'd expected myself to be instead i felt more frustrated frustrated about someone or something having been roaming around in my woods causing a disturbance i had begun to see these woods as my second home as much of a reckless idiot as i was i decided to follow the tracks i was curious to see who or what was roaming the forest at night if i wouldn't have known better i would have realized that i might have just been walking into the jaws of death soon enough i kept following the huge tracks until the trees surrounding me made the environment hard to see i changed my mind as i could no longer see much at this point the trees blocking out pretty much every possible light entering my eyes so i whipped up my flashlight and shone it around while i could still hear the sheep panicking in the distance just maybe 55 meters behind me i was suddenly on edge again when a new scent hit my nose a scent which seemed to be a mix of wet dog and fresh blood this would soon be accompanied by footsteps on the forest floor calm steps as if something was walking up to me to check me out i directed my flashlight toward where the scent and sound was coming from and what i saw first were eyes gold yellow eyes about four feet above the ground now this already meant that whatever it was was bigger than a dog bigger than a wolf even i froze as the beast stepped closer and at this moment i could make out its face and front view of its body it was similar to a wolf though when proportions slightly bigger and sturdier its fur was dark on its back and lighter on its belly it even seemed to have a short dark mane on its neck the animal appeared to be staring at me cautiously but it didn't seem to be aggressive yet from the blood on its snout i could tell that it must have been the beast that killed those sheep and now i was indeed scared any sudden moves or panic that i could not control could mean the death of me it wasn't like i stood much of a chance against a beast this big still showing no aggression the creature came closer until it stood about five meters away from me then as i stood there watching in utter awe and silence the creature stood up on two legs like a bear now towering over me at about seven feet in height i felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and i took a more sturdy defensive stance i had to constantly remind myself not to show fear it leaned forward a little and sniffed the air to smell my scent it then perked its ears up seemingly more suspicious of me all i knew was that the bigger you appear to certain creatures the less likely you are to be attacked but no matter what i did this thing would be looking down on me still i tried to make the best of the situation trying not to look intrigued or scared this as if by some miracle seemed to work the wolf-like thing stepped backwards slightly breaking eye contact with me i took a tiny step forward and tried to look defensive or territorial as i appeared to have the upper hand now i did something ballsy i spoke to it trying to sound fearsome and demanding my woods get out again i was genuinely surprised that this happened to work the beast turned its head away from me and growled softly what seemed to sound like a protest it then went down on all fours and turned around to disappear into the darkness before it completely vanished from sight it gave me one last awfully human looking glance its eyes reflecting the beam of my flashlight as soon as i could no longer see hear or smell the wolf i let out a sigh of relief so loud that i was afraid the wolf would still hear me and that it would come back only then did i start shivering my mind and body at once realizing i had just survived a life or death encounter with an animal beyond the normal something that reminded me an awful lot of a werewolf cold shivers poured down my spine and i grew a little nauseous when i was suddenly startled by a piercing but distant towel coming from behind me it was both beautiful and haunting reminding me of the howl from a game i used to play called the hunter classic the sound chilled me to the bone and all i wanted then was to get the heck out of those woods back to my home after about 20 minutes of speed walking back to my bike and continuously looking around me and pausing cautiously peering into the darkness at every sound i heard i made it back to my bike quickly i unlocked it and raced home back at home the realization hit me again i might as well have been as dead and torn up as one of those sheep when i calmed down the question started coming into why didn't it attack me why did it react like that when it sniffed me what's also strange is i haven't heard anything in the news even the local news about the slaughtered sheep i discovered it's as if it never happened with perhaps even the shepherd completely denying that his flock lost two of its members to a supernatural predator all i know is that i won't be telling anybody in my family or friend group about my experience if it comes up in the news i'm sure people will just think it's a wolf just like it happened with all the other sheep killings in the netherlands over the past two years and i'll be quitting my nocturnal walks in the woods for sure because next time i encounter something like that i may not be so lucky lights in coconino national forest from atl hudrat my husband and i moved into our camper van back in october and our first stop was to visit family in west texas then move on to arizona for a music festival after the festival ended we decided to hang around tucson for a bit and see the gym and mineral show before heading north to flagstaff then to the grand canyon while heading to the grand canyon we found an awesome boondocking spot in the coconino national forest it was on this small forest service road that only had two spots on it and one was occupied by a man and his young son who i assumed were spending the day in sedona about 45 minutes away and retiring early to their rv we snagged the last spot before crossing which was awesome it was perched up on this hill that had been leveled at the top you could see all the mountain ranges surrounding you with the ranch fence next to us the ranch was over the next mountain in the valley there were wild cattle around and the landscape was absolutely breathtaking i spent most of my day just staring out at it it's an extremely remote place as well which we love because we love stargazing and privacy we go to bed early most evenings around sunset waking up around sunrise with a middle of the night bathroom break we woke up and walked outside for our bathroom break and could not believe the stars they looked wonderful we went back to bed and agreed to stay another night just to see the stars again even better the following day we spent listening to music and raw counting and taking in the landscape i kept looking at this one particular ridge telling my husband that a bright light was shining on it almost like a strobe he looked and it was gone it wasn't something i thought of until i saw it a few times again and then i became concerned as a wilderness first responder maybe there was a hiker out there who was stranded on the ridge trying to get our attention but the areas that the light came from changed much too often for someone to be traveling by foot or bike later that evening after we made dinner we sat outside watching the sunset and decided to go back in the van to hang out while it got dark out then it would be dark enough to really see all the stars and the milky way it was around 10 p.m or 11 p.m we came out and i immediately looked up there was this light that was so bright white and it seemed close i asked if that was the north star and if so how could it be so bright and close to us my husband said he wasn't sure we kept walking around our side looking at the sky and the satellites we went around the van then back to our original spot and looked up immediately we noticed the light was gone but then we began to notice the light again it was moving further away it was a different color now too it was moving rapidly it would jump around almost like a hummingbird but changing color between yellow red and blue i've seen a lot of different phenomena in my life so i wasn't particularly worried or shocked especially since we had just seen the marfa lights which looked similar but with more flowing movements that all changed in the next few moments when the light began to change colors into monochromatic ranges of deep violet and violet blues with magenta it was almost peaceful looking soothing it started moving closer to us changing colors more often blues violets pinks greens it came down to the ground level on the other side of the large juniper i lost my breath at that point the juniper was only a short distance from us and at this point we noticed that it was literally peeking at us from around the juniper just as we had been peeking at it from around our van it moved so much like i guess the way to describe it it was like a curious child and it seemed like the light would have been where the face was and as tall as an average male all of a sudden i realized how close we were to seeing it and i became afraid because i don't think i was ready to see it it's like a big question that's about to be revealed and are you sure you want to know the answer you can't go back the box would be open i may have made a noise or jumped back when the fear set in and this light thing did not like this it got very low to the ground almost cadillac and was looking through the bushes immediately it began to pulsate red the color of aggression it scared the heck out of me to be honest we ran back to the van jumping in and locking the doors our van has this bubble wrap mylor insulation in the windows which we put up in the winter months to keep in the warmth so we couldn't see out of them at that point i didn't want to i was horrified i couldn't catch my breath after we finally calmed down we decided we needed to look what person wouldn't we got out to inspect where the light had been before now seemed empty this was a relief but it also made me wonder if i was making the whole thing up then i looked to my left just beyond the fence to the ranch i noticed several of the same type of lights moving back and forth in greens and blues they were pretty far away so i wasn't so worried and i felt a bit more calm about the situation they were far away enough for some reason i turned towards the ridge i'd been looking at earlier that morning i thought i saw something larger moving in the dark of course i told myself that i was just crazy to disregard it and at that moment a bright light came on but it wasn't a light it was a creature of some sort very similar to something you would imagine from movies that depict alien beings as robots or where machines this machine was large and clearly visible it was shining a light into the valley where we had just seen the blue and green lights it flashed a couple of times and then was gone all the other lights were gone shortly after that and did not come back that night i wish we had thought to grab our phones but the first one happened so rapidly that it didn't at all occur to us to record it though there was quite a bit of strangeness in the photos i had taken during the trip the whistler from spidermilk my family moved out to texas almost five years ago and for most of that time we've lived in a spacious suburban house that we now own i live with my mom younger sister her dog and my two cats this all started the summer of 2016 when the mobile game pokemon go was reaching the height of its hype and popularity despite my extreme dislike of hot weather i wanted to hop on that bandwagon so i'd venture out into the neighborhood while using the app in search of virtual pokemon to catch while out one hot humid afternoon i ran into another kid who turned out to be playing the same game we exchanged greetings and chatted for a while at the local park i'll refer to him as brandon brandon was down to earth upbeat and sweet he clearly wasn't afraid to gush about what games he liked to an otherwise total stranger but i didn't mind his attitude put me at ease we eventually parted ways but i met him several other times during the summer it was a saturday when things in the neighborhood began to get weird in texas the cicadas or cicadas get really loud at certain times of the year they sound like millions of dead leaves rattling in the breeze droning on for hours on end and it's a good thing that i tended to tune it out or else it would have bothered me much more anyway that weekend i hadn't been out playing on the app for a few days i was eager to meet back up with brandon and the occasional other kid that i'd run into now and again i was out walking for probably a little over an hour before i finally found brandon jumping down the three steps from what must have been his house he saw me straight away waved and jogged over we hung out and played the game for a while but the sun was beginning to get low in the sky so i was getting ready to tell him i had to head back home soon although i knew the neighborhood fairly well my mother wouldn't be happy if i came back after dark but i didn't get the chance to bring it up before both of us stopped in our tracks facing the end of a road where it opened up into a small field a private property a shrill noise had just come from somewhere in the distance now i'm not a superstitious person at all i enjoy a good scary story now and then like everyone else but i didn't actually fear anything magical or supernatural i'm a logical person brandon on the other hand was clearly on edge the sound had been short but the way it had cut through the dull distant noise of traffic that was certainly strange you good i piped up after a minute nudging the kid and he nodded quickly i'm fine it just reminded me of what my baby brother used to say his little brother was named tim i tilted my head what did he used to say brandon shrugged acting just a little too overly nonchalant about it it's dumb never mind but of course i continued to pastor him until he finally hung his head giving a dramatic sigh okay okay well tim used to have bad dreams because of something he heard from the kids next door they were just saying it to mess with them after i didn't respond staring at my friend in anticipation he rolled his eyes my god fine tim said they told him about these rules two of them and they're only for this neighborhood i snorted what rules like homeowners association keeping your lawns tidy brandon shook his head no more like uh well creepy rules and it's more for the tracks than the actual neighborhood to clarify the tracks are the old abandoned train tracks that run next to the neighborhood going right past the cul-de-sac we were currently standing in i had walked it many times before even crossing the bridge over the river below and exploring the surrounding dirt paths which people frequented often to hang out and be stupid in i had never feared that area but that's just me it was definitely horror movie material don't get me wrong a seemingly endless track in either direction surrounded by tall trees and covered in rust sometimes graffiti there it even used to be a train there sitting motionless but that had been removed at some point for what reason and by whom i have no idea brandon explained the two creepy rules to me rule number one never whistle after sun down rule number two don't look behind you i laughed when he said that and so did he though he seemed more nervous about it getting serious i reassured him that no whistling monster could possibly be out there and that people were always looking for some legend to be scared of or something other to believe in brandon seemed to calm down at that and i had to head home since the sun was about to set as i mentioned i come to the tracks often to explore and to be in nature so i headed there around noon one day sometime in july i was already overheated but i was determined to find this one pokemon i was looking to get like so many times before i was met with the hum of cicadas as i gradually left the asphalt of the neighborhood for the bumpy terrain of the tracks i walked for roughly half an hour skipping the bridge in favor of heading down one of the dirt paths by the river's edge i sat near the water for a while switching between pokemon go and my social media apps as time passed by i wasn't aware how close to sunset it was until i spotted the time on my phone getting to my feet i took a drink of water from my metal canteen trying to conserve a last sip for the walk back that's when i got a notification on my phone brandon had sent me a gift on my pokemon app i didn't open it just yet i was actually reminded of those rules he had talked about and despite my skepticism i was curious and definitely scatterbrained i was curious enough to wonder what would happen if i broke those rules you could probably guess i'd be the first to be ended in a horror film so i text my mom to let her know i was heading back but since i was further out than usual i'd be back a little after dark she wasn't happy about it but she sternly reminded me to manage my time better next time so at least i'd avoided a real scolding having bought myself some time i pulled up snapchat on my phone hitting record hey brandon i said i'm about to myth bust those kids rules right now i told the camera and then proceeded to whistle a nursery rhyme i think it was the itsy bitsy spider i waited in silence after not a single scary thing occurred as expected i turned the camera toward myself and sarcastically raised an eyebrow before ending the video i sent it to brandon and started walking back to the neighborhood weirdly enough the noise of cicadas had died down significantly but i figured i just hadn't noticed it until now having been previously distracted so i didn't think much of it besides even if it had been sudden the worst things out here were deer coyotes and maybe even the occasional hobo so i wasn't really worried then something like a crack came from behind me i turned and looked guess that was two rolls down now but there was nothing that i could see behind me i do remember shivering though even the most level-headed people can't shake paranoia sometimes so i picked up the pace the nursery rhyme i'd whistled earlier stuck on a rather annoying loop in my head as i clutched my water canteen in case some crazed individual tried to attack me and then just as i rounded a bend and saw the streetlights of my neighborhood there was another noise something dry and hollow sounding like the howling of wind except this wasn't wind this was more like a long strained deco changing its tune subtly in the middle almost like a whistle at that point i was scared but i didn't take off running fearing i'd attract the attention of whatever had made the sound this place felt taboo like it belonged to someone or something else suddenly i was quite sure that i wasn't supposed to be here my hands were starting to shake my anxiety was wrapping up until it felt like it coiled itself into my guts ready to explode with adrenaline at the slightest snap of a twig however there was no snap to speak of no more sounds no more whistling howls but i could see movement ahead of me in the tree line to my left between me and the streetlights trees bushes being pushed just slightly just enough to be visible i don't know why but i crouched down on the train tracks sudden movements from me seemed like a bad idea no matter how much my body was screaming at me to bolt at first the shape that stepped out of the bushes looked very much like a bear a shaggy grayish brown body it was certainly long enough maybe larger although i wasn't sure there were any bears in texas as far as i knew of course it wasn't a bear at all because as it turned out moving in the way that an ape or a man might move but on all fours my gaze fell on a thing that was the furthest possible entity from a bear it was hairless for one thing it had an emaciated pale body with some animal hide stretched across its back as if it were armor its head was covered by what appeared to be a dear skull but i can plainly see that a grisly deformed face and bust were hiding right underneath all bony and stretched out milky white eyes a stark contrast to the shadow the skull cast and the only feature of its real face i could make out the thing rose up the grimy pelt the skinned animal dragging in the dirt as it did head twitching as it looked around by some miracle it didn't seem to see me at all so i didn't move i wanted very much to cry to be anywhere but here but i didn't move an inch not until the creature fell back onto all fours skinny limbs splayed out like a spider's it was then that it raised its head and i could see its actual jaw moving as it opened its real mouth under the skull it was awful the sound that it made especially up close i knew it had been what it called out earlier but up close i could hear the snarl underneath the otherwise soothing eerie howl this creature it was a predator and it had nearly found me like a bat finding a moth by a sick dangerous game of marco polo eventually the thing crawled back into the brush but i didn't dare move until i saw it scale a large tree and jump out of sight i crouched the whole way until the street light and sprinted back home from there needless to say i haven't been back there alone since i never told brandon about it but as he didn't open my teasing message i assume he got rid of the app i'd sent it on long ago so that didn't matter much here's a tip kids rules are there for a reason don't break them and for god's sake do not whistle after sundown bigfoot in gaston oregon from ryan [Music] it was around eight or so in the evening when i had my encounter it happened a long time ago i was eight years old and had recently gone into foster care i remember this sighting as if it happened yesterday i was over at a family friend's house for dinner they live out in gaston oregon and have a hazelnut orchard the trees in the orchard are about 10 to 15 feet tall they had two boys that my brother and i were having a nerf gun war with because of how big the grounds were my brother and i were standing by the back end of the house my brother noticed something down in the orchard ryan he said a bit freaked out look i followed his gaze and saw what he was staring at there was a tall figure walking in between the trees it stood close to the top of them that's just how colossal it was i would guess it was about 10 feet tall maybe just a bit shorter we stood there but i began to panic it's bigfoot i shouted to my brother who was trying to keep his cool be quiet he said the bigfoot paused for a moment before continuing on its way it was probably going back up into the hills to hunt before returning to the valley the next day it was a quick but creepy encounter of mine i've been criticized over my sighting but i've had people fully believe my story as well so if you're ever in gaston oregon be on the lookout for a bigfoot it hunts me from raw brett 260. i'm 17 years old and live in romania i live with my grandparents because they're sick and need someone to take care of them the story begins last year in october the first day i moved out here my grandmother helped me unpack my stuff and she began to tell me the rules of the house she explained to me that i needed to feed the animals to help her around the house and things like that but one of these roles caught my attention she told me to never under any circumstances leave open the back porch at night i thought it was strange but i shrugged it off as just another inoffensive rule days went by the farm life got to me and i began to like it one night i finished up my chores around the house i went out to smoke a cigarette it was pitch black at the time i went closer to the back porch because my grandparents didn't know that i smoked a few minutes passed and i was beginning to get cold out of nowhere i began to smell sulfur and iron like something was decaying nearby the smell grew stronger and stronger i knew something was wrong but the curiosity got the best of me and i wanted to see what was going on all of a sudden something crashed into the fence to my right when i turned around my blood ran cold there over the fence i saw the silhouette of a head but the two things that made me froze were that the head appeared to have horns and that fence was seven feet tall this thing was at least a foot and a half taller than that the next thing i knew i was running like a bat out of heck when i made it back inside i was pale as a ghost when my grandmother saw me she knew right away what had happened she sat next to me and began to tell me that that thing has been haunting the farm for years and that was the reason that she told me the rule about the porch because that thing would only enter if it was left open she told me that that was the thing that was behind my grandfather's death my grandfather was found dead at the edge of the farm and everyone blamed the population of wolves around the area well everyone except my grandmother she told me that one night my grandfather was working around the house he forgot the back porch and left the door open around 11 pm that night grandmother heard him scream the only thing that she saw was a tall and skinny figure running away all the while dragging my grandfather by the head she wanted to tell that to someone but everyone thought that she was crazy old or senile but i've seen it now i believe her i've seen it since then and every time i look at it it shakes me to my very core but in a different way i think i'm getting used to it crack snap run from lucky runner this was no normal camping trip i knew that as soon as we got to the site me and my two sisters decided to go on a camping trip in manitoba canada i'm the middle sister and the most outgoing but not foolishly so when we got to the small campsite we noticed how the only people there was a family who was already leaving it was the beginning of the weekend the family even told us that it wasn't a good idea to stay there apparently a series of strange sounds and noises had scared them away but they didn't really specify what it sounded like before driving away in their van we were a bit put off by this but stubbornly set up camp determined to have a good time together we went on a walk together down one of the trails and i decided to climb a tree much to my younger and elder sisters chagrin not being afraid of heights and not following my silly idea of having fun in the forest but while i was up there i heard large noises far off down the path my sisters heard this as well the noise we presumed could be a bear or moose or another dangerous animal i'd climbed very high up in the tree when i was trying to show off with film being nervous about the large rustling sounds and the grunts in the distance they were calling for me to come down quickly i told them to book it back to camp as my descent was a little slow on account of me trying to be safe i told him i'd wait for whatever animal was to pass then i would follow my way back to camp i'd like to point out that it was nearly twilight that's when the animals out here move around going back to where they want to sleep or the night creatures beginning to stir they agreed after complaints from my older sister you know the basic you're an idiot and you better not fall before they steadily drogged away i went down a little farther than sat still when the noise was almost near me through the tree leaves i saw something that changed my perspective on life a massive wolf that looked stretched and skeletal it was on the path sniffing my head hurt with how hard it was pumping when that thing sniffed right up to the tree i was in i didn't dare move it looked around then up bright yellow eyes stared at me then the creature stood up on two legs like a person a scream was caught in my throat and i tried to climb up higher again to get as much distance between me and that thing i tore off branches and chucked them down at the base of the tree hoping to drive it away i heard a grunt and it stepped back from the tree then spoke in a voice so similar to my sisters yet not you're an idiot you better not fall the words were more drawn out than how my sister had said it almost like it was trying to get the right pronunciation by speaking so slow that redoubled my terror and i chucked more and more of this tree down at the thing it paced around the tree staring at me then i thought it decided i wasn't worth the effort and walked off into the dim forest after a few minutes i descended once again and once i reached the bottom i looked around before making a final jump to the mossy forest floor as soon as i landed i heard a crack from up a tree beside the one i was in i looked up and the thing was up there looking down with a predatory gaze i mouthed the word how because i had no idea how it could have gotten up there so silently without me hearing it snapped a branch and appeared to be preparing to jump and my brain screamed to run i was a long distance runner in high school winning a lot of races and i go on nightly runs every week but when i say record time i will always think of this moment as i bolted down the path dodging trees and jumping rocks i could hear the breath of the thing as it raced along beside me and i know it was a race for my life after 10 minutes i broke from the trees into the campground covered in tens of scratches from my panic in the trees and the desperate run through the woods i saw my sisters laughing beside the tent playing that game where you put your hand behind your back and you have to touch the other person my beeline for them screaming for them to jump into the car they saw the blood running down my arms and legs and when they saw their brave middle sister bleeding and running at them screaming to get in the car they did not hesitate they were inside yelling to know what happened my older sister was in the front seat the younger one waiting with the door open for me to jump in but the questions died out when they saw what was following me i've never seen such fear in their eyes i jumped into the car and my older sister slammed on the gas she peeled off down the dirt road trail leaving all our camp equipment behind it was getting dark now and my sister weaved down the trail in our crappy silver car like a pro honestly i was surprised how calm she was we hit the main road and she sped all the way to a gas station she pulled into the parking lot and they immediately grilled me so i told them everything we don't really keep stuff from each other we've always been straight up honest even when it was hurtful sad or in this case terribly horrifying it felt like they may not have believed me completely concerning the part where it talked in my sister's voice it clearly disturbed her when i told her about it we were confused on if we should call someone like the police what do you even do in this sort of situation my younger sister was trying to stop the bleeding from the cuts on my arms and legs and my face i had an especially bad cut on my eyebrow that only bled more after my adrenaline left me we were still in the woods even if we were at a gas station the place was located off a minor backwoods highway and we decided a 200 walmart tent and some sleeping bags were not worth our lives to go back for we luckily didn't put our bags with our cell phones and cameras and the expensive stuff into the tents yet so those were fine we do like to make sure our clothes and things are safe and stay dry if it ever rains while camping my older sister being logical decided to call the cops to make a report that there was a dangerous animal that drove us from the campsite the authorities met us at the gas station after a couple of hours we made our statement we thought it was a bear this is what we said so that we didn't appear crazy the cops went back to collect our things for us but they came back with nothing just a few pieces of shredded fabric they closed off the campsite and the forest rangers were called in but they never found a bear it's been four years now and we talk about it to our families we still haven't gone back to that campsite to whatever wolf-like creature thing that was out there i never want to see you again nor those menacingly yellow eyes but you're not gonna stop us from camping even if we have to go somewhere else the night watcher from james y this happened to me maybe 20 years back i was just out of high school and was visiting my grandparents who lived on a farm in southeastern oklahoma close to the ouachita national forest the farm was always a peaceful place to visit you could just sit on the porch swing out front and it seemed like all your troubles from home had melted away lots of cousins lived nearby and they would always come over we'd have huge country breakfasts then some would break out their guitars and start singing truly felt like a magical place well until the sun went down growing up if i ever went outside at my grandparents farm at night i always got this creepy feeling a feeling like something was watching me from the nearby woods i would often have nightmares of something coming out of those woods to get me many nights sleeping in the living room on the hide of bed noises in the night would stir my imagination as if something was walking around on the front porch little did i know that one day something would indeed come out of that forest and make its presence known one late day in my late teens early twenties i was lying on the bed listening to music in the back bedroom which we referred to as the back porch a room was later added onto the house which was big enough for two full-sized beds it was then that i heard a scream or howl something ungodly and otherworldly coming from outside it was unlike anything i'd ever heard before i can't even describe how scary it sounded it was loud and it echoed through the hills whatever it was just kept screaming it was close possibly even in the backyard i jumped up and ran into the living room my mom and everyone else was busy chatting and making supper to give you an idea of my mom and pretty much everyone else for that matter if you were to bust in and say you heard a strange noise outside they would just say and go back to what they were doing if you said i saw something strange in the sky or i saw some weird creature in the forest they'd say and go back to what they were doing so knowing this about my family i rolled my eyes and i decided to investigate for myself i walked out the back door with nothing but a camera okay okay i was young and stupid but i was on a mission and i was convinced that whatever was making this sound it was something that probably hasn't been seen very many times by man i thought if i could get a glimpse of it a picture of it i could report it somewhere as a little bit of proof of strange creatures that lurk in the woods whatever it was it was moving away from me the screaming continued and i followed it through the backyard through the nearby pasture and then into the woods deeper and deeper i followed this thing into the what each moment becoming more and more perplexed as to what that thing could be what an idiot i thought this thing could be a mountain lion a panther who the heck knows what i could get mauled out here but at least i could take a picture of whatever that was that was about to kill me i guess but was the thing running for me was it luring me deeper into the forest and then i realized that the sun was going down great i thought it's going to get dark in a bit and i'm stuck out in the middle of the woods with this thing so i turned around and headed for home always hearing that screaming in the distance behind me by the time i made it back to the edge of the forest and made it into open pasture it was pretty dark and i didn't even have a flashlight to light my way luckily i made it safely back to the house maybe a night or two later i was staying a couple of nights with my cousin billy who lived just up the hill from my grandparents i don't remember how this started but billy decided and here comes me being stupid number two that in the middle of the night we would wake up walk out the back door down the hill through the pasture and go for a dip in one of my grandfather's ponds never mind that there were water moccasins and copperheads but whatever and for maybe three or four nights in a row we did this wake up in the middle of the night go to the back door walk down the hill walk through the pasture go for a dip then get out walk back through the pasture up the hill again then go back to sleep on about the fifth night billy said don't wake me up tonight just let me sleep you can go swimming if you want but i don't want to go tonight alright i said so that night i just went alone in the dark down to the pond oh lordy it wasn't long before i got creeped out and just got out of the pond i was making my way back across the open pasture when i caught something out of the corner of my eye there was someone else with me in that pasture it was very dark so i couldn't get a good look at it but it was tall and thin and it stood on two legs i immediately froze in fear what was it there wouldn't be any reason for a person to be out in this pasture at this hour okay well anyone other than me i figured this was it everyone's gonna find my dead body out in this field in the morning i don't want to go out like this i managed to squat down onto my haunches trying to get a better look at the thing the moon was in the background so i was hoping i could use it to shed more light on what this could possibly be the thing just stood there it didn't move and i was too afraid to move myself i managed to stand up again i really couldn't see it very well all i knew was that i had to get out of there finally i found enough courage where i could slowly start moving away beginning to head back to the road leading up the hill after a waze i quickened my pace and i made it back up steadily climbing terrified that whatever this thing was it would be following me and any minute it would grab me from behind and it all would be over i prayed under my breath please don't let it get me please back at my cousin's house i ran inside and locked the door behind me i got dressed and went back to bed billy was still asleep there but i didn't sleep the rest of the night the following day i told billy about what i'd seen the night before we went down the hill to the pond and retraced my steps through the pasture there were absolutely no trees and no posts of any kind within that pasture that i would have mistaked for a creature of some kind it was literally an open field with nothing much higher than a blade of grass so what was it that i saw that night maybe a night or two later i was back sleeping on the back porch at my grandparents house i was sleeping in the bed with windows above my head and to my right my cousin sarah slept in the other bed to my left i was awakened in the middle of the night by something tapping or knocking on the window above my head instantly the fear returned there were no lights in the backyard it was completely pitch black so there would be no reason for anyone to be out there tapping on my window i didn't see any light from a flashlight either if it was a person to what end would they be tapping on the window and at this hour even more so how did this thing know my exact location within the house i could have been sleeping in any number of beds in the house but no there it was tapping on the window above my head the fear that i felt is uncontrollable you can't move you can't speak you can't breathe i prayed again that it would go away but it continued to tap and the fear rose even higher i heard it walk on two legs around the side of the house pacing as if wondering what to do it came back to the same window when tapped again my heart was about to beat out of my chest if anyone could die of fear alone i felt pretty close to it i literally could not move to get help or scream out i dared not look out the blinds then again it may have been too dark to see anything what seemed like an eternity passed before it finally left but i stayed awake the entire night too afraid to sleep only when i saw the sunlight creeping in was i able to close my eyes i told everyone about it the next morning no one really gave it much thought though my cousin billy came down and we went to the backyard by the window it had been knocking at i wanted to see how tall it would have been to reach the window i was freaked out and no one really listened to me except for my cousin roger he was 20 years older than me he said that when he was a kid roger and another cousin of mine were sleeping on the back porch when they were awakened by something tapping on the window which freaked them out so bad that they still remembered it this mirrored my story what is this thing that's been around the property for at least the past 50 years now and what does it want i didn't spend too many more nights there on the farm my grandparents soon were moved to a nursing home and passed away thereafter and under strange circumstances the house was demolished in a fire i tried to share my story with the bfro or bigfoot field researchers organization but they didn't publish my story or return my call or email i guess they thought it was too unbelievable but was it really a bigfoot it was far too thin compared to reports i've heard and it didn't sound anything like the recordings i've heard was it some sort of creature like the rake a windigo perhaps i'm starting to think this could have been what i experienced all i know is that these instances happened and it scared the heck out of me i don't care who does or doesn't believe me i just know what i experienced there's something in those woods and maybe it didn't want us there or maybe it was just curious but apparently it's been there a long time i believe somewhere deep within those woods in southeastern oklahoma it's still there what i saw in the siberian tundra from russian werewolf 756 i live in moscow russia last summer in 2019 i got an invitation from my grandfather who lived pretty much in the middle of nowhere in the siberian tundra i was going to be spending a week with him in june after all i wasn't about to go in the winter to siberia as temperatures can plunge to minus 40 degrees after my grandfather divorced my grandmother who now lives in moscow with the rest of my family he took it to his head to move to the siberian wilderness to a cabin he had owned even before he had met my grandma there he could hunt alone explore the woods in peace at least that's how he put it after a 10 hour train ride to the village of malda i met my delighted grandfather as he awaited me even as a 59 year old man he was very healthy and enjoyable on the ride to the gabon we conversed as if we had been together forever i was getting more and more excited at every moment my grandfather discussed his plans we would hunt two days that week hike in the deep woods fish in the nearby creeks as we pulled down the gravel driveway i sat there stunned there was no civilization to be seen anywhere else and there was just miles and miles of trees his cabin set in a grove of neatly lined trees the site looked welcoming as for the cabin itself it was small but cozy it was built of red bricks and there were about four windows lining it there was a front porch with two rocking chairs and i figured that me and my grandfather would watch the stars on some nights the inside was very nice with two cozy rooms a spacious kitchen and a nice living room with a tv i unpacked and decided to step outside my grandfather told me to wait a little bit that he would have a meal of venison and vegetables on the table soon i stayed up to about 12 o'clock my grandpa had gone to bed at about 11 but i chose to watch some tv for a while after watching a football game what we call soccer here of course i was getting ready to hit the sack when i heard somewhere in the distance a loud and long howl [Music] it was like someone was being torn limb from limb howling out in pain but my grandfather told me that we had wolves in the area all in all it was actually exciting to hear one but still i felt something was wrong but i pushed it to the back of my mind the following day my grandfather took me hunting for bighorn sheep we traveled along the hills my grandfather warned me to stay as close to him as possible there were wolves and other predators about i inquired about siberian tigers but my grandfather told me there weren't as many in the area they were bound to be more north after a long day grandfather managed to bring down a buck not what we were hoping for but good enough we didn't spot any of these bighorn sheep which was strange as my grandfather put it the next few days were filled with adventure fishing in the creeks and drilling in salmon that would last us a good while we trekked in the woods for most of the days finally spotting bighorn sheep on a day that we didn't bring any hunting gear on the second to last night i was to spend in that cabin that was when all heck broke loose at about one in the morning i woke up to the sound of howling darned wolves i muttered as i sat up in my bed but as i listened i realized there was something different about this sort of howl it was deeper like it came directly from the animal's gut [Music] if this animal was a wolf it had to be a big one wide awake now i rubbed my eyes and cautiously stepped out of my room i wondered if my grandfather was awake to my surprise i passed his room and saw him fast asleep i tiptoed into his room and took out his remington 700. that animal sounded close but i thought i would open the door and just peek out see if i could adjust the scope and maybe catch a glimpse of this animal perhaps scare it away too as i carefully opened the cabin door the howl seemed to get louder it sounded deafening i was wondering how in the world my grandfather wasn't awake now silly me i should have woke him up but being naive and brave i felt i could take this thing myself if it came down to it as i fully stepped outside and carefully shut the door behind me i saw that it was a full moon the moon was very bright illuminating the world in front of me i noticed the area around was quiet i then had a sudden urge to look to my left i had this strong sensation something was watching me there to the left side of me and merely poking out from behind a large birch tree i saw a face this face looked like a wolf's but the problem was it appeared a good eight feet off the ground the moon illuminated its eyes which were glowing yellow the head of the creature was pure white and it was impossible not to stare at it i raised the gun but i didn't need the scope i had a clear view of the creature in front of me then it stepped out from the tree it was solid white all over a good seven or eight feet tall sure it looked like a wolf but wolves don't stand on two legs these legs were very muscular as were its arms the thing had claws that could rip off your flesh easily then the creature opened its mouth and howled the same howl i had heard the previous night it was so deep and guttural i was so terrified that i just fired at it not knowing if i hit it or not i simply ran and opened the cabin door and shoved it back closed after going inside i locked it and then i heard my grandfather's voice what's the matter grandson he said but in russian of course he was very obviously worried as he saw the gun in my hands and my terrified expression there there's something outside i leaned on the door trying to hear what was going on out there suddenly i heard it scratching on the door it was loud and then we heard a loud growling coming from the opposite side of the door it sounded so low and i thought it was trying to talk i was shaking almost falling to the floor and my grandfather's face was pale he returned with an ar-15 not long after what's it doing here i heard him ask himself why i looked over to him what do you mean i then realized that the scratching and growling had stopped it was all quiet and then a couple of seconds later we heard the howl again but it sounded distant that thing it has been here for as long as i can remember my grandfather explained it's eaten sheep and deer and left their mutilated bodies near my house and by the tree line in the woods that never leaves me alone grandpa i think we need to leave i said the two of us stayed awake for the rest of the night guarding the door but when the first rays of sunlight streamed through the curtains my grandfather told me to pack my things he drove me to malta then stayed with me until the train that would take me to moscow came i tried to persuade him to come with me but he insisted that the place was his home and he had no intention to leave when i arrived in moscow my family was surprised understandably so i wasn't due to return for another day i explained that grandpa had some complications at the cabin and it was for the best that i was sent home i did tell them i enjoyed my trip though which was true until the last night as for the end of this story well i believe the creature to have been a siberian werewolf a monster that has been seen in the siberian tundra according to my research and as for my grandfather i've talked to him on and off but every time i pick up the phone he sounds well more sad weaker every time we talk i spoke with him a few days ago over the phone but he barely spoke above a whisper he told me everything was fine and that he was just feeling under the weather i feel like this creature is getting the best of him and i'm wondering if my dear grandpa will survive another month there i need to do something and fast i feel scared for my grandpa's life and i would do whatever it takes to make that thing leave my grandfather alone my grandpa has so much to offer the world creature in grand portage minnesota from mel 756 let me start by telling you that grand portage is one of the most rural places in minnesota and it's at the northernmost tip of the state the population is about 722 i think at most and it's on the shores of lake superior it is indeed a very beautiful hamlet we have hunting areas and great places to fish on the lake in the winter you can see the northern lights at times which always keeps me and my family awake when we can see them i live in a decently sized house at the edge of the woods and a couple of meters from the water every day you can either take a hike in the beautiful woods or go to the lake which is the family swimming pool basically as for me i'm a 30 year old mother with two children and a husband we've lived in the area our entire lives we've loved it forever and have no intention of moving even after the most terrifying moment of my life it happened one fall day around november i think it was november i had decided to take a walk in the woods by myself it was around 6 pm and the sky was beginning to darken i didn't mind i had walked in the woods hundreds of times at dusk or even the pitch black knight nothing ever happened to me i didn't realize that that night would change my opinion of these woods forever i zipped up my coat and walked outside i breathed in the fresh air and the crisp air made me feel at ease my husband goes hunting and fishing in these woods from time to time and he had taught me all the paths in the woods i took the path leading to the deep woods and i wasn't worried as i said i'd been taught these paths thoroughly so i knew them like the back of my hand as i was walking i saw the occasional rabbit and chubby squirrel and i was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a doe and her fawn under the darkening sky as i walked further into the woods i suddenly picked up that all the sounds in the woods had stopped no insects chirping no footsteps of the nighttime animals i was confused but when i would hunt with my husband he told me that it was because a predator was near coyotes wolves and the occasional bear there were also moose in these woods and since these woods sort of connected with a grand portage state park i was sure there were hundreds of them suddenly i heard an ear piercing whale i had never heard something like that in all the years of my life no animal in these woods could make a sound like that not even one of those screech owls i picked up on the smell of decay right after that like rotting flesh and decaying fish i pressed my fingers over my nose and gagged there must have been a very dead animal around here i realized then that i heard soft footsteps coming my way but for right now they were to the left i turned but saw nothing gradually the footsteps grew louder and i turned to run but tripped on a piece of bark i then heard something that i would never forget my five-year-old son's voice was calling me from the right just behind a couple of big oak trees mommy mommy is that you come here i found something cool i wrinkled my face in confusion my son was obviously not out here he was in bed at this time of night furthermore he would not come out here alone he would easily get lost or hurt in these woods the voice repeated the same thing again not changing in tone or speed the voice was my son's but it was all wrong too it seemed as if someone had recorded his voice and played it with static i was panicking and as i got up the thing responsible for talking in my son's voice stepped out from behind one of the oak trees it was about six feet tall a bit taller than me it was lanky too the thing's face was horrible it had the deepest black eyes i'd ever seen and i knew those two eyes were staring at me it had no nose but its mouth was huge its skin was pale gray with white it had no hair on its head and i could see ribs protruding from its sides its arms were super thin as were its legs but for some reason it looked strong suddenly it did what i could only describe as a smile this smile chilled me so much that it felt as if 100 cold fronts were going over my body the thing had jagged white teeth slowly its mouth seemed to expand even wider making its mouth almost too big for its face then it did something that scared me ever more it spoke in my seven-year-old daughter's voice saying mommy it's cold let's go home i managed to let out a scream as i bolted down the path that led back to the house i ran with everything i had but i knew that thing was behind me because i heard raspy breathing along with rapid footsteps it released a series of ear piercing whales and shrieks but i did not turn around as i made it to the clearing i heard the thing stop i no longer heard footsteps but that didn't slow me from bolting up the porch steps and opening the door i slammed it closed and locked it behind me my husband surprised asked me what was wrong he was coming out of the kitchen with a bowl of oatmeal he must have seen the fear on my face as i pulled down the shades of all the windows of the house when i regained my composure i managed to sit down and talk with them to my surprise he believed me admitting that on some hunts he had heard shrieks coming from deeper in the woods i did a lot of research and the closest thing i could come up with was either a windigo or a rake or something all i can tell you is this story is true but whoever does or doesn't believe it it doesn't matter to me i know what i saw i know what i heard it wasn't a bear or anything of the like i never go out at night anymore and even in broad daylight i carry one of my husband's hunting rifles just in case something in the woods of new jersey from dm51722 i used to live in chatsworth new jersey there was a forest nearby about a five-minute walk away from the house it was three years ago when i was 18. i loved to go adventuring in it with friends but once in a while i would go in alone this incident that would haunt me forever happened on a saturday during the summer on that occasion i decided to go camping with my friends whose names i'll just refer to as anc we hung out for a while at my house playing video games and watching tv i remember that a had this strange liking for peanut butter and oatmeal so he went to the kitchen to make some while she and i stuck to cold cuts and snacks eventually after two hours of eating and playing video games we started out towards the woods in my truck joking and laughing entering the woods we spotted a few snakes and deer sea even saw a rabbit we eventually parked and started walking after a full day of this we were too tired to make our way back to the area that we were supposed to set up camp in so we decided to set up camp where we were we all had our own tents so i decided to set my tent in a small clearing right by a small creek it was only a one minute walk away from anc so i wasn't worried before we went to sleep we sat around the campfire telling jokes and eating junk food at one in the morning we finally got tired enough to go to bed i wish i could have kept that same good mood but fate had other plans i fell asleep at around 1 30 and slept until i was awakened i heard splashing and a twig snapping outside it was still dark out i was immediately creeped out i thought it may have been a black bear bears in general can be dangerous i slowly worked up the nerve to look outside and i saw a goat it was a goat drinking out of the creek but there was something weird about it the goat had black patches on its back that looked like skin at first i thought it was hurt or deformed or even mangy or something but seeing how calm it acted i wasn't so sure then in a split moment it looked directly at me and gave out this crazy yelp that sounded like a cross between a bat chittering and a goat bleeding then it unfolded these weird black patches and i realized they were wings like bat wings and it began to fly i screamed like a baby and ran to where a and c were sleeping to wake them up at first they were annoyed and they said poor baby did you have a nightmare but then they saw the look on my face saw how serious i was and sobered up they both got up and i yelled at them that we needed to get out of there that i would explain later so we ran back towards the edge of the woods where my truck was waiting i was sobbing the entire time c offered to drive and i got in the back seat screaming at him to step on the gas a got in the passenger seat i had calmed down a little by the time we got to my house c and day demanded that i tell them what happened and i told them they both insisted that i was either dreaming or just crazy but i know what i saw the next morning i got up fired up my mac and did some research and what it could have been and i'm pretty sure i saw the jersey devil just don't go adventuring in the chatsworth what creatures in the brazilian rainforest from sss 123 i'm 24 years old i took a trip to the amazon rainforest in brazil four years ago i was going with a couple of friends g and f we had managed to score a trip there thanks to f's parents who were loaded [Music] we were ecstatic about the trip it would just be us three guys we thought we could manage ourselves if we had the help of some guides we'd be traveling from our small alabama town to brazil the flight overall i think was about 22 hours we left in the afternoon and we ended up getting there at three or four in the afternoon the next day and we couldn't help but sleep much of the way when we woke up we were already descending we could see the rio de janeiro airport below us so i took a couple of pictures by then i was wide awake g and f were coming too as well we were desperately praying that the descent would be fast so we could get on the ground and once we had landed we collected our bags and soon found our taxi waiting for us the guy in the car spoke no english so we showed him the map we had he knew where we were going the car ride itself took another hour and our destination was some very remote village where our guide francisco was waiting for us francisco was an interesting character about 30 years old and had wavy brown hair with dark brown eyes he seemed like the type that did not put up with any crap and he wore the most serious expression on his face the three of us shook his hand one at a time now francisco spoke in broken english but it wasn't so bad that we couldn't understand but i'll make it clear here whenever he speaks he gradually opened up to us and got used to us he planned to take us deep into the rainforest to some lagoons and the amazon river itself we were hoping to see some big snakes and other bizarre animals we were in the village of iguape a neat little quiet place where all the people were warm and friendly francisco's family themselves welcomed us giving us spacey rooms for the night we had a delicious meal of beans and rice along with some very delicious chicken followed by some sweets that i don't really remember too well the next morning g shook me awake along with f telling us to get our lazy rears up and i quickly got dressed and minutes later francisco came in and told us to go the car ride to the lagoon was 20 minutes since iguape was roughly full of rainforest itself this lagoon was small and by the time we stepped out of the car the insects and birds greeted us the humidity was great and the three of us guys were getting rowdy with excitement but francisco calmed us down for a moment he warned us to pay close attention to him stating we are spending two nights with a tribe called the guarani they are the friendly tribe and i've already contacted them i replied well thank god they're friendly but aren't there isolated dangerous tribes here francisco answered me whatever you do stay close to the village if you decide to explore a bit but you must stay close and most importantly when we're on the river keep your head down low sometimes they may fire arrows at us but don't worry we're going to be fine gee and daf laughed maybe we'll have shrunken heads by the end of the trip francisco's scowl deepened there's nothing funny my own friend went too far away from the village and was never seen again i know it was no animal because i took a small hunting party out there and we found arrowheads and blood where he'd been going i felt a chill i saw that jeez and daf's faces had darkened too we exchanged glances i realized this could be dangerous but deep down i was still excited and determined to show it when we arrived at the guarani's village we were surprised at their looks they had tattoos and nose rings some wore masks the leader whose name i think was gulan or something along those lines awkwardly shook hands with us as he and francisco conversed in their native language we got to the boat and pretty soon we were speeding down the amazon the scenery was amazing we even saw jaguar staring at us through some trees we saw alligators swimming through the water a couple of minutes later francisco pointed at the water and we nearly dropped our cameras a massive anaconda was gliding through the water we were in shock we had seen the top predators of the amazon in under 20 minutes this place really was as wild as you would imagine this snake in particular must have been over 20 feet long maybe 25 and it was easily 200 pounds slowly it sank under the water then everything went downhill francisco began saying it can't be possible we've seen only the dangerous animals we weren't really sure what he was talking about it was the rainforest there'd be plenty more animals to see right but francisco seemed scared all of a sudden terrified even he began to try to turn the boat around and f started fuming as the three of us weren't ready to leave but francisco suddenly jumped at him putting his hand over f's mouth francisco hissed hush boy these are signals of the wild there's something dangerous here the way he said it made me believe him g must have agreed with me f calmed down but was breathing heavily he seemed mad still seeing francisco act like this i started wanting to head back myself i wanted to have fun and now it was the opposite of that as i was thinking about this i realized something that i hadn't before the rainforest around us went quiet g and death had already picked up on it they were looking around francisco for some reason was breathing heavily suddenly right out of the rainforest we heard the voice of the leader of the guarani that we had just met but that couldn't be possible they had only had the one boat that we were borrowing and we were definitely a good five miles away from the village now the voice spoke in english francisco come here where to save it's dangerous in the water our names were spoken right after his it couldn't have been the same man because their leader did not speak english when we met him but i knew it was his voice gruff and raspy like the leader had plus he rolled his r's when he spoke the voice seemed to boom around us and francisco desperately tried to turn the boat around but it was stuck we couldn't move from our place i was nearly crying at this point we were far from the village we had no radios with us and our phones had no signal out here and worst of all there could be tribes out here who could hurt or even kill us francisco what's happening f asked francisco barely whispered reply it's the mapping i stammered well what is that something clearly didn't want us here and it may be dangerous something like your bigfoot francisco said crouching lower in the boat i knew about the bigfoot legend who hasn't heard of it but i'd never heard stories of them making human-like voices francisco whispered explaining that the mapping guardi hated for people to be in their territory that we were seen as outsiders and it would kill us if it got a hold of us apparently these mapan guardi could be up to 10 feet tall and the natives here were known to pray to them all of a sudden there was a large splash in the water all of us turned toward the sound there i saw the most disturbing thing i'd ever seen some sort of ugly massive thing was wading through the water it really was similar to how you'd imagine the american bigfoot to be but instead of two eyes it had only one large menacing one there were also two large things coming from its mouth that seemed to be about four inches long its arms were massive like if they grabbed a hold of you they could tear you in half with ease this big horrifying thing was coming right for us gee was crying and daph was yelling at francisco who was frantically trying to make the boat turn to hurry the creature was swimming towards the boat screaming in an unnatural way nothing of this world could make a sound like that when it got within 10 feet of the boat it sank under the water i was certain i was going to die then i cried and screamed myself then with a stroke of luck the boat roared alive and we sped out of there at the last second we turned around and saw the creature screaming emerging from below the water back at the village francisco barely talked he contacted a taxi to get us out of there back at the guarani village everyone seemed scared and quiet francisco hit us in one of the rooms and we stayed quiet when the taxi arrived francisco practically shoved us in the car we rode away vowing never to come back we stayed at rio de janeiro the rest of the trip and by the time we made it back home we were still shaken we told our families that the trip was incredible while that was true it wasn't entirely a positive sort of incredible that trip will haunt us for the rest of our lives whatever you do if you plan on going to the rainforest in brazil be careful and know what may be out there skinwalker from the desert from sammy lin i was 16 years old living in nevada i'm active in the rodeo this happened in late winter my brother and a close friend who for the sake of the story i'll call t got permission from the local reservation to use their arena to practice roping we got there early in the morning so we'd have all the time we needed my brother's horse and tees are both very even-tempered and don't spook very easily my mare on the other hand will panic at the slightest of things she can be a handful most of the time to be quite honest since the moment we got there all the horses seemed to be on edge but we shrugged it off and figured once they got to know their surroundings they'd be fine after spending the better part of the day throwing ropes and chasing cattle we decided to go for a trail ride to explore the area by then the horses seem to have calmed down quite a lot now there's a river that runs close to the arena so we decided to go explore down there and check out some animal tracks we had seen earlier once we got about 30 yards from the water we could smell what could only be described as a rotting dead animal then something in the tree line caught the attention of the horses after that of course mine flat out refused to go any further being tired from a long day and frustrated from the horse's lack of cooperation we all decided to call it a day by that time it was too late to load our gear and horses and take them back so we decided it was just best to leave them there for the night and stay at tease as she lived closer than my brother and i we got their stones ready for the night got them fed and watered and headed over to one of t's family's friends who offered to cook us dinner after some good food good laughs and a few games of pool the weird encounter by the river was out of our minds when 9pm rolled around we all wanted to get some sleep but i wanted to check on the horses one last time when i mentioned this t's family friend warned me it was a bad idea to go out there alone at night wanting to respect that t offered to drive down with me we piled into the truck and headed back to the arena it was only half a mile down the road but the roads were very icy so we had to drive slower than what i would have liked before crossing the bridge that went over the river this feeling of dread hit me like a ton of bricks i looked out the window just to be met with these glowing yellow eyes they're hard to describe all i know was that there wasn't enough light hitting them to make them glow like that i'm normally a very rational person but something in my gut told me that this was wrong that's when t turned to me and asked if i smelled that awful smell which i hadn't even noticed until she brought it up when i didn't respond she looked at me then followed my gaze to see the same yellow-wide glare that i was fixated on we were both in terror not knowing what the thing was that was looking at us because from where we set and had to have been at least eight feet tall there are no animals in these parts that are that big i finally came to my senses and hit the gas our truck started sliding but we caught traction and made our way back to the arena when we pulled up and the headlight hit the horses the very first thing i noticed was that my mare hadn't even touched her food and for her that is out of the ordinary she's a bit of a glutton and normally eats more than her fair share the other two hadn't eaten either which again we found odd but being scared and cold we got back in the truck and drove back without incident we got back to tease at about eleven and as soon as our heads hit the pillows we were out like light bulbs i woke up suddenly to my brother grabbing my arm and shaking me i asked what was wrong he put his finger over his mouth and pointed to the window i heard a tapping on the glass and occasional scratching i looked at the clock and it was three am t and i hadn't told him about our encounter at the bridge but it was late and i wasn't going to tell him now just to scare him even more trying to be rational i told him to just ignore it and try to get some sleep but i was convinced it was the thing from the reservation and it had followed us back i didn't sleep for the rest of the night and as soon as the sun was up i woke up t and my brother so we could go get our horses and get home i didn't want my poor girl out there with that thing any longer i told tea about the tapping and scratching so after coffee we went to look by her window for tracks sure enough there was what appeared to be deer hubs but they didn't look like normal deer the way the pattern of hooves were it was like the deer was injured but that still doesn't quite describe it it only seemed like one pair and not two pairs after that i was even more worried about the horses they were all fine but the food and water were still untouched we loaded up and we were out of there as fast as we could as we drove over the bridge one last time i looked into the tree line just to see a massive buck staring back at me this thing was huge and it looked rotten and dead i swear to god i saw skin falling right off of its bones his legs were bent in all weird directions that wasn't even the worst part though the worst was its face because they contained the same yellow eyes that we'd seen the night before i swear this thing smiled at me or something as we drove away revealing a sickening smile with yellow pointed teeth i looked away for a moment only to glance back again and by then the creature was gone i guess it wanted to get one last scare from us i still have so many questions from that night but the only thing i know for sure is that i'm never going back there again well that brings us to the end of today's episode but don't you worry because more scary stories are on the way soon remember if you have a scary experience of your own and you'd like me to narrate it share it with us at darkstories.org check the links below if you want to support the show like and share this video too until next time here are the credits to my amazing patrons who have donated or continue to donate remember stay safe out there and stay creepy because this world is a strange one [Music] siskiyou windigo from wicked windigo a bit of backstory first oregon is home to thousands of long abandoned logging roads nearly 50 of the state is covered in forest and roughly 80 percent is considered timberland by the bureau of land management i moved here when i was 16. my mother and stepfather divorced so i decided to move into southern oregon to live with my biological father i grew up all over central and southern california so the lush dense landscape of southern oregon was a new experience for me it is unbelievably beautiful here we lived in a small two-bedroom home in the middle of a 65-acre plot of land the property bordered the siskiyou national forest you had to drive a good 10 minutes on a narrow dirt road through dense forest to find our driveway the owners were a lovely elderly couple who lived in the area all their lives they lived in a large home at the beginning of the property the elderly gentleman told us we were free to hunt and explore on his land as much as we desired he simply requested that we not go on the blocked logging road that led up to the large mountain to our west we happily agreed seeing no need to ever do such a thing this is my experience i'd been living with my dad for about two months at this point i remember being out of school for the weekend and i loved the weekends i would explore the dense forest with my dad's nine-month-old german shepherd buck i'd even camped overnight a couple of times with buck i decided i wanted to camp again that night so i loaded up my pack with everything i'd need for the overnight trip i asked my dad who was nervous about me camping alone and he reluctantly agreed only requesting that i take the hunting rifle with me black bears and wolves are uncommon here but i saw his reasoning and agreed i said my goodbyes and headed out with buck around 6 pm that night i was still new to the area so i never ventured too far only camping in places i had previously scouted i remembered a nice little clearing to the west so i headed off in that direction i arrived about 30 minutes later the clearing was crescent shaped the middle of the clearing was roughly 30 feet wide more than enough room for my one man tint and a small fire pit i set my pack down and began gathering large rocks and fallen brush for the fire pit i had my tent set up and a small fire blazing about 30 minutes later it was dark at this point buck and i were sitting against a fallen log roasting hot dogs on a large three-pronged fork suddenly i noticed buck's ears perk up he's up on all four legs and staring straight into the dark woods behind us buck was still a pup he hadn't quite learned patience or the dangers of the woods yet so when i heard rustling in the brush and i saw buck dash off after the sounds i wasn't surprised i stood up and called for him he wasn't obeying my commands i started to get worried i knew i'd have to venture away from camp to find him i threw my boots on grabbed my flashlight and strapped my rifle over my shoulder i headed off in the direction buck had gone i was calling his name followed by whistling i then stopped to listen for any sounds for a moment noises that might indicate his location i heard nothing but the crickets and frogs so i pushed on i knew i had to find him my dad would be devastated if something happened to his pup i was about 50 yards from camp then when i noticed deep tire marks in the ground they made a small trail through the trees i remember seeing this before the trail started at the beginning of the property and led up to the abandoned logging road the old man told us about i decided to follow this small truck trail hoping buck had gone that way i walked for about 15 minutes when the dense woods started to thin out the moonlight was shining brightly and i could easily see without my flashlight there was a small gate blocking a one truck length dirt road the road ascended the side of a fairly tall mountain i stood at the gate and called back here boy i waited for about 10 seconds when i heard from the top of the road back here boy my blood ran cold it was like a distorted version of my voice the tone was almost mocking me i slowly began to back away from the gate when i saw something at the top of the road it was on all fours and it slowly crawled out from the treeline bordering the road it was incredibly tall maybe seven feet its limbs slender and long it stood with a hunched back and turned its small head towards me its eyes were large and yellow i was frozen in place my hands sweating and my body trembling suddenly there was a rustling sound behind me i turned to see my dad running towards me with buck close behind i looked back at the road to see a single large male deer standing where the creature had been and it was just staring at us those all too familiar yellow eyes glaring back at me i asked my dad if he saw that he looked up at the road and said yeah that's a fine buck maybe we'll come back tomorrow and track him he hadn't seen the creature we walked back to my campsite i decided not to tell him what happened my dad is a no bs kind of guy and i knew he would not believe me i asked how he had found me he said that buck made his way home and when he saw that i wasn't with the dog he went out to look for me we packed up my camp and headed back home after that i never saw the thing again i still live in southern oregon but i'm far away from what stalks the woods of the siskiyou national forest the girl in the pink leather jacket from who the heck do you think i am i'm a guy who's old enough to know better and still young enough not to care that's my motto anyway or it was until what i'm about to tell you happened beyond drinking i personally do not take any substances but i don't judge or care if you do them whatever you do is your own business but drinking though i'm a fish i can hold my own against the best drinkers all of this is relevant to the story even though i don't indulge in any mind-altering substances i seem to hang out with quite a few people who do so a friend of mine called me informing me of a crazy weekend-long party in the woods coming up when my friends throw a party it's always something that feels like an end of the world event it was late in the fall in upstate new york if you're unfamiliar with upstate new york it is beautiful nothing except for woods in all directions lots of great camping areas it's a nature lover's paradise i'm six foot three and at the time i was a good 220 pounds i got my truck ready a chevy 2500 i cleaned it up first and got it ready to sleep in i like camping but i hate sleeping on the ground so i put two caught mattresses in the back with three pillows and two comforters i filled my coolers up one with food and the other with beer and liquor i said see you later to my dad and hit the road heading off to this party by about 6 pm i showed up i enjoy being fashionably late you see while i'm not afraid of hard work i had no idea if i planned to stay the whole time so i wasn't about to get there and set up all their stuff for them the area in question was down a dirt road way off the beaten path a small open area of trees led to an open area surrounded by trees when i got there i was taken back there had to be over 20 vehicles parked there there were also ten portajohns past the cars on the left next to the wall of trees as i looked to the right i could see people sitting around an area preparing a fire past that was a projector set up to a makeshift white screen i was immediately hit in the face by a stench and a delicious smell at the same time which was from a certain dank plant being smoked and sausages i turned my head to the right more and saw that there were two grills going and they were cooking sausages and burgers sure enough there was a guy cooking on both with a stokey in his mouth i made a sour face inside oh well here we go again i thought dealing with my mentally suppressed friends and their enjoyment of something i still don't understand anyway i pulled my truck in close to where the fire was not giving a crap about how some guy was trying to tell me where to park i smiled as i slid out of my truck towering over him i asked you want a cold beer i don't feel like walking back and forth and i'm not about to carry my cooler any further than i have to he laughed and shook my hand introducing himself at that point i realized i didn't know many of these people i handed him a beer locked my truck and went looking for my friend who had invited me here i found him finishing up his creation of the projector screen i asked him what he planned on showing music my good man music gotta get the ladies in the mood for a good time he thought he was a ladies man and i humor him on it he starts whatever he calls music and lights up a smoke he informs me that way more people are coming and it's going to be a heck of a weekend i light up a smoke and inform him that i'm only here for the ladies he looked out and smiled at where i parked good view from there he said fishing with the right kind of bait too we both had a good laugh fast forward a few hours and it's about 11 pm none of the girls had really piqued my interest i'm picky and have a type for the future misses i go back to my cooler and grab my johnny walker figured i might as well get myself toasty and pass out then head home tomorrow i turned back around to see a girl i hadn't seen before she was talking with the other folks and joined a ring of people passing around a joint i walked up to my friend not even looking at him and i asked dude who's the girl in the pink leather jacket after what felt like five minutes i turned to look at him with the serious look i get when i see something i want he wasn't even paying attention i asked him again and he turned to me saying what so for the third time i asked who's the girl in the pink leather jacket he replied i've no idea my man i told you a lot of people were coming i gave him that look and he started laughing i remembered he was staring at something and asked him what he was staring at he said that he thought he saw something in the wood line but it was probably the fire playing with the shadows it was loud with the music going and everyone was feeling good i shook it off and walked up to the girl in the pink leather jacket i introduced myself and asked her her name she was gorgeous long dirty blonde hair with icy blue eyes and fair skin she was short too fit most of my criteria which was awesome she turned to me and smiled i could have melted right there then she said wouldn't you like to know attitude yeah i was smitten we started talking some more she was a bit strange though she kept staring off into space while we talked she kept pace in the conversation perfectly for someone who was on a mind-altering substance while staring off into space she stopped abruptly and walked back over to the crowd of people i managed to pull her away from a few minutes ago so i joined them all as well after about another hour the group shifted into three separate units the girl was happy to sit on my tailgate with me in our group she kept her 100 yard stare going though my friend pulled me aside and asked me about it i told him i had no idea so he told me that she wasn't the only weird one that showed up even with his mental state he knew not to just point at someone as he nodded in the direction of a man so i let him talk while i gave this man the once-over and made some monitoring of him he was strange looked homeless he barely spoke and he awkwardly fumbled about his clothes were dirty and his jacket was old and ragged he had a vodka bottle in his right hand and he would open the bottle and take a sip every so often he kept saying something about having to go pee it was about 2 am at this point my friend said something about everyone hitting the bathroom before he turned all the lights off so the girls all went to the bathroom and heard and fast all except for the girl in the pink jacket she stayed sitting on the tailgate with me so i joined her and i informed her that if she wanted she could share the bed of my truck with me she'd have her own bed and pillow and comfort her she smiled pushing me onto my back and giving me a kiss i'll never forget she had been smoking and drinking all night yet she tasted like a breath of fresh air sweet and smooth i was wide awake then some of the girls were making their way back to the tents she said don't go anywhere i'll be right back she rolled off of me in the tailgate very fast i was up quick and looked to make sure she was okay she didn't even make a sound and was already walking toward the toilets i had a great view of her walking away as i smiled to myself i saw the weird guy with the vodka bottle he was headed toward the toilets about 20 feet behind her i'm a chivalrous man a southern upbringing so i then too rolled off the tailgate nowhere near as graceful as she had been i hit the ground and it hurt but i got up quick to head over toward the toilets where she went and that man had followed my friend stopped me to make sure i was okay i was trying to hurry him up because i didn't want anything to happen to her so when i made sure he knew i was okay in his stupor i started walking very fast toward the bathrooms i had all kinds of bad mental images of what i would find when i got to the toilets i was about 100 feet away from the bathrooms when everyone was shook to the core by a scream it wasn't human it sounded like a mixture between animals and mans the porta-potties were in rows of five the back row was closest to the trees and had been knocked over and i saw blood everywhere my gun was in my hand and my flashlight was in the other the last stall to the left of the five was where the blood trail started leading to the woods there was the vodka bottle completely whole the smell of blood and a rotting smell was filling my nose then and the man's jacket was shredded in the trees with blood all over it there was hair everywhere i was sweating at this point terrified it all happened so fast i saw the man's arm covered in hair and it was no longer attached to his body i held back a gag reflex as i did a branch snapped instantaneously the flashlight went toward the noise i would make out what was left of the man's body he was missing an arm a hand his lower half and his head that's not all he had chunks ripped from what was left of him then what i can only describe as a white furry hand had plunged itself through his sternum it was covered in a thick black goo almost like tar i took all of this in quickly and it hit me that the thing that did this was behind his body the creature had one icy blue eye which was puffy and watery and one golden amber eye the led flashlight i had illuminated everything it was like some sort of disgusting horror film like some sort of bear tearing apart a robot if i was in a science fiction movie the most important thing hit me just before the others were about 20 feet from me this creature was wearing a pink leather jacket i could make out the bottom right zipper as it seemed to be holding the man's body to hide itself just as everyone was about five feet from me it threw the man's body sending me backwards into everyone what happened next was chaos screaming vomiting and running the only person in their right mind was me and even to me none of this made sense i was pushing people out of my way to get to my truck i grabbed tommy and carried him to my truck throwing him in through the driver's side door then i climbed in just as i heard the saddest sounding howl i'd ever heard a mixture of sadness and longing came from the trees where that thing had disappeared into my friend and i were on the highway headed back to his place when we finally said anything to each other he thanked me for getting him but i just shook my head neither of us slept that night and no one talked about it we went back in the morning to get my friend's car and all his stuff there was nothing there to support that anything happened at all no blood on the ground no parts in the woods no ripped clothing and i have no idea what happened that night [Music] i'm no layman to cryptids this was not some story designed to keep you from sleeping it was me sharing something that happened to me with you what was the girl in the pink leather jacket and that weird man in the jacket who had hair all over his arms and smelled like feces and unwashed disgustingness when his torso was thrown at me it was hairy too and his blood was more of a thick black goo there was also human-like red blood on the ground too by the porta-potties for sanity's sake perhaps that man was a skinwalker i'm okay with saying that out loud sure fine but what about the girl and the pink leather jacket were they hunting each other the more i've thought about that night the more i realized she was staring at him not off into space the whole time she waited until the other girls were coming back from the bathrooms before making her way to them women go to the bathroom and groups for safety and for girl talk i think it was all deliberate what can do that to a skinwalker though i've read some pretty creepy stuff about them i don't know what to say except that if she was not there that night someone might have died someone is hunting skinwalkers in northern new york i still can't explain what happened at girl scout camp a decade ago from grace a i'd like to start off by saying that i'm a skeptic at least for the most part i do think that cryptids and ghosts and other phenomena exist but i also believe that the best way to undeniably prove they do truly exist is to eliminate any possible explanations for what mundane everyday occurrences could be happening instead maybe that strange creature following behind you was simply a sick mange-ridden bear or coyote maybe the noises coming from your basement are from the house's foundation settling or from mice living in the vents but maybe they aren't maybe that strange creature is a werewolf or chupacabra or a relative of bigfoot maybe a spirit or demon is making those noises in your basement after all the only way to find out for sure is by thoroughly investigating researching and collecting evidence i'm an animal scientist and a biologist by trade and i've had the importance of data collection drilled into me for years i believe it applies to unexplained phenomena just as much as it does to physical structured scientific research i have had two experiences in my life that i absolutely cannot explain by any means whatsoever i've thought about them a lot throughout the years and constantly revisit them researching possibilities for what could have happened and i've never come up with any satisfactory explanations let's start from the beginning i was born and grew up in kansas city kansas i lived about 15 or 20 minutes from the missouri border so a good chunk of my childhood was spent split between the two states when i was a kid i was involved in girl scouts as were several friends of mine i was and still am a lover of everything wilderness and camping related so of course i went on every single camping trip offered by the scout fourth grade came around and my troop was making plans for an awesome camping trip in western missouri about an hour from where we lived the camp which i'll call camp tea was situated in the middle of a forest and offered plenty of trails to walk on and explore there was a huge wooden cabin to sleep in too the weekend we had reserved to go to camp tea finally arrived and i could hardly sit still during the car ride when we arrived at the camp everyone rushed into the cabin to find the best places to put their sleeping bags and luggage so we could go outside and play there were maybe 15 or so girls and five or six parents including my own mom on this trip we argued and bickered as kids do about who got to sleep in what room and who got to sleep next to whom so i started unpacking and making plans for the evening we were going to play hide and seek and tag have a bonfire make trail mix with extra m ms and chocolate chips stay up late talking about books movies boys school ghost stories and whatever else 10 year old girls like to talk about at one point while we were playing tag i needed to run to the cabin for a bathroom break and to grab my bottle of water from my bag my best friend at the time kyra came with me we went into the cabin and did our business and as we were getting ready to head back out the door to the room we were in latched shut on its own we knew for a fact we had been the only ones inside and it's unlikely that it could have been caused by a draft we were in an interior room and the cabin had been recently renovated it was not at all drafty of course kyra and i joked about it being a ghost and the cabin being haunted and blah blah blah before running back outside but i wonder now if there was more truth to that joke than i had anticipated everything went by pretty normally for the rest of the evening we made hot dogs and s'mores for dinner had some trail mix as a late night snack and got ready for bed kyra and i were sleeping next to each other and were excited to tell spooky stories and obsess about harry potter and yugioh and pokemon we eventually decided it was time for bed kyra fell asleep quickly and i was getting pretty tired myself however i had an intense feeling of fear and unease in the pit of my stomach i chalked it up to me being scared from thinking about ghosts and the cabin being haunted i finally fell asleep and i had been resting peacefully for what seemed like a few hours when suddenly i woke up in an intense pain crying barely holding back from a scream my entire body felt as if it was burning my head was spinning my vision was blurred and i had spiked the fever i stumbled out of my room and found my mom she and the other parents woke up turning on the lights to see what was happening it turns out that what was ailing me was a very severe and horrible case of hives my entire body from my feet up to my face was covered in angry red swollen and itchy splotches and there was no relief to be found from scratching at them i've since had multiple fractures and tonsillitis so bad that i had to have steroids injected just to reduce swelling enough for me to swallow water and even those occurrences were less painful than these hives my mom a former nurse grabbed me rushed me to the bathroom placed me under a cold shower to help soothe the burning and itching i stayed in that shower for at least half an hour and my god it was heavenly while i was in there my mom found some benadryl to give me and some ointment to rub on the worst of my hives i took the benadryl and let my mom apply the ointment and then i passed out from exhaustion as soon as i put my pjs back on and made it into my sleeping bag by the next morning my hives had faded to gentle pink welts and the pain and itching had greatly subsided by the time i got home later that day they had all but vanished my mom and i tried and tried to think of what could have caused the hives i don't have any food allergies though i do have very very mild nasal allergies from pollen in the spring but this was fall it couldn't have been poison ivy it's not like i was rolling around in random plants in the forest or even playing anywhere other than the grass in front of the cabin i don't have any skin allergies to any plants or fungi that could have existed at camp tea i'd lived in that area my entire life and i had never had any reactions like that before or since for that matter something else to note is that there were nearly 20 other people on that trip why had i been the only one affected my mom who has been interested in spirits positive and negative energies and psychic readings for several years now thinks i'm sensitive to spirits and energies i being the argumentative skeptic that i am attributed those feelings to me having anxiety and being on the autism spectrum but honestly i can't blame her for becoming involved in what may be considered by some to be heretical beliefs she had been raised in an abusive household that used a falsified version of christianity to justify physically and emotionally tormenting her and her siblings if anything i'm super proud of her for learning to love herself and finding her own beliefs and morals maybe the reason i was the only one who got sick on the trip really was because of a sensitivity to the supernatural i can't say that i really believe that this is the case but my mom seems to believe so and it makes about as much sense as any other explanation after that unfortunate camping trip i spent a couple of sleepovers at kyra's house brainstorming what might have caused my reaction and what might be living or existing at camp tea but we never came to any conclusions it's been about 14 years since then and that remains the only time i've ever had hives despite going to the exact campground years later and living and working in very similar environments in the same part of the country it was truly bizarre maybe there was more to that feeling of unease than i had originally thought fast forward four years to middle school i'm in eighth grade and my girl scout troop had shrunk to only me and three other girls kyra and i were still best friends but she had quit scouts to focus on other interests the three other girls were all lovely and kind though and i got along great with them it was fall again and we were looking into doing a seasonal camping trip eventually we settled on going back to camp tea planning on doing some hiking plant and wildlife identification and working on completing our silver awards we joked about how i'd gotten sick from the ghosts the last time we were at camp tea but overall we were excited for the trip the weekend of the trip arrived and we made the drive out to the campsite with one of our troop leaders acting as chauffeur everything looked exactly the same as i'd remembered beautiful sylvan surroundings vibrant red and orange leaves on the trees fresh air expansive natural areas to roam in and explore ghosts hives and uneasy feelings were in the very back of my mind and were the least of my worries for a couple of hours at least the other girls and i made some plans for the afternoon and evening two of them eva and courtney and i wanted to walk the trails in the area and look for animal tracks and cool plants to get some exercise in the third girl jaime wasn't feeling up to hiking and stayed behind with our chauver at the cabin to prepare dinner and discuss what to make for breakfast the next day eva courtney and i decided to walk the main trail which amounted to about two miles round trip it circled out from our cabin across a hillside past the camp owner's house and through a densely forested part of the area we were all huge nature geeks and thought we could handle anything the forest threw at us eve and i both wanted to be exotic animal vets at the time and courtney regularly went hunting with her father we were all fairly experienced in camping and hiking we headed off with a pep in our step and smiles on our faces ready to pretend to be explorers and make some cool discoveries if only we had known exactly what we would discover on that hike we'd made it to about the halfway point of the trail when it suddenly got dead silent in the woods if you know anything about camping hiking or wilderness survival you know that this is never a good sign we saw then a strange indistinguishable lump on the path several yards in front of us curious we got closer to check it out i wish now that we would have stopped back then turned back as soon as it grew silent but we were curious 13 and 14 year olds we thought we were invincible we crept closer to the strange lump and began to see what it was a sense of dread crept over me as i realized what exactly we had stumbled across on the trail in front of us was a completely eviscerated deer carcass the top of the head was lying in the middle of the path the ears and snout were intact but the eyes were gone the bottom jaw and part of the neck had been ripped off exposing the tongue trachea and esophagus the spinal cord was hanging out of the back of the head snapped clean in half though the other half was nowhere to be seen off to the side of the path were some of the poor deers organs intestines strung out for several feet liver and stomach nearby but that was it no torso no lungs or heart or legs or random bones and perhaps most disturbingly absolutely no blood no footprints from what may have killed or eaten the deer i've done countless animal dissections since then and i've seen enough slaughterhouse corpses and procedures to make even the most staunch meatlover go vegetarian but this it remains one of the most graphic and disturbing things i've ever seen and thinking of it still makes me nauseous to this day what the hell courtney whispered under her breath as we approached the deer eva was completely speechless wide-eyed and frozen in fear what the heck did this i asked courtney assuming she knew the most about local predators from her hunting background i don't know it couldn't have been coyotes they mostly hunt small animals and they would never leave a deer out here in the open near humans like this they're scavengers they'd eat all of it i pulled out my laughably small pocket knife do you think it could have been a mountain lion i know they've been spotted a couple of times in kansas and missouri i doubt it there haven't been many sightings near this area and an animal that big would have surely been spotted by one of the camp workers and they would have closed the camp down courtney grabbed her pocket knife as well and eva who didn't have her knife with her put a hand on her metal water canteen so she could have at least something to attack with other than her hands if it came down to it we were all silent for a moment a feeling of dread built up in my stomach and i was instantly transported back to four years ago when i had that exact same feeling at this exact same camp there aren't any large predators in western missouri we have coyotes foxes and bobcats but nothing that would or could do something like this to a large fully grown deer no bears no wolves very rarely mountain lions and as courtney said we would have been notified if there were a mountain lion in the area they tend to be pretty noticeable around here and are extensively monitored by wildlife officials we all glanced at each other and came to a silent agreement to get the heck out of there we took off running at full speed down the trail when we got back to camp we burst through the cabin doors panting and speaking incoherently startling jaime and our chauffeur who looked at us like we were crazy eva and i were holding back tears we were both huge softies and had never seen a horror movie before much less a poor torn up dead animal courtney was wide-eyed and speechless and seemed to be on the verge of a panic attack we explained what we saw to jaime and our chauffeur and they both became noticeably uncomfortable we were so freaked out that we ended up staying inside playing cards working on written assignments for badge requirements and talking about random nonsense to distract ourselves the rest of the evening we all slept restlessly when we finally went to bed that night i couldn't fall asleep for what seemed like hours because i was paranoid that someone or something was looking at us through the cabin windows we packed up and left early the next morning i spoke to the other girls in the car ride on the way home and they had all felt a sense of being watched the night before too needless to say that was the last time any of us ever went to camp tea on the bright side at least i didn't get hives this time unfortunately our camp troop kind of fell apart after that we just didn't have the motivation to continue anything camping related or even general scout related we all got our silver awards at the end of eighth grade year and then left girl scouts the beginning of high school i'm just thankful that none of us were harmed or horribly mentally scarred from the experience which could have potentially turned out dangerous or even deadly i'm 24 now and still keep in touch with eva courtney jaime and kyra and i'm happy to report that we're all doing great and haven't had any more run-ins with strange creatures eviscerated animals or ghosts jamie and eva are both married and have become a teacher and a physical therapist respectively kyra is an amazing artist and earns a living from her art commissions courtney is an extremely talented professional horse trainer and i've since moved to oregon continuing my education to earn a phd in wildlife biology so i can continue learning about and helping the wild animals and plants i love so much and if you're curious i'm studying the relationship between native amphibian health and agricultural practices in the pacific northwest for my thesis anyway who knows maybe i'll encounter another strange unexplainable occurrence in the woods maybe i'll meet bigfoot or maybe i'll find some answers to what exactly happened at camp tea but all in all these two experiences are why i can't consider myself to be 100 a skeptic i have absolutely no explanation for either of them i've researched plants animals fungi local legends even mental conditions that could cause hives or such intense fear and paranoia and i've never found any answers that make sense at best it's a fun ghost story to tell friends and acquaintances and at worst there is some unknown horrifying creature or spirit living in the forests of western missouri tearing apart animals and terrorizing those who venture too far into the woods

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Published: Tue Aug 25 2020