30 TRUE Terrifying DEEP WOODS Horror Stories From Reddit (ULTIMATE COMPILATION!)

I was out turkey hunting we had started hiking at night and had found our spots at around 4 a.m. it was roughly a quarter of a mile from my hunting partners shouting distance it was pitch black and we're trying to keep our lights off I kept hearing human footsteps coming from almost random directions after getting sufficiently uncomfortable I had a voice that sounded as if it were maybe 10 feet away from me hello jack said a voice it sounded exactly like my hunting partner I smelled the smell of coffee and marlboro lights I replied sir the god no response i flickered my light up I didn't see anyone in the area after saying that a couple of times I shouted from my hunting partner and he called back from around a quarter of a mile away it started raining and the distance and heat lightning would occasionally illuminate the field I saw a tree they look like a human figure and after a few moments it wasn't there more footsteps around me after a while when the Sun started to faintly show I decided to take a break and was getting a bit creeped out so I walked a quarter of a mile to my hunting partners tree to ask him what he wanted he said he hadn't left that spot and didn't walk up to meet me at any time in the morning my dad was stationed in Germany in the eighties in the US Army and every ten years or so they would do what's called a winter forger now this basically means a giant war game where two sites compete against each other my dad just happened to be there during one of these war games now him and a body operates at a tank but due to some complication they needed reinforcements so they had to stay port and wait they got bored and walked around her small town nearby to get a bottle of apple corn a type of alcohol as they walked into Tallinn this are a young boy riding his bicycle they stopped him and asked him the nearest place to go and grab a bottle and he gave them directions as they were following his directions they saw a bar with a bunch of people in it but for some reason the kid never mentioned it but they went in anyway as soon as they come in everybody stopped what they were doing and stared at my dad and his body I mean literally everyone even the waitress now after five seconds everyone sit with her amias when he started acting normal like nothing ever happened a little crave here they also buy a bottle of apple corn however they refused to get any instead given them both free shots of it after this they kept insisting that they sat down to eat they were passing around giant bowls of food to everybody somebody would eat a bit from the bowl and then pass it on to the next person but my dad didn't want any food they just wanted to buy a bottle of apple corn but they constantly refused offering on his shorts and food finally they got tired of it as I Valken around him somewhere else to get the Apple corn they passed a young boy again and asked him about the bar and they refused to sell them the Apple corn the boy turns around and stammers you entered that place and immediately Suk was away from them as fast as you possibly can my dad needs buddy look at each other like what the hell they're curious and they walk back to the bar and check it out again but when they get there the virus completely empty and the lights are off they stare inside through the glass and the chairs over upside down on the table and cobwebs everywhere the shelves behind the bar are completely empty and there's no alcohol there that he went around to check out the whole place to make sure it was the same and sure enough it was the same bar there in literally minutes ago crowded with people they then found another bar and bought some apple corn and quickly got outta there to this day my dad needs buddy swear they're so creepy as thing that they've ever witnessed and they still have no explanation we were camping in Sequoia National Forest and our campground was as secluded as it gets just to reach it you had to go on a treacherous one-way dirt road for over an hour we arrived in the afternoon to find the campground only had two other inhabitants the campground host a little older lady and a little dog we set everything up cook dinner and settle in and get some rest as our Sun went down throughout the night we would be awakened here and there by sounds nothing out of the ordinary for camping in the middle of the dense wood just things like branches snapping and things moving in the trees by 11 p.m. we heard something going through the bolted trash cans around the campground knowing we were in bear country I beat my car a few times and tried to scare it off this happened a few times and whatever it was we kept coming back as the night went on things got more and more strange a meadow about a hundred yards from where our tent was was populated by a few wild cattle there earlier that day made some kind of scene for something terrible going down we heard the sound of cows screaming bloody murder like they were being torn apart my initial thought was [ __ ] it's a bear or cougar pack of coyotes or some kind of predator that was messing those cows up it's obvious they were in distress but after that there was a noise I heard that I never heard any animal make before it was a loud deep howl almost like a portamento where it starts low and Rises higher and higher and pitch it was loud as hell I could feel it in my chest vibrating needless to say we were extremely freaked it didn't stop there along with the sounds of cows dying we also heard things like massive branches being torn off trees around us something knocking against trees like with a rock or stick and at one point something big was walking around our camp when we stuck a flashlight to the window in the tent something massive went running by our tent shaking the ground as it ran as it was fast as hell eventually all of this commotion died down but not before that how / shriek was let out again this time further away in the woods of course I didn't sleep that night I anxiously waited for the Sun to rise before inspecting the campground even though we heard trash being ripped and bought with clanking together the trash cans were knocked over they were still chained shut which we thought was odd because a bear would have surely made more mess we searched for bear and cougar tracks but the only things we found looked like human tracks like bare human feet maybe a little bigger but normal size not like those huge big forecast people have taken I will say that I am far from a conspiracy theorist I'm a huge skeptic the thought of Bigfoot has always made me laugh but still as the day went on and the prospect of spending another night there now being the only campus present became less and less appealing we packed up quickly before the song got to love and got out of there on our way home whilst discussing what happened my girlfriend pulled up various Sasquatch sounds on YouTube some were ridiculous and some sounded identical to what we'd heard let's just say I'm a little less skeptical now than I used to be a lot going for night walk sometimes just because I dislike people if I've been trying to get into shape for a while now so night times grades for that I have a routes through some films which is surrounded by cities even highways one major city skyline is visible from the paths I take on normal daylight and night it it looks really beautiful sometimes however we get really thick fog because of the mountain range so one night I was out for a walk and it was super thick fog everywhere it was fun at first I couldn't even see to the end of the light post I did have my headlamp on but again I can barely see one foot in front of me and I was walking on fairly unfamiliar paths usually you'd hear the sound of the highway close by because it's very busy of day and night it's usually fog can carry sound too but at some point I notice I didn't hear it at all anymore I didn't even hear anything in fact it wasn't even wind this was especially weird because the path that I was walking on had no trees so I should have at least been able to hear something so I got to a part that I knew well and I decided to just keep on with my path and soldiered on after a while I heard a shot of whistle in that in itself wasn't too weird people that dogs are not in the fields and it wasn't too far away from where they do that however the whistling continued and it sounded throughout the night and it sounded as if it's getting closer to me and louder it was somewhat melodic after a while more like somebody trying to play a song and trying to catch a dog's attention or a person this is really weird for the direction it come from at the open and very muddy fields what I got closer and closer sure you can walk their part you'd make plenty of noise and probably lose a shoe or so trying to wait for out the mess this was silent just whistling I tried to ignore it they create the hell out of me so I just kept on walking slowly getting colder and colder just white walking up the hill and faster than usual now the whistling continued out of the corner of my eye I could see something make our silhouettes illuminated by my bobbing headlamp that's when I saw it it's really freaked out I live in Germany and we have a towel here of the novella far which basically translates to fog whistlers they've been in some historic accounts to one of the major ones happened during the thirty year war where a small village very close to death so fond in 1622 was surrounded by a heavy fog overnight whistling was heard all around it and throughout the nights in the next day and more than a dozen people were actually found missing and never to be found again after that it is said that these try and lure their unsuspecting victims closer if you can whistle their favorite tune you might survive if not they'll devour you I'm not sure how much I believe their spot apparently they say right on the edge of how far you can just not see them from they are also really stalled people and are out and about alone and that says die at times then they might come out for example in war so remember in all of this it freaked the hell outta me and I sprinted home it's the only experience I've ever had like it in my life the part that really creeps me out is the silence the fact that there were no sounds anywhere around me nothing to indicate anybody was close or far just whistling that was extremely close to me I was out for a long run probably around 12 miles on dirt roads through Iowa farmland with plenty of abandoned barns and outbuildings alongside it as I'm running I see this figure up ahead walking on the road it's a fairly old man walk groomed if I compare him to anyone he looks a bit like Jerry Sandusky but grayer with more black in the corner of his mouth denies he was wearing a white sweat suit and carrying a plastic bag over one shoulder he looked heavy and full the man smiled at me and I smiled back even though physically I was distancing myself from him as much as possible as I passed by him I begin to feel dizzy and nauseous his presence just felt so wrong his smile was off I actually had to swallow back vomit and it had began to climb my throat my adrenaline gone up and my pulse was hammering when I looked back a couple of meters later he was gone I frequently go bushwalking over out the Blue Mountains and I've done so since I was a kid with my dad sometimes for shorter walks I go alone they can be dangerous as a woman I could have added the risk of being attacked or salvor but I always carry a couple of knifes on me so I don't really feel that threatened and I always bring a satellite phone I just love and crave that feeling of being surrounded entirely by the bush anyway around five years ago I've also been a good idea to do an overnight walk by myself bad idea the walk was fine it was three or four groups of people who came via that was only on the first day I picked al it was what to stay overnight towards tasks I got a few fans back and I had the space to sit my little one person tent in I was maybe thirty meters from the track mostly arts a site and behind trees and such there were lots of wildlife sounds as I drifted off to sleep though I thought there was a strange sound I can only describe it as a bonding sound like somebody was flitting through the bush right past me but it was way too fast with too few steps for a person to be doing so and if you've ever seen the bush in this part of Australia you'd know that there isn't much face on the ground to walk fruity if you're off the track you have to at least wait through the bushes and ferns etc now this was pretty unsettling but eyeful is probably just something falling from a tree or whatever the next morning I had breakfast and packed up my things and I kept on going along the track I passed a couple of people going the other way then I was alone again for maybe half an hour then I heard the sound of a stick being broken like from somebody stepping on it the sound come from behind me into my left and away from the track I turned around and nearly died to my feet a fair distance into the bush was something standing staring directly at me I wanted to believe it as a person but it wasn't I can't judge the exact height but it was obviously very tall it may have been a skinwalker his skin was darkish gray or brown had this horrific Lee lodge head and his black eyes I can see a male for anything his arms are really long - I was almost crying tears welled up in my eyes I was completely frozen staring at this it was like my legs were locked in position the longer I said the worse it would care and I felt a heightened feeling of absolute dread I've never felt this way before and haven't sins this fear kept on building up until eventually I could see my heartbeat in my veins in my vision and I suddenly bolted I sprinted away continuing on the track I ran and ran and was way too scared to look behind me tears were streaming through my eyes as I was running away I didn't stop until I actually called heart for those people got in the same direction as me they led to me saying oh my god are you okay I was running for so long that I could barely breathe and said something by also if they could go the rest of the way with me now it took me six months before I started Bush walking again and it's never been the same since when I was a teenager I used to go out camping by myself I had a spot where I liked that was a few fences from my grandparents house in the middle of nowhere one of the places I cut through was a pasture full of cattle around cattle especially cattle unfamiliar with me I tried to be careful not to spook them but otherwise cows are pretty easygoing this is about a mile away from my grandparents house and probably too from my destination at the time I slipped through the fence to find the cattle already freaked out they were insanely agitated about something that I was not aware of so I stayed well clear from them I had a good time camping that night and packed up next morning as I went back into the pasture however there was this ridiculously bad smell it's more like a skunk had fought with something in a fertilized barrel of [ __ ] and then broke the barrel it was awful I tried to look for the cows to make sure I wasn't going to give them a nasty surprise but they were nowhere to be seen there were some bushes and trees so I thought maybe they were just out of sight not long after I found the cows all of them had been shot and ripped apart someone had carefully shot them in the head with a bolt gun style thing an eviscerated all of them they had also dug this little shallow ravine and powered the bodies up it was abominable I hightailed it out of there to get my stuff and gear but it was gone i sat it on a rock about a hundred yards away easily with an eye shot and when I get back nowhere to be seen I had been gone for a whole five minutes and I think Usain Bolt wouldn't have been able to catch me on my way home I never heard anything about those cows and don't think I'll go back to that camping spot again when I was a little younger I spent nearly all my time ice in the woods of I myself I was slowly charting the acreage behind my family's house I was isolated by miles of backroads one day around midday in September or October I decided to take a long hike into the area we didn't own we had a black lab sandy who I brought with me for safety and we walked to a grave that we followed some way back into the woods after some distance far enough that I no longer recognized my surroundings the crates filled into a small reservoir the size of a backyard pool I remember clearly that it was a time of year where the lease artists change color I remember the pool was black with silt and decorated by downed trees once I stepped around the very edge of the pool there was a shift like if you mess with the contrast or saturation to March in a photo edit I remember the color temperature light sound and even objects of hair different to me now the water become very clear and there was notably lush vegetation densely packed around the edge of the pool I froze for what felt like a number of seconds before I felt something pulling me my dog was really tugging at me on the leash as I turned my head everything snapped back to normal however my surroundings were now dark and it was evidently sunset confused to this day I've confirmed with family that I left the house after lunch and based on the ground I covered there was no way I'd been out in the woods for longer than two hours maybe even one sandy was pulling me towards home towards voices callin apparently I've been in the woods for eight hours now I didn't make sense with the time on my voice Eva I eventually moved away but decided to return the owners were gracious enough to let me have a walk around on my own I ended up following the same path and relocate in that Creek again it was dry season but I found the area where it must have been and I confirmed that there is no way that I could have been in the woods for that long no I'm a rational person but I really have no idea what happened to this day driving through the middle of Montana one night I was going at about a hundred miles per hour when I passed something on the side of the road that looked like a mangled body I turned around at the next pass came back definitely a body I put my lights on it and tried to call 9-1-1 but I had no cell phone reception I got out of the car to see if I could pick up any reception and the lights were still on but there was nothing there except the blood spatters I drove away quickly in 2014 I was driving at night on highway 81 in SW Oklahoma it was around 2 a.m. I hadn't seen another car for at least 40 minutes I was on a stretch of road between Jessica and rush rings in other words I was in the middle of nowhere and I'll come over a hill and see a car upside down in the ditch and a buddy just lying there after the car he kind of looked like he was laying on his side asleep I slam on the brace and guess how odd the car run over to him I touch his shoulder and then realize the worst he's tired in a very nasty way I could smell whiskey coming out of his god it was horrifying he had no pulse so I get my phone out and dial nine-one-one I give them an estimate where I am they say the nearest health is at least 30 minutes away and I needed to wait with the rack until they got there well crap I hung up the phone I looked around I'm alone in vfe Oklahoma the only companion is a passed away man not knowing what to do I took his hand and said the Lord's Prayer then covered his face with a shot that was hanging outside of the car I was seriously shaken though it was then I heard the coyote is starting to turn up if you haven't heard this sound it's akin to small children being hurt badly they well and screech and what I think is a big circle around me in this man it's been probably 15 minutes and on cars have showed up I hear them on the highway they across in just after the headlights on my car now I have a decision do I get in my car and let them come up and tear on this guy or do I find something swinging and protect his body ended up using the latter I go to get the tire Ryan out of my trunk and go back to where this guy is laying I guess I'm making a stand I lay there for five minutes and I had them running around it's totally dark I am not truly in control of this situation something very primal comes over my brain it's acting to rage along with a heavy dose fear what's always gonna happen I was going to fight crazy to try and survive now at this very moment I see car lights finally a car shows up and wouldn't you know there's a pond see it god I am full of muffed up country boys they pull over and look at me see the dead guy and the car I say guys he is dead there are coyotes cycle in Arsenal they go to their cars and pull out several handguns and a couple of flashlights they're really excited to be able to hopefully kill these things although they were almost as unnerving as wild animals out in the dark a couple of minutes passed and we hear a siren off in the distance the guy says is a calves and they jump in the car and haul ass I'm alone now me in this poor man 60 seconds later a state trooper shows up then two deputies then finally free city cops and then an ambulance they took the guy over and pronounced him dead they asked me a hundred questions asking about why I was doing out there eventually they said fangs you can go now I left and started driving down this pitch-black road again knowing that I could have been in a battle for my life then my cousin is with the Forest Service in Montana / Wyoming and I decided to go up there with her to literally test the waters she does hydrology and has to ride out into the middle of nowhere to test dreams and do snow run offs to ensure there's no contaminants so I thought it sounded fun and wanted to do a bit of a tour with her we were going to camp out there for two nights so we packed up all our gear in saddlebags and subtle bodies and started out the first day and night was amazing beautiful scenery and amazing air quality it really is so peaceful out there I love that area and wish to go back there more often anyway we started out on the second day and my cousin said do you want to see something weird of course I said and she led me on a bit of a side journey to this tiny little ravine we ended up traveling about two hours away from the actual path at the very end of this land she dismounted and told me to get off the horse as well we tied them to a little clearing and I follow her to this tiny wildlife path and bring a little rechargeable radio this is the one that you can plug in or wind up and it also acts as a lantern if you need it to but that really kills the batteries so I'll here in the middle of nowhere there is a huge coil of wire sticking out of the ground the wire itself is not wildly large like some berry transmission wire but small like a 10 or 12 gauge wire from a house it trailed often to the bushes and the trees so naturally I decided to follow the damn thing out of curiosity my cousin draws behind me as I do and after coming straight up from the ground its strung across limbs of trees then back to the ground snakes around a rock and finally deadens into an outlet the outlet is mounted on the side of a desk it looks like a school teacher's desk from when I was growing up with a metal base in a pseudo wood / plastic topping no chair no building nothing just this outlet and the desk I'm staring confused as hell with this desk in a forest in the middle of nowhere my cousin pulls the cord and plugs it into the outlet and a lid up and started blaring static that wire was fed from somewhere now the place we had had no road access and no buildings for many many miles with no other people around and still alive outlet whales [ __ ] I had an experience that really never left me it was in the woods of Portola Valley I frequently campfire stream maybe three or four weeks in total camp in time if you added it all up and there's always a sound of the stream in the background as well as gentle wind cracking sounds and occasional animals you know normal animal Sirhan's well one night I was woken up by a nightmare of a black / grayish creature standing by a campsite not doing anything just stand-in there it had no features it was just a dark color I don't usually have paranormal fantasies or dream this way at all so it was a fast and very scary for me I was so scared that I woke up startled I wake off and then things just don't feel right and then panic of it and start to wake up my ass over and tell them I had a nightmare as I'm waking up I had noticed that there's no sound as in zero sounds by even the sound of air moving the crate sound is gone wildlife everything the entire campground is silent now I've never felt such a feeling of dread before and I've never felt it since I tell him that we need to go now the more I think about it the more crazy it feels thank God that he was actually listening to me he had some similar experiences growing up and he's very scared by the lack of sound we packed off and leave in probably less than 10 minutes that feeling of sticky aggressive oppression doesn't leave us until we can play we back in town this is a softer that's gonna sound the craziest my car would not go over 15 miles per hour the whole way down the hill it wasn't in second gear though we weren't higher and my I saw and I've kept her I never think and I kept saying we need to get out of there now as soon as we got back to town it went back to normal through this day I have no explanation for it whatsoever I was at my in-laws house for Thanksgiving in Montana they live about 60 miles south of the Canadian border they are what I would call comfortable survivalists who live way off the grid no TV no cell reception too far up in the mountains for that great people just don't like towns and my wife was home-schooled I decided I would go from morning deer hunt on Thanksgiving it's a great location for it as they are right in the middle of prime deer elk and bear country their house borders national forest land on three sides so pretty easy to find yourself in the middle of nowhere because you're already there my father-in-law insists I leave the house at the crack of dawn where I thought they don't stop moving until around eight or nine but of course I agree with him and head out before late I've got a headlamp on walking down a narrow trail in thick coverage and can see about ten feet in front of me it's super cold but no snow and dark as hell and 20 miles from the nearest town my father-in-law says that we have about 25 minutes hike and that we'll get to a small curvy Valley that is a newly finished logging project perfect hunting area for deer as there is minimal coverage and you can see a mile down the valley the trail meets up with the rugged logging road and as I walk up I can see large slash piles from the logging project all over the place I find a good spot and sit and listen I'm sitting there on it's killing light looking around for deer to my right 200 yards away there was a slash pile with something moving around it I pull up my little binoculars and look there's a deer with its legs in the air covered in blood and dirt I start to feel the hair on my neck straighten out the deer disappears inside the pile of branches and then I see a mountain line come out from the pile nose red with blood he scrapes all around the area for a few minutes I'm guessing he smelled or sensed me because he was walking around in little circles and looking up into the air I didn't know what the hell to do I was kind of panicked because they're very territorial and will definitely attack people so me being a cool guy I fired my gun in the air and walked back to my in-laws place in circles I did see the line run off but still it was the scariest walk I've ever been on and of course played it cool when I got back and told my wife what happened that night a hunter law or my father has prophecy in South Texas and I've gone out there spender lost his home hunting so one weekend it was mid-november and really cold out I decided that I would head to my apply in the late afternoon and stay there for out in the night when I arrived to the blind I hadn't seen any animal was on the way at all and we're talking like a good two mile was a walk in and not even seeing Birds I didn't think anything covered since it was winter but of course I should have still seen some birds and whatnot as I ride to the blind I was setting off everything and pulled out this bottle of dog yawning trying to pick it off in the revoir quiver now from the very moment I opened it I started hearing movement on this riot rage behind the blind and kept trying to look out at the small window to see enough ink all of a sudden there was this really loud thud they hit the side of the blind I jumps in thought maybe a deer had fallen off the region hit the blind I can't see anything so I open the door and saw a huge rock and a nice dent in the side of the blind now something through this rock the masa weigh close to 30 pounds I grab my rifle and said screw this most likely out loud through open the blind door John six or seven feet to the ground and started running back to camp no nothing else actually happens to me that night I didn't hear any clouds he opened howling or anything at all I got to my trunk the next morning because I felt like I was gonna get attacked now I've only gone back a few times the last couple years and I can't shake this feeling of being watched nothing has happened yeah bye I'm very on edge and I hope nothing else comes from this I live in the only house down a country road everything else is pastureland and National Forest for several miles at 3:00 a.m. my three large dogs go absolutely nuts barking which sends my husband flying out of bed to check out our livestock assuming we had coyotes in the yard before we could even get our shoes on we here muttering on our front porch he grabs his rifle and whoever it is starts knocking on the door with no real urgency but more like a casual visitor he had my cell phone already dialing the cops and my husband slit the peephole a woman around her late twenties early 30s was standing outside patiently waiting a few minutes and knocking gently on the door not fidgeting or nervous nor being aggressive my husband said ma'am the cops are on their way if you need help they'll be here in just a few minutes and you're welcome to sit on the swing right there and wait but if there's anyone there with you we're armed in here and will not hesitate to shoot if anyone tries getting into this house he said that and she kind of smiled not creepy but like she was glad her knocking woke someone up that's okay sir I just wanted to let you know that the thing in the woods is coming and the he'll be here soon good luck he said she turned around and walked down the driveway like she didn't have a care in the world the cops looked all over the place and couldn't find her and it's a 10-minute drive to our driveway from the main road with no houses until you get into town another 20 minutes away and it freaked me out for weeks I grew up in a very rural area in the deep south and spent most of my time riding my horse alone in the national forests and expansive private properties there was an abandoned house that was about two miles ride through the woods from me and often rode it by myself on journeys through the woods sometimes I've heard up my horse outside and went in and explored inside but there was really nothing of interest there was just trash from things like electric bills from the 80s I think an old woman used to live there based on some pictures I found time went on and I went away to college taking my horse with me I no longer roam far see abandoned house snow after graduating college my horse and I moved back to home for a little while I decided to go back and explore it again so I rode my horse that same two miles for the deep woods to get to this house which is by itself probably about a thousand feet from a lonely gravel road dick cuts through the forest it is very secluded and almost creepy the house is about three miles from a paved road I am less brave than I used to be so when I entered the home I felt out of place and slightly scared but I use my cell phone like to explore the rooms anyway no a lots of it was as I remember it but right as I was about to leave I found a cost-cutting cent in the corner at the entry room I have no idea how this calf got shut off inside the building the doors were firmly shots as I approached also the screen door open one way or the actual door opened the other so it's impossible for both to be opened at once for some creature to accidentally wander in furthermore the nearest cow pastures of miles away from the home I left the abandoned house with the image in my head burnt there forever we were out hunting with a group of guys we were all a hundred yards from each other the Sun had set and the darkness was quickly settling in we called it a night and I started getting down I love the trees when I heard a twig snap I froze thinking it was a deer and not wanting to scare it after sitting for a few minutes this blood-curdling howl comes from where the twig snapped we don't live in an area with wolves like at all we have coyotes but they don't make the same sound my phone starts blowing up with the other guy asking if I'd heard it yep it's nearly under my tree it was so loud I could almost feel it in my chest after about a half hour of silence I gathered all my bravery and I bailed out the tree armed with a knife and made my way to the group we never saw it or heard it again after that it was one singular howl in an area that doesn't have wolves on an island we've hunted on for ten years and never had anything like that happen I still haven't quite figured out where it came from and still get goosebumps from thinking about it I was hiking free the remnants of a remote along abandoned town and the surrounding area the gas far into the woods as I was you had to cross fallen trees over crates at least three times I had just crossed the third bridge and was about five miles in and something blue caught my eye ahead of me there was a man in his sixties at least wearing blue satin pajamas sitting in a tree the closer I got to him the ladder he laughed it wasn't a maniac hauled off by a settle more than enough alarm bells in my head nevertheless he wasn't wearing any shoes Eva yeah he looks well groomed and clean I gave him a friendly nod as I passed and he just kept laughing and it stopped I turned and he was gone there was no France cracking plants rustling least disturbed nothing he was just gone it was about late November in Colorado I was about seven or eight my father got the idea of taking all of us for a weekend to a cabin that he was gonna rent my mama thought it was a great idea for me myself starting father and mother to bond so this is exactly what happened we took off school on Friday to get a head start there I had no issue with that when we get there it was cold as hell well it's almost December so I guess it made sense it was so cold anyway we got to set up and decided where we'd all sleep we ate there not and then we got all our stuff set up for bed and we were talking about what we were gonna do tomorrow we got there kind of late and we couldn't do that much on the first night heads later on though I heard some noises outside it sounded like footsteps I looked out of the window and saw nothing so I figured it must have been an animal I tried to go back to sleep then about 15 minutes later again I heard it I woke my sister up she was about 11 at the time and she heard it as well we both walked over to the window and saw something we weren't quite sure what it was we decided that it was going to be best if whatever it was didn't see us so we decided to go back to sleep I had a hard time sleeping that night so did my sister but when we eventually woke up my mother was inside making breakfast and my father was outside I asked my mom if we could go outside with dad and she told me sure while my sister and I stayed inside and waited for my mother to finish breakfast I walked outside and my father was talking to some man a short chubby guy he had a shaved head and was wearing a veteran cap he looked really nervous too I mean for no reason he was wetting a lot even I was freezing out I walked over to him and my father my father looked at me and said oh this is my son he then told the guy in my name the man looked at me and said nice to meet you I'm John he smiled and looked to me I smiled and greeted back and it may have been brewed at Siam but I was a kid and I said to him you look kind of scared you okay he then replied yeah I'm fine I I went through some shell shock I'm a veteran he said as I couldn't tell already with the cup he was wearing he seemed normal then my dad seemed to really like this guy and I like that too he told my father he also rented a cabin with his family and that they were really close to us so he decided to introduce himself my father invited him aside for breakfast and he stayed it was normal and then went outside to play after that with my father and Patrick while outside I fell and hurt my knee and started crying now my dad was inside at the time a bad time themes fear inside my mother was calling for him and he ran outside varietals with Patrick Patrick went over to me and told me to come with him to his cabin because he had band-aids I agreed because I wasn't very smart at the time I went with Patrick we talked about what I liked doing and I told him I liked playing video games and stuff like that then he got weird he asked me what shoe size I was and I told him I didn't actually know it at the time so I had to guess he then asked her older was and I said he kind of chuckled along the lines of good to know also his cabin was nowhere near ours it was way back it took 20 to 25 minutes to walk there I was tired and there was no point in getting the band-aid anymore we'd walked so far now that I decided just to keep going we entered the cabin he then told me to go in first I did as soon as I walked in I realized something was wrong there was nobody there no family I asked him where his family was he didn't answer pretending he didn't hear me he locked the door I then got kind of frightened he said I'll be right back with the band-aid just wait here he walked into the kitchen and pulled one out of somewhere and then walked back to me and told me to have a seat while he puts his on I sat down anybody on me you also held my leg with his other hand and started rubbing it saying you're rather muscular I like that I got kind of scared and immediately stood up he asked me what was wrong and I said that my leg was feeling way better and then for my parents must be worried sick about me and told him this he insisted that I stayed more and I eat I didn't want to but I was alone and if I ran I wouldn't have really known where to go the door was locked too so I just agreed to eat with him and get it over with quick he asked how much I weighed I guess around 73 pounds then he had a small across his face he nodded and said perfect I asked him what he meant and he just kept smiling I was really weirded out by this I said could I go he told me no the things were just getting started and I shouldn't miss out on the fun he had a really funny tone I then heard a big bang come from the bathroom it was a closed door I was really worried now Patrick stood off and looks angry he walked into the room and shot the door behind them I then heard him yelling did I tell you to move did I say you could move an inch no and stay where you are I have company or something like that he then will tart with a smile on his face and shut the door slowly sorry about that it's my wife she's really sick and not allowed anywhere near visitors today he was smiling while saying that I really wanted to go and then looked around the room and notice that there were clothes everywhere it was a mess he must have been living out to here at that moment his wife walked out of the room I'm hungry she said he looked furious yeah back in there he said his wife was extremely Powell and had obviously been crying a lot she sniffed a bit and had red lines under arrives she looked to me then walked back into the room I asked him where his kids were and he didn't on sand he told me that he had kids closer he wanted me to try on this was the last straw I knew I had to get out of that situation but I didn't know how I started crying he then hugged me saying it will be all right little one nothing's gonna happen just try these on he then walked into the back for him I thought this was a perfect time for me to leave I unlocked his door and tried to leave as quietly as I could I didn't care if I got lost anymore I wasn't gonna take the chances with this John if that was even his real name I had a feeling that he'd been lying to me he lied about having kids so who knows what else he lied about I was in the woods now trying to find my way back I was still close to his home I could hear shouting I could hear him yelling it his way of saying where the hell did he go I told you not to let him leave you probably them out I could have sworn I heard him coarse and profanities too then it happened I stopped dead in my tracks I heard footsteps I went in hid behind a tree and looked in his direction he was outside he seems to be mad looking for me I was far enough away where I could barely see him but he was obviously out there trying to find me he then stepped out into the forest and said hey kid it's all right you can come back now you don't have to try the clothes on I have Toit's here all you got to do is come back I lost it I ran as fast as I could in a straight line in the hopes of finding somebody in my family I was running away and I fought I could hear him shouting but I didn't stop long enough to hear it then after about an hour of running I saw a cabin Mayan my father was outside looking around looking for me I ran up to him crying and told him that this John wasn't a good guy and how weird he was touching me my father immediately called the person who rented the cabin from and he said that nobody had rented that cabin my father looked to me and told me never to follow a stranger again we immediately left that day I got asked a ton of questions the next day the guy renting out the cabins apologized the man having the cabin rentals called the police and the police check the calf in and they found nobody there not even his wife his clothes and all his belongings were still there that's what they told us I never really heard much else after that John is more than likely not his real name he probably wasn't a vet I just wanted to know what happened to his wife and him how he even got there in the first place and why he lied about being in that cabin he seems to have lived there for a while I guess he left because he figured the police will be coming soon so many questions that I'm never gonna want so I'm just glad that it's all over I hope to never see him again this is not my own story one that is told to me by a friend who lives near Tasman Ezard apparently he and his friends are out in the desert one night I can't remember if they were camping overnight or just out late when they kind of got separated they were free of them and the one I know I'll just call him Joe though that's not his actual name was called him for the other two when he's fired somebody who was crouching near the ground nearby and they suddenly stand off in the moonlight this was around eight yards away from him he fought it as one of his friends and starts to move towards earth as he does so he begins to hear his actual buddies in the distance and they call from behind him he's just very slowly backed away from it and ran he thinks it is possibly a skinwalker which is probably one of those weirdos who like to go out alone in the desert I don't really blame him for running though I'd be freaked out too I did a sexy five-day expedition for the up Zorka mountain range my oh me we will jet in the middle of nowhere the Fergus went from a road in the lower 48 about 30 days in we come near a creek with sandy banks we get this idea in our head to make a sauna so we all use the temples from all around the five tens throw all the temp flies over the dome and pole sound all around us and at the bottoms keep the heat certain we dig a hole in the middle and started dragging rocks from where we've thrown them in the camp fire earlier so we all climb in all 12 of us and we fought water over the hot rocks in the hole and presto it's an instant sauna somebody comments at considering how dirty we all are after being out for a month we should jump in the creek somebody else points out that dirt because it's abrasive clean skin and the cold Creek will make a pause close immediately and we're gonna be clean and then we've been in an entire month everybody agrees we promptly cover ourselves in dirt scrubbing it in so we all get our horse out of the tens and jump in the freezing crepe screaming all the way it turns out that while we're in there a horse camp had set off on the opposite side of the creek so we all jump on horseback to the sauna now you can imagine if you were those horse guys you're weeks into the middle of nowhere on horseback you actually run into another camp which is weird by itself maybe an hour later twelve people run naked and muddy from the crowd screaming and jumping into an unknown place this happened about 22 years ago when I was 11 my parents bought a home in a rather rural area I had always been around nature so I didn't mind the change I just wish that there were more kids my age I spent a lot of time with my parents or helping the elderly neighbors I was home-schooled and very awkward my mother did not believe in busy homework if I knew the subject my mom would reward me with time off I was to play for at least three hours a day so I took to walking around the area for 10 dinars an explorer I got to know a lot of the workers and they sometimes wrong me fruits and trees unfortunately I was the only person for under 18 miles my sister had moved out and after our graduation she rarely called we had never been so close but we barely kept any tabs on one another back then it would have been impossible to make her care about anything covered in her own life the town was trying everything it could spring young families in if prospered years later with his own school and activity buildings but back then it was half developed there was a few houses and half-hearted attempts as a park the area was flanked by forest on one side and farmland on the other to keep me occupied my father come home with a dog he bought it if he could protection for me and teach me responsibility instead of the cute fluffy York I begged for he got an old German Shepherd named art he was slightly overweight and only had one ire I fell in love with him instantly he belonged to my father's old war buddy a former police officer who trained security dogs for a living he was moved into the city and cannot take art with him he was like all the other animals we had slightly used but well loved everybody in the family really liked him but art to me instantly I was his new mission I can't leave the room without him following when I use a bathroom he refreshed his nose to the door and far mom against a hardwood floor he insisted on sleeping with me when people approached he stood in front of me and wouldn't let him go by it unless I gay of us on the head in a good word the best part was a series of commands beside written on small shades pay for our cuts it roll over shake hands play dead look ashamed God and protect I had never acted the order because my father said he could be dangerous the rest were just fun though I was always cheerful with odds he was ten years old and starting slow down my dad said but he could walk on distances and listen secrets so there was no need for a wild crazy puppy i loved art of all the passion of a kid he was my best friend and to this day i speak about him like he was some sort of cousin or brother i guess in some ways he was so during 1 september art and i were walking on the edge of the forest near the newly cut cultivated laws i was two blocks from any homes I was asking are what we should do when he laid down on the grass and rolled over I sat down to annoyed when the grass started soaked my jeans but I was tired from running through the park and it felt so good just to relax about firsty minutes past fire and I was cold tired and hungry then it will be soon and the forest was starting to the communist I was getting to my feet when I heard the sound of boots on the ground I didn't think anything of it at first it sounded familiar they were boats on gravel I turned to face a rather plainly dressed man he wore a black wind very car dirty jeans and thick wire booze his face was covered in broth beard and he looked like he had just come from a hard day's work under the hot Sun at first I thought he was one of the surveyors coming to look at the land I've gotten yelled at before for walking on private property for there were no signs here and it was open so I didn't think this was one of the choice spots for the building he also as I noticed didn't have any of the usual tools or gear no books to write anything down in when I looked him face to face he had an intense look like he just done a riddle that he could not solve I knew something was wrong when art sat down in front to me the guy stopped held his hands up does that thing buy it he does he used to be a cop dog and at that moment my friendly dog turned very dangerous he was a very serious threat at least of the guy in front of me ah I need to go now I said it was a truth but I wanted to go because I was getting worried I just want to talk to you the man said I have to go home my mom's waiting for me I said the guy then come closer one step at a time I backed away I was all of 80 pounds and he was closer to 250 pounds luckily art weighed in at close to a hundred pounds making it easier for me to remain calm I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of South Street the guy said in his tone even turn that way I said points him he looked nodded and turned around the tension drained from me and I started to walk away the second my back was turned the man grabbed my shoulders and tried to drag me into the woods I screamed I fouled out lunch and latched on to the man's ankle the man dropped me kicking a heart with his booze I took off running towards our neighbor's home the man who lived there had watched me a few times and my parents knew him I called him grandpa hurt I could hear the man screaming and the sound of cloth ripping I made it into grandpa parts yard and burst into his home he was not there but his granddaughter Letty was despite being 28 she listened to me like I was an adult she quickly called the cops and my parents and then her granddad all turned off in the yard 10 minutes later with some Janne stuck in his teeth he had a few lacerations with a guy punched in but he was no worse for wear now I don't know what would have happened to me had my dad brought me a key instead of a form of the lease dog the man was caught a few weeks later trying to climb in the window to get free year old who lived in my neighbor's house and just bless that my dad got me a nice big German Shepherd I used to do wilderness forestry in their village or area of northern Carolina a jack-o-lantern is a disembodied light that floats in the air they are commonly reported in the southern Appalachians but reports are usually disregarded because it's easy to imagine that the person seen then was just seeing something more mundane I've seen a few things I suspect were jack-o'-lanterns but there was one that was plain and clearly just a floating lie it's out in the open in the east side of the short soft mountain and there's no trails in place there so it can only be accessed by somebody with very good mountaineering skills and wood craft furthermore it was floating above the brush way too thick for anything to move through especially not as quickly and as smoothly assisted I should point out that there is a confirmed similar phenomenon nearby the Brown Mountain lights that has puzzled people for centuries on hot summer nights you consider the Wiseman's view or a pull off on the highway east of Georgia and see jack-o'-lanterns dancing across the sky I worked at a hotshot crew for the first time for the Forest Service zoo we spent two or three weeks out in remote areas we covered a large amount of ground on for generally nowhere near the trailers or by common traffic we'd found weird stuff before like stashes of guns creepy old stuff in cabins in a ke I mean petrol cavern in a horror movie with rusty traps everywhere and we even shot a bear once because it's way too interested in us fight camp now we talk bear matters very very seriously that was after a crew member was attacked by a bear in 2008 while forming a burnouts operation well one day my buddy Greg and he saw partner were following the fire cuttin lion when suddenly greg noticed a pair of car hearts half buried in the ground Oh car hearts said Greg with some enthusiasm Greg saw hunter knew something must be up as he notice it Greg pulled out his tooth and flex it on the ground Greg always saved his chew for the last who psyche was a consumption and his partner gave him that too just an hour over for now as Greg picked up the incredibly heavy pants they still had legs and parts of the vertebra inside them the upper half of the body was totally missing turns out some poor guy got and torn apart via bear they found the rest of his body about quarter of a mile away it must have happened years ago because all they found were bones it happened in the early 2000s when I was 14 in my country of Norway there's not that many gated communities it's a small wealthy country with a low crime rate even so me and my family lived in sort of a gated community it was located on top of a hill surrounded by large areas of forests there were barriers on all sides making it impossible to reach the inside of my community by car unless you had a key to one of the barriers there was only one road connecting the community to the outside world my mum said it reminded her of this book she read when she was younger about a village on top of a mountain whether everybody died after the road connecting the village was broken but mostly everybody felt completely safe here so one night I was heading to my friend Tamara's house to watch a movie she lived on the other side of the neighbourhood by the edge of the forest but it just took a couple of minutes walk in and since everybody felt so safe inside the gated community my parents would let me visit my friends quite late on the weekends so it was a night during fall and it was completely dark there was absolutely nobody outside the only thing I could hear were my own footsteps on the pavement I walked past a couple of rows of houses and in estill Park and come to a football field the lights on the football field were closed for the night so again it is pitch black but crossing it was a quickest way to find my friend over my cellphone for lights and kept walking when I reach the middle with the fork fulfilled something happened that made my heart jump on the other side of the field in a small patch of forest is a bright light I turned my head and found a car spotlights pointing at me I freaked out but I didn't really have a choice but to continue walking as I was in the middle the car kind of stood there as if somebody was inspecting me from far away so I'm think about it and felt really wrong the whole area inside the community was a no car zone and they would hardly ever be a car inside you would have had to go through a lot of trouble to get a car all the way inside the fault filled whoever was inside clearly had a reason for hiding their car inside the forest would fall view of the field almost as if they were waiting for somebody to pass by at nights the car started to move in a little from the corner of my eye I saw it slowly creeping out from behind the forest to me as if they were trying not to be noticed they were getting closer that's when I started to run in whoever was inside hit the gas and the car that was previously creeping up on me was now coming at me full speed the car had cool talk to me within seconds and it turned on to the small side of the road of a sharp turn and it almost crashed whoever was inside really wanted to get to me there were no houses nearby only trees on the other side of the road I kept running in the darkness on this small road only thinking that if I screamed nobody's going to hear me I had to do something or whoever was in this car would get me and at the rate I was going that was about to happen my only advantage and what saved my life was that I know the area like the back of my hand there was a very narrow path way too narrow for a car going uphill between trees on the left side of the road just a couple of metres ahead I turned left and run on the narrow path afraid that the car will keep going and lose me because suddenly stopped with a scream of the Shires but now I was running on sheer adrenaline powered by my fear of whoever was behind me I was worried that the muscles in my thighs would rip but I had to keep going I didn't have a choice I managed to turn my head slightly while running and saw two men with knives in their hands getting out of the car somebody yelled Guerra it was too dark to see their faces I actually think they might have worn bellies but I couldn't see that well I know that they were all in black and it's very difficult to see them in the dark one thing for certain these were big guys their voices given themselves away is probably in their mid 20s to late forties I didn't have the time or energy to turn my head again but I was sure that this is the first time that I'd got a clear glance of them and I could see also that somebody was left in the car that could only mean one thing the men running behind me were planning on bringing me back to the car and to that last person oh my god I kept screaming someone's actually trying to kidnap me if these guys were gonna get me I'll never see the Sun again I thought to myself it was honestly the most horrific how her of my life just minutes ago I'd been walking to my friend's house and a normal weekend night and now I was running for my life with these monsters with nice behind me as friends it towards the first house I saw them getting out to the forest patch I managed to get to the door at the house which was open by some miracle I sprinted inside slid down on the floor catching my breath and asking myself what the hell happened I looked outside I didn't see anyone my friend's home was just two houses down from the one I was in I was worried that whoever was in the home would think I was a maniac in a moment of sheer and steep of panic open the door rang the doorbell to the house as hard as I could so whoever lived in there would come to the door by the time I managed to catch my breath explain to the people what had happened my dad had come to pick me up there was no one to be found in the whole community no car no people nothing the only thing they left behind was mark on the road with a car turned so fast from earlier the mark stayed there for weeks I still get shivers when I passed that far even ten years later when we were little my father who is in the army for 18 years uses had his true stories about him and his fellow comrades one of them happened in East Pakistan now Bangladesh one time my father and his friends were in a camp on duty in the middle of nowhere when they suddenly hear a woman's voice outside of their camp my father and his friends were scared and they weren't sure what to do because the nearest home was at least fifty kilometers away anyway they went outside in our salad yes everything was a riots she said she was lost in that she needed food and water my father invited her inside and gave us some food and water after she finished her food she asked my dad if he was local but I told her that he's from West Pakistan and he's only they've trained in she then asked my dad if he'd like some homemade sweets he said yes to this and she left a couple of days went by on my father forgot about the incident a few days later when my father and his friends were sleeping in the tent they heard the same woman's voice again this time in different clothes and knew her fumé her hair was new and looks wet like she just had a shower and got ready I never looked like she had gone fifty miles to get there my father invited her inside again and got her some water this time she refused a water and gave my father a trail of piece of cloth on earth when my father took the cloth he said there were homemade sweets as she promised the sweets are still warm like somebody had just made them after a while the woman left again and promised to come back soon according to my father she sought to come in there every single day with the same squeeze one day she asked my father and his friends if they were married my father lied to her and told her that he is happily married but my father's friend told her that he is not she then asked if he would like to marry her and he told her no and when she got angry and told them they were just wasting her time and they would regret it after that she never come back now after a few days my father and his friends finished their training and left when they reach the nearest town I also love was about the one Mountain locals told them that nobody with that name and description lived in town the nearest town after that was a few hundred miles away after that my father left the area to come home to Pakistan to this day my father is wondering about the woman and wants to know who she was or where she was coming from my dad and I are avid campers not professionals anymore for my dad used to be a wilderness guide for kids we typically prefer the eastern and western Sierra's as I have great car camping spots next to the lake and lots of great trowels so last summer we decided to go up for her two night stay and do some day hike in the campground was pretty full not unusual for the salma but we were lucky enough so I falls at the time to find a pretty secluded site and we set up a tent sir for the first night everything was normal a little later there was bear activity but we used to that second night I crawled into my sleeping bag in my tent and I passed out cold eventually at 3 a.m. I'm awoken to the sound of footsteps my dad is diabetic and needs to pay around 3 or 4 times and nights and the sounds definitely footprints what they come in from the wrong direction we were located next to the bathrooms so the footstep should have been moving in that direction but instead they coming closer and closer to our tents they then stopped about a yard short the breathing gets really heavy I first rush it off as my dad maybe he lost his flashlight the Ravens suddenly goes away I fall back to sleep I need to be awoken of human it's later to breathe him right off of my tent now now you know that rush of Terror that goes up you swine I had that this wasn't my dad and they perfectly still but the footprints continued to circle around the tents I had the rain fly on so I can see through the roof and it was a new moon it was pitch black now I convinced myself a heavy sleeper that I'm just dreaming just as I'm thinking that I now feel a single finger from Fred the length of my foot through the tents real slow and Rudy Airy now I figured that I must have been dreaming because my foot is in the sleeping bag it couldn't possibly be that but I can't fit quickly disappeared I used a small ambient light available that my fault was bare and out of the bag I laid there froze as whatever it was shrugged my fault for maybe two minutes no it gave a few more at the ball forevs and then just stood above my tent for what felt like an eternity before disappearing I ended up staying up all night I was really Harold via this in the morning I heard my dad kicked out of his hens I bolted up and met him by the fire he looked me in the eyes and asked me if I cost enough in the night before I asked him the same thing and he said that he'd been around at 2:00 a.m. because he thought somebody was going for us off I told him my story we know so so Garrett recently been rambled through and it was rearranged on the table every ison was there nothing taken just harshed the footprints were in a perfect circle around my tent - now we still can't even talk about this without getting scared a few years back in early fall my dad and I were breaking down a guiding come on the upper Copper River behind Hudson Bay Mountain when we heard a commotion coming from behind the bush we're in the middle of nowhere there's no other humans for these 40 kilometers and we were hearing this unearthly shriek in sound we run out into the forest heading downhill to the lowlands next to the river and we watch as maybe a group of six or seven wolves chase down a bull moose the animal had a massive gash in its side it had been Gorda and another fran sister was now following him from the rear it's a full-grown male bear it's a grizzly bear I thought I was watching a movie like one of those things you only see nature documentaries we followed from a distance of maybe 250 meters while the ball moves desperately tried to cross the river it never made it the Wolves descended on their prey backing out on the shore while it was kicking and shrieking in agony the Wolves didn't get their fries for long as a grizzly was done watching and charged at the Wolves which wrote them up then they attacked the massive bear frog toward the park against the ground and the other animals flicked back into the woods they didn't go far from the kill though knowing that the bear wouldn't be able to eat all of it on its own it was a battle that you only hear about from the First Nations that was the moment I realized why we're not the top of the food chain my dad and I decided that we had to make our move as we started moving we've really begun watching us from across the river now I've never been so scared in my life or so awestruck I now have a very good respect for nature and I'm thankful for that me and my dad went camping in savage golf in TN during my senior year of high school we didn't bring a tent because it wasn't supposed to be that cold seeing as it is on either beginning of fall despite this I didn't sleep at all that night because I was so cold it was a long and miserable night we're staying in our sleeping bags on a tarp I don't know what time it was but the moon had already reached his peak in the sky and darkness of the night to change from pitch-black to slightly less black I still couldn't see much by this time I'd heard some leaves rustling and something moving in the underbrush I gauged it as about 20 feet away just where I campsite was meet in the thick woods I then heard it again about 30 minutes later but it was hard to tell but something was definitely there we're in Tennessee and after living and camp in there my whole life I wasn't too worried that it could be a bear I assumed there's a raccoon or a possum as soon as dawn broke and I was able to see again I jumped out of my sleeping bag to make a fire because I was still freezing after I warmed up a bit I go over to work for what the sounds were to figure out what was going on and then found cat tracks I mean big cat tracks poor friends bigger than my hand they were too big for a Lynx or Bobcat and we then hiked back to the ranger station and asked him if it could possibly be a mountain lion in TN the Ranger was doubtful until I showed him the pictures I took with the tracks next to my hand so apparently we had just slept as human burritos 20 feet away from a [ __ ] mountain lion so I must have been about nine when this happened my mom was a single mom and I had a much older brother he lived away from home we basically lived in the middle of nowhere just the two of us my closest neighbor was within 15 minutes running this sentence but certainly not shouting distance we had an old main road which run past our home we were maybe home two or three cars passing our home in the evening those who were heading into our local town or trying to avoid the main road so basically no one a Knights were always quiet it was a kind of place where if there was a knock on the door your blood ran cold usually it be somebody who is lost or somebody who had a car crash the winding roads here could be very awkward to navigate and for some reason we had no curtains and we had these big huge windows along both walls of our living room it would creep me out of it when I was alone but when my mom was there I felt her Riots so this one Friday night I'm sat with my mom watching a movie in our PJs with a dog at weekend tradition it was dark and must have been late and the knock at the door happens we both do a double-take and lick each other and freak out a little bit but then my mom does her parenting and acts very calm she heads to the door with me following close behind hiding behind the fridge and does all the locks on the door and opens it no one's there when I'm instantly slams the door and starts panicking silently she gives me some weak explanation about a deer running in our door I obviously don't believe it but I don't want to argue she seemed to convince herself that everything was a riot and she takes me off to bed so Saturday night comes being a child I forgotten about the night before and I think my mom had convinced herself that it didn't happen I don't think it's hard to work out what happened next the knock again obviously I understand he remembered the night before and a children's through me I don't know if any of you have ever seen parents working scared for there's nothing more terrifying when you're a kid my mom obviously tries to act normal we make our way to the front door I'm again hiding and there's no one there my mom turns a door shot this time is really freaking out both of us like I said our living room has big windows on either side of there now our living room was also at the center of our home and the only phone was in front of one of the big windows the falls are walking in that room and whoever it was on the other side watching us going to the phone was beyond creepy we sat in the kitchen for a bit after scrambling to close the kitchen blinds normally we'd never bother close in this because we only had forests around us so there was good privacy from it now eventually my mom had to do something she tells me that is frumpy kids even as a child I know this isn't true she heads a way to call the cops eventually the police turn up they do a walk around the property and they find nothing and give us a number to call if it happens again then the same thing happens in Ex free nights in a row the police come every time but as we're really in the middle of nowhere it takes him a while to get there and people have lots of places to hide obviously my mom's terrified at this point living alone with just your own daughter in the home can you imagine how scary that would be so the police agreed to do a stakeout on a home that night we added this one country path which runs off the main road and along the front of our home so they set up there at the time I was both afraid and excited so on this stakeout the police observe the guy turn off his lights in his engine a few feet up the road from my home and roll into the side of the front of our house this was a perfect view of our living room he sat there for two hours watching our home before getting out and sneaking up to the front door this is when the police quickly arrest him so there's some creepy man who lived several towns away at least 20 miles or so he would come just to watch my mom at night and freak her out by knocking on the door just thinking about him watching us that week or how long he'd been watching us before he started knocking it's so creepy I really can't stand the fall to this I'm a former FilmOn Ranger here for those of you who don't know film one it is a place celts 138 thousand acre high adventure base in nowhere New Mexico on a day off two fellow Rangers and myself decided to bag 12 weeks in a 24-hour hayek the flam route was almost 50 miles and we had to reposition water and snakes at one point due to the lack of water in the area that was close to the campers so we set off and the hike was going great fast-forward to about 2:30 a.m. 18 hours into the hike we were just getting off the Black Mountain and finished a 2,000 feet descent which was wicked Steve and off screen which is loose frogs we have two headlamps between us since mine have burnt out about an hour ago we walk out along this Ridge with a few feet of trees on either side before it drops off after about half a mile my friend notices a big pair of glowing eyes just behind us it's a mountain lion no doubt about it it is about this time that we've realized that early in the morning we're going to look like food to them we decided to make a lot of noise and just keep walking down the trowel we only make it a few feet before we see a different set of eyes through our riot another mountain lion we think that's weird they never hunt together now we grab our pocket knives we have one in each hand and a rock in the other convinced that they're about to it's half-castes we walk a little further down and a third pair of eyes what's up on our left when our [ __ ] one of my buddies and quickly picks off a rock chucks it's who I left after two tries he knows on the head and it lets out the most terrifying blood-curdling scream that you ever hear in your life but none of the free mountain lions leave again this is strange because animals normally flee when their hearts unless s-sick starving or protecting their young we decided to make noise we now decide upon a song to sing and eventually somehow settled on call me maybe and procedes felt that out to the mountain Lyons no dice we're walking in a triangle formation all facing outwards so nobody's back is exposed after the longest two miles in my life we eventually come out into a clearing where we found a camp we went to the cabin and collapsed on the porch and took a quick 20 minute power nap before continue in the Hayek and finishing at 23 hours 57 minutes and 40 seconds it turns out that that proportion of the park had been closed for was a mountain lion breathing apparently we stumbled upon parents teaching their cubs to hunt when I was younger I lived pretty deep out in the country now where I lived was notorious for having not some weirdos and creeps who took advantage of the vast open space and forested area to do weird stuff and I nearly fell victim to this so often me and my friends would go out and explore the forest just a fast high and we would play all kinds of games here I didn't see tag man hunt you name it we done it it was this one evening on particular that we were playing man on if you don't know how to play it you have to go back to the base and not get caught while doing so I had come pretty far out this time I really didn't want to get caught my friends were out looking for me one by one I could hear them getting cool I was desperate not to get caught I had a sick hiding place on the retreat I was covered by leaves I wait in this spot for what felt like an eternity it started getting dark - my friends really weren't gonna find me I could see the moon coming up and I've realized it's about time I went back just as I was about to break my cover I could see some torches in the distance and what appeared to be hooded figures I knew this wasn't riot I began walking back slowly and I heard somebody shout out for me followed by laughing they were coming towards me as I was running I could tell that they weren't gonna give up I didn't bother look him back luckily for me I knew this place like the back of my hand I took a route back that kind of gone down into a little canal that would give you pretty good coverage eventually made my way back I went to sleep and didn't bother telling my parents because they'd never let me fly out again I then woke up to what I thought was a morning the Sun had just started rising I went to open my blinds and I could see that there was a huge fire in the forest now we got evacuated soon and her house was saved now we had to move away very quickly after and my parents never said wire that was until I got much older turns out that there was some crazy people we set fire to the forest what scares the hell outta me is a fact that they know that I was in there they had the full intent of setting fire to the forest with a young child in there and they had no mercy in doing so this is one more comb now I'm never gonna forget I live out in the middle of nowhere so that's normal for me to walk with my friends home however the one friend I do normally walk home with nil was unavailable at the time he was off school because he was sick I'm gonna have to walk all the way home on myself I didn't mind doing so I find walking in ancient Rome in I decided to take the shortcut path this time because well what's the point of taking the longer route it's call if you've got a friend to talk to but if you're on your own or supporting there was a Balkan home and just began getting dark I had the feeling that I was being followed I just couldn't shake this feeling off of me I made it back home and didn't really think anything cover but I just couldn't shake the feeling of being so paranoid I did eventually managed to shake the feeling and get off to sleep that night so the next morning I went into school on my friend was there nil I was really happy because it meant I'd have a good day at school and I could walk home with him so the school finishes and we walk home we decided to go the short way again because it's getting dark soon know as I'm walking I see my friend's mom she lives down the path for this away from me she waved me over she said hey why didn't you t stop yesterday I had some milk and cookies for you waiting in my home I said oh sorry I never even saw you I wanted to get back in quick she would often give us treats and she's just a really nice lady but then she said yeah I'm sure your friend saw me and why was Neil messing around I then looked to nil I said to her that no wasn't with me yesterday she then said that yeah I saw you and Neil walking home yesterday he was just behind you I thought he was playing some game with you all these years later thinking of that moment sends shivers down my spine relive in the moment that I've realized somebody was following me home and I was completely oblivious to it you

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Length: 92min 42sec (5562 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 10 2018