5 Most Disturbing Forest Ranger Cases - Darkness Prevails

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in 1996 28-year veteran forest ranger Randy Morgenson left on a routine patrol five years later only parts of him were found along a river author Eric Bloom who wrote a book of his disappearance stated I don't think it was an accident after so many years with the bones nod there's no way to say exactly what happened you're watching darkness prevails the best place to share your creepy stories with the world because this world is a strange one the outdoors are fierce and untamed despite what you may have been told or believed every year 750,000 missing-person cases are reported sometimes those people are never seen again so what's going on what are the horrific things forest rangers have seen the people who dedicate their lives to the outdoors if you want your story in a video like this one I'm looking for creepy zoo stories if you've got one send it to me at darkness prevails org slash submit now then step into the woods with me and let's disappear without a trace number one the theme in the Adirondacks submitted by Cal age for the sake of the story you can call me cow I worked as a police officer for the Atlantic City PD of New Jersey for 18 years when I retired I pulled some strings for my many years of service on the force and from cooperating with New York police officials to get a job with the Adirondack Park Rangers I'd always loved the great outdoors something I missed while working in casino central at Atlantic City and what could be more outside the Lew than 6 point 1 million acres of woods rivers lakes and mountains I was looking forward to it a quiet bachelor's retirement preserving the forest and looking after the nature I loved but as it would turn out nature also holds a lot of terrible secrets I arrived at the Adirondack Park in 1995 a year after my retirement to my designated park ranger cabin we were required to live and work on the reserve I was driven up from Atlantic City by the guy I was replacing a fellow we can call Joe Joe had worked here for over 30 years and in spite of his graying hair he was still spry and full of life after a long drive we pulled into the clearing around the cabin Joe showed me the well from which we drew water where the power lines were and around the small two-man cabin as we were sitting on the front stoop laughing sharing fishing stories and chewing on some cigars Joe suddenly got very quiet he trained his ice blue eyes on me and asked do you believe in God cow my family is Italian and Irish we're about as Catholic as you could get my answer was an instant yes Joe grimaced grinding the stogie on the wooden railing of the porch I don't know about God and myself Joe said staring at the old-growth rows of oak that ringed the clearing the devil I'm more sure of because I've seen him he lives in those woods I thought Joe was being overdramatic and I chuckled but he gave me a look a cold dark and foreboding luck and my laughter extinguished you'll see what I mean soon enough he said disposing of his cigar in the garbage inside the cabin as he came back out with his Fedora he paused and looked at me I love these ones but there are dark things out there you couldn't even begin to imagine for the first month after Joe laughed I could almost convinced myself his terrifying words were nothing more than park ranger hazing he was initiating me to the camp by scaring me yeah that was it I quickly fell into the rhythm of Ranger life patrolling the woods and clearing paths participating in biomass surveys with people from Albany it wasn't all sunshine though poachers were arrived and the anti-government militias training illegally in the park aren't friendly at the best of times but after eighteen years on the beat those Punk's didn't scare me what did scare me to the point of quitting this job happened late one night part of my old life on the beat was being a night owl and being a park ranger was no exception it was late one August and almost 10:00 p.m. when the ranger station called then they said a family had been separated from their little girl and they needed all hands on deck to mount a search I was instantly awake putting down my doggie r2w EB Griffin buck and hauling on my park ranger uniform and donning my cap I met up with my boss captain O'Rourke and he assigned me to follow a tributary of grindstone Creek near where the family had last seen their daughter I let a bunch of civilian volunteers down the creek armed with flashlights and intermittent firearms there had been black bear activity in the area so packing heat made sense as we fanned out along the creek and I gradually separated from the others scanning the forest until my flashlight caught something pink totally at odds with the summer ground cover I yelled out that I had found something but then my flashlight panned up and I wish to this day that I'd never done that I'd found the girl but she was in pieces scattered across the clearing what my flashlight had caught was her arm no longer attached with the stub of a pink t-shirt still there I had seen horrible gangland violence but nothing ever topped the brutality of this scene i gagged and that was when I heard it it was a strange cooing hooting sound something about the sound turned the blood in my veins to eyes as I panned my light in the direction of it and it felt like my soul died in my chest Standing Bear easily seven feet tall was this thing that's the only way I can describe it it was tall but heavily emaciated about as wide as a lamp all I could see its ribs protruding out of its rotting gray flesh its feet were hugged but it had hands like a man I'll be it with long disgusting black talons and place of fingers its head that was what still gives me nightmares instead of a normal head it appeared more as a Bucks skull with a massive rack of eight or so points its mouth was full of dagger-like teeth which curved up and outwards the closer to the front of the mouth they got in its jaws I saw a piece of the child dangling limply as it fixed me with a nightmarish gaze from demonic yellow eyes I didn't move nor did the thing for a space of about ten seconds when it cocked its head to the side it let out another Coon hoot and took a step towards me I screamed and as fast as I possibly could made for my revolver but in the blink of an eye it was gone disappearing in the brush the remainder of the search party found me pretty quickly considering I had apparently and unknowingly fired my entire revolver cartridge into the now-empty woods and I'd been crying when I explained what had happened I lied mostly to myself saying that I saw a black bear but that's definitely not what I remember whatever it was it wasn't natural not of this world of the living there and then that day I quit my job I left the Adirondacks and I have never looked back I pray that what I saw was simply some sort of vision or hallucination but it was very very real to that little girl number two something put him up there submitted by The Devil's bartender I'll begin by saying my father runs a Bar and Grill in a small town in the northeastern US our town isn't very big but most of our revenue comes from tourism since we aren't far from a state park fairly often will get forest rangers and police coming in and as you can imagine once they're drunk they have some very interesting stories to tell as it so happens my sister got very close to one of these Rangers and they got married and he is now my brother-in-law usually the Rangers and police will come in pretty somber and buy a drink when something horrible happens like a messy car accident or a missing child case one day when I was working the bar my brother-in-law comes in really shaken up he orders a whiskey and puts a hundred down on the bar of course I ask him if he's okay and he gives me this look like he just saw someone pass away right in front of his eyes then he just asks for the whole bottle I put a glass down in front of him then pour his first cup of the whiskey and I left the bottle for him to have at his pleasing as the night goes on a few other Rangers come in and they're all just like Arthur my brother-in-law I call over one of them hey what happened out there today I asked missing kid he pauses he found him the man gestures to Arthur Oh God that bad I ask worse he says then goes to sit down with the others I looked down the bar to Arthur who at this point has nearly cleaned out the second bottle Arthur I'm going to drive you home when you're done okay I tell him he simply nods when usually he'd fight me on this Arthur men what's wrong I asked him how how did he get up there Arthur mumble so though I could barely hear him what do you mean I asked to no avail as he suddenly locks up this really freaked me out because as a bartender drunks often want to talk you up the whole night even Arthur has done this from time to time later on I end my shift early handing the bar off to a co-worker and I began to take Arthur home in the car he begins to open up at first he talks so fast the between the slurs and the pace I have a hard time keeping up with them but to my memory this is very close to what he said I got the call I got called and I went the boy was gone and his mom had no idea where he was then I went out to find him because we couldn't leave him but why was he there how was he there he couldn't be there but he was he was but how he was all bloodied and so high half of em was gone I don't know where it is but it's not there with him at this point he was crying and I made the mistake I wish I hadn't where was he Arthur up up there he said looking up as if the kid was on the roof of my car in the tree 50 feet up I found him because the blood had fallen on me Arthur locked up again and this time I was actually glad he dead he kept staring at his hands like there was something there when we got to his home I was trying to find the keys to get him inside when he grabbed me very suddenly and made me Yelp he looked me in the eye his face serious and I thought for a second yet somehow completely sobered up something put him there he said staring into my eyes what what put him there I asked I don't know I don't want to know Arthur said my sister opened the door having heard us outside and she helped me get him in and lay him down she asked me what was wrong with them and I told her that she didn't want to know to just believe me that he had a very very bad day that night I lay awake thinking about what Arthur had said to this day he doesn't talk about it and that's fine by me but sometimes and I wonder what can put that kid 50 feet up into a tree but just like Arthur there's a part of me that desperately doesn't want to know number 3 stairs submitted by Megan W I have an uncle that used to work as a forest ranger in Michigan he's gone through nights of tigers loose in a campsite without a working flashlight drunk guys drowning in the rapids and kids passed away from hypothermia their bodies found cradled peacefully at the basis of tall pine trees a lot of strange and creepiness yes but he never seemed disturbed when telling these stories he saw it is just part of the job he took me in my middle brother on a walk through my grandparents woods one evening while the adults made dinner the other two boys were completely occupied with a video game and there had only been two players in the game so our uncle decided that he would give us other to some special attention especially to me as being the only girl I would get excluded from a lot we walked for maybe 15 minutes before my uncle stopped dead at the swamp area in the woods a place we often went to hunt for mushrooms in the summer but right in the middle of this soggy part of the forest we saw something extremely odd and even more out of place particularly we hadn't seen it there before you're not going to believe me when I say this but there was a staircase in the middle of the swamp It was as if someone had built a house there and everything but the stairs had been swallowed up by the swamp and at the top of the stairs was a very small landing where a welcome mat or carpet sat completely clean and untouched from what we could tell I felt my face twist with confusion and bewilderment and I looked up at my uncle but the look on his face struck me like a cold ice pick my uncle was terrified shaking like it was the middle of winter his eyes started around the tree line like he was looking for something then he grabbed our hands and began to walk twice as fast I've always been very short and unable to keep up so I found myself being carried all the way back to the house when we arrived we stopped only when we were in direct sight of the house and he told us not to say anything about it to anyone especially the boys and to not go out of sight of the house without him with us we were very confused but also extremely scared as it just sounded insane to us so it was easy for us to keep our mouths shut recently I went back home to visit and I convinced my brother to come with me to see the staircase though it took a lot to convince him to come along at first he refused to go without a weapon and our 200-pound Mastiff when we got there back to the same spot from before there was nothing just a clearing no bits of metal no carpet just an empty clearing in a nice big patch of mushrooms those mushrooms might have been in our dinner if our Mastiff hadn't growled the moment we stepped towards them maybe it was just a deer but we left quickly and we've never been back since or told anyone what we saw number four haunted forest submitted by Matthew 28:20 9 I lived in the Philippines it's a beautiful country but in my case I lived in the northern part of the Philippines known as the mountain province and though it was quite serene up there as a child I always felt like something was wrong in the forests near my house the year was 1979 and there weren't many houses in our rural town only my relatives lived there really during the time back then I was nine years old and I loved playing around with my cousin Brandon who was 19 and worked part-time as a voluntary forest ranger we often went to the forest near my house to play in spite of our age differences we still enjoyed hiking outdoors at one point we were next to a steep cliff and I slipped nearly falling off Brandon caught me and helped me regain my balance but that wasn't the worst part the worst part was the fact that the cliff even existed we had been all throughout these forests before and never once have we seen or stumbled upon this cliff what I mean is yesterday this cliff hadn't been there we weren't even half a mile from the house I tried to explain it to myself and I just chalked it up to a landslide or something as I dusted myself off and we began to walk again we began to hear movements around us who's there my cousin asked and I felt chills coming out of my spine and my hairs standing on end Annina or shadow my cousin whispered do you see it I didn't reply there there are many of them I said finally seeing it for myself we turned back and ran as fast as we could I remember shouting so loud my mom came out rushing towards me she saw me and got angry and said why do you go out there alone like that it's dangerous I froze right then and there what do you mean Brandon's right here with me she got down on her knees and scraped some dirt off of my face look you got hurt mom stop I said what did you mean Brandon was just right here I looked around me and I noticed that Brandon wasn't there anymore when I turned back to my mother she had a very concerned and sad look on her face with hesitation in her voice she had to remind me honey remember Brandon passed away just yesterday I was in complete shock turns out way back then I did that quite a lot because when Brandon was gone it hurt me bad it took me years to get over it but that day I remember vividly seeing him seeing the shadows nearly falling down a cliff was it all just a dream again Brandon was a voluntary forest ranger in his time and he had helped a lot of people in the woods and before he passed he had taken care of me a lot every time he had gone to our house he would tell me stories about his adventures in the woods about the shadows he'd see the whispers he heard and even the time he saw the TKE belong a half horse half human creature I always thought those stories were only just stories anyway that was what inspired me when I was 18 to serve as a voluntary Ranger myself I'm beginning to understand how it was for him the night time whispering you could hear all around the woods the strange movements you'd see out of the corner of your eyes we used to have to work with partners My partner and II heard them too the whispering he was also very afraid to go out after dark and would try to get out of his duties at nighttime as much as possible on one occasion when Andy and I talked about our girlfriends just hanging out at the ranger station on a quiet night we suddenly heard a terrible scream now we would have gotten up and ran to the rescue as fast as possible the thing is it didn't sound like a man or a woman it sounded like something else just the sound of it hurt our ears as if whatever it was was standing right next to us when it stopped and he asked me what the world was that I didn't reply right away because I didn't know myself instead after a few moments I recommended that we shut and lock all the doors and windows I still live here with my lovely wife who's half Japanese and our daughter as well as a one month old baby boy and despite being very creeped out by the forests around us I'm more determined than ever to protect my family and our neighbors from the things and the wines and number five there's a reason they call it Devil's Den submitted by s Stevenson in the early 2000s when I had just graduated high school I was looking for any and every way to get into the Forest Service I wanted to work my way up to being a game warden but that dream quickly subsided because when I was taken in as a park ranger around Devil's Den in Arkansas I was smitten the job never felt like a job and it was very satisfying rarely did we have emergency calls but when we did finding that lost person or helping the injured get help it left you with a feeling like you could actually have an impact on the world all while preserving nature of course there was one emergency call though that was a game changer for me I don't think I've ever been the same because of it the year was 2005 it was early December and quite a cold year for Arkansas we received a call that night that a child had gone missing my first thought was who would go hiking during this weather and why on earth would they bring their child but wait it gets better it wasn't even a kid it was a baby a little over a year old in fact and they hadn't been hiking the couple lived just a ways from the park they called in stating that their baby was gone after hearing sounds around their house the window to the baby's room had been opened and they heard footsteps heading in the direction of the park red flags were going up everywhere while I listened in on the details of the situation nonetheless I grabbed my gear and I set off to search my side of these forests and hills three long drawn-out hours later and I was exhausted I hadn't rested and drank much water or eaten since I was back at the headquarters the excitement and rush of quickly going to the rescue was fading and I was ready to just sit down for a few moments but that's when I heard the cry immediately I ran toward it straight uphill the trees began to thin and soon the tree line broke completely as I stumbled upon a clearing with a large flat top rock in it it was just one of many random boulders in the forests and began to work my way past it when I heard the crying again it was louder and now I knew that it was coming from on top of the rock now the boulder was easily fifteen feet high so despite my confusion I grabbed on to any protrusion or opening I could find and I climbed it took me about 90 seconds to ascend the rock winded I pulled myself up onto the flat top and I saw the baby he was wrapped and swaddled in light blue crying but oddly enough there wasn't a scratch respec of dirt on him or the cloth for that matter how in the world did he get up here in such a state I was a fully grown man and it took every ounce of energy I had to climb the rock and there was no way I could do this while holding a baby if multiple people had taken him and laid him up here then the better question is why who on this planet takes a baby in the night runs a few hours into the woods lays the baby on a rock while making sure he's perfectly clean then leaves without a trace I was astonished and a bit creeped out but I called for backup and as I couldn't get the child off the rock by myself when the parents got their child they were greatly relieved but then they wreak wickley weirded out because they said that they hadn't swaddled the baby when they put him to bed and that they didn't even own the blanket we found him in this was easily the weirdest experience I had as a forest ranger and the weirdest experience in my life period the Forest Service does an invaluable job they preserve nature and animals while simultaneously keeping us safe from it these amazing people who spend almost all their time in the woods while they work for the Forest Service should be commended for two reasons one their bravery of course and two the sheer guts it must take to keep going and doing your job after seeing some very horrifying and unexplainable things goodnight be sure to like share comment and subscribe if you enjoyed the video and don't forget to send us your creepy true stories from zoos at darkness prevalence org slash submit if you want to support this channel further you could always download my free app spooked on the Android store donate 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Published: Thu May 03 2018

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