5 Scary State Park Stories (Vol. 5)

I love visiting my local state parks as I'm sure all of you do one of my dream jobs has always been being a park ranger or just being a volunteer at one of these state parks I love hearing stories for them especially ones that give you a good scare these subscribers share their creepiest experiences while visiting state parks and or working in state parks so if you're a fan of Park Rangers and all that they see this one's for you if you have a creepy story that you'd like to share sends it into the email or the website that you can find in the description down below let's get in to these tales of terror I worked for a state forest surface in the tri-state area several years ago in a field location that was two hundred and fifty year old farmhouse the basement was dug and compacted earth they were large fireplaces in several room a few Stephen had pot hooks in them for heating water and cooking there was one bathroom that had been installed in a 1940 prior to that there had been none the floorboards were a white slats of pine and you could see the hand forged nails in some of the areas they were far enough apart that you could shine a flashlight down through the crack to see the basement floor mice and camel crickets were common there were just a fact of life that we lived with as was the ancient oil furnace we had in the basement that broke frequently in the winter another odd fact was that the dug earth basement in the farthest and darkest corner there was a dark room for developing film I have never even ventured into that room because it bothered me I'm going to recall as many of the events as I can in that loose timeline because it's been eight years since I worked there so my timeline might not be exact I always felt watched there it was a constant feeling that remained until I got into my car to leave at night there were often strange smells sometimes like rose water and oranges that have warm associations but sometimes like rotten garbage even when no trash was present there was a kitchen that had been slightly modernized on at least two occasions all of the cabinet doors would be shut in the morning and then Al's osa stairs working in the office I would hear them all open come back downstairs and find them all wide open seemingly by themselves the moment you walked in the door in the morning It was as if you felt eyes turning on to you our one secretary dealt with this by very loudly announcing good morning to the existing inhabitants and she said she didn't necessarily feel threatened but if she started hearing too many noises upstairs while she was alone she would loudly say you all know I don't want to be hearing this I don't mess with you so come on don't mess with me and she said on some occasions it would stop but not always the first time I remember seeing something physically I usually hear and see images mentally not with my physical eye it was about I don't remember he's like in the day but we had a meeting going on downstairs and I ventured upstairs to fetch a chapstick out of my back my back was to the main hallway and all of a sudden I heard footsteps to the side of me I turned and saw two shadowy people one shorter than the other flashed down the hallway into the back office making footsteps the whole way on another occasion concerning footsteps our secretary and I were in the office on a winter morning just the two of us and the heat was broken yet again we sat in the same room downstairs trying to stay warm with a space heater we couldn't use the fireplaces that were shut down we were laughing in talking and all of a sudden we heard a very loud boot clomping steps run from the downstairs foyer to the upstairs and across the hallway upstairs directly over our heads to the opposite side of the house we looked at each other and paused but at that point who had been used to these Concha mannequins and fell to if we let it bother us it wasn't going to be the best scenario so we tried to be strong we lost two cleaning people though in the evening after the few of us had gone home we never had more than six people in the office we had a cleaning service that came in to vacuum and try to help us with the pest issue by assuring the trash was taken out and etc each night the cleaning man was to fill out a journal of what was left on my boss's cabinet to tell us what he did after he had been there a while he told us in the journal that he had heard his name being called while he was using the vacuum this happened multiple times it would turn the vacuum off and it was silent finally I guess he was brave he said he knocked on the wall and nothing happened at first then he knocked and there was a response with two knocks back and he quit after that my boss had a bad habit of working later in the house after dusk and I would sometimes work with her but we would never stay past 6:30 or so it just wasn't a good idea it was though that the house had a time and we didn't want to intrude on that like a mutual respect I know that sounds strange before she started putting a cap on for evening hours one night she was working alone at her desk facing out into the hallway when she saw a very tall shadow person passed by the doorframe slowly not running like the ones I saw she said I had to be seven feet tall it scared her so badly on her another occasion she was working late and a giant blue orb about the size of a soccer ball with electrical looking energy coming off of it went down the same hallway past her door and crashed into a metal file cabinet we had at the end of the hallway on yet another occasion this one was in the afternoon she was working on a project in our large meeting room which had likely been a dining room at some point she was engrossed in what she was doing in oblivious to her surroundings when she looked up and locked with a dark-haired man who looked to be in his mid-40s in 19th century dress with gray eyes she said he looked a surprise that he saw him as she was to see him and she saw daylight passed through him he turned to go toward the main stairwell and disappear she yelled out understandably startled and the secretary and I came running in to see what was wrong none of us saw him again though we did give him a name based on what we knew of the houses history in retrospect I'm not sure if the name was correct but we tried to be respectful in that same room I was simply passing through one afternoon when I mentally heard a woman's voice say with great agitation this is my house a tired oh trope I know but there is validity to it when considered in in context that when a canal was being dug in the 1830s near the property the state was purchasing tracts of land from residents in order to make room for the canal later in the 1960s the state began purchasing large tracts of land in order to preserve them estate parks won lot B even where this house is located I began leaving a recorder running overnight in different areas of the house and there were two rooms where I recorded the most one was in the oldest section of the house that was once a family room and the other were the servants bedrooms upstairs one which was my office I should note that this house is located in a very rural area there is a canal nearby that is now used for only recreational kayaking and fishing in a series of hiking and horse trails but no city sounds are noise interference from neighbors when I left the recorder in the downstairs family room on multiple occasions I would play the recorder back next day and capture beautiful piano music it sounded faint but clearly audible classical music we also experienced a scent of fresh pine in this room for no apparent reason over and over again the other far less happy sounds were that of a gruff man's voice and the sound of at least two children crying I can never make out what the man was saying and he would be taking a guess as to say what the children were saying but it always sounded like I want my mommy this is the most troubling memory I have of the house no one likes to think that children suffered I began going to the local Hall of Records for the township and doing some research I was looking up information on the deeds of wills associated with the various individuals who had owned the house to the generations most were handwritten and spoke of chain as length of measure and stone markers or rocks marking where the land boundaries were I found out the names through the most recent family who lived in the house up until 1967 who by them was renting it from the states one particular family have been on the property for nearly 100 years and had a chance of finding a living relative and I did and contacted her via email to ask if she would like to visit the house and she did she was in her late 80s 88 I believe at the time but as a cousin of the family who was still living in the house in the 1930s she visited frequently as a child her mine was clear and I asked her if the family room is where they would set up the Christmas tree she said yes she knew that I had been doing some research on the house and I asked her if her uncle who lived with the family but was unmarried and died in 1950 or so played the piano and she said yes and he played beautifully she was a child and young team there in the 1930s I didn't want to trouble or scare her with the details of what had been going on in the house I just treated it like it was a nostalgic event for her this obviously doesn't explain everything because there were so many events that happened in the house including apparitions in clothing from different time periods but it explained and verified at least two small pieces of the puzzle we continued to have experiences there as well as our contractors such as two young men we hired they were to repair a flashing on the roof and they continuously blamed each other for tools disappearing and reappearing in strange unrelated places we had to do our own cleaning because we couldn't retain a clean person on yet another occasion we had a visitor use the bathroom where there was a slatted door closet facing the toilet as she did her business the closet began to shake violently the doorknob rattling as if someone were trying to escape from inside of the closet she was horribly scared and she jumped off the toilet and porter pants up without even using the toilet paper it was often mischievous odd behavior after years later we lost funding and I had to move to a different site but I still see the house when I'm doing extensive bike rides in the area on the canal town path the house has a field location also losses funding so it's been vacant for some years now there is an old cemetery located in the Windsor State Forest in Massachusetts called Wynette ago back in the 40s it started as a summer camp for kids to hike play socialize and do stuff while their parents were working for the summer break it could have been up to two dozen kids there per summer the legend goes that there was an old lady as a counselor there who one day snapped and went crazy she hung three girls in the barn and drowned two the other three in a hot tub she then killed herself let me tell you a quick picture as you pull into this camp a small house built in the late 1700 is on the left after the house is a small shed a medium-sized barn is located across the driveway from the house and right next to the barns is a small Cemetery with small unmarked grave stones it is said to the three girls that haunt the house and three haunt the barn while the old lady haunts the basement of the house inside the house people reported hearing laughter and getting small tugs on their clothing and even seeing shadows popping out around corners the basement is a different story in the basement the old woman's spirit tells you to leave tries to scare you by moving things around and people have even reported getting scratched by her the girl's spirits in the barn however are a different story in the barn you can hear crying noises and even faint screams some have reported hearing them even outside the house the cemetery is outside it's like a jackpot of spirit orbs if you're filming or taking pictures and though it's silent out there many have reported seeing apparitions and shadows in the cemetery I myself have been to the cemetery before a few times mind you each time I was there I was completely sober the first time I went with a few friends we all have flashlights we stepped out of the car and before we could even turn them on I stopped everyone and told them to stand still it was dead silent nothing no bugs no birds no noise from houses around it was eerily quiet unsetting ly quiet that made me nervous we walked towards the house and shined a flashlight in the window we saw a head move out of the window as soon as we did it the girls with us freaked but we convinced them to keep moving we explored the main floor of the house but we didn't hear anything really so we went over to the barn one of the girls all of a sudden was overcome with sadness and dropped right to her knees crying uncontrollably that freaked the rest of us out so he picked her up and put her in the car and left fast keep in mind we didn't really hear much of anything we may have seen an apparition in the window but that was about it but the presence up there I can't explain it it just feels wrong like you're being watched and followed I'm man enough to admit I'm too scared to return there [Music] this story starts with a group of my friends and myself going backpacking in Yellow River state part six of us were backpacking through the hills during late fall so there was a lot of dead sticks and leaves all around yet not very many other backpackers until we came across of a couple of guys heading the opposite way as we came close to them they stopped and told us that we shouldn't go down into the valley as they were there for the last two nights we asked why not and they said that they heard people talking near their tent in the middle of the night even though they were the only ones there my friends and I shrugged it off because we ourselves have drunkenly wandered around at night exploring and stargazing we continued down into the valley and set up our tents there was two of us in each tent three of us brought firearms just because we were kind of paranoid we would rather have them and not need them instead of not having them in eating them due to previous experiences we could all set up and break out our liquor and cards and play a few games in front of the fire before we decide to call it a night one of our friends passed out in front of the fire and didn't wake up when we tried to move him so we decided we will just let him make his own way to the tent when he was ready and ended up going to bed without him all of a sudden we are woken up in the middle of night of a semi drunk slumber to our friends screaming at the top of his lungs high pitched in everything we jumped out of our tents to find out why our friend was yelling who the hell was that we had no clue what he was talking about until we saw his face now you know when your friend is the first person to pass out at a party you do too all over his face with Sharpie well apparently some stranger was doing the same thing with charred wood and ashes the problem was that he had an upside-down cross on his forehead and pentagram on his shirt I'm not religious at all but I was kind of freaked out we ended up going back into the tents but I don't think any of us got much sleep then at about 3:30 a.m. we started to hear rustling in the woods around us it seemed to be everywhere though then we heard a voice say give him to us now I was freaked out and loaded around into my pistol but my friends seemed to jump the gun yes same trigger-happy friend and fired a round from his 22 into the air through his tent I then hear people running away from what seemed to be all around us needless to say at first light we packed up and got the hell out of there we contacted the county sheriff's office and told them what happened but they simply told us that there really wasn't much we could do besides report it [Music] my fiance and I postponed our wedding in 1990 we were getting stressed and needed a vacation we lived on the Big Island in Hawaii so naturally we went to the mainland we do not have much money so we rented a car bought a tent and decided to try to visit in camp in as many States / national parks in the western US as we could we were driving in the middle of nowhere on a way to Yellowstone it was a desert-like area we were driving through and it was the end of September it was very hot we saw an old building far from the road and decided to take a break to explore it as we approached the building we could hear flies and the smell of something bad we opened the door and it was like a big farm building the walls a metal roof were splattered in blood everywhere we looked were party parks of elk I am from the islands but my fiancee was from Northern California and familiar with wildlife he said they were out bodies there must have been at least 50 or more of them in there it was so strange they look like they were torn apart pieces of meat were flung and hung all over inside the building I freaked out and started to cry the smell and sights were overwhelming my fiance said he couldn't understand it because it was not like they were being processed or collected for anything all the meat or horns or everything else was just in there strong aparts and he said it looked like they were torn apart not cut with a knife I had to go I felt like I was in shock my fiance 4 refused to let me call the police he said he did not want to get involved he said it must be the work of crazy poachers a few miles later we entered Yellowstone National Park where as usual we chose an out-of-the-way campsites we were on high alert as we had been listening to a news story on the radio about a female hiker camping in a remote area of the park alone apparently she was torn apart by a grizzly bear there were few details about the attack and I'm sure I'm unable to find any written reports of anywhere online because we heard the news report on the radio for several days before getting to the park I find it odd that I can't find much on it we had a campsite with a bathroom nearby and a barbecue there were very few people in the park and no one camping near us there were signs everywhere warning people that they should be careful with food stores because of the bears we had a couple beers and went to sleep in the tent I often got hungry after dinner and decided to take a bag of pears into the tent thinking that if I put it under my pillow that no animals could smell it there remember I'm from Hawaii and we do not have wild animals here there are no bears skunks possums squirrel chipmunk armadillo Wolverines elk lions or snakes we do have deer and boar in the mountains but they were introduced by European hunters like a hundred years ago or so I fell asleep pairs snuggly under my pillow I was awakened by an immense weight on my upper right side of my chest my entire right arm and right side of my torso or as Dyk felt like it was stuck my first thought was bear there's a bear on top of me wanting my pears but as the second is developed in two minutes and the Menace turned into hours this immersive wait never once moved nor did it shift or twitch or even make a single sound in the first second I decided not to move or make any noise and definitely not awaken my boyfriend who was soundly as sleeping to my left I felt myself beginning to panic thinking that I had to be a bear attracted to my pears or something but his time dragged on I realized if this were a wild animal it was literally on top of me inches from the fruit it would have pod or done something to get inside the tent where at least shifted moved or snorted or breathed as living things do but to me I felt like a car was parked on the upper right half of my body the way it was so heavy and unmoving what the weirdest aspects besides it being a massive unmoving totally science something was that it was warm this flurry of thoughts and confusion literally dragged on for hours I became so terrified and overwhelmed I knew whatever was sitting or standing or laying or parked on me could not have been of this world once after all the hours of trying not to breathe heavily panic or even twitch a muscle I passed out cold from sheer terror my mind and body just shut down I totally understand now when people see a cryptid or a monster why they faint or lose bowel control the big difference with me was I could not see it I could only feel it and thinking it was a grizzly bear that that could cause it's razor sharp teeth and claws to easily get into the tent which made it so more confusing when I woke up the next day my fiance was already up I told him what happened and I was completely freaked out I checked the tent for any marks or signs of something on the fabric but there was nothing there was also no suspicious paw prints or footprints around the tent campsite instead of listening to my story my fiancee stopped me at the part about the pair's under the pillow and scolded me for quite a while I was totally still freaked out and wanted to leave my right arm and the right side of my body were aching that was not a dream nor was a sleep paralysis I have never been that terrified in all of my life ever before since that have happened I told this story to an experienced Sasquatch researcher and he said these types of tent antics are pretty common with juvenile Sasquatch he said many researcher and witnesses believe that Sasquatch in actually see through the tent fabric somehow and enjoy harassing cam he calls campers with intense sack lunches he described how campers tell of being in their zipped up tent and then being picked up and carried several feet away other witnesses described hearing their tent zipper unzip and a hairy hand reach in to touch them I think what convinced me that this was a sasquatch reclining on my tent was that what the research explained about Sasquatch abilities that are able to remain unmoving even without a twitcher spasm for literally hours at a time he pointed out how in nature they used this ability to camouflage themselves so effectively [Music] last Thursday night me and my fiance were driving around looking for something to do around 11:00 p.m. our friend Sierra called us and asked if we wanted to meet her and her new boyfriend at a diner in town we got there had some pies and decided we should do something none of us had to work Friday so we were going to hit the bars me and my fiancee went to grab another friend of ours who wanted to come after we got him we all met back up at the 7-eleven it turned out that all the bars were empty so we were brainstorming what to do instead that's when Sierra suggested we go to the cemetery we live in a city at the end of the Oregon Trail and what used to be the outskirts of the city was a little State Park the park is located on top of a large cliff also about a mile from the parking lot is a cemetery you can only go to by walking the cemetery used to be an Indian graveyard but over time they will put people who lived in the city in the graveyard to also settlers used to chase off Indians off this cliff in droves and many of the people of Indian descent have committed suicide by jumping off this cliff honestly the whole place is just creepy and has this vibe even during the day anyway my fiance was really against it but the group talked him into just go into the park we get there around 1:00 a.m. and we are standing at the top of the cliff which overlooks the city everything is okay for a while but then my fiance quiets everyone down and I swear to god we both heard footsteps to our left our whole group was to our right we freaked out and made the whole group leave as we were leaving I looked at my fiancee and something to our left caught my eye it was a bright ball it came up on the top of the trees made an arc and came back down it wasn't like transparent like a flashlight it was a solid like if the moon were really off in the distant but still really bright and white I even thought it was the moon for a second but then I looked up and saw the moon big and full and a red from smoke from fires all over the state later in the car I asked my fiance friend that we picked up earlier if they had seen it too they had so I wasn't going crazy for a second there was actually something there as we got to the car my fiance looked behind us and swears he saw another white orb in the forest but it couldn't have been a lamp or something because we were at the edge of the city and there weren't houses for miles also there were no other cars in the parking lot so it couldn't have been another person anyway we drove out there as fast as we could we dropped off our friend and he had me drive his car because he was too freaked out by the time I drove myself home he seemed fine looking back I really wish I spent the night with him the night after he dropped me off everything was fine for a while but once he started driving around the back roads near his house weird things began to happen again he was in some music on Pandora while driving well mid song the track somehow skipped from tiny dancer to dance with the devil then something black ran in front of him he slammed on the brakes so not to hit it he looked behind in the mirror to make sure there wasn't someone driving behind that's when he saw a pair of eyes and dark outline of a person in his back seat then the song changed back to tiny dancer and the figure was gone he parked the car in his driveway and ran inside on full panic nothing else happened that night but he was a bag of nerves for days [Music] thanks for watching this video much appreciated guys if you enjoyed these stories be sure to hit that thumbs up button as it really does help me a lot if you're new to the swamp why not subscribe and hit those notification buttons to never miss a video I upload videos almost every single day and all things creepy and anomalous if you have a story that you'd like to share on a future video if you have a story that you'd like to share on the channel be sure to send it in to the email or the website that is in the description down below on screen now you will see some cool things that you can click on such as this missing four one one slash Park Ranger series called I know why people are going missing in the woods it's almost two hours long and part three is coming soon so you don't want to miss this thrilling thrilling creepy story [Music]

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Length: 31min 17sec (1877 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 11 2018

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[u/LittleBlondeMonsters]

I got to the second sentance and had to quit... the voice is terrible...