Family HUNTED by pack of unidentified creatures | The Palmyra wolves

when i was a kid one of my favorite places to go in the whole world was my grandmother's house she lived in south paris maine about 2 000 people lived there totally rural and there's lots of forests everywhere we'd get to my grandmother's big farmhouse and we just immediately go off into the woods behind our property because it was like this vast expanse of wilderness but as soon as it got dark at night we would all be quick to go back inside because there was huge animals that lived in the wilderness of maine and you just didn't want to be out there past dark and at night i'd be looking out at this dark forest from the safety of my room and i would always be so scared that a set of eyes were going to look back at me from somewhere in this dark forest luckily that never happened to me it did happen to a family just north of my grandmother's house and it wasn't just one set of eyes it was five but before we get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right place because that's all i do and i post three four even five times every week if that's of interest to you then i would encourage you to waterboard the like button and then subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of my weekly uploads all right let's get into today's story in 2005 eric martin was working in a paper mill in maine and he had been working at this paper mill for 20 years and he was reaching up to get something on a shelf when he threw his back out and in fact he had slipped a number of discs and it ultimately meant he was not able to work anymore he was going to be disabled and so he's suddenly out of work his wife shelly martin was not working at the time but when he couldn't work she needed to get a job and so shelly who had not worked in a long time was able through some connections to land a job in her hometown in maine called palmyra palmyra was a very small rural community i mean we're talking maybe 1200 people that lived there they also had a 17 year old daughter named chelsea who was not eager to go but it was the only place they could afford and so they had to go luckily because palmyra was such a cheap place to live relative to where they had been living that for less money they actually ended up getting a bigger piece of property than they had lived in before it's this beautiful farmhouse that sat on a whole bunch of acreage but it was incredibly isolated you had to go down this bumpy access road to get to their long driveway and then once you were on the property you'd look out and it was just a full 360 degrees a very dense forest that virtually no one was in there was no nature trails it was just dark dense forest everywhere you looked so even though no one's that happy about it they end up moving into this farmhouse and as they're unpacking their truck eric picks up one of his many rifles that he owned eric came from a long line of hunters he loved to hunt it was his favorite thing to do and he had a whole bunch of guns that he kept and as he's carrying the rifle into the house shelley says oh no we're not keeping the guns in the house you have a barn you're going to put your guns in there this had always been a point of contention for them in their marriage shelley just didn't feel safe having guns in the house especially having kids in there and so ultimately eric agrees okay fine i won't put my guns in the house i'll put them in the barn and so he went in the barn and he and his son sean who he had come out to help him they built this gun case for all of his rifles it was very heavy duty they put it in the barn and then they locked that and then locked the barn itself so they were totally secure in the barn but definitely not readily accessible over that first year shelley and eric developed this ritual where at the end of the day they would go out on the front porch of their farmhouse and look out onto the front yard and they would drink coffee it was something they both looked forward to and virtually every night they did this and so almost exactly a year after moving in it was in early 2006 shelley and eric are sitting on their front porch enjoying their coffee they're chatting and shelley thinks she sees something in the woods now you have to understand the layout and how far away they are from the woods to get a sense of what they were seeing right in front of their porch was a gravel road where they parked their cars about 20 meters away from their house to the left is their barn and beyond the barn basically straight out from the porch is this huge open field where there's no trees or anything it was like open grazing area and then way beyond the field was the beginning of this tree line of this really dense forest so we're talking at least a couple hundred meters away where she sees these lights and she described it as like a pulsating light it did not look like a car or some sort of vehicle not to mention there was no road out straight ahead from their porch it was just a dense forest where there was absolutely no one that should have been in there eric immediately when he sees the lights he thinks there's a poacher on his property someone illegally hunting on his property and so he gets sean his son who did not live with them but was staying the night that night he gets him to come outside and say hey do you think that's a poacher down there at the edge of our tree line and sean's like i don't know maybe eric decides that he wants to go tell this person to leave his property and so he asked sean to come with him they figured they would just get to the edge of the property and yell out hey this is private property you need to leave as they're walking across the field and they're getting closer to the tree line the lights those pulsating lights begin to fade and disappear back into the woods and they get all the way up to the tree line and they can't see any lights at all even though at this point standing on the edge of the forest eric and sean are fairly confident that this poacher has left they decide just to be sure let's walk a little ways into the woods even though it's totally dark we're not gonna get lost we'll walk a little ways into the woods and just continue to yell this is private property so they really do leave and so they begin walking and it's and it's a very dense forest lots of low hanging limbs it's not somewhere that's easy to walk there's no walking trails or anything like that and they walk you know 10 15 meters into the woods and then they hear what sounds like someone walking parallel to them maybe 15 meters away from them on their left and they both stop and they look they didn't want to take any chance that they were being stalked by a predator and so they thought you know what the lights are gone i don't know what animal this is let's just get out of here about a month goes by and nathan who is chelsea's boyfriend was staying with the family at the farm and it was the first nice spring day i mean it was a very dark and dreary winter maine winters tend to be that way and so that weekend nathan and chelsea decide let's go walk around the woods so they take the two family dogs and they start walking across that big field in front of the house into the forest the same area where sean and eric have been looking for those lights and then heard what sounded like an animal that was near them and so at first chelsea has the dogs on leashes but they get to the forest and she lets them off their leash to let them go run around and go crazy because they've been cooped up because of the wintertime as well the two dogs instantly take off running for about 100 meters and then they come to a dead stop right outside this big mound it looks like a dirt mound but they get up close to it and they can tell that it's actually more like a den there are these huge pieces of wood that have been leaned into like a lean-to type structure with moss and dirt and grass put all over the outside i mean it looks like a very intentionally made mound and there's a circular hole that's been created right on the front of it and the dogs have stopped right outside and they're poking their heads in and smelling into this hole and nathan and chelsea are looking at this thinking who did this is this like a hunter's thing is this something a hunter might make would an animal make this this seems really big for some animal to make this but it definitely was made on purpose whatever it is and so nathan he just kind of looks down into this den but it's totally dark and he thinks he hears growling coming from inside of the den and so without any hesitation he goes we gotta go i don't know what's living in there we gotta go and so they take the dogs they put them back on leashes and the two of them get out of the forest as quickly as they can when nathan and chelsea came back to the house they told eric and shelly and actually sean was there too and they said hey we found this stand of some kind out in the middle of the woods basically straight out from your front porch and that's when eric and sean said well about a month ago we were out in that same area and we could have sworn we heard some animal stalking us a couple of months go by and eric and shelly are sitting on their front porch having their coffee ritual and there was just this low mist that kind of hung over the entire field and as they're sitting there they're commenting on how creepy it was and what started as just kind of a friendly discussion about the general creepiness took a turn when they realized that they couldn't hear any wildlife no crickets no animals no anything and normally at night because they were out here all the time it was humming with life and so shelley had this high-powered flashlight that she always had out with her and she starts scanning the property not knowing what she's looking for but it just seemed really odd that they couldn't hear any wildlife but after she scans across the whole field she doesn't see anything and so she puts her flashlight down and just starts talking eric about whatever they normally talked about over coffee at night eric would say in numerous interviews that for whatever reason when she put that flashlight down he suddenly felt like they were in danger he's looking out he doesn't see anything and then all of a sudden he says you know what we gotta go inside i don't know what it is but we gotta go inside and shelly's like come on i wanna stay out here for a little bit longer we'll go in in a few minutes and eric stands up and he's like no go inside and he tries to grab her to kind of push her into the house and she's kind of fighting against him and all of a sudden shelley stops and she goes did you hear that and eric immediately knew that whatever it was it's the reason he had that sudden feeling of being in danger eric turns around and he can't see anything because it's too dark shelley grabs her flashlight and she begins scanning the tree line and she gets to the field and gets about halfway across the field right in front of them and she stops because right in the middle of the field are three creatures that look like wolves these huge creatures that are looking right at them two others join them so there's five wolf-like creatures that are staring at them right from the middle of their field she says to eric what are those and eric who's an experienced hunter he has no idea he goes i think they're bears they could be wolves we gotta go inside and so shelley's just holding the light and they start charging directly at her so fast that she wasn't able to keep the light on them they were already halfway across the field they go inside they shut the door and they lock it and without saying the word the two of them make their rounds across the entire bottom floor lock every window close every blind make sure everything is shut there was something different about these five creatures the way they started running towards them it just felt like they were targeting eric and shelly and so even after the house had been secured they didn't feel safe and so they're standing in the middle of their cabin and eric's saying my guns are in the in the barn i can't we have no protection and shelly is like whatever you do do not go out there we don't know what these are could be a bear it could be a wolf we don't know don't go out there shelly goes upstairs she shuts off all the lights she makes sure all the windows are shut and then she goes to chelsea's room her daughter and she wakes her up and she says hey come here do you got to look at this and they go to the window and they kind of like poke their head into the window because they don't want to like totally open it up and stare out because they don't want the creatures to see them but they're kind of poking their head out the window and she's like look and standing on the gravel are these five creatures that are just standing in a row looking directly at the house it was like they were waiting for them to come out the front door they were just patiently standing there looking at the house it did not look like normal animal behavior at all and as she's looking one of the animals looks up at shelly in the window and the creature stands on its two legs it gets on its hind legs and looks at her and shelly gasps and falls over because the creature's like eight feet tall and so shelley's on the ground looking at chelsea and she can't believe what she just saw it's like her brain can't process that this creature one had even seen her they barely had their head up in the window but that it stood on its hind legs that it was so big what are they doing sitting in a row right on the on the outside of the house waiting for us what's going on here and so shelley tells chelsea get in your bed don't go to your windows don't leave this room and that's when shelley also remembers that she hasn't heard her two dogs and she's worried they might be outside and so she starts quietly walking all along the top floor looking for her dog she's calling to her two dogs and they don't come out goes into the master bedroom and finds her two dogs hiding in the corner of the room next to each other like they're startled by whatever it is outside meanwhile eric was pacing downstairs thinking he needed to go to the barn and he needed to get his guns to protect the family but he knew that between his own disability he can barely walk very fast and he'd have to unlock the barn and then he'd have to pull down the gun case unlock that all the while he's exposed to these animals that are out there and so the next best thing in his mind is maybe he could run outside get in his truck and back the truck up to the front door and then he could get his wife and his daughter to come out jump in the car and they could drive away so he just goes to the window and he pulls the blinds aside to look outside and those five creatures are now gone they're not sitting on the gravel path right in front of the house he doesn't know where they are but they're not in front of the house and so he closes the blinds and he's like well i don't know where they are it's too dangerous to go out there he starts pacing somewhere and he goes back to look and he sees them back in the field where they first saw them all five you can see all five they're facing the house still but he can see them because the moon has now popped through and he's got illumination on the field and you can see all five and he's like okay maybe if i just keep my eye on them i can open the door run out get the car back it up without them seeing me and so without telling shelley he opens the door and he goes on to the front porch and he sees them out in the field he's got a good line of sight on them quiet as he can he walks down the steps and he makes his way over to his truck which is about 10 meters away and as he's getting closer and closer to his truck he's got his eye on the creatures that are in the field they haven't moved they apparently haven't seen him he gets to the driver's side of his truck he's got his keys out and he's kind of fumbling to hit the unlock button and then his motion sensor light kicks on and he's so on edge being out there when the light kicks on he drops his keys because he's so startled and the first thing he does is he looks towards the field and he sees that one of the five creatures is now standing on its hind legs looking at him directly before he even bends down to get his keys he sees them all running towards him he reaches down he grabs his keys he runs back to the house as fast as he can and he gets inside and slams it right as he can hear them crossing the gravel right in front of the house and he hears them bound onto the porch and start running around the wraparound porch he's too scared to even look in the window so he ducks down to get out of view shelley who is upstairs can hear everything going on and she yells eric what's going on and he goes stay up there stay up there shelly eric chelsea everyone's just frozen waiting knowing that these creatures are right on the other side walking along his wraparound porch and after a while he hears the footsteps of these creatures leave the porch and go back onto the gravel area and at some point he pokes his head up and he looks and all five are sitting there just facing the house waiting for them to come out of the house and so he scurries up the stairs to where shelley and chelsea are and they just are so scared so they decide they've got to call the police if nothing else the police will drive up and their vehicle might scare away these creatures but on the phone shelly lets on that what they're really scared about is some thing on their property in fact it's five creatures things running around outside their property and immediately the police officer who's responding to this he's like all right well are you sure it's not a moose are you sure it's not a bear and finally she's like no can you please just come over here and he's like listen ma'am just keep your door shut keep your windows shut and i'm sure it'll be fine and ultimately that's how the call ends they're on their own the family felt helpless and eric especially felt really frustrated because he can't protect his family he doesn't have a weapon he can't get to his vehicle they're just trapped and so they decide the only thing we can do is barricade ourselves inside of the house and so for the next 30 minutes they put heavy furniture in front of all the doors and the windows they blocked everything as best as they could they got kitchen knives and they got an ax that they had inside to chop some wood as they go upstairs they lock themselves in the master bedroom with their weapons and their dogs and they get on the bed and they just decide all we can do is wait until the sun comes up during the time they were barricading their house they would look out from time to time and they would see the five creatures just sitting on that gravel area right in front of their house just waiting for them when they finally went upstairs and barricaded themselves in that room they immediately heard the creatures move off of the gravel and they heard a couple of them at least walk onto the porch and start pacing around the porch and it's totally silent besides the sounds of these creatures and they were clearly communicating with each other they were bumping into walls and then they were howling at each other there was clear communication happening where they were trying to coordinate some sort of attack on the family now the way the house was set up is there was a second floor roof and then the first floor was a little bit wider than the second floor and had its own kind of separate roof and after a while the creatures stopped walking on the porch they left the porch and it's just silence and then they would hear them jump onto that first roof the scary thing about this is that if you walked around the roof you could actually look into the second floor windows and so they're laying there and periodically they'd be looking out their window there was windows in either side of the room they were in but there was a thin curtain between them and the window and so from time to time these creatures would walk past their windows and they would stop they put their paws up onto the window and they would look inside but there was a very thin sheet between them and the glass so they couldn't they couldn't see the creature and the creature couldn't see them all night they're listening to these creatures running around and sometimes they'd hear really loud scratching like they had figured something out and they were trying to burrow their way into the house but after a whole night at this they never actually broke the glass they never got inside the house as the sun started to come up in the morning the creatures jumped off the roof and they could hear them running away and for about an hour they didn't hear anything outside the sun's come up and they felt safe again and so they left their room they go downstairs and they finally open it up and all over their property are signs of huge creatures that had been on their property massive footprints with huge claws at the end they found tufts of hair that had gotten caught on fence posts and even scarier as they found all these points on the house in particular on the second floor when they were walking on that roof where there was clear markings that they had tried to burrow into the house there were these deep seated scratch marks into the side of the house the front door had been scratched apart i mean it was very clear that whatever these creatures were they were trying to get into the house but they'd just been unsuccessful this experience was so traumatic for the family that they sold the house and they moved very quickly after that and they have not experienced anything like that since they left so what do you think those creatures were was that a bear a wolf or something else let me know in the comments what you think and i will get back to all the early commenters so get in there and give me your best theory if you enjoyed this video and you haven't done this already please waterboard the like button and subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of my weekly uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or twitter my username on both those platforms is john ballen416 i'm also very active on tick tock where my handle is mr ballin got a ton of content over there as well if you have a story submission whether it's your own personal story or just a suggestion please submit it to our subreddit just called mr ballen it's linked in the description below and i read it every day so if i intentionally use your story suggestion 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Channel: MrBallen

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Keywords: scary, scary story, mrballen, spooky, horror, horror fan, maine, wolf, wolf pack, paranormal, cryptid, dogman, terrifying, forest, woods, demon, dog, haunted, stalked, attacked, hunted, siege, scared, horrifying, nightmare, nightmare fuel

Id: DMbY_AFXGX0

Length: 19min 30sec (1170 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Jrbai]

YES!!

This is the story about the encounter in Palmyra, Maine! There was an episode about it on the show Paranormal Witness. This goes into better detail. There are several events that occurred over time, I thought it was on one occasion! The video even has a photo that the family took of damage done to the house!

I wonder what other pictures they took? Did they keep any of the fur?

[u/Mittim33]

This is why you don’t marry a liberal who thinks guns shoot people on there own! I bet they sleep with loaded guns all over the house now.