Hikers, What's The Scariest Thing You Saw In The Forest? (r/AskReddit)

serious campers backpackers and park rangers of ridet what is the weirdest or creepiest thing you have found while in the woods big toe just on the ground nothing else just a severed toe in Georgia I unknowingly walked into abandoned cemetery for children it was overgrown with weeds and bushes and I nearly tripped over some tiny headstones from the 1800s there are no signs or anything anywhere just a lot of graves that you can't quite make out until you are walking on top of them woke up in the morning and walked out of the tent to find a sheep ripped apart and scattered across a 20-foot area about ten feet from our campsite the creepy part is this was in the morn mountains in Northern Ireland there aren't any wild predators they're bigger than a fox certainly nothing big enough to tear a sheep to shreds the sound of wolves mountain lands in the middle of nowhere is absolutely haunting sounds like a banshee I've been stalked by mountain lions just outside the light of the fire on an Indian Reservation really chilling knowing some things they're watching you a dude walked and rummaged through our campsite once we just waited him out in our tent he left eventually didn't steal anything that we could see when I was a teenager my dad took my brother and I on a week-long canoeing hiking and camping trip to a series of lakes that were only accessible by trail or floatplane we launched at 5:00 a.m. and paddled for four hours until reaching the trailhead then we packed our bags into the first Lake dropped them there and returned for our canoe it was probably noon by the time we started paddling across and it took a couple more hours to make it to the other end where the trailhead to the 2nd Lake was by now we were tired and saw there wasn't any good spot for a campsite at the second trailhead so while weary we decided to press on to the second lake and find a spot there we were running low on water but went worried about it as there was an old sign of the trailhead that said there was a spring a few kilometres up the trail as we hiked on we would periodically see signs posted to trees advertising than ever decreasing distance to the sought-after and pleasantly named Silver Spring about an hour after had left the lake we found a sign with an arrow pointing off into the bushes directing us towards the water source we left our packs and carried our canteens off into the forest a few short minutes later we saw final sign with an arrow pointing to a spot just behind an outcropping of rocks we eagerly rounded the outcropping and stood there stunned dry mouth sir gape at the sight of a freaking giant silver painted metal spring with a sign above declaring silver spring with an arrow pointing down at it keep in mind that this was literally in the middle of nowhere a full and hard day's travel whoever lugged that son-of-a-bitching thing in there and made signs and arrows to match my hat goes off to friend I hope you had a good laugh your joke shakes fist at the sky da aad was on a two-week canoe camping trip in a really remote part of Canada most days we would only see one or two other people some days we didn't see anyone set up camp on the shore of a big lake and started settling in when suddenly we heard someone yelling bear bear it sounded like a girl's voice it was bad country so we all grabbed buckets and started making noise to scare it away then suddenly out of the woods comes this young kid he couldn't have been more than 8 years old it turns out he was actually yelling help I'm scared there was no bear he had been riding his bike and somehow wound up in the woods on the other side of the lake at least two miles from his parents he was totally lost and was starting to lose it we took him via canoe back to his parents who were relieved to say the least years later it's still hard to believe that this happened good thing you found him instead of someone something else doing a group trip in the woods literally 40 minutes from any town we asked our group leader if we can go back to our cabin as night rolls around he says sure and we begin to walk we have to walk through a path that's 10 minutes long and in the middle of a thick forest when we are halfway to our cabin I get an uneasy feeling I turn around and literally ten feet behind us is this random guy in a yellow poncho following us I tell my friends we all turn around none of us recognize him the guy in the poncho just smiles at us for a second and then runs off the path into the woods so my friends and I sprinted to the cabin and enter the rest of the group is already there we tell the group leader there about it he calls the other leaders and they start looking around and they don't find anything but the new rule was put in place that required someone to be with a leader at all times when you are outside of your cabin smart of the leaders to figure out how to keep you all corralled at night I'm not sure if this council not because it most likely was nothing and wasn't creepy at the time but who goes when I was 13 me and my uncle were camping and we came across some discarded toys that would have belonged to a little girl we were very deep in the forest and my uncle pointed the toys out to me as being very out of place many years later I woke uppity at the place and read that a young girl was once kidnapped from near there and she was found 20 miles from where the toys were most likely it was just some random toys that fell out from some backpack but once I read that I called my uncle and we were freaked out for days it would seriously disturb me to find toys deep in the woods nope no thanks creepy as heck backpacking on Shasta we hit our camping spot late so we only had time to set up eat and go to bed in the morning we can finally look around and right by our tent in the rock outcropping a very nice box is wedged in containing someone's remains also on that trip after about 7 hours of hiking up Shasta we see a man walking down in a suit dress shoes and carrying a briefcase Shasta can be a weird and mysterious place once while hiking with some friends we came across a noose that looked like it had been hanging there for a while it was probably a prank but we were all a bit tense after that my brother found a news in the forest once when he was about 9 pretty sure it wasn't a prank since there was a dude in it dot now I'm tempted to Google the place in time but it's a bit late for creeping myself the freak out before sleeping skinned cow carcass not really that creepy but it startles you when you almost step on it the cow had nailed to a tree it was decayed pretty much just skull left underneath the HUD was a pink plastic chair child-sized a giant pair of purple underwear Idec i was a bit lost one night and driving slow on an oil lease Road in West Texas when I saw a mangy coyote walk across the road on its hind legs it stopped for a moment in the middle of the road and stared at me the way my headlights glinted in its eyes still gives me the jeebies on occasion I nearly obeyed my gut instinct to gun it and run the thing over before a gimped on into the dark I guess it was sake high fever causing it to act freakiest freak idk reminds me of a legend I read once about spirits in the southwest possessing animal carcasses to hunt down trespasses on sacred land you were supposed to be able to tell one by the fact that it was walking around on two legs and if you saw one you were supposed to run like heck hey I am a biologist although I used to be an archeologist for the past few years I have spent a considerable amount of time living in really remote areas ranging from a good chunk of the US Montana all the way down to New Mexico as well as from Maine to NJ Europe and primarily Africa I'd absolutely love these kinds of posts although there are a few things that have made me scratch my head and/or feel a bit uncomfortable this is despite the fact that my old career used to involve excavating and surveying historic and prehistoric things and my new one involves looking for leopard kills not dead leopards but their prey one a bag full of Super Nintendo cartridges - a bag full of blurry photos of people apparently people have stumbled upon this before three random plane parts including a wing for a human tooth five numerous old cemeteries six numerous old abandoned shacks that are truly in the middle of nowhere 7 an old n lab apparently ate and for me the weirdest was an old Fox wagon van in the middle of the desert that had bones animal remains and old Playboy magazines in it once I was on a high school trip in the Netherlands and after we did some activities during the day we ended the day by playing a game of life Stratego in the woods next to the farm where we slept for the people that don't know what LIF Stratego is it's a live version of a board game where soldiers attack each other without knowing what rank which determines who will win the other has and by memory try to remember who's got which rank in the life variation you had to tag and ask people what rank they wear to battle and flee or chase the other if you knew his rank would win or lose from you so after about an hour of playing this game at night in near darkness I was chased by another guy but managed to lose him then I proceeded to walk into a random direction till I reached the edge of the forest at the edge where a couple of trees where three people were crouching down staring into one direction as I wasn't wearing glasses and I have minus three I couldn't see that they weren't children but men from around 2530 years old when I crouched next to them and asked one of them what rank he was he angrily hissed at me to go away and leave quickly I don't know what the heck these guys were doing there but I ran away as fast as I could I'm enjoying the image of a group of people disposing of a body and a kid randomly coming in and asking what rank they are I grew up with a very outdoorsy family we always went camping and hiking in the summer I grew up outside my mother told this story to my sister and I about a time she went camping with my dad before we were born I was in my tent and it was the middle of the night perhaps 1 a.m. and I had woken up to go pee just like normal I was about to unzip the tent when I heard a small scratching sound I paused it was a slow deliberate crunchy digging kind of sound it was - rhythmic foreign animal so after making sure it wasn't your father who was sharing the tent I unzipped a corner of the door and peeked out the moon was just bright enough for me to see a young woman squatting right next to our little two-man tent digging at the ground with her bare hands even your father was scared so he went and shined a flashlight on her and told her to go back to wherever she had made the woman got up silently leaving a 4-inch deep hole next to the tent and started walking away I went outside went pee and got back into my sleeping bag a few minutes later I was awoken again by a clattering sound of a person or animal walking around where we had put our stuff I looked outside again and the woman was crouched low walking around our stuff and looking at things the way a monkey might your father stepped out of the tent shined the flashlight on her again and she faced him he asked her to kindly leave their stuff alone but she just stood there dirty and neglected looking Ben clearly not malnourished staring at his light he gave up and went back into our tent soon we heard her digging again at her little hole which was literally six inches and two pieces of thin nylon away from my head I shouted for her to go away and she ran away in an animalistic kind of way and never returned I fell back asleep and in the morning our stuff was scattered but nothing was stolen the end M had love digging don't know what it is about it but apparently it's fun is crap to smoke em and then dig holes there's an area here in Central Texas famous for being a go-to location for EM heads to go and spend the entire weekend digging for arrowheads until the cops show up and search them not creepy just unusual and weird I was hiking with my dad in the mountainous area between Germany and Czech Republic one day a couple years ago and we were on the highest point of our trek on a small trail with an overhang nearby on the left side but both sides of the trail were surrounded by small shrubbery we were walking in silence and I look up and farther down the trail is an animal that quickly dashed to the side as I looked up but this sounds weird that the animal was white with a huge long tail and the body of a large Fox it looked exactly like the pockemon nimma tails just white as snow for those who don't know vulnera is the german name thorn in a tails well the sound a cougar makes was about the most terrifying thing in the world until my mother explained it was a big cat not a woman getting murdered off in the woods foxes sound like that like a woman screaming they sometimes keep us awake at night shrieking hiking in the Wichita Mountains NWR nine years ago in the winter found a teenage kid who had shot himself through the right eye with a point three two caliber handgun at the base of a fire tower so I have that image in my memory for the rest of my life for about an hour was a suspect in a murder investigation until the County Sheriff's could properly ascertain a cause of death that is horrifying I'm so sorry camping in Australia the middle of nowhere up past will you know in Western Australia it's just you your fellow camp mates some KMS and KMS of mt bushland oh and sheep and kangaroos and flies oh god the Flies we camped at the base off a smaller range of hills spent the evening climbing up down and all over them with our friends kids lots exploring to do mate tells me he feels like they're being watched my response was yeah right who would be this far out during the night we hear smashing on the tent and knocking on the caravan walls then the sound of something jiggling the handle to each lure on the caravan and thumping around the cars as well now by now the entire camp is awakened freaking out but no one was brave enough to get out of their tents or the caravan we could also heel out footsteps and huffing and puffing get up the next morning and there is a huge frickin bull in the middle of our camp using pretty much anything that can to scratch itself on few trees equal no real areas to scratch himself obviously so we chased off the bull off and then discover the huge freaking footprints human-shaped going around our camp i've got size 9 ladies and these things were massive everyone sort of looked at each other packed up as fast as we can and hope the heck out of there had been out stargazing and was sleeping out in a park near town no tent just a sleeping bag and pad this was a fairly popular area for joggers walkers etc I had found a nice spot in a field few hundred meters from the top obscured by tall grass and brush but with a nice view of the valley below and mountains in the distance it was very nice saw some shooting stars heard coyotes singing in the distance and slept very well since it was a warm summer night in the morning at the crack of dawn I was woken up by one of the strangest performances I've ever witnessed above me on the hill I could hear some kind of chanting due to my concealed location I couldn't actually see what was going on and I wasn't keen on moving to a better vantage point lest I be seen by the group a man's loud and deep voice was half chanting half shouting in a language I couldn't identify it sounded like a latin derived language and was definitely not spanish although he kept repeating a word which sounded similar to Diablo Spanish for the devil there were other voices too but he was clearly leading whatever was happening up there eventually he finished his chant shout there were some cheers and whoops and then the entire group silently departed after waiting a while to make sure he was clear I went up to where the sound had come from there was no physical evidence of whatever had happened I asked everybody I knew in town if they had any idea what it might have possibly been and nobody had heard anything like it to this day one of my greatest regrets is not peeking out of my hiding spot to see what the heck was going on probably your local coven holding holiday worship nothing too sinister was back parking with a group of people on a short weekend back parking trip found a foam head with the mouth carved out almost as if it had been used for unspeakable things the worst part was that younger members of our group insisted on keeping it and using it as a mascot for when we went to Philmont a scout camp in New Mexico it was gross I was geocaching once and as I was just wandering through the woods I came across a small patch of trees that had mr. Potatohead faces nailed to them I was 15 Kim's from civilization and nowhere near a trail as the cache was deep in the woods I contacted the cache owner and he swore they weren't there when he put the cache together and it was his private land so nobody should have put it there the other instance of weird was when I was hitchhiking and decided to set up camp off in the woods not far from the highway had a fire eight and set up my little tent fell asleep without a problem woke up in the middle of the night to some heavy breathing outside of my tent I listened for a bit scared shitless and then some movement and the sound was gone woke up the next morning and there was photo of a family stuck with a nail to a tree right beside my tent and fresh footprints in the dirt being the idiot that I am I followed the path of the footprints a km or sioux back into the woods where it ended at a road across the street was an abandoned house and while checking out the house for anything useful I found several other photos of the people from the photo individual headshots and notes apologizing for not protecting them or not being there for them I got a feeling like I wasn't alone and decided to make an exit and as I came out of the house there was a pickup truck in the road watching me leave he offered me a ride back to the highway and some food drink and told me all about the family that lived there and how they all died I never visited the area again it was near the border of Montana Alberta and I have since moved far far away this is actually kind of sweet and the worst way possible some dude probably felt that those people deserved to be remembered of course the decision to perform this Requiem by terrorizing random campers is questionable but still sort of sweet a dog's skin removed completely intact large chains with plates for bolting them to the ground attached to the paws on the other side of the path all over dogs organs were nearly arranged in a stack no bones no blood I walked by it nearly every day until it rotted away to something indistinguishable from other dessert at Rytas except the chains lairs later and no one ever disturb it maggots never eat it I made up all kinds of stories for it in my head but I'll never know anything except that dog died hard Merle Ohio quite a few an old saw 2-person hacksaw that a tree had literally grown around it was sticking through the middle of the tree horizontally some sort of huge old excavator like something you might see at a mining operation in the 50s it had clearly been there for a very long time I often wonder about the logistics of scrapping it lots of old cars it's fun to snag emblems and stuff from them old international pickups Chevy classics from the 50s you name it it's in the ohio woods somewhere one of the creepier ones is cat den Road it's a street actually called cat's den and probably hundreds of stray cats find their way here sometimes you can see many of them if you take a trip up the road and it's especially freaky it's night due to the eyes nobody seems to know why they chose this area but it's like the stray cat Mecca the worst one what we refer to as the Tar Pits it's not actual tar but appears to be some kind of poison that has developed in these very deep mud rats when you get into the area it smells like rotting just rotting something it's not regular mud more like a hybrid between mud and quick sentence and it has these colored scents Green's probably from leaves and purples maybe from wild berries you avoided this area on the trails for wheeling because it's required heavy machinery wheel loader normally to get a vehicle or large quad out of this stuff and this substance didn't occur anywhere else in the woods I've never seen anything like it one summer we saw a bit of a draft and the biggest of these Tar Pits finally dried up a dozens of dead animal carcasses deer rabbits and one or two that could have been foxes coyotes or domestic dogs it was seriously sad call us stupid but some of the local riders borrowed an excavator and buried the bones all that was left in a large grave elsewhere that stuff is still there it's some kind of natural formation I guess but none of us are smart enough to figure out what causes it in that one area and nowhere else that any of us have ever seen the tar pit as you call it could be an old wetland that was buried something about sulfur causing the smells and it never solidified and reminded loose soil and marsh actually if you wait another 10,000 years it'll be an oil reserve I am neither of the things in the title however I was in a Firewise program with the county we'd clear roughly 200 square feet around somebody's house anyway we were clearing brush around an elderly man's home and he suggested over and over that this one area was of no threat and to just skip it well we can't just skip it that'd leave a weak spot so we had no choice after getting almost all of the clear there was a bit of ladder fuel in one area we used a bladed weed eater to do this kind of thing after getting almost the entire 10-15 Square featuring patch cleared I could not knock down this one patch to ground level dented my blades and I was confused realized it was hitting a metal bar so I dug around and realized it was a refrigerator buried so deep only the door handle stuck out after I knocked off the dirt after finding this Eilert admite co-worker friend BTW we never found anything like this usually it's just trees bushes shrubs et Cie so he comes up and we play the know you open at game after about five minutes curiosity gets the best of me and I open it but it's jammed so I stop dreaming on it and he helps me and it kind of screeches a little bit it smelled like nothing I've ever encountered the most horrid stench we back up like thirty feet and it doesn't help so I walk up and open it all the way the smell made my eyes water and regret having a nose my mouth was open a little bit and I could taste that foul stench I figure WTF the worst already happened I peek inside and it's a random assortment of bones I can't tell if animal because there are no horned skulls just random fragments ribs long bones like the ones in an animal's leg I could only assume so we mentioned this to my boss and he says he'll add it in his report a couple weeks later at the comes er idk the word area of interest I guess apparently another service had to investigate it however since this was the very last of the entire area to be cleared once we left that day of finding it nobody went back until that service crew arrived a month later only to find a large hole where the fridge was the homeowner denies there ever being anything there at all just a hole in his and I still don't know what I stumbled upon this one wins not necessarily creepy but certainly unfortunate my friends and I went winter camping in the middle of a large park at the end of a five-mile dirt road of course there weren't many people out there on our last evening at the park we took a short hike to an outcrop that looked over the valley on our way back to the road we crossed paths love a kid mid late 20s we thought nothing of it said hello and drove into town to eat some dinner while we were camping right across the road from this outcrop so when we got back to the end of the dirt road there were about 20 volunteer search and rescue cars all around near our campsite one of the volunteers approached us and asked about a kid who fell from the 200 featuring outcrop sure enough he matched the description of the kid we cross paths with we were quite freaked we go back to our campsite drank some beer and continued feeling uncomfortable it didn't help that we heard the search-and-rescues hollering in the valley seemingly from all directions about every 10 minutes we continued to drink at about 1 a.m. as we were getting ready to pass out we hear this gut-wrenching scream cry awful noise it was the kids mother they found his body the screaming went on for what felt like an hour but was probably more like 10 minutes no sleep was had that night during another trip as there we saw a deer that had fallen from a different cliff this thing was all over the place with its head facing the trail not quite what you're asking for but close enough I suppose me and a buddy were walking home along the river when we noticed a tipped-over canoe on the bank we tried to pull it out but it was too heavy so I got in the water to push from underneath one step forward and the ground just disappeared I was instantly sucked under dragged and tossed around the bottom a bit then spit back out and sucked right back under this happened over and over for what felt list an eternity until I was able to grab a branch my buddy was holding out for me a couple of days it was on the news that an old couple had tipped over and died dot I almost died by the same undertow that had killed in trying to retrieve their canoe about 25 years ago I went hiking in fossil Falls just outside of Ridgecrest CA with some friends once we hiked down the falls we get into the opening of the canyon and start smelling what smells like something dead as we walk on the smell gets stronger we decide to find out what it is we come upon an area where the smell is just overpowering on the surface of the ground in this area there appear to be a couple oil slicks pulled at the top of the surface of the ground which appears to have been recently dug we attempt to dig down about 6 inches but the smell is just beyond anything we can deal with we decide to leave and call the cops the cop gets down into the canyon part of the Falls picks up on the smell and tells us this isn't a good sign as we get closer but not even to the place where the smell is coming from he starts calling in lots of reinforcements more cops helicopters etc he told us that for something to generate that kind of smell someone would have had to buried a deer or something of similar mass to make that kind of smell when we called the cops to follow up on what happened they told us that is was just some chicken skin and bones no human remains were found the official story completely conflicted with what the cop who had previously been a homicide investigator in LA had told us when I told a co-worker what had happened he reached out to a higher-up that he knew at the Department of Forestry Service or something like that and when he relayed the story was told how did you find out about this you shouldn't know about this and these guys should forget about this immediately my theory is that someone was killed and buried on government land fossil Falls his US government land and they didn't want it to get out there is no way in or out of that Canyon and less by military access road from the China Lake naval weapons center it's possible that they were taking bribes to allow a meat processor to illegally dispose of animal skins I've seen it done in NW PA and it's sooo horrendous to come across that crap I've even been stuck behind the truck that holds them its grossest for I used to go back parking on the Appalachia trial in NC every few years with a buddy of mine I went peacefully asleep one night laying on the ground beside the fire in a sleeping bag I had a dream that my chest was being compressed by something woke up to a raccoon standing on my chest staring me right in the eyes the panic scared him as bad as me and I never saw him again and went right back to sleep back parking in the bear two wilderness in early 2000s with a good friend of mine three days into the hike we had only seen one other couple on the third night at about 4:00 a.m. we were awoken in our tent to what sounded like screams in the forest big guttural screams obviously we were freaked out sitting in the tent not knowing what was out there we started hearing what sounded like hail for about 15 minutes followed by heavy footsteps near our camp my friend and I started yelling and making tons of noise a trick to fend off theirs and the commotion outside the tent slowly came to a halt in the morning after not sleeping at all we unzipped the tents of the creepiest scene all around the tent were pebbles the hair literally thousands of little pebbles that were not there the evening before surrounding the tent in a near-perfect circle were twenty or so 150 300 pounds boulders my friend and I nope Tower of they're making a three-day hike into a one practically running the entire way to the car TLDR Bigfoot gave us a visit and dropped rocks and pebbles all over our tent okay what the Frick I'm not sure why but this one creeped me out the most this is not my story it's my brother's but it's one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard and since I haven't seen him post in here I'm adding it my brother Jay was a part of the orienteering team in high school for those who don't know orienteering is when they put you in the middle of nowhere in teams of two give you a map and a compass and you must find your way to each check-in station in order and it's a race so my brother and his partner set out make it through the first few checkpoints and are feeling pretty solid but they don't make it to the next one when they think they're supposed - they double-check the map do some math and figure out that they miscalculated some angle or another and are now almost off the edge of the map they recalculate and set off in a new direction keep in mind this line was never intended to be part of the orienteering run this is unexplored territory and they come across what my brother said could only be described as a crater a deep Bowl in the forest devoid of trees at the center of it was an ambulance they are in the woods miles upon miles from many roads and there is an ambulance that looks like it's decades old sitting in a crater so being teenage boys they go to investigate it freak the race my brother said that the forest was well on its way to reclaim 'uncle that it was rusted and covered in plant life it looked out-of-date like it came from the 40s or some bygone era in the back the gurney was still there it bent in the middle like something had smashed it there were brown smears on the walls that could have been rust or dirt or crap or old blood they both got a horrible feeling from the place and took off out of there my brother thinks he could probably find it again but flat out refuses to a human skull and some random bones wrapped in a blanket must have been where someone dumped her body alerted the authorities and got the freaked out of those woods so you're the hiker who always finds the bones of a missing person I was trekking deep woods behind my in-laws place one spring with my wife we came across a small seemingly abandoned cabin surrounded by a 3-foot high barbed-wire fence there were axes picks and shovels inside the fence knives and loads of camo inside the cabin the next month or so after we noticed people in our area started reporting garages and sheds being broken into and tools going missing they found the mofo who was doing the B and E's he escaped from a mental institution and said he was living in an abandoned cabin preparing for god knows what I was frickin rooting around in this crazy man's cabin probably while he was watching my wife and I my friend and I were hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail when we came across a small stream with a woman staring into it muttering to herself and kind of shaking my friend and I paused and looked at each other then continued past her and tried to acknowledge her with a hello' to see if she was okay she pretended like we didn't even exist we continued on talking about how it was weird when about two miles later we came across three officials I don't remember what organization that represented two of which were carrying assault rifles and the other a bag of white powder and a handgun they were wearing black assault vests and combat boots and just nodded at my friend and I like nothing unusual was happening you just stumbled across a wild em head they are not uncommon in Appalachia on the home stretch of the PCT north of the last highway crossing in Washington my group ran into this old lady who was ridiculously unprepared she had a giant pack that she could barely manage plus two grocery bags filled with silly stuff and bad back parking food she also was unaware that she had entered a short like ten miles or so waterless section and she was not making it to the next source she also didn't speak good English and no one figured out WTF she was thinking most older people are experienced she obviously was not I'm also tripping on shrooms while all this happens someone hiked all her stuff to camp and she barely made it without any weight several of us had to give her our water which was uncomfortable but no big she was told to get off at Hartz pass just very strange that she'd be there maybe she was hopping the border I absolutely hate running into people when I used to trip on shrooms in the woods it was always some sort of weird drama just like what you described I was back parking at Philmont Scout Ranch a couple of years ago in the middle of the night one of the Rangers guides showed up to our camp screaming and yelling for help turns out he had no recollection that he was lost only that something was following him probably a mountain lion we found the search party really quick and it turns out he had been missing for around they went back to check for Mountain Lion tracks and found his boot print along with bare footprints and handprints holy crap that scary a tray of surgical tools sitting on a stump all aboard the milk train I used to work at a park in Arizona a few years ago I was in charge of collecting camping fees and cleaning the sights when the campers left I didn't work alone but on this day my partner called in and I was left with another Ranger who just checked in every six hours while I was cleaning I noticed someone was staying at a lot at the very end as I would have normally done I went over introduced myself told him I needed to collect the fee and stuff he told me he was waiting for his brother to come back with his truck so I said all right and left when I came back thirty minutes later he left all his stuff there and left a plastic bag on the picnic table normally I wouldn't go through his stuff but the bag had a horrible rotting stench I was going to throw it away so animals don't come when the bag rips open from the side in a bunch of meat falls out inside the meat there was human teeth and fingernails I called the police immediately and I really didn't stay to find out more about it since I had to leave the state for school some friends and I were doing some hallucinogens in the woods somewhere in Montana we hear some noises in the woods and freaked out a bit we know we're all high and try to laugh it off assuming that we're hearing things that aren't there a few minuets later a freaking bear comes out of the woods we all panic and book it for the car this thing isn't frightened at all and books it after us we managed to get into the car before the Beast catches up to us a few of us are crying at this point long story short it wasn't a bear it was a dog one time I was at a field trip with my class and one of the girls went to pee a bit far from the trail in a small tree she found a dead man hanged from his neck his legs cut his face masked with a sack and his intestines spread throughout the nearby area it was about two weeks old police was called and a few of the students contributed to the investigation I was up in the Blue Ridge Mountains doing some fall colors viewing a couple of years ago pulled over to the side of the road to answer the call of nature beside some big rocks with an obvious path going around behind them I went around the rock and found what appeared to be a hobo camp or something there was an open space with a fire pit made of flat stones in the middle and sections of logs to sit on all around it it was full of trash like empty beanie weenie cans and empty chips bags and there were the little piles of toilet paper further back down the trail that many hikers and campers are familiar with the creepy thing was the partial skeleton of something that from its position looked like it had been in the fire there was most other spine most of a ribcage and a skull it looked like a dog to me but I am by no means an expert I had only noticed the skeleton after I had went about my business I walked over and leaned over it to get a better look and felt heat still coming off of the remains of a fire that freaked me out and I got the feeling I was being watched and so I the most I used to live in the middle of B Fe Ohio in a very small home one cold January morning this was during the deep freeze I was out front making breakfast on the fire and I noticed something fall down at a 45-degree angle into the brush just across a clearing I drive over and check it out it's a home made UAV bigger than most you'd find for sale it was fixed-wing you can tell it's not military but it's painted gray and has a camera in it can't find any marking to see who to return it to if there is a Raspberry Pi controlling the thing and a battery like a marine battery only just for the controller and a battery for the motor the most notable feature was a solar panel array on the top of the UAV I know a guy who does data recovery at his job and I asked him if he would take a look he comes over and hooks the PI up to his laptop after a while he shows me an auto pilot program in the file of the video it took we see some people but not enough to make anything out the auto pilot program had a map of the course beginning in western virgin in Harrisonburg and the end was somewhere in a little boy literally an empty field near a town called Rantoul so I call JM youth engineering school and ask if they sent it out no dice they say that no one was working on drones I drop it off at the police station in town explain what happened and leave it at that law if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music]

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Id: O8rPBGJHXfg

Length: 40min 31sec (2431 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020