"I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service" | CreepyPasta Storytime

I wasn't sure where else to post these stories so I figured I'd share them here I've been a search-and-rescue officer for a few years now and along the way I've seen some things that I think you guys would be interested in I have a pretty good track record for finding missing people most of the time they just wander off the path or slip down a small cliff and they can't find their way back the majority of them have heard the old saying stay where you are and they don't wander off but I've had two cases where that didn't happen both bothered me a lot and I used them as motivation to search even harder on the missing persons cases that I get called in on the first was a little boy he was out berry picking with his parents he and his little sister were together and both of them went missing around the same time their parents lost sight of them for a few seconds and in that time both the kids apparently wandered off and their parents couldn't find them they called us when we came out to search the area we found the daughter pretty quickly and when we asked where her brother was she told us that he'd been taken away by the bear man she said he gave her berries and told her to stay quiet that he wanted to play with her brother for a while the last she saw of her brother he was riding on the shoulders of the bear man and seemed calm of course our first thought was abduction but we never found a trace of another human being in that area the little girl was also insistent that he wasn't unnormal man but he was tall and covered in hair like a bear and he had a weird face researched the area for weeks it was one of the longest calls I've ever been on we never found a single trace of that kid the other was a young woman who was out hiking with her mom and grandpa according to her mother her daughter had climbed up a tree to get a better view of the forest and she'd never come back down they waited by the base of the tree for hours calling her name before they called for help and again we searched everywhere we never found a trace of her II have no idea where she could have possibly gone because neither her mother or grandpa ever saw her come down a few times I've been out of my own searching with the k-9 they've tried to lead me straight up cliffs not Hills not even rock faces straight sheer cliffs with no possible handhold so his baffling and in those cases we usually find the person on the other side of the cliff miles away from where the canine led us sure there's an explanation but in a sort of strange one particularly sad case involved the recovery of a body a nine-year-old girl fell down an embankment and got impaled on a dead tree at the base there was a complete freak accident but I'll never forget the sound her mother made when we told her what had happened she saw the body bag being loaded into the ambulance and she let out the most haunting heartbreaking wail I've ever heard like her whole life was crashing down around her and a part of her died the daughter I heard from another search-and-rescue officer that she killed herself a few weeks after it happened she couldn't live with the loss of her daughter I was teamed up with another search-and-rescue officer because we'd received reports of bears in the area we were looking for a guy who hadn't come home from a climbing trip when he was supposed to we ended up having to do some serious climbing to get where we figured he be we found him trapped in a small crevasse with a broken leg it wasn't Pleasant he'd been there for almost two days and his leg was very obviously infected we were able to get him into a chopper and I heard from one of the EMTs that the guy was absolutely inconsolable he kept talking about how he he'd been doing fine then when he got into the top a man had been there he said the guy had no climbing equipment he was wearing a parka and ski pants he walked up to the guy and when the guy turned around he said he had no face it was just blank he freaked out and ended up trying to get off the mountain too fast which is why he had fallen he said he could hear the guy all night running down the mountain and letting out these horrible muffled screams the story bothered the hell out of me I'm glad I wasn't there to hear it one of the scariest things I've ever had happened to me involved the search for a young woman who'd gotten separated from her hiking group we were out late at night because the dogs had picked up her scent and when we found her she was curling up under a large rotted log she didn't have any injuries and we were able to get her to walk with us back to base ops along the way she kept looking behind us and asking us why that big man with black eyes was following us you couldn't see anyone so we just wrote it off as some weird symptom of shock but the closer we got to bass the more agitated the woman god she kept asking you to tell him to stop making faces at her at one point she stopped and turned around and started yelling into the forest saying that she wanted him to leave her alone she wasn't going to go with him she said and she would give us to him we finally got her to keep moving but we started hearing these weird noises coming from all around us it was almost like coughing but more rhythmic and deep it was almost insect like I don't really know how else to describe it when we were within sight of base ops the woman turns to me her eyes are about as wide as I can imagine a human could possibly open them she touches my shoulder and says he says to tell you to speed up he doesn't like looking at the scar on your neck I have a very small scar on the base of my neck but it's mostly hidden under my collar I have no idea how this woman saw it right after she says it I hear that weird coughing right next to my ear and I just about jump out of my skin I hustle her tops trying not to show how freaked out I was but I I have to say I was really happy when we left the area that night this is the last one I'll tell that's probably the weirdest story I have and I don't know if it's true in every search-and-rescue unit but in mine it's sort of an unspoken regular thing we run into you can try asking about it with other search-and-rescue officers but even if they know what you're talking about they probably won't say anything about it I've been told not to talk about it to our superiors and at this point we've all gotten so used to it that it doesn't even seem weird anymore I just about every case well we're really far into the wilderness I'm talking about like 30 or 40 miles some point we'll find a staircase in the middle of the woods it's almost like if you took the stairs in your house cut them out and put them in the forest I asked about it the first time I saw some the other officer just told me not to worry about it that it was normal if he when I asked that the same thing I wanted to go check them out but I was told very emphatically that I should never go near any of them I just sort of ignore them now when I run into them because they happen so frequently there's been an overwhelming amount of people mentioning the similarity between some of my stories and those of David all these I assure you I'm not trying to rip him off anyway I've got nothing but respect for the guy he's actually what inspired me to write this because I can verify a lot of these things he talks about we do have a lot of these strange and missing persons cases and most the time they are solved either that we find them in places they have no business being I personally haven't been on many calls like that but I'll share a few that I've seen and a story my friend told me that relates to this there was a lot of feedback about the stairs so I'll touch on that briefly here and I'll also include a story they come in a variety of shapes sizes styles and conditions some are pretty dilapidated just ruins but others are brand-new I saw one set that looked like they came from a lighthouse they were metal and spiral almost old fashioned the stairs don't go up infinitely or farther than I can see but some sets are taller than others like I said before just imagine the stairs in your home as if someone had cut and pasted them in the middle of nowhere how many pictures never really occurred to me to try after the first time and I don't really feel like risking my job over it I'll try again in the future but I can't really promise anything a few people expressed confusion about the guy who ran into the man with no face and just to clarify when the climber ascended and reached the top of the peak he saw another man in a park and ski pants this was the man in the face say about any kind of confusion with the wording of that story try to avoid that in the future as far as missing persons go I'd say that about half the calls I get are related to that the other are rescue calls people who fall off cliffs hurt themselves get injured by fire you wouldn't believe how often that happen it's mostly drunk kids getting bitten if stung by animals or insects they were a tight team we have veterans who are excellent at finding signs of lost people that's what makes these cases where we never find any trace of them so frustrating what in particular was upsetting for all of us because we did find a trace of them but it just led to more questions than answers an older man had been hiking alone on a well established trail but his wife called to say that he hadn't come home when he should have apparently he had a history of seizures and she was worried that he hadn't taken his medication and had suffered one of those out on the trail and before you ask I have no idea why he thought that it was okay to go out alone or why she didn't go out with him I don't ask about these kinds of things because past a certain point it really doesn't matter someone's missing and that's my job to find them we went out in a standard search formation and it wasn't long before one of our vets found signs that the guy had gone off the trail we grouped up and followed him spreading out and a fan to make sure that we covered as much ground as possible suddenly I call comes over the radio telling us all to head back towards the vets location we come right away because this usually means the missing person is injured we need a full team to help him find his way out to safety you know we meet back up that's just standing at the base of a tree with his hands on the sides of his head and I asked my buddy what's going on he points up into the branches of the tree I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing but there's a walking stick dangling from a branch at least 30 feet off the ground a little strapped thing on the handle has been looped around the branch it's just it's just hang in there now there's no way the guy could have tossed it up that far we don't see any other signs that he's still in the area we call up into the tree but it's obvious no one's in it we're all just sort of left scratching our heads we keep searching for the guy but we never find it we even bring our canines out but they lose his scent long before this tree eventually the search is called off yes there are other calls we have to attend to and past a certain point there's not much we can do the guy's wife called us every day for months asking if we'd found her husband it was heartbreaking to hear her getting more and more hopeless each time I'm not sure why this this call in particular was so upsetting but I think that it was just the sheer improbability of it that the the questions that were raised huh how the hell this guy this guy's cane and no fair I did someone kill him and toss that up there this is some kind of weird trophy we did our best to find them but it was almost like a taunt we still talked about that one from time to time missing kids are the most heartbreaking doesn't matter the circumstance it's never easy when we always always dread the ones we find deceased it's not common but it does happen he David talks a lot about kids search and rescue teams things that they find that shouldn't be Oro couldn't be I could I could honestly say that I've heard about this kind of thing happening more than I've seen it I'll show one of the ones that I think a lot about one ones I have witnessed personally a mother and her three kids were out for a picnic in an area of the park that has a small lake one is six one is five the others about three she watches them all really closely and according to her she never lets them out of her sight at any time she never saw anyone else in the area I mean which is important she packed their stuff up and they start to head back to the parking area now this lake is only about two miles into the woods and it's on a very clearly established trail it's almost impossible to get lost getting from the parking area to it unless you're deliberately going off the path like an imbecile her kids are walking in front of her and she hears what sounds like someone coming up the path behind her she turns around and in the four or so seconds that she's not looking her five-year-old son vanishes she figures that he stepped off the trail to pee or something and she asks her our other two where he went they both tell her that a big man with a scary face came out of the woods next to them and took the kids hand and let him into the trees the two remaining kids don't seem upset it actually says later that it seems like they've been drugged they sort of seemed Spacey and fuzzy so of course she freaks out and starts looking frantically in the area for a kid she's screaming his name she says at one point she thinks she heard him answer her now obviously she can't go blindly running into the woods she's got to get the two kids she calls the police and they send us out immediately we respond and we start the search for him over the course of the search which spans miles we never find a single trace of the kid canines can't pick up a scent we don't we don't find any clothes or broken bushes or literally anything that would signify a child being there of course there's suspicion about the mother for a while but it's pretty clear that she's completely destroyed by the whole thing we look for this kid for weeks with a lot of volunteer help but eventually the search Peters off we have to move on the volunteers keep searching though and one day we get a call on the radio letting us know that a body has been found and needs to be recovered they tell us the location and none of us can believe it we figured that it's got to be a different kid but we go out there about 15 miles from the site where he vanished and sure enough sure enough we find the body of the kid we've been looking for I've been trying to figure out how this kid got where he did ever since we found him and I've never come up with an answer a volunteer just happened to be in the area because he figured he might as well look in places no one else would think of on the off chance the body had been dumped he comes to the base of a tall rocky slope and halfway up he sees something he looks through his binoculars and sure enough it's the body of a little boy stuffed in a little opening in the rock he recognizes the color of the kids shirt and he knows right away that it's the missing boy that's what he calls it in we're dispatched it took us almost an hour to get his body down none of us could believe what we were seeing not only was the kid 15 miles from where he started there was no possible way he could have gotten up there on his own slopes treacherous it's hard even for us to in our climbing gear a five-year-old boy had no way of getting up there that I'm certain not only that the kid doesn't have a scratch on him his shoes are gone but his feet aren't damaged or dirty so it wasn't as if an animal dragged him up there and from what we can tell he hasn't been dead that long he'd been out there over a month by that point and it looked like he'd only been dead for at most a day or two the whole thing was unbelievably strange and was one of the most disconcerting calls I've ever been on we found out later the coroner determined the kid had died from exposure he'd frozen to death probably late at night two days before he found him there were no suspects no answers to this day it's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen one of my first jobs as a trainee was a search up for a four year old kid that had gotten separated from his mom this is one of those cases where we knew we were gonna find him because the dogs were on us strong scent trail we saw clear signs that he was in the area we ended up finding him in a berry patch about half a mile from where he'd been last seen kid wasn't even aware that he'd wandered off one of the vets brought him back which I was glad of because I'm really not good with kids and I find it hard to talk to them and keep him company as my trainer and I headed back she decided to take me on a detour to show me one of the hot spots where we tend to find missing people it's a natural dip in the land near a popular trail and people will usually move downhill because it's easier we hike out there it's a few miles away and we get there in about a hour or so that's we're walking around the area she's pointing out places that she found people in the past I see something in the distance those area we're ganas about eight miles from the main parking area though there's back roads that you can take to get closer if you don't want to hike that far we're on state protected land which means that there can't be any kind of commercial or residential development out here the most you'll ever see is a fire tower or a makeshift shelter that homeless people think they can get away with building but I can see from here that whatever this thing is has straight edges and this is one thing that you learn quickly it's that nature rarely makes straight edges I pointed out but she doesn't say anything she just hangs back and lets me wander over and check it out I get what about I get within about 20 feet of it all the hair on the back of my neck stands out it's a staircase in the middle of a woods in the proper context it would probably be the most benign thing ever it's just a normal staircase with beige carpet and about 10 steps tall but instead of being in a house where it obviously should be it's out here in the middle of the woods sides aren't carpeted obviously like you see the wood it's made of it's almost like a video game glitch where the house had failed the load completely in the stairs the only thing visible I stand there it's like my brain is working overtime trying to make sense of what I'm seeing my trainer comes around and stands next to me she just stands there casually looking at it as if it's the least interesting thing in the world I asked her what the hell this thing is doing here she just chuckles get used to it rookie you're gonna see a lot of them I start moving closer and she grabs my arm hard I wouldn't do that she said her voice is casual but her grip is tight and I just stand there looking at her you're gonna see them all the time but don't go near them don't touch them don't go up and just ignore them I started to ask her about it but something something the way that she's looking at me tells me that it's best I don't we end up moving on and the subject doesn't come up again for the rest of the training she was right though I'd say about every fifth call I go on I ended up running across a set of stairs sometimes they're relatively close to the path maybe within two or three miles sometimes they're twenty thirty miles out literally in the middle of nowhere and I only find them during the broadest searches of training weekends they're usually in good condition but sometimes it looks like they've been there for years all different kinds all different sizes the biggest I ever saw looked like they came out of a turn-of-the-century mansion or at least 10 feet wide and steps leading up at least 15 or 20 feet I tried talking about it with people but they just give me the same response my trainer did it's normal don't worry about it they're not a big deal but don't get too close to them or go up to them and trainees ask me about it now I give them the same response I don't really know what else to tell them I'm really hoping someday I get a better answer but it hasn't happened yet this is another one one is less spooky a little more sad a young man went missing late in winter realistically no one could be going that far out into the trails we closed a lot of them but some remain open years round unless there's a shitload of snow we didn't opt for him but we had about six feet of snow on the ground it was unusually heavy snowfall that year and we knew that it wasn't likely that he'd find him until spring when the fall came sure enough when the first big thaw came a hiker reported a body a little ways off the main trail we found them at the base of a tree and a pile of melted snow I knew right away what had happened scared the living out of me most to you whose ski or snowboard or spent any amount of time on a mountain or probably of guests to when snow falls it doesn't collect as thick in the area beneath the branches it happens most with the fir trees because they have a sort of closed umbrella shape so when you end up with a space around the base of a tree it's filled with a mixture of loose powdery snow air and branches they're called tree Wells they're not immediately obvious if you don't know what you're looking for we put up signs in the Welcome Center big ones letting people know how dangerous they are but every year that we get an unusual amount of snow at least one person doesn't read them or doesn't take the warning seriously and we find them out about in spring my best guess is this young man was hiking around and got tired or maybe a cramp from walking in the deep snow I went to go sit at the base of the tree not knowing that there was a tree will and felon got stuck with his feet up and the surrounding snow caved in around him and unable to free himself he's suffocated it's called snow emergency fication and it doesn't usually happen except in really deep snow but if you get stuck in a weird position like this guy did even six feet of snow can be lethal and scared me the most was imagining how he must have struggled upside down in the freezing cold didn't die quickly the snow would have formed the dense heavy pile on top of him and it would have been literally impossible for him to get out as it got harder to breathe he would have known what was happening and I can't imagine what he was thinking in his last moments a lot of my less outdoorsy friends want to know if I ever seen that goatman thing well I've been out in calls and unfortunately or I guess fortunately I've never had anything quite like that happen I guess the closest was the whole black eyed man thing but I didn't see anything however there was one call where I had something kind of similar happen but I'm not sure if I'm willing to chalk it up to the goatman we got a response that an older woman had fainted along one of the trails and needed assistance getting back down into the main area I hiked up to where she's at and her husband's just beside himself he runs I guess more jogs to us and tells us that he was little ways off the trail looking at something when his wife starts screaming behind him he runs back to when she passes out on the trail we get her on a backboard and as we're getting her down to the Welcome Center she comes up to us and starts screaming again I calmed down and asked her what happened I can't remember verbatim what she had said essentially essentially what had happened was this she was waiting for her husband when she started hearing this really strange sound she said it sounded sort of like a cat but it was off somehow she couldn't quite figure out why she went a little ahead to try and hear it better sounded like he was coming closer she said the closer it got the more uneasy she was until she finally figured out what was wrong I do remember this next part because it was so weird that I didn't think I could forget it if I tried it wasn't a cat it was a man saying the word meow over and over just now meow now but it wasn't a man it couldn't have been because I've never heard a man make his voice buzzed like that I thought my hearing was going out but it wasn't I adjusted it and still sounded all buzzy it was awful he was coming closer but I couldn't see him and the closer he got the more scared I was and the last thing I remember was a shape coming out of the trees I guess that's when I fainted d now obviously I'm a little perplexed as to why a guy would be out in the woods chanting meow meow at people so once we got down the mountain I tell my superior that I'm gonna go search the area to see if I can find anything he tells me to go ahead he grabbed a radio and hiked back to where she fainted I don't see anyone so I keep going about a mile more when I head back I go off the trail and I see you figure out what she's she saw him coming from it's almost sunset by this point I don't have any desire to be out of the woods alone so I just sort of write it off and make a mental note to check it out again tomorrow but as I'm heading back I start to hear something off in the distance I stop and I call out for anyone in the immediate area to identify themselves the sound didn't come closer I get louder but it sounded exactly like a man saying yeah yeah it's really odd monotone and it's comical as it makes it sound it almost it's like that guy from the guy on South Park with that that electrolarynx ned i go off the trail in the direction i think it's coming from but i never seem to get closer it's almost like it's coming from all directions and eventually just sorts of fades out and i've going back to the Welcome Center and then get any further reports like Fadden even though I went back to that area I never heard that exact same sound again I suppose it could have been some stupid kid out there with people but even I have to admit it was weird you hey there kids it's me mr. creepypasta just wanted to say thanks so much for listening you guys are what makes this channel worthwhile there'll be new horror stories every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday night as well as gaming live streams every Friday and Sunday night please help support on patreon.com slash mr. creepypasta and you can hear me as well as many other creepypasta narrators live 24/7 ms crm radio calm sweet dreams [Music]

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Published: Tue Sep 19 2017