"Strange Things I've Seen As A Park Ranger.." | Episode 2

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[Music] [Music] hello my friends I hope we're safe from well tonight this is the creep factor podcast in my name of course is John bill again tonight we have episode two of our special on strange things Park Rangers saw the job and boy do we have some interesting stories tonight before we get to that though I want to ask for your opinion what you think of this podcast in this special the reason I ask is that I got some pretty warm reception during the previous special and we were thinking of making this irregular more frequent staple of the podcast I guess you could say love it hate it let me know as I always love to hear from you comment down below so tonight's first story comes from a park ranger in Delaware by the name of Dana Hanley listen closely viewers as she tells us her experiences around Clay Creek State Park [Music] my name is Dana Hanley and I've been working as a park ranger for roughly five years now this experience happened in my second year as a ranger so back in 2014 around May I want to say I was just reporting in for my shift when I was alerted to the fact there was a capitated deer near the creek I know a wonderful way to start your shift in the morning rain anyways I went out and helped clean everything up we weren't quite sure why this deer had been decapitated or who had done it but it was obvious it was meant to be seen as there was a stick with the head stuck on it like a pike one of the thoughts that crossed my mind was that this could have been some kind of ritual but as time went on it got stranger we cleared the body and let people back in that area of the park as soon as we were able the rest of the day things are fairly normal and I go the next morning we find another decapitated deer another Pike another head on said pike at this point we're thinking okay someone is probably screwing with us but what is happening is illegal so we decide will hire an off-duty officer to kind of patrol the park at night another night goes by and this time when I report to my shift I head out to check on the officer he tells me he didn't see anything on patrol so I told him thanks and head back to the station I'm the first person in that morning so unlocking the station I head in and what do I find a deer head in the middle of our break room table and a giant eye drawn in blood I'm gagging at this point because of the smell and quickly call the police they do an investigation look for prints DNA anything unfortunately they came up with nothing I'm of course thinking naturally that's what would happen because I'm not sickened or creeped the fuck out enough yet right it gets stranger though we checked the footage and we saw nothing the deer was dragged into the room the stuff was written in blood but there was nothing doing this that we could see we thought surely the camera is malfunctioning but when looking at our current footage we were all visible on the monitor in an effort to end this we brought on another off-duty officer to watch the park overnight and I volunteered to hang around the station and see if anything or anyone turned up this was a mistake in my opinion the night started off relaxed enough for the longest time there was nothing but quiet the occasional sound of walkie-talkie chatter back and forth as I checked in with the officer and they checked it on me and lots of coffee being made I want to say it was about 11:30 when I heard a large thud on the roof I jumped as it was rather sudden but didn't initially go out and check the roof five minutes later I hear dripping and another thud it gets quiet but I'm curious so I head for the door before I can unlock it though I see a deer's body comes swinging down and breaking through our station window a high flipped out got on the walkie and called the officer it takes a couple of minutes and they arrive together we both went up to the roof where we found the eye drawn in blood and the deer head above it now I'm at a loss at this point I'm debating quitting my job and I'm freaked out when morning comes my boss gives me a few days off I go home and in time I begin to relax all goes well until the final night off that night I go to sleep peacefully enough but upon falling asleep I have a nightmare that even talking about it now scares me I'm in the park it's late at night and I can hear a low voice it's almost a growling nothing being said makes sense eventually I start to see people in the shadows around me they have no eyes and they're trying to cry but only blood is coming out their voices are off because they appear to have no tongues on the wall across from me there's an eye painted in blood I feel terrified there's just this odd feeling of unease and darkness the people begin falling to the floor some convulsing others reaching and pain to the sky then I see my mom I haven't seen my mom since I moved out of her house she is crying then blood pours from her body the next thing I know I'm hearing a growling and the blood soaked eye on the wall appears to widen I wake up right after that to the sound of my phone going off it's about 3:00 in the morning and on the other end is a detective he tells me my mother is dead she was found brew we murder she called 911 but by the time they arrived she was dead she had no eyes her tongue had been cut out her head was removed sitting in her hands and a deer head was placed where her neck was well on the wall above her bed was an eye painted in her blood my mom lives about an hour from me and we weren't the closest but she didn't deserve what happened to her at all to this day that case and the strange happenings at the park are unsolved I'm not sure what the heck was going on at our Park or how it got to my mom but I'm convinced it wasn't human I kept my job as park ranger though I kept my job as a park ranger though I did almost quit I hoped I could find answers I never did the strange happenings at the park stopped sometimes though when I sleep I see that I in some of my dreams well listeners what do you think is whatever killed Dana's mother human some things to note that weren't addressed in her story but I later dug up was security footage for the night she stayed in the station at the park at one point it almost looks like a shadowy mass is walking around the station as she's making coffee and keeping watch another thing is that she's leaving the station to go home after talking to her boss it appears like something leaves with her also of note was other than her mother's blood in the deers blood there was no real DNA evidence found at her mother's house this all makes me believe that whatever was going on at that Park followed Dana home why or how it eventually made its way to her mother's I couldn't tell you like most mysteries though whether we have all the answers or not they are likely out there somewhere one final note I find a bit strange the eye what does it mean also if we go back to case four on the previous episode Darrin said he saw giant eye appear from the sky are these links somehow or is it something simple like a coincidence our next case takes place in Arizona and was actually sent in to us by a park ranger by the name of Jared Mills his story goes as follows case number 6 Arizona hello John my name is Jared Mills I worked with the park rangers at Lost Dutchman's State Park for 40 years before retiring I apologize in advance for not being able to meet with you in person but I'm old not very mobile and don't have much of a voice nowadays at any rate I wanted to tell you about something strange going on in my park when I work there if memory serves me correctly the first time I encounter what I'm calling the Arizona vanishings was about five to seven years into my time as a park ranger we get missing person cases out there quite a bit you have your fair share of people who go off out of their way get stranded lost dehydrated died and that sort of thing however most of them are found in some way manner or for eventually at least those near or around the park itself we got a missing person case on a John Wick's me who said he was going to hike and a camp over the weekend well by the time we got the report he'd been out there roughly three days heading off on a search we eventually came upon clothes a backpack shoes and everything except John the police ran DNA in a mask John it was his gear and everything was just sitting there in a clump almost as though he'd been raptured or something this was certainly strange but in my mind that's all it was at the time I chalked it up to being a missing persons case we probably never saw off in a joint effort with local law enforcement we searched for John for the better part of a month but sadly that was never a body or anything we dug we tried high/low everywhere but nothing eventually we gave up on the search a year to the day after this happened a woman by the name of Anna Daley disappeared we searched a week for her and so eventually we found another spot with clothes shoes beer everything but Anna there were no external clues no hints as to what may have happened to her much like John wicks beat It was as though she just up and vanished into thin air what was going on who knew but the local paper started speculating between the paper and locals there were theories of everything from these two being spirited away aliens taking them to them simply going crazy from heat exhaustion and wandering off into the deserts six months after Anna's disappearance there was another a man named William Penn Dale went hiking with his family and camping over the weekend some relatives reported them missing a day after they were supposed to return home and after a couple of days of searching we found all of their clothes and personal effects but once again no bodies to speak of keep in mind this was a family of seven people he don't just make seven people vanish or it shouldn't be very easy to say the least at this point tourism was growing because of the mystery we were at a loss of course we given out the word to stay in groups and hikes and such but a family of seven just vanished so we're Boop's are really going to help at this point after the handles disappearance we had a few more one was five month from the handles the other month after that another year after that in another three years after that there was no rhyme or reason to the disappearances there was no pattern no one were there a set amount of disappearances or set time apart it was simply baffling in every single case only close and whatever personal effects the missing had on them are there no bodies were ever found and no one seemed to have answers for it at all the most recent disappearance was that of a fellow park ranger back in 2014 I was there for this one we were searching for the park for someone who gone missing a week prior a Kyle Lenihan when Mark Winslow a 10 year veteran of our Park Service's went up a hill while I turned and searched further down it been about ten minutes when I decided I wasn't going to find anything where I was looking I got on my walkie and radioed mark to see what he had found and told him I was heading his way we weren't that far apart to begin with I got nothing on the radio so I tried again still nothing heading up the hill I reached the top when I saw all of mark's clothes his walking everything laying at the bottom I freaked out because it was in broad daylight and I was just talking to mark a few minutes earlier now a few minutes later he simply vanished it's one thing to hear the stories in search for the Missy it's another entirely different thing to witness it firsthand on a search what the hell could taken him there wasn't anything strange in the sky it was clear as could be in the Sun was shining bright I eventually retired from the Park Ranger business and grateful for the time I spent there and I truly loved it I wish I had answers as to what happened to mark and the other one we're missing [Music] that is a tale that defies explanation in my opinion viewers what do you think though is it aliens are they being spirited away is there some other explanation let us know what you believe happened to mark and the other missing persons in and around Lost Dutchman State Park I believe it would be one thing to search for the missing but another entirely to experience someone you work with disappearing firsthand on a different subject though I want to take a moment to give an update on the ongoing zat Bienville there has been reported a 50% regrowth rate for the woods over there locals are reporting strange happening such as raining rose petals in the town itself and weird nightmares along with something believed to be lurking in the mirrors of certain citizens homes I am working my way there and hopefully we'll be able to give you a live update sometime by the next episode or two moving on now we have the story of a park ranger in Oregon who swears he encountered Bigfoots his name is Blake Johnson and we are lucky enough to meet you in person for the foe in the interview k7 oregan hello my name is Blake Johnson and I've been working with the park ranger since 2012 in July of 2017 I had a close encounter with what I believe to be Bigfoot my story goes like this I work at Bates state park here in Oregon most of my shifts are the run of the mill repair work and keeping the park well-maintained orderly that sort of thing on the 11th of July however I was caught up by Mike another Ranger I work with and he starts chuckling and tell me I'll never believe what he found I tell him to try me and it goes on to say he found a footprint about 14 inches long by five and a half inches wide he says come and see for yourself if I didn't believe I head up there where mike is half laughing at what he says and so I come up to this footprint myself the size is about right but I start looking around in chuckling asking him how he created the footprint Mike was known to be a prankster so I thought surely he had gotten with Josh another Ranger and made the footprints looking around however Josh Josh wasn't there Mike had a very serious look on his face now I told him he had to be kidding me it wasn't going to fall for one of his pranks but he swore up and down that this was real I laughed and told him sure before deciding and I was probably going to go back to work that's when my radio went off and Josh was on the other end telling me and Mike to follow the prints I didn't believe it for a second I didn't think that Bigfoot was actually the one who left these but decided to go ahead and follow the prints with mine it didn't take very long to reach the end of the trail and when we got to the end Josh looked on in shock I mean the antenna of his walkie-talkie I don't towards the distance he told me he swore he saw something standing about ten feet tall walking off in the distance I turned for Josh and Mike and told them to stop bullshitting me and started to turn when I heard what sounded like a loud groaning or more like a howling in the distance it was loud and very distinct and I froze in place of the sound of it it happened two more times before stopping her I looked at Josh and Mike and both of them look scared shitless it was becoming apparent that these two were pooling one hell of a prank or something was really out here I turned around very slowly began down the path and in the direction of the house when Josh asked me what the hell I was doing I told him I'd have my walkie on but turned down I was going to check out the source of the sounds coming from the woods Mike said I was crazy but I told them the only way we were gonna know is if someone was gonna check it out obviously reluctantly the two of them agreed to stay put and kept close their walkie-talkies while I went deeper into the woods as I got further for my co-workers I began to feel this sense that I was being watched every step I took I heard nothing but I felt like there were eyes on me the entire time there was a slight fear running through me as I continued to make my way forward until through the trees I'm pretty sure I saw what Josh had spoken about it was covered in hair stood about 10 feet it seemed almost frozen in place I began to take steps closer so I could get a better view with the figure I was watching when I heard another loud howling from much closer behind me I freaked out and turn around and see a similar-looking figure about nine feet tall in appearing angry standing before me i cowered a fear a hand raised to the creature in a shell submission when I let out another loud howl this time towards the other creature who then returned the same how thinking I was going to die I closed my eyes and pray with all my might and just like that I heard a large footstep behind me this shook the ground followed by another step further away this lasted only a few seconds before everything fell silent again I'm not a same say I pissed myself just a bit during this when I finally felt safe again to move I opened my eyes to find nothing around me I looked in the direction of the other creature only to realize they were both gone the footprints however were still there so I radio Josh and Mike and had them come down take pictures of the footprints and soon after got a change of clothes and went out for drinks with both of those guys to this day I'm at a loss as to where the Bigfoot creatures went but some part of me feels they just wanted to be left alone one of them could have easily killed me but instead they let me out with a warning and kept moving needless to say I never went back to the tracks after that I've come to accept that these creatures are indeed out there I've gone from being the greatest Bigfoot cynic and critic to becoming a full believer of their existence there are a lot of things we don't understand in this world and a lot of creatures we have yet to truly discover I know what I saw that day I don't care if any other soul believes me I'm here to tell you Bigfoot exists well listeners what do you think does Bigfoot exist if so do you believe they aim to harm people or do you believe like Blake there just want to be left alone have any of you experienced Bigfoot sightings feel free to let me know and do be sure to be so kind as to share your experiences with us we're almost at the end of our broadcast folks we have quite possibly the most out there and unexplainable story for last this final case was sent in by a ranger working in Alabama and it'll make you question everything you believe and know about the world around you case number eights Alabama hi John I just wanted to send in my story about a particularly strange phenomenon that happened in 2012 at wind Creek State Park here in Alabama my name is Dale Simpson and I was with the Park Rangers for about 20 years during my career with them my story starts simply enough it was June and it was fairly hot out the forecast called for clear skies and Sun all day long that forecast couldn't have been more wrong it started out hot and sunny but by the time noon we noticed quite a few clouds beginning to appear overhead thinking nothing of it we went out about our day working around the park and also watching as people enjoyed their summer then we heard the first rumbles of thunder this was a bit of a strange rumbling though it almost sounded like it was vocalizing something a few concerning vacationers asked if it was supposed to rain today I told them last I checked now but I'd go ahead and check again to put their minds at ease pulling up the weather on my phone there appeared to be nothing appearing on the radar stranger yet the forecast still said sunny skies and clear skies I told the locals that was still showing sunny and we all had a laugh of how wrong the forecast was we thought that maybe a fast developing storm was getting ready to hit and they didn't have the chance to update things so we advised everyone to keep an eye on the skies and if need be pack up and go home or find some form of shelter we even offered to open up an unused rec area to some if things got too crazy it's about 3:00 p.m. when suddenly a large bolt of lightning strikes a tree and it catches a fire this quickly followed by an abnormally loud booming Thunder die and a few other Rangers quickly rush people inside and even offer to open the ranger station to a few of them for shelter the sky is getting dark and gray and parts are starting to look greenish in a hue of black in most other areas I checked the weather again and notice there appears to be nothing appearing on the radar what the hell I think to myself no sooner do I do that does the rain begin to pour and the wind begins to pick up the good news was the fire on the tree was put out quickly but the bad news was often the distance the funnel cloud was beginning to form it wasn't forming slowly either it was dropping towards the ground quickly we got everyone inside and at this point locked down everything we could I was in the ranger station and a few of my crew were barricading in rec buildings or whatever they could find decent sheltering it wasn't long before loud resounding boom rang out normally you'd be hearing a freight train sound at this point as the tornado was clearly on the ground but God is my witness that wasn't what we heard no we heard screams of pain and anguish followed by the sound of loud guttural growling likes you've never heard I just pray I never hear it again the sky was no longer black but completely red and peering into the monitor I watched as a building next to us hits there were screams of Terror and looking at the storm from the window I swear I saw a face in this tornado the tornado was blood-red in the screams continued on for what seemed like a lifetime when suddenly it faded just as quickly as it came the red vortex shot to the sky above and a bolt of lightning struck the earth before another boomerang out the skies returned to normal clouds parted in the building all along everyone who'd been inside simply wasn't there anymore the Sun had come out you'd never know the horror we witnessed had ever happened and that was that in a tornado there should be debris left behind but and this there was nothing nor anyone consumed come back again and there were no bodies it was as though the building had just vanished nothing ever appeared on radar and further investigation into the matter left it unexplained I saw face and I saw arms reaching in the vortex instead of Thunder I heard human screams I swear to you I'm not crazy go ahead and check with some of the loads of locals and ask them what happened that day assuming they'll talk about it at all I was a follow up to this case it should be noted I did contact residents who were there that day and the ones willing to speak with me on that matter didn't deem claimed to have witnessed similar events a sudden tornado that seemed to scream and rage it was blood-red had a face and there were many other arms reaching from it and faces seemingly screaming in pain strangely though anyone who tried to record what was happening turned up nothing on the recordings it looked like a sunny day in the footage so what happened [Music] I'm inclined to believe that this strange phenomenon has something to it as there have since been ice storms where there has no recorded activity and rain on sunny days Sun on rainy days and odd disappearances after these events others have come out claiming to hear voices in the wind and all those who have experienced any of the strange phenomena that come with these hard storms where the weather itself is sentient there was another case that same summer where a weather forecast showed a tornado warning for specific areas to be safe and the tornado itself seemed to defy all logic by constantly moving outside of the predicted path as the forecast was happening focusing however on the events Ranger Dale & Company which seemed to be the strangest and most terrifying over the maulvis father lived through you have to wonder where were the debris where were the body sucked up into that storm why isn't anything appearing on the footage I can't begin to know what happened myself but I'd imagine if I'd experienced something like that I'd probably be afraid to go outside again my final thoughts so to wrap things up here we've covered some very out there and some downright disturbing cases tonight the first case of the night saw a ranger lose her mother to a mysterious entity that appeared to follow her home why kill her mother and not the Ranger herself is the entity still with her now what is up with the eye is it linked to last episode's final case or am i speculating too much what do you think of it all tonight second case followed a former Ranger named Jared Mills and his complete loss as he watched many around his park and his own workers simply disappear over time were they raptured was it some sort of alien life former UFO did something else happen the third case tonight follow the Bigfoot skeptic turns true believer as he followed the trail of a Bigfoot only to come face to face with another one what are your beliefs about Bigfoots are they good evil indifferent do you think we'll ever have solid proof of them have you ever seen one yourself and the most perplexing and possibly scariest story of the night we were told about sentient whether that seemed to spawn a blood-red tornado with a face consuming a large group of people it simply vanished leaving no trace behind those consumed had never been found nor has anyone found any wreckage from the building or anything what do you think happened to the loss in a storm what caused the storm has it even actually the weather or some kind of unknown monstrosity that can somehow control the weather there are so many questions we could ask ourselves but sadly we are out of town tonight I just like to take a moment to say thank you to all our listeners and viewers for your support for the warm reception I've received from many of you as I continue to work on this podcast next week we have a longer show and it will revolve around a single case case 9 will definitely leave you disturbed my name is John bill again and I'm signing off for the creep factor podcast I hope to see you next episode you have a safe night everyone and remember you were never truly alone

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Length: 31min 0sec (1860 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 12 2018

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