Top 3 SCARIEST stalker stories | Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 2)

don't forget we survived for 200 000 years without being anywhere near the top of the food chain and our ancient ancestors were able to do that by developing survival instincts and those survival instincts are still buried in our subconscious today so when you have a bad feeling about something like something's wrong here i don't know what it is you should listen to that because it might just save your life before i get into today's stories if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right place because that's all we do and we upload three four even five times every week so if that's of interest to you please sneak under the like buttons chair and tie their shoelaces together also please subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's stories by the summer of 2007 chris had been working as a park ranger in southeastern pennsylvania for a number of years and by and large he enjoyed his occupation some of the time he got to do what he loved which was hiking in the forest and some of the time it required doing something he hated which was office work that usually required staying late at night on one of those late nights in august of 2007 chris's boss mike said that he needed to leave the office and go down the access road to this tool shed they had he needed to get some equipment and bring it back up to the office for some reason and he said he'd be back in about 15 minutes as soon as mike left chris decided you know what i'm gonna take a break from my work and i'm gonna step outside for a minute right in front of the office building was a little staff parking lot and then about 50 meters beyond that was the edge of this really dense forest where the access road that mike had just gone down to get to the tool shed basically split right through the middle and went straight out past the office when chris stepped outside to take his break he sat down on the front steps that overlooked that parking lot and the access road and he was just kind of looking out towards the forest not thinking about what he was looking at just kind of mindlessly sitting there when all of a sudden he just started to feel like someone's watching me and instinctively he turned around to look back into the office as if maybe someone was behind him but he remembered that he and mike were the only ones there that night so no one's going to be behind him and so he turned back around and he looked out at the parking lot he didn't see any movement and he looked down to the edge of the forest which he could see because the moon was fairly bright that night so the illumination was pretty good and there was no movement against the tree line there was no animals there was no people and mike had not come back yet so there's nothing going on in front of him there's nothing going on behind him but he just could not shake this feeling that someone was watching him and so chris you know he's not easily spooked he's used to being out in the forest in the daytime and at night he's used to being at this office a lot of times he worked at the office on his own at night so he's used to this environment and so he thought you know what i'm gonna go look around and so he walks down the steps and he walks into the parking lot and begins looking behind some of the cars there's only a handful in the lot there's nothing in the lot and he keeps walking until he's about 10 meters away from the edge of the forest and he looks into the forest and it's too dark to see anything and there's nothing out here there's no movement there's no animals mike is still not back yet and so even though he could not shake the sense that someone is watching him he felt like you know what i did my diligence and there's no one out here so it's just got to be in my head and so he decides he's going to go back inside and so he turns around and he starts walking back up towards the office when all of a sudden he hears this whooshing sound come past his head and he didn't know what it was but it sounded like someone took a stick and threw it overhand so it's spinning like a tomahawk because it passed by its head and because the sound was so loud and he was already on edge about someone potentially watching him that he actually dove as soon as he heard it and fell to the ground and scrambled around and looked at the tree line from where this thing came from but there's no one there and he scrambles to his feet and he's still looking around and he starts backpedaling towards the office with his eyes still on the forest and his attention kind of shifts from the forest to what was just thrown at me and he turns around and starts walking around looking for something on the ground like a stick to see if something really was thrown at him but he can't find anything he didn't do an exhaustive search he didn't look under every single car but an initial scan turned up nothing and then he turns back to the forest and he doesn't see anything out there and even though again he feels totally stressed out like something's out here and i can't see it he's like am i going crazy did that really happen because i can't find this big stick that apparently flew past my head so is this all happening in my head but regardless he's totally freaked out and he sprints back inside the office and locks every door 20 minutes later mike comes blazing up the access road he stops in front of the office and runs up the stairs chris goes over unlocks the door and he lets him in and chris is about to tell him about this crazy stick throwing incident but he can tell mike is really upset about something probably more upset about whatever happened to him than chris is about the stick throwing thing and so chris tables his story he locks the doors behind mike and he turns to him and he says what's going on what's wrong with you at first mike doesn't say anything he just paces back and forth inside the office and then finally chris calms him down and he gets him to explain what happened mike tells him that he was down at the tool shed which is about a half mile down the access road and about 20 meters off the road into the forest and he's at the shed it's open and he's pulling out the different pieces of equipment he's going to bring back to the office and he says all of a sudden all the hairs on his body stand up he's got goosebumps and immediately he thinks someone's watching me and he turns around and there's no one there he looks to his right and his left he kind of pokes his head in the shed like is someone hiding in the shed there's no one in there he walks to the back of the shed there's no one behind the shed and he's just totally stumped why he's feeling this way he goes back to the front of the shed and he's going over in his mind what made him feel this way and he can't put his finger on it but he cannot shake this feeling of someone watching him and it's making him totally anxious so he gets all the things he needs from the shed as quick as he can he locks it up he turns and he starts speed walking back out to his truck when he gets about five meters away he hears footsteps running right to left behind him back where the shed is and because he was already completely on edge about someone watching him in the woods somewhere he doesn't even turn around to see what that is he knows he needs to run to his car and get inside and put steel between him and whatever is out there once he's inside he locks the door he turns on the ignition and looks one last time in the direction of where he came from and to his horror there is a man walking into the woods right next to the shed turning the corner behind and disappearing into the woods his instincts were spot on he was being watched and that's when mike hit the gas and sped back to the office chris then tells mike about his stick throwing incident because all of a sudden that seems a whole lot more real and they both agree that whoever threw something at chris is probably the same guy who was hiding near the shed with mike concerned this guy might come back and break into the office they stay the night there and they watch the whole time they don't see him again and the next morning they file a report and they tell the incoming park rangers what happened but after this there were no more reports of this strange hooded figure roaming around the forest and to this day chris and mike have no idea who he is or what he wanted but they can both agree whoever he was he was bad news [Music] in the summer of 2015 a young man named paul was on his last day of a seven day solo backpacking trip through a very remote area in utah called the dark canyon wilderness dark canyon gets its name from its steep walls that block light in the morning and in the late afternoon it's an area that's only accessible by foot and it's not uncommon to go in there and not see another person the whole time you're there that morning paul got up and set off on a day hike that would take him through a very forested area up onto a plateau where he planned to camp out for the night about a mile into the hike he found some amazing elk antlers and he decided he wanted to keep them so he threw him on his backpack and rested them at the top and continued on his hike but the added 15 pounds of weight proved to be far more exhausting than he was anticipating and very quickly he blew through all of his water even though he was within one mile of his final destination this plateau he decided to stop because he was so dehydrated he needed to find water so he puts his pack down he puts the elk antlers down and he starts walking around and amazingly he does find some water granted it was kind of a gross puddle of standing water but he figured i can boil this and it should be okay and as he's preparing a fire to boil this standing water he figures you know what if i'm making a fire here i might as well just make my camp here so he sets up his tent and then he makes a fire and he's about to start boiling this water when he realizes how dumb he's being if there's a puddle of standing water right here then probably just a little ways upstream there's going to be some running water why don't i not boil this crappy water that will only yield you know a couple sips of water and go look for the running water where i can drink as much as i want so he puts the pot down and he leaves all of his gear at the campsite and he begins walking up this mountain to hopefully find a stream and after about a half mile of walking up this mountain he finds this little spring immediately he's down on hands and knees drinking as much water as he possibly can because he's super dehydrated and after he's drank for quite a while he reaches down to his belt where he kept his water bottles and he realized he left all of his gear including his water bottles at camp so he didn't have a way to collect this water and so he's like shoot i gotta go back to camp and get the bottle and come back i'm gonna burn a bunch of energy but he's like you know what what can you do i need the water and so he gets up and he turns around and he starts walking back towards his camp and immediately he starts to feel really anxious as he's walking back he can't help but feel like someone's behind him watching him and he kept turning his head thinking he's gonna see someone just over the mountain who's quietly stalking him and he just could not shake this feeling and so as he's walking back to camp every little sound he hears is totally throwing him off every little rustling leaf every little bird overhead he's totally on edge because he's convinced someone is behind me or someone's over there someone's watching me he finally gets back to camp he gets his water bottles and he considered not going back to the spring because he didn't want to cover that distance again because of how stressful it just was but ultimately he knows he needs the water so either he's going to sit here for a really long time and boil a bunch of stagnant water or he can just suck it up walk to the spring get some water come back and be good before he walks up to the spring he grabs a really big stick to use as a club and then he walks up so now he's got some protection and immediately as he begins that half-mile trek to the spring the anxiety pours right back over him and he can't help but feel like someone is watching him but he gets up to the spring he fills his water bottles he turns around and he starts walking back and he walks down this little rock face and lands on the trail he had just been on a minute ago and he stops because he sees something on the ground that wasn't there before a fresh mountain lion print is placed right in between two of his footprints that he had just made on his way back to the spring meaning there's a mountain lion somewhere right around here that's not just watching me it's hunting me paul doesn't really know what to do so he runs to his campsite and gets in his tent and huddles in his tent for the rest of the night hoping a mountain lion doesn't attack him unfortunately it does not and what he thinks probably happened was when he picked up those elk antlers and put them on his backpack and was walking around with them he probably attracted the mountain lion that thought he was an elk and therefore food in april of 2020 a 17 year old named sam who was an avid outdoorsman decided to go on a one night hike in the superstition mountains in arizona the mountain's name has a bunch of supposed origins but the one that's generally accepted is people are afraid of the superstition mountains because of all the mysterious deaths that have occurred there and so because people would avoid these mountains in fear of mysterious death it became these superstitious mountains but sam was not superstitious and regularly came out here to go hiking in particular on this eight mile loop that went through a canyon and so this one night overnight he planned on doing was gonna be on that eight mile loop where he'd do four miles in camp out and then four miles back and he planned to do it with a friend but his friend at the last minute cancelled and so sam teetered on not even doing it but ultimately decided okay i'll just do it by myself because i'm very familiar with this area on the day he was supposed to go do this hike he had planned on getting there early in the day to have maximum lighting but due to some unforeseen circumstances and traffic and bad road conditions he didn't get to the trailhead until 5 45 pm that night sam knew it was a bad idea to start this hike so late because he was gonna run out of daylight he probably was not gonna make it four miles to the point where he planned on camping out but he figured with his good health and fitness he could probably quickly make his way to the two or even three mile mark and there were some suitable campsites there and so he decided he would kind of risk it and just try to go as fast as he could and use the daylight he had to reach a suitable campsite but he wasn't able to move as fast as he thought he could and soon the sun was down and it's totally dark and he's got his flashlight but that only is able to shine like 10 feet in front of him and then at one point he nearly falls off of this rock and he knows had he fallen he would have gotten really badly hurt and he's 15 miles away from the nearest help and he's in a bad cell phone service area and the roads getting out here are treacherous no one knows exactly where he is and it dawns on him that you've made a pretty bad choice and you should stop right now and make camp here and not try to risk it any further and so as it happened where he was there was this forest right nearby and he could see there was a clearing about 30 feet off the path when he shined his light and so he walked into that clearing and he found it was a great spot to make camp and in fact on the edge of this clearing was the remnants of a fire pit it was very old but it at least showed someone had camped out right here and and they seemed to have made it just fine so suddenly he was feeling pretty smart and he felt pretty good about where he was staying for the night now sam intentionally did not bring a tent he liked to sleep on a sleeping pad with a sleeping bag over that and then he would string up a tarp over the top of him in case it rained and since this clearing was surrounded by a bunch of pine trees he was able to string up his tarp over the top and it was perfect and pretty soon he had a fire going and then he cracked open a can of beans and he began eating his dinner and as he was eating he started to get a sense that something was off something was not right he began scanning the tree line as if he was gonna find something out of the ordinary but his visibility was incredibly limited because he was sitting right up against a fire and if you've ever sat next to a fire in a dark forest your visibility is like five feet in a circle around the fire you really cannot see beyond that and his vision was also limited by all the pine trees that encircled his clearing so he really could only see what was immediately around him nothing else and he starts thinking that's gotta be it maybe i'm just nervous because i have no visibility but as he's rationalizing this kind of bad gut feeling a rock the size of a marble comes soaring into the campsite and lands at his feet and he looks down at the rock and immediately he connects that to that sense of dread he had and he's looking around a little more aggressively now but again his vision is very very limited and so for the next 15 minutes sam is really aggressively scanning the tree line and listening really intently and he doesn't hear anything he doesn't see any more rocks get thrown and so he begins to rationalize and convince himself that there's nothing wrong here that feeling i have oh don't worry about that he starts telling himself you know i must have kicked a rock that's what it is or maybe a rock fell off a tree but either way it's something totally explainable and you got nothing to worry about and after a little while he convinced himself and he got into a sleeping bag under his tarp and he went to sleep a couple of hours later sam wakes up and he has that same sense of dread and now it's back with a vengeance and he can't hear anything he can't see anything but he's definitely feeling like something is wrong and at that moment as he's listening really intently and looking really carefully he hears the sound of rustling leaves it sounds like someone walking through leaves about 30 or 40 meters away from his campsite and initially he can't tell if this person or animal is walking towards his campsite or away but over the next 30 seconds or so the sounds start to fade and he convinces himself that okay they've left and everything's fine but just in case he wanted to grab his flashlight and shine it in that direction and so he reaches next to him where he had left it when he had gone to bed a couple hours earlier and he can't find his flashlight he's looking around for it and he can't find it and he's like man that's weird i had it right here right next to my body and it's not here anymore and that's when the alarm bells start going off in his head because the only way this flashlight moves is if he moved it and if it's not here how did it move and so he jumps out of a sleeping bag he ducks out from under the tarp and he's looking around on the ground in the immediate vicinity of where he was sleeping to find this flashlight and as he's looking out of the corner of his eye he sees some light he turns his head and in the same direction that he had heard those footsteps those rustling leaves when he was still laying down he sees his flashlight laying on the ground about 10 meters away which means someone or something had been less than a foot away from him to get this flashlight that was right next to him while he was fast asleep and totally helpless and had moved it all the way over there and immediately sam thinks to himself that's a trap they are trying to lure me away from my campsite suddenly he felt so scared he wanted to vomit but he knew in order to survive this situation he needed to keep his wits about him so he puts his boots on and he grabs his knife and he knows he's not leaving this campsite in fact he's going to build the biggest fire he can he's gonna stoke that fire as big as he can get it and he's not gonna go anywhere near that flashlight for the next several hours sam just stood in the middle of his campsite holding his knife preparing to confront whatever the heck is out in the woods and over those several hours he would hear footsteps approach his campsite turn around and leave every time the fire got lower he noticed they would come closer and closer and closer and when he would stoke the fire they wouldn't come as close but at about 3am he ran out of firewood so unless he went into the woods to get more he'd be out and he's certainly not going into the woods that's the whole point is to avoid the woods for this thing is and so as the fire died down sam prepared himself mentally for whatever happened next because he knew that with that fire gone this thing was comfortable coming all the way in coming all the way up right next to him to get the flashlight and so finally he hears the footsteps approaching and before this the closest they had come was maybe about 15 meters away they were far enough away it didn't feel intimate it was terrifying but he had some distance this time they walk right up to about three meters away but they intentionally come behind the thickest group of trees so he can't see them and it's still dark outside and he's in that bubble of light near the fire so he's blind to whatever's on the other side of those trees but he knows they're there and they've stopped and for two hours this poor kid is standing in the middle of this campsite facing in the direction of whatever is behind the trees probably his imagination is going crazy at this point with what could be behind those trees just waiting for whatever happened next but ultimately the only thing that would happen is the sun would eventually come up and right before it actually popped over the horizon this thing on the other side finally moved it turned around and ran away and it did not come back and so when the sun finally did come up sam didn't just charge out of there because he's still thinking there could be a trap he waited until it was totally full sunlight and then he packed up everything he had and he practically sprinted back to the parking lot back into his car and he drove non-stop for 20 miles until he got to a gas station where he could park and collect himself and when he got there he got out of his car and he went in and he got a drink and when he came out he noticed someone had written something on the dust on the back window of his car and he walks over and it just says sleep well question mark sam is confident whoever was stalking him at his campsite is the same person or group of people that wrote this message on his car and now sam just wonders what would have happened if i retrieved that flashlight so that's gonna do it guys let me know in the comments what you thought of today's stories and i will pin the best comment at the top of the comment section if you enjoyed today's stories and you haven't done this already please sneak under the like button's desk and tie their shoelaces together also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username for both platforms is the same it's just john ballen416 i also have a ton of content over on tick 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Id: NYbUTIwWdNI

Length: 21min 20sec (1280 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020