Unexplainable Stuff That Happens in the Woods

forest rangers what are your unexplainable and downright creepy stories traditionally not a ranger but my story is the exact reversal of the others here when i was in the scouts or rather the local equivalent legally adult scouts had to do the three-feather challenge one day without food one day without speaking and one day and night alone in the woods with only a knife and a tub unseen by any human after which one has to sneak back to the scout camp unnoticed by the sentries and reports to the campmaster it was my third day so i took off walked for miles through the woods and found the most remote spot in the wildest most overgrown part of the woods spent a spooky but uneventful night until almost before dawn when i dc to go for a morning swim in the lake right before taking off to go back i stripped nude and went towards the lake but noticed a group of guys fishing so decided to go back suddenly the ground underneath my feet caved in and i found myself submerged up to my armpits in the absolute vilest mass i have ever smelled it was a pit where poacher dumped the guts and leftovers of illegally hunted deer and it fermented for weeks imagine the scene a group of anglers hear some ungodly screaming from the direction of the woods and run there to see if someone needs help what they see is a teenager-shaped ghoul covered completely in blood and rotten offal who is crawling out of a bloody hole in the ground while shrieking and weeping then runs at them to get to the lake and wash off haha oh sweet freaking crap that's good one of my best buds from college was a geologist major that ended up becoming a ranger in the south-east us haven't spoken in years as is the case with age but i remember about eight nine years back he was telling me about an old married couple that he had recently helped out he had seen them come to the park several days in a row and found out they were visiting from out west and they had gotten engaged their decades prior they had been searching for a spot they'd taken pics of where he popped the question but were having trouble after looking at the pics and figuring out roughly where they were trying to get to he escorted them in his vehicle then hiked with them to where he thought it would be they found it and he left them there and went back to his station at the entrance he said he got a weird feeling once he got back and felt like he needed to wait to see them whenever they left well once it came time to lock up at night he still hadn't seen them leave so he reported it left his assistant to wait at the shack at the entrance and went back to where he left them he found both of them lying down spooning along the bank of the river neither were alive he called the cops went through the nine yards and went home the police were able to disclose to him their identities but weren't sure anything else initially later he learned that the wife was terminally ill with cancer and they had both committed suicide by ingesting some sort of chemical pill combination medley they just chose to do it where they had gotten engaged at my bud wasn't torn up about it he was obviously sad for about them dying but said that he thought they hadn't asked for help earlier because they didn't want anyone to think they helped kill them got just imagine being there with the love of your life getting so frustrated trying to find their final place together oh my god i once asked a park ranger for his strangest story and he told me this he worked at this park in the summer and had for several years he was driving back alone into the park to begin his summer's work when he heard a male voice say very clearly and loudly welcome back to be clear i am not forestry i just have a related story my cousin is with the forest service in the montana wyoming area and i decided to go up there with her to literally test the waters she does hydrology and has to ride up to the middle of nowhere to test streams and snow runoff to ensure no contaminants so i thought that sounded fun and wanted to do a bit of a tour with her we were going to have to camp out there for two nights so we packed up all our gear in saddle bags or saddle bundles and started out the first day and night was amazing beautiful scenery and amazing air quality it really is so peaceful out there i love that area and wish i got to go up there more often anyway we started out on the second day and my cousin said you want to see something weird of course i said yes so she led me on a bit of a side journey into this tiny little ravine we ended up traveling about two hours away from our actual path we had laid out at the very end of this fold in the land she dismounts and tells me to get off my horse two we tie them up in this gorgeous little clearing and she tells me to follow this tiny wildlife path and bring our little rechargeable radio it is one of those you can plug in a wind up and it also acts as a lantern if you really need it but that kills the batteries quickly i don't out in the middle of freaking nowhere there is a huge coil of wire sticking out of the ground but the wire itself was not weirdly large like some buried transmission wire but small like 10 or 12 gauge wiring for a house it trailed off into the brush and trees so naturally i decided to follow the dang thing out of curiosity my cousin trails behind me as i do and this wire after coming straight up from the ground is strung across limbs of trees then back to the ground then it snakes around rocks and finally deadens into an outlet that outlet is mounted on the side of a desk it looks like a school teacher's desk from when i was growing up with a metal base and a pseudo wood plastic top thing no chair no building no nothing just this outlet in this desk i am staring confused as all heck at this desk in the middle of a forest when my cousin takes the radio pulls out the cord and plugs it into the outlet that sucker then lit up and started blaring static the wire was being fed from somewhere now the place where we were had no road access no buildings for many miles and no other people around and yet there was a live outlet weird as crap no spooky jump scares or bodies just one lone powered desk in the middle of the woods i wish i had taken a picture of it easy secret underground military base they put johnson's desk up there cause he was annoying i've got a deep wood story that's been shared in my family for quite a few years my great uncle was a deep woods kind of guy in a practice i find a little weird he would rarely use a tent just set up a sleeping bag right on the ground since we're from maine there aren't too many large predators that really mess with people there are black bears that they usually hide from people so i guess he just didn't feel worried so he's out sleeping in the woods when he feels tiny hands patting his face wakes up opens his eyes to see a raccoon standing over him just feeling his face so what does my great uncle do he just goes back to sleep they do like to put their little mitts on everything not a ranger but was hiking in andorra with a friend long story short we got lost off the trail and ended up in spain found another trail and we're following it without a map a while ahead of us we see a man with two golden retrievers walking in the same direction we are he looks young and is carrying climbing gear over his shoulder we're rushing down the trail to catch up with him and finally do we ask him for help with directions and he tells us exactly where we are and where we need to be about 12 kilometers away there's a town with the hotel he says there's another smaller town about six kilometers away and that he parked his car there he says he can give us a lift for the last six kilometers if we like but says that he's in a hurry we are over the moon and so we hiked together for a while the dogs are nice and friendly running circles around us we are chatting away to the guy and he is really nice but my friend and i are getting tired and so we cannot keep pace with him for long the trail bends away to the right and the man now a bit ahead of us disappears behind the bend we get there a couple of minutes later and the trail is empty no man and no dogs even though the trail is a straight run for quite a while and we should have been able to see them the two of us continue on alarmed waiting to hear see something or perhaps be murdered by a stranger nothing we get to the town eventually and from there made it to the safety of the hotel in the next town over we were completely freaked out by his sudden disappearance and to this day we are both convinced he was a ghost well he did say he was in a hurry maybe his friends call him flash i'm a ranger non-peace officer and work at a pretty remote dessert park this happened before i got there but the other rangers i work with were there they went to do a patrol during summer our off season at one of our seldom used campgrounds on a patrol our maintenance ranger found a burnt out car in one of the sites the desert is a weird place so he just calls the sheriff and waits sheriff arrives and it turns out there's a body in the driver's seat with no arms and no legs just a torso and head burnt sheriff's just marked it as a suicide and removed the vehicle we are close to mexico and get a lot illegal drug traffic so i guess they don't even bother trying to solve those super sketchy yeah sure suicide x ranger here we had a group of frat boys making way too much noise we came by twice and at the second stop i told them this is your last warning not only is it rude for other campers to be so loud it's exceptionally dangerous everyone knows that the local mountain lions are attracted to loud noises at night and these ghost cats as they are called can creep right up on you without you hearing or seeing them whatever you do don't leave your tent tonight if you hear anything don't make a sound we went back to the station grabbed the lion pelt from the interp center and the night vision goggles head ranger had to blow what was left of the budget at the end of the previous year once they were all in their tents we crept into the campsite and made fake lion tracks everywhere we set up the lion pelt propped up over some sticks the other ranger got out the pa and from a distance started doing fake land calls slowing getting closer i pulled the jeep forward like we were arriving on scene and got out turned on my mag light and illuminated the silhouette of the lion pelt because i was moving quickly the shadow of the lion appeared to me moving at this point the frat boys were losing it jim the other ranger shouted stay in your tents followed shortly by she's coming around at us and then there's another one and finally let's get the frick out of here at that point we turned off the flashlights grabbed the lion pelt in the darkness and jumped in the jeep and sped off just after sunrise they started peeking out of the tents nobody was brave enough to get out until about 8 30. when they saw all the huge poor and claw prints everywhere they really freaked out your tax dollar at work diabolical i love it not a ranger but my inexplicable story is probably explicable but i've never found out the answer and i've asked i was camping in a campground on the west coast i have back problems so when i camp i sleep in the car i had the back seat converted to a bench seat and put my sleeping bag there i cover the car windows for privacy early one morning i hear this rumbling sound it's loud enough to wake me up i'm a child of the suburbs and what it really sounds like is when you push a shopping cart across a really rough parking lot one with a lot of gravel sticking out of the concrete then the car gets bumped hard the whole car moved i immediately start unzipping the sleeping bag with the inside zipper but that's not the quickest process by the time i get free enough to sit up and look there's nothing there but some big animal had walked by and i love to know what makes a rumbling noise like that bears not a ranger but i live on the outskirts of a national park in a cabin it was a four mile drive from the main road just to get to the property and we had no plumbing or power this property was right next to where the park started to call it the middle of nowhere is an understatement my roommate at the time was interning with the park service but he is a city kid every evening at the dead of night i had been hearing noises in the woods what i thought was someone walking but then they'd just stop in particularly overgrown areas of the jungle so your mind starts to doubt itself is it a pig a cat is it just the wind the cabin didn't have a locking door and the owners didn't want me to install one so i began sleeping in my car now this is a huge property and i'd park my car over an acre away from the cabin and where i was hearing something i started hearing those footsteps again i moved out my roommate who thought i was bonkers stayed and still slept there without a locking door he got robbed not once but twice after i moved out so he finally put up motion triggered cameras there was a man with a long rifle who hike up to the property set up in the bushes and watch us oh heck no your roommate is lucky that he was only robbed bro not a ranger but back in 2010 i had just finished a wilderness leadership class and decided to go to colorado to get some solo wilderness time i found out about some hot springs near the colorado river that were only accessible during the winter during the summer the snow melt raises the water level of the river and they become submerged and decided to go spend a few weeks out there it was on blm land and i had about a four mile hike from where i parked to where i was camping the blm lady who watched the land saw me when i arrived and asked me to just write the date on my windshield every week to let her know i'm still alive out there anyways it was pretty pleasant out there but every night i was terrified of the bears they should be sleeping but if they earned it means they are hungry as frick and i'm for dinner for this reason i decided to set up camp close to a cliff it was about 40 feet down to the river and i figured worst-case scenario i could jump and then get to the hot springs to prevent hypothermia it's a crazy plan but once you're out there you realize bear spray is kind of useless inside the tent so one early morning i hear these loud animal noises outside of my tent they are getting closer and very loud accompanied by grunting and breathing noises i was too scared to open my tent i just froze and the steps kept getting closer and closer and closer at this point i could hear it sniffing my tent i don't dare move i just lay there it starts to move away from my tent but it's still out there and now i hear more than one animal i finally poke my head out and it's a herd of elk i swear though it was probably the most scared i've ever been out camping at least elk can kill you forgot my flashlight and dozed off in the woods woke up after dark and started walking out but i kept hearing noises behind me i'd stop and it would stop thought it was coyotes or maybe a bobcat 20 pounds of hate stalking me finally get back to the truck get my light and start searching around holding pack of armadillos followed me out not a ranger but i was out camping with my dog one night in her along the mogollon rim of arizona it was dark and we were sitting around the campfire when we hear something behind the bush close to our camp instead of my dog barking at it he begins to whimper i didn't think nothing of it and just tended to the fire after a couple of minutes we were some more noises from a different bush this time my dog gets up and goes over to the tent and scratches the door because he wants to go in i toss a couple of rocks in the direction i heard the noise and nothing happened i'm spooked now so i toss a couple of pieces of wood on the fire and climb into my tent with my dog hoping that the light from the fire would keep whatever was out there away we eventually fall asleep and luckily had no other disturbances during the night the next morning i go out behind the bushes where we had heard the noises and found mountain lion tracks that were circling around our camp i'm sure glad i didn't go looking at night when i heard the noises i was the lone recreation ranger in a small district in southern idaho nearest town from guard station was about and 1.5 hours away by car after moving into the guard station solar power was not working and i hadn't slept for about a month due to various factors bats in the cabin something walking on the deck at night the woods there always had an eerie feeling to them unlike the southwest ponderosa forest that i was used to about two months into the seasonal job i started to hear something walking and scratching on the deck at night perhaps even on the door now this district was known for its badgers and beavers so i didn't think much of it when leaving the cabin at night i always had an eerie feeling like i was being watched one night i was returning from my grocery run always went on tuesday nights and i had a bad feeling at the time i did not have my shotgun in the vehicle after stepping out of the vehicle i looked to the right of the cabin about 50 feet from my front door all i could see were two eyes about 3.54 featuring in the air to say i freaked out was an understatement i started yelling get the frick out of here but the eyes only crouched down and inched closer at this point i could tell it was a large animal of some kind definitely not a coyote i tossed a piece of firewood in the general area in the creature leaped back a bit but did not make a sound tossed four or five more pieces and creature still inched forward at this point i fumbled with the keys of course the freaking solar power was out again i managed to get inside and grabbed my shotgun technically you are not supposed to have guns in gov housing but who the frick lives in the hills have eyes back country and does not carry went outside creature was bit closer still could not get a good look with my crappy headlamp loaded shotgun and continued to throw pieces of wood with one hand finally the creature walked back into the brush that night i drank about four ipas and slept with my shotgun in the morning trail crew came up and we found mountain lion tracks all over the porch rocking bench and compound leading back to the creek after that event i always heard the rocking chair move and someone or something walking on the porch but never found any tracks after that point considering that it was always muddy up there it was weird to not find any tracks i've been stalked by mountain lions before and never had that eerie feeling like i did in those woods i'm idle home and a former boy scout i can confirm idaho is full of creepy woods and mountain lions i was in the gila wilderness and a convoy of this camp as fishers were making the drive on the dirt road from mogollon to snow lake when we spotted a forest ranger guy pulled over looking in a ditch it turns out some idiot tried to make a u-turn and didn't realize the loose rock makes it hard to stop they went over the edge and high centered we're miles from the nearest official campground and it's early spring and the night time gets pretty dang cold we get a jeep with a winch in position and start to pull the guy out of the ditch off a hill comes a white dude in a purple velvet sweatsuit he's got a walking stick fanny pack and the purple velvet sweatsuit that's it he's a blonde dude and pretty skinny he comes up to us and he tells us he's german and having a great time we could not get over the purple velvet suit it was like a real pimp sweatsuit the ranger is immediately suspicious wants to know where is he staying and where he came from it was around nine o'clock in the morning and the only way he could have gotten where he came from was to hike for hours the german guys is a goofy frickin just points off toward the other mountain when asked where he's staying going we all think it's funny but also question how the guy is getting along with no water and no food the sun is intense above 5000 feet even if it's only 75 degrees the german guy refuses water or any other help and just crosses the road goes off into the woods the ranger told us he can't really keep the guy from doing that since he seemed okay he said he'd check a few campsites in that direction later to see if he made it we get to snow lake and commence drinking like fish in order to better catch fish that evening the ranger pops bite to tell us that nobody at any other camp had seen the dude he radioed around and no other rangers had abandoned camps or missing campers and they surely hadn't seen a german dude in purple pimp's wetsuit that range rolled off duty the next day and his replacement came by to make sure the other ranger was smoking something we gave him we assured him it all happened never heard another word about the german in the purple pimp sweatsuit but makes for a good story my favorite part is he tells us he's german and having a great time not a ranger but my uncle was he always told the story of when he worked in montana he was a solid 5-10 miles away from town so pretty much balls deep in the woods he recalled pulling his atv on top of a semi-big hill that overlooked a valley in between all the trees there was this clearing he could see through his binoculars through them he saw an older lady 60 plus ish in black surrounded by a six eight wolves now he is a lengthy distance from the woman but he starts yelling and honking and all that and takes off down the hill as fast as he could but when he reached the clearing there was no one there no wolves no woman only a silver ring with a black stone in the middle he still has it to this day based on what i've seen in the past and well actually to this day don't pick crap up from mystical freaking people and take it home that's exactly how you end up being spooned in bed at night when you're the only one home or something similar i have so many of these but i'll share my favorite i have been a ranger in the usfs for almost 15 years but this takes place about three years after i joined we were getting calls about a lone wolf with a collar on hanging around campsites weird since wolves aren't known to be in the area but when you work in the field long enough you start to realize anything is possible no calls had mentioned violent behavior from the animal thank god i departed from the station around noon to check out the places that it had been sighted wandered around for about three hours no further calls during that time until i took a break for water sat down had a snack drank some water and was getting ready to go again when the thing was about 20 feet out trotting near the tree line it seemed friendly and had the collar so i whistled to it and he came over to me getting a closer look i could see it wasn't evolved it was huge but it was dark and didn't have the right body structure though i could see why it'd be confusing from a distance i radioed in and reported that i had the dog with me but as soon as i said i'd bring it in the dog freaking took off like he was playing to see how far he could get me to chase him typical dog behavior i went after it and i swear it was a game of chase for at least five minutes as we steadily ran through the forest please don't go running through words unless you know the area like the back of your hand the dog finally slowed down near a rock bed creek area and started pacing around a spot i drew closer and didn't see anything off at first then i noticed it the overgrowth had almost disguised what appeared to be bones i called it immediately and another team was sent to recover the remains when i went to retrieve the dog he was just gone but honestly it wasn't a priority at that point he was friendly enough and i figured we'd catch up with him later the bones were identified as a teenage males died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head he'd been reported missing in the area long before i became a ranger and there had been pretty much no hope of finding him i spoke to his mom on the phone she called to thank me personally and she asked how i'd found her son i mentioned the black dog then thought i'd said something wrong since there was a pause on her side of the line after i gave a couple details about the dog she quietly explained that her son who struggled with making connections had sunken into a deep depression after the death of his best friend the very dog that had led me to him i think i spent the rest of the day stunned i continue to be in disbelief in a way but i know what happened also throw away a count because my mane would give away who the individual in this post is and where it took place the family still grieves for their son like most not a ranger but back in the early 90s my brothers and i were staying with my cousin and her husband who i'll call scott who was a dnr officer this was opening day of dear bow season in northern michigan while i was at least a mile from any road or trail i stumbled across an area that looked like people had been camping recently they'd even built this weird outdoor kitchen being a naive 16 17 year old the kitchen confused me but i figured they had left because hunting season had started so i just continued on my way that night i was telling everyone about it when scott gets serious and asks me about what it looked like and where it was after i told him he warned me not to go back there and to be glad no one was there apparently some locals had multiple locations like that where they would cook and so they wouldn't blow up their houses and to make it harder to get caught i guess scott reported it to the cops and they raided it a couple days later i must have missed it but the guys had set up multiple trail cams which were dang expensive at that time all around the area based on the picks on them i missed the guys by a few hours they were heavily armed while i only had a bow and a knife on the surface it seems like a well thought out plan from some smart people but they weren't very smart after all scott filled us and later on some details apparently they didn't clear the images off the cameras before leaving the images though too low of a resolution to recognize their faces showed them not only cooking the m but also carrying illegal guns and riding off on customized four-wheelers known to everyone in the area they ended up getting 20 years in prison thank god you were okay wowzer what a close call not a ranger but here's a good woods story it's late spring heavy rain had flooded the dyke and public hunting ground so i get the idea to go fishing in the shallows with my buddy we have a good time didn't catch anything and it's getting dark so we light a fire to dry off before heading back as the sunlight is swallowed up we hear something i can only describe as a blood curdling scream coming from the distance a little girl almost frogs we thought and kept talking twigs snapping then again bit much closer we heard it could have been as close as 30 feet of the tree line we hightail it out of there and laugh it off once we get home fast forward six years i'm on lunch break and i'm telling this story to my lid and he pulls up a video on youtube and lets me listen the same scream he gives me the phone and i see a mountain lion they make that noise as a final warning or when they are in heat so either you got told off or propositioned i made a post on a let's not meet when i first got on reddit about some odd experiences that happened when a friend and i were out camping there were belongings from someone else at our campsite on my land we saw someone walking around in our field and when we went to bed we heard someone walking around our fire and putting wood in like they were trying to keep warm i racked my shotgun i had with me and told them they better frick off they ran off over the course of a few weeks we had stuff go missing and a chainsaw we had locked up in our tractor we were using stolen since then nothing else has happened thankfully but i do have some other weird stories about crap in the woods weird stuff out there folks but i do have some other weird stories about crap in the woods weird stuff out there folks you can't say that and not give us the stories man not me but my dad who was a ranger he said once he was out in the forest with one other ranger they had to camp overnight halfway to their destination well at night they heard footsteps and a lot of them outside their tent then they heard at least 20 people scream get out needless to say they got the frick out and radioed it in but the next morning the cops went out and searched and found four skinned animals pinned to the treats around their campsite my mom worked for the forest in the last 70s she worked the radio i think she said he heard her friend die in a forest fire over the radio it isn't super strange but it would be one of the worst things i can think happening to someone my mom worked for the forest your mom is the lorax confirmed small chance i'm the cause of one rangers story from about a decade or so ago was hunting public land with my dad several miles from anything close to her trail so the day goes by and not much is going on weather is crappy and i'm not hearing distant gunshots so i reckon the deer aren't moving much i radioed to the old man that i'm gonna head back and we make plans to rendezvous where we had split up that morning 20 or so minutes later i was kneeling around the edge of a pond stripping off all my bulky camo layers i was just freaking around putting stuff in my bag while i listened to my earphones i can't remember if i had taken my blaze orange hat off or not to remove my pullover but i had all the appropriate gear to denote myself as a hunter in my possession as i was digging through my bag i thought i heard that faint base of someone yelling so i took a nearby doubt and noticed that crouched on the opposite edge of the pond there was a lone forest ranger kinda just watching me i stood up it didn't wave and i wasn't sure he had even yelled to me in the first place so i didn't holler anything to him we just kinda locked eyes for what felt like a few minutes to be clear we weren't doing anything illegal my rifle was unloaded by that point though slung over my shoulder obscuring the fact the action was open and were following all laws and regulations i hunched back over to my bag pulled out my walkie and radioed to my dad we've got company my motives weren't nefarious i just didn't want my dad to come bumbling down the hill and be surprised by a friendly law enforcement officer when i looked back up my rib 15 second later that ranger was gone i mean flat the freakout gone so eventually i meet back up with my dad and start to tell him about what happened yeah as deep back in here as we are he probably thought we were up to no good and hit the trail when he saw you on a radio they get ambushed like that as someone who gets nervous anxious around cops it never occurred to me that i could be causing similar anxiety in them if you're reading this dna bra i'd like to offer you a heartfelt my bad and keep up the good work this would get buried but thank you all for sharing your experiences as well as experiences of your friends and family i'll have a great time reading through all of them so thank you i was in dire need of some good stories this is gonna get buried as i'm late to the party but i worked for a few months as a park ranger with the florida forest service at my local state forest the creepiest thing i saw was a poor young man who hung himself on my second week on the job the unexplainable though are obviously not as cut and dry we'd have children's clothes neatly folded and left on the trails pairs of shoes in the middle of our dense burn blocks and just a general sense of eeriness my first few weeks on the job i was easily spooked but after i got into my groove of spending hours alone in the woods it took a lot to shake me when the forest goes silent pack up and move along when the forest goes silent pack up and move along is probably the best camping advice i've heard there was a story on here a while ago that gave me the heebie jeebies a guy went up to his dad's cabin after he passed away and he kept hearing what sounded like footsteps on the roof he passed it off as an animal but one night he went out to the balcony to smoke and seen what looked like a man sitting in a tree holding the branch above him just staring at him he was too far away to get a good look at the man thing though my grandpa had a hunting buddy in the 70s who was basically a hermit in the woods of the pacific northwest he was staying with him in his cabin deep in the cascade mountains during a hunting trip no running water no electricity miles away from the nearest town or paved road his cabin was built on stilts and on an incline it had a 10-foot balcony from the base of the bottom of the stilts with no stairs or ladder to climb up on my grandpa claims that he knew this man for a long time and said that he didn't have the personality to lie i've also known my grandpa to never be one for bulls one night during the trip they were relaxing at the cabin after a hunt and his buddy tells him that sasquatch is in the area and to be careful going out at night thinking he was pulling his leg my grandpa chuckled and didn't think much about it his friend then put on a very serious face and grabbed a few pieces of fruit bread and jerky and placed them in a bowl he took the bowl out onto the balcony and set it on the edge and said it'll be empty in the morning and then went to bed it was an open floor single room cabin about 300 square featuring my grandpa had a cot set up near the balcony window and was woken up in the middle of the night by rustling outside he peeked through the window and saw the bowl empty and to this day still claims he saw four fingers resting on the edge of the balcony just before letting go he never went hunting in that area again when i was a kid in the colorado rockies i was taking my horse and the whole band of dogs we had two labs an aussie and a dax and to our pond by my grandparents place i decided it was a great idea to venture the back way through the thicker part of the pine forest i knew the way and so did the animals horse included about five minutes from the house i was oblivious to the world and didn't notice that the dogs were no longer with me when i finally decided to come back to the real world and notice the missing dogs i turned back since you don't go anywhere without them they were basically my guardians and supervisors up there i get about halfway back to the house come up a small gully heavily filled with pines and there is this huge tom cougar just staring at me right in the path i'm eight at the time a little guy and a tasty morsel for this animal luckily i had the horse who upon seeing the animal immediately bolted directly back to the pasture the cat seemed to run after us didn't really watch we roll up into the drive head towards the pasture and i agree that this ends my adventures for the day after i put the horse up the dogs find me again and we are walking back to the house when they get real jumpy and timid i stop and begin to look around there is a large and old pine splitting the distance between the pasture and the house and on the lowest branch i see that dang tom again luckily the presence of the dogs deterred any action but i made it a point to pass far away from the tree and as calmly as i can i tell my grandpa what happened he goes outside rifle in hand and never found the bastard to this day i never venture out without a dog or a weapon just in case i've had some weird stuff happen but i'm probably the cause of a lot more unexplained sightings i used to spend a lot of time in the forest near my neighborhood it's a small strip of trees that's biggest inhabitant is a fox i got into vulture culture taxidermy about a year ago i've always been a fan of zoology and being able to look at animals in a different way is incredibly interesting when i was getting into it the fox in the forest had just had kits and was hunting over time to feed them i started kind of an exchange where i'd pick up bones and such from around the den and if i found fresh corpses elsewhere i'd leave the meat around the den instead of wasting it unfortunately this garnered me the reputation of outcast horrible dead animal lady from most of the kids who liked to play in the forest and noticed me carrying bags of rotting animal parts around as far as i'm aware none of them actually knew anything about me aside from the rotting meat and the time i accidentally busted through with a bunch of live snakes so that should pretty well cement their opinion on me so eventually you bonded with a fox and lived that sweet druid lifestyle right late to the party but a fun story i live in an urban area but grew up in the woods i caught an uber to a local land preserve for a hike had a good 20 meters chat with my driver and root he was swearing up and down that he saw a flying dinosaur in this park amused i press him for details he tells me that he was walking there and sees a huge black shape fly up into a tree it wasn't some hawk or crow it was a freaking dinosaur i laugh and inform him that he had stumbled across the rare dino turkey he goes quiet for a moment before busting out godamnit my buddies are never gonna let me live this down it totally was a turkey i didn't know those moffas could fly a few years ago i was working as a paraprofessional for an elementary school one day at recess a few kids come screaming down from the soccer field that there was a monster after them but just then a huge turkey flew overhead and landed in the parking lot the kid screamed about the monster i was just started laughing if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video so you

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Length: 39min 5sec (2345 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 18 2021