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Top 3 SCARIEST forest encounters · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. In nineteen eighty two, a very
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Speaker 1: outdoorsy teenage girl and boy who had recently started dating
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Speaker 1: decided to go camping in Maine. Around one am on
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Speaker 1: the first night they were there, the girl wakes up
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Speaker 1: because she has to go to the bathroom and she's
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Speaker 1: about to unzip her tent when she stops because she
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Speaker 1: hears some strange noises coming from outside their tent. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't that loud but it sounded distinctly like something was
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Speaker 1: digging in the ground. But she really had to go,
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Speaker 1: and she figured, you know what, it's probably just some
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Speaker 1: small animal or something. And so she begins to unzip
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Speaker 1: the tent. And there's a little bit of moonlight that night,
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Speaker 1: and there was a clearing outside of their tent, so
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Speaker 1: the moonlight's pouring through, so she has plenty of illumination,
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Speaker 1: and so she looks through this tiny hole and she
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Speaker 1: can't believe what she sees. It is a grown woman
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Speaker 1: squatting down about two or three feet away from their tent.
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Speaker 1: Her back is to them, so she can't see that
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Speaker 1: she's looking through the tent, and she's feverishly digging into
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Speaker 1: the ground in front of her. The girl literally falls
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Speaker 1: backwards into her tent. She's so startled by what she sees,
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Speaker 1: and she lands on her boyfriend, who immediately gets up
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Speaker 1: and he's like, what's going on, And she goes sh
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Speaker 1: and she points at the little hole where she'd unzipped
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Speaker 1: the tent, and she goes lock. The boy is confused,
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Speaker 1: but he can tell his girlfriend is very seriou, so
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Speaker 1: he sits up quietly and he looks through the little
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Speaker 1: opening in the door and he sees the digging woman.
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Speaker 1: The boy recoils and looks at his girlfriend and he's like,
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Speaker 1: what is going on out there? He takes a flashlight
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Speaker 1: and she's telling him, don't do it, and he opens
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Speaker 1: up the tent a little bit more and he aims
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Speaker 1: his flashlight directly on this woman, and this gets her attention,
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Speaker 1: and she stops digging, and she stands up slowly, and
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Speaker 1: she turns around and faces them, and she's got no expression.
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Speaker 1: She's not giving them any indication why she's there. She's
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Speaker 1: not acting aggressive, she's not acting scared. She's just completely neutral.
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Speaker 1: And she stands there staring at them for quite a
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Speaker 1: while before turning around and just walking away from their campsite.
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Speaker 1: And after a little while, when they were pretty certain
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Speaker 1: she was gone, they open their tent all the way.
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Speaker 1: They go outside, they kind of scan around with their flashlights,
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Speaker 1: and she's nowhere to be found, and they go to
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Speaker 1: where she was digging and it's just this weird four
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Speaker 1: inch deep hole in the ground. There's no rhyme or
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Speaker 1: reason to why she was doing that. And so after
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Speaker 1: sitting there wondering what they should do, they settled on
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Speaker 1: well tomorrow, we'll tell the park rangers that she here
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Speaker 1: and maybe they'll do something about it. And so, feeling
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Speaker 1: pretty confident that this woman's not going to come back,
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Speaker 1: they both go back into the tent. They zip it shut,
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Speaker 1: they get in their sleeping bags, and they're about to
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Speaker 1: go to sleep when they hear someone running towards their
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Speaker 1: campsite and they know it's this woman. They immediately unzit
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Speaker 1: the tent and they look out, and now the woman's
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Speaker 1: not digging anymore. She's rummaging through some of their stuff
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Speaker 1: that's outside of their tent. And the way she's doing
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Speaker 1: it they described as monkey like. She'd pick something up,
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Speaker 1: look at it and throw it over her head. She'd
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Speaker 1: pick the next thing up, throw it over her head,
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Speaker 1: back and forth, just throwing things behind her. And so
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Speaker 1: the boy gets out and he shines a light on
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Speaker 1: her and goes, you need to leave, and she doesn't react.
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Speaker 1: She just keeps flipping through all their stuff until he
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Speaker 1: gets pretty forceful and says you need to leave right now.
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Speaker 1: And at that point she kind of stops and looks
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Speaker 1: at him like, huh, what are you doing here? And
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Speaker 1: then she gets up, turns around and walks away. Now,
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Speaker 1: the couple really doesn't know what to do because she's
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Speaker 1: clearly willing to come back after being confronted. But they
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Speaker 1: stayed outside their tent for about fifteen more minutes, shining
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Speaker 1: their light and making lots of noise and treating her
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Speaker 1: like she's an animal, and they're just trying to scare
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Speaker 1: her away from the campsite. And after a little bit
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Speaker 1: of time, they thought, okay, there's no way she comes
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Speaker 1: back now, because you know, we were pretty aggressive with
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Speaker 1: her this time, and she seemed to really get it.
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Speaker 1: They both do go back in the tent, and as
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Speaker 1: soon as they zip it shut, they hear her come
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Speaker 1: running straight back to the site, like she was literally
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Speaker 1: waiting in the wings for when they went back in
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Speaker 1: the tent, And this time she runs back to the
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Speaker 1: hole in the ground and she's just feverishly digging into
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Speaker 1: the ground as fast as she can. And this time
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Speaker 1: they come out of their tent and they're mad and
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Speaker 1: they are screaming at this woman to get the f
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Speaker 1: out of here. What are you doing? And this seems
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Speaker 1: to kind of frighten the woman who gets up and
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Speaker 1: she looks at them, like, why are you yelling at me?
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Speaker 1: And she runs away, and it looked almost animalistic the
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Speaker 1: way she was running away, like she was feral. The
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Speaker 1: boy and the girl are totally shaken up. At this point.
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Speaker 1: It's about one point thirty in the morning, and this
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Speaker 1: woman just keeps coming back to their site, and they
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do about it. So they turn
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Speaker 1: on some lanterns and they turn on their flashlights, and
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Speaker 1: they decide we're just to stay outside until the morning.
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Speaker 1: That way we know she doesn't come back and doesn't
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Speaker 1: steal anything from us. But by about three thirty in
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Speaker 1: the morning, they've been outside for two hours, they're getting cold,
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Speaker 1: they're super tired. The woman's nowhere to be found, and
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Speaker 1: so they finally say, you want to go back in
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Speaker 1: and get some sleep. I think this time she's really gone.
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Speaker 1: They get back in their sleeping bags and they go
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Speaker 1: to sleep. They don't hear her again. The next morning,
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Speaker 1: when they get up and they unzip their tent, they
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Speaker 1: look outside and all of their stuff has been thrown
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Speaker 1: all over the campsite, and the hole in the ground
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Speaker 1: that the woman had dug that was previously about four
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Speaker 1: or six inches deep, is now well over a foot deep,
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Speaker 1: and they realize This woman must have been lurking in
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Speaker 1: the shadows in the woods, watching them from one thirty
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Speaker 1: to three thirty in the morning, the whole time they
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Speaker 1: were out there, kind of warding her off. She was
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Speaker 1: just waiting, just watching them the whole time in the shadows,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as they went into their tent, she
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Speaker 1: must have given it a little bit of time, but
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Speaker 1: then she ran right back over and she ransacked their site.
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Speaker 1: But the strangest thing was after they looked through all
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Speaker 1: of the stuff she'd chucked around, nothing was missing, and
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Speaker 1: there was some pretty expensive stuff that was laying out
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Speaker 1: that she could have taken but didn't. After they picked
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Speaker 1: up their site, they went to the park ranger and
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Speaker 1: they told them about what had happened. But the ranger
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Speaker 1: has no idea what to make of it. He's never
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Speaker 1: heard of such a thing, and so the couple just
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Speaker 1: leaves that day because they're not about to spend another
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Speaker 1: night here. And to this day, they have no idea
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Speaker 1: why this woman was running under their site and digging
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Speaker 1: into the ground and rummaging through their stuff. It was
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Speaker 1: like she was just a wild animal. In twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 1: an experienced outdoorsman named Bob along with his wife, his
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Speaker 1: young daughter, and their two German shepherds, decided to go
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Speaker 1: camping in a remote part of northern Oregon. When they
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Speaker 1: arrived at the site, Bob began setting up the big
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Speaker 1: family tent for everyone to sleep in, and his daughter said, hey,
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Speaker 1: do you mind if I sleep in the spare two
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Speaker 1: man tent that we always bring with us. Bob and
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Speaker 1: his wife deliberated for a minute, but said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, but you got to bring Guts. That's one
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Speaker 1: of the German shepherds. Guts needs to sleep with you
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Speaker 1: because he's going to be your protection. So that night,
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Speaker 1: after some snores around a campfire, Bob's daughter, along with Guts,
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Speaker 1: retreat to their two man tent, and Bob, his wife,
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Speaker 1: and Leah the other dog retreat to their tent. That night,
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Speaker 1: Bob wakes up suddenly to what sounds like footsteps outside
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Speaker 1: of his tent, and he looks to his side, and
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Speaker 1: his wife is still in the tent with him, and
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Speaker 1: so is Leah the other dog. And he listens really closely,
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Speaker 1: and he can hear his daughter is snoring, and he
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Speaker 1: can hear the sound of God's breathing. So his whole
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Speaker 1: family is accounted for, but he still hears these footsteps,
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Speaker 1: and they don't sound like light, little scampering sounds like
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Speaker 1: you might expect from a squirrel or some small critter.
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Speaker 1: They sound heavy, like a big creature is roaming around
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Speaker 1: their campsite. But Bob's dogs are really keen in to
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Speaker 1: protecting their family, and since Guts and Leah are not
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Speaker 1: up going crazy about whatever's out there, he figures, you
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Speaker 1: know what, it's gotta be an elk or something, and
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Speaker 1: it's not going to do anything to us. So Bob
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Speaker 1: ultimately just goes back to sleep. The next morning, Bob
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Speaker 1: gets up and everybody's just fine. There's no sign of
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Speaker 1: any intruders in their campsite, and so that only confirms
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Speaker 1: to him that, yep, it was just some harmless animal
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Speaker 1: kind of walking around the wilderness because we're in a
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Speaker 1: pretty remote area. That morning, they decide to go for
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Speaker 1: a walk down the road that was right next to
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Speaker 1: their campsite, and so they take the dogs. They start walking,
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Speaker 1: and they make it a couple hundred feet down this
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Speaker 1: road when all of a sudden, Guts sees something or
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Speaker 1: hears something and takes off, sprinting down the road. And
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Speaker 1: turns down this little access road that branches off of
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Speaker 1: the road they're on into the woods, and Bob is thinking,
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Speaker 1: oh no, there's a campsite down there, and this big
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Speaker 1: german shepherd's going to bound up on them, and something
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Speaker 1: bad's gonna happen, And so Bob his heart's racing, he
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Speaker 1: starts taking off after Guts. He goes down the access
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Speaker 1: road and he finds Guts stopped right outside of a campsite.
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Speaker 1: But there doesn't appear to be anybody in the campsite.
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Speaker 1: But there's a tent, there's a cooler, there's a table,
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Speaker 1: there's all the things you would expect at a campsite,
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Speaker 1: just no people. So Bob runs up and he grabs
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Speaker 1: Guts and he yells out reflexively, Hey, I'm really sorry.
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Speaker 1: He's totally harmless. I don't know what he saw. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're leaving. But then before he leaves, he realized is
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Speaker 1: on the tent. There's this big scratch through it, like
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Speaker 1: it's been cut open. And curiosity gets the better of him,
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Speaker 1: and so he kind of walks up, keeping an eye
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Speaker 1: out in case he's wrong, and there are people still here.
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Speaker 1: But as he gets closer, he realizes there's definitely no
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Speaker 1: one here this site is abandoned because he's looking around
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Speaker 1: and all of their stuff has just been ransacked. There's
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Speaker 1: scratch marks on everything, like animals have clearly come through here.
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Speaker 1: And Bob, who is an avid outdoorsman, he knows how
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Speaker 1: much some of their equipment cost, and he's thinking, why
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Speaker 1: would anyone abandon this really expensive tent or this really
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Speaker 1: expensive cooler. And as he's thinking about that, he turns
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Speaker 1: and he sees there's a pro pain tank, a solid
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Speaker 1: metal pro pain tank that has been completely flattened. But
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Speaker 1: there's no tree that's fallen nearby, there's no source, there's
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Speaker 1: no way that could have been flattened. So he's definitely
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Speaker 1: unsettled by this, but ultimately he decides, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my family go back to my campsite.
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Speaker 1: I'll just call the park rangers that they can come
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Speaker 1: down here and they can figure out what this is.
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Speaker 1: Later that afternoon, Bob and his family are back at
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Speaker 1: their campsite, a couple hundred feet away from this abandoned
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Speaker 1: camp site, and at one point his wife gets up
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Speaker 1: to go use the bathroom. She walks about seventy feet
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Speaker 1: away behind a tree, and she squats down, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, she gets up and starts running
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Speaker 1: back towards camp, and Bob sees this. He turns and
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Speaker 1: sees her running towards him. At the same time, Guts
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Speaker 1: gets up and starts sprinting towards her, and so Bob's thinking,
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Speaker 1: what the heck is going on. Bob turns to his
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Speaker 1: daughter and says, stay right here with Leah. And Bob
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Speaker 1: gets up and starts running towards his wife and Guts,
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Speaker 1: at this point, has run to his wife and passed
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Speaker 1: his wife. Guts has run way into the woods, and
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Speaker 1: as Bob is running up to his wife, he's like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? While are you running? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: She says, I don't know. I just had this horrible
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Speaker 1: feeling someone was watching me, and when I turned, I
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Speaker 1: already saw Guts running towards me, and it scared me,
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Speaker 1: and so that's why I'm here. And He's like, look,
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Speaker 1: go with our daughter and with Leah. I'm gonna see
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Speaker 1: what's going on. And so his wife leaves, and Bob
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Speaker 1: draws his pistol and he starts walking out towards where
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Speaker 1: Guts has now stopped, hair rays growling, it's yapping and
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Speaker 1: barking at something in front of it, and Bob's looking
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Speaker 1: at it and he can't see anything. And finally, after
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Speaker 1: not being able to figure out what the heck is
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Speaker 1: going on, he just takes Guts and goes back to
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Speaker 1: his campsite. When Bob got back to his campsite, he
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Speaker 1: wanted to leave, and his wife wanted to leave. His
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Speaker 1: daughter didn't really know what was going on, but the
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Speaker 1: attitude was we want to leave. However, it was getting
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Speaker 1: late and they had a bunch of stuff they would
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Speaker 1: need to pack up, and it was going to be
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Speaker 1: a real ordeal trying to do that, especially without any light.
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Speaker 1: So they decide, Okay, we'll stay one more day and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna leave first thing in the morning. In Bob's head,
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, Okay, I heard weird footsteps outside. We have
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Speaker 1: this abandoned campsite nearby that's been thrashed up in the
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Speaker 1: flat and propane tank, and now my wife is running
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Speaker 1: away from something. And Guts is seeing strange things in
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Speaker 1: the woods, like there's a lot of weird stuff going on,
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Speaker 1: and he decides he's going to set up a trip
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Speaker 1: wire all the way around his campsite using a rope
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Speaker 1: tied at about eight inches off the ground, where along
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Speaker 1: the rope would be little pieces of metal that would
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Speaker 1: climb together, so if anything touched the rope, they would
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Speaker 1: make the metallic clinking sound. Then it would alert Bob
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Speaker 1: that someone's here. Bob goes over to the edge of
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Speaker 1: the site where there's an obvious starting point for this tripwire,
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Speaker 1: and he bends down to tie the rope, and he realizes,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, someone's already done this. There is another
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Speaker 1: tripwire that's already been built around the outside of our campsite.
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Speaker 1: It's just been cut, it's been broken, like it doesn't work,
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Speaker 1: but it's here. Someone else who was at this campsite
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Speaker 1: felt concerned enough about whatever was in the woods that
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Speaker 1: they already had this idea. Bob didn't even tie his perimeter.
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Speaker 1: He just drew his gun, told his family get in
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Speaker 1: the truck, and he stayed up all night protecting his
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Speaker 1: family in the truck. As soon as the sun came up,
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Speaker 1: they packed up and they got the heck out of there.
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Speaker 1: Bob is convinced that there is something out there in
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Speaker 1: the woods in northern Oregon that was walking around their
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Speaker 1: campsite at night. That's scaring their dogs, that's stalking them
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Speaker 1: basically and watching them from a distance. And probably whatever
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Speaker 1: is out in the woods is the same thing that
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Speaker 1: caused the previous group to set up their own tripwire,
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Speaker 1: and it's also probably the reason the other campers at
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Speaker 1: the other campsite were willing to abandon their nice equipment
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Speaker 1: to get the heck out of there, because they are
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Speaker 1: not messing with whatever the heck is out in those woods.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, wildland firefighters were called into
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Speaker 1: a forest in central Idaho to combat an emerging fire.
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Speaker 1: By the time the crew arrived at this forest, it
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Speaker 1: was clear this fire was spreading a lot faster than
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Speaker 1: they anticipated. As a result, Mike, who was the assistant
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Speaker 1: superintendent basically the second in command of this particular crew,
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Speaker 1: he said he was going to hop on the ATV
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Speaker 1: and drive off way ahead of them to see if
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Speaker 1: they needed to spread out farther to stop this fire.
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Speaker 1: So Mike hops on an ATV and he takes off
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Speaker 1: down this ancient looking logging road that probably hasn't seen
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Speaker 1: a vehicle or a person in decades. Mike had made
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Speaker 1: it about a half mile down this trail when he
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Speaker 1: noticed out of the corner of his eye a bobcat
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Speaker 1: was running perpendicular to him, straight out of the forest,
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Speaker 1: as if it was going to cross the road, about
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Speaker 1: one hundred feet in front of him. Mike comes to
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Speaker 1: a stop and thinks, this bobcat doesn't know why here.
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Speaker 1: It probably is not used to seeing people. It's going
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Speaker 1: to come out into this trail, see me get spooked
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Speaker 1: and run away, But instead, this bobcat runs directly into
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Speaker 1: the middle of the road, turns and faces Mike in
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Speaker 1: a very aggressive posture. Mike is shocked at what he's
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Speaker 1: seeing because he knows bobcats are notoriously elusive and they're nocturnal,
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Speaker 1: So for this thing to be out in the daytime
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Speaker 1: and to be intentionally blocking his path and standing there
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Speaker 1: aggressively like it's going to attack him was so out
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary. So the two of them are just
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Speaker 1: looking at each other, not moving for about ten seconds
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Speaker 1: until this bobcat opens its mouth and then begins screaming
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Speaker 1: like a person. It did not seem like the right
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Speaker 1: sound for what he was looking at, he said, more
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Speaker 1: than scary, it was just intensely weird and just As
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Speaker 1: quickly as this bobcat has arrived, it stops screaming, turns
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Speaker 1: and runs to a tree, sprints up the tree, and
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Speaker 1: climbs onto this branch that happens to be perched right
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Speaker 1: over the trail he's on. And Mike's looking up at
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Speaker 1: this bobcat that's right over this trail, and he knows,
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Speaker 1: if I'm going to continue going down this trail, I
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Speaker 1: have to go under this screaming bobcat. Although totally freaked out,
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Speaker 1: he knew he needed to keep going down this trail.
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Speaker 1: And he's thinking to himself, you know what, this bobcat
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Speaker 1: is probably just scared of me, and that was its reaction,
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Speaker 1: as bizarre as it was. And so he throws his
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Speaker 1: ATV in gear and he starts slowly moving down the trail,
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Speaker 1: the whole time keeping his eye on the Bobcat, making
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Speaker 1: sure it doesn't show any sign like it's going to
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Speaker 1: leap off onto him. And as he got closer and closer,
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Speaker 1: he just gunned it and sped underneath the branch, and
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Speaker 1: luckily it didn't jump down on him. And as he
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Speaker 1: got a little bit farther away, he turned up to look,
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Speaker 1: and the bobcat had turned around and was still watching
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Speaker 1: him very intently, sitting on this branch. Mike makes it
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Speaker 1: about another half mile down the road before he sees
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Speaker 1: something else that's very strange. He sees a cabin. It's
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Speaker 1: this little tiny cabin that's tucked away in the woods,
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Speaker 1: and he's thinking to himself, I'm on federal land. There
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Speaker 1: aren't supposed to be any private structures here, and he figures,
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Speaker 1: even if this is illegal, I do need to stop
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Speaker 1: and make sure no one's in there because there's this
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Speaker 1: huge fire coming this way. So he parks his ATV
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Speaker 1: and he starts walking off the trail towards this cabin,
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Speaker 1: and as he gets closer, he can tell it's not
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Speaker 1: only a very old cabin, but it's almost certainly abandoned
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Speaker 1: because they can see all these slats that have been
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Speaker 1: put over all of the windows, like it's been boarded up.
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Speaker 1: But when he got up close, he noticed something strange.
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Speaker 1: The door itself into this cabin was not boarded up,
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Speaker 1: and the doorknob was missing, and in its place was
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Speaker 1: this shiny silver chain link that was thread through the
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Speaker 1: opening where there should have been a doorknob around a
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Speaker 1: wooden post that was right outside the door basically a
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Speaker 1: makeshift lock because there was no doorknob to it, and
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, how weird it is that in the middle
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Speaker 1: of this forest, on an old, ancient logging road that
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Speaker 1: clearly no one goes down, where bobcats are running around freely,
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Speaker 1: that there would be this new chain here, which indicates
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Speaker 1: someone must have been here recently. And so he bends
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Speaker 1: down to look through the space that was still there
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Speaker 1: from where the doorknob should have been, and he looks
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Speaker 1: inside and he can't really see anything, and so he
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Speaker 1: takes his flashlight and he shines it in, and he
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Speaker 1: can't believe what he's looking at. There's all this furniture
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Speaker 1: inside this tiny little cabin in the middle of nowhere,
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Speaker 1: and it's all upside down, and he's just totally creeped out.
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Speaker 1: So he puts the flashlight away and kind of backs up,
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Speaker 1: and he starts walking back towards the road, and he
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Speaker 1: can't help it, but the whole time he's looking over
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Speaker 1: his shoulder back at the cabin, like someone's gonna emerge
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Speaker 1: from outside of this cabin. He gets to the road
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Speaker 1: and by the time he's there, he's running. He jumps
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Speaker 1: on his ATV. He whips it around and he starts
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Speaker 1: blazing back up the logging road back towards his crew,
17:25
Speaker 1: and when he turns the corner to where that Bobcat was,
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Speaker 1: he sees there is now a Native American woman standing
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the path. She's wearing this tattered
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Speaker 1: white nightgown. She's barefoot, and she's standing in the same
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Speaker 1: spot he saw that bobcat. And she's looking at him
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Speaker 1: as if she's expecting him, like she's been tipped off
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Speaker 1: that he's gonna be here, and he stops about one
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Speaker 1: hundred feet away from her, and now he's officially freaked out.
17:47
Speaker 1: He's still looking over his shoulder towards that cabin because
17:50
Speaker 1: now everything is just totally weird to him. And before
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Speaker 1: he has a chance to do anything, this woman lets
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Speaker 1: out a scream, a blood curdling scream that is identical
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Speaker 1: to the Bob cats scream, and so Mike is totally
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Speaker 1: unnerved by this. Everything about this day has really gone sideways, says.
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Speaker 1: This woman is screaming at the top of her lungs,
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly she stops. Mike's still just standing there,
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Speaker 1: like what's going on, and she runs to the same
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Speaker 1: tree the bobcat had climbed earlier, and she climbs up
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Speaker 1: this tree and gets onto the branch where the bobcat
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Speaker 1: was and perches like an animal on the branch, looking
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Speaker 1: at Mike. And now, just like the bobcat, Mike is
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Speaker 1: going to have to drive right underneath this woman who
18:31
Speaker 1: was perched over the trail, and so he throws his
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Speaker 1: ATV in gear and he starts driving, and he's staring
18:35
Speaker 1: at this woman and now her mouth is just open
18:37
Speaker 1: like she's about to scream again. And as soon as
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Speaker 1: he got close, he gunned it and went right underneath her.
18:42
Speaker 1: And he turned around after he got some distance away
18:44
Speaker 1: from her, and she's still on the branch now turned
18:47
Speaker 1: around facing him. As he drives away, he goes back.
18:49
Speaker 1: He tells the crew what he saw, and as much
18:52
Speaker 1: as they all want to go back and see this
18:54
Speaker 1: woman and see this cabin, they know they can't. They
18:56
Speaker 1: got to fight this fire, and so ultimately they do
18:58
Speaker 1: that and then they leave. A couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: Mike was in a bar in the town right near
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Speaker 1: the forest they had just been in fighting that fire,
19:05
Speaker 1: and Mike had seen the woman and the cabin, and
19:07
Speaker 1: he struck up a conversation with a local and he said, hey,
19:10
Speaker 1: do you know of any buildings that are in that
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Speaker 1: section of the forest? And the guy kind of laughed
19:14
Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, the only building I
19:16
Speaker 1: ever heard of out there was apparently some cabin where
19:19
Speaker 1: some crazy lady thought of herself as a witch, and
19:22
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19:25
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