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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • FOREST HORROR Edition Vol. 2 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we have a special bonus video for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It is a collection of five horrifying stories that'll make
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  Speaker 1: you never want to step foot in a forest again. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these five stories have all been completely re edited, so
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  Speaker 1: even if you've heard or seen them before, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to feel like a brand new viewing experience. And just
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we've already done a part one of
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  Speaker 1: this type of collection of stories, the forest slash Camping Vibes,
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  Speaker 1: and people loved it, So this is part two. If
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  Speaker 1: you want part one, it'll be posted at the end
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into today's five stories, if you're
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  Speaker 1: In the summer of twenty thirteen, a young woman named
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  Speaker 1: Katie and her father decided to go camping at one
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  Speaker 1: of their favorite campgrounds in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
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  Speaker 1: Katie loved going camping with her father because he was
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  Speaker 1: this totally accomplished outdoorsman and he used to be a
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  Speaker 1: wilderness guide for much of his life, and so she
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  Speaker 1: just always felt like she was in great hands whenever
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  Speaker 1: she was out in the wild with him, and she
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  Speaker 1: had kind of become a fairly accomplished outdoors woman herself.
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  Speaker 1: When they arrived at the campground, the parking lot was
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  Speaker 1: packed with cars, and they're like, shoot, I wish we'd
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  Speaker 1: called ahead a couple of weeks ago and reserved a site,
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  Speaker 1: because they're probably not even available now. But they went
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  Speaker 1: to the front desk and they were like, you're in luck.
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  Speaker 1: We have one available, but it's the one that's way
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  Speaker 1: over there. It was this one camp site that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of isolated from the rest of the campground. It
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  Speaker 1: was far away from the bathhouse, it was far away
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  Speaker 1: from where you go swimming, and it was far away
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  Speaker 1: from the parking lot. It was just like really inconvenient,
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  Speaker 1: and whenever they came camping here, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: one site they didn't want to use, but Beggar's camp
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  Speaker 1: be choosers. They were happy to even have a site,
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  Speaker 1: And so they drove all the way down down this
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  Speaker 1: little road into this very isolated campsite kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of this forest. Once they got there, they
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  Speaker 1: began setting up their respective tents because they were not
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  Speaker 1: going to be staying in the same tent. They each
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  Speaker 1: had these very small backpacking tents which were so small
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  Speaker 1: that you could either zip it up all the way
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  Speaker 1: and stay warmer and more protected, but you had to
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  Speaker 1: sleep in a ball because your legs would not fit otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Or you could unzip the front of your tent and
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  Speaker 1: when you lay down you could extend your legs fully,
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  Speaker 1: but your legs.
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  Speaker 2: Are protruding outside of your tents.
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  Speaker 1: You could only do that in warmer weather and if
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  Speaker 1: you were comfortable having your legs poking out into the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: After they set up their tents and they get their
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  Speaker 1: cooler set up and they have all their stuff kind
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  Speaker 1: of the way they want it, they go out hiking
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  Speaker 1: for the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Back they're totally exhausted, They fall asleep, and nothing of
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  Speaker 1: note occurs over that first night.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, they.
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  Speaker 1: Get up, they go back out, they go hiking all
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  Speaker 1: day all over again, and they come back that night
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  Speaker 1: and they are totally exhausted again and they get into
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  Speaker 1: their tents and they go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: And this night something of note would happen.
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  Speaker 1: At about three am, Katie wakes up and she hears
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  Speaker 1: footsteps walking towards the campsite from a little ways off.
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  Speaker 2: They're in the woods somewhere, and she's.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking, Okay, it's got to be my father, because he's
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  Speaker 1: diabetic and every night he gets up to go to
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom, maybe three four times, and he probably was
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  Speaker 1: just walking to the bathhouse, and now he's walking back.
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  Speaker 1: But she realizes the bath house is over here, not
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  Speaker 1: over here, so what is he doing walking towards the
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  Speaker 1: campsite from this side? The footsteps come out of the
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  Speaker 1: tree line, they come into the clearing that is their campsite,
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  Speaker 1: and they stop about two three meters outside of Katie's tent. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there were no windows on Katie's backpack tent. There was
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  Speaker 1: just a little events at the front and the back
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  Speaker 1: that kind of pointed down, and so she couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: out anyways, and there was no illumination out so you
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  Speaker 1: can't even pick up a silhouette. It's a total darkness
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  Speaker 1: out there. She can't see who's out there. She can
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  Speaker 1: only hear them. But she's thinking, Okay, maybe my dad
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  Speaker 1: got lost coming back from the bathhouse because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a flashlight and he walked too far. That's possible,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, he could have decided to relieve himself
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  Speaker 1: just in the tree.
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  Speaker 2: Line, even though he's not known to do that. He's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that goes to the bath house.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's running through these scenarios that are convincing
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  Speaker 1: her that, oh, that's just my dad. But what she
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  Speaker 1: really wants to hear is that person walk away from
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  Speaker 1: her tent and get into her father's tent, because that
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  Speaker 1: will confirm in her mind that that was her father.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's sitting here waiting for that confirmation, and
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  Speaker 1: she hears the footsteps again, but instead of walking around
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  Speaker 1: her tent to her father's tent, this person walks right
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  Speaker 1: up against her tent very quickly, and they clearly begin
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  Speaker 1: leaning over her little tiny tent because she can hear
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  Speaker 1: them breathing right above her. And this is when she
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  Speaker 1: realizes that's not my dad, and as she's having this
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  Speaker 1: terrible revelation that some stranger is outside.
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  Speaker 2: Her tent right now.
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  Speaker 1: It has an even worse revelation. It was a warm
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  Speaker 1: night that night, so she was sleeping with her tent
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  Speaker 1: unzipped and her legs poking out the end. She musters
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  Speaker 1: the courage to begin slowly retracting her legs back inside
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  Speaker 1: of her tent, but before she's able to do that,
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  Speaker 1: this person stands up, turns, and starts walking towards the
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  Speaker 1: base of her tent, where her legs are. She's completely
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  Speaker 1: frozen and terrified about what's about to happen, but this
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  Speaker 1: person doesn't stop at her feet. They keep moving and
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  Speaker 1: in fact starts circling her tent. But because they were
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  Speaker 1: making a lot of noise and walking around her, it
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  Speaker 1: allowed her to pull her legs back into her tent
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  Speaker 1: without this person hearing her, and so she had the
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  Speaker 1: illusion of safety being inside of her tent. But her
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  Speaker 1: tent is still unzipped, so she's waiting for this person
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  Speaker 1: to come around and crouch down and look inside of
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  Speaker 1: her tent because it's open, and so she's just looking
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  Speaker 1: down there hoping that doesn't happen. But unfortunately, right at
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  Speaker 1: this moment, the person walked to the base of her
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  Speaker 1: tent and came to a stop right outside where the
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  Speaker 1: opening to the tent is. And so she's sitting there thinking, please,
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  Speaker 1: don't come in here, Please don't come in here, please
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  Speaker 1: come in here, And even though her feet are pulled
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  Speaker 1: up into her tent, she suddenly feels something pinch her
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  Speaker 1: foot and she knows it's a hand.
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  Speaker 2: Something has grabbed my foot.
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  Speaker 1: And she stifles the scream and she starts shaking uncontrollably
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  Speaker 1: because her instincts.
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  Speaker 2: Are telling her, don't let this person know you're awake.
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  Speaker 1: And luckily, as she's sitting there shaking from fear and
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  Speaker 1: trying to be quiet as best as she can, she's
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  Speaker 1: holding her mouth, this person stands back up again and
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  Speaker 1: goes back to the spot next to her tent and
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  Speaker 1: leans over the tent once again, and she can hear
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  Speaker 1: them breathing right over her. And so for several minutes
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  Speaker 1: she lay there, shaking with this random person who pinched
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  Speaker 1: her foot a minute ago, hovering over her tent in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and she has nothing she
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  Speaker 1: can do, and she's just quiet. She's hoping it's going
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  Speaker 1: to end soon, and Eventually this person would turn around
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  Speaker 1: and walk over to their cooler and their table and
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  Speaker 1: some other things that were out, and she hears some
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  Speaker 1: rummaging going on, some things are being moved around, and
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  Speaker 1: then this person just kind of walks off into the distance.
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  Speaker 1: But she doesn't know if they're gone, She doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: if they're standing in the edge of the tree line
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  Speaker 1: wait for her to come outside. Maybe they laid a
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  Speaker 1: trap for her. And so she just lays there silent,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't move, and she's praying to herself, please don't let
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  Speaker 1: anything happen to me or my father. And all night
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  Speaker 1: she's just laying there, and then eventually she does fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Probably hours go by, but she does fall asleep because
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  Speaker 1: she wakes up again when she hears her father unzipping
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  Speaker 1: his tent and she charges out to meet him. And
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  Speaker 1: she can tell right away that he's scared.
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  Speaker 2: And before she.
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  Speaker 1: Can even say or begin to describe what's happened to her,
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  Speaker 1: he says, were you outside your tent last night at
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  Speaker 1: about two three in the morning because I heard all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of commotion near our cooler.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if it was an animal.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was you, and she starts
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  Speaker 1: telling him, no, this is what happened to me. And
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  Speaker 1: as she's describing what happened to her, he looks behind
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  Speaker 1: her at the picnic table which was next to their cooler,
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  Speaker 1: and they had their backpacks on it. Basically, anything that
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  Speaker 1: didn't fit in their tents they kept near.
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  Speaker 2: This picnic table.
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  Speaker 1: And he points at it, and she turns around, and
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  Speaker 1: any item that was in the cooler or in their
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  Speaker 1: backpack so that was just out, has been stacked in
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  Speaker 1: a pyramid formation on this table. Clearly, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: was here last night did this for some reason they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. And as they go over to look at
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  Speaker 1: it to see if anything's been taken, they noticed this
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  Speaker 1: track of footprints, like these heavy footprints that have been
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  Speaker 1: going around and around Katie's tent. So she clearly wasn't
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  Speaker 1: imagining it, and so that instant they packed everything up,
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  Speaker 1: got in their car, and they left, And to this
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  Speaker 1: day they can barely talk about it with each other
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  Speaker 1: because it's all the things that could have happened. The
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  Speaker 1: father felt horribly guilty because he clearly heard this person
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  Speaker 1: but didn't leave his tent, and his daughter was clearly
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  Speaker 1: in danger and his daughter's thinking the tent was open,
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  Speaker 1: this person was crouched down, reaching into my tent, grabbing
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  Speaker 1: my feet like that's such a horrifying image. And so
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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 twoman shepherds, decided to go camping
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  Speaker 1: in a remote part of northern Oregon. When they arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the site, Bob began setting up the big family
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  Speaker 1: 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 gotta bring Guts. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the German shepherds. Guts needs to sleep with you because
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be your protection. So that night, after
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  Speaker 1: some s'mores 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.
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  Speaker 2: That night, Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Wakes up suddenly to what sounds like footsteps outside of
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  Speaker 1: his tent, and he looks to his side and his
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  Speaker 1: wife is still in the tent with him, and so
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  Speaker 1: 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 Guts 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 preacher roaming around their campsite.
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  Speaker 1: But Bob's dogs are really keen in to protecting their family,
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  Speaker 1: and since Guts and Leah are not up going crazy
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  Speaker 1: about whatever's out there, he figures, you know what, it's
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  Speaker 1: gotta be an elk or something, and it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to do anything to us. So Bob ultimately just goes
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  Speaker 1: back to sleep. The next morning, Bob gets up and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's just fine. There's no sign of any intruders in
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  Speaker 1: their campsite, and so that only confirms to him that, yep,
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  Speaker 1: it was just some harmless animal kind of walking around
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness because we're in a pretty remote area. That morning,
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  Speaker 1: they decide to go for a walk down the road
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  Speaker 1: that was right next to their campsite, and so they
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  Speaker 1: take the dogs. They start walking, and they make it
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred feet down this road when all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, Guts see something or hears something and takes
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  Speaker 1: off sprinting down the road and turns down this little
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  Speaker 1: access road that branches off of the road they're on
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  Speaker 1: into the woods and Bob is thinking, oh no, there's
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  Speaker 1: a campsite down there, and this big german shepherd's going
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  Speaker 1: to bound up on them, and something bad's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: And so Bob his heart's racing. He starts taking off
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  Speaker 1: after Guts. He goes down the access road and he
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  Speaker 1: finds Guts stopped right outside of a campsite. But there
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  Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be anybody in the campsite. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a tent, there's a cooler, there's a table, there's all
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  Speaker 1: the things he would expect at a campsite, just no people.
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  Speaker 1: So Bob runs up and he grabs Guts and he
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  Speaker 1: yells out reflexively, Hey, I'm really sorry.
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  Speaker 2: He's totally harmless.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he saw. Hey, we're leaving. But
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  Speaker 1: then before he leaves, he realizes on the tent there's
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  Speaker 1: this big scratch through it, like it's been cut open,
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  Speaker 1: And curiosity gets the better of him, and so he
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  Speaker 1: kind of walks up, keeping an eye out in case
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  Speaker 1: he's wrong and there are people still here. But as
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  Speaker 1: he gets closer, he realizes there's definitely no one here.
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  Speaker 1: This site is abandoned. Because he's looking around and all
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  Speaker 1: of their stuff has just been ransacked. There's scratch marks
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  Speaker 1: on everything, like animals have clearly come through here. And Bob,
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  Speaker 1: who is an avid outdoorsman, he knows how much some
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  Speaker 1: of their equipment cost, and he's thinking, why would anyone
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  Speaker 1: abandon this really expensive tent or this really expensive cooler.
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  Speaker 2: And as he's thinking about.
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  Speaker 1: That, he turns and he sees there's a pro pain tank,
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  Speaker 1: a solid metal paine tank that has been completely flattened.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no tree that's fallen nearby, there's no source,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way that could have been flattened. So he's
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  Speaker 1: definitely 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 and 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, just a couple hundred feet away from this
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  Speaker 1: abandoned campsite, 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 after his wife, He's like, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? Running? What's going on? She says, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just had this horrible feeling someone was watching me,
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  Speaker 1: and when I turned, I already saw Guts running towards me,
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  Speaker 1: and it scared me. And so that's why I'm here.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: And He's like, look, go with our daughter and with Leah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what's going on. And so his wife
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: leaves and Bob draws his pistol and he starts walking
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: out towards where Guts has now stopped. Hair rays growling,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: it's gapping and barking at something in front of it,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and Bob's looking in and he can't see anything, and finally,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: after not being able to figure out what the heck
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: is going on, he just takes guts and goes back
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: to his campsite. When Bob got back to his campsite,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: he wanted to leave, and his wife wanted to leave.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: His daughter didn't really know what was going on, but
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the attitude was we.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Want to leave.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: However, it was getting late and they had a bunch
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: of stuff they would need to pack up, and it
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: was going to be a real ordeal trying to do that,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: especially without any light. So they decide, Okay, we'll stay
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: one more day and we're gonna leave first thing in
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the morning. In Bob's head, he's thinking, okay, I heard
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: weird footsteps outside. You know, we have this abandoned campsite
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: nearby that's been thrashed up in the flat and propane tank,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and now my wife is running away from something. And
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Gouts is seeing strange things in the woods, like there's
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of weird stuff going on, and he decides
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: he's going to set up a tripwire all the way
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: around his campsite, using a rope tied at about eight
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: inches off the ground, where along the rope would be
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: little pieces of metal that would clang together, so if
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: anything touched the rope, it would make the metallic clinking sound.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Then it would alert Bob that someone's here. And so
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Bob goes over to the edge of the site where
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: there's an obvious starting point for this tripwire, and he
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: bends down to tie the rope, and he realizes, oh
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: my god, someone's already done this. There is another tripwire
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that's already been built around the outside of our campsite.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: It's just been cut, it's been broken, like it doesn't work,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: but it's here. Someone else who was at this campsite
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: felt concerned enough about whatever was in the woods that
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: they already.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Had this idea. Bob didn't even tie his perimeter.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: He just drew his gun, told his family get in
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the truck, and he stayed up all night protecting his
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: family in the truck. As soon as the sun came up,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: they packed up and they got the heck out of there.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Evinced that there is something out there in the woods
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: in northern Oregon that was walking around their campsite at night,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that's scaring their dogs, that's stalking them basically and watching
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: them from a distance, and probably whatever is out in
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the woods is the same thing that caused the previous
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: group to set up their own tripwire, and it's also
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: probably the reason the other campers at the other campsite
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: were willing to abandon their nice equipment to get the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: heck out of there, because they are not messing with
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: whatever the heck is out in those woods. By the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: summer of two thousand and seven, Chris had been working
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: as a park ranger in southeastern Pennsylvania for a number
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of years, and by and large, he enjoyed his occupation.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Some of the time he got to do what he loved,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: which was hiking in the forest, and some of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: time it required doing something he hated, which was office
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: worse work that usually required staying late at night. On
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: one of those late nights in August of two thousand
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and seven, Chris's boss, Mike, said that he needed to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: leave the office and go down the access road to
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: this toolshed they had. He needed to get some equipment
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and bring it back up to the office for some reason,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and he said he'd be back in about fifteen minutes.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: As soon as Mike.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Left, Chris decided, you know what I'm going to take
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a break from my work, and I'm going.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: To step outside for a minute.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Right in front of the office building was a little
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: staff parking lot, and then about fifty meters beyond that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was the edge of this really dense forest, where the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: access road that Mike had just gone down to get
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to the tool shed basically split right through the middle
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and went straight out past the office. When Chris stepped
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: outside to take his break, he sat down on the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: front steps that overlooked that parking lot and the access road,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and he was just kind of looking out towards the forest,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: not thinking about what he was looking at, just kind
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of mindlessly sitting there, when all of a sudden, he
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just started to feel like someone's watching me, and instinctively
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: he turned around to look back into the office, as
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: if maybe someone was behind him, but he remembered that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he and Mike were the only ones there that night,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so no one's going to be behind him, and so
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he turned back around and he looked out at the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: parking lot.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: He didn't see any movement, and he.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Looked down to the edge of the forest, which he
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: could see because the moon was fairly bright that night,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: so the illumination was pretty good, and there was no
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: movement against the tree line. There was no animals, there
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: was no people, and Mike had not come back yet,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: so there's nothing going on in front of him, there's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: nothing going on behind him. But he just could not
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: shake this feeling that someone was watching him. And so Chris,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you know, he's not easily spooked. He's used to being
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: out in the forest in the daytime and at night.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: He's used to being at this office. A lot of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: times he worked at the office on his own at night,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: so he's used to this environment. And so he thought,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go look around. And so
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: he walks down the steps and he walks into the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: parking lot and he begins looking behind some of the cars.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: There's only a handful in the lot. There's nothing in
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the lot. And he keeps walking till he's about ten
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: meters away from the edge of the forest and he
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: looks into the forest and it's too dark to see anything,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and there's nothing out here, movement.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: There's no animals.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Mike is still not back yet, and so even though
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: he could not shake this sense that someone is watching him,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he felt like, you know what I did my diligence,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and there's no one out here, so it's just gonna
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: be in my head, and so he decides he's gonna
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: go back inside, and so he turns around and he
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: starts walking back up towards the office, when all of
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he hears this whooshing sound come past his head,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and he didn't know what it was, but it sounded
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: like someone took a stick and threw it overhand, so
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it's spinning like a tomahawk as it passed by its head.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And because this sound was so loud and he was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: already on edge about someone potentially watching him, that he
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: actually dove as soon as he heard it and fell
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to the ground and scrambled around and looked at the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: tree line from where this thing came from, but there's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: no one there, and he scrambles to his feet, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: he's still looking around, and he starts backpedaling towards the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: office with his eyes still on the forest, and his
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: attention kind of shifts from the forest to what was
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: just thrown at me, And he turns around and starts
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: walking around looking for something on the ground like a stick,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to see if something really he was.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Thrown at him. But he can't find anything.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: He didn't do an exhaustive search, he didn't look under
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: every single car, but an initial scan turned up nothing.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And then he turns back to the forest and he
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't see anything out there. And even though again he
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: feels totally stressed out, like something's out here and I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: can't see it, he's like, am I going crazy?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Did that really happen?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Because I can't find this big stick that apparently flew
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: past my head?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: So is this all happening in my head?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: But regardless, he's totally freaked out, and he sprints back
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: inside the office and locks every door. Twenty minutes later,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Mike comes blazing up the access road. He stops in
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: front of the office and runs up the stairs. Chris
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: goes over, unlocks the door, and he lets him in,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and Chris is about to tell him about.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: This crazy stick throwing incident.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: But he can tell Mike is really upset about something,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: probably more upset about whatever happened to him than Chris
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: is about the stick throwing thing, and so Chris tables
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: his story. He locks the doors behind Mike and he
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: turns to him and he says, what's going on? What's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: wrong with you. At first, Mike doesn't say anything. He
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: just pays this back and forth inside the office, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: then finally Chris calms him down and he gets him
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to explain what happened. Mike tells him that he was
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: down at the tool shed, which is about a half
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: mile down the access road and about twenty meters off
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the road into the forest, and he's at the shed.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It's open and he's pulling out the different pieces of
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: equipment he's going to bring back to the office, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: he says, all of a sudden, all the hairs on
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: his body stand up. He's got goosebumps, and immediately he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: thinks someone's watching me, and he turns around and there's
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: no one there. He looks to his right and his left.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: He kind of pokes his head in the shed, like
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: is someone hiding in the shed? There's no one in there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: He walks to the back of the shed. There's no
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: one behind the shed, and he's just totally stumped why
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he's feeling this way. He goes back to the front
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of the shed and he's going over in his mind
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: what made him feel this way, And he can't put.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: His finger on it, but he cannot shake this feeling.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Of someone watching him, and it's making him totally anxious,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: so he gets all the things he needs from the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: shed as quick as he can, he locks it up,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he turns, and he starts speed walking back out to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: his truck. When he gets about five meters away, he
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: hears footsteps running right to left behind him, back where
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the shed is, and because he was already completely on
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: edge about someone watching him in the woods somewhere, he
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't even turn around to see what that is. He
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: knows he needs to run to his car and get
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: inside and put steel between him and whatever is out there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Once he's inside, he locks the door.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: He turns on the ignition and looks one last time
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in the direction of where he came from, and to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his horror, there is a man walking into the woods
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: right next to the shed, turning the corner behind and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: disappearing into the woods.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: His instincts were spot on.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: He was being watched, and that's when Mike hit the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: gas and sped back to the office. Chris then tells
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Mike about his stick throwing incident, because all of a
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: sudden that seems a whole lot more real, and they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: both agree that whoever threw something at Chris is probably
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the same guy who was hiding near the shed with Mike,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: concerned this guy might come back and break into the office.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: They stay the night there and they watch the whole time.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: They don't see him again, and the next morning they
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: file a report and they tell the incoming park rangers
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: what happened. But after this there were no more reports
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of this strange, hooded figure roaming around the forest, And
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to this day Chris and Mike have no idea who
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: he is or what he wanted, but they can both agree,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: whoever he was, he was bad news. In two thousand
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and six, a fourteen year old boy named Evan lived
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on a farm in North Carolina. This was not a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: typical farm with animals and crops. It was a pine
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: tree harvestry. Pine needles are a big landscaping commodity, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Evan and his family made their living baling.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Pine straw every year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: As such, their main living house on the farm was
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: situated right in the middle of five hundred and fifty
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: acres of perfectly lined up pine trees.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: They did not have.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Any neighbors nearby, and there was only one road that
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: led into the property, which from the main house, they
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: could look out and basically see through the rows of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: trees all the way to the beginning of this road,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: which meant any visitors were really easy to spot. The
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: main house was built on a very slight hill, which
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: meant one side of the house was effectively built on
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: stilts to compensate for the angle, and on that side
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of the house, on the first floor, was the living room,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So anyone who was in the living room looking out
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the window, they'd basically need to look at a downward
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: angle to see the ground. It would actually seem like
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you were on the second floor, but really you're on
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the first floor. The window in the living room was
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: very unique. It stretched almost the entire length of the room,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: so almost fifty feet across, and at night you could
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: see animals darting between the different trees because you could
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: see down.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: The rows, and so that was pretty creepy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And then just the fact that this window is so
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: big if you're in the living room at.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Night, you just felt really exposed.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So between the creepy animals running around and the level
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of exposure and vulnerability, people basically avoided the living room
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: anytime they were in the house at night. That winter,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Evans's cousin came to stay with him on farm, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: because the main house did not have any extra bedrooms,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Evan and his cousin would have to sleep in the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: living room. There were two couches inside of the living room,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: one that was right underneath the fifty foot long window,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and then another which was on the other side of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the room against a wall that did not have a window,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and so Evan would be sleeping on the couch right
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: under the window and his cousin would be sleeping on
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the other couch. The first night Evan's cousin was there,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: they put this big sheet up over the window, but
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it only blocked like seventy five percent of the window.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: The two flanks of the window.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Were still exposed, but where the couches were lined up,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: they were kind of blocked by this sheet, so it
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: gave them a little bit of privacy. After gooping around
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: for a while, the boys finally fell asleep around midnight,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and then they woke up a couple hours later because
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: they heard evans dogs barking way off in the pine trees.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Now Evan was used to his dogs.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Running around the property and barking at other smaller animals,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and so just them barking was not necessarily a red flag.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But the barking persisted to the point where Evan's cousin
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: got up off the couch moved across the room to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the opening of the window that was not covered by
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the sheet at the foot of where Evan was sleeping. Now,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Evan was still laying on the couch. He was not
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: going to get up and look out the window. So
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he's looking down at his cousin, kind of looking at
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: his face to get some sort of a read on
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what he's seeing, and he notices his cousin has this
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: really perplexed look on his face, like he's squinting his
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: eyes and trying to make sense of what he's looking at.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And so Evan looks at him and says, Hey, what's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: going on?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: What do you see?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And his cousin's like, I don't know if my mind's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: playing tricks on me or not, but I'm pretty sure
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I see people out there. At this Evan jumps off
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the couch and runs over and butts up right next
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to his cousin so he can look out the window too,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and he's scanning out amongst the rows of trees, because
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: there's just a mile of pine trees. And the first
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: thing he notices is the moon is very bright that night,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: so there's good illumination, and there was a light snow
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: covering on the ground, which really added to the illumination.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He's looking out maybe one hundred meters when he sees
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: someone's leg extend from behind one of the pine trees,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: as if they're stepping into the space between a pine
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: tree column, and he's staring at it and he can't
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: believe he's even seen anyone walking around this area because
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: he didn't see anybody come in on the road and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: they have no neighbors, and so he's looking and then
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a body follows the leg. A person walks from one
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: row to the next. This tall, dark figure just walks
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: calm as can be between the two pine trees, and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Evan just grabs his cousin and he's like, did you
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: just see that? And his cousin's like, yeah, I saw that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And so they continue to look in the direction of
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: where this person crossed the path, and after a couple
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of minutes they see another leg now emerging going the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: other way, back towards.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Where that first person had come.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: From so the leg kind of extends into this gap,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and this tall figure walks across into the next row,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: except now instead of going just directly across, it looks
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like they're moving at an angle closer to the main
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: house property. The boys look at each other and they
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do, so they just keep looking
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: out the window in stunned silence. And as they're looking
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: they see this person emerge again, except now they're not
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: one hundred meters away. They're like twenty meters away. They
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: don't know how they were able to move that quickly
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: without being seen. And this time, when the leg comes
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: out from behind the pine tree, instead of walking across
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the gap, it stops right in the middle, and it
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: turns and it looks directly at the boys in the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: window and then begins running toward them.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: The boys practically fall over trying to get away from
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the window.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Evan's yelling for his father upstairs, and the boys instinctively
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: just start running around the house, locking every door, shutting
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: every window. And as they're going from door to door,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the anxiety is growing and growing because they think, if
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I don't get there fast enough, this person who is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: running towards the property is going to come barging through
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that door, and so at every door. Their anxiety is
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: through the roof. But they manage to shut everything is locked.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Right as Evan's father comes charging down the stairs. He's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: got his gun in hand, and he's like, what's going on,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and they say, there's someone out in our property. Their
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: dad charges out the front door. The front door is
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: not on the same wall as the living room. It's
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: on the side of the house, so once he goes outside,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: he's going to need to turn to the right to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: look out in the direction they were describing. He bombs outside.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: He stays in the porch and he starts yelling at
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: whoever out there that if you come over here, I'm
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: going to shoot you. Get the f away from here.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And then there's silence, and the boys are waiting. They're
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: looking around, they're checking the window. They don't see anything.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: The dad comes back inside. He shut and locks the door,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and he tells Evan keep an eye out.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: If you see him again, you let me know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Evan would reflect on this experience later on and say,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you know, we really should have called nine to one
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: one at that point, But as a kid, I just
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: understood that that's the way my family did business.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: We kind of took care of ourselves.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And so even though there is a threat of some
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: stranger who's running at our property, we were not going
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to call the cops. And so his dad effectively was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: telling him to be a lookout. And so Evan and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: his cousin they go back into the living room and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they kind of.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Go up to the window.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: They're a little bit apprehensive and they're looking out, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: after five ten minutes of looking out the window and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: not seeing anything, they're thinking to themselves, you know, Evan's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: dad's a pretty intimidating guy, and he was just out
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: there screaming and yelling with a gun, threatening to shoot them.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So they probably got the message and they're probably gone.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And so the boys got back into their couches and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: it took them a while, but they did all sately
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: fall asleep. The next morning. When the boys got up,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the first thing they wanted to do was go out
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: there and see if they could find footprints from this
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: person to kind of confirm it really was a person,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: because part of them thought, you know, maybe we didn't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: see that, maybe that was our imaginations. They don't know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And so they start by going out the front door,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: so not on the same wall as the living room.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: They go out the front door, they turn and they
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: walk down into the trees, and they're looking around and
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: they find some footprints. So they're confirming to themselves, Okay,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: there was someone out here, wasn't us.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: This is not our footprints.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: We found them. So they start following the footprints back
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: towards the property and they realize at some point there
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: are two distinct sets of footprints. There were two people
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: out here. And even worse is they follow them all
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the way up to the house and there were two
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: different circles of footprints that stopped right underneath the living
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: room window, along the two flanks of the window where
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the sheet was not covering, which means, over the course
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of the night, when Evan and his cousin were up
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: at that window looking out, there's a good chance that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: one or two strangers were tucked up against the side
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: of the house and they would not have seen them
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: because of the angle out of the living room window.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: It was steep because of the stilts it was on,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and so anybody that was tucked up along the side,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: they'd be in a blind spot and then for sure,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: after Evan and his cousin got back into bed and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: were sleeping, there were two strangers who were right up
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: against those windows, probably pulling themselves up to look inside.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: When Evan's father found these footprints, he immediately grabbed his
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: gun and tried to follow them back into the woods
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to see where they came from. But unfortunately the snowcover
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't complete, and at some point they lost the tracks,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and they never figured out who those two people were.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Evan would say following this event, his cousin refused to
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: ever come back over his house.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: For a sleepwomer.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: In June of twenty nineteen, an eighteen year old girl
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: named Bella wrapped up her first year in college and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: had home for the summer. Her family lived just outside
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: of the small town in France that was tucked up
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: in the mountains and surrounded by this huge forest, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: so growing up, Bella spent a lot of her time
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: out in this forest, either by herself or with her
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: father or other members of her family, and so she
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: knew the forest like the back of her hand. Her
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: favorite place to go in this forest was the man
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: made lake that sat kind of at the center of
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: this forest. It wasn't huge, but it was a beautiful view.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It was very peaceful, and so she liked going out there.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: The way she would get to it is she would
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: leave her house, she would hop in her car. She
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: would drive a couple of miles down the road and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: she would pull off into the shoulder of this road.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And there was no signage that said this was the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: pull off to get to the man made lake. This
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was an area that she and her family had discovered
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that there was this particular trail you could take, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: so she would pull off at this shoulder. She would
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: get out and she would turn away from the road
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and just walk directly into the trees which butted right
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: up against the road, and very quickly after walking into
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the woods, after going through some thick underbrush, she would
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: reach this kind of clearing and she would see up
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: ahead this little stream, and off to the left side
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of this stream is what looked like this kind of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: beaten up little footpath, but actually what it was was
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: an animal trail. So animals just kind of made their
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: way around this area all the time, and so it
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: kind of carved out a path, and so Bello would
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: walk down to this animal path and she would walk
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: along the path that kind of went parallel with the stream,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and she would walk for maybe fifteen or twenty minutes
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: until this animal path veered hard to the left, kind
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: of went away from the stream. At that point, Bella
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: would abandon the animal path and just continue walking along
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: this stream, both stepping in the stream on some rocks
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and standing on either side when she could. And she
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: would follow this stream due north, just going straight into
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the heart of this forest for about an hour, walking
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: at a fairly leisurely pace, until the stream connected with
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: this east to west running river. And at this point
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Bella would turn left facing west, and she would follow
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: along this river bank about twenty minutes until the river
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: fed into the man made lake. And so she would
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: stay at this lake, sitting on a rock, enjoy the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: view and look at the animals and listen to nature
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: all around her. And then at some point she would
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: turn around and retrace her steps all the way back
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to her car. For reference, one leg of this journey
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: from car to lake or from lake to car took
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: about two hours. Part of the reason Bella really enjoyed
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: being in these woods and being at this lake was
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: because it just kind of felt like they were hers,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: because up until this summer in twenty nineteen, the only
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: other people that Bella had ever seen anywhere in this
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: forest or near this lake were other members of her family,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: so it really felt very private. So in June of
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that year, Bella comes home from college and almost immediately
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: she wants to go out to the man made Lake
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: because she hasn't been in months. She's been in school,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and so she's eager to get back to someplace that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: she kind of considered to be her happy place. So
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: one morning, she gets up early and by herself, she
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: leaves her house. She hops in her car, she drives
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the couple miles down the road. She pulls off onto
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that shoulder, she parks her car, she hops out, she
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: turns away from the road. She walks into the forest.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: She finds the stream and starts walking along that animal
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: path right to the side of the stream. She walks
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes until she reaches the point where
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the trail kind of cuts to the left and she
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: just stays on the stream and is just continuing walking
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: along the stream. And about thirty minutes later, when she
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: was maybe one or two miles short of the east
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: west Running River. She hears a bell somewhere off in
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the distance, way out in front of her, out towards
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the river. It sounds just like a chime, a single chime,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And as soon as she hears it, she stops because
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: there's never any people out here ever, and that bell
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: sound came from somewhere in the forest, and so she
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: stops because she's not really sure if she actually heard that,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: because it could have just been her mind playing tricks
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: on her or something, And so she stops and just
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: kind of listens for a second, and then she starts
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to hear this bell just continuously start ringing. Now the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: ringing was not uniform, it was constant, but it was
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: kind of sporadic, as if you were holding a bell
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and kind of bringing it randomly, like you might see
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the sports game. And so she's thinking to herself, you know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: is there a that got lost somewhere up ahead and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: it's got a bell on its collar, And that's the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: sound I'm hearing. But as she's sitting there listening to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: this kind of sporadic bell sound, she's thinking, that's way
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: too loud to be some RinkyDink bell on a pet's collar.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: So it's got to be something more robust. Did maybe
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: somebody have a bell inside of a box and that
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: box got on the river and it's floated down river
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and it's like crashing into rocks or something. I mean,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: she's going through these very strange scenarios in her head,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: but she's not concerned about the bell. She's actually pretty intrigued.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: And since the sound of this bell seemed to be
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: coming from the direction she was already traveling, she decided
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: she would just keep on walking and hopefully see whatever
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it was that was causing this bell sound. And so
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Bella just began walking along the stream again, kind of
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: listening to this bell and thinking about what it was
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: going to be. And after about five minutes of her
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: starting to walk again, the bell just stops. It goes
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: totally silent, and when it does, it actually kind of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: startles Bella because she'd been listening to it so intently,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and she's and she's listening, kind of expecting it to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: go off some more, but it doesn't. All she hears
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: are the sounds of nature all around her. Now, Bella
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: didn't have an explanation for what the spell was or
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: why it stopped, but she really just wasn't that worried
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: about it. She figured there was some sort of explanation
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: for it. There had to be, and so she just
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: kind of shrugged and kept on walking and put her
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: focus back on getting to the lake. About ten or
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, Bella was still walking along the stream.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: She was still maybe a half mile or a mile
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: short of the east to west running river when she
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: sees up ahead on the left side of the stream.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: As she's walking, there appears to be something laying on
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the ground that looks like it could be an animal
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: or a rock. She doesn't really know what it is,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and as she gets closer she realizes it's a beaver
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: laying on the ground, and this beaver is missing its head. Now,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: this is a huge forest, and Bella would have known that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: You know, of course, there are wild animals all over
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the place, and so finding the body of an animal
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: that had been attacked by another animal was not unusual.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: That's nature. But what did strike Bella as odd was
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the cut on this beaver's neck was unbelievably neat and uniform,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: as if its head had been very carefully removed with
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: a very sharp knife, and the beaver's head was nowhere
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to be found. It certainly did not have the appearance
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: of having its head removed from some predator, and its
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: teeth that would have been very rough. Also, the rest
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of the beaver's body was intact, so whatever killed this
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: beaver was not interested in eating the beaver. As Bella
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: stood over this beaver and was just staring at it,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: she also noted that there was no smell. Normally, when
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: something dies, it begins to smell very quickly. It's part
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of the decomposition process, and so for there not to
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: be a smell indicated to Bella that this beaver must
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: have been killed fairly recently. And then when Bella kind
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: of gently prodded the body with her foot, she realized
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the beaver's body was still fairly limp, so rigor mortis
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: had not set in. Rigor mortis is another part of
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the decomposition process where the body kind of stiffens up,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and that happens fairly soon after death. And so as
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Bella is realizing this beaver must have died very recently,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: it dawns on her that most likely, whoever or whatever
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: has killed this beaver, it is probably somewhere nearby and
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Bella can't help but connect this dead beaver to that
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: bell she was hearing earlier, which before meant nothing, but
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: considering the bell was roughly coming from the same area
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: where this beaver has now been found, it made her uneasy,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and so Bella found herself whipping her head around, looking
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: out into the trees, seeing if you know, there's some
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: person a hunt or somebody that would kind of explain
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: what was going on. But there was nothing, and so
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Bella felt herself starting to panic a little bit. But
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: then she stopped herself and said, calm down, it's broad daylight.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I have been coming to these woods for years and years.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I've never seen another person. I've never encountered some predatory animal.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sure everything is perfectly fine. I got nothing to
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: worry about. And so she stepped over the beaver and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: kept on walking. Bella would eventually reach the east west
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: running river. She would turn left and walk for twenty
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: minutes alongside this river, she'd reach the man made lake.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: She enjoyed the beautiful view and the scenery, and then
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: at some point she turned around and began retracing her footsteps.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: She walked past the beaber on the ground all the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: way back to her car, and she went home. A
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: week later, Bella was sitting around her house when she
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: felt pretty bored and decided kind of abruptly that in
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: order to cure her boredom, she would go back to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the place she loved so much, the man made lake.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: And so she told her parents where she was going,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and then she left the house, hopped in her car,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: drove to the pull off and parked and entered the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: woods at six pm. Sunset that night was at nine pm,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and so Bella knew this would need to be a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: fairly quick turnaround so she didn't get trapped in the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: woods in the dark. And so Bella finds the animal trail.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: She follows along the stream until the trail goes left
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and she stays on the stream. She continues walking on
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the stream when she starts to hear the distant sound
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: of thunder. So she looks up into the sky through
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the trees and she can see the sky as starting
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: to get dark, but she's still a couple of hours
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: away from sunset, and so between the thunder and the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: dark skies, she knows a storm is rolling in. But
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: she is determined to get to that lake and so
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: instead of you know, turning around and saying, okay, I'll
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: come back another time, she just starts jogging along the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: stream to get there as fast as she possibly can.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: And almost immediately as she's jogging, the rain drops start
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to fall, and by the time she passes the Beaber
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: corpse on the ground, it hadn't moved.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: The rain was really coming down.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: And then about fifteen minutes after the corpse, when she
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: hit the east west running river, that's when the rain
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: was at a full downpour. Still, Bella turned at the
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: river and continued west towards the man made lake as
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: if she was gonna go all the way, but only
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: about a minute or two into this final leg, she
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: still had about twenty minutes to get to the lake.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: She stops herself and she looks at her watch and
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: she can see it's after eight o'clock already, and she's
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: thinking to herself, you know, if I turn around right now,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take me over an hour to get back
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to my car. Sun sets at nine pm. It's after
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: eight pm now, so already I know I'm gonna have
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to navigate this forest at night in the dark, even
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: if it's just for a little bit at the end,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and if I go all the way to the lake
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and then come all the way back to the car,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the forest after dark for
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: quite a while, maybe up to an hour. And she's thinking,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm confident I can do that, but it's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: also pouring rain, I'm cold. If I get lost, this
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: could turn into a very bad situation. And so she
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: ultimately decides that even though she really wants to keep going,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: she needs to turn around. She needs to head back,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and so she turns around and she walks back up
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: alongside this east west running river to where the stream
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: fed into that river. She turns and begins walking south
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: along this stream, headed back towards the car. On her walk,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: because the visibility was starting to get quite bad because
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it was so dark, she had her head down at
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the ground because she didn't want a trip. She's stepping
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: on rocks, she's stepping on muddy areas. She wants to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: make sure her footing is solid, and so her head
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is down. The rain is pounding all around her, and
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: she's walking for about fifteen minutes when all of a sudden,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: something hits her in the top of the head and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: so reflexively, she looks up and kind of puts her
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: hands in front of her face to protect herself, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: she sees what she had just run into. It was
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the beaver corpse. It was hanging from a string that
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: was dangling off a branch right above her, and this
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: beaver's head had been retrieved and the head had been
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: stitched onto the front paws of this beaver. And so
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: she's looking at this beaver that's dangling from this rope,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: it's carrying its own head, and she's walked square into it.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: And her first reaction was basically to gag. She was
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: going to vomit, she was so disgusted. And then she
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: began frantically rubbing at her hair where this thing had
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: made contact with her, because there could be juices from
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the decomposition that got on her. And then, after frantically
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: kind of patting at her head for a second, she stops,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and something really terrifying dawns on her. Whoever strung this
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: beabra up to this tree and then stitched its head
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: onto its paws, they had done that in the last
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, because thirty minutes earlier, when she was on
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: her way in she remembered passing the beaver carcass on
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the ground she saw it. It had not moved from
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: where it was the week before when she first saw it,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And now this beaver is shrung up in the tree,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and so as the wheels are turning in head, she
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: realizes that if someone has just done this, then they
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: are probably nearby. And at this point it's really starting
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: to get dark. The rain is pounding all around her,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and she starts whipping her head around, looking in all
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: directions to see if there's someone out there that did this.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: But as she's looking, all she sees is just dark
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: forest in all directions, and she knows she's at least
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: one hour even if she runs from her car, and
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: so suddenly she is totally panicked, and in an effort
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: to calm herself down, she says to herself, Okay, I
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: need to get out here, but I have to walk.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: If I start running right now, this is going to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: turn into a complete nightmare. I just have to try
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: to walk. And so she walks around this dangling beaver
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: corpse and starts walking along the stream, and as soon
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: as she's past that corpse, she feels the hairs on
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the back of her neck stand up. She can hear
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: movement behind her. She doesn't know what it is. It
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: could be a deer, it could be some animal, but
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: she's too afraid to turn around. And even though she
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: was trying to tell herself to calm down, just keep walking,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: you're safe, you're freaking yourself out. Everything is okay. As
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: she's walking, she could feel herself starting to speed up,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: until finally she was just running down this stream, sprinting
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: actually away from this beaver and whatever it was that
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: was moving around in that area. And at some point
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: she got so winded from sprinting so fast that she
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: came to a stop, maybe five or six minutes after
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: seeing this beaver. And as soon as she comes to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a stop and she's walking, she still hasn't turned around yet,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: she hears the sound of that bell, and right away
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: it's the exact same sound she had heard the week before.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: It's that kind of constant, sporadic sound of someone ringing
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a bell, but in her panic state, she doesn't know
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: where it's coming from. She's so scared, her anxiety is
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: so high. She doesn't know if it's behind her or
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: if it's off to the side. It's now completely dark out,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and so she is full blown terrified. There is someone
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: or something behind her that has strung this beaver up,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that's probably watching her, and she can't see them. Even
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: though she's beyond winded, she can barely breathe. She just
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: starts sprinting as fast as she can. And as she's
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: stumbling and falling on the rocks and tripping because she's
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: not really looking where she's going, in the background and
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: all around her, she's hearing this bell chiming, and she's
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: hearing something moving around in the woods behind her. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: she pulls her phone out of her pocket, her iPhone,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and as she's running, she dials her father. She puts
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the phone to her ear. She's crying, she's panting, she
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: can barely breathe. Her father picks up, and she's so
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: relieved to hear his voice, but she can't even make
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: a sentence. She just starts crying and wailing and pleading
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: with him, Dad, come out to the forest, meet me
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: at the spot where the trail veers away from the stream.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Meet me there. There's someone in the forest that's chasing me,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and I can't see them. Her father on the other
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: end of the phone. He didn't know what to make
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of this, but he could hear the primal fear in
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: his daughter's voice, and so he didn't ask any questions.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: He said, stay on the line. I'm coming to meet
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: you right now. So Bella's father and mother, with Bella
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: on the line, they run out of their house. They
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: hop in their car. They speed a couple miles down
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the road. They park next to their daughter's car, and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: as they're running into the woods, they can hear, way
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: off in the woods, the sound of the They can
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: hear the bell. They hear their daughter screaming on the phone.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: They can hear the bell coming through the phone, and
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: she's begging them to please come into the woods, come
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: in here, save me. Since the parents run into the
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: woods and they begin running up the stream. Meanwhile, Bella,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: who's way out in the woods, she's still ten or
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes away from her parents. She is barely able
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: to run. At this point, She's exhausted almost all of
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: her energy, and as she's getting closer and closer to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: her parents, the sporadic bell sound is getting louder and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: louder and louder, like whatever it is is gaining on her,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and she can hear behind her all these sticks and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: branches they're breaking, as if something is coming up to her.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: And finally, when it feels like this bell is right
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: behind her head, she just kind of stops in defeat.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: She's too far away from her parents. She can't get
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to them in time, and so it was almost like
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: she had to turn around and finally look at whatever
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: it was that was behind her, and so terrified, beyond words,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: bella who can barely breathe. She's so scared and so tired.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: She slowly turns around. Now when she turns around and
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: she's facing the other direction, she's looking across this clearing.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: She just happened to run past this clearing, and because
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: it was a clearing, there was a little bit of
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: moonlight that was coming down through the trees, just enough
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to illuminate this space that was about fifty feet wide.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And as she's looking across this clearing, at first she
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't see anything, and then this tall, dark figure walks
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: into the clearing, and as soon as it steps in,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: she can see it's got a bell at its waist,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: and with every step it took, it would violently ring
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: the bell, causing the ringing sound. And so this thing
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: starts moving into the clearing, and as Bella is staring
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: at it, it was like time slowed down. She could
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: not process what she was looking at. She didn't know
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: what she was looking at. All. She knew is whatever
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: or whoever this is, they're coming straight at me. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: so Bella suddenly got this unbelievable adrenaline rush. It was
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: like her body went into autopilot to save her. And
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: she turned around and began sprinting faster than she had
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: ever sprinted in her life. And as she ran, all
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: she could hear was the sound of that bell, which
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: she now knew represented steps.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: This thing was.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: And so the bell was getting faster and faster and
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: louder and louder, and she knew it was gaining on her,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and she began lying and screaming out loud that I'm
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: on the phone with the police. They're right up ahead.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be here any moment. But whatever it was
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: that was behind her, they weren't fazed. They were just
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: charging ahead, gaining on her second by second. Meanwhile, her
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: parents had made it to the meeting spot, but her
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: father he felt like, I can't just sit here, and
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: he just starts charging into the woods. He can hear
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: his daughter screaming. He can hear this bell getting louder
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and louder, and he just starts running towards it. And
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: sure enough, seconds later, he sees his daughter confounding out
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: of the forest and she leaps into his arms. He
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: just grabs her, turns around and runs with her back
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: to the meeting spot. He grabs his wife and the
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: three of them just charge out of the forest back
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: to the parking lot, back in their car, and they
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: speed off in the car. All of them are crying.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: They don't know what to make of what just happened.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Bella's trying to describe it, but she can't. And her parents,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: they had been on the phone listening to their daughter screaming,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: and all they kept saying to each other, the parents
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: was I heard the bell. I heard the bell. I
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: heard the bell. As if the bell confirmed their worst
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: nightmares that there really was someone or something out in
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: those woods that was trying to do harm to their child.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: They would drive straight to the police station, where Bella
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: would file a report about what she experienced out in
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the forest, and then afterwards her parents, as a precaution,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: took her to the hospital, where she was determined to
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: be okay besides some bumps and bruises from falling down.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: The following morning, the police went out to the forest
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: to the area where Bella had explained where she had been,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: and they searched all along that animal foot trail and
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: all along the stream, but they never found any sign
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of this dark figure with the bell. Bella would tell
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: police that she had a handbag and as she was
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: running back, she dropped the bag. She remembered where she
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: dropped it along the stream, but when the police went
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to that area, the bag was gone. Also, the beaber
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: was no longer there. It was not tied up to
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: the tree, it was done on the ground. It was gone.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: The only thing police found that was out of the
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: ordinary was they found a little ways off from the stream,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: basically along the path that Bella would have been running on,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: they found a T shirt neatly folded placed underneath a rock,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But the police and Bella and her family have no
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: idea what that signifies. Ultimately, the police told Bella and
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: her family that more than likely what she ran into
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: was some kind of mentally unstable person that was living
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: out in the woods, and perhaps when Bella came into
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: the woods they felt like she was on their property,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and so they kind of tried to scare her off.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: But Bella has a hard time accepting that she felt
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: like as she was running from whoever was behind her,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: that she was in mortal danger, that had it not
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: been for her father running into the woods and literally
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: grabbing her and running with her the rest of the way,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: that she may not have gotten out of the woods
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: at all, that she might have been attacked and killed
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: by whoever this was. She also can't help when she
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: looks back at the entire experience, thinking about that moment
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: when she turned around and looked across that clearing and
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: saw this figure come into the moonlight for the first time,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: that when it came into the moonlight, the way it
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: was moving, the steps it was taking, they weren't normal,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: they were abnormal. There was just something off about this
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: thing's movement that it didn't seem like she was looking
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: at a person, but rather some big animal. But regardless,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: since her ordeal, there have been no strange sightings out
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: in those woods. However, almost no one ever goes in
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: those woods except for Bella and her family, and Bella
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: and her family. They don't go in those woods anymore.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: So whoever or whatever is out there is still just
• 53:28
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• 54:19
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