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Top 3 SCARIEST forest stories Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 1) - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. In the early 2000s, a teenager
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Speaker 1: named Eben and his father would regularly go hunting in
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Speaker 1: the Georgia backcountry. When Eben turned 14, his father befriended
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Speaker 1: a very wealthy landowner in Georgia who offered them access
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Speaker 1: to one of his best private hunting areas. And just
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Speaker 1: a couple of days later, on October 5th, Eben and
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Speaker 1: his father would take him up on the offer. They
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Speaker 1: woke up super early and they drove out to the
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Speaker 1: edge of this property that was actually fenced in. and
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Speaker 1: they went to a main gate where they had the
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Speaker 1: combo that this guy had given them. They punched in
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Speaker 1: the combo, opened up the gate, drove in, shut the gate,
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Speaker 1: locked it, and then continued down the access road. They
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Speaker 1: followed this road for about two miles where it came
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Speaker 1: to a stop right outside of this huge forest. They
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Speaker 1: parked their truck, they got out, they put on their gear,
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Speaker 1: and in the pre-morning darkness began hiking into the woods.
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Speaker 1: Even though they were there primarily to hunt, Eben and
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Speaker 1: his father secretly enjoyed just hiking around the woods and
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Speaker 1: camping out, And any chance they got to extend their
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Speaker 1: hunting trips, they would, even if the hunting wasn't good.
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Speaker 1: And so since they spent a ton of time in
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Speaker 1: the woods together, they noticed almost immediately when they walked
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Speaker 1: into this particular forest that something was off. There's no birds.
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Speaker 1: There's no animals. Silence. It's just totally silent. The only
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Speaker 1: sounds they heard that were not them was a single
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Speaker 1: plane that passed overhead. Although they found this very odd,
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Speaker 1: they figured, you know what? This is private property. Not
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are out here. I'm sure as
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Speaker 1: soon as we showed up, the animals were aware of
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Speaker 1: us and they've scattered. They finally make it out to
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Speaker 1: the hunting stand that the owner had told them about.
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Speaker 1: They get all settled in. They're getting ready to see
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Speaker 1: some animals. And all day long, they don't see a
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Speaker 1: single animal. They don't hear a single animal. In fact, again,
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Speaker 1: it is just completely silent. Frustrated, they began packing up
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Speaker 1: their stuff, making their way down off the stand. And
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Speaker 1: they started looking for a place to make camp for
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Speaker 1: the night. And Eben's father suggested, well, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's obviously nothing over here. It's been quiet all day.
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Speaker 1: Why don't we walk deeper into the woods a little ways,
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Speaker 1: set up camp there, so tomorrow we have a better
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Speaker 1: chance of seeing some animals. So they hiked for about
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Speaker 1: an hour farther away from where they parked their truck.
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Speaker 1: And they reach this clearing, which is perfect for setting
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Speaker 1: up their camp. And so they set up their tent
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Speaker 1: and Eben's father says, hey, you know, we still got
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Speaker 1: some daylight. Do you want to go try our luck
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Speaker 1: and see if we can see some animals out here now?
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Speaker 1: Eben's like, yeah, why not? So they hike a little
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Speaker 1: ways away from their campsite and they set up their blind.
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Speaker 1: And once again, they don't see any animals. It's totally quiet.
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Speaker 1: And so they turn around and they start heading back.
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Speaker 1: As soon as they could see their campsite, which really
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Speaker 1: was just their tent, they noticed that their tent was
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Speaker 1: now collapsed. And Eben's father turns to him and says, oh,
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Speaker 1: it must have been the wind. And Eben says, no,
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Speaker 1: it couldn't have been the wind because all day today
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Speaker 1: we have been commenting on how quiet it is and
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Speaker 1: how the fact that there's no weather, no wind, no
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Speaker 1: anything is heightening the fact that it's completely silent. So
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Speaker 1: it could not have been wind. So Edmund's father is like, well,
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Speaker 1: when you set the tent up, did you not put
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Speaker 1: the posts into the eyelets? Did you not build it correctly?
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Speaker 1: And Edmund's like, no, I've made that tent like a
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Speaker 1: thousand times. I know it was set up correctly. They
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Speaker 1: walk into their campsite and they look down at their
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Speaker 1: tent and they're really confused at what they see. The
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Speaker 1: two rods that go in an X over the top
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Speaker 1: of the tent are that thread through nylon loops and
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Speaker 1: then anchor at four different points on the base of
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Speaker 1: the tent, well, they had been removed from the four corners.
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Speaker 1: And if you know how a tent works, it works
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Speaker 1: on tension. And once you have a rod anchored in
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Speaker 1: two points, it doesn't just pop out. It's anchored at
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Speaker 1: two sides. It's actually difficult to remove each anchor. Once
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Speaker 1: one is out, the other comes out easily. But basically,
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Speaker 1: the rod would need to break, in order for it
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Speaker 1: to come out of those anchor points, or someone would
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Speaker 1: have to come over and remove it. And they didn't
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Speaker 1: remove them, and none of the rods were broken. Which
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Speaker 1: leaves them with, either they failed to set up their tent,
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Speaker 1: even though they had distinct and clear memories of setting
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Speaker 1: it up and double-checking it was set up, because they
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Speaker 1: put gear inside of it, or someone came over to
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Speaker 1: their campsite while they were gone and undid the four corners.
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Speaker 1: They decide, you know what, it can't be some stranger
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Speaker 1: coming over here, Because we're the only ones with the
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Speaker 1: gate combo. This is private property and no one could
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Speaker 1: have been here. And why would they do that if
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Speaker 1: they came to our campsite? Why would they randomly collapse
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Speaker 1: our tent and then vanish? So it had to be us.
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Speaker 1: We must have not made the tent. And while they
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Speaker 1: didn't really believe that they had not made their tent,
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Speaker 1: they convinced themselves that that's what happened because the alternative
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Speaker 1: was just too bizarre and frankly terrifying to consider. So
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Speaker 1: they build their tent and they make a little fire
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Speaker 1: and they stay up for a little while chatting. before
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Speaker 1: being tired and saying, okay, let's just go to bed.
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Speaker 1: They extinguish the fire, they get in the tent, and
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Speaker 1: they both fall asleep. A couple hours later, Eben wakes
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Speaker 1: up suddenly, and he's not sure if he's dreaming or not,
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Speaker 1: but he thinks he hears someone laughing a couple hundred
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Speaker 1: meters behind their tent off in the woods. Eben instinctively
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Speaker 1: turns to make sure his dad is still in the
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Speaker 1: tent with him, and he is, and then Eben starts
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Speaker 1: listening really intently to what's happening outside, and all he
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Speaker 1: can hear is silence, like it's been since they got
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Speaker 1: in the woods. He doesn't hear any more laughter. And
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Speaker 1: so he says, okay, I must've just been dreaming and
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Speaker 1: there wasn't any laughter out there. And eventually Eben goes
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Speaker 1: back to sleep. A little while later, Eben wakes up
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Speaker 1: suddenly again, except this time his dad is already awake
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Speaker 1: and looking around anxiously. And Eben sits up and goes,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? And his dad goes, shh. And he goes,
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Speaker 1: can you hear that? And Eben listens and to his horror,
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Speaker 1: he hears laughing. He wasn't dreaming before. Eben also realizes
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Speaker 1: the laughter is not coming from the same area he
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Speaker 1: heard it. It's now coming from the opposite direction And
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Speaker 1: it's a lot closer to them. Eben very quietly and
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Speaker 1: carefully explains to his dad that he actually heard this
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Speaker 1: laughter a couple hours earlier. And Eben's father turns to
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Speaker 1: Eben and says, before we came out here, I asked
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Speaker 1: the owner, should we expect any other hunters or campers
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Speaker 1: or anybody nearby? And the owner said, this is private
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Speaker 1: property and it's fenced in. There is no one there
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Speaker 1: but you guys. After this revelation, they both turn their
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Speaker 1: attention back to just listening because they're hoping this is
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Speaker 1: just going to stop and whatever this is, is just
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Speaker 1: going to leave. But it doesn't leave. They hear footsteps
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Speaker 1: running towards them from way off in the forest. And
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Speaker 1: it's so quiet, it's really easy to hear these footsteps.
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Speaker 1: And whatever this is, is charging towards them. And then
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Speaker 1: it comes to a complete stop right at the edge
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Speaker 1: of their clearing. At this point, Eben is now grabbing
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Speaker 1: onto his father. Eben's father is holding onto his rifle
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Speaker 1: and he's getting ready to open the tent to confront
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Speaker 1: whatever is out there. And right before he grabs the zipper,
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Speaker 1: this thing, this person, whatever it is, starts laughing again.
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Speaker 1: And it's practically right on top of them. It's so loud.
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Speaker 1: They can hear it clear as day right there, right
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Speaker 1: outside their tent. And Eben's father takes a deep breath.
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Speaker 1: He grabs the zipper. And as soon as he begins
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Speaker 1: moving it, the sound the zipper made causes the laughter
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Speaker 1: to stop. They don't hear footsteps, so they know probably
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Speaker 1: something's still out there. But the laughter stops like it's
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Speaker 1: recognized that they're making noise. They're right there. There they are.
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Speaker 1: They're in the tent. Evan's father freezes with his hand
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Speaker 1: on the zipper, and he's debating whether he should go
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Speaker 1: outside or not. And before he can even make that decision,
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Speaker 1: whatever this thing is turns around and runs back into
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Speaker 1: the woods, and it's just gone. And for several minutes,
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Speaker 1: they just sit like that in total silence, praying that
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Speaker 1: whatever this is is gone for good. And after several minutes,
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Speaker 1: when they don't hear anything, there's no more laughing, there's
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Speaker 1: no more running. Eben's father re-zips up the tent, puts
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Speaker 1: his hand back down, and they're both left just sitting
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Speaker 1: there thinking, what the heck just happened? Eben and his
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Speaker 1: father would stay up all night and they would barely
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Speaker 1: speak because whatever this thing was had heard them when
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Speaker 1: they moved the zipper. And so they were really afraid
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Speaker 1: of making any sound, even little sounds, because it's so quiet,
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Speaker 1: sound travels really far and they don't know who or
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Speaker 1: what is out there. And so in silence, holding their guns,
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Speaker 1: they're just waiting for the sun to come up. And
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Speaker 1: as soon as it did, They were up and out
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Speaker 1: of there, literally running out of the forest, checking over
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Speaker 1: their shoulder the whole time, all the way back to
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Speaker 1: their truck. And so to this day, they have no
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Speaker 1: idea who or what the heck was running around out there.
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Speaker 1: And they told the owner of the property about it.
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Speaker 1: And the owner just said, it's not possible. We have
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Speaker 1: a totally gated in private piece of property. And there
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Speaker 1: are cameras watching the only entrance. And you are the
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Speaker 1: only ones that went in or out over that time period.
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Speaker 1: And prior to that, we monitor this property. Nobody else
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Speaker 1: was in there. In the summer of 2013, a young
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Speaker 1: woman named Katie and her father decided to go camping
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Speaker 1: at one of their favorite campgrounds in the Sierra Nevada
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Speaker 1: mountain range. Katie loved going camping with her father because
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Speaker 1: he was this totally accomplished outdoorsman and he used to
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Speaker 1: be a wilderness guide for much of his life. And
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Speaker 1: so she just always felt like she was in great
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Speaker 1: hands whenever she was out in the wild with him.
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Speaker 1: And she had kind of become a fairly accomplished outdoors
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Speaker 1: woman herself. When they arrived at the campground, the parking
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Speaker 1: lot was packed with cars. And they're like, shoot, I
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Speaker 1: wish we'd called ahead a couple weeks ago and reserved
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Speaker 1: a site because they're probably not even available now. But
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Speaker 1: they went to the front desk and they were like,
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Speaker 1: you're in luck, we have one available, but it's the
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Speaker 1: one that's way over there. It was this one campsite
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Speaker 1: that was kind of isolated from the rest of the campground.
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Speaker 1: It was far away from the bathhouse it was far
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Speaker 1: away from where you'd go swimming and it was far
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Speaker 1: away from the parking lot it was just like really
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Speaker 1: inconvenient and whenever they came camping he it was like
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Speaker 1: the one site they didn't want to use but beggars
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Speaker 1: can't be choosers they were happy to even have a
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Speaker 1: site and so they drove all the way down down
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Speaker 1: this little road into this very isolated campsite kind of
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Speaker 1: in the middle of this forest once they got there
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Speaker 1: they began setting up their respective tents because they were
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Speaker 1: not going to be staying in the same tent They
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Speaker 1: each had these very small backpacking tents, which were so
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Speaker 1: small that you could either zip it up all the
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Speaker 1: way and stay warmer and more protected, but you had
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Speaker 1: to sleep in a ball because your legs would not
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Speaker 1: fit otherwise. Or you could unzip the front of your tent,
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Speaker 1: and when you lay down, you could extend your legs fully,
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Speaker 1: but your legs are protruding outside of your tent. So
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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 of the day. When they come back,
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Speaker 1: they're totally exhausted, they fall asleep, and nothing of note
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Speaker 1: occurs over that first night. The next day they get up,
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Speaker 1: they go back out, they go hiking all day all
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Speaker 1: over again, and they come back that night, and they
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Speaker 1: are totally exhausted again. And they get into their tents,
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Speaker 1: and they go to bed. And this night, something of
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Speaker 1: note would happen. At about 3 a.m., Katie wakes up,
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Speaker 1: and she hears footsteps walking towards the campsite from a
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Speaker 1: little ways off. They're in the woods somewhere. And she's thinking, okay...
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Speaker 1: It's got to be my father because he's diabetic and
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Speaker 1: every night he gets up to go to the bathroom
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Speaker 1: maybe three, four times. And he probably was just walking
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Speaker 1: to the bathhouse and now he's walking back. But she
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Speaker 1: realizes the bathhouse is over here, not over here. So
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Speaker 1: what is he doing walking towards the campsite from this side?
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Speaker 1: The footsteps come out of the tree line. They come
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Speaker 1: into the clearing that is their campsite and they stop
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Speaker 1: about two, three meters outside of Katie's tent. Now, there
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Speaker 1: were no windows on Katie's backpack tent. There was just
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Speaker 1: a little fence at the front and the back that
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Speaker 1: kind of pointed down. And so she couldn't see out anyways.
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Speaker 1: And there was no illumination out. So you can't even
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Speaker 1: pick up a silhouette. It's just total darkness out there.
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Speaker 1: She can't see who's out there. She can only hear them.
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Speaker 1: But she's thinking, okay, maybe my dad got lost coming
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Speaker 1: back from the bathhouse because he didn't have a flashlight
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Speaker 1: and he walked too far. That's possible. Or, you know,
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Speaker 1: he could have decided to relieve himself just in the
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Speaker 1: tree line, even though he's not known to do that.
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Speaker 1: He's a guy that goes to the bathhouse. And so
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Speaker 1: she's running through these scenarios that are convincing her that, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's just my dad. But what she really wants to
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Speaker 1: hear is, is that person walk away from her tent
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Speaker 1: and get into her father's tent. Because that will confirm
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Speaker 1: in her mind that that was her father. And so
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Speaker 1: she's sitting here waiting for that confirmation. And she hears
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Speaker 1: the footsteps again. But instead of walking around her tent
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Speaker 1: to her father's tent, this person walks right up against
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Speaker 1: her tent very quickly. And they clearly begin leaning over
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Speaker 1: her little tiny tent because she can hear them breathing
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Speaker 1: right above her. And this is when she realizes... that's
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Speaker 1: not my dad. And as she's having this terrible revelation
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Speaker 1: that some stranger is outside her tent right now, she
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Speaker 1: has an even worse revelation. It was a warm night
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Speaker 1: that night, so she was sleeping with her tent unzipped
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Speaker 1: and her legs poking out the end. She musters the
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Speaker 1: courage to begin slowly retracting her legs back inside of
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Speaker 1: her tent. But before she's able to do that, this
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Speaker 1: person stands up, turns, and starts walking towards the base
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Speaker 1: of her tent and 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 start 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 without,
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Speaker 1: you know, this person hearing her. And so she had
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Speaker 1: the illusion of safety being inside of her tent, but
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Speaker 1: her tent is still unzipped. So she's waiting for this
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Speaker 1: person to come around and crouch down and look inside
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Speaker 1: of her tent because it's open. And so she's just
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Speaker 1: looking down there, hoping that doesn't happen. But unfortunately, right
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Speaker 1: at this moment, the person walked to the base of
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Speaker 1: her tent and came to a stop right outside where
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Speaker 1: the opening to the tent is. And so she's sitting
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Speaker 1: there thinking, please don't come in here. Please don't come
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Speaker 1: in here. Please don't come in here. And even though
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Speaker 1: her feet are pulled up into her tent, she suddenly
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Speaker 1: feels something pinch her foot. And she knows it's a hand.
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Speaker 1: Something has grabbed my foot. And she stifles a scream
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Speaker 1: and she starts shaking uncontrollably because her instincts are telling her,
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Speaker 1: don't let this person know you're awake. And luckily, as
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Speaker 1: she's sitting there shaking from fear and trying to be
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Speaker 1: quiet as best as she can, she's holding her mouth.
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Speaker 1: This person stands back up again and goes back to
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Speaker 1: the spot next to her tent and leans over the
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Speaker 1: tent once again. And she can hear them breathing right
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Speaker 1: over her. And so for several minutes, she lay there
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Speaker 1: shaking with this random person who pinched her foot a
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Speaker 1: minute ago. hovering over her tent in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night and she has nothing she can do and
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Speaker 1: she's just quiet she's hoping it's going to end soon
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Speaker 1: and eventually this person would turn around and walk over
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Speaker 1: to their cooler and their table and some other things
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Speaker 1: that were out and she hears some rummaging going on
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Speaker 1: some things are being moved around and then this person
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Speaker 1: just kind of walks off into the distance. But she
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Speaker 1: doesn't know if they're gone. She doesn't know if they're
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Speaker 1: standing in the edge of the tree line waiting for
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Speaker 1: her to come outside. Maybe they laid a trap for her.
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Speaker 1: And so she just lays there, silent, doesn't move. And
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Speaker 1: she's praying to herself, please don't let anything happen to
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Speaker 1: me or my father. And all night she's just laying there.
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Speaker 1: And then eventually she does fall asleep. Probably hours go by,
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Speaker 1: but she does fall asleep because she wakes up again
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Speaker 1: when she hears her father unzipping his tent. And she
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Speaker 1: charges out to meet him. And she can tell right
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Speaker 1: away that he's scared. And before she can even say
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Speaker 1: or begin to describe what's happened to her, he says,
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Speaker 1: were you outside your tent last night at about 2,
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Speaker 1: 3 in the morning? Because I heard all sorts of
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Speaker 1: commotion near our cooler. I wasn't sure if it was
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Speaker 1: an animal. I wasn't sure if it was you. And
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Speaker 1: she starts telling him, no, this is what happened to me.
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Speaker 1: And as she's describing what happened to her, he looks
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Speaker 1: behind her at the picnic table and which was next
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Speaker 1: to their cooler and they had their backpacks on it. Basically,
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Speaker 1: anything that didn't fit in their tents, they kept near
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Speaker 1: this picnic table. And he points at it and she
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Speaker 1: turns around and any item that was in the cooler
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Speaker 1: or in their backpacks or that was just out has
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Speaker 1: been stacked in a pyramid formation on this table. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: the guy who was here last night did this. For
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Speaker 1: some reason, they don't understand. And as they go over
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Speaker 1: to look at it to see if anything's been taken,
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Speaker 1: they notice this track of footprints, like these heavy footprints
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Speaker 1: that have been going around and around Katie's tent. So
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Speaker 1: she clearly wasn't imagining it. And so that instant, they
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Speaker 1: packed everything up, got in their car, and they left.
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Speaker 1: And to this day, they can barely talk about it
16:15
Speaker 1: with each other because it's all the things that could
16:17
Speaker 1: have happened. The father felt horribly guilty because he clearly
16:20
Speaker 1: heard this person but didn't leave his tent. And his
16:24
Speaker 1: daughter was clearly in danger. And his daughter's thinking, the
16:27
Speaker 1: tent was open. This person was crouched down, reaching into
16:31
Speaker 1: my tent, grabbing my feet. Like, that's such a horrifying image.
16:35
Speaker 1: And so this has been completely traumatizing for them, and
16:38
Speaker 1: they just don't talk about it anymore. From the 1950s
16:45
Speaker 1: until present, a Canadian family has owned this very isolated
16:48
Speaker 1: cabin in the middle of the Ontario backcountry. It was
16:51
Speaker 1: the only property on this very small lake. There was
16:54
Speaker 1: two others across the lake, but they were pretty far away.
16:57
Speaker 1: And with the exception of the side of the cabin
16:59
Speaker 1: that was facing the water, The rest of it was
17:01
Speaker 1: surrounded by really dense forests that went on for quite
17:04
Speaker 1: a while. About two miles away from this cabin on
17:07
Speaker 1: the other side of this dirt road was this huge
17:09
Speaker 1: wildlife reserve that was pretty much just a huge forest
17:12
Speaker 1: that was protected. And anytime the family was visiting this cabin,
17:16
Speaker 1: the kids would at some point go into the reserve
17:18
Speaker 1: and go explore. In 2001, when the family was at
17:21
Speaker 1: the cabin, the kids were across the road over at
17:23
Speaker 1: the reserve and they decided to walk down this particular
17:26
Speaker 1: trail that they hadn't seen before and they just started walking.
17:29
Speaker 1: And for about 30 minutes, they're seeing new areas they
17:32
Speaker 1: hadn't seen before. And then they come to this clearing
17:35
Speaker 1: and there's all these abandoned houses. At first, there was
17:38
Speaker 1: a little debate about whether these were actually abandoned because
17:41
Speaker 1: they did look like they were in pretty good condition.
17:43
Speaker 1: But when they walked a little bit closer, it became
17:45
Speaker 1: very clear that nature is reclaiming this land. Grass is
17:49
Speaker 1: up to your waist. You know, there's vines growing up
17:51
Speaker 1: the side of the houses. There were cars still parked
17:54
Speaker 1: in driveways that were totally rusted out and You know,
17:56
Speaker 1: grass is growing all through them, and so they knew
17:59
Speaker 1: these were abandoned. They walked up to the first house
18:01
Speaker 1: they saw, and they looked in, and they couldn't believe
18:03
Speaker 1: what they were looking at. It was like whoever lived
18:05
Speaker 1: here had left without taking anything. The house was still
18:09
Speaker 1: totally furnished. In fact, their dining room tables still had
18:12
Speaker 1: plates and cups and forks and knives, like they had
18:15
Speaker 1: just had dinner and then just got up and left.
18:17
Speaker 1: They start talking about going into these houses and looking
18:20
Speaker 1: around inside, but they started wondering, like, is this a museum?
18:24
Speaker 1: Is that why everything is in such good repair? You know,
18:27
Speaker 1: should we not go inside these houses? And they start
18:29
Speaker 1: looking around for any indication that definitely this is not
18:33
Speaker 1: a museum. These are just plain abandoned. And across the
18:36
Speaker 1: street from the house they were at was this totally
18:38
Speaker 1: decrepit looking house. Let's go over there and look in there.
18:41
Speaker 1: And so they look in a window and very clearly
18:43
Speaker 1: the ceiling is totally sagging down and the first floor
18:47
Speaker 1: is buckling completely and there's clothes and shoes scattered everywhere.
18:51
Speaker 1: And so for them, this was confirmation that this is
18:54
Speaker 1: no museum and These are abandoned. We can totally go
18:57
Speaker 1: look around inside. And so for the next couple of hours,
18:59
Speaker 1: the kids explored all the houses that looked structurally sound
19:02
Speaker 1: that weren't going to collapse on them. And it was
19:05
Speaker 1: just fascinating. There was all this stuff that was left
19:07
Speaker 1: behind that was fairly valuable. And they didn't take anything.
19:10
Speaker 1: They just thought it was very cool. And after a while,
19:12
Speaker 1: they decided they had seen enough. And they turned around
19:14
Speaker 1: and headed back to their cabin. After they got back,
19:17
Speaker 1: they told their parents about what they found. And their
19:19
Speaker 1: father was like, man, that sounds awesome. I want to
19:21
Speaker 1: go check that out. And so that day they went
19:23
Speaker 1: right back over to the abandoned houses. The first house
19:26
Speaker 1: they showed him was the really decrepit looking one where
19:29
Speaker 1: the ceiling was sagging and there was women's shoes and
19:31
Speaker 1: clothes all over the ground to show him for sure
19:34
Speaker 1: these are abandoned because we had some doubts at first too.
19:37
Speaker 1: These are definitely abandoned. So they look at that house
19:39
Speaker 1: and then they went back to the very first house
19:41
Speaker 1: they saw when they walked into this complex, the one
19:44
Speaker 1: that was in great condition and had the dining table
19:46
Speaker 1: still set. So they go inside and they go upstairs
19:49
Speaker 1: and they find this bed that, like everything else in
19:51
Speaker 1: the house, is totally intact. You have pictures on the wall.
19:54
Speaker 1: It's fully furnished. There's even still sheets made on the
19:57
Speaker 1: bed in the pillow. It's got a head imprint from
20:00
Speaker 1: whoever was there last. And at the foot of the
20:02
Speaker 1: bed is this beautiful fur coat. And the father walks
20:05
Speaker 1: over to it, and he looks at it, and he's like,
20:07
Speaker 1: this is real fur. This is a really expensive coat.
20:10
Speaker 1: I want to take this for our family. But before
20:12
Speaker 1: he took it, he had a hesitation. Is this really abandoned?
20:16
Speaker 1: You know, if someone had been here, they would have
20:18
Speaker 1: seen footprints all over the house just because there's grime
20:20
Speaker 1: all over the ground. And they can clearly see their
20:22
Speaker 1: footprints from where they've just come in. And he's like, no,
20:25
Speaker 1: this is just a weird situation. It's definitely abandoned. And
20:29
Speaker 1: finders keepers and so he picks up the jacket and
20:31
Speaker 1: he says i'm going to give this to mom after
20:33
Speaker 1: i clean it up and so with the jacket in
20:35
Speaker 1: hand the father and the kids explore the rest of
20:37
Speaker 1: the house and when they go outside they realize it's
20:40
Speaker 1: starting to get late and it's probably time to head
20:42
Speaker 1: back and so they turn around and they start walking
20:44
Speaker 1: away from these houses towards their cabin and they get
20:47
Speaker 1: about 50 or 60 meters away when one of the
20:49
Speaker 1: kids said he just had this weird sense that they
20:51
Speaker 1: were being watched and so he turns around shocked when
20:55
Speaker 1: he sees there is an old woman standing in the
20:57
Speaker 1: bedroom and that they had just been in where the
21:00
Speaker 1: fur coat was. She's got a loose bun on the
21:02
Speaker 1: top of her head. She's got this blue shawl on
21:04
Speaker 1: her shoulders over a cream blouse and she's glaring at them.
21:08
Speaker 1: When the kids saw this woman, he made an audible
21:11
Speaker 1: gasp and the rest of the group turned around too
21:13
Speaker 1: and saw this woman in the window and the feeling
21:16
Speaker 1: was guilt. They're like, oh my goodness, we just stole
21:19
Speaker 1: from this poor woman who lives in this abandoned house.
21:22
Speaker 1: And so right away, the whole group starts walking right
21:24
Speaker 1: back towards the house. They're going to give this jacket back.
21:27
Speaker 1: In fact, the dad is like, I'm so sorry. I
21:29
Speaker 1: shouldn't have taken this. I'm sorry. And as they're walking
21:32
Speaker 1: back towards the property, the woman in the window who
21:34
Speaker 1: hasn't said anything just turns around and walks back into
21:37
Speaker 1: the main part of the house. They can't see her anymore.
21:39
Speaker 1: And so as they're walking closer to the house, they're
21:41
Speaker 1: assuming she's going to come downstairs to retrieve this jacket
21:45
Speaker 1: that they've taken from her. And so they get right
21:46
Speaker 1: up to the front door and the father is yelling
21:48
Speaker 1: to her, I'm sorry, where do you want me to
21:50
Speaker 1: leave this jacket? I can bring it into you. And
21:52
Speaker 1: they're kind of just waiting for her to come downstairs
21:55
Speaker 1: and she doesn't. She's nowhere to be found. She's not
21:57
Speaker 1: making any sound. She's not indicating what to do. And
22:00
Speaker 1: so after waiting for a couple of minutes, the kids
22:02
Speaker 1: don't really know what to do and they're kind of
22:03
Speaker 1: getting uneasy about the situation. And the father is still
22:06
Speaker 1: very confident that he just wants to give this back
22:08
Speaker 1: and make amends, make peace with her, say he's sorry.
22:11
Speaker 1: And so he walks inside. He tells his kids, stay here.
22:13
Speaker 1: I'm going to go give it to her. And he
22:15
Speaker 1: goes inside and he disappears upstairs. And then all of
22:18
Speaker 1: a sudden from across the street in that decrepit house
22:21
Speaker 1: with the caved in ceiling, they hear one of the
22:23
Speaker 1: second floor windows come slamming down. And at the same time,
22:26
Speaker 1: their dad comes charging down the stairs, no jacket with him.
22:29
Speaker 1: And he's saying, go, go, go. And the kids are
22:31
Speaker 1: spooked from the window getting slammed. And they start running
22:34
Speaker 1: away until they're about 100 meters away from these houses.
22:37
Speaker 1: And they stop and they're panting and they're out of breath.
22:39
Speaker 1: And the kids ask their dad, what happened? And he
22:42
Speaker 1: says to them, I looked everywhere upstairs and I could
22:44
Speaker 1: not find that lady. I don't know where she is.
22:46
Speaker 1: Either she's hiding from us or something. But I happened
22:49
Speaker 1: to be looking out at that other house. Something caught
22:52
Speaker 1: my eye. There was movement. And I saw another person
22:55
Speaker 1: in the second floor of that building that's falling apart.
22:58
Speaker 1: And I watched them slam the window. And then as
23:01
Speaker 1: soon as I did, I heard someone yell, get out.
23:03
Speaker 1: And I ran out after you guys. Now, the kids
23:06
Speaker 1: and the dad are absolutely terrified and they want to leave.
23:09
Speaker 1: But they also want one more look at these buildings
23:11
Speaker 1: before they do. And when they had run away, they
23:13
Speaker 1: had stopped behind this big group of trees that obscured
23:16
Speaker 1: their view to the buildings. They were out of sight.
23:18
Speaker 1: And so they begin to peek their heads around the
23:20
Speaker 1: tree until they can see the building and they can't
23:22
Speaker 1: believe what they see. Standing in the window of the
23:25
Speaker 1: fur coat room is not only the old woman, but
23:28
Speaker 1: also a very tall man who's holding her shoulders and
23:31
Speaker 1: is bending down because his head is too high to
23:34
Speaker 1: look standing. He's crouched down and he's looking out the
23:37
Speaker 1: window next to her and they're both glaring towards them.
23:40
Speaker 1: The father and his kids are practically falling over themselves
23:43
Speaker 1: to sprint away and back to their cabin. To this day,
23:46
Speaker 1: that family has no idea who those people were, what
23:49
Speaker 1: they were doing there, how they were able to move
23:51
Speaker 1: around without making any noise and consistently hide from them
23:55
Speaker 1: and not leave any footprints. It was all very strange
23:58
Speaker 1: and terrifying stuff. And then the government ended up demolishing
24:01
Speaker 1: those houses almost immediately after they were there. And so
24:04
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