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

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Speaker 1: into today's stories. In the early two thousands, a teenager
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Speaker 1: named Evan and his father would regularly go hunting in
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Speaker 1: the Georgia backcountry. When Evan turned fourteen, 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 fifth, Evan 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, Eban 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: no animals, silence, it's just totally silent. The only sounds
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Speaker 1: they heard that were not them was a single plane
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Speaker 1: that passed overhead. Although they found this very odd. They figured,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this is private property. Not a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are out here. I'm sure as soon as
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Speaker 1: we showed up, the animals were aware of us and
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Speaker 1: they've scattered. They finally make it out to the hunting
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Speaker 1: stand that the owner had told them about. They get
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Speaker 1: all settled in, they're getting ready to see some animals,
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Speaker 1: and all day long they don't see a single animal.
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Speaker 1: They don't hear a single animal. In fact, again it
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Speaker 1: is just completely silent. Frustrated, they began packing up their stuff,
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Speaker 1: making their way down off the stand, and they started
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Speaker 1: looking for a place to make camp for the night,
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Speaker 1: and Evans's father suggested, well, hey, you know, there's obviously
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Speaker 1: nothing over here. It's been quiet all day. Why don't
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Speaker 1: we walk deeper into the woods a little ways set
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Speaker 1: up camp there so tomorrow we have a better chance
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Speaker 1: of seeing some animals. So they hiked for about an
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Speaker 1: hour farther away from where they parked their truck, and
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Speaker 1: they reached this clearing which is perfect for setting up
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Speaker 1: their camp, and so they set up their tent and
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Speaker 1: Evans's father says, hey, you know, we still had some daylight.
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Speaker 1: You want to go try our luck and see if
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Speaker 1: we can see some animals out here. Now, Evan's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: why not. So they hike a little waves away from
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Speaker 1: their campsite and they set up their blind and once
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Speaker 1: again they don't see any animals. It's totally quiet, and
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Speaker 1: so they turn around and they start heading back. As
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Speaker 1: soon as they could see their campsite, which really was
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Speaker 1: just their tent, they noticed that their tent was now collapsed,
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Speaker 1: and Evans's father turns to him and says, oh, it
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Speaker 1: must have been the wind. And Evans says, no, it
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Speaker 1: couldn't have been the wind, because all day today we
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Speaker 1: have been commenting on how quiet it is and how
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Speaker 1: the fact that there's no weather, no wind, no anything
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Speaker 1: is heightening the fact that it's completely silent. So it
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Speaker 1: could not have been wind. So evans 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 Evan'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 that thread through nylons, and an anchor
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Speaker 1: at four different points on the base of the tent. Well,
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Speaker 1: they had been removed from the four corners. And if
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Speaker 1: you know how a tent works, it works on tension.
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Speaker 1: And once you have a rod anchored and two points,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't just pop out. It's anchored at two sides.
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Speaker 1: It's actually difficult to remove each anchor. Once one is out,
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Speaker 1: the other comes out easily. But basically the rod would
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Speaker 1: need to break in order for it to come out
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Speaker 1: of those anchor points, or someone would have to come
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Speaker 1: over and remove it. And they didn't remove them, and
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Speaker 1: none of the rods were broken, which leaves them with
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Speaker 1: either they failed to set up their tent even though
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Speaker 1: they had distinct and clear memories of setting it up
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Speaker 1: and double checking it was set up because they put
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Speaker 1: gear inside of it, or someone came over to their
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Speaker 1: 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 ran them,
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Speaker 1: collapse our tent and then vanish. So it had to
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Speaker 1: be us. We must have not made the tent. And
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Speaker 1: while they didn't really believe that they had not made
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Speaker 1: their tent, they convinced themselves that that's what happened, because
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Speaker 1: the alternative was just too bizarre and frankly terrifying to consider.
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Speaker 1: So 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 buyer, they get in the tent, and
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Speaker 1: they both fall asleep. A couple hours later, Evan 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. Evan 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 Evan 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 have just been dreaming
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Speaker 1: and there wasn't any laughter out there, And eventually Evan
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Speaker 1: goes back to sleep a little while later, Evan wakes
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Speaker 1: up suddenly again, except this time his dad is already
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Speaker 1: awake and looking around anxiously, and Evan sits up and
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Speaker 1: goes what's going on? And his dad goes sh and
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Speaker 1: he goes, can you hear that? And Evan listens, and
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Speaker 1: to his horror, he hears laughing. He wasn't dreaming before.
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Speaker 1: Evan also realizes the laughter is not coming from the
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Speaker 1: same area he heard it. It's now coming from the
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Speaker 1: opposite direction and it's a lot closer to them. Eben
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Speaker 1: very quietly and carefully explains to his dad that he
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Speaker 1: actually heard this laughter a couple hours earlier, and Evan's
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Speaker 1: father turns to Evan and says, before we came out here,
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Speaker 1: I asked the owner should we expect any other hunters
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Speaker 1: or campers or anybody nearby? And the owner said, this
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Speaker 1: is private property and it's fenced in. There is no
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Speaker 1: one there but you guys. After this revelation, they both
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Speaker 1: turn their attention back to just listening because they're hoping
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Speaker 1: this is just going to stop, and whatever this is
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Speaker 1: is just going to leave, but it doesn't leave. They
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Speaker 1: hear footsteps running towards them from way off in the forest,
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Speaker 1: and it's so quiet, it's really easy to hear these footsteps,
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Speaker 1: and whatever this is is charging to towards them, and
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Speaker 1: then it comes to a complete stop right at the
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Speaker 1: edge of their clearing. At this point, Eban is now
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Speaker 1: grabbing onto his father. Evans's father is holding onto his
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Speaker 1: rifle and he's getting ready to open the tent to
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Speaker 1: confront whatever is out there. And right before he grabs
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Speaker 1: the zipper, and this thing, this person, whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: starts laughing again, and it's practically right on top of them.
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Speaker 1: It's so loud they can hear it clear as day,
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Speaker 1: right there, right outside their tent. And Evans's father takes
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Speaker 1: a deep breath, he grabs the zipper, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as he begins moving in the sound the zipper maid
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Speaker 1: causes the laughter to stop. They don't hear footsteps, so
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Speaker 1: they know probably something still out there, but the laughter
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Speaker 1: stops like it's recognized that they're making noise. They're right
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Speaker 1: there there, they are, They're in the tent, Evans's father
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Speaker 1: freezes with his hand on the zipper, and he's debating
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Speaker 1: whether he should go outside or not. And before he
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Speaker 1: can even make that decision, whatever this thing is turns
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Speaker 1: around and runs back into the woods and it's just gone.
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Speaker 1: And for several minutes they just sit like that, in
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Speaker 1: total silence, praying that whatever this is is gone for good.
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Speaker 1: And after several minut when they don't hear anything, there's
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Speaker 1: no more laughing, there's no more running. Evan's father re
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Speaker 1: zips up the tent, puts his hand back down, and
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Speaker 1: they're both left just sitting there thinking what the heck
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Speaker 1: just happened. Evan and his father would stay up all
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Speaker 1: night and they would barely speak because whatever this thing
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Speaker 1: was had heard them when they moved the zipper, and
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Speaker 1: so they were really afraid of making any sound, even
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Speaker 1: little sounds, because it's so quiet. Sound travels really far,
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Speaker 1: and they don't know who or what is out there,
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Speaker 1: and so in silence, holding their guns, they're just waiting
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Speaker 1: for the sun to come up, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: it did, they were up and out of there, literally
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Speaker 1: running out of the forest, checking over their shoulder the
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Speaker 1: whole time, all the way back to their truck, and
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Speaker 1: so to this day they have no idea who or
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Speaker 1: what the heck was running around out there. And they
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Speaker 1: told the owner of the property about it, and the
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Speaker 1: owner just said, it's not possible. We have a totally
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Speaker 1: gated in private piece of property and there are cameras
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Speaker 1: watching the only entrance, and you are the only ones
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Speaker 1: that went in or out over that time period. And
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Speaker 1: prior to that we monitor this property. Nobody else was
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Speaker 1: in there. In the summer of twenty thirteen, 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 of weeks ago and
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Speaker 1: reserved a site because they're probably not even available now.
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Speaker 1: But 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 camp
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Speaker 1: site that was kind of isolated from the rest of
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Speaker 1: the campground. It was far away from the bath house,
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Speaker 1: it was far away from where you go swimming, and
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Speaker 1: it was far away from the parking lot. It was
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Speaker 1: just like really inconvenient, and whenever they came camping, it
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Speaker 1: was like the one site they didn't want to use.
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Speaker 1: But Beggar's Camp be choosers. They were happy to even
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Speaker 1: have a site, and so they drove all the way
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Speaker 1: down down this little road into this very isolated campsite
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Speaker 1: kind of in the middle of this forest. Once they
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Speaker 1: got there, they began setting up their respective tents because
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Speaker 1: they were not going to be staying in the same tent.
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Speaker 1: They each had these very small backpacking tents which were
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Speaker 1: so small that you could either zip it up all
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Speaker 1: the way and stay warmer and more protected, but you
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Speaker 1: had to sleep in a ball because your legs would
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Speaker 1: not fit otherwise, or you could unzip the front of
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Speaker 1: your tent and when you lay down you could extend
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Speaker 1: your legs fully, but your legs are protruding outside of
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Speaker 1: your tents. You could only do that in warmer weather
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Speaker 1: and if you were comfortable having your legs poking out
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Speaker 1: into the wilderness. After they set up their tents and
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Speaker 1: they get their cooler set up and they have all
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Speaker 1: their stuff kind of the way they want it, they
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Speaker 1: go out hiking for the rest of the day. When
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Speaker 1: they come back, they're totally exhausted. They fall asleep, and
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Speaker 1: nothing of note occurs over that first night. The next
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Speaker 1: day they get up, they go back out, they go
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Speaker 1: hiking all day all over again, and they come back
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Speaker 1: that night and they are totally exhausted again and they
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Speaker 1: get into their tents and they go to bed, and
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Speaker 1: this night something of note would happen. At about three am,
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Speaker 1: Katie wakes up and she hears footsteps walking towards the
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Speaker 1: campsite from a little ways off. They're in the woods somewhere,
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Speaker 1: and she's thinking, Okay, it's gotta be my father, because
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Speaker 1: he's diabetic. And every night he gets up to go
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, maybe three four times, and he probably
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Speaker 1: was just walking to the bathouse 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 vents 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 the 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 in them
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Speaker 1: a flashlight and he walked too far. That's possible, or
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Speaker 1: you know, he could have decided to relieve himself just
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Speaker 1: in the tree line, even though he's not known to
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Speaker 1: do that. He's a guy that goes to the bathhouse.
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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 realizes,
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Speaker 1: that's not my dad. And as she's having this terrible
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Speaker 1: revelation that some stranger is outside her tent right now,
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Speaker 1: she 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 her legs back
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Speaker 1: inside 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: don't come in here. And even though her feet are
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Speaker 1: pulled up into her tent, she suddenly feels something pinch
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Speaker 1: her foot and she knows it's a hand. Something has
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Speaker 1: grabbed my foot, and she stifles this and she starts
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Speaker 1: shaking uncontrollably because her instincts are telling her, don't let
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Speaker 1: this person know you're awake. And luckily, as she's sitting
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Speaker 1: there shaking from fear and trying to be quiet as
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Speaker 1: best as she can. She's holding her mouth. This person
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Speaker 1: stands back up again and goes back to the spot
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Speaker 1: next to her tent and leans over the tent once again,
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Speaker 1: and she can hear them breathing right over her. And
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Speaker 1: so for several minutes she lay there, shaking with this
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Speaker 1: random person who pinched her foot a minute ago, hovering
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Speaker 1: over her tent in the middle of the night, and
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Speaker 1: she has nothing she can do, and she's just quiet.
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Speaker 1: She's hoping it's going to end soon. And eventually this
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Speaker 1: person would turn around and walk over to their cooler
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Speaker 1: and their table and some other things that were out,
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Speaker 1: and she hears some rummaging going on, some things are
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Speaker 1: being moved around, and then this person just kind of
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Speaker 1: walks off into the distance. But she doesn't know if
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Speaker 1: they're gone, She doesn't know if they're standing in the
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Speaker 1: edge of the tree line waiting for her to come outside.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they laid a trap for her, And so she
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Speaker 1: just lays there, silent, doesn't move, and she's praying to herself,
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Speaker 1: please don't let anything happen to me or my father.
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Speaker 1: And all night she's just laying there, and then eventually
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Speaker 1: she does fall asleep. Probably hours go by, but she
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Speaker 1: does fall asleep because she wakes up again when she
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Speaker 1: hears her father unzipping his tent and she charges out
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Speaker 1: to meet him, and she can tell right away that
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Speaker 1: he's scared, and before she can even say or begin
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Speaker 1: to describe what's happened to her, he says, were you
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Speaker 1: outside your tent last night at about two three in
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Speaker 1: the morning because I heard all sorts of commotion near
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Speaker 1: a cooler. 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 that kept near 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: backpacks 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 look at it
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Speaker 1: to see if anything's been taken. They noticed this track
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Speaker 1: of footprints, like these heavy footprints that have been going
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Speaker 1: around and around Katie's tent, so she clearly wasn't imagining it,
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Speaker 1: and so that instant they packed everything up, got in
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Speaker 1: their car, and they left. And to this day they
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Speaker 1: can barely talk about it with each other because it's
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Speaker 1: all the things that could have happened. The father felt
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Speaker 1: horribly guilty because he clearly heard this person but didn't
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Speaker 1: leave his tent, and his daughter was clearly in danger,
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Speaker 1: and his daughter's thinking the tent was open. This person
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Speaker 1: was crouched down reaching into my tent, grabbing my feet
16:33
Speaker 1: like that's such a horrifying image. And so this has
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Speaker 1: been completely traumatizing for them and they just don't talk
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Speaker 1: about it anymore. From the nineteen fifties until present, a
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Speaker 1: Canadian family has owned this very isolated cabin in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the Ontario backcountry. It was the only property
16:52
Speaker 1: on this very small lake. There was two others across
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Speaker 1: the lake, but they were pretty far away, and with
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Speaker 1: the exception of the side of the cabin that was
16:59
Speaker 1: faced the water, the rest of it was surrounded by
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Speaker 1: really dense forests that went on for quite a while.
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Speaker 1: About two miles away from this cabin, on the other
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Speaker 1: side of this dirt road was this huge wildlife reserve
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Speaker 1: that was pretty much just a huge forest that was protected,
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Speaker 1: and anytime the family was visiting this cabin, the kids
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Speaker 1: would at some point go into the reserve and go explore.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, when the family was at
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Speaker 1: the cabin, the kids were across the road over at
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Speaker 1: the reserve and they decided to walk down this particular
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Speaker 1: trail that they hadn't seen before, and they just started
17:29
Speaker 1: walking in For about thirty minutes, they're seeing new areas
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Speaker 1: they hadn't seen before, and then they come to this
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Speaker 1: clearing and there's all these abandoned houses. At first, there
17:38
Speaker 1: was a little debate about whether these were actually abandoned,
17:41
Speaker 1: because they did look like they were in pretty good condition.
17:43
Speaker 1: But when they walked a little bit closer, it became
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Speaker 1: very clear that nature is reclaiming this land. Grass is
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Speaker 1: up to your waist, you know, there's vines growing up
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Speaker 1: the side of the houses. There were cars still parked
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Speaker 1: in driveways that were totally rusted out, and you know,
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Speaker 1: grass is growing all through them, and so they knew
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Speaker 1: these were abandon They walked up to the first house
18:01
Speaker 1: they saw and they looked in and they couldn't believe
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Speaker 1: what they were looking at. It was like whoever lived
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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
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Speaker 1: plates and cups and forks and knives, like they had
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Speaker 1: just had dinner and then just got up and left.
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Speaker 1: They start talking about going into these houses and looking
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Speaker 1: around inside, but they started wondering, like, is this a museum?
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Speaker 1: Is that why everything is in such good repair? You know?
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Speaker 1: Should we not go inside these houses? And they start
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Speaker 1: looking around for any indication that definitely this is not
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Speaker 1: a museum. These are just plain abandoned. And across the
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Speaker 1: street from the house they were at was this totally
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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
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Speaker 1: no museum. These are abandoned. We can totally go look
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Speaker 1: around inside, and so for the next couple of hours,
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Speaker 1: the kid explored all the houses that looked structurally sound
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Speaker 1: that weren't going to collapse on them, and it was
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Speaker 1: just fascinating. There was all this stuff that was left
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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
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Speaker 1: while they decided they had seen enough and they turned
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Speaker 1: around and headed back to their cabin. After they got back,
19:17
Speaker 1: they told their parents about what they found, and their
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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
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Speaker 1: they showed him was the really decrepit looking one where
19:29
Speaker 1: the ceiling was stagging and there was women's shoes and
19:31
Speaker 1: clothes all over the ground, to show him for sure,
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Speaker 1: these are abandoned, because we had some doubts at first too.
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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, and they walked into this complex, the one
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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 bedroom that, like everything else in
19:51
Speaker 1: the house is totally intact. You got pictures on the wall,
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Speaker 1: it's fully furnished. There's even still sheets made on the bed.
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Speaker 1: In the pillow it's got a head in print from
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Speaker 1: whoever was their last And at the foot of the
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Speaker 1: bed is this beautiful fur coat. And the father walks
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Speaker 1: over to it and he looks at it and he's like,
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Speaker 1: this is real fur. This is a really expensive coat.
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Speaker 1: I want to take this for our family. But before
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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 hand,
20:35
Speaker 1: the father and the kids explore the rest of the
20:37
Speaker 1: house and when they go outside, they realize it's starting
20:40
Speaker 1: to get late and it's probably time to head back,
20:42
Speaker 1: and so they turn around and they start walking away
20:44
Speaker 1: from these houses towards their cabin and they get about
20:47
Speaker 1: fifty or sixty meters away when one of the kids said,
20:50
Speaker 1: he just had this weird sense that they were being watched,
20:52
Speaker 1: and so he turns around and shocked when he sees
20:55
Speaker 1: there's an old woman standing in the bedroom that they
20:58
Speaker 1: had just been in and where the fur coat was.
21:01
Speaker 1: She's got a loose bun on the top of her head,
21:03
Speaker 1: she's got this blue shawl on her shoulders over a
21:06
Speaker 1: cream blouse, and she's glaring at them. When the kids
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Speaker 1: saw this woman, he made an audible gasp, and the
21:12
Speaker 1: rest of the group turned around too and saw this
21:14
Speaker 1: woman in the window, and the feeling was guilt. They're like, oh,
21:17
Speaker 1: my goodness, we just stole from this poor woman who
21:20
Speaker 1: lives in this abandoned house. And so right away the
21:23
Speaker 1: whole group starts walking right back towards the house. They're
21:25
Speaker 1: gonna give this jacket back. In fact, the dad is like,
21:28
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have taken this. I'm sorry.
21:31
Speaker 1: And as they're walking back towards the property, the woman
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Speaker 1: in the window, who hasn't said anything, just turns around
21:36
Speaker 1: and walks back into the main part of the house.
21:38
Speaker 1: They can't see her anymore, and so as they're walking
21:40
Speaker 1: closer to the house, they're assuming she's going to come
21:42
Speaker 1: downstairs to retrieve this jacket that they've taken from her,
21:46
Speaker 1: and so they get right up to the front door
21:47
Speaker 1: and the father is yelling to her, I'm sorry, where
21:50
Speaker 1: do we gonna leave this jacket? I can bring it
21:51
Speaker 1: in to you, And they're kind of just waiting for
21:53
Speaker 1: her to come downstairs, and she doesn't. She's nowhere to
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Speaker 1: be found. She's not making any sound, she's not indicating
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Speaker 1: what to do, and so after waiting for a couple
22:01
Speaker 1: of minutes, the kids don't really know what to do,
22:03
Speaker 1: and they're kind of getting uneasy about the situation. And
22:05
Speaker 1: the father is still very confident that he just wants
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Speaker 1: to give this back and Nick amend's make peace with
22:10
Speaker 1: her or say he's sorry, and so he walks inside.
22:12
Speaker 1: He tells his kids stay here, I'm gonna go give
22:14
Speaker 1: it to her, and he goes inside and he disappears upstairs.
22:17
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, from across the street,
22:19
Speaker 1: in that decrepit house with the caved in ceiling, they
22:22
Speaker 1: hear one of the second floor windows come slamming down,
22:25
Speaker 1: and at the same time, their dad comes charging down
22:28
Speaker 1: the stairs, no jacket with him, and he's saying, go, go, go,
22:30
Speaker 1: And the kids are spooped from the window getting slammed,
22:33
Speaker 1: and they start running away until they're about one hundred
22:35
Speaker 1: meters away from these houses, and they stop and they're
22:38
Speaker 1: panting and they're out of breath, and the kids ask
22:40
Speaker 1: their dad what happened, and he says to them, I
22:43
Speaker 1: looked everywhere upstairs, and I could not find that lady.
22:46
Speaker 1: I don't know where she is. Either she's hiding from
22:47
Speaker 1: us or something. But I happen to be looking out
22:50
Speaker 1: at that other house. Something caught my eye. There was movement,
22:53
Speaker 1: and I saw another person in the second floor of
22:56
Speaker 1: that building that's falling apart, and I watched them slam
22:59
Speaker 1: the window. And then as soon as I did, I
23:01
Speaker 1: heard someone yell get out, and I ran out after
23:04
Speaker 1: you guys. Now, the kids and the dad are absolutely terrified,
23:08
Speaker 1: and they want to leave, but they also want one
23:10
Speaker 1: more look at these buildings before they do. And when
23:12
Speaker 1: they had run away, they had stopped behind this big
23:15
Speaker 1: group of trees that obscured their view to the buildings.
23:17
Speaker 1: They were out of sight, and so they begin to
23:19
Speaker 1: peek their heads around the tree until they can see
23:21
Speaker 1: the building, and they can't believe what they see. Standing
23:24
Speaker 1: in the window of the fur coat room is not
23:26
Speaker 1: only the old woman, but also a very tall man
23:30
Speaker 1: who's holding her shoulders and is bending down because his
23:33
Speaker 1: head is too high to look standing. He's crouched down.
23:36
Speaker 1: He's looking out the window next to her, and they're
23:38
Speaker 1: both glaring towards them. The father and his kids are
23:41
Speaker 1: practically falling over themselves to sprint away and back to
23:45
Speaker 1: their cabin. To this day, that family has no idea
23:48
Speaker 1: who those people were, what they were doing there, how
23:50
Speaker 1: they were able to move around without making any noise
23:53
Speaker 1: and consistently hide from them and not leave any footprints.
23:56
Speaker 1: It was all very strange and terrifying stuff. And then
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Speaker 1: the government ended up demolishing those houses almost immediately after
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24:06
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