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Today we have a special bonus video for you guys.

It is a collection of five horrifying stories that'll make you never want to step foot in a forest again.

Now these five stories have all been completely re -edited, so even if you've heard or seen them before,

it's going to feel like a brand new viewing experience.

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and people loved it, so this is part two.

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Okay, let's get into today's stories.

In the summer of 2013, a young woman named Katie

and her father decided to go camping at one of their favorite campgrounds in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Katie loved going camping with her father because he was this totally accomplished outdoorsman

and he used to be a wilderness guide for much of his life and

so she just always felt like she was in great hands whenever she was out in the wild with him

and she had kind of become a fairly accomplished outdoors woman herself.

When they arrived at the campground the parking lot was packed with cars

and they're like shoot I wish we'd called ahead a couple weeks ago

and reserved a site because they're probably not even available now but they went to the front desk and they were like, you're in luck.

We have one available, but it's the one that's way over there.

It was this one campsite that was kind of isolated from the rest of the campground.

It was far away from the bathhouse.

It was far away from where you go swimming.

And it was far away from the parking lot.

It was just like really inconvenient.

And whenever they came camping here, it was like the one site they didn't want to use.

But beggars can't be choosers.

They were happy to even have a site.

And so they drove all the way down, down this little road into this very isolated campsite kind of in the middle of this forest.

Once they got there they began setting up their respective tents

because they were not going to be staying in the same tent.

They each had these very small backpacking tents which were

so small that you could either zip it up all the way

and stay warmer and more protected but you had to sleep in a ball

because your legs would not fit otherwise

or you could unzip the front of your tent and

when you lay down you could extend your legs fully but your legs are protruding outside of your tent.

So you could only do that in warmer weather and

if you were comfortable having your legs poking out into the wilderness after they set up their tents

and they get their cooler set up

and they have all their stuff kind of the way

they want it they go out hiking for the rest of the day

when they come back they're totally exhausted they fall asleep

and nothing of note occurs over

that first night the next day they get up

they go back out they go hiking all day all over again

and they come back that night and they are totally exhausted again

and they get into their tents and they go to bed and this night something of note would happen.

At about 3 a .m.

Katie wakes up and she hears footsteps walking towards the campsite from a little ways off.

They're in the woods somewhere and she's thinking okay it's got to be my father

because he's diabetic and every night he gets up to go to the bathroom maybe three four times

and he probably was just walking to the bathhouse and now he's walking back.

But she realizes the bathhouse is over here not over here.

So what is he doing walking towards the campsite from this side?

The footsteps come out of the tree line.

They come into the clearing that is their campsite

and they stop about two three meters outside of katie's tent

now there were no windows on katie's backpack tent there was just little vents at the front

and the back that kind of pointed down and

so she couldn't see out anyways and there was no illumination out

so you can't even pick up a silhouette it's just total darkness out

there she can't see who's out there she can only hear them

but she's thinking okay maybe my dad got lost coming back from the bathhouse

because he didn't have a flashlight and he walked too far that's possible

or you know he could have decided to relieve himself just

in the tree line even though he's not known to do

that he's a guy that goes to the bathhouse and

so she's running through these scenarios that are convincing her

that oh that's just my dad but what she really wants to hear is

that person walk away from her tent and get into her father's tent

because that will confirm in her mind that that was her father

and so she's sitting here waiting for that confirmation

and she hears the footsteps again

but instead of walking around her tent to her father's tent

this person walks right up against her tent very quickly

and they clearly begin leaning over her little tiny tent

because she can hear them breathing right above her and this is

when she realizes that's not my dad and as she's having this terrible revelation

that some stranger is outside her tent right now she has an even worse revelation it was a warm night

that night so she was sleeping with her tent unzipped

and her legs poking out the end

she musters the courage to begin slowly retracting her legs back inside of her tent

but before she's able to do that this person stands up turns

and starts walking towards the base of her tent where her legs are she's completely frozen

and terrified about what's about to happen

but this person doesn't stop at her feet they keep moving

and in fact start circling her tent but

because they were making a lot of noise

and walking around her it allowed her to pull her legs back into her tent without

you know this person hearing her and

so she had the illusion of safety being inside of her tent

but her tent is still unzipped so she's waiting for this person to come around

and crouch down and look inside of her tent because it's open

and so she's just looking down there hoping that doesn't happen

but unfortunately right at this moment the person walked to the base of her tent

and came to a stop right outside where the opening to the tent is and

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so she's sitting there thinking please don't come in here please don't come in here please don't come in here

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and even though her feet are pulled up into her tent she suddenly feels something pinch her foot

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and she knows it's a hand something has grabbed my foot

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and she stifles a scream and she starts shaking uncontrollably

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because her instincts are telling her don't let this person know you're awake

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and luckily as she's sitting there shaking from fear

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and trying to be quiet as best as she can she's holding her mouth this person stands back up again

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and goes back to the spot next to her tent

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and leans over the tent once again

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and she can hear them breathing right over her and

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so for several minutes she lay

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there shaking with this random person who pinched her foot a

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minute ago hovering over her tent in the middle of the night

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and she has nothing she can do

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and she's just quiet she's hoping it's going to end soon

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and eventually this person would turn around and walk over to their cooler

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and their table and some other things that were out

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and she hears some rummaging going on some things are being moved around

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and then this person just kind of walks off into the distance but she doesn't know if they're gone.

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She doesn't know if they're standing in the edge of the tree line waiting for her to come outside.

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Maybe they laid a trap for her.

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And so she just lays there silent, doesn't move.

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And she's praying to herself, please don't let anything happen to me or my father.

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And all night she's just laying there.

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And then eventually she does fall asleep.

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Probably hours go by, but she does fall asleep

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because she wakes up again when she hears her father unzipping his tent

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and she charges out to meet him and she can tell right away

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that he's scared and before she can even say

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or begin to describe what's happened to her he says were

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you outside your tent last night at about two three in the morning

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because i heard all sorts of commotion near our cooler i wasn't sure

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if it was an animal i wasn't sure if it was you

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and she starts telling him no this is what happened to me

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and as she's describing what happened to her he looks behind her at the picnic table

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which was next to their cooler and they had their backpacks on it basically anything

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that didn't fit in their tents they kept near this picnic table

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and he points at it and she turns around and any item

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that was in the cooler or in their backpacks or

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that was just out has been stacked in a pyramid formation

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on this table clearly the guy who was here last night did this for some reason they don't understand

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and as they go over to look at it to see

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if anything's been taken they notice this track of footprints like these heavy footprints

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that have been going around and around katie's tent.

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So she clearly wasn't imagining it.

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And so that instant, they packed everything up, got in their car, and they left.

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And to this day, they can barely talk about it with each other because it's all the things that could have happened.

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The father felt horribly guilty because he clearly heard this person, but didn't leave his tent.

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And his daughter was clearly in danger.

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And his daughter's thinking, the tent was open.

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This person was crouched down, reaching into my tent, grabbing my feet like that's such a horrifying image

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and so this has been completely traumatizing for them

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and they just don't talk about it anymore we have a brand new show a history podcast

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but wait it's not like a boring history show this is not like you know

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when you were in school and you had to sit through lectures about something

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that happened hundreds thousands of years ago it's not

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that we're going to pull from history

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but we're going to tell the true stories behind moments in history we're going to give you stories

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that feel like mr ballin stories with plot twists

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and crazy point of views it's going to be classic ball

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and storytelling but again historical is the context here let me give you an example

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so if you look back and try to identify the first time true crime sort of became a thing,

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that the public was suddenly interested in a case that really had nothing to do with them just because it was entertaining,

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that case would be about this murderer who escaped.

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And that's kind of all that's available if you look it up.

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Oh yeah, escaped murderer, that's when true crime became a thing.

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But did you know that that case, the escaped murderer, was way more compelling and exciting than most people give it credit for?

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People were interested at the time because there was this crazy transatlantic boat chase, and there was this crazy hunt for the killer,

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and the killing itself was so grisly, and that story really doesn't get told much.

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It's just kind of a statistic in a history book.

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And so what this podcast does is it finds cases like

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in 2015 an experienced outdoorsman named bob along with his wife his young daughter

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and their two german shepherds decided to go camping in a remote part of northern oregon

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when they arrived at the site bob began setting up the big family tent for everyone to sleep in

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and his daughter said hey do you mind

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if i sleep in the spare two -man tent

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that we always bring with us bob and his wife deliberated for a minute, but said, you know what,

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that's fine, but you got to bring Guts.

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That's one of the German shepherds.

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Guts needs to sleep with you because he's going to be your protection.

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So that night, after some s'mores around a campfire, Bob's daughter, along with Guts, retreat to their two -man tent, and Bob, his wife, and Leah,

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the other dog, retreat to their tent.

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That night, Bob wakes up suddenly to what sounds like footsteps outside of his tent, and he looks to his side,

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and his wife is still in the tent with him, and so is Leah, the other dog,

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and he listens really closely and he can hear his daughter is snoring and he can hear the sound of Guts breathing.

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So his whole family is accounted for but he still hears these footsteps

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and they don't sound like light little scampering sounds like you might expect from a squirrel or some small critter.

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They sound heavy like a big creature is roaming around their campsite.

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But Bob's dogs are really keyed in to protecting their family

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and since Guts

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and Leah are not up going crazy about whatever's out

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there he figures you know what it's got to be an elk

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or something and it's not going to do anything to us

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so bob ultimately just goes back to sleep the next morning bob gets up

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and everybody's just fine there's no sign of any intruders in their campsite

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and so that only confirms to him

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that yep it was just some harmless animal kind of walking around the wilderness

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because we're in a pretty remote area

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that morning they decide to go for a walk down the road

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that was right next to their campsite and

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so they take the dogs they start walking

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and they make it a couple hundred feet down this road

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when all of a sudden guts sees something or hears something

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and takes off sprinting down the road and turns down this little access road

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that branches off of the road they're on into the woods.

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And Bob is thinking, oh no,

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there's a campsite down there and this big German shepherd's going to bound up on them and something bad's going to happen.

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And so Bob, his heart's racing, he starts taking off after Guts.

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He goes down the access road and he finds

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Guts stopped right outside of a campsite.

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But there doesn't appear to be anybody in the campsite

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but there's a tent there's a cooler there's a table

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there's all the things you would expect at a campsite just no people

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so bob runs up and he grabs guts

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and he yells out reflexively hey i'm really sorry he's totally harmless

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i don't know what he saw hey we're leaving

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but then before he leaves he realizes on the tent

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there's this big scratch through it like it's been cut open

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and curiosity gets the better of him and

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so he kind of walks up keeping an eye out in case he's wrong

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and there are people still here but as he gets closer, he realizes there's definitely no one here.

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This site is abandoned because he's looking around and all of their stuff has just been ransacked.

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There's scratch marks on everything, like animals have clearly come through here.

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And Bob, who is an avid outdoorsman, he knows how much some of their equipment costs.

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And he's thinking, why would anyone abandon this really expensive tent or this really expensive cooler?

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And as he's thinking about that, he turns and he sees there's a propane tank a solid metal propane tank

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that has been completely flattened

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but there's no tree that's fallen nearby there's no source there's no way

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that could have been flattened so he's definitely unsettled by this

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but ultimately he decides

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you know what I'm going to take my family go back to my campsite

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I'll just call the park rangers they can come down here and they can figure out what this is later that afternoon

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Bob and his family are back at their campsite just a couple hundred feet away from this abandoned campsite

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and at one point his wife gets up to go use the bathroom.

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She walks about 70 feet away behind a tree

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and she squats down and then all of a sudden she gets up

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and starts running back towards camp and Bob sees this.

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He turns and sees her running towards him.

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At the same time

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Guts gets up and starts sprinting towards her and so

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Bob's thinking what the heck is going on?

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Bob turns to his daughter and says stay right here with Leah

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and Bob gets up and starts running towards his wife

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and Guts at this point has run to his wife and passed his wife.

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Guts has run way into the woods and as Bob is running up to his wife he's like what's going on?

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Why are you running?

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What's going on?

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She says I don't know I just had this horrible feeling someone was watching me and when I turned I already saw

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Guts running towards me and it scared me.

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And so that's why I'm here.

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And he's like, look, go with our daughter and with Leah.

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I'm going to see what's going on.

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And so his wife leaves and Bob draws his pistol.

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And he starts walking out towards where

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Guts has now stopped.

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Hair raised, growling, it's yapping and barking at something in front of it.

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And Bob's looking at it and he can't see anything.

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And finally, after not being able to figure out what the heck is going on, he just takes

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Guts and goes back to his campsite.

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When Bob got back to his campsite, he wanted to leave.

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And his wife wanted to leave.

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His daughter didn't really know what was going on

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but the attitude was we want to leave however it was getting late

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and they had a bunch of stuff they would need to pack up

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and it was going to be a real ordeal trying to do

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that especially without any light so they decide okay we'll stay one more day

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and we're going to leave first thing in the morning in bob's head he's thinking okay

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i heard weird footsteps outside you know we have this abandoned campsite nearby

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that's been thrashed up in the flattened propane tank

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and now my wife is running away from something

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and guts is seeing strange things in the woods like there's a lot of weird stuff going on

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and he decides he's going to set up a tripwire all

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the way around his campsite using a rope tied at about

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eight inches off the ground where along the rope would be little pieces of metal

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that would clang together so

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if anything touched the rope it would make the metallic clinking sound then it would alert bob

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that someone's here and

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so bob goes over to the edge of the site where there's an obvious starting point for this tripwire

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and he bends down to tie the rope

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and he realizes oh my god someone's already done

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this there is another tripwire that's already been built around the outside of our campsite.

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It's just been cut.

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It's been broken.

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Like it doesn't work, but it's here.

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Someone else who was at this campsite felt concerned enough about whatever was in the woods that they already had this idea.

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Bob didn't even tie his perimeter.

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He just drew his gun, told his family, get in the truck.

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And he stayed up all night protecting his family in the truck.

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As soon as the sun came up, they packed up and they got the heck out of there.

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Bob is convinced that there is something out there in the woods in Northern Oregon

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that was walking around their campsite at night that's scaring their dogs that's stalking them basically

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and watching them from a distance

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and probably whatever is out in the woods is the same thing

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that caused the previous group to set up their own tripwire

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and it's also probably the reason the other campers at the

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other campsite were willing to abandon their nice equipment to get the heck out of there

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because they are not messing with whatever the heck is out in those woods

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By the summer of 2007, Chris had been working as a park ranger in southeastern Pennsylvania for a number of years,

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and by and large, he enjoyed his occupation.

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Some of the time, he got to do what he loved, which was hiking in the forest.

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And some of the time, it required doing something he hated which was office work

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that usually required staying late at night on one of those

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late nights in august of 2007 chris's boss mike said

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that he needed to leave the office

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and go down the access road to this tool shed they had he needed to get some equipment

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and bring it back up to the office for some reason

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and he said he'd be back in about 15 minutes as soon as mike left chris decided

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you know what i'm gonna take a break from my work

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and i'm gonna step outside for a minute right in front of the office building was a little staff parking lot.

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And then about 50 meters beyond that was the edge of this really dense forest where the access road that

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Mike had just gone down to get to the tool shed basically split right through the middle

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and went straight out past the office.

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When Chris stepped outside to take his break, he sat down on the front steps that overlooked that parking lot and the access road.

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And he was just kind of looking out towards the forest, not thinking about what he was looking at, just kind of mindlessly sitting there

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when all of a sudden he just started to feel like someone's watching me

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and instinctively he turned around to look back into the office as

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if maybe someone was behind him but he remembered that he

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and Mike were the only ones there that night

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so no one's going to be behind him and

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so he turned back around

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and he looked out at the parking lot he didn't see any movement

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and he looked down to the edge of the forest

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which he could see because the moon was fairly bright

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that night so the illumination was pretty good and there was no movement against the tree line there was no animals.

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There was no people.

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And Mike had not come back yet.

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So there's nothing going on in front of him.

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There's nothing going on behind him.

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But he just could not shake this feeling that someone was watching him.

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And so Chris, you know, he's not easily spooked.

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He's used to being out in the forest in the daytime and at night.

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He's used to being at this office.

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A lot of times he worked at the office on his own at night.

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So he's used to this environment.

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And so he thought, you know what, I'm going to go look around.

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And so he walks down the steps and he walks into the parking lot

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and he begins looking behind some of the cars.

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There's only a handful in the lot.

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There's nothing in the lot.

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And he keeps walking until he's about 10 meters away from the edge of the forest.

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And he looks into the forest and it's too dark to see anything.

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And there's nothing out here.

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There's no movement.

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There's no animals.

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Mike is still not back yet.

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And so even though he could not shake this sense that someone is watching him, he felt like, you know what?

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I did my diligence and there's no one out here.

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So it's just got to be in my head.

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And so he decides he's going to go back inside.

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And so he turns around and he starts walking back up towards the office

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when all of a sudden he hears this whooshing sound come past his head.

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And he didn't know what it was, but it sounded like someone took a stick and threw it overhand.

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So it's spinning like a tomahawk as it passed by his head.

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And because the sound was so loud and he was already on edge about someone potentially watching him,

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that he actually dove as soon as he heard it

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and fell to the ground and scrambled around and looked at the tree line from where this thing came from,

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but there's no one there and he scrambles to his feet

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and he's still looking around

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and he starts backpedaling towards the office with his eyes still on the forest

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and his attention kind of shifts from the forest to what was just thrown at me

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and he turns around

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and starts walking around looking for something on the ground like a stick to see

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if something really was thrown at him but he can't find anything.

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He didn't do an exhaustive search.

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He didn't look under every single car but an initial scan turned up nothing

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and then he turns back to the forest

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and he doesn't see anything out there

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and even though again he feels totally stressed out like something's out here

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and I can't see it he's like am I going crazy did

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that really happen because I can't find this big stick

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that apparently flew past my head so is this all happening in my head

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but regardless he's totally freaked out and he sprints back inside the office and locks every door 20 minutes later

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Mike comes blazing up the access road he stops in front of the office

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and runs up the stairs Chris goes over unlocks the door, and he lets him in.

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And Chris is about to tell him about this crazy stick -throwing incident, but he can tell

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Mike is really upset about something.

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Probably more upset about whatever happened to him than Chris is about this stick -throwing thing.

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And so Chris tables his story, he locks the doors behind

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Mike, and he turns to him and he says, what's going on?

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What's wrong with you?

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At first, Mike doesn't say anything.

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He just paces back and forth inside the office.

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And then finally, Chris calms him down, and he gets him to explain what happened.

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Mike tells him that he was down at the tool shed

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which is about a half mile down the access road

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and about 20 meters off the road into the forest

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and he's at the shed it's open

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and he's pulling out the different pieces of equipment he's going to bring back to the office

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and he says all of a sudden all the hairs on his body stand up he's got goosebumps

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and immediately he thinks someone's watching me and he turns around

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and there's no one there he looks to his right

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and his left he kind of pokes his head in the shed like is someone hiding in the shed

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there's no one in there he walks to the back of the shed there's no one behind the shed

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and he's just totally stumped why he's feeling this way he goes back to the front of the shed

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and he's going over in his mind what made him feel this way

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and he can't put his finger on it

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but he cannot shake this feeling of someone watching him

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and it's making him totally anxious

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so he gets all the things

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he needs from the shed as quick as he can he locks it up he turns

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and he starts speed walking back out to his truck

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when he gets about five meters away he hears footsteps running right to left behind him back where the shed is.

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And because he was already completely on edge about someone watching him in the woods somewhere, he doesn't even turn around to see what that is.

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He knows he needs to run to his car and get inside and put steel between him and whatever is out there.

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Once he's inside, he locks the door, he turns on the ignition, and looks one last time in the direction of where he came from.

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And to his horror, there is a man walking into the woods right next to the shed, turning the corner behind and disappearing into the woods.

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His instincts were spot on.

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He was being watched.

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And that's when Mike hit the gas and sped back to the office.

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Chris then tells

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Mike about his stick throwing incident because all of a sudden

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that seems a whole lot more real and they both agree

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that whoever threw something at Chris is probably the same guy who was hiding near the shed with Mike.

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Concerned this guy might come back and break into the office, they stay the night there and they watch the whole time.

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They don't see him again and the next morning they file a report and they tell the incoming park rangers what happened.

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But after this, there were no more reports of this strange hooded figure roaming around the forest.

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And to this day, Chris and Mike have no idea who he is or what he wanted.

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But they can both agree, whoever he was, he was bad news.

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In 2006, a 14 -year -old boy named Evan lived on a farm in North Carolina.

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This was not a typical farm with animals and crops.

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It was a pine tree harvest tree.

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Pine needles are a big landscaping commodity, and Evan and his family made their living bailing pine straw every year. As such,

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their main living house on the farm was situated right in the middle of 550 acres of perfectly lined up pine trees.

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They did not have any neighbors nearby, and there was only one road that led into the property,

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which from the main house they could look out

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and basically see through the rows of trees all the way to the beginning of this road, which meant any visitors were really easy to spot.

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The main house was built on a very slight hill,

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which meant one side of the house was effectively built on stilts to compensate for the angle.

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And on that side of the house, on the first floor, was the living room.

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So anyone who was in the living room looking out the window, they basically need to look at a downward angle to see the ground.

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It would actually seem like you were on the second floor, but really you're on the first floor.

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The window in the living room was very unique.

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It stretched almost the entire length of the room, so almost 50 feet across.

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And at night, you could see animals darting between the different trees because you could see down the rows.

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And so that was pretty creepy.

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And then just the fact that this window is so big, if you're in the living room at night you just felt really exposed.

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So between the creepy animals running around and the level of exposure

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and vulnerability people basically avoided the living room anytime they were in the house at night.

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That winter Evan's cousin came to stay with him on his farm

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and because the main house did not have any extra bedrooms Evan

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and his cousin would have to sleep in the living room.

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There were two couches inside of the living room one

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that was right underneath the 50 foot long window and then another

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which was on the other side of the room against a wall that did not have a window,

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and so Evan would be sleeping on the couch right under the window, and his cousin would be sleeping on the other couch.

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The first night Evan's cousin was there, they put this big sheet up over the window, but it only blocked like 75 % of the window.

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The two flanks of the window were still exposed, but where the couches were lined up, they were kind of blocked by this sheet,

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so it gave them a little bit of privacy.

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After goofing around for a while, the boys finally fell asleep around midnight,

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and then they woke up a couple hours later because they heard Evan's dogs barking way off in the pine trees.

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Now Evan was used to his dogs running around the property and barking at other smaller animals,

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and so just them barking was not necessarily a red flag.

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But the barking persisted to the point where Evan's cousin got up off the couch, moved across the room to the opening of the window

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that was not covered by the sheet at the foot of where Evan was sleeping.

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Now Evan was still laying on the couch.

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He was not going to get up and look out the window, so he's looking down at his cousin,

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kind of looking at his face to get some sort of a read on what he's seeing

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and he notices his cousin has this really perplexed look on his face like he's squinting his eyes

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and trying to make sense of what he's looking at and

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so Evan looks at him and says hey what's going on what do you see

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and his cousin's like I don't know if my mind's playing tricks on me

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or not but I'm pretty sure I see people out there.

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At this Evan jumps off the couch and runs over

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and butts up right next to his cousin

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so he can look out the window too

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and he's scanning out amongst the rows of trees

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because there's just a mile of pine trees

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and the first thing he notices is the moon is very bright

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that night so there's good illumination and there was a light snow covering on the ground which really added to the illumination.

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He's looking out maybe 100 meters

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when he sees someone's leg extend from behind one of the pine trees as

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if they're stepping into the space between a pine tree column

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and he's staring at it

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and he can't believe he's even seeing anyone walking around this area

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because he didn't see anybody come in on the road

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and they have no neighbors and so he's looking and then a body follows the leg.

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A person walks from one row to the next.

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This tall, dark figure just walks calm as can be between the two pine trees.

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And Evan just grabs his cousin and he's like, did you just see that?

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And his cousin's like, yeah, I saw that.

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And so they continue to look in the direction of where this person crossed the path.

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And after a couple of minutes, they see another leg now emerging, going the other way back towards where that first person had come from.

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So the leg kind of extends into this gap

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and this tall figure walks across into the next row except

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now instead of going just directly across it looks like they're moving at an angle closer to the main house property.

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The boys look at each other and they don't know what to do

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so they just keep looking out the window in stunned silence

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and as they're looking they see this person emerge again except now they're not 100 meters away they're like 20 meters away.

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They don't know how they were able to move

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that quickly without being seen and this time

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when the leg comes out from behind the pine tree instead of walking across the gap

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it stops right in the middle and it turns

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and looks directly at the boys in the window

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and then begins running toward them the boys practically fall over

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trying to get away from the window evan's yelling for his father upstairs

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and the boys instinctively just start running around the house locking every door shutting every window

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and as they're going from door to door the anxiety is growing

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and growing because they think if i don't get there fast enough,

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this person who was running towards the property is going to come barging through that door.

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And so at every door, their anxiety is through the roof, but they managed to shut everything.

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Everything is locked right as Evan's father comes charging down the stairs.

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He's got his gun in hand and he's like, what's going on?

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And they say, there's someone out in our property.

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Their dad charges out the front door.

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The front door is not on the same wall as the living room.

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It's on the side of the house.

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So once he goes outside, he's going to need to turn to the right to look out in the direction

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they were describing he bombs outside he stays on the porch he starts yelling at whoever's out there

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that if you come over here i'm going to shoot you get the f away from here

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and then there's silence and the boys are waiting they're looking around they're checking the window they don't see anything

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The dad comes back inside, he shut and locks the door, and he tells Evan, keep an eye out.

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If you see him again, you let me know.

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Evan would reflect on this experience later on and say, you know, we really should have called 911 at that point,

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but as a kid, I just understood that that's the way my family did business.

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We kind of took care of ourselves.

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And so even though there is a threat of some stranger who's running at our property, we were not gonna call the cops.

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And so his dad effectively was telling him to be a lookout.

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And so Evan and his cousin, they go back into the living room

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and they kind of go up to the window they're a little bit apprehensive

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and they're looking out and after five ten minutes of looking out the window

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and not seeing anything they're thinking to themselves you know Evan's dad's a pretty intimidating guy

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and he was just out there screaming

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and yelling with a gun threatening to shoot them

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so they probably got the message and they're probably gone and

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so the boys got back into their couches and it took them a while but they did ultimately fall asleep.

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The next morning

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when the boys got up the first thing they wanted to do was go out there

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and see if they could find footprints from this person to kind of confirm it really was a person

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because part of them thought you know maybe we didn't see

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that maybe that was our imaginations they don't know and

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so they start by going out the front door

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so not on the same wall as the living room they go out the front door they turn

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and they walk down into the trees and they're looking around

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and they find some footprints

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so they're confirming to themselves okay there was someone out here wasn't us

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this is not our footprints we found them

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so they start following the footprints back towards the property and they realize at some point, there are two distinct sets of footprints.

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There were two people out here, and even worse is they followed them all the way up to the house,

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and there were two different circles of footprints

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that stopped right underneath the living room window along the two flanks of the window where the sheet was not covering,

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which means over the course of the night when Evan and his cousin were up at that window looking out,

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there's a good chance that one or two strangers were tucked up against the side of the house,

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and they would not have seen them because of the angle out of the living room window.

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It was steep because of the stilts it was on, and so anybody that was tucked up along the side, they'd be in a blind spot.

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And then for sure, after Evan and his cousin got back into bed and were sleeping,

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there were two strangers who were right up against those windows, probably pulling themselves up to look inside.

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When Evan's father found these footprints, he immediately grabbed his gun

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and tried to follow them back into the woods to see where they came from

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but unfortunately the snow cover wasn't complete

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and at some point they lost the tracks and they never figured out who those two people were.

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Evan would say following this event his cousin refused to ever come back over his house for a sleepover. In June of 2019,

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an 18 -year -old girl named Bella wrapped up her first year in college and headed home for the summer.

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Her family lived just outside of this small town in France

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that was tucked up in the mountains and surrounded by this huge forest.

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And so growing up, Bella spent a lot of her time out in this forest,

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either by herself or with her father or other members of her family.

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And so she knew the forest like the back of her hand.

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Her favorite place to go in this forest was the man -made lake

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that sat kind of at the center of this forest.

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It wasn't huge, but it was a beautiful view.

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It was very peaceful.

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And so she liked going out there.

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The way she would get to it is she would leave her house.

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She would hop in her car.

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She would drive a couple of miles down the road and she would pull off into the shoulder of this road.

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And there was no signage that said this was the pull -off to get to the man -made lake.

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This was an area that she and her family had discovered, that there was this particular trail you could take.

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And so she would pull off at the shoulder,

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she would get out, and she would turn away from the road and just walk directly into the trees, which butted right up against the road.

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And very quickly, after walking into the woods, after going through some thick underbrush, she would reach this kind of clearing,

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and she would see up ahead this little stream.

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And off to the left side of the stream is what looked like this kind of beaten -up little footpath,

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but actually what it was was an animal trail

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so animals just kind of made their way around this area all the time

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and so it kind of carved out a path and so

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Bella would walk down to this animal path

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and she would walk along the path

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that kind of went parallel with the stream

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and she would walk for maybe 15

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or 20 minutes until this animal path veered hard to the left kind of went away from the stream at that point

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Bella would abandon the animal path

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and just continue walking along this stream both stepping in the stream on some rocks

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and standing on either side when she could

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and she would follow the stream due north just going straight

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into the heart of this forest for about an hour walking

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at a fairly leisurely pace until the stream connected with this east to west running river

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and at this point bella would turn left facing west

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and she would follow along this riverbank about 20 minutes until the river fed into the man -made lake

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and so she would stay at this lake,

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sitting on a rock, enjoy the view and look at the animals and listen to nature all around her.

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And then at some point she would turn around and retrace her steps all the way back to her car.

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For reference, one leg of this journey from car to lake or from lake to car took about two hours.

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Part of the reason

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Bella really enjoyed being in these woods and being at this lake was

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because it just kind of felt like they were hers.

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Because up until this summer in 2019, the only other people that

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Bella had ever seen anywhere in this forest or near this lake were other members of her family.

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So it really felt very private.

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So in June of that year, Bella comes home from college

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and almost immediately she wants to go out to the man -made lake because she hasn't been in months,

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she's been in school and so she's eager to get back to some place

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that she kind of considered to be her happy place.

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So one morning she gets up early and by herself, she leaves her house, she hops in her car,

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she drives the couple miles down the road, she pulls off onto that shoulder, she parks her car, she hops out,

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she turns away from the road, she walks into the forest,

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she finds the stream and starts walking along that animal path right to the side of the stream.

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She walks for a few minutes until she reaches the point where the trail kind of cuts to the left,

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and she just stays on the stream and is just continuing walking along the stream.

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And about 30 minutes later, when she was maybe one or two miles short of the east -west running river,

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she hears a bell somewhere off in the distance, way out in front of her, out towards the river.

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It sounds just like a chime, a single chime.

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And as soon as she hears it, she stops because there's never any people out here ever and

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that bell sound came from somewhere in the forest and

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so she stops because she's not really sure if she actually heard

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that because it could have just been her mind playing tricks on her

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or something and so she stops and just kind of listens for a second

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and then she starts to hear this bell just continuously start ringing.

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Now, the ringing was not uniform.

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It was constant but it was kind of sporadic as

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if you were holding a bell

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and kind of bringing it randomly like you might see at a sports game and so she's thinking to herself,

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you know, is there a dog that got lost somewhere up ahead

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and it's got a bell on its collar and

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and that's the sound i'm hearing

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but as she's sitting there listening to this kind of sporadic bell sound she's thinking

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that's way too loud to be some rinky dink bell on a pet's collar

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so it's got to be something more robust did maybe somebody have a bell inside of a box

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and that box got on the river and it's floated down river

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and it's like crashing into rocks

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or something i mean she's going through these very strange scenarios in her head

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but she's not concerned about the bell she's actually pretty intrigued

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and since the sound of this bell seemed to be coming from the direction

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she was already traveling she decided she would just keep on walking

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and hopefully see whatever it was that was causing this bell sound

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and so bella just began walking along the stream again kind of listening to this bell

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and thinking about what it was going to be and after about five minutes of her starting to walk again, the bell just stops.

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It goes totally silent.

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And when it does, it actually kind of startles

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Bella because she'd been listening to it so intently.

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And so she stops and she's listening, kind of expecting it to go off some more, but it doesn't.

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All she hears are the sounds of nature all around her.

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Now, Bella didn't have an explanation for what the spell was or why it stopped, but she really just wasn't that worried about it.

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She figured there was some sort of explanation for it.

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There had to be.

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And so she just kind of shrugged and kept on walking

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and put her focus back on getting to the lake about 10

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or 15 minutes later bella was still walking along the stream she was still maybe a half mile

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or a mile short of the east to west running river

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when she sees up ahead on the left side of the stream as she's walking

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there appears to be something laying on the ground

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that looks like it could be an animal

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or a rock she doesn't really know what it is

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and as she gets closer she realizes it's a beaver laying on the ground

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and this beaver is missing its head now this is a huge forest and bella would have known that you know,

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of course, there are wild animals all over the place,

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and so finding the body of an animal that had been attacked by another animal was not unusual.

664

That's nature.

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But what did strike

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Bella as odd was the cut on this beaver's neck was unbelievably neat and uniform,

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as if its head had been very carefully removed with a very sharp knife.

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And the beaver's head was nowhere to be found.

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It certainly did not have the appearance of having its head removed from some predator and its teeth.

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That would have been very rough.

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Also, the rest of the beaver's body was intact.

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So whatever killed this beaver was not interested in eating the beaver.

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As Bella stood over this beaver and was just staring at it, she also noted that there was no smell.

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Normally, when something dies, it begins to smell very quickly.

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It's part of the decomposition process.

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And so for there not to be a smell indicated to Bella that this beaver must have been killed fairly recently.

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And then when Bella kind of gently prodded the body with her foot, she realized the beaver's body was still fairly limp,

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so rigor mortis had not set in.

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Rigor mortis is another part of the decomposition process where the body kind of stiffens up, and that happens fairly soon after death.

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And so as Bella is realizing this beaver must have died very recently,

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it dawns on her that most likely whoever or whatever has killed this beaver...

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is probably somewhere nearby and bella can't help

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but connect this dead beaver to that bell she was hearing earlier

684

which before meant nothing

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but considering the bell was roughly coming from the same area where this beaver has now been found

686

it made her uneasy and

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so bella found herself whipping her head around looking out into the trees seeing

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if you know there's some person a hunter or somebody

689

that would kind of explain what was going on

690

but there was nothing and so bella felt herself starting to panic a little bit.

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But then she stopped herself and said, calm down.

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It's broad daylight.

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I have been coming to these woods for years and years.

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I've never seen another person.

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I've never encountered some predatory animal.

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I'm sure everything is perfectly fine.

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I got nothing to worry about.

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And so she stepped over the beaver and kept on walking.

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Bella would eventually reach the east -west running river.

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She would turn left and walk for 20 minutes alongside this river.

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She reached the man -made lake.

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She enjoyed the beautiful view and the scenery.

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And then at some point, she turned around and began retracing her footsteps.

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She walked past the Bieber on the ground all the way back to her car, and she went home.

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A week later, Bella was sitting around her house

706

when she felt pretty bored and decided kind of abruptly that in order to cure her boredom,

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she would go back to the place she loved so much, the man -made lake.

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And so she told her parents where she was going, and then she left the house, hopped in her car, drove to the pull -off,

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and parked and entered the woods at 6 p .m.

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Sunset that night was at 9 p .m., and so Bella knew this would need to be a fairly quick turnaround

711

so she didn't get trapped in the woods in the dark.

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And so Bella finds the animal trail.

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She follows along the stream until the trail goes left and she stays on the stream.

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She continues walking on the stream when she starts to hear the distant sound of thunder.

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So she looks up into the sky through the trees and she can see the sky is starting to get dark,

716

but she's still a couple of hours away from sunset.

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And so between the thunder and the dark skies she knows a storm is rolling in

718

but she is determined to get to that lake and

719

so instead of you know turning around

720

and saying okay I'll come back another time

721

she just starts jogging along the stream to get there as fast as she possibly can

722

and almost immediately as she's jogging the raindrops start to fall

723

and by the time she passes the beaver corpse on the ground

724

it hadn't moved the rain was really coming down

725

and then about 15 minutes after the corpse

726

when she hit the east -west running river that's

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when the rain was at a full downpour still bella turned at the river

728

and continued west towards the man -made lake as

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if she was going to go all the way

730

but only about a minute

731

or two into this final leg she still had about 20 minutes to get to the lake she stops herself

732

and she looks at her watch

733

and she can see it's after eight o 'clock already

734

and she's thinking to herself you know

735

if i turn around right now it's going to take me over an hour to get back to my car.

736

Sun sets at 9 p .m.

737

It's after 8 p .m now.

738

So already I know I'm going to have to navigate this forest at night in the dark,

739

even if it's just for a little bit at the end.

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And if I go all the way to the lake and then come all the way back to the car,

741

I'm going to be in the forest after dark for quite a while, maybe up to an hour.

742

And she's thinking, you know, I'm confident I can do that, but it's also pouring rain.

743

I'm cold.

744

If I get lost, this could turn into a very bad situation

745

and so she ultimately decides

746

that even though she really wants to keep going she needs to turn around she needs to head back

747

and so she turns around

748

and she walks back up alongside this east west running river to where the stream fed into

749

that river she turns

750

and begins walking south along this stream headed back towards the car on her walk

751

because the visibility was starting to get quite bad because it was

752

so dark she had her head down at the ground

753

because she didn't want to trip she's stepping on rocks she's stepping on muddy areas

754

she wants to make sure her footing is solid and

755

so her head is down the rain is pounding all around her

756

and she's walking for about 15 minutes

757

when all of a sudden something hits her in the top of the head

758

and so reflexively she looks up

759

and kind of puts her hands in front of her face to protect herself

760

and she sees what she had just run into it was the beaver corpse it was hanging from a string

761

that was dangling off a branch right above her

762

and this beaver's head had been retrieved and the head had been stitched onto the front paws of this beaver.

763

And so she's looking at this beaver that's dangling from this rope.

764

It's carrying its own head and she's walked square into it.

765

And her first reaction was basically to gag.

766

She was going to vomit.

767

She was so disgusted.

768

And then she began frantically rubbing at her hair where this thing had made contact with her

769

because there could be juices from the decomposition that got on her.

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And then after frantically kind of patting at her head for a second,

771

she stops and something really terrifying dawns on her whoever strung this beaver up to this tree

772

and then stitched its head onto its paws they had done

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that in the last 30 minutes because 30 minutes earlier

774

when she was on her way in she remembered passing the beaver carcass on the ground

775

she saw it it had not moved from where it was the week before

776

when she first saw it and now this beaver is strung up in the tree

777

and so as the wheels are turning in Bella's head, she realizes that if someone has just done this then they are probably nearby

778

and at this point it's really starting to get dark the rain is pounding all around her

779

and she starts whipping her head around looking in all directions to see

780

if there's someone out there that did this

781

but as she's looking all she sees is just dark forest in all directions

782

and she knows she's at least one hour even

783

if she runs from her car and so suddenly she is totally panicked

784

and in an effort to calm herself down she says to herself okay i need to get out here

785

but i have to walk

786

if i start running right now this is going to turn into a complete nightmare

787

i just have to try to walk and

788

so she walks around this dangling beaver corpse

789

and starts walking along the stream and as soon as she's passed

790

that corpse she feels the hairs on the back of her neck stand up

791

she can hear movement behind her she doesn't know what it is it could be a deer

792

it could be some animal but she's too afraid to turn around

793

and even though she was trying to tell herself to calm down just keep walking

794

you're safe you're freaking yourself out everything is okay as she's walking

795

she could feel herself starting to speed up until finally

796

she was just running down the stream sprinting actually away from this beaver

797

and whatever it was that was moving around in that area

798

and at some point she got so winded from sprinting

799

so fast that she came to a stop maybe five

800

or six minutes after seeing this beaver

801

and as soon as she comes to a stop and she's walking she still hasn't turned around yet, she hears the sound of that bell.

802

And right away, it's the exact same sound she had heard the week before.

803

It's that kind of constant sporadic sound of someone ringing a bell.

804

But in her panicked state, she doesn't know where it's coming from.

805

She's so scared.

806

Her anxiety is so high.

807

She doesn't know if it's behind her or if it's off to the side.

808

It's now completely dark out.

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And so she is full -blown terrified.

810

There is someone or something behind her

811

that has strung this beaver up that's probably watching her

812

and she can't see them even though she's beyond winded

813

she can barely breathe she just starts sprinting as fast as she can

814

and as she's stumbling and falling on the rocks and tripping

815

because she's not really looking where she's going in the background

816

and all around her she's hearing this bell chiming

817

and she's hearing something moving around in the woods behind her

818

and she pulls her phone out of her pocket her iphone

819

and as she's running she dials her father

820

she puts the phone to her ear she's crying she's panting she can barely breathe her father picks up

821

and she's so relieved to hear his voice

822

but she can't even make a sentence she just starts crying and wailing

823

and pleading with him dad come out to the forest meet

824

me at the spot where the trail veers away from the stream meet me

825

there there's someone in the forest that's chasing me

826

and i can't see them her father on the other end of the phone

827

he didn't know what to make of this

828

but he could hear the primal fear in his daughter's voice

829

and so he didn't ask any questions he said stay on the line i'm coming to meet you right now

830

so bella's father

831

and mother with bella on the line they run out of their house

832

they hop in their car they speed the couple miles down the road they park next to their daughter's car

833

and as they're running into the woods

834

they can hear way off in the woods the sound of the bell

835

they can hear the bell they hear their daughter screaming on the phone

836

they can hear the bell coming through the phone

837

and she's begging them to please come into the woods come

838

in here save me since the parents run into the woods

839

and they begin running up the stream meanwhile bella who's way out in the woods she's still 10

840

or 15 minutes away from her parents

841

she is barely able to run at this point she's exhausted almost all of her energy

842

and as she's getting closer

843

and closer to her parents the sporadic bell sound is getting louder

844

and louder and louder like whatever it is is gaining on her

845

and she can hear behind her all these sticks

846

and branches they're breaking as if something is coming up to her and finally

847

when it feels like this bell is right behind her head

848

she just kind of stops in defeat she's too far away from her parents

849

she can't get to them in time and

850

so it was almost like she had to turn around

851

and finally look at whatever it was that was behind her

852

and so terrified beyond words bella who can barely breathe she's

853

so scared and so tired she slowly turns around now

854

when she turns around

855

and she's facing the other direction she's looking across this clearing she just happened to run past this clearing

856

and because it was a clearing there was a little bit of moonlight

857

that was coming down through the trees just enough to illuminate this space

858

that was about 50 feet wide

859

and as she's looking across this clearing at first she doesn't see anything

860

and then this tall dark figure walks into the clearing

861

and as soon as it steps in she can see it's got a bell at its waist

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and with every step it took it would violently ring the bell causing the ringing sound

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and so this thing starts moving into the clearing

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and as bella is staring at it it was like time slowed down

865

she could not process what she was looking at she didn't know what she was looking at all

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she knew is whatever or whoever this is they're coming straight at me

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and so bella suddenly got this unbelievable adrenaline rush it was like her body went into autopilot to save her

868

and she turned around and began sprinting faster than she'd ever sprinted in her life

869

and as she ran all she could hear was the sound of

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that bell which she now knew represented steps this thing was taking working.

871

And so the bell was getting faster and faster and louder and louder.

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And she knew it was gaining on her.

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And she began lying and screaming out loud that, I'm on the phone with the police.

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They're right up ahead.

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They're going to be here any moment.

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But whatever it was that was behind her, they weren't fazed.

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They were just charging ahead, gaining on her second by second.

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Meanwhile, her parents had made it to the meeting spot.

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But her father, he felt like, I can't just sit here.

880

And he just starts charging into the woods.

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He can hear his daughter screaming.

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He can hear this bell getting louder and louder.

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He just starts running towards it

884

and sure enough seconds later he sees his daughter come bounding out of the forest

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and she leaps into his arms he just grabs her turns around

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and runs with her back to the meeting spot he grabs his wife

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and the three of them just charge out of the forest back to the parking lot back in their car

888

and they speed off in the car all of them are crying

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they don't know what to make of what just happened bella's trying to describe it

890

but she can't and her parents they had been on the phone listening to their daughter screaming

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and all they kept saying to each other the parents was i heard the bell

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i heard the bell i heard the bell as

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if the bell confirmed their worst nightmares that there really was someone

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or something out in those woods

895

that was trying to do harm to their child

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they would drive straight to the police station where bella would

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file a report about what she experienced out in the forest

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and then afterwards her parents as a precaution took her to

899

the hospital where she was determined to be okay besides some bumps and bruises from falling down.

900

The following morning the police went out to the forest to the area where

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Bella had explained where she had been and they searched all along

902

that animal foot trail and all along the stream but they never found any sign of this dark figure with the bell.

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Bella would tell police that she had a handbag and as she was running back she dropped the bag.

904

She remembered where she dropped it along the stream but when the police went to that area the bag was gone.

905

Also the beaver was no longer there.

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It was not tied up to the tree.

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It was not on the ground.

908

It was gone.

909

The only thing police found that was out of the ordinary was they found a little ways off from the stream, basically along the path that

910

Bella would have been running on, they found a t -shirt neatly folded placed underneath a rock.

911

But the police and Bella and her family have no idea what that signifies.

912

Ultimately, the police told

913

Bella and her family

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that more than likely what she ran into was some kind of mentally unstable person that was living out in the woods.

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And perhaps when Bella came into the woods, they felt like she was on their property, and so they kind of tried to scare her off.

916

But Bella has a hard time accepting that.

917

She felt like as she was running from whoever was behind her, that she was in mortal danger.

918

That had it not been for her father running into the woods

919

and literally grabbing her and running with her the rest of the way, that she may not have gotten out of the woods at all.

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That she might have been attacked and killed by whoever this was.

921

She also can't help when she looks back at the entire experience, thinking about that moment when she turned around and looked across

922

that clearing and saw this figure come into the moonlight for the first time that

923

when it came into the moonlight the way it was moving the steps

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it was taking they weren't normal they were abnormal there was just something off about this thing's movement

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that it didn't seem like she was looking at a person

926

but rather some big animal

927

but regardless since her ordeal

928

there have been no strange sightings out in those woods however almost no one ever goes in those woods, except for Bella and her family.

929

And Bella and her family, they don't go in those woods anymore.

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So whoever or whatever is out there is still just out there.

931

In case you haven't heard yet, our newest graphic novel, Mr. Ballin Presents Where Nightmares Live, is available for pre -order right now.

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It contains another nine heart -stopping, strange, dark, and mysterious stories, all based on real events.

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This was a passion project.

934

It took a lot of time, a lot of people involved, from the artwork to the storytelling.

935

I mean, this is a beautiful piece to add to your collection, so you got to check it out.

936

The book comes out on September 30th, but again, you can pre -order your copy at book .ballinstudios .com,

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or you can click the link in the description below.

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There are a limited number of hand -signed copies available, but those are going to sell out very quickly.

939

So please pre -order today, because remember, your nightmares are waiting thank you

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so much for watching let me know what you thought of today's episode in the comments

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and remember we have hundreds of videos for you to binge right now

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but if you're looking for a recommendation from me of

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that one video that's worth your time well it's this one right here

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so give it a watch all right until next time See ya.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • FOREST HORROR Edition Vol. 2”. This video has 944 sentences and 11861 words to shadow. The speech runs for 54:37. The speaker talks fast, about 217 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
tent noun	/tɛnt/	A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
beaver noun	/ˈbivɚ/	A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
guts noun	/ɡʌts/	The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
cousin noun	/ˈkʌz(ə)n/	Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a…
pine noun	/paɪn/	Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
footprint noun	/ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/	The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
whoever	/huˈɛvɚ/	Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
couch noun	/ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/	An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
meter noun	/ˈmitəɹ/	A device that measures things.
trail noun	/tɹeɪl/	The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the…
sudden adjective	/ˈsʌd.ən/	Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
shake verb	/ˈʃeɪk/	To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
breathe verb	/bɹiːð/	To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
abandon verb	/əˈbæn.dən/	To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
sprint noun	/spɹɪnt/	A short race at top speed.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
turn around verb		To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
look out verb		To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
walk around verb		To walk with no planned destination; to meander.
come back verb		To return to a place.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Bob's thinking what the heck is going on?
Why are you running?
I'm going to see what's going on.
What's wrong with you?
I've never seen another person.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been going · have been coming
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	If you want part one, it'll be · if anything touched the rope it would make
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've heard · we've already done · you've come
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be posted · is still unzipped · are pulled

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 163 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, don't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/, thick /θɪk/, bathhouse /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, sheet /ʃit/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like tent, beaver, guts.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?