Backwoods Creepy - Strange Encounters in the Forest

Our tales for today are

Hunting in Rural Texas - There is something in the distance. It’s shiny and colorful and doesn’t belong there. You approach it curious, wondering what the heck it is and what the heck it’s doing in such an odd place. As you get closer you feel more and more drawn in, compelled forward by the mystery of the situation. You move almost as if in a fog, inexorably closer to what you hope will be an answer to your questions. Then you arrive at the bizarre out of place thing and stand back to ponder the possibilities. An old part of your brain, old as in paleolithic, fires up for the first time. The hairs on the back of your neck go stiff and tingle. Your checks go hot and flushed, palms start sweating. Your bladder suddenly is full and the urge to relieve yourself is overwhelming. You want desperately to hide or better yet disappear entirely. The mystery, the question that has drawn you to this exact spot was intentional. You’ve just walked into a trap… original poster deleted

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My AT Ghost Story - Crank. Crackpot. Tinfoil Hatter. Wacko. Conspiracy theorist. We all know that person. The person that screams into the void. The one seeking the back of the internet because that’s where they keep all the truth. The friends of ours that see something odd and confidently look you in the eye and claim it’s clearly just a glitch in the matrix. Some of you fine folks listening may indeed be this person, in which case, we love you, no judgment. They’ve been around in one form or another forever. Before the modern age they probably got written off as religious zealots or maybe were prayed to as oracles. Our so-called crazy friend is just a modern day John the Baptist, Joan of Arc, or Cassandra. Regardless of the truth, or lack thereof, in the words and claims of these special members of society, the question always remains the same - what made them the way that they are? - story courtesy of Redditor charlesHsprocket

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Our tales for today are

Missing Time - There are many reasons to be afraid. Physical pain. Emotional hurt. Failure. Sometimes even success. But the fear that comes when something happens to you that you have no explanation for, is unique. It's a more rabid, panic-inducing brain-buzz type of fear. One that you can’t explain away or reason your way through because there is no logic and facts are light on the ground. The fear of the unknown comes close but it lacks the intense edge, the raw nerve sensitivity of knowing something happened to you but not being able to say what it is. Of always being afraid nobody will believe you because you hardly believe yourself. Quick sensitivity note - this story involves a lost pregnancy Thank you /jadedmavrick1820

Creeper in the Woods - Ahhhh to be young and virile again! Full of vim and vigor. Master of our own destiny and fearless. Death comes for the old and the weak. Not for the young and the brave, or so many an adolescent trick themselves into believing. Get a few young folk together and they act as a force multiplier for foolishness and folly. All the hormones and lack of hard won life experience means they do stupid things and they do them stupidly. As they should, because that’s how you gain the life experience needed to know better. But you have to survive in order to apply the lessons, and sometimes, these bands of teenage delusional demi-gods go places where the survival rate plummets… Thank you /djbufoon also on Instagram @robby_horror

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Our tales for today are

Uinta Mountains - There are certain things in life that are obviously scary and you kind of know you’ll eventually run into them; the first horror movie you watch, the first time you have to do laundry in the basement with nobody home, your first heart pounding near miss traffic accident, your first encounter with death and illness. These are the ones that as a child you suss out early and have a notion of as something you’ll have to deal with at some time down the line. But there is another moment that nobody prepares you for, that you never think of and never see coming until it sears through your heart like a white hot blade. That’s the moment the person you look up to, that you love and admire the most, is so scared they can’t hide their fear for your benefit, that they are so frightened of something beyond their ability to explain or fight that they are, for the first time in your eyes, shrunk back down to human sized. When the one you think of as a giant is terrified…you should run… Thank you /itssarahsugar

Followed in the Woods - Confidence is one of the key ingredients for success. It gives us the self-assuredness needed to take risks and to believe in ourselves. Many would agree that the right amount of confidence is not just appealing but rather attractive and admirable. Confidence is the foundation of charisma, which, as we know, can take a person very far in life indeed. But, like anything, too much confidence can be a killer. Overconfidence can convince us that we are stronger, more intelligent, more capable than maybe we are. Overconfidence can lead us into dangerous situations. Overconfidence can even get us killed.… Thank you /DylonNotNylon

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Our tales for today are

Figure in the Fog - Murk. Gloom. Mist. Brume. Fog goes by many names but whatever you call it the strange properties of ground-clouds remains the same. The weird distortions of sound and depth perception. The sense that one is entering another realm or place when walking into a wall of fog is hard to dispel. A place of shadows and shrouded sounds. Anything could be in that soupy mix and you wouldn’t know whether the silhouette in front of you was good or evil until you bumped right into it… Original Poster Deleted

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Weird Sound in Lapland - Finland is known to be the happiest country in the world. The Fins have perfected the art of living life joyfully. You can actually pay to go to the remote Scandinavian nation and learn how to be happier for god’s sake. But not everything is gumdrops and candy canes in the land of the Menninkäinen, Paasselkä devils, and Piru demons. Some things in those northern forests are ancient and have been playing with the minds of men since the first fur wrapped hunter gatherers wandered into the darkness under the trees. Bumping into something deep in the forests in the middle of the night with no way to get help and nowhere to run would make anyone unhappy, even the Finns.… Thank you Rattus_Amicus

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Our tales for today are

Summer Camp - Think back to your late childhood, your early teens. When you were young and dumb enough to want to grow up, to want to be saddled with responsibility because that meant you were almost a grown up. Think of the first time your parents gave you a slip of paper with important phone numbers and said “they’d be back in a bit, don’t burn the house down”. The pride, the euphoria, the elation of that moment of true power. You could do anything you wanted. You were just like an adult! Of course this brings to mind the old adage about being cautious when wishing… Thank you GodDamnCommie

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Ghost in the Woods - How do you explain something you can understand? Or even more difficult, how do you explain something you aren’t sure is even possible? Now, explain that experience to a friend. Or even more difficult, to a stranger or a group of strangers. The only way they will believe you is if you believe yourself. But then you’d have to be able to understand and explain the inexplicable to yourself. And round and round we go… Original Poster Deleted

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My AT Ghost Story - Strange experiences in the forest needn’t always be nefarious. Some are sublime and transformative. Moments of stark clarity and stunning beauty. These are quiet, reflective encounters with the natural world that can be frightening but sustain in us a wonder for forces far beyond our comprehension. And sometimes we undergo strange net neutral events, just as bizarre and maybe more inexplicable because of their seeming lack of purpose, whether for good or ill. It’s possible that these inexplicable contacts with the other side are the most haunting for their utter lack of rationale or logic. Trying to find meaning in the meaningless, that way lies madness. Thank you RedBullSonOfRambo

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Our tales for today are: Nightmare on the Lake - Can our eyes be trusted? Are they truly reliable narrators? We sometimes see things move out of the corner of our eye, knowing full well we are alone in a room. We catch the quickest slightest shift in light but upon investigation, there was nothing there. Our eyes are also easily tricked. Ocular chumps that even a modest sleight of hand trickster can swindle out of reality. So how do we know what we are seeing is real? Thanks to MHOP99.

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Congaree National Park - Could you pick your partner’s voice out of a crowd? There is a certain depth of intimacy attained when you know your partner's emotions from just the tone and timber of their voice. Hearing a loved one just say your name can fill your heart with love. Of course, when a loved one calls you go to them, you move to the voice calling. It’s the most natural thing in the world. You’d know that voice anywhere. What happens though, when you find the source and it’s not the person you expected? Maybe it’s not a person at all… Thanks to Super-Soup-Sandwich

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Our tales for today are: Eyes of the Forest - a young woman and her friend plan to get away from the hustle and bustle by striking out into the wild. The set up camp and take in the sights before heading to bed. While one of them sleeps soundly the other scrolls through social media absentmindedly, not realizing how close she is to danger. Summer in Greenville - a boy spends his summer break exploring his parents fields, forests, and creeks. His adventures take him beyond the safety of his grandmother and put him in contact with one of the wild folk living in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Thank you OPs - solesolosoul and ToadstoolDickens.

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Hello again guys! Thanks for coming back to our little audio campfire, I hope you’ve all had a great week. We are about to kick off another Monday with some weird and creepy stuff from the treeline. But first, some quick housekeeping,

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Our tales for today are: Northern Minnesota - a terrifying tale from the land of 1000 lakes. The witness in this one is clearly a guy that knows his business in the woods. He has a group of boy scouts on a multi day expedition when all of the sudden he finds himself and his charges under attack and paddling like hell for safety. Tennessee Creepiness - the witness in this case never exactly enters the wilderness, just lives for a short time near its edge. That sense of safety proves false as something from the swampy wilds comes, quite literally, a knocking.

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I’m your host Cull and this is Backwoods Creepy - Strange Encounters in the Forest.

Search and Rescue teams have an incredibly difficult and important task. It’s in the job title; they seek and they rescue. They go into the wilderness to ideally save the lost or injured and bring them safely home. Unfortunately, occasionally a rescue becomes a recovery and the once lost or injured pass beyond aid. A Search and Recovery team is no less heroic. They are bringing people home to give families closure. Sometimes though, a body is found and comes with more questions than answers. The final moments of a person found in the backwoods can be incomprehensible. More mystery than explanation. In the wild sometimes closure isn’t possible. 

Our first tale today is called Search and Rescue

Nature can be vicious. Kill or be killed. With very few exceptions, mainly accounted for in human activities, killing is not purposeless. Food. Mating rights. Territoriality. Usually there is a reason for the violence found in the wild. But then there are instances that defy explanation. Gruesome scenes stumbled upon by the daytripper, a horror tableaux of gore and viscera. A lawlessness that belies the basic laws of the natural world.

Our second tale today is called The Deer

There are few things as comforting as the touch of a loved one. A mother’s hug. A father’s hand on the shoulder. A grandparents kiss on the cheek. Simple. Sweet. Even in our sleep we seek the warmth of human touch. Unconsciously we reach out for the closest love and comfort we can grasp onto. What happens though, when you open your eyes and you don’t know who it is on the other end of that embrace.

Our third tale for today is called The Other Side of the Tent

Alright folks, thanks for listening to Backwoods Creepy - Strange Encounters in the Forest. The first story is from plated_lead and the second was courtesy of batmannibal and the third story is from MandyScott. 

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I’m your host Cull and this is Backwoods Creepy - Strange Encounters in the Forest.

The good samaritan is disappearing. Today you’d be as likely to see people filming a person in crises or an accident unfolding on their phones rather than giving aid. The urge to help a stranger in need, to give a helping hand, still exists but there are likes to be had on social media and there can be some very real consequences for the person helping. Often you don’t know what you are walking into or dealing with or really how best you can help. Sometimes, things can escalate quickly, get out of hand, become violent. Sometimes, being a good samaritan can be dangerous, even deadly.

Our first tale today is called The North Slope

Stacks of rocks. Elf houses. Initials in a heart carved on a tree. A geo-cache buried in a hillside just off the main trail. People leave all sorts of things in the woods, often with the intention and hope that one day someone will find it and have a moment of shared experience. A connection with a stranger, running through time in the same place. But, some people leave things in the woods for wholly unwholesome reasons. They leave them there to be found, not to share a place with some unknown fellow wanderer, but as a warning. As a sign letting you know they are there, in the woods, somewhere. Following, likely unseen and unheard, and they are watching.

Our second tale today is called Stalked in Salt Fork

Alright folks, thanks for listening to Backwoods Creepy - Strange Encounters in the Forest. The first story is from Clyde2003 and the second was courtesy of Queasy-Comfort-8559. 

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Thanks for listening and remember to take only pictures, leave only footprints, and always trust your gut!