I debated on releasing a video today because I was just really pressed for time but then I thought about all of you guys and how much I enjoy reading the comments from you all a special shout out to Timmy jod and Mary so here’s a
Story for you sorry it’s a little on the shorter side I grew up in a rural section of the Appalachian Mountains I loved it there there was a piece in those mountains that I’ve never found anywhere else the air was clean and crisp and the woods were incredibly
Quiet which I guess some people people don’t like I was used to it though since it was all I’d ever known but I had an encounter one year that changed my feelings about the place it was during hunting season my uncle had come up from Florida to go deer hunting with us he
Had come up a little before the season started so he and my dad could go over all of their gear I was in my late teens then I had a dog that was part Alaskan Husky and part German Shepherd I’d go hiking pretty often and my dog Max would
Always go with me he was a good-sized dog given the two breeds he was mixed from he didn’t scare easily and was really protective the day before hunting season started we were out on one of our usual hikes we’d go up the hill behind my parents house to an old cold mining
Road there were a couple of cold water springs near the road usually when we got within 100 ft or so of the Springs Max would run ahead and get a drink and cool off well he took off and because of the trees in the brush I couldn’t see
Him but I knew where he would be I stopped and took a drink from my water bottle as soon as I started moving again I heard Max running back down the hill I figured he was coming back to check on me but he was running full force toward
Me with a panicked look on his face I had never seen that look before he turned around to look up the hill and he bared his teeth then he started growling very low and frightening he was standing stock still just facing up the hill I
Called his name and he gave a big Yelp and took off running full force down the hill again I thought that was odd but I kept heading up I knew Max would just go on home if that’s what he wanted to do I was hoping to see what might have
Spooked him there wasn’t much Wildlife to be feared at the time usually just squirrels and chipmunks and possums and stuff the scariest thing might be a bobcat but I never seen one the whole time I’d lived there I reached the the top of the hill without seeing anything
Scary I was leaving when I spotted these antlers through the trees there was a lot of rustling noise coming from that spot which was a little weird because in my experience deer are usually So Silent I couldn’t imagine Max getting spooked by a deer he’d been around plenty of
Them anyway I hoped it was a good sign of white tail in the area for the start of hunting the next day I turned a head down suddenly and I was hit with this absolutely putrid smell of rotten flesh like if you forgot some meat in your
Fridge for months and then opened it up I headed out of there and got home and found Max in the yard waiting for me he seemed really restless and pacing around I couldn’t figure him out I told my dad and uncle that I had spotted a deer they
Were excited to get going the next morning we got up at first light and headed out we were real amateurs when it came to deer hunting but my dad had found a spot he liked and had set up the pop-up blind the week before we got to
The blind which was set up near this stream I had binoculars with me so I could do some bird watching while we were sitting there waiting on deer can get incredibly boring you have to be so quiet even the snacks we brought were not the crunchy kind but I was ready to
Pay attention we’d probably been there a couple hours when we started hearing this high-pitch sound that sounded like a wounded animal or something we didn’t see anything it could have been anything really but the next thing that happened was we were hit with that terrible smell
Of rotting meat my God I can’t describe it it smelled like death my uncle gasped and pointed towards the creek he had his hand over his nose trying to cover up the smell we looked and saw this horrible Apparition rise up out of the creek and it was standing there 30 yards
Away it was something tall and skeletal the head looked like a deer skull with antlers and these yellow glowing eyes of the sockets I swear this thing was 7 ft tall and it seemed like it had tattered flesh just hanging off of its body it was walking on two legs and they looked
Like they were legs of a deer it seemed like something you would dig out of a grave but it was moving and scanning the forest we all just crouched there peering out of the blind it didn’t seem to have seen us we were petrified and just stayed quiet and didn’t move a
Muscle then it lifted its head and stared into the distance like it had spotted something and then it just flashed away at superhuman speed I can’t even describe how it moved it was just gone we split out of there as fast as we could we didn’t even speak we all sped
Down the mountain like our lives depended on it to this day we have no explanation what the hell that thing was and I’m sad that I don’t feel comfortable in those woods anymore but I feel like that was a really close call my family lived in a rural part of
Illinois when I was around 10 we moved in with my grandmother because she wasn’t doing so well she didn’t live too far away from our own house so usually my mom stay with my grandma and my sister and I with our stepdad Keith would visit a few times a week and help
Out with cleaning and other chores we were very close to my grandma and she was the quintessential grandma too she had a snack drawer from when we came over and definitely spoiled us we weren’t close with our dad’s side of of the family and our stepdad’s parents had
Passed so Grandma was all we had her house was older but it was still in pretty good shape she had a bedroom on the first floor since she had trouble going up the stairs and my mom slept in her childhood bedroom on the second floor when my sister Martha and I stayed
Over we take sleeping bags and sleep on the floor and it was kind of like camping but usually we were at home with Keith I remember very specifically that we had spent the weekend at grandma’s house and had a movie night by this time grandma was a little out of it and very
Tired but she still liked to do on Martha and I and tell us stories a lot of them were superstitious she talked about how she had a baby who died a few months after being born and how the baby was still in the house with her this
Kind of weirded Martha and me out but our mom acted like it was normal so we never said anything but those kind of stories were common so when Sund day came we said goodbye to Grandma and Keith picked us up to drive us a few miles back to our house my mom was
Planning to stay until Monday morning when she had to go into work she wanted to get some chores done at the house and make extra food for her grandma who couldn’t chew very well Martha and I went home we had dinner we played outside for a while and then we went to
Bed nothing seemed too off to us the next morning Keith told us in the kitchen that Mom had brought Grandma to the hospital because she wasn’t doing well I wasn’t really sure how I felt about that because she’d been to the hospital a few times and always came
Home after so it might not be serious but at that age when it’s your first experience with someone being really sick it can be confusing we went to school and when we got home Keith picked us up and explained that he thought we should get flowers and some groceries
From when Grandma came home mom had called him earlier and told him that they were planning on discharging her that afternoon we stopped at the store quick and then we went to Grandma’s house mom was still at the hospital with her so we let ourselves in and we set up the flowers
And then just kind of hung out watching TV Keith decided to clean up the yard a bit and left us in the house it wasn’t night time yet but closer to evening for sure maybe about 5 or 6 at night Martha and I were starting to get hungry to
Distract ourselves we wandered around the house looking at Grandma’s things old pictures of our moms and aunts and uncles and stuff like that on the first floor we heard a noise that sounded like it came from our grandma’s room the door was open but Martha said she was sure
Mom wasn’t there yet she had looked out the window upstairs and the driveway was empty I thought they might have arrived without us noticing and I went to Grandma’s room to say hi to her Martha followed me when we got to the door we looked in and both saw Grandma sitting
In her rocking chair she looked exactly the same as as ever but she didn’t say anything to us instead she was sort of staring off into the room and then Martha and I heard a baby cry it was very faint but we both backed up into
The living room and checked if each of us heard that after listening for a minute we didn’t hear it again Martha went to get Keith to tell them they were back and I went to find mom thinking she was in the kitchen but after checking the entire downstairs and running back
Upstairs I didn’t find her Keith and Martha came inside within seconds the house phone rang it was one of those old school phones that hangs on the wall and has a really long cord Keith picked it up and talked quietly for a little bit when he hung up he
Turned around and told us sadly that our grandmother had passed away at the hospital they thought she had been doing better it had actually been what they refer to as rallying kind of a last ditch burst of energy before someone passes away mom had called the hospital
To let us know and when she didn’t reach us at home she tried Grandma’s house Martha and I looked at each other right away and told Keith we had seen grandma in her room less than 10 minutes ago he seemed skeptical Keith wasn’t a superstitious person but he heard us out
When we were done explaining he ducked into our room and checked and said no one was there he then checked the rest of the house with us close behind but we didn’t see her again eventually my mom came came back from the hospital and we told her what happened too our Theory as
A family was that Grandma passed away and her spirit came back to the house for a bit before moving on the baby we heard must have been the baby that she lost and that she talked about sometimes none of us ever saw anything in the
House again and Mom had sold it a few years later but I like to think that Grandma was finally reunited with their baby and found some peace since then I’ve had other experiences but I’ll I’ll save those for another day when you believe in certain things you tend to
Notice a lot more than other people around you Do hi Donovan I’ve been listening to your channel for a while now I really enjoy all the stories and it makes me think about all the things that are happening around us that we don’t know about or even understand I haven’t had much in the way of creepy or paranormal
More experiences in my lifetime but my wife seems to be more in tune with the supernatural realm and has seen and felt many ghost over the years anyhow I do have one experience that still haunts me to this day and I think about it every
Once in a while it’s in the early 1980s and I’m in the 10th grade I play in the concert band and we’re doing a performance at the school one evening in late fall it all goes well and I’m walking home by myself afterwards I would say it’s around 10: p.m. the town
That I grew up in has a bunch of walking paths it’s dark out but the paths are well lit and perfectly safe I was not on high alert at all just happily moseying my way home like any other day I’m almost home just one more gradual slope
Up a hill over a bridge turn right and I’m there I reached the beginning of the long uphill slope to the bridge and I look up and I stop dead in my tracks with an eerie sense of dread it takes a few seconds to process why there is a
Man standing at the top of the hill probably 50 yd away just before where the bridge starts and he’s looking at me it’s not unusual to see people along this path it’s fairly well traveled during the day but it’s night and there’s no one else around just me and
This guy then I realized what made me stop so suddenly I can only see a silhouette as the lights from the RO behind him outline his shape but but he’s standing there a Kimbo with hands on his hips and he’s wearing a top hat so all this takes about a second to
Process and I realize I’m just standing there at the base of the Hill looking up at him I can sense something that only can be described as pure evil I know he’s looking right at me and for a brief moment I’m paralyzed I can feel him looking at me my rational brain takes
Over and I’m able to step off the path and move behind some trees to block his view of me I quickly go through my options keep walking up the path because obviously My Mind is Playing Tricks on me either I saw something that wasn’t there or it’s just some guy walking his
Dog right okay so I slowly peek out from behind the tree and there he is in the exact same spot in the exact same stance still looking directly at me and still wearing that Top Hat I could feel this pure sense of evil piercing through my core
Or I could do option two run like hell that’s exactly what I did to this day I still regret running away it bothers me that I’ll never know exactly who or what was waiting for me at the top of the hill right before that bridge did it
Really happen in my mind absolutely but I can’t be sure if it happened today I would run up the hill towards him just so I could find out what it really was if I ever see him again I will but it’s been over 30 years years and still no
Sign of them thanks again for all the great work you do I know your listeners appreciate it very Much I am excited to finally be submitting my story I’ve been hesitant to write in because I’m certain that once I do there are people around my community that will instantly recognize who I am and of course that’s when the ribbing will begin I’ve decided though
That I’m ready to face the jokes in the mockery if it means adding my voice to the chorus that makes up the True Believers of the Jersey Devil as an animal control officer I’ve dealt with my fair share of weird phone calls over the years nothing will ever top the call
I received on August 2nd of 2017 though because that’s the day I came to believe firmly in the beast in question that morning when I first got to work I had a note on my desk from a girl who worked dispatch she scribbled down an address
And wrote simply blind woman big bird I recognized the address right off and my mind was officially jogged by the reference to the blind woman I’d been there a few weeks before because she had a similar complaint since the first call I started taking notice when I drove by
Her house that the old woman spent a lot of time sitting out on her porch I guess she liked the fresh air or the sounds of the outdoors she had been sitting outside every time I had driven by since that first day and that’s where she was
The first day I came by too she had told me then that sometimes when she sits on her back porch something very large flies close by the house and that the sound of its wings was very loud and had actually created enough wind to knock a
Book of Braille poetry out of her hands I didn’t know that I believed the second part but I did know that certain species of birds of prey can be very large and sound even bigger than they really are I searched the property after the first call but found no sign sign of anything
Taking up residency and told her that more than likely it was a falcon or a hawk swooping down in her yard for a squirrel and she shouldn’t be too concerned now staring at the note I figured she’d heard it again you know how sometimes you just know something is
About to turn into a bigger ordeal than you want to deal with that’s exactly how I felt in that moment I had dealt with her once before and she wasn’t happy with my inability to fix the problem I had no doubt my mind that she she was
Going to be equally upset when I came back out and had similar results still it’s my job so I got my stuff together and drove to her house when I got there she wasn’t sitting on her front porch though as she usually did instead she was sitting inside the house it was
Nearing dusk at the time so I thought maybe she was just avoiding mosquitoes or getting ready to have dinner she soon let me know that I was wrong and she said that thing swooped back down while I was out on the porch and knocked the
Book out of my hands again I told her that sometimes large birds of prey will Patrol certain areas and that isn’t uncommon to see one swoop the same place more than once but nothing was living on her property as far as I could tell it got my cat she interrupted I was stunned
But as sad as it was there’s nothing uncommon about a bird of prey swooping up a pet either she pulled it off the porch she said now that was something that I couldn’t rationalize as big and fearless as a birds of prey are they rarely risk interacting with
People if she had been sitting on that porch there’s no way one would have come up and grabbed the cat I asked her to show me where she had been sitting and that’s when I walked into a gruesome sight I was glad the old woman couldn’t
See the blood and the fur smeared and splayed across the porch or the deep scratches in the wood from claws or whatever had grabbed it I asked her did this thing make a sound have a smell anything else you can tell me I couldn’t imagine what we might be
Dealing with after seeing this mess that left in its wake it smelled like sulfur she said and it was hot there was heat rolling off of it it was then that I saw feathers three or four large black feathers stuck out from between the planks of the back porch I reached down
And grabbed them pulling them free each was at least 2 ft long there’s not a bird in the area they could have fallen off of the old woman asked me it’s that damn Jersey devil isn’t it I could have assured her to the best of my ability
That it wasn’t I could have come up with some other excuse as to what it could have been and save her from the terror but I couldn’t lie to an old woman I told her that the Jersey Devil was the only reasonable explanation and that I
Didn’t think she should sit on her porch alone anymore a few weeks later a young man came into the station and asked to speak to me he introduced him himself as the old woman’s grandson instead he had set up a ring camera on the back porch hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever
Had been swooping back there when he showed me the picture on his phone there wasn’t much mistaking what it was a large black mass and two glowing eyes stared into the camera from the middle of the yard as if it knew the camera was there watching it I asked him to email
It to me but he never did a few days later the house had a for sale sign in the yard and I never heard anything from those people again I think I would have moved Too I really enjoyed listening to all the stories you post I usually listen to them in the evenings when I have a fireo I honestly never dreamed I would have a story to contribute though a few years ago I jumped on the van life Trend I was
Between jobs and I’d saved up enough money to be a free spirit for a while I’ve always been adventurous and pictured myself traveling around the United States I was finally able to buy a pop top van and then it felt like the whole world opened up to me it took a
While to get some repairs done on it and get everything I needed for an extended trip but when I was ready I started up in Washington state and I kept going down the coast of Oregon in California my dream was to follow the Sun so I would never really have to deal with
Winter temperatures so when November came around I had landed in Arizona the sun felt so good it was around 75° out I was used to freezing temperatures in snow by that time of year I had never spent any time in Arizona so I was really unfamiliar with the area I was
Fascinated with the Saro Cactus so I ended up going through the sawaro national park the things were like 30 or 40 ft tall I realized they were covered with these little spines and some of them had an incredible number of arms they really seemed unworldly then someone mentioned cornado national
Forest and I thought I would Camp there for a while national forests are typically free to camp in and I was trying to save money I was planning to be there for several days I arrived on a weekend and found myself a spot that looked good there were a few other
Campers close by which made me feel pretty comfortable it was fun for me to just putter around my campsite and get situated when I was ready to look around the area I found found a good trail and I set out I really loved the terrain I had grown up in a completely different
Area so this was all new to me I grew up in Colorado when I was used to the mountain life this desert area was really enthralling to experience it was a strange new land after hiking a couple hours I started to head back toward my campsite not long after I started
Walking back down the trail something caught my eye in the middle of these trees I could see this strange reptilian creature moving back and forth through the brush I was so startled to see it I just stared for a while and then it turned its head and looked right at me
With these piercing yellow eyes I immediately started to walk at a fast pace toward my van this creature was moving along as well keeping its distance but still tracking me this kept up for what seemed like 10 minutes until I reached this clearing where I was
Parked I got back to the campsite very shaken and nervous all my years growing up in the mountains I had never seen anything comparable to that from what I could gather it was very large and it had stood up on its hind legs it seemed
To be about 5T tall when it was upright and had these large black claws it had a head like a lizard the weird thing was when it looked at me it almost felt malicious obviously I was a complete novice to the area and had no idea what
There but that did not seem right at all I mean surely I would have heard about a 5ft tall lizard before there would have to be some kind of information posted on that kind of a thing right the rest of the evening was very quiet and peaceful
Until around 2: in the morning when I heard what sounded like this strange mix of hissing and clicking I had my windows open and it was loud enough to wake me up I noticed a few other campers were outside looking a a couple of them came out and were Milling around and talking
As well I went outside and I walked over to them someone said it was just some kind of insect or something but that sound was not like anything else I’ve ever heard before we listened for a while but then the sound seemed to move away I mentioned what i’ had seen
Earlier and they looked at me like I was a little nuts so it wasn’t just me the thing that I had seen wasn’t anything anyone was familiar with we eventually all went back to our RV V I tried to sleep but felt very uneasy the next
Morning I woke up around 8:00 a.m. when I stepped out of the van a woman came to me and asked if I had heard these weird noises I said that I did and I had no idea what it was the woman who was camping nearby said she heard of a few
Sightings of a lizard man recently I have never heard of such thing and if anyone have mentioned it before I wouldn’t have believed it at all well after that I just wanted to leave as as soon as possible now I’m not sure what to think I decided that I would go ahead
And head further east and try my luck in New Mexico I tried to find information on this lizard man but there isn’t really much to go on I thought you might want to get the word out there and see if any of your listeners have any ideas what this could have Been when I started attending college in Boston I spent my freshman year in the dorms it was a valuable experience overall but it just wasn’t for me I didn’t realize what an introvert I was until I was surrounded by people in activity 24/7 so I decided to find an apartment
For my second year after a bit of looking I finally found someone who seemed compatible who was looking for a roommate the place was a little farther from the college than I liked but I decided to go with it before I signed the lease my roommate told me that the
Building was built on the site of an old mental hospital she said she wanted me to be fully informed ahead of time I guess I thought it was a nice gesture but I also wondered if I had been better off not knowing I asked her if that information had affected her somehow she
Said not really but sometimes she got strange feelings when going in and out of the building and that she’d also heard some weird sounds on occasion I didn’t really believe in all of that stuff I was just happy to be out of the crazy party atmosphere at the DOR too
Many freshmen apparently had been overprotected in high school and were going crazy without their parents around anyway there were a few other students living in the building so we got a group together for car pulling back and forth to school one evening we had all decided
To go into town two of us were waiting in the lobby for the rest of the group to get downstairs I was just standing there looking around the lobby as I never really stopped there much before and I noticed that there was this Closet near
The front door and it was a bit open I mean I assumed it was a closet door it wasn’t labeled or anything and I’d never seen it open anyway I went over to take a peek inside and it was open turns out it wasn’t a closet it was a Stairway I
Called to my friend who was waiting with me we looked down into the darkness but there was no light switch at the top to turn on we then looked at each other and said what the hell and we both headed down the stairs we walked down slowly me
Going first feeling along the wall the entire way down eventually I felt a light switch at the bottom which I flipped on part of me didn’t expect it to work but I was pleasantly surprised when it did we stopped and looked Straight Ahead both of us looking into
What looked like the entrance to a tunnel that really surprised us but then we heard others upstairs in the lobby and agreed that we didn’t have time to check it out right then we went back up the stairs and found the others waiting there we had told them about the
Stairway and everyone agreed that we should check it out when we got back so we headed out and spent a few hours eating and talking about school then we decided to head back home when we got back we all agreed we still wanted to check out the tunnel so all five of us
Went down there together to explore we followed the tunnel for quite a while and then we came out into what looked like a hospital room but like a really old one one not modern at all there were hospital beds and bed pans and a variety of hospital equipment but really old
Style stuff like metal and no plastic anywhere we found a closet full of straight jackets in fact we only knew what they were from seeing them in movies it was all very strange but in addition there was also something out of place and then it dawned on me even
Though the instruments were old a lot of them were laid out on trays and looked really clean like someone was getting ready to use them and on one of the counters I found an old note saying give 300 mg if any problems I wasn’t sure
What it was but I was thinking 300 mg could be a lot depending on what it was there were all these old wheelchairs lined up along the walls and there was a bicycle down there but it didn’t look that old we wandered around not knowing
What to think of it all sort of in total surprise and taking it off in there were a lot of rooms it sort of seemed abandoned and yet the electricity worked in all the rooms finally we got to a far room when we opened the door it smelled
Terrible my friend reached around and flicked on the light and instantly we notice what looked like huge paw prints on the wall I don’t know anything about animal tracks but these things were too big to belong to anything average sized there was an examination table in there
And there was blood on the walls the room really freaked me out I was imagining something trying to escape from the exam room like there had been a fight and that caused the handprints on the walls I think what really freaked me out is the smell kind of seemed Fresh
Then I heard one of my friends shouting I ran toward his voice he had gone all the way down to the far end of the hallway and reached a place where the tunnel resumed I heard this loud growling coming from where he was and as
I approached him I could see a gate with iron bars closing off the tunnel looking further I could see that some kind of Beast was behind the gate it started howling and snarling and throwing itself against the bars it looked incredibly angry it was trying to break down the
Gate its teeth were incredible I swear it had a double row of teeth and these horrible fangs it was standing upright and it was massively hairy but I couldn’t even figure out what it was if it was an animal or a demon or even a mutant human it had a short
Snout and a big humped back it had to be over 6 ft tall but not much more and the smell was unbearable now that we were closer like rotting meat we stared at each other none of us saying much just Breathing heavily and finally I yelled
Let’s get the hell out of here we ran back towards the stairs in the lobby back past all the rooms and back through the tunnel until we finally reached the stairway we stopped there and all I could say was what in the hell was that my roommate was like what are we going
To do we ended up back in our apartment and thought about who to call at this hour we figured only the police would respond so we ended up calling them when they arrived two officers headed down the stairway and were gone for at least 20 or more minutes all we could hear
Down there was them calling out hello but nothing else eventually they both came back up looking like they had seen a ghost then they taped everything off and took all of our contact information all five of us they sent us back upstairs and said they would get a hold
Of us later but we never heard from them again we tried to access a police report about that night but we can’t find anything we were told that someone will get in touch with us about it but we were never called we’ve tried going there and getting it ourselves too but
Everything just leads to a dead end some of us have even given up and moved on but me I’m going to keep trying to get some Answers hi Donovan this story took place when I was about 16 it was 2009 in South Carolina a little early in the morning before the sun came up every morning I would take our dog out to his Runner before I left for school so he could
Have some time outside my mom was home that day so she was able to watch him while he was out there I noticed no while on the way out to the runner I saw over the trees to my left a set of three lights spaced out evenly that I had
Never seen before in that direction we lived in a very rural area so there were no big buildings no water towers in that direction nothing other than Woods I’d lived there for years so I really know what’s in that area I noticed them since the lights weren’t that far away I tried
To listen to a sound as to try to figure out what those things were being down in South Carolina we do have a lot of Naval and air bases in the area so I tried to see if it was some type of plane even though the planes I’ve seen never had
Those type of Lights I should also mention that the lights did periodically turn off and came back on in order from left to right I stood there quietly for about 3 minutes staring at these lights noticing that there’s no sound they don’t move in any direction I eventually
Had to take the dog to the runner so I could catch my bik bus in time so the runner was about 25 ft away from the spot I was standing in from the runner I could not see the area where the lights were so I made sure to clip him quickly
And run back to the spot so I’d have a chance to watch it for another moment before my bus came it was a very short span of time I’d say about 30 seconds and by the time I rushed back to the spot the lights were gone with the
Lights I’ve seen from other people’s encounters and pictures I can definitely say that this was a UFO spacecraft and also my first that I’ve seen I’ve never saw those lights in that area again I did mention it to my mother since she and I always believed in things that
Weren’t believed by many others she never mentioned that she saw anything like that but at least if she ever saw them she would know that she’s not the only one looking back now even though it was early morning I heard no birds or wildlife in the area my dog was noticing
My behavior but I feel feel he also sense something was not quite right thank you for telling our stories Donovan be safe and take care me and my family have been in the atcha Fila Basin hundreds of years I guess far back as we can figure we’ve been shrimping crabbing
And crawfish in these parts living on a house booat with power from a generator ever since I can remember I’ve been hearing stories about the L Guru I think it’s the same thing other people call a dog man I was told the lugaru mostly goes after kids who are bad so I always
Thought it was just a story people made up to keep their kids in line now I’m not so sure about that see my brother Jim and I got a shrimp boat and we go out before the sun rises until after the sun sets during shrimp season you got to
Get them during those few weeks because after that they’re gone for the year the rest of the year we can get crabs and crawfish but we make most of our money from the shrimp it’s a lot of work tossing that net out of the boat hauling
It back in and getting the shrimp out of it I don’t pay a lot of attention to what’s out there in the swamp but every once in a while late at night we hear a howl and Jim will say that’s the lugaro I never believed him but I also can’t
Explain the noise because it doesn’t sound like a dog a wolf or coyote I never thought about it too much until we started bringing Timmy along Timmy is Jim’s kid he’s a 11 but he caught on quick to sorting out the shrimp we keep from all the other stuff that gets
Caught in the net like turtles and fish and whatever I heard the howl more often when Timmy started joining us Jim stopped saying that’s the luguru probably so he wouldn’t scare Timmy maybe that made me notice it even more I started ignoring it because we were hearing that howl every night it sounds
Weirdly humid it was creepy but I guess I got used to it besides we were busy like I said hauling in the Nets one late afternoon though we passed by this small piece of marshy land and I saw something standing on it like near the water I
Thought it was a person but it had these weird curved legs then it threw back its head first I noticed this long doglike snout then I heard the howl Jim was driving the boat and he must have heard it over the engine cuz he turned in the
Other direction as fast as he could which wasn’t that fast I had plenty of time to see the thing lower its head and stare at us with these yellow demonic eyes I felt like it was looking at Timmy he behind me I hoped he didn’t notice
The thing but I guess he did because he looked scared too we were headed toward another shrimping spot and when we got there we all started working like nothing happened Jim took a different rout back because we finished for the night we wouldn’t pass by that spot
Again if we could help it but then on the way back I saw it again its fur looked all silver in the full moon I didn’t even think about there being a full moon right then it almost looked like the moon was a spotlight trained on it I could see everything these big
Muscles under this thick fur and pointy doglike ears I’m pretty sure it was taller than a person too maybe seven 7 and 1/2 ft tall judging by the trees near it so that was scary enough but then it showed its teeth they glinted like swords in the Moonlight they were
Huge I could imagine the hole they would make in a person Jim turned the boat again but just as he did this thing leaped into the air and sailed towards us it was a long jump maybe 10 ft I thought there was no way that it would
Make it to the boat you can guess I wouldn’t be telling this if it didn’t make it it did just barely it slammed into the side of the boat with its front legs gripping the side and the back legs dangling below I stood there Frozen watching it try to scramble up I think
My brain wouldn’t process what was going on but I finally caught on to the fact that if I didn’t move quick that thing would be up on the deck attacking us I ran over to the deck and started kicking at its front legs it snared at me and
Pulled its head up trying to bite my feet all this time Jim was driving the boat as fast fast as it will go which really isn’t that fast plus he had to watch out not to ground the boat in this marsh land can kind of sneak up on you
Even though we weren’t going that fast that thing must have been really strong to hang on while we were moving I had on thick rubber shrimp boots but one of those teeth caught and made a hole in it later on I doubted what really happened
I looked at the hole in those boots and I knew it was real after it made the hole I used the bottom of the boot to kick harder right into its face it tried to bite the boot again but the bottom was too hard it couldn’t get a grip I managed to pull
My foot back and kick it again this time I must have somehow gotten it exactly in the right spot because it fell back into the water I didn’t see it come back up but I think it probably did I reckon at some point I’ll see it again I got a
Feeling it’s not gone forever I’m not sure how to tell this story in any way that anyone will believe as far as I know I’m the only person to ever come across this creature nobody I’ve ever talked to has ever even heard of the thing and I can’t find anything online where it’s run into anyone else I
Still don’t know what I saw though I saw plainly with my own eyes in broad daylight so there’s no way I confused it with anything else let me back up for for a minute I’m a longtime listener of your show and I tune in regularly from my home in Arkansas this story though
Takes place a little east of home on Real Foot Lake in the Northwestern corner of Tennessee I love to fish and I was out in the lake one day last summer trying my hardest to hook a couple big catfish for a fish fry I’d promis my brothers who had promised to come visit
Me the next weekend the fish finder on my boat was telling me that there were several large fish swimming directly underneath me so even though it was the hottest part of the day I was hungry and thirsty and about out of ice water I wasn’t moving until I at least caught
One or two it was a sweltering hot day and I was all alone on the boat in fact I hadn’t seen another boat in well over an hour by the time I saw what I saw I grabbed the last bottle of ice water I
Had out of the cooler and took a seat at the front of the boat I cast it out my line and sat quiet waiting for a tug on my line as I wiped the sweat off my face something came up and bumped the underside of the bat it
Was a fairly hard bump enough to knock me out of my seat and definitely hard enough that I felt I needed to scoot over and look down into the water to try to figure out what it was at my first glance I couldn’t see anything I gave up
Scanning the water for something big and went back to my seat to take another Swig of my ice water I figured must have been just a tree underneath the water surface that I just passed over now just as I almost sat back down though there was another major bump under the boat
This time I dropped my water bottle spilling the last of it out into the bottom of the boat as you can imagine this made me pretty mad so I went back to the boat’s Edge to search again this time I was committed to find the culprit
Even if it was hard for me to see I decided to grab one of the ores and pushed around under the boat a minute to see if I could get anything to come up when I stuck The Ore under the boat though something grabbed onto it tight
Only for a second or two then I pulled the ore back up to find the entire paddle of it was missing whatever was under my boat it bit that thing clear in two this is about the time I decided to go ahead and start the boat motor and
Get the hell out of there I couldn’t imagine what it might be my initial thought was that some Tennessee hillbilly wacko had cut loose a pet alligator or something the motor turned over only once before it died I tried again and it died again the third time I
Couldn’t even get it to turn over I pulled the prop out of the water to see if something was stuck and saw that all the blades were bent I picked up my phone to call for help and that’s when the damn thing started to come up for
Air under my boat and I am not kidding you on this there was a snapping turtle at least 15 ft wide well it looked like a snapping turtle but I’m not exactly sure what it was its head was as big as my torso I know that sounds ridiculous
But it was there right in front of me I was so afraid that this thing was going to tip over my boat then it submerged itself back into the water and my boat was about to tip over from the current of this thing submerging itself I took
Out my other ore and finally got myself to shore it took me a while my way back to the shore with only one ore and no motor keep in mind it was hot as hell that day I was so dehydrated by the time I got to the shore none of my friends
Believe me but I swear that’s what I Saw I work as a janitor at a high school in Atlanta Georgia and there’s a small graveyard across the street I thought it looked pretty old I never bothered to go look at the gravestones until until I had a reason to I’ll get to that reason
In a minute I started working there a few months ago and for the first month it was a normal job I come in around 3:00 after school’s done for the day clean until 8 or so or whenever I finish up it was pretty boring and as you can
Imagine I usually listen to a podcast or music whatever I’m in the mood for as it happens when things started to get strange I was listening to a mystery podcast probably because it was around Halloween so I’m listening to this creepy story and I turn around with my
Mop in my hand and trip over this white cat we get a lot of stray cats around here since the winters are so mild but I hardly ever see a white cat especially one like this that was all white it was long-haired and well fed looked like a
Pet not a stray I thought it was probably just visiting wandering around or whatever and it would go home soon when I left left it walked out and down the street cool as you please toward the graveyard it disappeared into the graveyard I thought it must have gone to
One of the houses behind it since it did look like somebody’s pet I didn’t expect to see it again but it showed up again the next night and trailed me for my whole shift so now I’m thinking it had to be lost or it’s astray I took a
Picture of it and put it up on the lost animals social media Pages just in case face when I went out to my truck to go home it went off toward the graveyard again the day after that I brought a can of cat food with me and when the cat
Showed up I opened the can and put it in front of it the cat just walked away from it I thought maybe it didn’t like the food so I brought some tuna next time every cat likes tuna not this one though I still didn’t think there was
Anything weird about the cat though I hadn’t figured out what was going on I I just thought someone else might be feeding it but if that was true then why was it hanging around sure it was a little chilly outside especially at night but if it was cold why did it
Always leave when I did maybe I thought it wanted attention so I decided to try to pet it but every time I reached down it managed to side step and avoid my hand I kept trying though and I finally got it cornered it wasn’t scared like it
Didn’t hiss or anything but it gave me this look as if it was saying do you really want to do this and I reached for it but my hand went right through I couldn’t believe it I reached out again and it Sid stepped that was when I had
The thought this is not a real cat okay so what is it and what did it want I felt like it wanted something because it kept coming around and following me not food not attention so what I felt like it was trying to tell me something every night it walked back toward the
Graveyard so one night I followed it but when I got to the graveyard it walked behind one of the stones and was gone since I was already there I started to look at those stones they were kind of messed up dirty and so on but it was
Dark so I really couldn’t read them I looked around trying to figure out where that cat could have gone there are a couple houses past the cemetery I guessed it must have gone to one of them I tried not to think about the fact that it looked like it just disappeared I
Couldn’t help it though I kept thinking about that cemetery finally one Saturday I decided to clean it up I loaded up the truck with everything that I thought I need a weed trimmer bleach cloths a pressure washer I never cleaned gravestones before but I cleaned everything else so I figured I could
Handle it I wasn’t out there 10 minutes before people started to showing up to help one lady even brought flowers to put on the graves when we were done I asked if a few people if they knew anyone who lost a white cat no one did
But a couple people said they had seen one hanging around the graveyard never during the day though only at night when we were done the place looked great before we left I took a look at the stone the cat had disappeared behind the name didn’t mean anything to me but an
Old guy behind me said I knew him he was a janitor at the school I saw that he died in 1955 age 72 on M day the cat didn’t show up I kind of missed it as I cleaned I mean it never did anything except for follow me around while I worked but
Still it was some kind of company I found myself looking for it every time I finished cleaning one room and started another when it was time to leave I stood outside for a minute looking toward the graveyard finally I saw the cat walking toward me it didn’t come all
The way just up to the sidewalk it meowed the first time I ever heard heard to do that then it went back to the graveyard I never saw it again but once every few months I go over to the graveyard and clean off those stones you
Know I think that’s all it wanted me to Do I want to start by saying I love your show I’m a bit of a recluse and I live in a cabin about 30 Acres outside of Paduka Kentucky in a wooded area my wife and I believe and self- sustaining and get a lot of our food from natural
Resources around us this is why I was out in the woods alone on the morning of June 12th 2019 I was hunting rabbits to make my wife’s favorite rabbit stew for her birthday I know what you’re thinking a crazy couple living in the woods eating rabbit stew for a birthday celebration
Probably aren’t the most reliable source for a story about a Sasquatch but let me challenge that who better would know what goes on out in the woods than us we’re here all of the time given that it was no surprise to me that I ran into one on that June morning we’d seen
Evidence of them long before that hair caught in high hanging tree branches large footprints in the mud even a few crude tools made from hollowed out tree trunks with sharpened rocks we knew they were out there but we never went looking for them specifically we respected their peace and they respected ours
As I was hunting rabbit though that morning I heard this slight rustling in the bushes in the woods when I aimed the gun though thinking it was a rabbit about to hop into my line of sight I noticed instead a hairy little foot pulling itself back under the brush to
Hide it was small child-sized and I knew there was only one explanation for it although I couldn’t see it I was standing within feet of a baby Sasquatch you know what they say about don’t mess with the baby bear because Mama’s somewhere watching that’s exactly what I
Was thinking right then as much as I wanted to poke through and take a look I didn’t want to put myself into any danger I kept my eye out but didn’t see any adults not even as I slowly walked away from where the baby was hiding when
I got pretty far from the bush I yelled out Simply you’re safe baby I wouldn’t hurt you then I turned and headed back toward the house I heard a strange sound from behind me when I turned a sort of a cing or a woo sound but I
Didn’t turn back to look I did manage to get a rabbit on the way home and made the stew my wife and I sat on the porch that night looking at the stars and I told her all about that baby Sasquatch I run into earlier as I was talking we
Looked out across our small yard and noticed something strange move in the distance it was hard to make it out at first so I grabbed some binoculars from inside sure enough at the edge of the tree line that baby Sasquatch stood watching us I guess its curiosity had been peaked
During our runin earlier in that day I passed the binoculars to my wife and she also took a look we waved at the little guy but it caused him to turn and leave that night my wife and I left fruit and bread on the back step and Casey came
Back it was gone the next morning we’ve been leaving treats out for our friend ever since we haven’t been able to get an up close look at him but we do do see him from time to time at a distance he’s grown up to be over 5 ft tall now and
Has learned to wave back at us when we wave to them in general Sasquatches seem to be gentle and carrying breed all around it’s my firm belief that if people didn’t spend so much time hunting for them they wouldn’t be as scared and we would probably see them a lot more Often okay now on to the picture that Cory sent in from his Trail camp and thank you Cory for sending this in here’s what Cory stated in his email howdy Donovan here’s a picture of a possible hellhound that I caught on my trail camera standing beside my gut pit
I’m a Hunter and Butcher and logger by trade if you look closely you can see the eye shine in the ears and the muzzle they’re all similar to a Rottweiler sincerely Corey now if you can’t see what Cory is referring to then take a look at this outline I did in Photoshop
Let me know what you think about this in the comments below did Corey capture a hellhound on his trail cam if not what do you think this is I would love to hear your thoughts I have a story to tell that it could potentially get me
Into some trouble so I’m going to leave out any clearly identifying details in the hopes it stays Anonymous enough that there won’t be any blowback what I will say is this this many years ago I worked as a detective for the State Police in a state where there are several Native American
Reservations often we would get called to assist the reservation police on cases that were too complicated for them to solve with their limited resources as with most things on the reservation their police forces are often underfunded and limited staffed this particular case was what appeared to be
A homicide a guy from the res obervation one that none of the neighbors particularly liked was found evidently beaten to death out in the middle of an otherwise empty field he was wearing sweats and a t-shirt no shoes and looked like he had been pulled right off the
Couch except for the fact that the bottoms of his feet were so worn out he had been running for a long time before whatever happened out there happened that was the only strange thing about this case though it had rained earlier in the day and we were able to find his
Footprints in the mud several places leading from his house to the open area where his body was found the back door of his house was wide open when we got there and his barefooted tracks were in the mud right from the start he hadn’t been pulled off the couch he was chased
Off the couch only there was only one set of human Footprints I repeat only one human set ATT track at several points along the way we also found what appeared to be large deer tracks running alongside his when I say large deer tracks I don’t mean large like an ALK I
Mean large like a humanized foot but hooved like a deer these tracks were also in the front yard though in fact right by the living room window which had been shattered from the outside the general consensus among most of the investigators was that someone had come to settle a score with him
And since it was close to Halloween the Assumption was that they’ been wearing some kind of costume to freak him out it was his brother who told me there was another explanation but once you hear it you understand why I never bothered to present it to my co-workers as a
Possibility it’s absolutely crazy sounding but my personal belief is that it is true you see this guy had been poaching for as long as he had been old enough to hold a gun he didn’t have a lot of respect for what Wildlife or game laws and use some pretty unethical
Hunting practices like baiting and spotlighting deer while out on his hunts he told his brother that one night he was out trying to bait a bucket when he came face to face with a wendigo but somehow managed to escape the problem with escaping a wendigo though is that
According to Folklore you never really do once a wendigo has set its sights on you it doesn’t give up this guy had about made himself crazy over the last few months telling his brother about how this wendigo was following him around he quit his job over it when the thing kept
Showing up at work he’d even stopped leaving the house for the most part and i’ been pretty close to a Hermit status at the time he was killed the brother’s thoughts was that the wendigo got tired of waiting for the guy to come back out of his house and took matters into its
Own hands breaking out the front window and running the guy out the back door I know what you’re thinking the guy was a c afraid of a wendigo the proof for me is in what was found in the broken glass of that broken window Not only was there
Blood and short deer hairs all cut up in the glass but at one place in the shattered remains of the glass there was a thin strip of satin the exact kind you pull off a deer’s antlers this guy messed around poaching animals under unfair and horrifying circumstances and
In the the end he got exactly what he deserved in Return in the winter of 2002 I was a police officer in Athens Ohio home of Ohio University as any cop in a small college town will tell you Thursday nights can get a little wild most of the kids leave campus on Friday night to head home and visit their parents so
Thursday nights rain as Party nights on campuses I want to say it was mid December and the last Thursday before finals week and subsequent Christmas break making it the wildest Thursday night of the year Ohio University is home to four fraternities and three sororities needless to say most of our
Thursday night calls most of our Thursday night calls centered around the inhabitants of one of the more popular frat houses in recent months most of our calls to that fraternity have been centered around a series of practical jokes played on the elderly man who lived across the alley he had made a few
Noise complaints and it had created a sort of an ongoing battle between him and the fraternity I personally had been called out at least a half dozen times to deal with these issues and I can’t even begin to guess how many other officers had been sent to deal with the
Same stuff on their shifts the old guy’s name was Eugene and it would be unfair of me to make him out as some sweet innocent man Fallen victim to the immaturity of boys that lived in the Frat House Eugene was a troublemaker too and had a rap sheet as long as my arm
From a lifetime of petty crime and he certainly got his own blows in during the dispute between the fraternity poisoning Eugene’s garden with Roundup and Eugene hitting the back windows of their house with the pelicon there were at least a dozen other instances of back and forth Jabs that had turned from
Humorous to downright uncivil over time a few weeks before the night in question though the battle came to an abrupt end when Eugene suffered a heart attack and died watching a football game at his sister’s house the whole street had been quiet since he left and somewhat ironically the fraternity had held off
Their partying for a few weeks out of respect for Eugene it seemed like a worthless gesture since what he really would have liked was for the partying to let up while he was alive but myself and the other officers appreciated a few weeks of quiet patrols I knew they
Wouldn’t skip the Friday before finals though so I was ready to handle some more complaints when I checked in to work that night it wasn’t long before I got the first call out to the fraternity not by neighbor reporting noise though this call from the boys at the Frat
House themselves when I got there they told me they’d been setting up for a party and someone had stolen a keg off the back porch I chocked it up to a college prank and told them the keg would likely resurface later or at another frat party they weren’t happy
With me but they couldn’t argue They Knew by now how these things worked I got back into my car and answered a couple more calls a domestic dispute across town in a Christmas tree that had caught fire then I was getting ready to park and wait for my next interaction I
Got dispatched back to the fraternity a second time again the call came from the Frat Boys themselves when I got there everyone was huddled in the living room toward the front of the house the back door which faced the alley had been blown right off its hinges and was
Laying flat on the floor in the kitchen the door facing and all was still attached I asked what happened but nobody seemed to really know they were hanging out and drinking they said when suddenly the whole thing flew into the house like a gust of wind had hit it but
There hadn’t been any strong winds the streamers on the back porch were still undisturbed I looked at the door and there was no evidence that it had been kicked in it was really puzzling to me it was really puzzling and I was beginning to wonder if the partyers
Weren’t playing a prank on me it was about that time that someone who was standing and looking out the hole where the back door used to be noticed someone walking in Eugene’s backyard I turned and looked just in time to catch it too it was clearly a person hunched over and
Sneaking behind the old shed behind Eugene’s place so I called out out for them to stop I knew nobody was supposed to be over there I talked to Eugene’s sister just the day before and she told me she wasn’t planning to start cleaning the house until after Christmas passed
The figure never came back though nor did they emerge from the other side I decided to head over and have a look the snow had been falling on a few separate occasions since Eugene passed in his backyard was blanketed in snow there weren’t even squirrel tracks anywhere to
Be seen and certainly not adult human Footprints either there was no person hiding behind the shed and there was no indication that anyone had been over there at all I Shrugged it off thinking maybe me and the witness both had been seeing things Shadows from all the Christmas lights and trees around the
Area but as I turned with my flashlight I caught a glimpse of something through the window of the shed there in the floor in the middle of that lock shed sat the stolen keg from earlier I knew it was the same keg because they fraternity name was written in black
Marker on the side of it when they put it on reserve I never told the kids I just left it there and let Eugene have the last Word hi Donovan I’ve really been loving your channel I always thought there were crazy things happening behind the scenes of normal life and I love that so many people are willing to contribute here when I was in college and in the Washington DC area I work parttime at a
Country club it was nice to have extra cash but I also got golfing privileges with the job one night we were closing up which entailed cleaning the last few things and setting things out for the morning I was working in the dining room and looking out the window outside the
Room we worked in was a small hill that overlooked a golf course I saw that my coworker had apparently finished what he was doing and was out there messing around with The Club at the top of the hill the window was open and I heard him
Calling down and asking us to come look because he thought he was seeing things there were around four or five of us that night and we climbed up the hill and looked off down the course it was a typical clear summer night with a fair
Number of stars out but one of the Stars looked too close and it was moving at first we figured it must have been a plane but it was changing directions in a way too extreme dream of a fashion it would hover and then Dart all the way
Across our field of view we couldn’t tell how far away it was and we couldn’t rationalize how any conventional aircraft could do what we were seeing after watching it for a good 5 minutes or so we convinced ourselves that maybe it was just some kind of optical
Illusion or something we left the hill and finished up closing when we were done we went up the hill again to see if it was still there it was and now it was either bright or it was closer at that point we decided we wanted to stick around to
Watch this thing a couple of the people that we were with went inside to get food for us and the rest of us just sat down on the hill and watched for another 15 minutes or so we watched this thing go from side to side across the sky and
Then it hovered in place and we all agreed it seemed like it was getting closer at around the time our friends came back the light changed it seemed like it was spiraling it was definitely getting closer it seemed to be coming toward the country club but then it
Suddenly stopped in midair its lights got bigger and bigger it very rapidly appeared to be losing altitude and then again it just stopped switching directions completely and then accelerating faster than anything I’ve ever seen in the complete opposite direction we were mesmerized we ate our food and when we were done for some
Crazy reason we decided to start running toward it to see if we could get a better look we ran down the hill and up the Fairway toward the light it veered over the woods alongside the course and we ran after it at this point we were
Following it and the woods were lit up enough from the glow that you didn’t need to worry about running into the trees we were all excited and yelling about what it could be but I think that was mainly to cover up the fact that we were all actually really nervous but no
One wanted to admit it all of a sudden it stopped and zoomed down sort of above us not directly but enough to really freak us out and then it just hovered there it was low enough now that we could see these five red circles in the bottom there were two circles sitting
Above three others like in a trapezoid shape it was making a loud sort of thrusting sound after it hovered there for a few minutes the light shut off and it went completely silent we could still see the shape of where it was like a pitch black darkness above us and then
After a few more minutes of just hovering there it zoomed off Over the Horizon with these five red lights at the rear it flew Like a Rock from a slingshot it was over the horizon in just a few seconds in the dark it looked like a short fat triangle and then there
Was nothing we were all gasping from running while we were standing there trying to make sense of it all all of the sudden these two fighter jets flew over at extremely low altitude right over our heads about 3 minutes later we all saw multiple military jets and helicopters traveling in the same
Direction the lights had disappeared at that point we all just silently agreed to go back to the club of course we never saw anything mentioned on the news or anything like that I’ve thought about it often over the years I still keep in touch with a couple of the people that I
Was with that night and we all have the same memory of what happened I doubt we’ll ever get any satisfying answers about all the covert stuff that must be going on out there but I kind of want to see something like that again I’m always checking out the night sky just in Case I saw something out in Buzzard’s Bay in Massachusetts that really freaked me out my buddy and I were out fishing there last Sunday and we saw something break the surface about 20 ft away from us he said dolphin I said nah it’s a whale but
Then it got closer and we got another look it was a weird blue green color and when it rose up a little it looked like it had a hump on its back but it was shimmery and not the color of a whale or a dolphin a brighter color like those
Fancy tropical fish you can buy so we were thinking that it was some sort of floating trash that was reflecting the light I don’t know just bobbing up from the current or something but the weird thing was it kept getting closer to it us way faster than the current would
Bring it then it stopped it disappeared for a few minutes and I was guessing that it had sunk a few minutes later we’re just chilling kicking back with our rods and the strangest thing started happening the water began to swirl around us maybe in a 15 ft perimeter
With us in the middle little waves cresting and going in a circle around us I never saw anything like it and neither had my buddy cuz he sat right up saying saying what the hell at first I laughed because he’s this big guy and he looked a little nervous while I was thinking
There had to be a rational explanation like we were caught in a school of blue fish or something but it started getting closer like the circle was closing in on us the waves going around us seemed like they were getting taller not really tall But Rising enough to make me put down my
Rod and grab the side of the boat now my boat ain’t big it’s a 16-footer but the force from whatever this was started making the boat swivel too we weren’t spinning fast or anything but we were doing a circle by then we were both like
What the hell is going on here and I said you want to get out of here and he said yeah so I tried to fire up the motor which is a 60 horsepower Yamaha four stroke that I just got a year ago that thing’s never given me any trouble
But it wouldn’t start I mean completely dead the water was choppy and the boat had started rock roing a little cuz the waves were spinning us faster around I just gave up on the motor after about eight tries cuz I was freaking out now too we just needed to move now I grabbed
An ore and he grabbed the other one and we paddled right out of that spinning Circle I was pretty relieved because I had this terrible fear that the waves were going to get higher and trap us in yeah I know that sounds ridiculous but you had to be there we waited a few
Minutes and couldn’t even see the whirlpool thing anymore and my buddy said you want to go in I’m thinking that’s a long way to paddle and pretty soon someone’s going to come by it’s a well-traveled area and they could give us a toe and the weirdness had
Disappeared right so I just said let’s wait and we cast out our lines again it was just like 2 minutes later that something big took the bait and my rod bent almost double I’m thinking it’s a striper you know it was only 5 years ago when that fella caught a 65lb strip ER
Right here in Buzzard’s Bay whatever it was it was wicked big I was afraid if I didn’t tire out my rod was going to snap so I let it run a bit then reeled it in some I did that a few times it started going soft getting tired so I took up a
Lot of slack all at once pulling that sucker in right quick before it caught a second wind it got closer and closer and the damnest thing started happening the whirlpool thing was back circling around the boat I was like screw this I’m still getting my fish so I just kept pulling
It in but then suddenly I could see what I’d caught I saw it through the water about 6 ft down it was no damn fish this thing had a bunch of legs like an octopus maybe not eight I wasn’t stopping to count but more than four almost like tentacles and it was this
Iridescent color between blue and green the body wasn’t round either it was long and skinny and tapered on one end I yelled to my buddy to get his camera ready I needed him to get a picture as soon as I brought the thing up cuz I
Could already tell this was going to be one of those times no one will believe you unless you got a picture so he grabs his phone and leans over the side a bit then he sees it and says what in the hell is that as soon as he says that the
Thing rolls over and I can suddenly see its head I couldn’t believe it even though it was right in front of me this thing had a face not a human face but not a reptile face either like a human reptile crossbreed the only reference I can think of is the Creature from the
Black Lagoon except it had all these crazy tentacle legs the thing was looking right at me with these big flat black eyes and I froze I stopped pulling I didn’t want this thing any closer no way but I yelled to my buddy take a picture through the water now as soon as
I shouted one of the legs came right up and smacked hard into the side of the boat right next to where my friends leaning over I swear I thought this thing was going to grab a hold of him he stumbled back dropping his phone and
Making us Rock so hard I thought we were going to capsize that’s when I let my rod go crouching down and hanging on with both hands cuz no way did I want to be in the water with that thing the boat steadied so I leaned over to look over
The edge just a little I couldn’t see it anymore more it must have Dove down once I let the rod go but I decided to cut the line my buddy yelled what the hell are you doing but man that thing looked meaner than an eel and must have weighed
80 or 90 lbs just judging from its creepy face and the way it moved it seemed to have intelligence I wasn’t going to play around with it that was some sort of Supernatural something and I didn’t want to mess with it anyway the whirlpool around us was gone now too so
Maybe it creat created that somehow or maybe there was more of them around us jeez that’s a scary thought okay and another weird thing is when I tried to fire up the motor a minute later it worked it cranked up on the second try maybe a coincidence well that’s it if
Anyone else has seen anything weird out there in Buzzard’s Bay I would like to hear about It hey there Donovan this took place when I was in the military I was stationed at Camp Casey in South Korea I was a truck driver and had the night shift for about 2 weeks the roads were pretty empty at night one night I was driving down the road that ran parallel
To the DMZ which is where North Korea and South Korea meet there are no towns or villages in this area due to the fact that it is heavily guarded by both Count’s military forces this road runs from one end of Camp Casey to the other
About 10 m long I was driving along when my headlights caught something moving in front of me on the side of the road about 50 yards away I slowed down and tried to focus on what I was seeing it looked like a huge dog or a wolf running
Very fast it had long hair and was moving at a pretty good Pace I thought it may have been a wolf that escaped from one of the zoos in Soul about an hour away I watched this thing run across the road and disappear into the
Rice patties I came to a stop after I pointed my headlights off to the right of the road into the rice patties where this thing was I’m sitting there for maybe 20 seconds then I see this thing rise out of the rice patties I kid you
Not it was the same wolf that I saw run across the road the rice patties are about 3 or 4 ft tall and this thing’s torso started at the top of the rice patties it was there standing on two legs looking at me it’s eyes were reflecting in the headlights and looked
All weird I could tell it was looking at me trying to figure out its next move I could see it turning its head like it was thinking on what to do next it dropped back down and just took off I couldn’t see it after it moved out of
The headlights craziest thing I’ve ever seen Donovan it was this dark gray color from what I could tell and it had a big old head on it too hi Donovan your channel was recently recommended to me and I’ve been listening almost every day to all the weird encounters that people have it
Reminded me of something that happened to me back in the ’90s and I never been able to explain it I’ve always lived in an urban city in New York but after graduating from college I met someone with strong ties to the South when our relationship got serious I was asked to
Consider moving down to Georgia I was reluctant to do that because I had kind of a stereotypic view of Southerners but I was smitten enough to say yes to the move I moved to the outskirts of Savannah Georgia there was quite a bit of culture shock but I gradually got
Used to the area and fell in love with it I think I even started to develop a southern draw we eventually got engaged and started looking around at different areas trying to decide where we might want to buy a new home we wanted to stay pretty close to family my fiance’s
Family lived in a really old house the history of the place was incredible there was a lot of documented history about The house’s old owners and the activity surrounding the house there are a lot of underground tunnels in the area they’re pretty much blocked off now for
The most part though but at one point the house was a safe haven for slaves trying to flee from the south the winter after I moved down there my fiance’s parents were going to visit relatives in Switzerland for a couple weeks they asked if we would house it we were glad
To help out out a few nights in we were just staying home and having a quiet evening since it was cold and sleeing a little outside which is rare for the area we weren’t used to the weather being that cold we went upstairs to get cozy and just gotten into bed when we
Heard this loud bang it really startled us but we figured it must be a door closing because of the wind that was weird enough though because we were in the habit of keeping all the doors closed since it was a drafty house we turned the lights on and went downstairs
We looked all around when we got to the dining room we could not believe what we saw it’s one of those old fancy formal dining rooms the table in there was completely set with place settings I mean everything was laid out cloth napkins the nice old China their
Heirloom silver everything it was a 10-person table and everything looked perfect like a dinner party was about to happen but the thing is the table was never set nobody uses that room except for a rare holiday now and then the table was always empty except for a vase
Of artificial flowers in the middle we started freaking out and looking around to see if someone had gotten in my fiance tried to stay calm and decided to call the police we were convinced there had to be an intruder hiding somewhere we were waiting for the police and we
Went and checked the security system it was still set it would have gone off if a door or window was opened when the police came one one officer did a search of every room in the house and one walked around the entire house there were no signs at all that anyone had
Come up to the house or gotten inside the police had nothing to go on and to be honest I thought they were looking at us kind of weird anyway they finally took off we were just left there in disbelief trying to speculate what could possibly explain it I never believed in
Ghosts but I have no freaking idea what happened that night it’s really the strangest thing that I’ve ever experienced my fiance actually CAU his parents since it was morning in Switzerland by then his mom said the table wear was definitely not out before she said she couldn’t even remember the
Last time she used the formal China his parents were really worried that someone was hiding in the house we assured them that the police had been through every room and checked everywhere there wasn’t much else we could do about it so we thought we would just put everything
Away and try to get some sleep but first my fiance got out the Polaroid that his dad always kept in the kitchen and took a photo just to document the weirdness of the night we got everything back in the cabinets and went back to bed I kept
Hearing every little sound and it was hard to fall asleep but I eventually did when we came down the next morning of course the first thing we did was look into the dining room thank God nothing was out of place I saw the Polaroid picture laying there that we had
Forgotten about I picked it up up and looked at how crazy the table looked with all that China on it then in the corner of the photo I saw this blur like how it looks if you’re trying to take a picture of something running by really
Fast I looked at that corner of the room and there was nothing there to suggest any movement would have been picked up for some reason I got the chills running up and down my spine when I saw that my fiance agreed there was no explanation
For it at all as far as I know nothing else strange as has ever happened in the house to the family I don’t understand why on that one strange night those Spirits or whatever they were tried to freak us out like that I really avoided that room after That I only found your Channel about a month ago or so but I really wanted to thank you for it it makes me feel better to be able to listen to other people’s experiences when I was a kid I lived in Southern Ohio me and my sister had a
Babysitter who lived near the woods we were really close in age so we were probably nine and 10 years old at the time one day in the summer we were playing outside with a couple of other kids who were Babys sat there too I don’t remember why exactly but we ended
Up getting in a big argument with them over the rules of a game or something anyway my sister and I refused to keep playing with them so we decided to go pick some flowers that grew at the of the forest we wanted to get a bouquet to
Give to our babysitter there were these gorgeous white flowers that we loved we thought they were Queen an’s lace but we came to find out later that it was poison hemlock we knew we weren’t really supposed to be over there so close to the woods but we figured we’d just hang
Out there for a bit then go right back we somehow got onto the neighbor’s property while we were picking those flowers we noticed a path leading into the woods and for some reason we decided to check it out and see where it led there was nothing special about the path
Except for the fact that we didn’t know where it went there were lots of spots where it was overgrown and you really had to duck under branches to get through after a while we came to this little bridge but the creek bed under it was dried up we kept going beyond the
Bridge and eventually we came to a clearing with stones all around it in a circle right in the middle of the circle was a huge Stone well we had never actually seen a well before there were stairs built into the inside walls of the well that spiraled down my sister
Found a rock and tossed it in but we never heard it hit the bottom I don’t know if the well was dry or if the well was so deep that we couldn’t hear the rock Splash we started looking around for more rocks to throw in I was looking
Around in the bushes at the edge of the clearing and found these huge Stones embedded in the ground then I realized there was writing on them like names and dates cut into the stones it took me a minute to realize they were gravestones they were in some sort of graveyard in
The middle of the woods far away from anyone I started getting chills when I realized that then my sister appeared beside me really quietly and poked me she pointed to the edge of the clearing on the other side of the well she was pointing at a dark shaped standing just
Inside the woods facing us she whispered to me that it had come up the stairs of the well I stood up very slowly and stared at this dark shape my sister grabbed my hand and tried to get me to leave but I couldn’t move it was like I
Was actually Paralyzed by fear I couldn’t take my eyes off this creature it didn’t move at all until some clouds came over and the clearing became slightly shadowy then the shape moved it was the size of a human adult to me it looked like it was covered in black
Feathers it turned its head toward us and seemed to look look right through me with these freakishly weird red eyes then it lifted up these big black wings and jumped into the tree behind it it was perching on a branch like some giant bird out of a nightmare we finally both
Turned and ran as fast as we could back the way we had come my sister was faster than me so she made it to the bridge first but I wasn’t too far behind we ran over the bridge and found the original path and then I looked back and saw that
Thing standing there at the edge of the the bridge just standing there I screamed and kept running I tripped over the route in the path and ripped my pants and tore my knee but I just got up and kept running we burst out of the tree screaming and crying and ran into
The house our babysitter tried to calm us down and said there was nothing like that in the woods but it just made us more hysterical and determined to convince her I don’t even know what finally calmed us down it took both of us a long time before we’ ever go back
On the deck again everyone was convinced that we had made up the story with our hyperactive imaginations when I got older I sort of tried to make sense of what we saw as some kind of weird psychological reaction to picking Hemlock but the fact that my sister and
I had the same exact experience made no sense at all I know what I saw was real I probably don’t remember all the details exactly since it happened almost 40 years ago but I’ll never forget the level of fear that I had I have a scar
On my knee from when I fell so hard that day I guess it’s a good reminder that there are strange unexplainable things in this world and that I should probably have a healthy respect for the unknown I don’t live in fear or anything now but I tend to believe people who have strange
Stories to Tell at the risk of everyone knowing who I am when they hear this story I’m going to go ahead and tell it publicly because I think it’s worth sharing with a wider audience than my friends and family in 2020 following my divorce I bought a tiny house in the small town of Bradley
South Dakota it wasn’t much just a one-bedroom one B Cottage type home across the alley from an old church that had long since quit holding service and started falling apart Bradley is a very small town with a Mayberry type feel everyone knows everybody the kids and dogs run the streets freely without
Anyone bothering too much with them there’s even an old woman a couple blocks over with a pet peacock that runs wild with the kids when you envision a small weird little town in the middle of nowhere it’s Bradley South Dakota so I wasn’t expecting much trouble on that
Day that I moved in in fact the first few weeks that I was there were pretty boring nothing happened at all I spent the time fixing the house up just how I like it and literally in some cases watching paint dry it was my 10th night
In the house when I first saw the little girl I was watching TV in the living room and heard something shuffling around in the hallway I couldn’t imagine what it might be and thought maybe one of those free range kids or dogs had made its way in through the back door so
I got up to go check it out she didn’t look like she was more than 3 or 4 years old she was filthy covered in dirt from head to toe and her hair was matted and twisted up and clumps the only clean thing on her were two streams down her face where the
Tears had washed the Dirt away she startled me when I first saw her then I got concerned I hadn’t seen that kid before and whoever she was wasn’t being cared for properly if her appearance was any indication I asked her honey what’s your name but she didn’t respond she
Just kept staring at me blankly almost fearfully like she couldn’t tell if I was a good person or a bad one I tried talking to her again I asked are you hurt and she wouldn’t tell me I went back to the living room to get my phone
And when I came back she was gone I called the local sheriff and made a report hoping he’d be able to tell me something or maybe even come out and find the girl strangely he didn’t seem all that surprised what I was telling him he just told me not to worry about
It and go on the bed the same thing happened three or four times a week from that point on I tried taking a photo of her with my phone one night but she ran away this second she saw me point that thing at her it was like she knew what I
Was trying to do and she didn’t want to be identified finally I started asking other neighbors about the little girl and if they knew anything most of them acted like I was absolutely crazy a few though seemed to know who I was talking about but acted very much like the
Sheriff telling me not to worry and that they were sure she was just fine whoever she belonged to I decided the only way to make it stop was to buy a new lock for the back door I had been locking the door but the house had been there and
Had the same key for God knows how long a new lock I thought might take care of the kid being able to run in and out especially if she somehow had a copy of the keys from the past tenant the new lock seemed to work I didn’t see her for
About 2 weeks then one night I was startled awake by something cold touching my face when my eyes opened the little girl was standing there by my bed and jumped backwards every bit as frightened as I was she took off running out the door quicker than I could get
Out of bed this time I was determined to get an answer about who she was I wasn’t going to continue to live this way I drove down to the Sheriff’s Station myself and asked to speak to him in person when I told him who I was and
That I needed an answer about this kid he looked reluctant to tell me anything then he finally I guess decided there was no point in covering it up anymore he admitted he didn’t know her name who she was or who she belonged to but that he had been getting calls about her for
Years now that didn’t make any sense to me because she wasn’t old enough to have been causing trouble for years I imagine she was just finally old enough to turn a doorknob herself so I told him I didn’t believe a word of what he was saying if she had been around for years
She’s a damn ghost I said that’s when he raised his eyebrows at me and I knew that that is exactly what he was trying to imply it took a while but I did finally figure out her name I visited every library in the Tri County Area sifting through old newspapers until I
Finally came across an article from 1910 a little girl who lived right on the same property I now live on had apparently died of scarlet fever and been buried in the churchyard behind the house for days after her death her mother would sit outside saying she could hear the girl crying at first
Everyone said it was the crazy hallucinations of a grieving mother finally though the mother insisted that they dig her baby back up to check they obliged thinking one final look at her daughter’s body might help her make peace with the loss when they did dig up the girl though they found her flipped
Over on her stomach her hands twisted up in her hair and her poor little fingernails clawed right off into the wood casket she had been buried alive and come back awake after some time the Wailing her mother had heard was really her she came back around one more time
After I learned who she was I called her by her real na I called her by her real name Rachel and told her that I was sorry she woke up scared and alone but that if she had let go of this place she could pass on and be with her mommy and
Daddy in the world that comes after this one she wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled at me and skipped away I haven’t seen her Since hey Donovan I’m in New Yorker so I’m going to be blunt I saw an alien I know that sounds out of this world no pun intended because I’m not some rusty old farmer whose cows keep getting chopped up in crop circles but I straight up saw an alien more than once
I like the garden the building I live in has a rooftop garden mostly herbs and vegetables because food is so damn expensive now it gets pretty crowded up on the roof with all the tenants who want fresh air so I do most of the gardening late at night I even made the
Super install motion activated flood lights up there for me so I don’t have to worry about bringing my own light I’ve been retired for 7 years so I don’t mind staying up up late if it means I get the whole roof to myself not too
Many places in the city you can go for fresh air and have the place all to yourself anyways I’m Up on the Roof digging into some mint when the flood lights start going haywire they’re flickering like it’s a disco party I’m 3 seconds away from throwing my shoe at
Them when the bulbs burst a spark hit me in the back of the neck and gave me this burn this really put me over the edge because I was already in a bad mood some of the younger tenants in my building like to crack open a few drinks on the
Roof after work nothing wrong with that but tonight they were being pretty loud and they left a bunch of cans in the planning beds and left total scumbags I take my phone out to give the superintendent a piece of my mind about his cheap lights and littering tenants
But my phone just gives me this static and flickers on and off at this point I’m pretty sure I’m about to see a ghost because CU I’ve watched enough paranormal movies to know how this goes but then everything just goes black and I mean everything the whole block goes
Dark New York never actually gets pitch black but everything around me was out all I could see was Stars a power outage is scarier than a ghost if you ask me so I’m pissed the elevators aren’t going to work and I can’t risk going down the
Stairs in the dark with my bad hip I can’t even use my phone as a flash because that thing isn’t working either so I have to sit on the roof in the dark by myself the air started to hum sounded like an old computer overheating it wasn’t loud but it was everywhere I
Couldn’t figure out what direction the humming was coming from then a silvery fog surrounded the roof I was more than a little freaked out the roof always has a pleasant earthy Aroma but now it smelled like wet rotting plants not swampy but cold dirt and decaying plant
Matter I saw something gliding in the Mist towards me it was short with a round head and his stomach its arms and legs were thin these large black eyes looked me up and down like a Sunday chop I thought maybe I fell over and smacked
My head when that spark hit me and this was all just a hallucination sadly I didn’t have head trauma that little round guy reached out with a single long finger I stepped back and fell to my own planning trough the alien prodded me in my hip with its extended finger then it
Compared it to my other hip somehow this creature was able to tell that I had hip replacement just by looking at me it made me a little nervous about what else it could see through with its black Orbee eyes I got out of the planner and limped away from this alien without
Taking my eyes off of it it did not seem very concerned with me anymore its attention was now on the mint plants I had crushed by Falling on them a long-fingered hand reached in and grabbed a handful of crushed mint leaves the alien’s fingers sizzled gently but
It didn’t seem to be in any pain it just turned its hand over and analyzed the leaves I wasn’t interested in the spectacle anymore all of this close encounters with The Fourth Kind stuff was above my pay grade so I walked towards the stairs but the farther away
I got from the alien the thicker the Silvery fog became I tried to walk through it where the stairs would be but I felt resistance it was like walking through Jell-O the closer to the edge I got the thicker it became it quickly became too strong to fight and I stopped
Walking my body slid back to the center of the roof like the alien was the center of some kind of gravity field the alien didn’t even spare me a glance it just kept analyzing all the different plants in the garden I had to just stand
There and wait not knowing what to do it was surreal here I was with the species from from another planet and it felt almost comical like an awkward situation out of Seinfeld eventually the humming returned and the fog retracted like it was being sucked up by a vacuum the
Alien disappeared with the fog I didn’t see any kind of ship or spacecraft but at that point where the Mist disappeared there was a blank darkness that blocked out the stars behind it the edges of it vibrated slightly a bright silver light cut on and then shot straight up into
The sky made a 90° turn without slowing down and shot off into the Horizon like a firework I sat on that roof until dawn not knowing what the hell to think the building super showed up and told me that my phone had left him a voicemail which sounded like sonar signals I got
Calls the rest of the day from people saved in my contacts telling me the same thing I think the Pentagon should be paying more attention to this kind of stuff How’s it going Donovan I got a hell of a story for you most people don’t believe me but it happened 2 years ago I’m a pretty heavy Outdoorsman Hunting Fishing hiking the whole nine yards I even do some real Niche activities too like snake hunting I haven’t met too many
Other snake Hunters most people don’t even know it’s a thing that you can do where I’m from you can catch timber rattlesnakes if they’re at least 2 feet long calling it hunting might be misleading it’s more like a scavenger hunt I go out with a hollow plastic tube
That has a mark at the 2ot line and a pair of snake tongs to put it simply I grab the snake in the tongs pop it into the tube and if it’s past that twoot Mark I get to keep it and make a belt out of it the best place to find
Rattlers is in the Rocks Timber rattle snakes are not as aggressive as their more famous Western cousins they’re very shy so if you want to catch them you have to be real sneaky and grab them when they’re basking in the sun on rocknes the trick to know is which rock
Piles get sun exposure at which points in the day so you can skull around them and hopefully get lucky I was stalking all my usual nolles when things started to get weird this was all in public land in a state forest I’m not going to say which one cuz I don’t want internet
Yahoos traing around my backyard and getting themselves killed looking for what I encountered when I got to my first rock pile everything was silent no birds no bugs no nothing then as if a gun went off to start a race three sizable Rattlers came out of the rocks
And hauled ass downhill I’ve never seen snakes act like that before they usually bury themselves deeper when threatened but I didn’t think I was loud enough to spook them either way I picked my way down the trail in the direction the snakes went I was careful where I
Stepped because I didn’t want to come up on those snakes unprepared I’m crazy but I’m not stupid the trail took me up a ridge and down into an open Valley with a Creek Running along the bottom the creek was split into a fork by a large rock formation in the center I stopped
In my tracks when I saw at least a dozen rattlesnakes perched on the rocks it was an absolute gold mine but I was nervous about how I would approach that many snakes like I said the Timber Rattlers are less aggressive than other species but that doesn’t mean I want to get
Stuck in the middle of a crowd of them I waited into the creek and slowly approached the Rocks I was more concerned with being quiet than visible I’m pretty sure snakes have a crappy eyesight at least that’s what I’ve always heard I wasn’t planning on being
Greedy I just wanted to grab the nearest snake and maybe snap a picture or two of the snake party for my buddies but then all the snakes lifted their head in unison and glared at something behind me rattles and hisses were all I could hear
I wanted to look behind me but I was also afraid of turning my back on a batch of irritated rattlesnakes the sounds of splashing became close enough that I knew whatever the snakes were hissing at was right behind me I could feel hot breath on the back of my neck
All the snakes suddenly became quiet everything was silent except for short snorting breaths of the thing behind me that was taking in my scent when I was finally man enough to turn around I got the shock of my life I was prepared for a bear or a hog both of those things
Would have been pretty scary enough but what I saw looking back at me was horrifying yellow slitted eyes with black pupils look down on me with this curiosity its skin was grayish green and covered in rough scales like an alligator the snout was lizard-like and filled with pointed teeth the reptile
Thing towered over me easily 7 or 8 ft tall huge black claws were at the ends of both hands and they slowly reached for me I panicked and flung my snake tongs in the tube at The Reptilian and then Dove deeper into the creek I half
Swam and ran in the waste deep water until I got to the bank and sprinted up the ridge to the path I ran down the path until my legs burned I was back near the first rock pile where this whole mess started I hid inside a divot
In the rocks that made a crawl space size caved I could hear this creature sniffing the air it casually followed my trail a black clawed foot stepped onto a space right in front of my hiding spot I could barely fit into this space so I knew the creature didn’t have much of a
Chance to get me it stood there at the mouth of the opening sniffing and lapping air with its tongue the creature kept me there for hours I even got a picture of its foot I started to lose it all I could think about was the scene from Jurassic Park when the Raptors
Stocked the kids through the park I wanted to laugh and cry all at once eventually it just walked off I stayed in place for hours afterward until I heard the voice of my wife and oldest son calling my name they were worried and had come looking for me I sprinted
Out of that hole and got them out of the woods as fast as I could I was not about to risk my family running into that creature anyway that’s my story when I got home I hoped I was just crazy and I wish I didn’t have that picture I took
Then maybe I could tell myself I lost my mind for an afternoon I can’t stop thinking about what else might be out There camping is a big part of my life I’m a Jersey Boy not far from Trenton so most of my life is a congested mess of traffic on the Garden State Parkway and stop lights for as far as the eye can see I love the city life but it gets
Crowded I need to recharge my batteries every now and then going out in the woods by myself is the perfect form of therapy my family used to think it was weird when I would go camping alone but over the years they’ve just accepted it as one of my many quirks I’ve even taken
My younger siblings out with me but it never stuck they’d rather stay home and play video games no one else in my family is into the outdoors they are born and bred City people I was exposed to the outdoors after watching a documentary on Yellowstone since then
I’ve had an intense interest in the wild few people realize that Jersey actually has a lot to offer in terms of nature the pine Barons is a huge tract of wilderness that is seldom explored whenever the city is getting to me I don’t have time or the funds to plan an
Elaborate Wilderness Excursion I just run to the Pine Barons I typically go every few weeks and I explore a lot of different sections each visit I have a very detailed map of the area and I mark off each section that I’ve camped in and hiked through I was planning on stepping
Foot of every inch of ground in the park but now I think I’ve seen enough my last trip in the Pines started off as it normally did I was in the southern part of the Pines called Wharton State Forest it was a favorite of mine because it’s one of the biggest continuous sections
Of wilderness in the state of New Jersey the hike in was beautiful and my first night I slept soundly with no issues I made good time getting to my first campsite so I decided to hike further into the forest and stay another night before making my way back the following
Morning there are some great Wilderness campgrounds in Wharton that are only accessible by kayak I rented one from the recreational grounds and paddled out to the Less Traveled parts of the forest it’s a beautiful area with all kinds of interesting Wildlife but as I approached the riverbank I felt like some something
Malicious was watching me from the underbrush at the time I thought I was just being stupid an experienced Outdoorsman should not be scared by superstitious feelings but alarm Bells were going off of my head the sun was beginning to set as I pull my kayak up
Onto the bank and tied it off I caught glimpses of faintly glowing eyes in the dark out of the corner of my eyes I laughed at myself for being paranoid I thought my mind was playing tricks on me it was warm but I opted to set up my
Full tent instead of just a tarp my nerves were on edge and I slept uneasily I couldn’t put a finger on why I was so anxious then I realized the forest was utterly silent no hum of bugs or chirping crickets I poked my head out of
My tent to see if I could hear anything a hot dry wind prickled the skin on my face and the smell of sulfur hit my nose a pair of faintly glowing eyes peered out at me low in the tree line some predatory creature was was stalking me I
Watched in teor as the eyes floated up in the dark several feet above where a normal person’s head would be the creature stepped out of the trees and I saw its horike head slide into the light I let out an involuntary gasp and the creature’s leathery Wings snapped open
It opened its mouth and let out this growl steam vented from its throat like it had a small fire inside of its belly I ran for the kayak it was a short run but I smacked through the underbrush and cut up my unprotected legs I almost had
A heart attack trying to undo the knot that tethered the kayak I pushed the boat into the water and jumped on I was about halfway across the river when I heard the beating of giant Wings it sounded like Flags snapping in the wind the creature was circling above my boat
Like a massive vulture I can make out the faint glow of its eyes and puffs of smoke hanging in the air it died for me like a hawk I jumped out of the kayak and hung off the side it smacked into the kayak causing it to bounce against
My head and bust up my face some water must have splashed on the creature I heard a Sizzle like water on a hot pan and a high-pitched Screech from the creature it beat its wings and went back to circling me in the sky I was halfway
Across the river and I decided I was better off swimming the rest of the way there is very little current so I made it to the opposite Riverbank without trouble I knew the creature did not like water so I used the Rope for tethering the kayak to myself so I used the Rope
For tethering the kayak to myself to some tree roots at the edge of the water I finally relaxed and just kept my head out of the water the creature landed on a tree above me I couldn’t see it but the sulfur smell and hot dry air hung around for several hours eventually I
Heard the snapping of wings and whatever it was flew off I’ve never been more relieved in my life I made it back to the more populated area of the park and some nice hikers gave me a spare set of clothes I told them my canoe got overturned on the river when they asked
What happened to me I didn’t think anyone would believe what happened to me until I came across your Channel hello Donovan I’d like to share a story of the Paranormal that happened to me back in 1982 in Connecticut I was working a second shift and I was on my way home about 10: p.m. I drove an AMC Gremlin at the time suddenly I look at
My rearview mirror and there was a man sitting behind me with no face where his face was supposed to be was just darkness my eyes weld up with water uncontrollably as if I was crying but I wasn’t it was true fright I slammed on the brakes and turned around really
Quick in my seat and no one was there I mentioned that I drove a gremlin because anyone who knows about about those cars knew the back seat was basically useless there was really no room maybe just for kids so for a man to be sitting back
There would be impossible I sat for a moment trying to get myself together trying to justify to myself that it was just a weird reflection of some sort so I continued on my drive home I picked up the pace a bit and I just wanted to get
Home I was almost on my street when he appeared again in my back seat I slammed on the brakes again and turned him my seat and he was gone I was so freaked out I drove my Gremlin up on my street so fast I skitted to a stop and ran into
The house I never told anybody about it to this day I have to drive with my rearview mirror set to night vision whenever I’m alone in the car at night I get freaked out that it may happen again well years later I was working for DHL
The courier company in the early days we drove vans that were only equipped with am radios one Halloween while I was working the day shift at DHL I was listening to a local radio station and they were interviewing the Warren the famous Ghost Hunters one caller asked Mrs Warren what’s the difference between
A good ghost and a bad ghost she said a bad ghost has no face I got my answer several years later it sent a chill down my spine I’ve had a lifetime of Paranormal Activity I grew up in a haunted house and I’m still dealing with
It to this day I I don’t go looking for it but somehow it just finds me we could be here all night with the stories that I could tell you I think because I have clar audience the ability to hear spirits that that’s the reason it’s been
Happening to me my entire life thank God I have the ability to turn it on and off if you would like to hear other stories let me know I’d be happy to share them
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