growing up we had a group of family friends who were the sweetest people ever the parents had one biological daughter and an older son and daughter that they had adopted from the mother's sister who was an addict and had lost custody of the kids we went on family camping trips and vacations with them and they're still family friends to this day the older adopted daughter was a gorgeous blonde girl in my brother's grade 22 at the time she liked to go raving and partying and experimented with club drugs but had no serious addictions to my
knowledge we adopted brother at some point gatewayed from being astoner to a full-on heroin addict while the younger biological daughter was a kind of shy good girl type the oldest daughter let's call her Claire decided to take a road trip with some friends for a skiing trap after the skiing trip was over here she was offered a ride back home from one of her friends who was a notoriously bad driver so she declined and opted to find a ride from somebody else when our friend drove home that night he got into a fatal car wreck
devastated her and her friends ended up planning to drive down to his funeral and wake services and done the drive over there they drove off the road and flipped their car and getting into a huge and fiery car crash when the police arrived at the scene they investigated the crash and explained that a spark had ignited the gas tank causing the explosive fire they said that this is an incredibly rare occurrence while the car was flipped the driver who happened to be deeply in love with albison was able to escape from the drive receipt while
Alison was knocked unconscious and stuck in her seat belt most likely burned to death in The Blaze despite his best efforts to save her my brother used to say that her death was inevitable and meant to be which I personally think is kind of messed up but the concept of avoiding death one nights and then dying in another car crash immediately after is it terrifying idea that is either a free coincidence or is something more as Supernatural driven by Destiny not sure where I stand on this but the story is stuck with me ever since
it is also an example of an adopted child and born from a mother who was addicted to drugs while pregnant and the genetic predisposition for drug use that is innate in the children that result from that pregnancy I just started working the night shift at Walmart stocking shelves and helping the customers what their purchases at first everything seemed pretty normal the story was quiet with only a few customers browsing the aisles but as the night wore on things started to get strange and I began to notice strangest sounds and other things moving along the walls
and I thought that I heard Whispers coming from the empty aisles it was like there was something in the store with me something that didn't belong I tried to brush it off thinking that it was just my imagination playing tricks on me but then things started to get even more bizarre the products on these shelves were beginning to move on their own shifting and sliding as it being pushed from behind now again I tried to ignore it I think that maybe it was just a prank being played on me by one of my co-workers I
mean I was the new guy but when I tried to call out to them there was no answer it was like I was the only one in the store and that's when I heard the footsteps they were heavy like somebody wearing work boots and they were getting closer and closer I tried to hide but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched I peeked around the corner of one of the aisles and saw a figure in a hoodie and jeans their face obscured they were walking towards me slowly but steadily and I could
feel my heart pounding in my chest I tried to run but my feet felt like they were glued to the ground the figure was getting closer and I knew inside that I was in danger but then just as suddenly as it had started it everything went quiet I looked around confused and disoriented the figure was gone and the store was once again quiet I thought that maybe I was just kind of losing it first night on the job and my nerves were a little high and I was just tired and overworked but then I saw
the blood it was smeared on the floor in the aisles leading off into the darkness of the store I didn't know what to do so I followed it thinking that somebody was hurt my heart racing until I came to a small room in the back of the store inside I found something that I'll never forget the hooded figure from before was standing in the darkness of the room covered in blood as soon as I saw him I freaked out and turned tailed and booked it back through the store initially I didn't know where I was
running to but I decided towards the employee lounge I mean it had to be safe as I was rounding the final aisle to make it there I nearly jumped out of my skin as a loud scream erupted in front of me there stood a group of my beloved co-workers all completely losing it and beside themselves it felt like they laughed for over 10 minutes straight and I didn't know what to do but kind of join in as well after I settled down and refrain from wanting to kill them I was told that this was just
part of the gig and that every new employee had their initiation honestly I don't really know what to think about all of this in hindsight it was all in good fun but at the time it scared the crap out of me I'm guessing around seven years ago my older brother and several of his friends went on a camping trip in rural Maine when they drove up there they decided to stay in a random motel nearby these skiing trails he said that it looked pretty run down and sketchy but being college kids at the time they
didn't care much and they just wanted a cheap place to stay for the night after a fun day of skiing and they got some drinks at a local bar and headed back to the motel to get some rest as they were all hanging out and winding down in the motel room my brother opened up a desk drawer to store some of his things in and what he found inside the drawer made his jaw drop in horror there was a coiled ethernet cord with dried blood all over it as if this discovery wasn't terrifying enough about
an hour later all the lights turned off all of a sudden my brother walked outside and saw that there wasn't a single light on in the motel he went to the front desk and the guy working there explained that the power had went out it was night time at this point so everything was completely pitch black my brother spent the rest of the night awake and scared out of his mind the power didn't turn back on until the next morning my brother took a photo of the bloody ethernet cord but sadly and I just texted
him asking if he still had the photo and he can't find it on his phone or on the iCloud I really wish I could have shared the photo here because it is truly shocking to see from the look of it I can imagine somebody was brutally strangled in the room that he was staying in I also think it's pretty stupid that he didn't call the police and fill out a report about this Memorial Day 2015. my boyfriend at the time and I got an invitation to meet up with some friends who were hanging out at
a Marina and just outside of the city that we lived in the Marino wasn't in the best neighborhood but the friends that we were meeting and hung out at this spot on the banks of the river a few times before to go camping and canoeing I had heard my friends about how the last time they partied here a guy who had just gotten out of prison ended up joining their campfire and how it made for a great story they had all laughed about it and it became something of a group inside joke and Tyrone asking
them to play Wonderwall on the guitar all night at every party that I would hear about it I remember that time of the marina Tyrone blah blah blah everybody would reminisce and to cut up about how hilarious the night was it became somewhat of her tradition for them to go to this place on summer holidays to enjoy the water in these surrounding nature feeling invincible and that nothing bad would happen to us we decided to join up with our three friends for the night that was sure to be a good story for future parties and
we did get a story to tell but it wasn't lighthearted like singing campfire songs with a convict it was something darker something that we would only talk about in hushed voices at parties after we had had a few and could Brave of bringing the memory back to light it was already dark by the time that we drove the 20 minutes out of the city to meet up with them honestly I was in a sour mood because I had to work early the next morning and I didn't want to be out late why we hadn't laughed
hours previously to meet them as beyond me knowing that my boyfriend myself and our crew of friends we'd end up drinking on the riverbank until we were too drunk to drive home fall asleep outside and my phone would die my alarm wouldn't go off and I'd miss work and get in big trouble I remember standing in the parking lots once we had arrived and feeling extremely unsettled I was pouting against the truck at my boyfriend's car and giving them a Stern talk saying we can't be out here too late I have to work tomorrow if
we end up camping here tonight I'm going to be pissed I don't even want to be here right now but since he was the one who had driven us out there and was looking forward to hanging out with friends I didn't push it he promised that we wouldn't be out late tonight he wouldn't get drunk I almost demanded that he'd take me home right to then because I felt so uncomfortable being there but I didn't want to ruin our entire night at the time I chalked it up to being in a bad mood and acting
like a Debbie Downer but what ended up happening later told me that I should have listened to my instincts and gotten the heck out of there ASAP the marina is essentially just a big parking lot with a couple boat launches and a pathway that went into these surrounding woods around the river it was isolated poorly but I had to and since it was a long holiday weekend all types of people were out partying in the woods there were at least four other cars in the lot of which was our friend's car we unpacked the car
and started walking to the woods on a narrow path with a six pack of beer on our phone flashlights to see in the dark eyes our friends Rudy out on the riverbank with their canoe and they had texted us the location my boyfriend had also been there before so I followed his lead after a few minutes of walking into the woods we had two guys behind us talking in a slurred speech to each other saying something to us like you guys having a good night we assumed that they were just wasted and laughed responding oh
yeah we're just getting started at it and then mom went more to each other incoherently and went off on a different path into the woods with their flashlight we didn't get a good look at them but I remember they were wearing gym shorts and to cut off muscle shirts and it startled me a bit because they seemed to have come out of nowhere but they didn't seem threatening we brushed it off and one concerned that we had run into other people since we knew we weren't the only ones on the marina now it seems that
they could have been stalking their movements over the course of the evening because of what was to follow I'll try to explain the landscape a little more for details that'll be relevant later on when we were directly on a rocky Riverbank so to our one side was water and to our backs was the woods we had entered the woods from the left end of the parking lot if you were facing the river and took a path that eventually fought in the middle once you reach the fork by going down the right path about 50 feet
or so you wound up at our campsite and the riverbank if you stayed straight in the path you went deeper into the woods until the path met some Fallen trees really overgrown brush and it ended the spot that we had picked at a large flat open embankment the further up The Path pretty much had just dropped off into the water as it was on a steeper part of the hillside it seemed to us at the time that there was one way and one way out of the area and then anyone who went up the path
essentially had to walk past where we were all sitting I'm sure there were other small paths around since the woods weren't super thick but the one that we took to the water was clearly walked on frequently and often finally we had reached our friends who had laid out a blanket and had already cracked open some beers we had all intended to row out to a nearby island with the canoe but we noticed that some people already had set up camp at that spot and could see their campfire from the shore wow wow we figured this
was it just as good a spot as any to enjoy our evening and we weren't miffed about the change of plans we started to relax how to drink ourselves and smoke some cigarettes and then talked about starting a fire to keep warm in the cool evening we gathered some firewood from nearby and explored the path a bit more not running into any more people for the time being after we had started a fire and settled in for the night I tried to cheer up and get out of my crappy mood and enjoy the company of
my friends it was difficult though I found myself staring down the path and jumping at every little Sounder twig cracking in the distance the guys weren't paying much attention to the surroundings and were talking loudly here they were in their own world at one point I distinctly remember my friend's girlfriend leaning over me and saying do you have a weird feeling about tonight I just feel like something bad is going to happen it freaked me out because I knew exactly what she was talking about no matter how many beers I had or how much I
try to distract myself with like conversation something about the night just felt off it's like the air was full of electricity and danger a few minutes later a group of about five men aged 20 to 25 appeared out of the tall weeds and started towards our fire I could see them squinting in our Direction when one of them said is this Joe's party here I made out some silhouettes of the figures in gym shorts but I couldn't discern any physical features because of the way the campfire was cast in Shadows around the trees they had
plastic bags in their hands which I assumed were full of towels or after swimming clothes and we all said that no no you got the wrong group they apologized for bothering us wished us a good evening and started back the way that they came and seeing none that their group split off into two different parties though because after the interaction three of the guys stayed close by the tree line trying to kick over a stump in the ground and making a ruckus and two more had gone up further up the riverbank with their flashlights now
I could see the light dancing off the tree branches in the water but having walked if I threw up The Path earlier with my boyfriend for firewood I remembered that the path had turned into a dead end I waited for the light to start coming back toward our campsite or the group to walk back to us heading back toward the parking lot but they never passed by us again the three guys are messing with the stomp left after a while and I figured they went to go find Joe the flashlight being disappeared from View and
I stopped thinking about it I turning my attention back to my friends my about 20 minutes passed when our conversation was broken by something that made us all go dead silent suddenly we hear a man about 75 feet away hey what are you doing man and then a sort of Shuffle the feed and movement hey get away from me yeah what do you think you're doing and the sound of something making contact with skin no stop I could hear a struggle taking place I hope somebody helped me followed over and over and over and then
dissolved into what sounded like somebody being attacked we heard something hitting something maybe a fist in the man's body and maybe a blunt weapon or a knife as he screamed for help we only heard his voice as the assailants seemed to have surprised the guy and began attacking him without saying anything he yelled in agony for what seemed like forever until he finally went silent you could hear his voice his groaning faded as it seemed to went unconscious awareness I can never unheard the sound of it to this day my friend yelled into the distance
yo what the heck and it brought us all back to reality whatever it just happened it happened just beyond where we were sitting we had a small fire burning and we were very clearly visible from the tree line and five of us had just witnessed somebody being brutally attacked the rushes and weeds near us started rustling as all chaos broke out on our campsite we had to leave the area and fast but we were cornered we stood up grabbing bags of shoes only what was necessary and within reach and we got ready to run someone
doused the fire we couldn't take the pass since that was likely where the attack had just taken place and somebody was probably about to burst into our campsite and Ambush eyes I didn't dare look behind me here the canoe it was the only way out we started pushing it out into the water in a panic I got in furnaced uncontrollably shaken and sobbing my boyfriend had sense enough to grab my purse and handed it to me as he helped my hand to get the canoe far enough away from the shore so we could push off
my friend's girlfriend was holding me trying to calm me down but I was too afraid to move or speak everybody else was silent with a straight fear written all over the face as with five grown adults in a small canoe all I could picture was the bow capsizing or is somebody picking this off from Shore with a gun we paddled out into the middle of the river and launched our campsites disappear around the band once we felt out of threat of immediate danger I called 9-1-1 from the boat and shakily told the police what we
think had just happened the cop on the line was impatient intense only saying that they had already gotten a call about the situation and he had hung up on me and as we floated down the river the boat launch in the marina came into view we could see from the water that the parking at was alive with ambulances and police cars when we heard the adopt the boat and climbed out carrying the canoe up the ramp no one stopped us to ask any questions or even noticed us a frightened group of hippies conspicuously dragging a
canoe behind them I saw some cops walking down the pathway that led to the river with flashlights but they weren't moving with any sense of urgency here a couple guys were talking with officers at the ambulance with their shirts off wearing gym shorts or Swim drawings but we couldn't tell if it was members of the group that had walked by our campsite claiming to be looking for Joe but I assume they had to have been since the incident happened shortly after we had all crossed paths strangely no one appeared to be injured the ambulance cow
was empty no one was in handcuffs and everybody just seemed to be talking calmly something was off but we didn't stick around to find out if they had found anything in the woods we looked for news stories for weeks after the fact and found nothing about the incident no victim no attack or nothing or are we in the wrong place at the wrong time what happened to the guy who was attacked her was he faking it all just to mess with us and we were almost victimized by a group of dangerous youth that had scoped
us out seeing us as an easy target we speculated that this could have been an attempt to lure us into the woods to jump us among many other possibilities but we never had any answers about what had happened in the woods that night the next day some of the group went back to gathered up supplies that we had left behind in our panic they didn't find anything stolen or as strange in the path near where this had happened I have never been back to the marina and a group of friends has since dissolved and moved
off to different parts of the world weird when I'm looking for an evening of fun and got more than we had bargained for her I was personally traumatized for weeks and these sudden noises or surprises sent me into a fit of panic sobs and shaking eventually I was able to stop hearing a man I scream for his life every time that I closed my eyes
