11 Scary Deep Wilderness Horror Stories

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LLC an SEC registered Investment advisor view important view important disclosures at acorns.com swamp my family owns a cabin in the mountain of Bulgaria it is my favorite place to escape the summer my friends from University have a tradition of going there every August for a few days of excessive drinking however until last year we have not experienced anything out of the ordinary per se on this particular trip though I decided to hire a local man there was a uranium mining Operation in the past close by that was closed down sometime in the 90s but the

workers about 50 people still lived in the mining town to paint the tin roof of the hut now there are Tales of inbreeding and all kinds of weird stuff going on out in this area so when I met the man I had a slight chill for a moment when we spoke with him he was clearly an alcoholic and didn't seem all there his face was weathered and he was dirty anyway after doing the job I paid Him gave him a bottle of raikia which is a traditional Bulgarian alcohol and he went on his way after

that me and my friend spent the rest of the night drinking around the campfire then sometime around midnight the uneasy feeling of being watched from the woods began to wash over me which was too bad because I had to visit the bathroom which in this case was an ouse right next to the woods behind us so I tried to brush off my paranoia and did Whatever I could to Stave it down deep so I could get some courage I went out and not even a minute afterward someone was banging on the door which I thought

it was one of my friends playing a prank on me hence I called out to them knock it off and imagine my surprise when they answered from a distance at that moment the person on the other side got more Adam and put a knife in the door's crack this is when I called out for help and turned on the flashlight on my phone to Which the person on the other side of the door retracted the knife and fled up the hill my friends were scared absolutely out of their minds but rushed to my Aid nonetheless

sadly the perpetrator had fled before they got to me afterward we went into the cabin grabbed all of our stuff threw it in the car and we have not gone back since I haven't told anyone about this yet I don't know what that man wanted I really don't but I'm Terrified I live in South Florida I am a natural outdoorsy type of person I like to walk around in the woods in my area go fishing do four-wheeling Etc I tend to go fishing alone despite my parents always telling me not to and I usually tell

them where I'm going I often go to places in the middle of nowhere mainly in fields with little ponds and canals to fish in I can't remember what exact month it was but it was back when it got dark around 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. one day I Decided to pack my poles up and go fishing in this field about 30 minutes from my house but being that I lived in a small town that could be uh quite far to say the least I was fishing in a spot relatively close to the road near the entrance

and I was gradually making my way down mind you I know this spot very well so I know how to get in and out of it it's like a maze of connecting canals and Fields it's 3:30 and I'm catching fish and getting pretty lucky but as all Anglers know sometimes the bite wears off and you move to another spot so I'm moving further from the entrance and I remember specific landmarks to remember where I'm at whether it be an old tractor or a rundown building remember when I said I know this place reasonably well well

I remember parts that I always go to I probably should have said that at the beginning but here we are so I'm getting to an unfamiliar area but it's still daytime so I figured I could Remember new landmarks to help me when I'm ready to go at this point it's about 5:45 and I'm trying one last spot before I leave but this spot is in the midst of two different fields that I'm not very familiar with as I'm going to the site I hear a hissing sound like it's coming through the fields but I brush

it off thinking that it's probably just the music that I'm blasting really loud or maybe the terrain I'm driving on so I stopped halfway to the spot to stop and Fish again real quickly but didn't get a single bite I packed my things so as I got to the car and reversed the car I heard a strange noise and noticed the tires were hard to turn I got up and saw my front two tires were completely flat mind you I'm in the middle of nowhere with two flat tires in the woods oh and did I

mention that it was now nighttime I was never afraid to freak out but I did get worried I picked my phone up to call my dad but To no avail I had no service and I couldn't even get an SOS out that made my heart stop for a bit because around this area many bobcats run around these fields so I just got in the car and began nervously brainstorming on what I should do I couldn't drive anywhere because of my tires or call anyone so I'm looking around the car sometimes my dad would use my

tire pump and would leave it in my trunk so on my last glimmer of hope I checked the box and Lord behold my tire was in the chest and what made it even better is that it was USB powered meaning I didn't have to plug it into an outlet so I hooked everything up and started pumping the tires which took quite some time probably about an hour once they were finally fully pumped I checked to see what caused the flat I couldn't see anything however I did hear the hissing sound that I had heard earlier

I learned that the hissing sound was the sound of My tire losing air thankfully it was a slow leak so my tire would retain the air just long enough for me to make a home now the only problem is is I didn't know where I was so I was moving around as people did back in the day you know carrying your phone around in the air hoping to get a signal and eventually I did as soon as I did I Google mapped my way to find the entrance and from there I remembered where I was

and how to get home I also forgot to mention that I Never told anybody about this um I didn't tell my parents that I was going here this day it's not something I would normally do but you know I made a mistake this time so I think what I really learned was always carry a tire pump in your car and always tell someone where you are because I don't know how my tires were popped I don't know if somebody stabbed them I don't know if I ran over something on my way in but it was

definitely a scary situation and I'm Just glad I kept a level ahead and figured out a way to get home naturally I am a scientifically minded person and I like to think that I'm rational and normally I like to come from a place of a skepticism if I'm being honest I'm trying to get some perspective on what happened and explore all avenues because I'm dumbfounded by this experience My Two children and I were visiting my parents for dinner and they lived in the middle of the woods It's my family home where I grew up about

halfway through the evening the kids were watching TV inside and my parents were busy talking in the other room so I went out to my dad's detached shop to practice pool for a little while I let them know where I was going before I did this I'm an avid pool player and he has a nice table so I ran some drills for around 30 minutes after I finished up I walked out the door to go back into the house and it was almost dark still Some light but not much I was halfway to the house

when I heard a child's voice in the woods I couldn't understand what it said but it was clear as day and it sounded like it was maybe 100 ft away from me or so I stopped and looked into the direction it came from trying to see if perhaps it was one of my kids and maybe they had gotten outside with without me knowing then I heard the voice again which said my name like it was calling to me however it didn't Sound like any of my kids so I yelled back and got no answer in

return I walked towards the woods just a little bit expecting to see somebody come out but I never saw a thing I stood there for quite some time calling before I immediately went back inside to check on my kids to make sure none of them wandered off into the woods when I go inside they are still sitting at the same spot watching television I asked my mom if they were outside and she said They never went out out now from my perspective my parents live in the middle of nowhere there are no houses within a

mile of them and no one else has kids in this area at least none that know me by name I'm genuinely creeped out by this has anyone else ever experienced something similar hey swamp dweller I've been listening to your channel for some time now I got to thinking about how a lot of strange and freaky things have happened To me over my lifetime I grew up and currently live in a ridiculously small town in Upstate New York when I was a small child I used to tell my mother about the man that came to play

with me and talked to me at night my dad was the only man around at the time and he worked nighttimes so obviously this freaked my mother out at the time as I was only 3 years old as time went on I remember always being afraid of my old bedroom and then one day after getting Home from school I called for my mother and I heard her say we are in here so I went to a room and no one was there at all I thought it was strange but whatever I went to use the

bathroom and I distinctly remember hearing a man's voice say my name I of course told my mother this and I continued hearing a man Call My Name throughout the years fast forward about 14 years later and my sister was born one night around a campfire sharing freaky stories she Said she always heard a man calling her name in the bathroom my parents still live in this house and to this day my own son now is afraid of my mother's bathroom I suffer from sleep paralysis and every time I have paralysis I see a man standing

at the foot of my bed watching me I cannot help but wonder is this the same man I have always heard and or played with when I was a young child my friends and some family members have gotten into Ghost hunting around the area we have some incredibly old graveyards dating back to the 1700s and 1800s there is one area in the woods full of graves most people do not know is there we as kids discovered it walking and playing in the woods as kids usually do we had an older friend who drove at the

time we will call him Jeff for privacy sake Jeff would always rough house and be crazy with his father's truck in these Woods his friend Alan was terrified of the Woods late at night especially the graveyard we decied deed to play a prank on him and being that we were now teenagers we decided a perfect place would be the graves so one night we drove him through the woods by the graves only to find the entire grave site glowing and lit up we were incredibly freaked out and continued driving into an open field where Jeff's

truck stalled out on us we were trying to get the truck started but as we were Trying to get it going again we heard drums beating very close by the sound of the drums sounded like it came from the grave graveyard we finally got Jeff's truck started up and high tailed it out of there however when we passed the graveyard again it was all dark like nothing was ever there my friends and I decided to do some ghost hunting on a very haunted hill in Upstate New York there have been countless strange deaths that have

occurred there a long time ago A witch doctor and her brother were hung in one of the trees that is still standing I was unaware at the time that we were going to that location I kept hearing what sounded like a rope swinging in the tree but there was no rope at all there was no wind or anything it was just a calm sunny summer day in Upstate New York eventually we happened upon the witch's gravestone at this point my friends tell Me we are here and then tell us all about her backstory honestly I

felt bad for her so I decided to reach out and touch her grave I instantly L became incredibly dizzy I almost threw up and fell to my knees upon research I found out that I am not the only person who has had that happen to them upon touching the gravestone we continue to ghost hunt and we've gone there many times after this there are Miles and Miles of forest There one night we had decided to come back for a ghost hunt and do more of the trails that were in a different area but still very

Haunted Woods apparently we had noticed that our cell phone batteries were draining rather rapidly we thought this was odd as we were driving we became lost and unsure what trail we were on at this point we stopped the car to figure out exactly where we were as I stated above a lot of people were losing their life in strange Ways in this area we have heard heavy footsteps approaching our car but when we looked up and around there was never anyone there we had this gut feeling that was just terrible we knew it was bad

my friend Jackie for privacy sake looked out her window and started screaming she said there was a man just looking in at her we did not see him but we did believe her we then told her to gas it as we did not care where we ended up we just wanted to get away as she hit The gas my mother and I looked out the back window and saw what looked like to be a butcher following our car I told my friend in the front seat who owns land there she said there used to be

a serial killer back in the day that lived in the area one night my friends and I decided to do even more ghost hunting as I really appreciate a good ghost story I thought I heard something walking toward me in the darkness and I saw a branch move like someone was moving it out of The way everyone in the group was standing near each other so we were like feeling safe you know we decided to snap a picture with our digital camera which by the way constantly dies in those woods for some reason we caught

a silhouette of a woman dressed in an oldfashioned style dress with a child in her arms and another child clinging to her side not too spooky but pretty cool we all went to another grave site looking for more ghost of course I Happened to be standing there with my mom and friends who I always go ghost hunting with I trust them and they trust me we always have each other's backs we had been standing there and I thought I heard someone talking to me so I Stood Still to listen as I was standing there it

was like I was asleep while being awake at the same time like I was in some sort of trance like this very weird state it was very strange for me my friend decided to snap a picture Thinking I was just standing still looking for a ghost the next thing I know my friends are all running and heading for their car and I'm just standing there still unaware that in the picture my friend snapped there was a man standing at my shoulder talking in my ear just typing this story gives me the chills my mom ended

up running back for me and dragging me out of my trans-like state I had no clue the entire time that they had been yelling At me as I had never heard them I often dream of deceased loved ones and friends and stuff like that sometimes I even see my friend's husband who has passed he has told me to warn my friend that something evil was watching her and wanted her he said his son was buying a truck and to tell him to watch out for his mother as well he said he had been trying to

keep her safe but this evil thing was stronger than he was he told me it required a lot of energy to talk To me and did not have much time to talk I reached out to my friend and she said in fact in the past two days her son was apparently going to buy a truck she had also said she was having a lot of awful things happened to her including a wolf showing up and being aggressive towards her my friend has since moved farther away from that Haunted Hill one day I swear I saw

her husband as I was on a walk he was just standing there with his arms crossed and a big smile on his face He gave me a wave and a nod anyways these are just a few ghost stories from my small town I have for you I do have plenty more strange things that have happened to me but I'll share that for another time this story took place when I was a kid my dad has been a pool man for many years one of his oldest customers decided to purchase a ranch I do not exactly

remember where he asked my dad if he could come fix their pool which Was disastrously maintained before he bought it he gave my dad permission to bring us along and told us we were welcome to stay a few days to enjoy the ranch we drove there and I had overseen reading the map quest instructions because I never seemed to be able to sleep during car trips we drove back a few days later after my dad was finally able to save the pool the drive home was awfully long for long stretches The View was mostly desert

farms and the Occasional small suburb in town unlike me my mom and brothers knocked out almost immediately so most of the trip was just me and my dad talking or listening to music I am also a very Avid Reader so I had my book on my lap besides the maps I remember the ride had been quiet for a while because I had been reading I had to stop because it was getting dark and my dad only let me turn the dome lights to read the maps no Radio Service in the Game Boy battle Iies had

all died all I had left to do was look outside suddenly I spotted a very tall Shadow on a roof I realized there was a man who seemed to be wearing a hat a bowler hat or maybe a top hat style and dancing and jumping from roof to roof of this Suburban lot kind of like that scene from Singing in the Rain which at that point I had never seen it took a second to realize that it was not a normal thing to see the houses were Situated in such a away where they were way

too far away for people to jump roof to roof what scared me the most is how at the last house before a field he seemed to turn around and sense me he bowed and tipped his hat even though I could not see it I could sense it smiling all I felt was dread in my stomach I turned to face my dad to see if he saw it but he had been paying attention to the road like he should have been when I turned back I could not See the houses anymore they were too far behind

us I never saw a face or any details he was just a silhouette on the roofs I remember feeling very afraid that it would follow us that it could if it wanted to I never saw something like that in our many trips ever again sometimes I wondered if I imagined it it just felt so real the memory is so vivid as well which always keeps me coming back to this I am watching old musicals Because the dancing reminds me of the way he moved my name is Bri I am a 21-year-old female and I live

in a small town in Northern Ontario the stories I'm going to share all took place in a house my family and I lived in until I was 13 years old none these stories are in chronological order due to how young I was when they took place the first story I will share was with my younger sister Mac who was 2 years Younger than me and at the time I was about 6 years old we were playing outside one summer day the wind was blowing particularly hard and our mother was watching us from inside the house

to give a visual of the layout of our home and yard our house was known as the backward house since it was built backward so our mother was able to watch us while doing dishes in the kitchen there was also a massive hedge separating our house from the neighbor Next to us and there was a considerable distance between the Hedge and our home my sister and I were not playing any games just running around and having fun as kids do suddenly out of nowhere I and my sister froze like statues we both looked at each

other and simultaneously looked at the space between our home and the hatch to our surprise there was a woman there she was wearing a beautiful long green flowing dress and had equally beautiful long wavy red hair and was Very fair she seemed to float rather than walk and seemed fixed on where she was going as quickly as we noticed her she vanished into the basement wall of our home my sister and I then took a look at each other and honestly we both looked incredibly puzzled I did not want to say anything to her at

first because my sister was known to copy me and I did not want her to say she saw something just because I had after a few seconds of silence my Sister with tears in her eyes said did you see that all I could muster out was uh-huh we then ran to our mom sobbing that some old lady had just floated into our home my mom not wanting to scare us said maybe it's your guardian angel stopping by to make sure you're okay that seemed to ease our nerves a bit and we were soon back to

playing around like nothing had ever happened as I got older the experiences in that home seemed to become more Sinister my bedroom had been moved into the basement and I remember regularly seeing a dark shadow crouch in the corner of my bedroom at night I had nightmares every other night and had a constant feeling of being watched all throughout the house my mother would later admit to me once we moved out that she was even afraid to walk around the house at night and fear something being around the corner another story I remember vividly Involves

my brother who was 7 years younger than me my brother Gio at the time was about 2 years old we were sleeping together it was extremely late at night and for some reason I just could not fall asleep to this day I do not know if you woke up or said this in his sleep but out of nowhere he says Bri Brie do you see it see what I reply the eyes he whispered what eyes I asked to which he points behind the door obviously at this point I'm crapping my Pants I tried getting him

to repeat what he said but there was no reply I quickly picked him up and brought him into the living room with me where we both slept on the couch I have many other stories about this house but I will end it on this one I remember somehow I built up the courage to play downstairs by myself with my Littlest Pet Shops I was in my Tour room that was attached to the laundry room in my dad's Workshop I had set up up all my things In a little circle to make a town and I

was sitting in the middle of it at the point this had happened I was sitting facing the houses that were up against the wall the light in the room I was playing in was placed above and behind me so if someone walks in the room a shadow would be cast on the wall I was facing so as I was playing I had an overwhelming urge to look up when I did I witnessed a shadow moved from the right of me to the left of me heading Out the door into the recck room my first thought

was was well maybe my dad was in his workshop and I didn't know so I look up and out the door and there is no one there I look back down at my toys and realized my dad is a bigger guy and I would have heard him walking and I would have seen him in the time I saw the shadow looking out the door I book it up the stairs and get the hell out of that basement as I said I have tons of more stories that I will submit in the Future thank you for

sharing my story swamp dweller and if anybody in the comments has had any similar experiences definitely let me know this story takes place the summer of 2001 in a small town outside of Rhode Island where I am from I'm a female for reference and I was about 20 years old that summer in between my Junior and senior years of college at the University of rhod Island I decided to stay on campus and Take some classes so my senior year would be a little lighter and be a bit less stressful for me so I rented out

a cute little apartment with a few friends and we loved it like I said we were in a small town outside of the city there were a lot of other college students around and I enjoyed living so close to the beach in the summertime my schedule was pretty open so even though I was working and going To school part-time I had a lot of time to myself and loved the freedom I had to do whatever I wanted I have always been into fitness and exercise and one of my favorite things to do that summer was

take my rollerblades to the local bike path and listen to music on my earbuds while I glided down the long straight path every day I would drive to the bike path and park my car at the park close by the path and roller blade the mile long path until it ended another Park Would begin actually right after this one ended at that second Park I would sometimes rest on one of the benches and take a little break and drink some water before turning back and going back down that same path again and ending up at

the original Park where my car was it's about a 2 Mile go and I did this about every day it was fun and great exercise right up until this incident I'm about to Chronicle for you on this particular morning I slept in and was running a Little bit late getting ready for my daily workout I could not find my earbuds anywhere they were not where I normally left them on my kitchen counter and after spending some time looking for them around the apartment without any luck I just had screw it and to set it to

exercise without them I get to the park and put my roller blades on and start my first mile it was a beautiful July morning and I was enjoying myself when suddenly unexplainably about Halfway through the mile something felt very wrong there was just this gut feeling that something was off the temperature was in the80s but I had goosebumps all up and down my arms and legs the hair on the back of my neck was standing up and I had an intense sinking feeling of dread I've always had a very strong intuition I trust it with

my life I felt this feeling before in the past and it has always served as a warning but I kept on skating becoming very Aware of my surroundings as I did so fight or flight was kicking in and I didn't even understand why that was until I saw him there was a man up ahead on the trail off the side of the path the first thing I realized was that he was taking steps backward off the path he was trying to hide from me in a tree but I could still see his face from a

good distance away watching me like a dead-eyed predator he stood there with His hands in his front pockets not moving at all as I skated closer to him the dread of my stomach grew I noticed he was not wearing workout clothes he had an oversized hoodie jeans and work boots nothing you would wear if you were expecting to exercise now I had to quickly make a choice do I stop and turn around and go the way I came from possibly endangering my life by losing the speed of momentum I had gained or do I keep

skating past him and hope he Doesn't rush me from the side pushing me off the path the fear I felt turned quickly to rage quick backstory on me I am no stranger to violence and assault from Men in my past I thought why should I live my life afraid why should I cater to these men who think they can just take what they want from me do they think I'm just going to keep taking it I felt my hands ball up in the fist my jaw jet out in defiance and I decided I was standing

my ground something told me That as I passed him that I needed to remember everything about what he looked like I noted his dark eyes and beard I noted his plain blue baseball cap his hoodie his jeans and construction boots I could tell you my nostrils were flared and my eyes were flashing anger and I glared at him with an intensity that said I see you there and I'm ready to fight you if need be we maintained eye contact for what felt like a long time but could not have been More than just a few

seconds then he actually broke eye contact looked away from me and I knew he had changed his mind at this point about whatever he was considering doing to me but I was still not safe yet I flew as fast as I could to the second Park and got off the bike path now I was in a tough position my car was a mile away as was my shoes and cell phone I could not go back down that path again and risk passing him a second time he might have moved he might have Been hiding in

a better place waiting for me knowing I would need to go down that path to get to my car again so I took off my roller blades and made my way over to the road that ran parallel to the path and walked the mile back to my car in my socks carrying my skates it probably looked a bit strange to the drivers that went by and the walk seemed to take forever ever once I saw my car I ran to it as fast as I could and lock myself in I never went back there to

Rollerblade ever again unfortunately the story doesn't just end there though after this incident I went on with the rest of my day I went to class I made lunch at my apartment I got ready for work and went to my closing shift where I work as a waitress I returned to my apartment complex at around 10 p.m. to find my neighbor yelling excitedly on his cell phone in the parking lot pacing and smoking a cigarette as he talked he and His girlfriend lived upstairs for me I didn't know them well but they were friendly enough

she studied nursing and he was a business major we had all hung out shortly after moving day drinking beers and smoking joints on their balcony and I thought they were both pretty nice people I parked my car and started walking towards the building just as he was hanging up from his cell phone I nodded politely towards him and he offered a friendly greeting something Like hey how's it going seeing his face closer now under the lights I could tell he had been crying he told me his girlfriend was in the hospital she had been attacked

and violated by a strange man and was recovering from some various injuries most seriously a head injury from smacking her head on the concrete as he described to me what happened I felt tears rising in my own eyes and it felt like I had been punched in the stomach What I said to him next made his jaw drop I said did that happen on the bike path he incredulously said yes and demanded to know how I knew that I told him I knew who did it and I explained what happened to me that morning he

immediately asked if I could talk to the police and give a description of the man because of the little voice in my head that told me I needed to remember everything about his appearance I was able to give a full detailed description Of this man to the police for months after this incident I checked the news to see if he was ever caught but I never heard that he was the girl he attacked did make a full recover and shortly after returning from the hospital she and her parents showed up in a moving van and

packed up all her things in her apartment I never saw her again for a long time after that I felt a lot of guilt about what happened to her I felt that somehow her fate was meant for me But I skirted it and left it for someone else to suffer through what did I do to ward off this attack what did I do that she didn't the last and most chilling piece of the story though the earbuds that I lost the morning of this incident the ones I looked all over my apartment for and that

I had decided to forego using that day because I didn't have the time to look I found them the next day in the kitchen counter exactly where they were supposed to be I know for a Fact they weren't there when I looked and I cannot explain why they disappeared that morning I know my roommate didn't take them I can only suppose that my awareness of the situation was the thing that saved me in the end and some higher power was looking out for me that day hey swamp dweller and everyone in the swamp this is

the first time in 30s something years that I have shared this story and it will only be the second Time I have ever shared it sometime in 1993 my dad married this lady who owned a large tract of land it was primarily covered in woods which was great since I was a 14-year-old and a Tennessee Country Boy her land was in the BF or the middle of nowhere for noncountry folk the nearest neighbors were around 3 Mi so it was definitely the BFE so when we moved there it was in the spring so I would

explore the house and the land near the house I can clearly remember my Stepmom saying don't go in the Dark Hollow which was the holler that connected the very end of the land she owned to a road the name fits trust me so I never really went over there until one day it had snowed like a foot or so so there was no school and like any country boy I was going to go deer hunting or at least I thought I was so I was sitting in my stand waiting for the daylight hours to come

up about 20 minutes later a little Spike poked out In front of my view so I took a shot at it and hit him in the gut it ran off and I waited for about 30 minutes I came down the hill and I was starting to track him and wouldn't you know he came straight toward the Dark Hollow I tracked the blood right down into the open it was an easy Trail thanks to the snow but I had a weird interesting feeling in my stomach I got to the very bottom the blood trail pretty much

vanished but there were other massive Tracks which in my teenage mind I was thinking who the hell would be out here barefooted then after inspecting them a little bit more I realized they were twice the size of my foot and I wear a 12 size boot I started freaking out and decided to make my way back up the hill halfway up I stopped and turned looked toward the opposite Hillside and directly AC cross there was something that stood at least 8 ft tall and covered entirely in hair it had my Little Buck thrown over its

shoulder and this thing looked absolutely massive the head was gone when I realized it was staring right at me it then let out a roar that still send chills down my spine I was frozen there I just could not move out of pure fear I had my rifle in my hands but I could not move when it roared again my body came back to life I started moving up that hill pretty pretty fast I ran the 2 or 3 miles in Olympic time and finally got in the House my stepmom said what happened to you

so I sat down at the kitchen table and told her my tale she laughed which kind of pissed me off a little bit but anyway after she was done laughing she said didn't I tell you not to go into the Dark Hollow I said yes ma'am and she got serious and said that is why you should not go back when I tell you not to go somewhere please don't go somewhere I don't know to this day if that was a Bigfoot a dog man or what Else it could have been but I know I've never

seen anything like that and I still hunt but not in that county this is my story take it for what it is the only three words I must describe are the scary truth hi swamp dweller this is a terrifying thing to say because I'm still shaken up from my experience this only happened about a week ago I was fishing on my dock on my private Lake on Saturday I was catching some nice-sized Catfish and had quite a few in the bucket full of water I heard this strange sound come from across the lake it was

maybe about 100 yards away there is nothing around this Lake but forest and they go on for Miles we don't have any neighbors anywhere near us anyways sorry for the rambling this sound I heard was not typical it was straight out of the norm I don't even know how to describe it I didn't know what I was listening to and I've listened to Everything from foxes to owls to coyotes and bobcats no whatever I was hearing was something else I had picked up a little scent from whatever this thing was and it smelled absolutely horrible

as the light wind blew in my direction I got a great whiff it was like I was breathing in hot garbage and dead animals combined the strange scent got closer to me and I heard it again it sounded monstrous and I could not get over it whatever this thing was sounded Like it was much bigger than I was I was so scared as it Roar got louder it was definitely roaring at me I just felt it in my bones as far as I know there are no bears in this part of Georgia and I've never

seen any reported around here and they're not very common in the state as it is but it sure did sound like something even worse than a bear I started shaking in my boots and I tried to shine my little flashlight in its Direction with no success as it only had A short distance Beam still I did have a flood light on the dock pointed in the direction of the woods and captured a not so clear mirror image from the lake water but the movement of the thing made it very clear that it was probably 10

ft tall or more as I had raised my head to estimate its size I would pretty much think that it was almost A Primitive creature from its roaring sound and its size this thing had started to walk around the lake and I could hear its footsteps splashing in mud I stood utterly still hoping it would casually walk in a different direction from where I was standing I couldn't see it very clearly as it came closer to the edge of the flood light I kept my flood light pointed at it as it kept walking through the

wet muddy Bank of the lake in the distance of the beam I could only make out a faded reddish brown hair on this thing so I still don't know what it was it had gotten so Close to the dock and that's when I was more shaken than ever as I feared it would come up to me I did not want to see this thing face to face but luckily it didn't get that close one thing I know for sure though that its size was absolutely massive and I never felt more relieved as it walked past

the dock it was 50 ft away from the pier when I was standing there I was sweating out of shock as it roared one last time and headed into the woods east Of the dock please let me know if anybody has any idea what this thing could be and thank you for sharing my short story swamp dweller hi swamp dweller my name is Laney and this is my story it was the summer of 1968 I was 8 years old and thrilled that school was out for the summer and freedom was at hand I loved my

Summers off and was looking forward to our adventures with my cousin Jimmy Jimmy was 6 months older than me and lived Four houses down our families were very close and took vacations together and celebrated holidays so Jimmy and I were tight we were best friends as great as I knew my upcoming summer would be who could have thought it would be even better well it could and it did it was a typical summer day off in June and Jimmy and I had been out playing in the warm summer sun all day it was dinner time

though and time to come in during dinner mom told us kids that she had something Exciting to say to us she explained that she and dad had gone together with my aunt Bula and Uncle George Jimmy's parents and had purchased two adjacent 1acre Lots out in the country and we were going to build a cabin my Uncle George had Carpenter skills and my dad knew plumbing and electrical it was meant to be I was so excited we would be staying in camper vans my little 8-year-old brain started spinning Summers were going to be one big

camping Trip with swimming fishing and Forest to explore I was bursting with joy Lake laurelai was the name of the gated community where we had purchased the Lots it had just opened and a few Lots had been sold lake laurelai is in Brown County Ohio it now consists of a population of over 1,000 and is completely developed but back then it was the middle of nowhere and nothing but Woods for miles and miles the day came when we could finally see the Property for the first time Aunt Bula and Uncle George loaded up into their

camper and my family did the same Jimmy and I were more than excited and the ride there was like waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve it was endless at last we arrived Jimmy and I jumped out of our respective cars to inspect the area we were estatic none of the Lots around us were inhabited all the lots to our left and right were Lush fields of wild flowers tall grass and Butterflies across the road from the property the empty lots afforded a clear view of the pond across the street about five Lots down to the

right was a small for Forest my young brain did not question why those lots were not cleared to be sold I was just excited that I had my own forest to explore Jimmy and I began to explore every nook and cranny immediately we left after breakfast in the morning came home for lunch and were back out until dinner time we loved it One day we became curious as to the name Lake laurelai our parents explained that laurelai was a siren from Norse mythology who sat on the Rocks along Ong the Rin River and sing so

beautifully that Sailors would be so enchanted that they would lose all their senses and crash their ships only to die watery deaths we of course found this perfectly gruesome and awesome as the summer passed we eventually headed down to Explore the small Forest five Lots down from ours as we entered the woods a creepy feeling descended upon us but we continued on our way we found a dilapidated decaying old house in the forest it was peaceful all around us us no birds chirping or any insects of any kind the ancient house seemed to beckon us

it's like it wanted us to come inside but something about it made me feel incredibly uneasy and I could tell Jimmy was feeling the exact same way we looked At each other and said at the exact same time I dare you to go first we laughed at that and it somewhat eased the tension in the air it was a bright sunny day but the house was set in a dark overgrown spot in the forest we both entered cautiously the only audible sound was our footsteps as we stepped gingerly into the creaky rotting floorboards of the

house the door was hanging off its hinges and we moved it aside and went into the house the Atmosphere changed immediately it was even darker and felt cold although it was easily 80° outside we stood still and just quietly looked around not much was left some broken pieces of wood furniture bits of old paper and cob webs all about even though we were young we were smart enough to know that the floor did not look safe and we hoped that there was no Cellar as my eyes scanned what once must have been the living room

the corner of a black and white photo Laying behind some cobwebs and old newspapers beckoning me to come look at it I cautiously walked to the picture ensuring that the old boards would hold my childish weight with each step as I looked down at the picture something about it was compelling and I I reached down and snapped it up it felt cold in my hands the edges were tattered but the picture seemed to withstand times ravages it was a photo of a beautiful woman sitting on a rock of the shore of What appeared to be

the lake though the image was black and white I could tell her hair was a very pale blonde color it was piled high on her head with bewitching tendrils escaping and hanging down to frame her face I could also tell that her eyes were a light icy blue she had a slight smile and was dressed elegantly in a long dress from long ago Jimmy noticed as I continued to inspect the picture and slowly headed over to see what I was looking at something About her was mesmerizing but at the same time I felt icy Shivers

up and down my spine and I quickly dropped the photo Jimmy reached down and picked it up but I couldn't tell if he felt uncomfortable or whatever we began to hear Light laughter as he looked at the image in the picture it was a woman laugh it was melodic and just hearing it made you want to know the joke so you could join in but suddenly the laughter began to change it went from a beautiful musical Sound to a wicked cackling noise Jimmy and I were frozen on the spot staring at each other with eyes

as white as saucers then the evil laughter turned into a high-pitched scream we did not need to hear anymore Jimmy quickly dropped the picture onto the floor and we bolted to the Crooked door no longer concerned about the rotting FL floorboards we slid the entrance to the side and began to run through the forest as only 8-year-olds could we leapt through Fallen logs dashed through heavy overgrowth and dodged branches until we could no longer hear the horrific screaming once we reached the tree line it was like we had crossed another world birds were chirping butterflies

were floating lazily on the gentle breeze and the sun felt warm on our chilled skin we slowed down to a walk both of us quiet our uneasiness began to Wayne as we walked across the meadow and began talking about the entire experience in Our Minds The Woman in the picture could only be lur Li the beautiful siren who lured Sailors to their watery deaths and as for the laughter and the scream we both decided it would be best not to tell anyone lest we be forbidden to explore and lose our freedom but we never went

back to those woods for the rest of the summer summer turned to fall and fall to winter and we didn't visit lake laurelai near as often as the school year passed each month slowly I got more excited for summer in the cabin finally summer arrived much progress had been made on the cabin and I used that term loosely as the foundation was down and the frame was up it was apparent that it would be a big house it consisted of five bedrooms three bathrooms a great room with a massive stone fireplace and a porch wrapped

around 34s of the house but it was not even close to being done the shed was finished Jimmy and his parents Slept there and my family slept in the C camper another great summer began at Lake lorai and Jimmy and I was looking forward to the upcoming weekend a carnival was visiting the small town near us and our cousin Cheryl was going to spend the weekend although Cheryl was a mere 6 years old to our Advanced 8 years Jimmy and I enjoyed her company immensely and were looking forward to showing her the property and had

Many Adventures planned her parents dropped Cheryl off on Friday night and we were up bright and early on Saturday morning Jimmy and I had so so much to show her we took her to a small pond the excellent Dam where the water trickled down to the big lake lake laurelai and everything else everything but one place later that day Cheryl looked curiously down at the wooded forest and asked if we had ever explored there jimy and I both felt strange and said we don't go there often and gave no specific reason Before she could ask

more we changed the subject to the carnival that evening and the junk food we would eat in games we would play the carnival was a blast and it was dark when we got back to the property Jimmy and his parents went to the shed and Cheryl shared a bed with me in the camper I was awakened in the middle of the night by Cheryl shaking me from the look of her green face in the little light we had it was evident that Cheryl Had overindulged in junk food I woke my parents up and let them

know that Cheryl was feeling very nauseous mom and dad took her outside and I followed They carried her to the other side of the camper and I took a seat at the picnic table out in front there was a crescent moon that night but the stars were very bright back then and I could see in the darkness once my eyes became accustom I sat at the table with my back to the camper facing the forest five Lots down I wasn't paying attention when a figure walked toward the picnic table I immediately assumed it was my

aunt Bula as she would come out at night for smoke breaks as the figure walked closer to me I realized it was definitely not my aunt Bula who had raven black hair and was very short this figure had pale blonde hair and was very tall and slim on top of her head I stared at her AG Gast it was the lady from the picture who Jimmy and I called laurelai she was very pale In the dim light almost a bluish white she sat across from me at the picnic table and I stared at her unable

to form words as she sat there eerily in the still night suddenly she began to laugh the same musical laughter I had heard in the old dilapidated house the summer before and as before the laugh started to change it became a shrill cackling and as I looked at laurelai or whatever this thing was she also began to physically change it was not a gradual Metamorphosis it was an instant change the beautiful blonde hair was gone her hair was now gray and hung in matted clumps down to the back of her black hooded cloak her face

was pale greenish and worms appeared to be moving around under her skin as the flesh undulated her teeth were Brown and very sharp and pointed like the teeth of a shark rather than a person I was frozen there unable to move or scream absolutely in shock the laugh turned to a screech and the Horrific figure across the table began reaching for me her fingers were very long and skinny she had sharp pointy fingernails that started to scrape across my face I suddenly was able to move but still had not found my voice I jumped up

from the picnic table and began to run unable to scream for help I ran Barefoot across the road as fast as possible in the dark as I kept running not daring to look behind me I heard her coming after me and gaining looking Before me I realized I was running foolishly straight toward the pond I began to panic because there was no way to end that course laurelai was right behind me I could smell her stinky breath once I reached the pond there was nowhere to go I turned to face her her eyes were glowing

a fiery red in the dark her hands raised reaching and grasping for me suddenly I found my voice I closed my eyes and began repeatedly screaming for my fate as I Continued to scream I felt someone's hand on my shoulder shaking me it was my mom and I was sitting at the picnic table no longer by the pond I was so confused my mom had asked me what was wrong with a look of extreme concern on her face I was crying and trying to get it out lur Li the horrible Scream the witchy appearance my

mom hugged me and told me that lorai was not honest and I must have fallen asleep at the picnic table and had a nightmare I knew that Was not the case it was real my feet still hurt from running across the sharp Rock's Barefoot I know laurelai had been there that night and she was pure evil we went back to the camper and it took me a long time to fall asleep the following day dawned as ever and Cheryl's parents came to take her back home after she left I grabbed Jimmy and told him I

needed to speak with him as I knew he would believe me about what happened and this was no nightmare I Told him everything that happened the night before we decided to walk over to the pond and investigate as we got closer to the pond where Laura Li had confronted me we looked down at the mud beside the water's edge and saw one lone footprint a footprint about the size of mine I looked at Jimmy and he looked at me I slowly reached down took my shoe off and placed my foot gingerly into the footprint it

was a perfect fit I put my shoe on quickly and Jimmy and I Ran back to the camper we both knew that laurelai was real no matter what the adult said and we both vowed to never go out by ourselves after dark the rest of the summer passed by quickly and we never went to the forest or alone past Nightfall our parents never seemed to notice so we kept it our secret that summer ended and it was back to school tragically in the fall Aunt Pula died of a sudden heart attack everyone was so grief

stricken and no longer wanted to Go go out to Lake lur as it wasn't the same without her the property was eventually sold and I never returned to Lake Laur again I still don't know exactly what went on that night as an adult I'm sure that the entity was not laurelai the siren from Norse mythology but I am just as confident that she was fundamental to this day I still can't explain how I ended up back at the picnic table but knowing what happened that night I often wonder if the Dilapidated house is still there

alone in the middle of the forest and if lur Li still be that land Jimmy sadly passed away 2 years ago and I no longer have anyone to discuss this frightening encounter with at least no one would believe me rest in peace Jimmy I dedicate this to you this is not my tale it is a story that my boss once told me during a break at work I will change the names but try my best to describe everything else Exactly as it was said to me in the early 1990s Jeremy and suie had been dating

for about a few weeks and were becoming very close Late Night Lovers Lane trips were becoming common for them both had come from homes in rural settings so often they would end up in the outdoors on Long hikes or parked on a lonely Logging Road on this night Susie and Jeremy were out in the loggin country of the Pacific Northwest they had parked Jeremy's Jeep at the top of a Landing and had walked down into a clearcut until they found a nice grassy patch on the hillside where they could comfortably sit and watch the sky

they whispered for some time as they cuddled each other off in the distance they could hear occasional screeches from an owl or maybe a mouse running through the underbrush neither one was alarmed when they heard the rustling noise coming from the far end of the clearing there Were a lot of deer and elk in the area after all the noise slowly moved in their Direction Jeremy told to listen and see if she heard it too she replied that she did and they both sat in silence listening to the limbs brush aside and Twig snapping underfoot

as something made its way across the opening still thinking it must be an animal forging in the shrubs they resumed talking Jeremy was keeping track of the noise though he assumed at some Point it would turn and go in a different direction once it realized humans were nearby it did not Jeremy told Susie that whatever was out there seemed bold if it was an animal once again he told her to be quiet and listen closely by now the shuffling sounds are maybe 100 yards away Jeremy let out a loud whistle thinking he would hear the

familiar noise of a deer bounding away instead there was silence then the movement returned still coming toward Them Jeremy shouted whoever is out there you better not come any closer I am armed he unsnapped the buckle on his concealed carry handgun and waited Jeremy wanted to see who was out there and give them a piece of his mind if he got the chance Susie had other ideas though it was all too real and spooky when Jeremy Reed his firearm she began to beg to leave and her voice was very hysterical with the noise still approaching

in Susie losing her Composure he decided that maybe it was an excellent time to go home they quickly made their way to the Jeep and drove the 20 mil back to home Jeremy returned to the clearcut a week later with his best friend Sean they arrived shortly before dark and purposely parked the Jeep a little further from The Landing both men were in full camouflage carrying binoculars in their sidearms they made their way to a vantage point where they could watch the opening while Hoping to remain unobserved right on the edge of the dark they

saw a man step into the clearing he appeared at approximately the exact location where the noises started the week before there was just enough light to tell that the man looked disheveled in raggedy clothes unkempt hair and a thick beard the man was moving oddly as though he was under drugs or had some mental disorder whatever the case he did not belong there and it creeped out Jeremy knowing It was probably this man who had been coming to them the night that they were out there even despite a warning the man didn't stop so what

was the guy's intent what would he have done if he ever reached them where did he come from the nearest house that they knew of was at least 10 Mi away Jeremy and Shawn decided to leave things as they were and sneak back to the Jeep their only answer was what but to who or why they never knew it could have just been a harmless Hermit with an undeveloped mind however you never really know for sure