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Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers.
#22156886 - 08/28/15 02:26 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey there everyone. I am a researcher looking for contacts who have had unexplainable encounters in the deep woods and national parks. In particular I would love to hear stories from Rangers and SAR officers. Full anonymity is promised. I have been hearing stories about strange sounds like the screams and crying of people in distress on what appears to be a loop. Almost as if it is some kind of lure. Many have also reported strange staircases appearing in the woods, we are not talking about old dilapidated staircases from housing foundations, I mean brand new, freshly built and carpeted staircases to no where some 40 miles or more into the wilderness. If anyone can confirm these stories or you have strange stories of your own please share. Thanks!
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange]
#22162815 - 08/29/15 10:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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i havent had anything too crazy..
i was in the arizona flats and we were talking about skin walkers.. sure as shit later that night i coulda sworn i saw some old dude 3 feet away from me that was not in our group.. no drugs completley sober during that period in my life.
i always chalked that up to crazy campfire stories. i am interested in hearing some of these wilderness shenanigans..
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: rackem]
#22170033 - 08/31/15 04:58 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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•I have a pretty good track record for finding missing people. Most of the time they just wander off the path, or slip down a small cliff, and they can't find their way back. The majority of them have heard the old 'stay where you are' thing, and they don't wander far. But I've had two cases where that didn't happen. Both bother me a lot, and I use them as motivation to search even harder on the missing persons cases I get called on. The first was a little boy who was out berry-picking with his parents. He and his sister were together, and both of them went missing around the same time. Their parents lost sight of them for a few seconds, and in that time both the kids apparently wandered off. When their parents couldn't find them, they called us, and we came out to search the area. We found the daughter pretty quickly, and when we asked where her brother was, she told us that he'd been taken away by 'the bear man.' She said he gave her berries and told her to stay quiet, that he wanted to play with her brother for a while. The last she saw of her brother, he was riding on the shoulders of 'the bear man' and seemed calm. Of course, our first thought was abduction, but we never found a trace of another human being in that area. The little girl was also insistent that he wasn't a normal man, but that he was tall and covered in hair, 'like a bear', and that he had a 'weird face.' We searched that area for weeks, it was one of the longest calls I've ever been on, but we never found a single trace of that kid. The other was a young woman who was out hiking with her mom and grandpa. According to the mother, her daughter had climbed up a tree to get a better view of the forest, and she'd never come back down. They waited at the base of the tree for hours, calling her name, before they called for help. Again, we searched everywhere, and we never found a trace of her. I have no idea where she could possibly have gone, because neither her mother or grandpa saw her come down.
•A few times, I've been out on my own searching with a canine, and they've tried to lead me straight up cliffs. Not hills, not even rock faces. Straight, sheer cliffs with no possible handholds. It's always baffling, and in those cases we usually find the person on the other side of the cliff, or miles away from where the canine has led us. I'm sure there's an explanation, but it's sort of strange.
•One particularly sad case involved the recovery of a body. A nine-year-old girl fell down an embankment and got impaled on a dead tree at the base. It was a complete freak accident, but I'll never forget the sound her mother made when we told her what had happened. She saw the body bag being loaded into the ambulance, and she let out the most haunting, heart-broken wail I've ever heard. It was like her whole life was crashing down around her, and a part of her had died with her daughter. I heard from another SAR officer that she killed herself a few weeks after it happened. She couldn't live with the loss of her daughter.
•I was teamed up with another SAR officer because we'd received reports of bears in the area. We were looking for a guy who hadn't come home from a climbing trip when he was supposed to, and we ended up having to do some serious climbing to get to where we figured he'd be. We found him trapped in a small crevasse with a broken leg. It was not pleasant. He'd been there for almost two days, and his leg was very obviously infected. We were able to get him into a chopper, and I heard from one of the EMTs that the guy was absolutely inconsolable. He kept talking about how he'd been doing fine, and when he'd gotten to the top, a man had been there. He said the guy had no climbing equipment, and he was wearing a parka and ski pants. He walked up to the guy, and when the guy turned around, he said he had no face. It was just blank. He freaked out, and ended up trying to get off the mountain too fast, which is why he'd fallen. He said he could hear the guy all night, climbing down the mountain and letting out these horrible muffled screams. That story bothered the hell out of me. I'm glad I wasn't there to hear it.
•One of the scariest things I've ever had happen to me involved the search for a young woman who'd gotten separated from her hiking group. We were out until late at night, because the dogs had picked up her scent. When we found her, she was curled up under a large rotted log. She was missing her shoes and pack, and she was clearly in shock. She didn't have any injuries, and we were able to get her to walk with us back to base ops. Along the way, she kept looking behind us and asking us why 'that big man with black eyes' was following us. We couldn't see anyone, so we just wrote it off as some weird symptom of shock. But the closer we got to base, the more agitated this woman got. She kept asking me to tell him to stop 'making faces' at her. At one point she stopped and turned around and started yelling into the forest, saying that she wanted him to leave her alone. She wasn't going to go with him, she said, and she wouldn't give us to him. We finally got her to keep moving, but we started hearing these weird noises coming from all around us. It was almost like coughing, but more rhythmic and deeper. It was almost insect-like, I don't really know how else to describe it. When we were within site of base ops, the woman turns to me, and her eyes are about as wide as I can imagine a human could open them. She touches my shoulder and says 'He says to tell you to speed up. He doesn't like looking at the scar on your neck.' I have a very small scar on the base of my neck, but it's mostly hidden under my collar, and I have no idea how this woman saw it. Right after she says it, I hear that weird coughing right in my ear, and I just about jumped out of my skin. I hustled her to ops, trying not to show how freaked out I was, but I have to say I was really happy when we left the area that night.
•This is the last one I'll tell, and it's probably the weirdest story I have. Now, I don't know if this is true in every SAR unit, but in mine, it's sort of an unspoken, regular thing we run into. You can try asking about it with other SAR officers, but even if they know what you're talking about, they probably won't say anything about it. We've been told not to talk about it by our superiors, and at this point we've all gotten so used to it that it doesn't even seem weird anymore. On just about every case where we're really far into the wilderness, I'm talking 30 or 40 miles, at some point we'll find a staircase in the middle of the woods. It's almost like if you took the stairs in your house, cut them out, and put them in the forest. I asked about it the first time I saw some, and the other officer just told me not to worry about it, that it was normal. Everyone I asked said the same thing. I wanted to go check them out, but I was told, very emphatically, that I should never go near any of them. I just sort of ignore them now when I run into them because it happens so frequently.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: kosmokratorshaman]
#22171272 - 08/31/15 09:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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dude, thats pretty awesome... ive wanted to do sar for a while now..
these staircases, people talk about them, its not the first i have heard from this post or other people in passing along my journeys... im not going to discount any of that.. when i saw that 'skin walker' i was pretty god damned sure it was saying hello to me, without a doubt.
crazy shit happens in the middle of nowhere... thats what attracts us to go back
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: rackem]
#22189759 - 09/04/15 07:28 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can see someone here frequents /nosleep as well. I've tried making contact with the one who posted those stories on reddit but I've hit dead ends. Unless you are that individual. Either way any other stories or leads anyone finds would be a grat boon. Cheers
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange]
#22190253 - 09/04/15 09:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah sorry mate.. not me.. i keep my postings on reddit to /billiards.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: kosmokratorshaman]
#22195592 - 09/06/15 02:41 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thats some eerie shit man. Why are they making staircases in the woods?
This is kind of a 'woods' story. I was out in the middle of nowhere looking for arrowheads and on this one site there was this old house, surrounded by grown up trees etc. Real worn, looked like it could fall over if a strong breeze came through. The whole time I was there I felt like someone was watching me. I dont know why, Ive been around old shit before and sometimes go in them just to snoop around. The whole time I kept glancing at it. Ive learned not to ignore those instincts. Nothing happened, but it was real strange. I wouldnt have walked in there for anything.. I never did find any history on it. I wish I had a picture of it.
Now that Im thinking about it I found a badass back half of a spear point and never went back to find the other half. I just kind of wrote that spot off. It was a strange place to decide to build a house. Probably just my head playing games with me..
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22201499 - 09/07/15 11:10 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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kosmo i just looked up 'staircases in middle of woods' and the same exact post you posted came up on reddit. is that you or are you copy/pasting without citing the reference? if that is you, then awesome but i just want credibility in your stories you copy/pasted because they are intense as hell
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: rackem]
#22205688 - 09/08/15 04:05 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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All good. I should have posted the link anyway so people could read it for themselves.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22205690 - 09/08/15 04:07 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Good stuff. Love to hear things like that
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: rackem]
#22205692 - 09/08/15 04:08 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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BTW I'd love to hear about your skin walker experience.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange] 1
#22210485 - 09/09/15 01:05 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ive seen "stars" move in ways no star has ever moved within the fundamental laws of physics before.
I also came upon a patch of bones that wasn't from some hunt where a group of people in theory could have cleaned and cut a group of animals (i was too young to identify the bones at the time).
Other than that everything has been pretty straight forward.
Ive had strange things happen inside of houses and apartments though. One that caused my brother and me to leave at 3 am and drive to my grandmas. All of these encounters I was with atleast one other person, my brother, and usually in a group so it wasn't just me flaking out.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22210800 - 09/09/15 05:39 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Can you elaborate further on the stars moving? Feel free to share whatever it is that happened in your apartment as well
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange]
#22214446 - 09/09/15 09:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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i was like in my second or third week in the arizona flats..
all we had was ourselves about a group of twelve telling stories around a camp fire. i had heard rumors of these skinwalkers and how they like to burn sage specially in the flats. and if you ever smell a strong sage smell they are nearby.
well i discounted it as bullshit. if you are in the flats, sage is what you smell all day everyday that or dirt. aint much else to go with on the smells thing. but yeah i went to go take a piss or shit or some god damned thing away from the group and sure as shit, i saw a dude, older, never seen him before staring right at me. i looked around to make sure nothing crazy was going to happen and poof.
gone
sage still has a haunting effect on me.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange]
#22214957 - 09/09/15 11:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Jwlange said: Can you elaborate further on the stars moving? Feel free to share whatever it is that happened in your apartment as well
Yeah, they look just like normal stars, and 'out there' too, not like a plane is 'down here'. They will go rather quickly in one direction and then immediatly change directions and continue to move. Its not like a meteor or shooting star. Picture a star that does a real quick Z pattern, or it will go to the left, and immediatly go back to the right... it's pretty much a nightly thing in south texas. I cant come up with a reasonable explination for it, it defies physics. The weird part is when there's 3 or 4 of them zig zagging around up there... and then one will just stop. It'll stay still for a little while and then start moving around again. It's not a 'satellite' or anything, I really dont know what they are.. but they're up there doing their thing.
And to be that high, they're covering some ground and fast, so with all reason to just cut back on its path you would think anyone in there would get smashed against the wall, if it was some sort of 'craft'..
It would be cool to have a real powerful telescope and try to zoom in on one.. Ive seen 'detail' on the moon through a telescope, it would be cool to see if anything showed up looking at one of these things moving around. I bet someone has posted this happening on YouTube. A lot of people know about it. Its just one of those things where nobody can figure out whats going on but its common enough that they just accept it as one of those things..
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22228900 - 09/12/15 08:34 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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if you watch the moon long enough, about 15 minutes without looking away for a second, particularly whne its super bright, you will see little black flecks fleck across the face of the moon.
one time in the white mountains natinonal forrest, camping along a beautiful river me and a friend go 80 feet up above camp and find a spot where the mountain tore away from itself leaving a crevasse over 15 feet wide going straight down over 100 feet and said if we were to fall in there itd be death. at that moment i looked down and noticed my foot was bleeding, i had a 2 inch long cut along the side of my big toe that was spitting blood 3 feet with every beat of my heart. we quickly turnequeted it and got back down to camp.
it stopped bleeding, but still stayed wet with blood and an occasional drip here and there. this was 15 minutes till dark and we had bushwacked for 4/5 hours into the mountains to get to where we were. so the only choice was to ride it out. about 3 hours after dark it starts bleeding again and my vision goes double then tripple for a moment. then back to normal aftger i tightened the tournequet.
15 mintues later my friend stands up quickly and states whats that pointing towards the sky. i look form beneath a tree and see a blue/green/gray/silver glowing orb about 1000 feet above us, making no noise, but you could feel the power of it propelling itself wash over you. an instant later it traveled left 100 feet, then right 100 feet past is original spot and did that quick check mark or Z pattern the flitted out as it left our atmosphere in a blink of an eye no noise no nothing.
a bit after that the four of us circled aorund the camp fire, all noticed a circle of about 8-15 entities around our circle, we could literally hear them communicating about us, through this weird facemask filled with all these different chemicals that would move around as they talked. this lasted about 15 minutes, then they faded away, being about 3 feet away from us at one point, once we noticed they were gone, that same thing happened in the sky. i think they were looking out for me.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22231649 - 09/13/15 01:02 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Jwlange said: Can you elaborate further on the stars moving? Feel free to share whatever it is that happened in your apartment as well
Yeah, they look just like normal stars, and 'out there' too, not like a plane is 'down here'. They will go rather quickly in one direction and then immediatly change directions and continue to move. Its not like a meteor or shooting star. Picture a star that does a real quick Z pattern, or it will go to the left, and immediatly go back to the right... it's pretty much a nightly thing in south texas. I cant come up with a reasonable explination for it, it defies physics. The weird part is when there's 3 or 4 of them zig zagging around up there... and then one will just stop. It'll stay still for a little while and then start moving around again. It's not a 'satellite' or anything, I really dont know what they are.. but they're up there doing their thing.
And to be that high, they're covering some ground and fast, so with all reason to just cut back on its path you would think anyone in there would get smashed against the wall, if it was some sort of 'craft'..
It would be cool to have a real powerful telescope and try to zoom in on one.. Ive seen 'detail' on the moon through a telescope, it would be cool to see if anything showed up looking at one of these things moving around. I bet someone has posted this happening on YouTube. A lot of people know about it. Its just one of those things where nobody can figure out whats going on but its common enough that they just accept it as one of those things..
Thank god im not the only one!
For me it started like half a year ago. Im pretty close to detroit so there is a good deal of light polution but the stars i can see move exactly like you described, some more then others.
I never noticed it until 6 months ago. For some reason my pattern recognition has always tilted toward hexagons. Like the patterns i see while tripping or looking at a tree has always been hexagons or octagons. But for reason around 6 months ago it switched to triangles. I have no idea why. Havent tripped in a while and i cant smoke cause of probation. Its the weirdest thing. All of a sudden when i look up at the stars, from home or up north, everything i see is triangles i never noticed before. And the stars doing that odd "z" or figure 8 patterns.
Thought i was going crazy for a minute 
I love being in the middle of nowhere and watching the stars. Always something to see.
Like the other night i seen a star like object moving on a very steady course, very quickly, and suddenly stopping for a few moments before resuming and eventually moving beyond the horizon. It went from one horizon to the other in maybe a minute give or take a few seconds.
It was too far away to be aircraft, my dad has taught me to fly since i was young and i dont know of anything that could traverse the entire sky that quickly, unless it were a jet flying way low. Plus ive never seen anything decelerate or speed back up that fast. Ive watched every meteor shower i could see in my area for nearly my entire life and it wasnt that. I also checked nasa to see if it was some strange light effect from the space station but it wasnt going to pass by me anywhere visible any time soon.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Chuckfinely]
#22235023 - 09/13/15 11:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's gotta be aliens, lol. Aliens man!
Who knows what that shit is.. but yeah man, I love clear country skies at night. It's coming up on the cold season (around here) and those cold nights always show the sky crystal clear.. build a little fire, get your mind right, and that nighttime sky beats the shit out of any tv ever made..
A short story.. "once upon a time".. a buddy and I were walking down the road, this old backwoods road out in the sticks. Circa 16 years ago. And we just so happened to have dropped acid. As chance would have it, a meteor shower just so happened to be taking place.. one minute we were walking and the next we just so happened to lay down and look at the night sky, and it was a spot where the view went past your peripheral vision.. full on, being on top of the world. And we layed there for who knows how many hours just talking and watching these fucking meteors go burning past..
It was so wild seeing them make the sky more 3D and adding depth, to what normally looks like a 'flatish' sky. It really put a perspective to the fact we're all on this ball, freefalling, flying, doing whatever, in space.. yet for some reason, "everyday is exactly the same"..
One of those random nights that will forever change how I perceive this life.. that sky really does just go on, forever.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22236825 - 09/14/15 02:08 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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ive dropped acid only to have a 125 an hour meteor shower entertain me all night without knowing it was going to happen.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: whitelights]
#22238123 - 09/14/15 07:01 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Excellent stories all around. The entities with strange "chemical masks" are intriguing. I'd love to witness something like that.
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