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GeoDMT
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Jwlange]
#22244526 - 09/16/15 06:38 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Saw a man in an olive colored suit carrying a brief case in the middle of a Florida swamp back in 02. Watched him turn to vapor right there too... Had a strange feeling right before I spotted him, like I knew someone was on top of me. He didn't make any noise, it was obvious something was not right here from the bat.
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whitelights
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: GeoDMT]
#22246879 - 09/16/15 04:39 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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ive gotten lost while deer hunting(i never feel lost, and always know where i am even if ive never been there before). while lost i came into a lower swampyish area, and about 75 yards away i saw a plume of smoke not even a foot wide rising into the treetops and dissapeering in the wind after that. as i walked up the smoke got thinner and thinner at about 20 feet away i could see on the top flat face of a tree stump a small ember and as i got closer the smoke dissapeered and as i got to it the ember burnt completely out. weird feeling, got out of there quick.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: whitelights]
#22317404 - 10/01/15 04:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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spooky creepypasta
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azur
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: kosmokratorshaman]
#22331718 - 10/04/15 08:37 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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kosmokratorshaman said: •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.
Thanks for posting. Enjoyed reading this
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lIXII
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: kosmokratorshaman]
#22374396 - 10/13/15 04:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I spend a lot of time wandering the backcountry, usually hunting plants/rocks/fish, & while I've seen many staircases in the forest, I'd say that I see 10 old chimneys for every 1 old staircase. The reason always seemed straightforward to me as a builder, chimneys are typically made of the more durable material & harder to recycle/scavenge, aka masonry. & then staircases are essentially fortified mini-houses in themselves, gotta hold that weight!
I'm not trying to dismiss the mystery of these stories though, by the way, or generally backwoods eeriness, enjoyed reading the stories!
The creepiest house items that I see out in the wild are certainly the children's beds, usually with very dirty mattresses & even sometimes other bedroom items like a small nighstand and small chairs! Seeing those always disturbs me, & I'm difficult to scare. If they were adult beds it wouldn't feel so off. While working in the Mendocino & trinity N.F. in n.CA, I saw several of these scenes... I've found them elsewhere, but never that many in one place.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: lIXII]
#22374477 - 10/13/15 05:13 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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like cribs? 40 miles away from nearest civilation. that shit would probably make me cringe a little bit.
i spend some time out in the middle of nowhere. but im in the state that has nothing marked on david paulides maps unfortunately. i guess odd shit doesnt like desert.. maybe its a water thing.
guess im only stuck to by the skin walkers.
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Amanita86
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: GeoDMT]
#22376822 - 10/14/15 02:09 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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GeoDMT said: Saw a man in an olive colored suit carrying a brief case in the middle of a Florida swamp back in 02. Watched him turn to vapor right there too... Had a strange feeling right before I spotted him, like I knew someone was on top of me. He didn't make any noise, it was obvious something was not right here from the bat.
That's what I'm talking about with that story I said earlier about arrowhead hunting around that old house. The air was different. Every external sense I had was firing 'warning'.. like I said, nothing ever happened. But, there's no reason for electricity to fire up through your body like that... it wasn't me being paranoid. Something very percievable was going on.. and there was no real reason for a house to be there anyways.. before the path that was cut into it was cut the entire surroundings were old hard wood oaks,.. if that house was built there it should have been powder by the time all those oaks closed it off. Who knows, maybe whoever built it really, really liked walking.. and personally carrying in all the things it takes to build a house by hand.. all around strange.
That same feeling in a few houses I've been in, and the apartments. One second fine, next... dog hairs standing straight up. I could explain it but I'd come across as a loon.. but if you know, you know.
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Re: Strange stories of the outdoors, seeking SAR Rangers and experienced hikers. [Re: Amanita86]
#22377349 - 10/14/15 08:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think it's very logical to feel different before a vivid hallucination occurs. Your brain chemistry goes nuts and you do feel that.
However, I have not witnessed a paranormal incident ever in 25 years.
What I do have experienced is organic psychosis due to physical trauma and I before all of the creepy hallucinotory shit I heard, saw and felt during that episode, I could feel it coming. I won't even start telling what I saw, because I don't even know where to begin, but I was scared shitless for weeks and it still haunts me after 8 years.
In general, you should take into account that humans tend to influence each other immensely. If you witness something very weird and suspect that your brain just tricked you, ask the other persons around to write down what just happened (on their cellphones for example). This way you avoid influencing each other.
I'm sure the vast majority of paranormal incidents witnessed have just risen out of group dynamics. Try Ouija and see.
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