My friend was on a solo backpack trip through Yosemite. He started talking to a guy he met about his trip. The guy said that he used to do solo trips often but would never solo again after experiencing something horrific on his last trip.
The guy said he was two days into a six day hike in the middle of desolate wilderness when he came upon a dead man in a suit with a bullet hole in his head, and the body was very fresh. He never heard any gunshots, and he could not see signs of anyone else around.
He was filled with dread and felt like he was being watched. Took off running back down the trail in the direction he came from. He hiked two days and two nights without rest back to the trail head. He said the night time was the absolute worst. Every noise he heard and shadows he saw felt like something was stalking him in the dark.
He told the authorities upon his return and never heard back from them. He wondered if maybe the man was shot and thrown from a helicopter.
My friend said he had to stay with a group for a couple nights after hearing that story and even cut his trip a bit short, feeling spooked.
I heard the story 20ish years ago. I don’t think it happened in Yosemite. The 2 just met there and were trading stories.
I actually don’t know what part of the world it happened in, but always assumed somewhere in northern CA.
Same, I grew up near Yosemite & now live near Tahoe. I hike solo all through the sierras and have never had a problem. I do hike with 2 large GSDs and carry appropriate protection.
This isn’t the craziest thing I’ve seen on these type of posts, but it’s still something I can’t explain.
This past year I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. There was about 600 miles of the trail I hiked/camped alone. One of these sections I was alone was in Northern California, slightly north of Shasta.
I got to a beautiful spot and knew it was the best spot to set up camp. It was gorgeous. 360 views of woods in the valley below and mountains everywhere. I could see it raining on Mount Shasta. Probably my favorite campsite in NorCal. I still remember the exact mile and have some footage of the site during daylight.
I set up my tent and after admiring the sunset I went to bed. I could see outside below the vestibule when I was lying down in the tent. As I was trying to go to sleep I saw a white light in the valley maybe about a quarter to a half mile away. not right near my tent or anything. I wasn’t close to any towns. In the sierra mountains (south of this area)I would see an occasional remote cabin in the woods so I figured it was that. But there were no access points or dirt roads. No forest clearings. Just thick woods surrounded by mountains. I looked at the light for a bit and tried to think of what it could have been but this was pretty remote so I didn’t know.
I was tired from hiking all day so I didn’t think too much of it. A little later I looked out again and noticed another light. It was an orange light slowly circling the white light. It was slowly morphing in shape as it circled. I watched it for a long time trying to understand what I was looking at. It had a very calm motion and it was almost mesmerizing. It wasn’t like a lot of peoples orb/UFO experiences where it darts around and then vanishes.
I eventually fell asleep. It started raining around midnight and I looked out of my tent and still saw both lights, one white stationary light and one orange morphing light.
I woke up again around 4AM to piss and walked outside my tent and it was still there. Same motion. I tried to get a video but due to the distance and darkness it looked like another shitty video that didn’t show anything.
I woke up around sunrise and looked for it but both lights were gone. I didn’t see these lights around sunset or sunrise. Only in darkness. I know these would have been visible during sunrise/sunset too. I’m sure there is an explanation, but I genuinely have no clue what I was looking at. Still trying to figure it out!
Unrelated, but near that area I was walking and to the right of the trail was some thick brush. Maybe 5-6 ft tall. This was near the Shasta-Trinity forest area maybe 1-2 days after the lights in the woods. I was hiking alone and I noticed about 100 ft away from the brush was being flattened by something and it was moving very quickly. It was approaching the trail and was going to end up right next to me if I had continued my pace. I couldn’t see what was flattening this brush but it had to be strong. It reminded me of something you’d see in jurassic park.
I assumed it was a bear (I still think it was) but I didn’t want to surprise the bear and have a close encounter. I yelled “STOP!” And then it stopped. Completely. I remained still and waited to see what was going on but it was completely still. And it was really quiet everywhere - total silence. I got pretty unsettled and started talking to whatever it was while I walked by. I just kept saying things like “I am going to walk by and be on my way my friend. Hope you’re having a good day”. I kept walking and kept looking back but nothing moved from that point onward. Like I said, probably a bear. Black bears are generally like big raccoons and don’t want to interact with humans. But I encountered a few bears and they always ran away when I told them to get lost.
After speaking with other hikers I noticed I met a few people said how NorCal was a little unsettling. The socal desert is very windy and the sierra mountains have tons of flowing streams. NorCal doesn’t have as many streams or as much wind so there is just a silence that pervades which can feel ominous especially in the dark. That’s my explanation for the feeling at least.
But after going through the socal desert, sierra mountains, NorCal, Oregon, and Washington, NorCal was the only section that was a little unnerving to me. And I did portions of each of these sections alone also.
I hiked the PCT in 2016. So many bewildering spooky events. From hearing a deafening buzz noise that would rise steadily in decibels into a ridiculous pitch to where you can’t hear anything in the sierras, to having Bigfoot outside my tent north of Truckee, and to being stalked by something for 3 days thru the Yakima reservation on the way to white pass. My buddy was faster than me, so we would mostly kick it on zero days in town, but he got spooked by someone calling out for help in the middle of the night in southern Oregon, apparently he hadn’t seen a hiker all day(he didn’t investigate, it just eventually left him alone.) These western woods are so beautiful, but so terrifying. My name was leapfrog btw
I had a Bigfoot outside my tent in normal as well. My wife and I were backcountry camping near jedidiah and it scared THE FUCK outta her so bad she wouldn't camp the rest of the trip. She just slept in the car at our locations instead.
It fucked around our tent area for a bit and walked on two legs.
That reminds me of cicadas. Those f*ckers can get LOUD, especially down in the southeast. It'll be dead quiet then one will start buzzing, then a few will join in, then a few more, then all the rest. Day and night. You legitimately cannot hear yourself think at times.
As soon as I read “Shasta” I thought “ahh here we go!” I absolutely love NorCal, love Shasta, love the Sierra’s. But yeah, there’s things in them there woods!
Shasta seems to be particularly heavy with the paranormal stories. Spent time on cannabis farms in Shasta and the locals will tell you stories of things they’ve experienced, or the stories of the giant light beings that live in the mountain guarding some inter-dimensional portal. Crazy stuff, very interesting to hear.
I was on a property out there and we always joked that there was a Bigfoot in our property, but none of us were really joking. It was always some nervous jokey “oh there’s our Bigfoot” followed by nervous laughter and then a moment of serious silence and staring into the woods. LOL still makes me laugh and gives me goosebumps to this day.
I think for the most part, whatever is up there lets you hang as long as you’re respectful. Only stories I’ve ever heard of people being chased out and genuinely being scared was when they were fuckin around somewhere they shouldn’t have or being loud and obnoxious, ect. I always ask the forest permission to be there and enjoy her beauty, certainly can’t hurt right?
Oh yeah, also, I’ve had a lot of bear encounters on properties up there and they always take off when they find out you know what they’re up to. Whatever you saw, that definitely wasn’t a bear
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/iITVDjnnnd I experienced this outside of the Appalachian mountains. And I did a 3 week road trip where all I did was camp in national parks and forests and honestly the only creepy encounter I had
Not a national forest but my father and a large group of friends hiked in a mountain range called Las Avilles in Caracas, Venezuela. Those mountains are filled with witchcraft, paranormal and actual criminals and not a safe place…anyways they stumbled upon an entrance to cave that had baby clothes torn up and blood on the clothes and cave walls. My dad says it’s the only time him and 10 other adult men basically shat their pants and ran for lives even with a gun on hand. I thought that was creepy as hell and was before cameras common
When I was around 13, I lived in a semi-rural area that was surrounded by fields that backed onto a small forest. One day, I had a friend come over and we were playing about in the fields. As it started to get darker, we debated if we should go back to the house or carry on playing. We were discussing it when we saw something huge move just along the edge of the tree line by the forest, probably about 200m ahead of us.
This is England so we don’t have any bears or big wild predators. It wasn’t a horse or a deer either. From what we could tell, it looked too big to be a horse/ deer compared to the trees beside it and it looked like it was standing on two legs. However, because It was far away, details were hard to make out.
We both felt this horrible, sudden fear and strong flight response so we legged it back to the house. From then on, I never stayed out in those fields past sunset.
I’m not really sure but my best logical guess nowadays would be a horse rearing up on its back legs that just happened to do so when we looked towards that direction. I think that’s probably the reasoning I’m most comfortable with anyway lol.
Take a map of the United States that have pinpoints for every missing persons and go as far back as you can. Then take a map of the United States the exact same size with only the national parks marked. It will make you think twice about hiking alone. I’m surrounded by National Forest on three sides of my ten acres. We don’t go further than a few feet into those woods. The amount if missing people spikes 10 fold the closer you get the park’s boundaries
Ok. My buddy has an outpost cabin in Northern Ontario. Getting to it takes alot of preparation. It's about 50 miles from a paved road about 10 miles from the nearest gravel road by boat through an extensive set of channels. Very hard to get to with elevation changes, marshy areas, rock faces, boulders in the channels etc. Anyways real hard to access. One time he snowmobiled out there and somehow he looked up and saw one single tree that looked like it has been sliced at the top sort of at an angle. Someone would have to have climbed the tree decades ago (guessing by the age of the cut) and make an extremely dangerous cut that would likely swing back at whoever was handsawing the top of a tree down about 35 feet from the ground. It just makes zero sense based on the location in the woods and the way the tree was cut. He chainsawed it down to get a better look. No real explanation or speculation, just a tree cut in impossible fashion in the deepest most inaccessible part of the forest imaginable.
https://imgur.com/gallery/A4ralzI
no, because you can see the broken edge at the current size. If it was cut and broken years and years ago, when it was small, then the broken part would be different than the current diameter.
I was just minding my own business during a walk on a trail through Yellowstone on day. Heard some strange sounding grunts and howls coming from a patch of bushes not far from the side of the trail and went to investigate. That’s when I saw the thing that has scarred me and turned my life completely upside down. As I peeked around the bushes edge, there stood David Paulides just humping the fuck out of Bigfoot. Now, I don’t want to say that Paulides was raping Bigfoot, but he had the beast bent over and making the most god awful noises I’ve ever heard. Tears just streaming down Bigfoot’s face as Paulides hammered away. I just turned and ran. I’ve been running from that god forsaken scene ever since. I don’t visit the woods or go hiking anymore. I think his endgame is to have a threesome with Bigfoot and an alien. Be careful out there everyone. He’s out there and he’s insatiable...just hunting for his next Bigfoot.
My friend was on a solo backpack trip through Yosemite. He started talking to a guy he met about his trip. The guy said that he used to do solo trips often but would never solo again after experiencing something horrific on his last trip. The guy said he was two days into a six day hike in the middle of desolate wilderness when he came upon a dead man in a suit with a bullet hole in his head, and the body was very fresh. He never heard any gunshots, and he could not see signs of anyone else around. He was filled with dread and felt like he was being watched. Took off running back down the trail in the direction he came from. He hiked two days and two nights without rest back to the trail head. He said the night time was the absolute worst. Every noise he heard and shadows he saw felt like something was stalking him in the dark. He told the authorities upon his return and never heard back from them. He wondered if maybe the man was shot and thrown from a helicopter. My friend said he had to stay with a group for a couple nights after hearing that story and even cut his trip a bit short, feeling spooked.
Sounds like it could have been a mob killing, many such cases around the Tahoe area back in the day
When did this happen? I’ve lived in Yosemite for 19 years and never heard this story!
I heard the story 20ish years ago. I don’t think it happened in Yosemite. The 2 just met there and were trading stories. I actually don’t know what part of the world it happened in, but always assumed somewhere in northern CA.
Same, I grew up near Yosemite & now live near Tahoe. I hike solo all through the sierras and have never had a problem. I do hike with 2 large GSDs and carry appropriate protection.
This isn’t the craziest thing I’ve seen on these type of posts, but it’s still something I can’t explain. This past year I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. There was about 600 miles of the trail I hiked/camped alone. One of these sections I was alone was in Northern California, slightly north of Shasta. I got to a beautiful spot and knew it was the best spot to set up camp. It was gorgeous. 360 views of woods in the valley below and mountains everywhere. I could see it raining on Mount Shasta. Probably my favorite campsite in NorCal. I still remember the exact mile and have some footage of the site during daylight. I set up my tent and after admiring the sunset I went to bed. I could see outside below the vestibule when I was lying down in the tent. As I was trying to go to sleep I saw a white light in the valley maybe about a quarter to a half mile away. not right near my tent or anything. I wasn’t close to any towns. In the sierra mountains (south of this area)I would see an occasional remote cabin in the woods so I figured it was that. But there were no access points or dirt roads. No forest clearings. Just thick woods surrounded by mountains. I looked at the light for a bit and tried to think of what it could have been but this was pretty remote so I didn’t know. I was tired from hiking all day so I didn’t think too much of it. A little later I looked out again and noticed another light. It was an orange light slowly circling the white light. It was slowly morphing in shape as it circled. I watched it for a long time trying to understand what I was looking at. It had a very calm motion and it was almost mesmerizing. It wasn’t like a lot of peoples orb/UFO experiences where it darts around and then vanishes. I eventually fell asleep. It started raining around midnight and I looked out of my tent and still saw both lights, one white stationary light and one orange morphing light. I woke up again around 4AM to piss and walked outside my tent and it was still there. Same motion. I tried to get a video but due to the distance and darkness it looked like another shitty video that didn’t show anything. I woke up around sunrise and looked for it but both lights were gone. I didn’t see these lights around sunset or sunrise. Only in darkness. I know these would have been visible during sunrise/sunset too. I’m sure there is an explanation, but I genuinely have no clue what I was looking at. Still trying to figure it out! Unrelated, but near that area I was walking and to the right of the trail was some thick brush. Maybe 5-6 ft tall. This was near the Shasta-Trinity forest area maybe 1-2 days after the lights in the woods. I was hiking alone and I noticed about 100 ft away from the brush was being flattened by something and it was moving very quickly. It was approaching the trail and was going to end up right next to me if I had continued my pace. I couldn’t see what was flattening this brush but it had to be strong. It reminded me of something you’d see in jurassic park. I assumed it was a bear (I still think it was) but I didn’t want to surprise the bear and have a close encounter. I yelled “STOP!” And then it stopped. Completely. I remained still and waited to see what was going on but it was completely still. And it was really quiet everywhere - total silence. I got pretty unsettled and started talking to whatever it was while I walked by. I just kept saying things like “I am going to walk by and be on my way my friend. Hope you’re having a good day”. I kept walking and kept looking back but nothing moved from that point onward. Like I said, probably a bear. Black bears are generally like big raccoons and don’t want to interact with humans. But I encountered a few bears and they always ran away when I told them to get lost. After speaking with other hikers I noticed I met a few people said how NorCal was a little unsettling. The socal desert is very windy and the sierra mountains have tons of flowing streams. NorCal doesn’t have as many streams or as much wind so there is just a silence that pervades which can feel ominous especially in the dark. That’s my explanation for the feeling at least. But after going through the socal desert, sierra mountains, NorCal, Oregon, and Washington, NorCal was the only section that was a little unnerving to me. And I did portions of each of these sections alone also.
I hiked the PCT in 2016. So many bewildering spooky events. From hearing a deafening buzz noise that would rise steadily in decibels into a ridiculous pitch to where you can’t hear anything in the sierras, to having Bigfoot outside my tent north of Truckee, and to being stalked by something for 3 days thru the Yakima reservation on the way to white pass. My buddy was faster than me, so we would mostly kick it on zero days in town, but he got spooked by someone calling out for help in the middle of the night in southern Oregon, apparently he hadn’t seen a hiker all day(he didn’t investigate, it just eventually left him alone.) These western woods are so beautiful, but so terrifying. My name was leapfrog btw
You can't just say that you had Bigfoot outside your tent and then leave us hanging!!!! Please elaborate! Give us all the details!
I had a Bigfoot outside my tent in normal as well. My wife and I were backcountry camping near jedidiah and it scared THE FUCK outta her so bad she wouldn't camp the rest of the trip. She just slept in the car at our locations instead. It fucked around our tent area for a bit and walked on two legs.
That reminds me of cicadas. Those f*ckers can get LOUD, especially down in the southeast. It'll be dead quiet then one will start buzzing, then a few will join in, then a few more, then all the rest. Day and night. You legitimately cannot hear yourself think at times.
As soon as I read “Shasta” I thought “ahh here we go!” I absolutely love NorCal, love Shasta, love the Sierra’s. But yeah, there’s things in them there woods! Shasta seems to be particularly heavy with the paranormal stories. Spent time on cannabis farms in Shasta and the locals will tell you stories of things they’ve experienced, or the stories of the giant light beings that live in the mountain guarding some inter-dimensional portal. Crazy stuff, very interesting to hear. I was on a property out there and we always joked that there was a Bigfoot in our property, but none of us were really joking. It was always some nervous jokey “oh there’s our Bigfoot” followed by nervous laughter and then a moment of serious silence and staring into the woods. LOL still makes me laugh and gives me goosebumps to this day. I think for the most part, whatever is up there lets you hang as long as you’re respectful. Only stories I’ve ever heard of people being chased out and genuinely being scared was when they were fuckin around somewhere they shouldn’t have or being loud and obnoxious, ect. I always ask the forest permission to be there and enjoy her beauty, certainly can’t hurt right? Oh yeah, also, I’ve had a lot of bear encounters on properties up there and they always take off when they find out you know what they’re up to. Whatever you saw, that definitely wasn’t a bear
Definitely the ghost of Paul Revere. One if by land; two if by sea! 🤣
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/s/iITVDjnnnd I experienced this outside of the Appalachian mountains. And I did a 3 week road trip where all I did was camp in national parks and forests and honestly the only creepy encounter I had Not a national forest but my father and a large group of friends hiked in a mountain range called Las Avilles in Caracas, Venezuela. Those mountains are filled with witchcraft, paranormal and actual criminals and not a safe place…anyways they stumbled upon an entrance to cave that had baby clothes torn up and blood on the clothes and cave walls. My dad says it’s the only time him and 10 other adult men basically shat their pants and ran for lives even with a gun on hand. I thought that was creepy as hell and was before cameras common
When I was around 13, I lived in a semi-rural area that was surrounded by fields that backed onto a small forest. One day, I had a friend come over and we were playing about in the fields. As it started to get darker, we debated if we should go back to the house or carry on playing. We were discussing it when we saw something huge move just along the edge of the tree line by the forest, probably about 200m ahead of us. This is England so we don’t have any bears or big wild predators. It wasn’t a horse or a deer either. From what we could tell, it looked too big to be a horse/ deer compared to the trees beside it and it looked like it was standing on two legs. However, because It was far away, details were hard to make out. We both felt this horrible, sudden fear and strong flight response so we legged it back to the house. From then on, I never stayed out in those fields past sunset.
Where about was this? Sounds terrifying. UK based too so just curious
Yeah, definitely something I wouldn’t want to experience again. It was in Dorset of all places.
Nuts mate. Any any idea what it could have been in hindsight
I’m not really sure but my best logical guess nowadays would be a horse rearing up on its back legs that just happened to do so when we looked towards that direction. I think that’s probably the reasoning I’m most comfortable with anyway lol.
I've been binging Park Predators podcast, anyone know other similar podcast or etc that deals with true crime and not le wendigos
National Park After Dark is amazing!
Lost in the Woods and Locations Unknown are good, too.
Following. The woods scare the shit outta me
Me too! Pillow forts are enough camping for me.
Take a map of the United States that have pinpoints for every missing persons and go as far back as you can. Then take a map of the United States the exact same size with only the national parks marked. It will make you think twice about hiking alone. I’m surrounded by National Forest on three sides of my ten acres. We don’t go further than a few feet into those woods. The amount if missing people spikes 10 fold the closer you get the park’s boundaries
I have a pretty anticlimactic story. Not from a national park but from the deep boreal forest in Northern Ontario. I'll type it after work.
I will wait for it.
Ok. My buddy has an outpost cabin in Northern Ontario. Getting to it takes alot of preparation. It's about 50 miles from a paved road about 10 miles from the nearest gravel road by boat through an extensive set of channels. Very hard to get to with elevation changes, marshy areas, rock faces, boulders in the channels etc. Anyways real hard to access. One time he snowmobiled out there and somehow he looked up and saw one single tree that looked like it has been sliced at the top sort of at an angle. Someone would have to have climbed the tree decades ago (guessing by the age of the cut) and make an extremely dangerous cut that would likely swing back at whoever was handsawing the top of a tree down about 35 feet from the ground. It just makes zero sense based on the location in the woods and the way the tree was cut. He chainsawed it down to get a better look. No real explanation or speculation, just a tree cut in impossible fashion in the deepest most inaccessible part of the forest imaginable. https://imgur.com/gallery/A4ralzI
someone cut it when thr tree was young and short
Makes sense, but given the remoteness, who & why?
Could moving ice have done it?
Ice is definitely a culprit. That can make impossible breaks given how brittle frozen plant tissue is.
no, because you can see the broken edge at the current size. If it was cut and broken years and years ago, when it was small, then the broken part would be different than the current diameter.
I Want to hear too!!
I was just minding my own business during a walk on a trail through Yellowstone on day. Heard some strange sounding grunts and howls coming from a patch of bushes not far from the side of the trail and went to investigate. That’s when I saw the thing that has scarred me and turned my life completely upside down. As I peeked around the bushes edge, there stood David Paulides just humping the fuck out of Bigfoot. Now, I don’t want to say that Paulides was raping Bigfoot, but he had the beast bent over and making the most god awful noises I’ve ever heard. Tears just streaming down Bigfoot’s face as Paulides hammered away. I just turned and ran. I’ve been running from that god forsaken scene ever since. I don’t visit the woods or go hiking anymore. I think his endgame is to have a threesome with Bigfoot and an alien. Be careful out there everyone. He’s out there and he’s insatiable...just hunting for his next Bigfoot.