6 Creepy Forest Encounters Caught on Camera

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00:00In January 2015, a group of New Zealand film students were recording outside their school

00:05at Auckland's Parnell railway station. The footage you're seeing now was recorded by a student named

00:10Chris Muir. For a few minutes, Chris and his friends were messing around and having fun as they filmed.

00:16But that's when the group spotted a man and a woman wearing creepy white masks,

00:20hiding in the tall grass next to the station and staring ominously at the camera.

00:30As it was later revealed, Chris and his buddies first thought that the masked people were probably

00:45pranksters from the school trying to creep them out, which is why they can be heard laughing

00:48throughout the footage. However, the students later confessed that it was more so nervous

00:53laughter and that they were actually pretty terrified during the encounter. Disturbingly,

00:58looking at the footage, they noticed that the couple appeared to be armed.

01:02In some of the clips, it looks like one of them is holding a pistol.

01:14Where's the other one? Where's the other one?

01:22I don't see him.

01:23As soon as the suspects got a little too close for comfort, the group ran back to the main road,

01:29after which they reportedly saw a police chopper approaching the area of the incident.

01:33It's not entirely clear who called the cops that day, but based on my research, this wasn't the

01:37first time the couple had harassed the public with their creepy masks and weapons. Earlier that

01:42week, they had terrorized a woman at Auckland's Domain Park, but left before the police were able to

01:47arrest them. When the cops arrived at the train station, Chris and his friends gave them the report,

01:52after which the Auckland Police Department uploaded a Facebook post where they urged

01:55the suspects to come forward and warned civilians to stay far away from the masked couple if they

02:00saw them. They also cautioned that if they saw someone carrying what appeared to be a weapon,

02:04they had no way of knowing if the weapon was real or fake and would be forced to approach the

02:08situation as if it were real. Shortly after that, the suspects reportedly came forward to talk to

02:14the cops. Throughout the investigation, the authorities didn't release a whole lot of information to

02:18the public about who these people were, whether their weapons were real, or what their intentions

02:22were. But one thing we know for sure is that this wasn't just an innocent prank. In fact,

02:28when a lot of people online started accusing the students of staging a prank just to get attention,

02:33a spokesperson from the school came forward to clarify that the masked suspects had nothing to

02:37do with the institute. According to an article from Vice, a police spokesperson later confirmed that

02:42the weapons were fake. But I wasn't able to find any official confirmation of this, and to this day,

02:48not a lot of people know who the suspects were or why they were terrorizing the public for no reason.

02:53Whatever the case, it's a good thing Chris and his friends were able to get away before things

02:57took a turn for the worse.

03:01Near the base of Mount Fuji in Japan lies a forest that's known among the locals as the Sea of Trees.

03:08Interestingly, the entire forest grew out of a 30 square kilometer patch of hardened lava that

03:12was laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji. A little more disturbingly though,

03:17over the years the Sea of Trees has become known as a place where people go to take their own lives.

03:22And if you venture far enough into the forest, it's not uncommon at all to find a body.

03:28Near the entrance of the forest, a sign written in Japanese reads,

03:31quietly think once more about your parents, siblings, and children. Please don't suffer alone,

03:37and first reach out. In July 2017, urban explorer and YouTuber Burbex

03:42ventured into the forest to see what he'd find, walking his viewers through his entire journey

03:46into the Sea of Trees. But even though the video starts out tame enough, just a few minutes into

03:51his exploration, the uploader comes across to an abandoned bike, and that's when things get a little

03:56disturbing. I'm only a few meters away from the road right now, but I've already found an abandoned bike.

04:04It's actually a pretty nice bike. Let's take a look at it.

04:13I don't think it's been here a long time. What do we got in here? And uh,

04:19let's pack it for a knife. I think I've just found some kind of note in a bag.

04:26It says 12-11. I can't quite make out. I think this is somebody's name, just here.

04:36And I'm not sure what this means.

04:42On top of the bike, Burbex finds an empty piece of packaging for a kitchen knife, and a few minutes

04:48later, he comes across a note written on a plastic bag. The note translates to 12-11 verified,

04:54Fujiyoshina Police Station verified, meaning it's likely evidence of someone who abandoned their

04:59stuff to take their own life in the forest, confirmed by the local police station.

05:04It's incredibly haunting to think how many lives have been lost in that forest over the years,

05:09and even more disturbing to think that any random passerby could easily find the body while exploring

05:14the terrain. Over the years, the Japanese government has implemented several measures,

05:18such as placing security cameras near the entrance to track those who walk inside,

05:22as well as training volunteers to talk to the visitors who are thinking of taking their lives.

05:27Still, this hasn't stopped people from following through with it, and the fact that the media has

05:31really played a big part in sensationalizing the forest in recent years hasn't helped either.

05:39In early 2023, a man named David Meredith was taking his usual evening stroll through his

05:44neighborhood in Red Deer, Canada when he suddenly saw a bull moose eating next to a tree.

05:49Hoping to catch a better glimpse, he hid behind the tree to watch. And that's when the moose turned

05:54around and started charging at him. To understand how incredibly dangerous this is, keep in mind that

06:00an adult male moose can run faster than 35 miles per hour, which is almost twice as fast as the max

06:06speed for the average human male. Even though moose aren't generally aggressive, they can easily trample

06:11and kill a human if they feel threatened, which is probably what happened here. Fearing for his life,

06:15David hoisted himself up the tree next to him to avoid getting stabbed by the moose's antlers.

06:20As soon as he was out of the moose's reach, he started recording.

06:46For about 30 seconds, the moose just stares at David, and you can hear the uploader's nervous

06:50breathing as he waits for the moose to leave. But shortly after, the moose starts charging back

06:55and forth with its head down, which is a clear sign that it's stressed and would probably trample

06:59David if he were to come down or fall from the tree.

07:18Based on what he mentioned to the news station that interviewed him a couple of days later,

07:21David stayed in the tree for over 10 minutes waiting for the moose to leave him alone.

07:26When asked how he climbed up the tree, he demonstrated how he pulled himself up by a

07:29flimsy looking branch, which is honestly one of the most concerning parts of this whole situation.

07:35That branch breaks and David would have been at the mercy of a very angry moose and might not

07:39have lived to tell the tale. Luckily, after seeing that David wasn't coming down, the moose finally

07:44gave up and ran off, thanks to which the uploader was able to come down safely after waiting it out for

07:49around an extra half hour. In February 2018, a man named Greg Harris uploaded a GoPro video of

07:57himself riding his ATV on an unnamed trail. For the first few seconds, the footage shows pretty much

08:03exactly what you'd expect from this kind of upload. But in the blink of an eye, something extremely

08:09disturbing interrupts Greg's ATV ride.

08:23If you didn't catch it, someone had set up a metal wire between the two trees,

08:41which got caught in the uploader's helmet and forced him to stop. It's pretty disturbing to

08:45think that if Greg hadn't been so lucky, he could have been decapitated by the wire.

08:49Fortunately, as mentioned in the video description, his speed along with the wire hitting his helmet

08:54instead of his neck caused it to break as he passed through it. It might seem shocking that

08:59anyone would even think of doing something as incredibly evil as setting up a lethal booby

09:04trap in the middle of an ATV trail. But sadly, it's actually pretty common in the dirt bike and ATV

09:09community. Sometimes these wires are set up by people trying to keep bikers off their property.

09:14Others are set up by psychos who get irritated by the noise and decide to use violence to fix the

09:19issue. And the rest are set up by people who are just messed up in the head and want to bring harm

09:24to others for no reason. In this case, it's impossible to tell who was responsible for setting

09:29up the trap. This is just one of those videos where if the wire was set up just slightly lower,

09:34the accident could have easily been fatal. Luckily, he was able to walk away with minimal injuries,

09:39and he used his video as a way to warn others to watch out for these kinds of traps,

09:43especially when riding through trees.

09:48Back in the summer of 2014, a man named Chris was biking in the mountains near Fernie,

09:52British Columbia, when he suddenly noticed what appeared to be an animal approaching him in the

09:56tall grass. Immediately, he realized it was a mountain lion, and that's when he started recording.

10:02I don't know if you can see it, but there's a mountain lion. He's crouching in the grass.

10:13He's actually coming towards me.

10:18At first, it's kind of hard to see where exactly the animal is,

10:21but as Chris walks towards the trail, you can see it emerging from the grass coming closer.

10:25Even though mountain lion sightings are rare, they have been known to attack people in certain

10:42situations. And let's just say, if you see one stalking you in the tall grass, slowly approaching

10:48as it stares you down, you can be pretty certain that you're in danger. About two minutes into the

10:53footage, the lion starts walking a little faster, and Chris does the one thing you never do with

10:58a mountain lion by turning his back and starting to run.

11:13Hey, Mr. Mountain Lion. How are you doing? Nice to see you.

11:29Nice to see you.

11:33I am much bigger than you.

11:38Over the next couple of minutes, Chris tries to get the animal to go away,

11:41but it only walks around him and continues to stalk him, staring him down in the tall grass near the

11:46entrance to the woods. A couple of minutes later, the uploader manages to take a few steps toward

11:50the main trail back to his car, but he doesn't get too far before the mountain lion cuts him off again.

11:59Stay back.

12:03Stay there.

12:11I'm not afraid of you.

12:19Fortunately, after a few moments of tension, the mountain lion turns around and disappears into the trees.

12:24Being in a position like that has to be downright terrifying, especially when you consider that the

12:29only reason the lion didn't attack was because it didn't want to. And had it felt more threatened,

12:34it easily could have done some serious damage. Thankfully, it was just a close call and Chris

12:39was able to walk away from the terrifying encounter unharmed.

12:45In March 2019, a five-year-old girl from Fairlawn, New Jersey was playing with her friends

12:49near a creek and a wooded area behind their home right off Route 208. This was an area the family

12:54knew very well, as they had been living there for 13 years, and the girl's father, Dave Carotta,

12:59and his wife felt completely safe letting their kid play in the woods behind their house. But at some

13:04point during that particular afternoon, the girl came across a pile of clothing in the woods,

13:09after which she immediately ran back to tell her dad what she had found. Strangely, the clothes

13:14appeared to have been cut off a person's body, and there were suspicious red stains all over the

13:19tattered, shredded outfit. After confirming the bundle consisted only of women's clothing,

13:24Dave called the Bergen County Sheriff's Office and reported the incident, feeling like it was just

13:28too out of the ordinary for a random pile of cut-up clothes to appear near the entrance of

13:32the woods so close to his home. Even though this was the first time their daughter saw the clothes,

13:37it appeared they had been in the woods for several months, which explained some of the excessive wear

13:41and tear, but not the suspicious cuts and stains all over the outfit. Immediately, Fairlawn police

13:47started asking the public if they could identify the clothes, hoping that it was just a prank

13:51rather than something more sinister. Unfortunately, nobody came forward, and until the clothes can be

13:57linked to some sort of crime or to a victim, they can't be accepted for testing by the police

14:01department. To this day, the cops from the Fairlawn police department haven't been able to match the

14:06clothing to anyone in particular. And, at this point, all we can do is hope that whoever those

14:11clothes belonged to, it did not come to the harrowing fate that the dark reddish stains imply.

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