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00:00This happened during spring break of my junior year of college.
00:16Me and my three closest friends, Kevin, Allie, and Seb, decided to go car camping in Colorado.
00:23We'd been doing these trips together since freshman year, but we were all pretty broke that semester.
00:28So we went with dispersed camping instead of paying for an actual campground.
00:33I found this spot on one of those camping apps that showed free sites.
00:37It was somewhere outside of Buena Vista, tucked back on this forest service road that seemed to go on forever.
00:44The four of us had done enough camping together that we knew what we were doing.
00:48We got there around late afternoon and found this clearing near what looked like it used to be a creek bed.
00:53It was completely dried up, but you could tell water had run through there at some point.
00:59The area was pretty isolated.
01:02We didn't see any other campers or even tire tracks from recent visitors.
01:06It was honestly perfect for the kind of vibe we were going for.
01:09We set up our tents in a loose cluster, maybe 15 feet apart from each other.
01:14Nothing fancy about the arrangement, just wherever the ground looked level and didn't have too many rocks.
01:19I don't even remember what we did that night, probably just drank a few of the beers we brought while playing cards.
01:26We were all pretty tired from the drive, so we called it around 11 and went to our separate tents.
01:33I remember sleeping really heavily that night, which was weird for me to begin with, but especially during a camping trip.
01:39Usually, and this is when I'm sleeping on a comfortable bed in a climate-controlled room, I wake up multiple times from being cold or needing to pee or whatever else.
01:50Point is, I'm a very light sleeper, and during a camping trip, forget it.
01:55I'm used to waking up at least three times, but that night I felt completely knocked out, like I'd taken a sleeping pill or something.
02:02When I woke up the next morning, something felt off immediately.
02:07I unzipped my tent to get some fresh air, and then I just froze.
02:12I noticed it immediately.
02:14All four of our tents had been moved.
02:17Like, not ruffled or roughed up by an animal, actually moved.
02:21They were arranged in this perfect square formation around a pile of stones that definitely hadn't been there when we went to sleep.
02:28Part of me felt like I was still dreaming.
02:31That's how bizarre and borderline unbelievable the sight before me was.
02:35Each tent had been relocated maybe 20 or 30 feet from where we'd originally set them up, but that's not really what freaked me out.
02:43The stakes were still perfectly secured in the ground, and nothing inside any of the tents had been disturbed.
02:49My sleeping bag was exactly how I left it.
02:52My phone was still plugged into my portable charger, and all my other gear was in the same spot.
02:58Nothing was missing from my tent, which I checked, double-checked, and triple-checked.
03:03I thought I was going crazy.
03:06I yelled to wake up my friends.
03:08Kevin was the first one to emerge from his tent, and I didn't even have to explain the situation to him.
03:14I could see on his face that he was experiencing the same confusion I was.
03:18Allie and Seb crawled out a few seconds later, and as I watched them take a look around at the campsite, it was the exact same thing.
03:25None of us remembered anything, but then Allie mentioned that she'd had this really vivid dream about walking in a line through some kind of desert landscape while someone counted her steps out loud.
03:37And then Kevin chimed in, saying he had a dream about being in the army, marching alongside his fellow soldiers.
03:44Seb didn't remember having a dream, and neither did I, but we found it odd that both Allie and Kevin had eerily similar dreams.
03:52The vibe between the four of us was really weird, but hard to describe.
03:57It was almost like we were reading each other's minds.
04:01It's kind of hard to express the feeling, but it really did feel like we were more connected than we had been the night before, but in a bad way.
04:08I remember looking back and forth between them, trying to figure out what it was that I was feeling around me.
04:14The best way I can think to describe the feeling is what it would have felt like if there was a fifth person watching all of us, who was also part of all of us.
04:22We examined the campsite a little more carefully, looking for clues or anything that would help us piece together what happened.
04:29At first, Kevin suggested that maybe we had just gotten really drunk and forgot about what we did the night before, but this theory was shattered in about five seconds.
04:38We found these drag marks in the dirt leading from where each tent had originally been positioned to where they ended up.
04:44The weird thing was, the drag marks stopped about ten feet short of each tent's final location, like someone had dragged them partway and then lifted and carried them the rest of the distance.
04:55The pile of stones in the center was even stranger.
04:58There were exactly four stones, and they were balanced on top of each other like some kind of sculpture.
05:04It actually would have been pretty were it not for the circumstances.
05:08Kevin walked over to get a closer look, and as he was leaning in to examine the top stone,
05:13he tripped, and ended up knocking the whole thing over.
05:16The stones just kind of tumbled to the ground, nothing dramatic.
05:20For a second, the four of us just stood there in silence, staring at the scattered stones.
05:26And then things went from a five to a ten.
05:30At the exact same time, all four of us started hearing this low, rumbling sound coming from somewhere in the distance.
05:38It sounded like rocks grinding against each other.
05:41Not like an earthquake or anything, more like an old stone door being pushed open.
05:47Hearing that sound kind of sent us into a panic, and we all just started packing without even discussing things.
05:54Like I said before, it felt like we were reading each other's minds, and that also applied to our feelings.
06:00I could feel my friends' fear, and I knew they could feel mine.
06:03It was really freaky, ten times freakier than it had been not two minutes ago.
06:09I don't think I've ever packed up a campsite so quickly in my life.
06:14Realistically, we were out of there in under five minutes, but it felt like an eternity in that moment.
06:19I'm not going to harp too much on what happened.
06:21I really don't like thinking about what happened that night, and I'm worried that if I think too much about it,
06:26it'll go from being a fever dream that sort of sits in the back of my mind to something more real.
06:32That was five years ago now.
06:34The four of us don't really see each other anymore, but I guess that's kind of how it goes as everyone gets older.
06:40Kevin moved to Denver after graduation.
06:43Allie's in grad school in California, and I think Seb moved to Chicago with his girlfriend.
06:47We keep in touch, but we've never really talked about that night since.
07:02My name is Simon.
07:03This happened last summer when I was 23.
07:07My girlfriend Cadence and I had been planning this camping trip for months.
07:11Just the two of us.
07:12No cell service, no distractions.
07:14We'd been together for about a year and a half at that point, and honestly, things had been getting a little stale.
07:20Not bad, just routine.
07:23We figured a weekend in the woods would be good for us.
07:26We picked a spot in the Uwari National Forest in North Carolina.
07:30I'd been looking at different locations online for weeks, trying to find something that wasn't too crowded, but also wasn't completely isolated.
07:37The place I settled on was this campground about three miles down a forest service road.
07:42According to the reviews, it had maybe six or seven sites total, and they were pretty spread out from each other.
07:49We left Friday afternoon around three, stopped for supplies at a grocery store near the forest entrance, and made it to the campground just before sunset.
07:58The road getting there was rough, lots of potholes and loose gravel, but my truck handled it fine.
08:04When we pulled into the main clearing, I was honestly pretty satisfied with my choice.
08:09There were a few picnic tables scattered around, a couple fire rings, and the sites themselves were tucked back into the trees enough that you'd have some privacy.
08:18We drove around slowly, checking out the different spots.
08:21Most of them were empty, which was good.
08:23We passed one site that had a blue sedan parked there, but I couldn't see anyone around it.
08:28Cadence pointed to a spot at the far end of the campground, right where the road dead-ended into the forest.
08:35It had a decent clearing for the tent, and was positioned so that the trees blocked the view of the other campsites.
08:40We spent the next hour setting everything up.
08:44Cadence is one of those people who's really particular about how things are arranged, so I mostly just followed her instructions.
08:50By the time we were done, it was starting to get dark.
08:53I got a fire going while Cadence made sandwiches, and for a while, everything felt exactly how it was supposed to.
09:01We were sitting there drinking beer, watching the flames, not really talking about anything important, just existing together, which I think was kind of the point.
09:11Around ten or so, Cadence went to brush her teeth at the spigot near the picnic tables.
09:16I stayed by the fire, poking at it with a stick and finishing my beer.
09:19That's when I noticed someone standing at the edge of our sight, just beyond where the light of the fire reached.
09:25I jumped a little, I'm not going to lie, because I genuinely hadn't heard anyone walk up.
09:30The guy apologized for startling me, and said he was camped over in the blue sedan, and that he just wanted to introduce himself.
09:37His name was Aiden, and he looked to be about thirty.
09:40He had this really intense way of maintaining eye contact that made me a little uncomfortable, but I obviously wasn't going to say anything.
09:47Cadence walked back toward us, and I could tell from the way her hips were swaying that she was not pleased with the interruption.
09:54Aiden noticed her, turned, and said she'd picked a good spot, real secluded.
09:59He mentioned he was solo camping, trying to get away from people for the weekend, which seemed kind of contradictory since he was literally standing at our campsite making conversation.
10:07And by the way, as soon as Cadence walked back, I didn't exist anymore.
10:13This guy Aiden's full attention was on my girlfriend, which wasn't exactly surprising, but weird as hell.
10:19We talked for another minute or two, and by we, I mean he talked at Cadence while she just gave him awkward reply after awkward reply, waiting for him to get to him.
10:28Eventually, I butted in, and told him we wanted to get some sleep because we were waking up early, and that got him to leave.
10:36As soon as we walked into the darkness, I noticed he didn't use a flashlight or anything, which I thought was a little odd.
10:44Cadence and I agreed about the weirdness of the whole thing, and decided to try and forget about it.
10:48We stayed up for another hour or so, then put out the fire and went to bed.
10:53I don't remember falling asleep, but I do remember waking up, and the moment I woke up, I realized something was wrong.
11:01It took me all of three seconds to realize I had woken up to voices somewhere in the distance.
11:06It sounded like two people having a conversation somewhere near our campsite.
11:10I looked over and saw Cadence fast asleep, and that's when the guardian instinct in me kicked in.
11:15I didn't freeze or cower in the tent, but rather actually went out to investigate.
11:21I unzipped the tent as quietly as I could and poked my head out.
11:24The voices stopped almost immediately, like they had heard me, even though I thought I was being dead silent.
11:31As quickly as I could, I grabbed my phone and turned on the flashlight, shining it around our campsite.
11:36But whoever had been there had either already left, or was further away than I initially thought.
11:42Eventually, I went back inside the tent and tried to go back to sleep.
11:45It was a public campsite, after all.
11:48People stay up really late on camping trips, so I didn't think it was anything threatening.
11:53I just hoped whoever had been out there got the hint to have their 3am talk somewhere far away from where I was trying to sleep.
11:59I didn't bother mentioning it to Cadence the next morning.
12:02I didn't really see the point in stressing her out over nothing.
12:06We spent most of the day hiking, which was a lot of fun and a decent workout, honestly.
12:10As the sun started to go down, I went to grab more firewood from a pile we'd made near the truck.
12:17That's when I noticed something on the windshield.
12:20It was a napkin, folded in half and tucked under the wiper blade.
12:23I pulled it out and unfolded it, and I was shocked to discover that it was a note.
12:29A note saying, you should move your tent.
12:31I obviously wasn't going to keep that to myself, so I showed Cadence the note and told her what happened the night before.
12:38When she saw the note, she immediately asked if it was Aiden.
12:41I said, I guess so, because who else would it be?
12:44And as the two of us were discussing what to do next, obviously more than a little freaked out,
12:50as if on cue, who walks up but Aiden.
12:52He was wearing the exact same getup as the day before, and looking at him filled me with a mix of rage and fear.
13:00The rage won, and I told him he needed to stop just walking up like that, more aggressively than I probably should have.
13:06I was 100% convinced he was behind the note and the talking for the night before,
13:11and I wasn't going to let him think that he was fooling me.
13:14He said sorry in a gruff voice and said he was just checking up on us.
13:18Before I could respond, Cadence asked him why he'd need to check up on us,
13:23and actually said something that really surprised me.
13:26He told us he didn't want to freak us out, but that he was surprised to see people as young as we were at the campsite.
13:32He said that there was a bunch of weird stuff that had been known to occur around here, freaky stuff.
13:38He said he'd found deserted campsites deep in the woods, signs of people, belongings, and other weird things.
13:44I didn't really trust a word he was saying, but he said it so matter-of-factly that part of me thought he was being genuine.
13:51He went on to say that he heard people walking around his car the night before,
13:55so he was going to cut his trip short and go home before the sun set.
13:58Then he advised us to do the same.
14:00At that point, I wasn't going to argue, and it's not like Cadence wanted to stick around either.
14:05So we all started packing our stuff.
14:08It was pretty stressful, being as the sun was already almost set to begin with.
14:12I could tell Cadence was starting to freak out because her hands were shaking as she was putting stuff in the car,
14:17and I tried my best to calm her down, but I wasn't feeling great about things either.
14:22We finally finished getting everything in the car, and I started pulling out without another word.
14:27The sun was basically set at that point, and it would probably be fully dark in a few minutes.
14:32But as I was driving out, I noticed Aiden's blue sedan was still in his campsite, which I found strange.
14:38I saw Aiden crouch down near one of his tires, so I actually stopped my car.
14:44I asked him what he was doing, and he stepped back from his car to reveal a massive gash in the tire,
14:50something that was definitely done deliberately.
14:52There was no question about it.
14:55Cadence said holy f-
14:56And I was pretty shocked to see it as well.
14:59I didn't know what to do.
15:00At first, he asked if I could give him a lift, but Cadence whispered that she wouldn't be comfortable with that,
15:06so I told him I couldn't, which led him to ask me if I would call the police for him as soon as I got service,
15:11and I told him I would.
15:13I pulled out of the campground and started down the dirt road.
15:16My headlights were on full blast.
15:19We were maybe a hundred yards down the road, when I glanced to my right and saw them.
15:23There were three figures standing in the woods, maybe thirty feet off the road.
15:28They weren't moving, and it didn't look like they were trying to hide either, almost like they wanted to be seen.
15:34I only saw them for a split second, but I was one hundred percent sure they were people, and Cadence noticed them as well.
15:41My foot instinctively hit the brake.
15:43I don't even know why.
15:45Maybe some part of me thought I should go back and warn Aiden,
15:48or maybe I was just trying to process what I was seeing.
15:50But before I could think it through, Cadence grabbed my arm and screamed at me to drive, like a genuine scream.
15:57So I did.
15:59Cadence didn't say anything the entire way back to the main highway.
16:02As soon as I got service, I pulled over and called 911.
16:06I told them everything, and the dispatcher said they'd send someone to check on him.
16:11We never heard back from them.
16:13I wasn't really expecting to, but I had the sick feeling that something really wrong happened to Aiden,
16:18and that I was partly to blame.
16:20Cadence tried to reassure me that he was in on the whole thing, which is a possibility,
16:25but I think that's just a way to cope more than anything.
16:28Either way, this is still something I think about from time to time.
16:31So this was two Mays ago.
16:44I was 28 at the time, working remotely as an IT consultant out of Bozeman.
16:48The job wasn't anything special, but it paid okay,
16:52and being able to work from anywhere in the world was a huge plus for me.
16:55Unfortunately, I was going through kind of a rough patch at the time.
17:00I'd just gotten divorced about three months earlier, and I wasn't handling it well.
17:04Nothing I tried was working, and believe me, I tried everything.
17:08It seems a little foolish and naive looking back, but at one point,
17:13I was convinced I'd spend the rest of my life in misery unless I did something drastic.
17:17Like go off the grid and spend a few weeks in the wilderness type drastic.
17:21So that's kind of what I did.
17:24Camping has always been a big part of my life,
17:26so trekking out in the wilderness all alone isn't actually as crazy as it sounds.
17:30At least for me.
17:32I'm actually a lifelong scout.
17:34Couldn't make Eagle quite in time,
17:36but the point is, I know my way around wilderness better than most.
17:40I've got my old man to thank for that.
17:42I didn't want to go anywhere where there'd be other people around though.
17:46That would have defeated the whole point.
17:48I needed to be alone alone,
17:49so I did what any reasonable person does at 2 a.m. when they can't sleep.
17:54I went down the internet rabbit hole.
17:56Eventually, I found this old Montana backcountry camping forum
18:00that had a bunch of posts about some unofficial sites
18:02in the Helena, Lewis, and Clark National Forest.
18:05So right then and there, I made the decision.
18:09The next morning, I planned everything out.
18:11The only person I told where I was going was my brother,
18:15and I didn't even mention the specific spot to him,
18:17just a vague description of the general area.
18:20I had a bunch of PTO saved up,
18:22so missing a week or so of work wasn't the end of the world.
18:26If I'm remembering correctly, that was a Tuesday,
18:28so it must have been a Thursday by the time I had my truck fully loaded up.
18:33I had enough supplies to last me the full week and then some.
18:37Freeze-dried meals,
18:38water purification tablets,
18:39a first aid kit,
18:41and all the other essentials.
18:42And of course, my Remington 700.
18:45I'm not a gun nut or anything,
18:47but you don't go that deep into the Montana wilderness without protection from wildlife.
18:51The drive out there was about four hours from Bozeman.
18:55First three and a half were easy.
18:57Highway to County Road,
18:58County Road to Forest Service Road.
19:01That last bit though,
19:02what a headache.
19:03My GPS kept trying to reroute me because the service road I needed wasn't in its system.
19:08After some painful backtracking and double-checking the descriptions of some of those online posts,
19:13I found this overgrown trail that seemed to match up with what someone had written.
19:18Twice I had to stop to move branches and other debris that were blocking the path.
19:22My truck's a decent 4x4,
19:24but I was starting to worry about getting stuck.
19:27I drove along the path until it was impossible to go any further,
19:31at which point I just shut my engine.
19:33I knew I'd have to reverse out of there when the time came to leave,
19:36but I had been prepared for that,
19:38so I wasn't too concerned.
19:40As soon as I stepped out of my truck,
19:42I was pretty confident I was in the right spot.
19:45But that far into the wilderness,
19:47there's not really a right spot,
19:49since everything's as remote as everything else.
19:51Either way, I was pleased.
19:54There was a clearing not too far from the cluster of trees I had parked in front of,
19:58and it looked like a perfect place to set up camp.
20:00Except, there was already a tent there.
20:03I noticed it almost immediately.
20:05It was this old, olive green tent that looked like it was from the 80s.
20:10My first thought was that someone else had found those coordinates,
20:13but the tent looked like it had been there for years.
20:16There was actual mold growing on the seams,
20:19like visible from 20 feet away kind of mold.
20:21I walked over out of curiosity.
20:24I probably shouldn't have, but whatever.
20:27I called out a friendly hello and waited.
20:30There was no response.
20:32The zipper was partly open,
20:34so I just unzipped it the rest of the way.
20:36And let me tell you,
20:38the smell in there was god-awful.
20:40It smelled like something had died inside.
20:42The stench was unbearable,
20:44but I was in too deep and was too curious to just walk away.
20:48I looked around the tent and saw an empty sleeping bag,
20:51some soup cans,
20:52and a little notebook.
20:54I withstood the nastiness just long enough to grab the notebook
20:57and reach my head back into the pure air.
20:59There wasn't anything else in the tent besides what I already mentioned,
21:03so I didn't see the need to keep investigating.
21:06But something was making that smell,
21:08which I didn't really understand.
21:10But anyway,
21:11after stepping out of the tent,
21:13I started flipping through this little notebook
21:15and immediately realized what it is.
21:18Pages and pages of tally marks.
21:21There must have been hundreds of them in there,
21:22all in groups of seven.
21:24The last page had 42 groups,
21:26which is over eight months.
21:28I wasn't really spooked at that point,
21:30more so curious and kind of excited
21:32to have stumbled upon my own little mystery.
21:35But after flipping through the notebook a few times,
21:37there wasn't really much else to do.
21:40I ended up keeping it.
21:41What was I going to do?
21:42Return it?
21:43But anyway,
21:44I decided to set up my own camp
21:46on the opposite side of the clearing,
21:48a decent distance away from the tent,
21:49but close enough to keep an eye on it.
21:52I didn't like the thought of letting it out of my line of sight.
21:55As I settled into the spot
21:57and acclimated myself with my surroundings,
21:59I realized there were no signs
22:01that anyone had actually camped here before.
22:03I went for a pretty extensive hike
22:05and didn't find any old fire rings,
22:08trash, trails, footprints,
22:10anything that would even marginally suggest another human.
22:14It was a really clear night that night.
22:16I remember that distinctly
22:17because the stars were incredible out there.
22:19The drive and set up had exhausted me,
22:23so I fell asleep pretty quickly.
22:27I woke up randomly in the middle of the night.
22:30I had no idea what time it was,
22:32but I knew for a fact
22:33I didn't wake up to nothing.
22:35I'm a very heavy sleeper,
22:37even out in the wilderness,
22:38so I knew something was wrong.
22:41I froze in the dark and listened,
22:43trying to hear for an animal
22:44or whatever else could have woken me up,
22:46and after about 30 seconds,
22:48I heard it.
22:50Whispers.
22:51It sounded like two or three different voices,
22:54and if I had to guess,
22:55I'd say they were maybe 20 feet from my tent.
22:57They were having some kind of conversation,
23:00but I couldn't make out what they were saying.
23:02I was so freaked out,
23:03I started sweating.
23:05When you go that deep in the wilderness to be alone,
23:07the last thing you're expecting to stumble upon
23:09is another person,
23:10let alone multiple people.
23:12It doesn't sound like the scariest thing per se,
23:15but in the moment,
23:16I was terrified.
23:17I stayed frozen in my sleeping bag,
23:20pretending to be asleep.
23:21The voices stopped,
23:23but I still didn't want to move,
23:25and after a few seconds,
23:26I started hearing footsteps around my tent.
23:29I realized whoever was out there
23:30was circling my tent,
23:32the way an animal might.
23:34Instinctively,
23:35my hand went straight to my rifle,
23:36which turned out to be the correct decision,
23:38because not two seconds later,
23:40someone started yanking on my tent zipper.
23:42When it didn't budge,
23:44thanks to the clips I'd put on,
23:46they pulled back.
23:47I had my rifle aimed directly at the tent flap,
23:50and a very strong part of me
23:52wanted to just fire right then.
23:54I was expecting the person messing with my tent
23:57to just leave,
23:58but no.
23:59They started scratching the flap
24:01like they were trying to cut their way in,
24:03and that's what sent me over the edge.
24:05I spoke up,
24:06saying I had a gun
24:07and to back the fuck off.
24:09The scratching stopped immediately.
24:11There were a few seconds of complete silence,
24:14and then I heard footsteps,
24:16multiple sets of footsteps,
24:17running away
24:18in what sounded like different directions.
24:20It sounded like at least three people,
24:22which was somehow ten times worse
24:24than the thought of it being just two.
24:26They didn't all run the same way,
24:28which struck me as strange.
24:30I didn't sleep much that night,
24:31but I felt very safe
24:32with my rifle by my side.
24:35As soon as the sun rose,
24:37I unzipped my tent
24:38and stepped outside,
24:39making a big show
24:40of brandishing my rifle.
24:42I immediately looked over
24:44at where the old,
24:45moldy tent had been.
24:47It was gone.
24:48I walked over to the spot
24:50where I knew it had been.
24:52There was no ground depression,
24:54no stake holes,
24:55nothing.
24:56The grass wasn't even flattened,
24:58but I knew for a fact
24:59that there had been a tent there.
25:01I had stared at it for hours
25:02the previous day.
25:03What I did find
25:05were footprints.
25:07Bare,
25:07human footprints
25:08all around my campsite
25:09in a rough circle
25:10about twenty feet out.
25:12There were tons of them,
25:13and they were different sizes,
25:15which confirmed to me
25:15that there had been more
25:16than just two people out there.
25:18Some of them were also
25:19really deep,
25:20like whoever made them
25:21had been standing there
25:22for a long time.
25:24One set of prints
25:24led over to a big pine tree
25:26at the edge of the clearing.
25:27I walked over,
25:29and that's when I saw them.
25:30Fresh cuts in the bark.
25:32I knew what they were.
25:34Tally marks.
25:36Seven groups of seven,
25:38and the start of an eighth group.
25:40Just like the notebook.
25:42I just kind of stood there,
25:43trying to make sense of it.
25:44The notebook had been counting something
25:46for over eight months,
25:47and now there were fresh marks
25:49on this tree,
25:50right next to my campsite.
25:52I didn't want to think
25:53about what that meant.
25:54It gets much,
25:55much worse, though,
25:57because as I was backing away
25:58from the tree,
25:59I noticed something else.
26:01It was,
26:01and still is,
26:02the most disgusting thing
26:03I've ever seen.
26:04There was a dead squirrel
26:06hanging from a low branch
26:07a few feet away,
26:08tied up with what looked
26:09like a fishing line.
26:11I'm not squeamish
26:12about dead animals.
26:13I'm a hunter,
26:13for Christ's sake.
26:14But something about the way
26:15it was positioned
26:16made me want to puke.
26:18I didn't really need
26:19any more of an indication.
26:20I immediately ran back
26:22to my campsite
26:23and started packing my stuff
26:24as fast as I could.
26:26I'll admit that my hands
26:27were actually shaking
26:28while I took down my sight,
26:29and I was having trouble
26:30focusing on the task at hand
26:32without looking over my shoulder
26:33every few seconds.
26:35After what felt like forever,
26:37I finally finished
26:38packing everything
26:39and started jogging
26:39towards my truck.
26:41I threw everything in,
26:42jumped in the truck,
26:44and started backing out.
26:45Part of me thought
26:46my tires were going to be slashed
26:48or something else,
26:49but thankfully my truck
26:50was untouched.
26:51The path was narrow,
26:53and backing out
26:53was even harder
26:54than pulling in,
26:55so the ordeal was torture.
26:58It was hell,
26:59but I made it,
27:00and I don't think
27:00I was followed.
27:02By the time I made it
27:03back home,
27:04I decided I wouldn't
27:05even bother calling anyone.
27:06I did not think
27:07there was a point.
27:08Like, realistically,
27:09what would I even report?
27:11It's not like anyone
27:12would go that far
27:12into the woods
27:13to investigate.
27:13The thing that freaks
27:15me out the most
27:16is the sight
27:17of that squirrel.
27:18No one does that
27:19unless they're trying
27:19to send a message
27:20or a threat.
27:22I honestly don't know
27:23what would have happened
27:23if I stayed another night,
27:25or if I hadn't been armed.
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