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00:00During hunting season, at least once a year, I try to travel up to Maine and rent an Airbnb
00:16to go hunting.
00:17I never bought my own place because I can't really afford it just for a single trip every
00:21year, so doing a weekend rental makes more sense for me.
00:24Plus, I'm not exactly an expert, I'm still trying to get more experience.
00:29Some years I'd go with my uncle, but in recent years he hasn't been in the best shape health-wise
00:33and he's not really up to it anymore, so I've been going alone more recently.
00:38Last year, which was 2022 at the time I'm writing this, was the last season that I went
00:42hunting.
00:43It was November.
00:44The Airbnb I rented was near a national park.
00:47I arrived late on a Friday because I had to come home from work, get ready, then head out
00:51on the road trip.
00:52When I pulled up into the long stretch of private dirt road to get to the cabin-type Airbnb,
00:57it was pitch black outside, and it was dead silent too, this time of year there's obviously
01:02no bugs or crickets left.
01:04So the nights are dead silent and dark up there, especially if the place you're staying
01:08is secluded like this one.
01:09I pulled up as close as I could to the cabin, and the owner told me the key would be hidden
01:14under the mat.
01:15Sure enough, it was there.
01:17I brought my two bags inside the cabin and unpacked my things onto the bed in the one bedroom.
01:21It was a very cozy cabin, and the owner already had the heat turned up for me, which was nice.
01:27Maine gets pretty cold up there in November.
01:29There was cable and wifi in this Airbnb.
01:32So I set an alarm to get an early start at dawn, which in my opinion is the best time
01:36to find deer or even moose if you're lucky.
01:40The next morning, I was up as soon as my alarm went off, and I was out in the woods in less
01:44than half an hour.
01:46Since this was foreign territory to me, I posted up behind a blowdown I found.
01:50Some knocked over trees.
01:52Usually this would now be a waiting game, but I heard a man's voice call from behind me.
01:56I had a mini heart attack, and turned around.
01:59To see some man with grey hair, but who looked like he was only fifty, he was approaching
02:03me slowly.
02:05He said slowly in a very angry sounding voice, what the hell are you doing here?
02:10I responded, excuse me?
02:12He said, hunting is restricted here.
02:14I actually was unaware of this, and when I explained this to him, he said, I watched
02:19you ride up here, you best leave the way you came.
02:22This scared me.
02:23I said, what do you mean you watched me ride up here?
02:26He told me he always sees people riding up to that cabin, always out of town folk who
02:30come up here for the wrong reasons.
02:33I apologized to him and told him I'd leave.
02:35I grabbed my things and started walking back the way I came, and when I looked behind me,
02:40the man was gone, out of sight.
02:43I walked back to the cabin, then took my car and drove to a different park that according
02:47to some website, allowed hunting.
02:49I posted up there, and had a failure of the first half of the day.
02:53Around midday, I went back to the cabin to just regroup and have a meal, but when I got
02:57back to the cabin, I found that the door was unlocked.
03:00I could have sworn I locked it before.
03:03When I got inside, I was almost positive certain things had been moved around, and the zipper
03:07to my bag was unzipped.
03:09I couldn't remember if I left it zipped up or not, but it was typical for me to always
03:13keep my bag zipped up.
03:14I just checked every room quick before settling down.
03:18I was way too hungry to just prepare a light meal, so I drove to the little village nearby
03:22and picked up some Chinese takeout.
03:24Then I drove right back to the cabin.
03:26I was planning on heading back out to the park at dusk.
03:30When I got back to the cabin, I just ate my food and went straight to take a nap.
03:34After my nap, I headed back out to the park.
03:37I spent about an hour walking maybe a quarter mile very slowly, and I wasn't finding anything.
03:43My uncle always told me you could find a deer or moose in 10 minutes or 10 days, it just
03:48depends on how many are present and being in the right place at the right time.
03:52Sadly, luck was not on my side this day, and so when it was starting to get dark, I packed
03:56up and started heading back to my truck.
03:58It was just a short drive back to the cabin.
04:02I cooked the pasta and meatballs I brought with me for dinner as I had the TV on in the
04:06background.
04:07Then I laid down on the little love seat couch as I ate and watched some old black and white
04:11movie.
04:12While sitting there, I thought back to earlier how the door was unlocked and things appeared
04:16to have been moved.
04:17Only I didn't notice anything missing.
04:19I wondered if it was just in my head or not.
04:22Not long after this, I brushed my teeth and shifted to the bedroom where I began to watch
04:26another movie in there, planning on falling asleep to it.
04:30I was starting to drift into that half-sleep state where what was going on in the movie
04:33was actually starting to blend into this half-awake dream I was kind of having, until I heard
04:38the distinct sound of a door clicking open that snapped me out of my half-sleep.
04:42I groggily looked up and noticed the closet door in the room was now cracked open.
04:48This immediately woke me up completely.
04:50Now the door being unlocked and belongings potentially being moved did not seem like a
04:54coincidence.
04:55I waited a moment, then got out of bed, went to my hunting pack, and grabbed my CZ-75.
05:01I went back to the bedroom, turned on the light, and pointed my gun at the closet door.
05:06I yelled, come out now or I'll shoot.
05:09A big part of me still didn't believe there could actually be a person in there, and I
05:13thought that I was just being overly cautious.
05:15But when the door actually pushed open, I was in pure shock.
05:19That older man from earlier in the day stepped out, and his unhappy looking face switched
05:23to a gross smile, missing a front tooth.
05:27He said, you got me.
05:28I said don't move as I went to grab my cell phone and call 911.
05:32Thank god I had service here.
05:34The sheriff's department was on their way, and I let them know I was armed and had the
05:38intruder at gunpoint.
05:40It was an excruciatingly long wait before the sheriff's deputies arrived.
05:44During that time, the man was telling me how he's sick of people like me having no respect
05:47for the parks up here.
05:49I had no idea what he meant, but I wasn't entertaining him.
05:52I kept telling him to shut up.
05:54When deputies got there, it was an obvious arrest for breaking and entering and possibly
05:58robbery, though I don't think he ever actually stole anything from me.
06:02The man claimed the door was simply unlocked, though I don't know if that was true or if
06:06he had somehow picked a lock or even climbed through a window.
06:09The Airbnb host said that there were no other hidden keys and that I definitely left the
06:12door unlocked.
06:14He seemed more concerned about whether anything of his was stolen and putting blame on me
06:17as opposed to asking me if I was okay and apologizing for the experience.
06:22He said he had no idea who the man could have been, even after getting his name.
06:26I still don't think I left the door unlocked, but thank god I was on a hunting trip and had
06:30my firearms with me to quickly neutralize the threat.
06:43I was 14 when the story took place.
06:45It was my first year hunting deer with my family.
06:48To be specific, my father, my cousin, and myself.
06:52To paint a picture, my blind was two miles south of my father's, with his stand being
06:56nine miles southwest to my camp.
06:58We drove a four-wheeler about 100 yards away from his stand, which left me with a while
07:04to walk before I even got to mine.
07:06I live in northern Michigan, and during the winter, it gets dark quickly and early.
07:11It was around 4 p.m. when I started to get cold and decided to close up my tent.
07:16I was hunting with a .243 rifle that had a pink camo cover on it with a strap around
07:20so I could hang it off my back.
07:22I closed up my blind zippers and put my garbage away in a bucket I had.
07:27As I was throwing away my trash, I heard a couple leaves crumble, so I immediately turned
07:31my head up to see if it was a deer.
07:34After about a minute, I brushed it off as a squirrel or a bird.
07:38Disappointed, I closed my blind and headed to my father's.
07:42As I was taking my first steps out of my blind, I could see a fresh pathway brush through
07:46the leaves.
07:47It was a wide path, not from a small animal or even a deer.
07:52I immediately started thinking a bear or a wolf, so I started speed walking to where
07:56my dad was.
07:58I started to panic, as it started to get even darker and I was still roughly a mile
08:02away.
08:03I was just walking, as I was stopped in my tracks by one of the most haunting and horrifying
08:08noises I had ever heard.
08:10The best way to describe it was a bear slash man that was being murdered.
08:19It sounded roughly 150 yards back as I started to run.
08:23Running with boots and thick hunting gear was hard with 20 pounds on my back, but fear
08:27pushed me through and I didn't stop.
08:30Around 25 seconds later, I was still running, when I heard it again.
08:34This time it was louder and closer.
08:39At this point, it was completely dark out, with the moon being the only source of light.
08:43I turned around with my headlight, and what I saw is still the most terrifying thing I've
08:47ever seen.
08:49Around 50 yards away, I saw a black figure in the dark, illuminated by the moonlight behind
08:54it.
08:55It was around 10 feet tall and skinny.
08:58Without thinking twice, I started running while trying to get my gun off my back.
09:01I didn't know where I was running, but I just ran.
09:05I ended up on a road that I recognized as Rabbit Road, the road that connects my camp with the
09:09entrance to the hunting area.
09:12I ran on the road until I got to my camp.
09:14By the time I got into sight of my cabin, I turned around again, and saw it again, this
09:19time further away.
09:21It was still standing up, and I can only describe it as a tall, black, skinny figure.
09:27It had long arms and long legs.
09:30As I got on my cabin steps, I threw up from exhaustion, and continued to vomit for about
09:35a minute, as I later then passed out.
09:37I woke up to the sound of my dad's four-wheeler turning into the cabin driveway.
09:42I started crying as I ran up to him, hugging him.
09:45I quickly told him the story of what happened, and how I ran back without stopping.
09:49He didn't believe me at first, but as we got settled inside, his face started to change
09:54as he saw the desperation in my eyes.
09:56I didn't sleep that night, or for weeks after.
10:00People have told me it was most likely a bear, or I was just seeing things, but I know what
10:04I saw.
10:05I'm older now, and I only hunt with someone with me.
10:09I also hunt with a bigger gun because it gives me reassurance that I could shoot something
10:12larger.
10:14As I'm writing this, this was the most scary experience of my life.
10:27It was a Friday evening, and I was getting home from school.
10:30I was 13 years old, and was really excited to go hunting.
10:33I love hunting, especially the ranch we go to in Alice, Texas.
10:37I've been going there since I was four, and I have so many memories of the place.
10:41It was my grandpa, my dad, and I going.
10:44There were going to be a few other people, like the ranch owner's family.
10:48We were packed up and ready to go.
10:49It was deer season, my favorite season.
10:52Just the feeling of seeing a big deer right in front of your eyes is a wonderful feeling,
10:56and of course shooting it.
10:58People say that it's wrong to kill animals, but I disagree if you're actually eating it.
11:02We got to the ranch, and it was 10pm, so it was pretty dark out there.
11:06The ranch is 300 acres, I believe, and the campsite is an old little shack, probably the
11:11size of a normal bedroom.
11:13There is electricity there, but it's not a huge cabin where most hunters sleep in.
11:17However, there are little beds there, but one time my dad found a huge snake shed in one
11:21of the beds when I was little, so from then on we sleep in a tent.
11:25The camp is surrounded by woods, with a little field up ahead, probably a little less than
11:29the size of a football field.
11:31We used that field for dove hunting.
11:33Anyhow, we unloaded and chatted for a while around the campfire, telling jokes and whatnot.
11:38When we heard this scream, it was the most disturbing thing I'd ever heard.
11:43It sounded like a human hybrid or something.
11:46The scream sounded not too far away.
11:49All of us jumped from our seats and looked at each other.
11:52Every man there was freaked out.
11:53I could see it in their eyes.
11:55The ranch owner was the first one to say, what the fuck was that?
11:58He then told us and one of his family members to go check it out.
12:02He's a pretty old guy in his 70s, so that's why we went to go check it out.
12:06We took my grandpa's ATV and did a quick search around the perimeter only to find nothing.
12:11I was still traumatized, and I was even scared to go in the blind by myself.
12:16As all hunters know, we have to wake up before dawn and get up into the blind to be unseen
12:20by the deer.
12:21I went to sleep in the tent with a gun right beside me.
12:24I woke up to the alarm and got ready.
12:27I was scared of being left alone in the dark, even though it was only an hour or two before
12:31dawn breaks.
12:32I was still petrified by the scream and it still echoed in my mind today.
12:37My grandpa dropped me off at the blind with his ATV and left.
12:39My dad was already in his position.
12:42My grandpa's not a soft grandpa, he expects you to know it and do it.
12:46Him being him, he just left me in the dark expecting me to find my way up to the blind
12:50myself.
12:51So I began climbing up the ladder and began navigating with just my hands.
12:56I got into the blind and waited for the sun to peek out.
12:59Twenty minutes passed and it was still dark out when I noticed something in the middle
13:03of the trail.
13:04I couldn't see well, so I thought it was the right time to use a night vision sight
13:07that my uncle had given me.
13:09I was excited, expecting a big deer, but when I put my eye into the sight, what I saw still
13:14haunts me today.
13:16I don't care if you believe me or not, but I was expecting a deer, only to find a person
13:21walking towards the woods.
13:23It was distorted looking, but it had the same outline of a person.
13:26I don't know how it spotted me, but I saw it turn and face towards me.
13:30Now the night vision is not super clear, so I couldn't see its face, but I could see
13:35it was looking straight at me.
13:37Then what I heard next will stick with me for the rest of my life.
13:40It gave out the same exact blood curdling scream as the night before, only louder.
13:46At that moment, I cannot describe the fear I felt.
13:50The word fear is not enough to describe how I felt.
13:53I managed to break free from whatever shock I was in, I managed to grab the 22 and started
13:58to fire the entire clip into the path it was standing in.
14:01I was still frightened, so I got my rifle and fired all the rounds into the path.
14:05When I looked back into the night vision, it was gone.
14:08I started to get texts and calls like crazy, mostly from my dad.
14:13I told him what happened, and he had heard it too, and so did my grandpa.
14:17We still go there to hunt, but it has not been the same peaceful hunt.
14:20Now when I hunt, I go with my dad, because I'm scared that thing might come back.
14:26I don't know what that thing was, but whatever it was, it survived 25 rounds from a 22 and
14:314 rounds from a 243.
14:33Because when we went to go check, there were no signs of blood or anything, not even footprints.
14:38I know it was still dark when I fired all those rounds, but I know for sure at least one of
14:43them had to hit whatever that thing was.
14:55It was the fall of 1986.
14:57I was 23 years old.
14:59I'd never really been scared in the woods before, honestly.
15:02I always felt like the wilderness was my safe place, somewhere I could go and relax and get
15:06away from the stresses of life.
15:08I've never seen a bigfoot or skinwalker or any kind of boogeyman in the woods.
15:14As a lineman for a small town in West Kentucky, I have seen crazy.
15:19Being a small muni, we all had to wear a lot of hats, including utility disconnects.
15:23It wasn't fun, but it was part of the job, and there was a lot of crazy, but never in
15:28the woods.
15:29My only real hobbies were hunting and fishing.
15:32Back then it was easy to find a really good place to hunt, just by stopping and asking
15:35the landowner for permission.
15:38Most were eager to have the deer population thinned out, as they were really destructive
15:41eating young soybean crops.
15:43And this was coal country, and back in the 50s there was a lot of strip mining that left
15:47a lot of land unusable for building and farming, so much of it was open for hunting.
15:53It was October 1986.
15:55Daylight savings time hadn't happened yet, and it was still daylight till just after 7pm.
16:01I left work at 4 and ran home to change into my camo.
16:04It was bow season in Kentucky, my favorite season.
16:08I was going to hunt in an area that was special to me.
16:10It was in an area we'll call Coon Ridge.
16:13This was a very remote area with broken farmland and wooded areas.
16:18After parking, I decided not to unload my 3 wheeler and just walk the ¾ of a mile to
16:22where I was going to hunt.
16:24I was using a summit climbing stand, so I had to carry my stand and my bow, as well as my
16:29fanny pack with my knife and flashlight.
16:31I had to walk halfway around the cornfield.
16:34The corn had not been cut yet, so I stayed in the lane left by the farmers so that they
16:38could get their equipment to the upper end of the field.
16:41The field was rectangular, and the upper end was a much higher elevation than the bottom
16:45where I had to cross a creek with shin deep water to enter the field.
16:49At the top of the field, the right hand corner was where I was going to enter the woods.
16:52It was the highest point of the field.
16:54I had to pick my way through a thick blackberry thicket, but managed to find a game trail that
16:59led me through, and it finally opened into a hillside with large trees.
17:04After finding a tree suitable for my climbing stand, getting set up, and a little climb,
17:08I was ready to hunt.
17:09I loved to watch nature.
17:12The deer hunting was just an excuse to be in the woods.
17:15As a lineman, I had no fear of climbing high, so I would get as high as I could.
17:19This time I was up around 20 feet before the canopy started blocking my view.
17:23It was around 5.30 when I settled in my stand and had an arrow knocked.
17:28I regularly stayed in my permanent stands late as not to spook deer close by.
17:32I had added reflective tape along the trail to mark the way out.
17:36This made it easier to find my permanent stands at night, but this day I was in my climbing
17:40stand in an area I hadn't been in at night.
17:43I was about to start down when I heard something walking, so I waited.
17:48It sounded like a deer in the thicket, but I never really could get a look at it.
17:52It was 8 o'clock and close to a full moon that night, so from my high vantage point,
17:57I could see pretty good in the woods and I felt like I could still shoot up to 15 yards,
18:01but it was after shooting hours, so I started down.
18:05As I did, I could hear the loud crashing of a deer that must have spotted me moving
18:09like a sloth down the tree.
18:11On the ground, I quickly secured my stand and bow and looked in the direction of the way
18:14I came in, I turned on my flashlight.
18:18Now the woods looked different at night in the dark, and downright foreign when you turn
18:22on your flashlight.
18:23It's not bad in a mature woods with no undergrowth, but I was walking into a thicket.
18:28I walked along the edge of the thicket for a while, trying to find the trail I came in
18:32on, but no luck.
18:33It was almost 9 o'clock now, and I was ready to get out, so I just started picking my way
18:38through the thicket, keeping the moon on my right shoulder, and finally I came out into
18:42the field about 25 yards from where I went in.
18:46As I stood there picking the thorns out of my hands and legs, thinking this adventure
18:49was over, I surveyed the lane around the field, and in the light of the pale moon,
18:54I saw it.
18:55Now when I walked in, I came up the left side of the field around 200 yards to the end,
18:59turned right and walked another 100 yards, and where I was it was higher on the ground
19:03and I could see around the field where I came in.
19:06When I walked in there was nothing in the trail, I hadn't heard any equipment or ATVs,
19:11so I was shocked to see something in the trail, and no small something either.
19:15It looked 6 feet wide and 6 feet tall, just standing there about halfway up the field trail.
19:21It was the only way out, so I never hesitated.
19:24I started walking back to the trail, turned toward whatever it was standing there hoping
19:29it was just a strange shadow, but it wasn't.
19:32I grabbed an arrow from the quiver, remembering my knife was in my three wheeler.
19:36I walked fast and never broke stride, 100 yards away, and it didn't move or make a sound.
19:42I walked loudly straight towards it for 200 yards, all the while thinking it's really
19:47there in my trail blocking my only way out.
19:51As I got closer, I could make out what it was.
19:54It was two people standing side by side, and this unnerved me even more.
19:58It was 9, 15, 40 degrees out here.
20:02Nobody should be here.
20:03I kept walking, now 20 yards away, and I see that it's a guy and girl maybe 20 years old.
20:1010 yards away, I'm walking towards them, but no sounds from them.
20:14They just stood there.
20:15When I got to them, I half expected them to jump me, but they never moved.
20:20I said, kind of cold out here, ain't it?
20:23No sound.
20:24They still never moved.
20:26I kept walking.
20:27I turned to keep an eye on them.
20:29I was thinking, okay, this is it, but they never turned around, never even moved their
20:34heads.
20:35I crossed the creek, and within another 100 yards, I made it back to my truck.
20:40It was even more uneasy approaching my truck, it was just so quiet.
20:45All I could think of was someone waiting to ambush me, so I kind of eased up on it very
20:49quietly and watched it for maybe 3 minutes before approaching it.
20:54It seemed fine, so I headed to my truck.
20:57As I left, I tried to figure out how they got here, because I never saw another vehicle.
21:01I tried to just put it behind me, but the next day at work, during lunch, I was going
21:07to run and get some food, and I noticed all 4 of my tires on my truck were low, and after
21:12inspecting them, they all had around 10 to 15 roofing nails in them.
21:16I had to put tubes in them to get home.
21:19Something odd was going on in those woods.
21:22Somebody most certainly did this to my tires while it was parked in them.
21:25After this, it always felt like someone was watching me when I was hunting in that area.
21:30That's why I stopped going alone, and I never parked off the main gravel road again.
21:34I never found out who those two young people were, or who punctured my tires.
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