A Stranger Watching In The Distance.
Middle school can be scary enough. Add a field trip in the mountains and you’ve got yourself set up for the possibilities of a horror movie. What do you think this park ranger may have been witnessing? A creep, a ghost, or a guardian angel?
“I once led a trip of middle school kids to the top of Mt. Sterling. At night the kids and the other co-instructor went to bed in their tents, I chose to spend the night in a hammock. I laid there enjoying the scenery and noticed something moving on the trail. As it got closer, I could tell it was a person. We were in the middle of nowhere and there was someone hiking up the trail with no headlamp. They arrived at the top of the mountain and just stopped. I watched as what appeared to be a man survey our camp. He stood there for what seemed like thirty minutes then turned and sat down under a tree, staring at our camp. I just stared at the man while he stared at my camp. This went on until about 3:30 am. Then he stood up, took a moment to survey my camp a few minutes longer, and then went back down the trail he came upon.”
An Abandoned Shed That Used To Be A Cell
Talk about creepy. Stumbling across an old shed is one thing, but this Reddit user stumbled across a bit more than that.
“A shed behind an abandoned house with a steel reinforced door broken off the hinges. The windows of the shed were boarded up from the outside. The only thing inside the shed was a queen size bed with shredded, partly singed white sheets.”
A Severed Deer Head On The Trail
Can you explain this? As a ranger, I’m sure he has seen his share of dead animals. Mangled, bloody, half-eaten by vultures would be the norm. But this find doesn’t fit any of those profiles. Park ranger Hipposaurus_rex is left to wonder.
“I’m a ranger at Yellowstone. I was exploring the Lamar valley, about 11 miles from the nearest road. There in the middle of the trail, is a perfectly severed deer head. No blood, no raggedness at the severance. This is weird because I have seen wolf and bear kills, but this was not any of those things. The head was completely uneaten – eyes, tongue, everything intact. Even the ravens hadn’t touched it yet. Even a human doing it made no conventional sense. It was a doe so it had no antlers, plus, why leave it in the trail?”
A Sad And Chilling Discovery
This story is sure to give you chills. Knowing that history is buried, OR not buried, right below your feet could really set you on edge at work every day. How much could your stubble across before being totally freaked out?
“For several years I worked out in the forests of a country that experienced a genocide in the not-incredibly-distant past. Several times I found skulls. Once I wasn’t watching where I was going and stumbled on something soft. I looked down and it looked like a very old sweater had been lying there forever. I poked it with my foot and dug around in the vegetation a bit, and sure enough. Most of the skeleton was gone, but it was clear there were bones inside the sweater. Somehow that freaked me out more than the skulls.”
