5 scary dee woods stories

1. SPECTRE IN THE WOODS

I and some of my buddies use to go to this place called profile rock in Freetown Massachusetts late at night sometimes between 2 and 3 in the morning. One night during the summer I go to Profile Rock with three of my friends at 2:30 am just to mess about and to explore now I did not know this at the time but profile rock in the area we were in is part of the area called "The Bridgewater Triangle" which is a site of alleged paranormal activities and one of the most haunted areas of the state that I live in.

Continuing we climbed Profile Rock itself stayed on top  of it for maybe three or four hours and then we decided to leave. Now as you are leaving Profile Rock you must go down this long path that is about two miles long to get to get back to where we parked our car two of my friends are walking about twenty or thirty feet in front of me and my other friend now I will never know why I turned around I did not having a feeling like someone was watching us I just simply turned because besides the moonlight shining thru the trees in certain areas we only had cell phone flashlight to make our way around.

I remember turning around and seeing someone running at us from about one hundred and fifty feet away full speed. What thru me off was not that they were running at us it was how they were running. You know how a zombie walks in a horror movie dragging one leg almost limping
that is how this quote un quote person was running at us at first I did not saying anything probably assuming it was just one of my friends or someone what was already in the area, maybe they were injured and  needed assistance that was until this person made it to the area of the path that the moonlight reached thru the trees and gave them some perspective. What I saw still chocks me up to this day!

Have you ever seen a child try to draw a person? How they make a stick figure almost most of the time? That's exactly how this person looked. I caught maybe a ten second glance as IT was running under the moonlight but I saw no distinguishable facial features no eyes, no mouth and no ears. Its arms and legs looked like that of a extremely malnourished person only completely black and it didn't look like skin or any type of clothing from what I could see. I almost cant eve describe it to be honest.

And you could blatantly tell it wasn't a mask or one of those Halloween blacked out suit. I recall calling out to my friend in a  panicked voice who was walking ahead of me a few trees away. I shined my cell phone light on him as he was walking here I was looking and I could tell right away from his facial expression that I wasn't the only one seeing things. It was now maybe forty feet away from us almost the same distance as the friends in front of us me and my friend just took flight and started running!

My two other friends in front of us shot around and asked what was wrong and I replied just RUN and all four of us just jetted for our car. I remember taking a glance back as we were running and there was nothing there even though whatever was chasing us would certainly be on our tails by now. We all hopped in the car and my friend who was walking  with me yells "Dude, tell me you saw that? What the heck was that?" I told him I seen the same thing I asked him to describe to all of us what he saw and he  described literally the exact same thing I had witnessed.

By now my other two friends are thinking we are joking around or messing with them until my friend was was walking with me swore on his father who had died not even a month ago. I was kind of frustrated to be honest because I did not believe my other two friends did not see it as they turned around to question why we were running  but I guess ultimately it doesn't matter now. We went back there with a few more people the day after and witnessed nothing. Of course I will never know what it was or who it was or what it wanted. But I know one thing that there is no way two people both imagined seeing the same stick figure spectere in the woods.

Horror Tale 2:

My husband and I live in East Tennessee near Big South Fork National river and recreation area. While we have never experienced anything here we have had a few odd things happen on our travels around the National Parks.
 
We have been listening to your show for months now and we have thought we would share an experience with the swamp. When we were in college we would travel to the National Parks every chance we got, so in the summer of 2018 we took a small trip to Kongari National park in South Carolina.

I want to pause here to make a brief introduction to Congaree for those who may not know what it is. Congaree is a ancient floodplain. The largest old growth, bottomland hardwood forest in the United States. It has the tallest tree in the eastern United States and one of the highest canopies in the world. Congaree is home to the Kongaree River which floods the whole are which requires the the park to build an elevated boardwalk so you can get from point A to point B without having to wade knee deep in alligator and venomous snake infested water. SO basically it is a swamp covered in big trees.

My husband and I got to the park about midday, stopped at the visitors center to make sure we chose the quickest trail to get to our campsite and we took off walking. Our campsite was over a mile from the visitors center partially along the boardwalk before jutting off on a side trail thru the woods. We found our site at the campground, set up our tent then explored the rest of the park for the rest of the day. We knew it was going to rain around dinnertime so we had left our cooking equipment and our food in our car at the front of the park. We ate under the shelter as a giant storm blew over. By the time to storm was gone the sun had set.

At this time of year the lightening bugs gathered by the thousands for mating purposes and people travel from all over the world to come watch this event. What happens is that all the firefly's will light up then go dim at the same time. During this week long event visitors are not allowed to use flashlights so here we are walking 1.7 miles back to our campsite with the only light from a thousand lightening bugs every few seconds. There were quite a few people
during the first stretch of the boardwalk watching the fly's. The storm had causes a tree to fall across the boardwalk ad we had to crawl over and under and thru the tree to get to the other side to get to our campsite. We gave a heads up to a few people that we ran across that there was a tree down that they would have to cross to get back to their cars after a mile or so where the boardwalk splits.

Once at the split, to choose to continue the boardwalk trail along the park or to go left to go to the trail that leads to our tent. Once we got to this crossroad in the near strobe like affect fireflies we saw it. I do not know what it was but it was there. Ten feet ahead there was a white figure about five feet tall. It was not moving, it was just standing there... we had been walking side by side but I stepped behind my husband so he could walk ahead as we got closer. We both examined the figure, there was not any real distinguishable features, it looked like there was a head and shoulders but there was no face, hair or even a outline of a body under the white glow.

As we continued to inch closer the features never became discernable as we passed within six inches of this thing I kept my gaze forward fearful it would turn around (and not have eyes or something?)    So, with it a few yards behind us I built up the courage to turn around when I did it was still there standing perfectly still fading into the darkness of the trees.

We made it to our tents without any issues and  slept terribly through the nigh waiting for something to happen but nothing ever did so my question for the swamp is what did we see? Was it a ghostly shadow of a person who use to travel there in years past or was it a lone person wearing a raincoat admiring the firefly's miles away from other people or was it something different? I'd love to know.

(I would love to know as well, what do YOU think it was?)