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The Lets Read Podcast · 364: I'M NEVER HIKING ALONE AGAIN | 6 TERRIFYING True Scary Stories | EP 349 · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Now his shirt and pants were soaked with blood by then and he was laying down on this front trying not to move.

Moving around so much had made the wounds worse, I think, but like he said, it was all easier knowing that help was on the way.

And then within ten to fifteen minutes tops we heard the distant sound of rotor blades as the rescue chopper closed in, and there was still plenty of light so the crew had no trouble seeing us, thankfully, and then after circling once they stopped above us and flew closer to the ground.

The crew then dropped a specialized stretcher that they used to haul people up and

One of the medics came with it on a rope and before we got Jay on the stretcher, he had to clean and dress the wounds and clip the arrows so he could lie on his back without too much pain.

Jay asked why he didn't pull them out together if he had his whole medical kit with him, but the guy yelled something about ER doctors doing it in a sterile environment and how that was a way better option.

I figured that's where me and Jay would part ways and I'd have to walk all the way back my own before driving to whatever hospital he was being taken to.

But it turns out the chopper had room for me, so I got to experience my one and only helicopter ride with a wounded Jay laying at my feet.

I remember looking out the window as we took off, thinking maybe I'd see that kid in the tree line, but there was no one.

Whoever that kid was, he was long gone.

And after we flew out and after sitting in the hospital waiting area for a couple of hours, one of the doctors appeared with some good news for me.

Jay's surgery had been successful and the arrows had luckily missed anything vital, but they needed to keep him overnight for observation just to make sure neither wound was infected and

I then had to wait a bit longer for a deputy from the county to show up and then we did a whole interview on the ninety minute drive back, the place that we'd departed from a few days before.

And that's where the sheriff and some park rangers had set up a small temporary HQ, as they had guys searching the trails for any kind of evidence.

But even though they'd been searching for a couple of hours already, nothing noteworthy had been found.

I was exhausted by that point, but after collecting both of our packs from one of the rangers, I had to get into my car and drive all the way back to wait for Jay to be discharged.

I found a cheap motel, paved for the night, and then slept like the dead after taking a shower, at least until the nightmares woke me up.

I guess with Jay being in some strange place and knowing that he was still in the hospital, my mind couldn't rest properly, so I kept waking up every couple of hours to check the time until I eventually got a call from the hospital saying that Jay was good to go.

Seeing him again made for one hell of a reunion, but that's where the good vibe started to end because after that, we had to talk with the sheriff's deputy and I don't think I'll ever forget what he had to say to us.

Long story short, he told us not to get our hopes up.

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