5 TRUE Unsettling DEEP WOODS Scary Stories From REDDIT
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What is the episode about?
It was the fall of 2009, and I was 16 years old at the time. I lived in the central part of North Carolina. Nowadays, the cities are loaded with things to do for the Halloween season. But back then, the best form of entertainment I could come up with was visiting the Devil's Tramping Ground with a few friends. The Devil's Tramping Ground is a local legend.
What is the Devil's Tramping Ground legend?
It sits right outside Siler City in North Carolina. about an hour away from where i lived and i had just gotten my license so why not for those unfamiliar with the locale or its legend the devil's tramping ground is a perfectly circular patch of dead soil in the middle of the woods despite the surrounding greenery nothing grows in that circle
What eerie experiences happened at Devil's Tramping Ground?
legend says that if you drop or leave anything in the circle it's moved or disappears by morning as the devil supposedly comes here late at night to plot his evil doings against humanity pacing in a circle as he thinks that's the gist but feel free to research it it's a decent read
What unsettling encounter occurred during the camping trip?
Siler City is a sticks-and-barns town with long, barren roads that practically scream, don't stop until you get the hell out of here. It was on one of those roads that I began to feel uneasy. Rural areas always have that heavy Twilight Zone energy, and the road we were on, conveniently named Devil's Tramping Ground RD, was entirely unlit. the only illumination for the cracked asphalt was the fading yellow headlights of my two thousand two mercury cougar and the faint glow of a crescent moon in those dim lights we started to see graffiti splattered on the road leading up to the place creepy warnings i didn't expect and never realized the impact of until i saw them in white paint the road was marked with crude messages the one i remember most said the devil lives here and a huge white cross stood in front of an opening in the forest i parked on the side of the road the grounds itself wasn't as creepy as i'd expected it wasn't very deep into the woods in fact the clearing was visible from the road it wasn't as menacing as i'd imagined
maybe it was the empty beer cans and red solo cups scattered around obviously people partied there or maybe it was the jokes my friends and i started cracking almost immediately but at around two a m we wanted to catch lucifer at his hour I felt less on edge than I had on the road. My flashlight beam seemed to vanish if I aimed it upward, so I kept it pointed at the soil, genuinely more interested in finding something paranormal than my friends were. There were four of us total. After a while two of my friends went back to the car. It was cold and not much was happening. I stayed behind with one friend. I had brought a ziplock bag along with a pocket bible, a rosary in my pocket just in case, and a stuffed rabbit given to me by one of my best friends. Before leaving, I scooped some of the dead soil into the ziplock
curious to see if studying it later might provide a clue alien radiation climate change sulphur maybe the devil was just busy that night between joking and complaining about the cold we suddenly heard someone walking in the depths of the woods This wasn't a vague noise. This was a definite, heavy step. The sound came from behind the brush, among the trees, and it was unashamed of being heard. That was the first time I noticed there were no crickets or any other sounds at all. It was just us and these footsteps. I was even more reluctant to lift my small flashlight, which was tucked under my arm and pointed at my soil sample. My eyes had already adjusted to the dark, so we stood there, and I could make out the shape of something in the woods. It was dark, but I could see it.
Tall, but not freakishly tall, human-shaped, walking on two feet. It would walk, then stop, then walk again, moving in our direction, I think. We were petrified, not moving or breathing. I was so afraid I felt numb, though I trembled a little. We just stared. Later, we'd talk about how we both wondered if it saw us, and how we didn't want to move in case it hadn't.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the episode about?
0:20–0:43
2
What is the Devil's Tramping Ground legend?
0:43–1:04
3
What eerie experiences happened at Devil's Tramping Ground?
1:04–1:23
4
What unsettling encounter occurred during the camping trip?
1:23–5:23
5
What strange events took place on Rock Island?
5:23–9:50
6
What did the camper experience at night?
9:50–14:52
7
What ominous warning was given about Rock Island?
14:52–22:51
8
What final thoughts does the narrator share?
22:51–58:52
Speakers
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