Scary Forest Stories For A Horrific, Terrifying, And Sleepless Night
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What is the first story about?
I guess I want help figuring out what we saw and what to do. After the night I'm about to describe, I think we've had a few close encounters with it since. My friends and I go camping a lot, and my favorite place is Red River Gorge, Kentucky. We go there often, and I've been going ever since I was an infant. I'm 28 now, married with a kid, and I still go. It's the closest place to where I live where you can see the Milky Way on almost every clear night. It's perfect for stargazing, and I see a shooting star nearly every time I'm there. When we go without our kid, we'll night hike to a good lookout point and stargaze for hours.
What strange experiences happened during the night hike?
Our first experiences night hiking were on trails we knew well and that were used frequently during the day, ones with log fences and gazebo resting places. The most used trail is in Natural Bridge State Park and leads up to the Natural Bridge. It's around two miles uphill, depending on where you start. I've done this trail every summer of my life and could do it blindfolded. It has wooden steps, carved rock steps, log handrails, and multiple sitting areas under a roof, plus trash cans. But after you reach the main trailhead, there are no lights at all. While it is uphill, the difficulty level is low. As long as you have good shoes and water, you'll be fine. My friends have done it with me multiple times and are confident with it too.
Technically, hiking this trail at night isn't allowed, but I've never really cared about closing times for the outdoors. When we used this main trail to hike to the top, we would park in the lot designated for the pool and Hoedown Island. You walk across the road leading to the pool, and you're at the first trail marker. You go up gravel for a while, past the Natural Bridge State Park Lodge, and there's a waterfall and some lights, so it's best to walk quickly and watch out for rangers who might tell you to leave. Then you cross another road and there's a small shelter or a rock wall to rest on. That's where the trail to the top really begins. The night started off strange. As soon as we began hiking, the clouds rolled in and it looked like stargazing might be a bust. We went anyway, hoping it would clear by the time we got to the top.
at first we were just dealing with the usual paranoia that comes with night hiking it kept us stressed and quiet you know you've reached the bottom of the bridge when you see a giant wall of limestone at that time there was a gazebo to the right of this wall and the trail continued alongside it We had just come up a fairly steep part of the trail, so the gazebo was a welcome spot to rest. My husband, my best friend at the time, and I all sat on the gazebo steps. The bench under the roof was even darker, so we stayed on the steps, facing down the trail that runs along the limestone wall. Each of us had a bright LED headlamp and a handheld flashlight. we didn't look at each other much because the lights were so bright we sat in a line like the last supper and would walk in a line or staggered to avoid blinding each other it was after hours by then no ski lift rides had gone on for hours and the rangers had already done their final sweep and left right before we got out of the car the ski lift takes you to the top
but the workers there do a head count and only leave after everything is clear. I'm mentioning this because that's what I was thinking about when, out of nowhere, a girl with a headlamp started walking down the trail in front of us. She was wearing a sundress and flip-flops. This hike is uphill and might be considered easy, but not in flip-flops, with no water, and at night.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the first story about?
0:43–1:22
2
What strange experiences happened during the night hike?
1:22–4:30
3
What did the group encounter on the trail?
4:30–18:26
4
What did they see in the orchard?
18:26–23:18
5
What happened when they returned to the orchard?
23:18–26:15
6
What was the final confrontation with the creature?
26:15–1:02:25
Speakers
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