Hello horror fans - and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube - Top 5 Scary
Videos - the place where if you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise
- and well - some really creepy stuff.
What’s going on guys - as per usual, I’ll be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we tie
up our trail boots, light up the flashlight - and hike the hell out of here - as we take
a look at the Top 5 Scary Things Found In The Woods.
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It’s human nature to be fearful of the woods, after all - thousands of years of cultural
evolution have often taught us to be weary when stepping into the forest.
Although we as a species have mastery in many places, the nature of the woods is to conceal
- to hide things behind it’s branches and bracken, and obscure them from view.
And as we know - in obscurity, strange things often lurk.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - A Single Desk
This story comes from Reddit user Sand_Dargon - and tells the tale of a time when they were
with their cousin, a forestry ranger in the Montana/Wyoming area who spent her time as
a hydrology officer testing the mountain waters.
They were riding around together on one particular weekend trip - on horseback - and planned
to spend a few days out in the boonies.
It got to the second day, when their cousin asked them if they wanted to see something
weird.
Of course, they said yes - and she led the two of them on a side journey through a tiny
little ravine.
As they made their way through the small wildlife path, which winds on and on through dark undergrowth
- they emerge in a clearing, in in the middle of nowhere, there’s a huge coil of wire
literally sticking out of the ground.
It was like transmission wire, but small - and bare in mind that they were 2 days horseback
from the nearest road - of course, they followed the wire out of curiosity.
It snakes along the ground across trees and rocks - and finally, it descends into a small,
strange outlet.
Which - even stranger - is mounted to the side of a desk.
It looks like a school teacher's desk, with a metal base and a faux-plastic topper.
But no chair, no building - nothing.
Just an outlet attached to a strange desk.
In the middle of nowhere.
In the deep woods.
The weirdest thing?
Their cousin takes a dead radio out - pulls out the cord - and plugs it into the outlet.
It powers up and static blares.
Somewhere, that wire was being powered by something - it had a purpose, a use, in the
middle of nowhere.
Well - they didn’t stick around long enough to find out.
Next up at Number 4 - Gold In A Bottle
A tale from Reddit user infinus5 - about a time spent out in the Cariboo region of British
Columbia.
Now - this guy was a pretty successful prospector, and made it their living to find precious
stones and ore out in the wilderness.
On this particular occasion, they came across an area with a small number of rock piles
in the middle of nowhere - known as chinese piles - which would usually indicate that
someone had already done a lot of digging there back in the old days - so they started
working, and within half an hour they’d found at least 10 grams of gold.
Happy days.
It was then though that they noticed one of the rock piles had Chinese Han characters
written on them - and their stomach sank as in that moment they realised that the rock
piles were graves.
He’d stumbled upon a burial site of Chinese miners that likely hadn’t been seen in 150
years.
Not wanted to perturb the dead, our narrator put the gold in a glass bottle and left it
behind.
Chinese miners believed that if a miner died on site, the ground that they had worked became
cursed by the fallen spirit - and would leave the ground marked to notify the burial of
their fallen comrades.
As a final caveat to the story, our narrator noted that on certain foggy mornings, you
could almost see the outlines of the buried dead amongst the dirt and rocks.
A pretty spooky site to stumbleupon.
Coming in at Number 3 - A Mysterious Cabin
Now - remember when I said the woods sole purpose is to conceal?
Well - yeah, it takes it to another level in this story.
A few years back - a resident of Arcata, California was hiking through the California wilderness
when they noticed that outline of a seemingly invisible cabin amidst the thick forest vegetation.
Naturally, he called the police - as it’s illegal for people to permanently lodge in
a national park, especially that far out in the wilderness.
When the police arrived - they found a small, makeshift living space - that had been fashioned
from scrap wood and metal - but was otherwise a perfectly sound structure.
Inside was canned goods, a built in water supply - even a library of strange books,
DVDs and newspaper clippings.
From a handwritten journal, they’d discovered that the cabin had been lived in and maintained
by someone since at least 2010.
The police hung a sign on the cabin notifying the occupant that it must be vacated and was
illegal.
Well - a day later when they returned, they’d found that the entire cabin had been disassembled
and removed from the area - the only thing left behind was the international squatters
symbol, a sign that there had very much been life there.
The creepiest thing though, that in a relatively busy national park - no one had seen or heard
a vehicle, and no one had been seen leaving the area.
Spooky.
Bringing it in at Number 2 - A Silver Ring
This is a bit of a short and sweet one, but if there’s any truth to it - then damn,
this is a scary one.
Reddit user toogonetoofast tells the story of his Uncle - a park ranger who spent many
years of their life working in the vast wilderness of Montana.
He tells the story about a time when he was working out in the boonies - over ten miles
away from the nearest inhabited area.
He recalled pulling his ATV at the top of a huge hill, overlooking the entire valley
- where he pulled up his binoculars to take in the view.
In between the trees, he could make out a clearing - and through them he saw the image
of an older lady - perhaps sixty or more - dressed in all black, and surrounded by a pack of
between six and eight wolves.
Of course - he thinks the lady is in distress, so he starts honking and fires up his ATV
to get to here, taking off down the hill as fast as he can.
When he makes it to the clearing, he realises that no one is there.
No wolves, no old woman - only a silver ring that he finds in the spot that she stood,
with a black stone in the middle.
He still claims to have it to this day.
What do you guys think?
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - A Shallow Grave
And finally - at our number one spot - a story that will make your hairs stand on end, from
Reddit user suitology - great name by the way.
As these stories always go - they have a friend who’s a trail ranger - who was on a job
out in the wilderness, dismantling illegally placed wildlife cameras and knocking down
hunting stands.
He was with another ranger, who wasn’t feeling well - and decided to head back and make the
hour long ATV ride.
Well, our guys friend decided to let him be - he’d finish up.
It was only shortly afterwards that he started hearing voices.
Keep in mind - this is literally miles off the beaten path, in real unmarked territory
- so there’s likely no one around to make such a noise.
Still, he called out - and no replied.
It was getting dark when he decided to head back, and found that his ATV wouldn’t start
- the battery had been disconnected.
He radioed ahead, letting dispatch know that he needed picking up - they told him it’d
be an hour, and the other ranger hadn’t returned yet.
He settled down and start a small fire.
That’s when he heard the voices again.
It sounded like an argument, and the voices were getting closer and closer, more angry
- he called out, and they kept on an on.
That’s when he heard the bang - a gunshot.
He doused the fire and hid - and after that he heard nothing.
He lay motionless for the next half hour, when he saw the ATV lights approaching him.
He told his follow rangers what he’d heard, but despite over 3 hours of searching - they
found nothing.
The next day, police and dogs came to scour the area - and after about an hour, they found
a shallow grave, with a body that had been clearly shot in the face.
The weird thing is though - this skeleton had been there for years, buried under the
shallow earth and forgotten.
There were two possible explanations.
Either the argument was completely unconnected, and the two people had nothing to do with
the long dead body - or our narrator had somehow heard the murder of a poor forgotten soul
from a long - time - ago.
Well - unfortunately folks, that’s all we’ve got time for today - let us know your thoughts
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