Im gonna presume that most of you guys live in a city or a town or a village - basically,
you live near other people - you don't live in the wilderness.
In almost every country in the world, there are forests where nobody lives - sometimes,
nobody even goes there - except for Forest Rangers.
You may have a different name for them where youre from - but its their job to go into
the woods when nobody else will - to investigate disturbances and potentially save peoples
lives.
I found some of their most shocking tales for our video today - I hope youre comfortable
- my name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Forest Ranger Stories ...
Starting off at number 10 we have Through Him[a].
This one comes from Reddit user Super Dan 23.
I thought Id start off with a really strong one - hopefully this doesnt creep you guys
out too much though.
Super Dan said -I worked at a summer camp where the cabins were arranged in a circle,
with a center building that was used for showers and bathrooms.
One night, one of my campers, about 12-years-old, asks to go to the bathroom just as we had
all gotten into bed.
I tell him to take his bunk mate and to go quickly.
The bathroom building is about 100 feet away.
The kids are kind of dorking around, like kids do, and they take off for the bathroom
running.
All of a sudden I hear screams that still haunt me, hysterical, choking for air, horror
movie screams.
I jump up and run out, and I see the two boys sitting on the ground right outside the bathrooms
and they are kind of holding each other.
After a few minutes they calm down enough and say they ran through a man.
They say he appeared right before they got to the bathroom door and was standing in the
doorway.
They didn't have enough space to stop, and they put their hands up go through him and
into the door.
They said there was cold air around him and that was it, he was gone.
They said he had a suit on, and black slicked back hair and was smiling.
We had to call their parents and they both went home the next morning.
No kid goes home from summer camp man.
It still freaks me out-
Next up at number 9 we have Good Bones[b].
This is a short one - but its packed with just as much creepiness as the rest of our
stories.
It comes from Reddit user The Copy Paste Life.
They said -Our park lets kids from school in so they can look for animals in the forest
and the streams.
One day a kid finds molars.
The teeth looked like human molars, but the teacher said was a deers.
I dismissed it and completely forgot about it.
Two days later, they found a corpse with a smashed skull and jaw in another part of the
park.
All its teeth were missing.
A local news paper covered it, but all they had to say was thank the spooky skeletons
for good bones and teeth- … OK, the bones and teeth and the skull were all creepy but
do you know else is creepy?
The newspaper.
Who hears about a potential murder victim and jokes about spooky skeletons?
Thats creepy.
Im just saying!
Moving on to number 8 we have Womp[c].
This one was posted to Reddit by OG Dinosaur.
He admits that he's not a ranger but rather an archaeologist who heads out to the wilderness
to do studys - but his story is too good to miss out.
He said -A few years back we were doing a massive survey in the middle of nowhere in
the interior of BC.
All the crew had gone home and it was just my boss and myself left for a few days to
follow up and confirm some coordinates and finish some mapping.
We head out from the motel an hour or so into the bush.
Middle of nowhere along deactivated logging roads.
Closest town is miles and miles away.
We hike out to this one area we had found a site a few weeks previously.
For some reason the whole area just felt...off.
So, we get down to business and about 15 mins after being hunched over mapping, there is
this WEIRD deafening "WOMP" sound.
Like, I could feel pressure in my ears.
I immediately looked at my boss about 20 feet away and he is white as a ghost staring back
at me.
Standing, it fucking happens again "WOMP!" ear pressure and chest pressure like I was
just squeezed.
Chills all over my body and every hair is standing on end.
My boss just looks at me and says, "let's go!".
We grab all of our shit and speed hike back to the truck.
We never discussed it.
No clue what it was but I have never been so freaked out in my life.
10 years later, I still get the chills-
Moving on to number 7 we have Black Magic[d].
This one comes from Reddit user Roostern Dayard.
Its about to step up a gear here.
She said -I was a ranger at a coastal park in South Carolina, down on the islands.
I saw the aftermath of some truly creepy black magic.
When you open the park, you also must begin with a complete park tour, including riding
down the beach.
Several times (in the two years I worked there) I came across turkeys chained-up and chickens
left in homemade crates for the high tide to come in kill.
Strange artifacts would always be scattered around the crest of where high-tide hit.
Everything from random bones to swatches of clothing could be found.
Half the staff that worked there were gullah.
They would tell me that was black magic, not to be confused with root magic.
Black magic would be the bad kind where you have to sacrifice life and are asking for
something bad to happen.
Root magic is a good magic where you're just asking for love, health, luck, etc., and not
sacrificing a life.
It always freaked me out seeing it, and bummed me out to clean it up-
Next up at number 6 we have The Jungle Spirit[e].
Do you believe in the spirits in trees?
If you don't, you may find this interesting.
It comes from Reddit user Morgan Explosion I was working at a survey station deep in
the Malaysian Jungle in Borneo (four hours in 4 x 4s to reach this spot from the nearest
village.)
I was sleeping in one of the dorms with some of the rangers we were working with, five
people total in the dorm.
That night I was having a nightmare and woke up at about 2 am to the sound of footsteps
outside.
Whatever it was was fairly big and sounded bipedal.
It stopped right outside the window, so I'm staring back at the window trying hard to
see (pitch-black in the whole station since it runs on solar power and the batteries give
out around midnight).
Suddenly one of the rangers shifted in her bed making a noise and I could hear whatever
it was running away quite fast.
Being a rather skeptical person in general, I woke up and asked the rangers the next day
about it.
They adamantly believe that it was a jungle spirit coming to check us out.
The station stood on stilts so the window sits about ten feet off of the ground.
I asked about the possibility of it being a wild animal but they said that the only
things big enough to make that loud of a footprint would have been Sunbear (small bear) or a
cloud leopard (usually very silent).
They said it's generally unheard of for those animals to make it that close to the survey
station since there are usually people milling about.
The rangers have heard the footsteps before and they firmly believe that a jungle spirit
was roaming about the site-
Moving on to number 5 we have Missing Teens[f].
This one comes from Genesis Pro Tech.
This story is a reminder to not jump to conclusions … They said -There was a group of teens
that hadn't been heard from after their scheduled return time from a camping trip.
A good friend and I know the area very well so one of the search and rescue guys we're
friends with called us in to assist in the search.
Him and I head out in the general direction the teens had set off in.
We'd been hiking for most of the day and seen nothing.
We're about ~35km into the woods at this point when we start noticing odd things.
Sticks carved like spears stuck into the ground, weird carvings in the trees, a child's stuffed
animal hanging from a noose up in a tree.
This place was nowhere's near any roads, it wasn't on the regular trails people would
go on in the area.
The really eerie thing was that everything was freshly carved.
Somebody had been there within a couple of hours of us and made these things.
Mind you we're still looking for these teens.
We kept on hiking and eventually made camp for the night still kind of on edge from what
we had seen earlier but we settle down anyway and go to sleep.
We get up with the sunrise hoping to cover more ground before it gets to hot.
We pack up the gear and get ready to go when i noticed a bit of shirt that had caught on
a small tree and ripped along with some shoe prints, we were thinking great maybe we're
close by to the teens when a radio call comes through.
The teens had just been found 20km east of us they're calling everybody back.
All those weird things we had seen from the day before came flooding back into my mind,
we wasted no time hiking out of those woods.
Next up at number 4 we have The Crowbar[g].
This one came from Reddit user Tinge of the ging - great name.
This one sounds more like an actual horror movie.
They said -I'm a field biologist, and my job takes me to some fairly remote places.
I have two favorite stories.
The first was the time I was surveying a remote restoration site near an old trail and I heard
someone walking up a nearby path.
All the hair on the back of my neck stood on end, so I grabbed all my stuff and started
casually walking down the trail like I belonged there.
I turned the corner and there was a shirtless guy swinging a crowbar around in circles,
and when he saw me he started yelling, "I'VE GOT A CROWBAR!
I'VE GOT A CROWBAR!"
I think I nodded at him, squeaked something like, "nice crowbar," and then ran the mile
or so back to my truck.
And that's the reason why I carry mace and a big knife now-
Moving on to number 3 now we have The Head[h].
This one came from Reddit user RIPE OTC DXVI.
Theyre actually a ranger at Yellowstone national park - thats the one that looks amazing, but
also could blow up at any moment and end humanity.
Anyway, they said -A couple weeks ago i was exploring the Lamar valley, about 11 miles
from the nearest road and even further to the park boundary.
There in the middle of the trail, is a perfectly severed deer head.
No blood, no raggedness at the severance.
Perfectly in tact.
This is weird because i have seen wolf and bear kills, and i used to find cougar kills
in SD with radio tracking just after the cougar made them.
This was not any of those things.
The head was completely uneaten - eyes, tongue, everything intact.
Even the ravens hadn't touched it yet.
No caching, no scat.
Right smack in the trail, but again, no blood.
Even a human doing it made no conventional sense.
It was a doe so it had no antlers, plus, why leave it in the trail?
Whole thing, even in broad daylight, gave me chills.
Just an ocean of waving grass, bison calmly grazing, and a perfectly clean deer head right
on the path-
Moving on to number 2 we have The Howling.
This one comes from Reddit user Jaksmack.
He said -I have seen weird lights, heard weird sounds, found weird stuff in the woods before,
but the one that sticks out was years ago I was camping at a friend's property in South
Texas.
I am asleep in my tent and I all of a sudden wake up in the middle of the night.
One of those from dead sleep to wide awake in 1/2 second.
I can feel something is outside the tent, but I don't want to look, lol.
I have considerable camping / hiking experience so i am not freaking out too bad.
I very slowly unzip the top of the tent door, being as quiet as I can.
I look out of the tent and there is very little light.
We were camped under a giant oak tree, so big the branches dip down and connect with
the ground before growing back up again..
It is a huge tree and there are a lot of shadows and weird shapes.
Anyway, as my eyes start to adjust I realize there are about 40+ coyotes all milling around
the campsite!
Just slowly walking around, sniffing here and there, almost ghost like in their quietness.
I slowly zipped the flap back up and laid there for about 30 minutes before I fell back
to sleep.
In the morning, in the light, you couldn't tell anything had been there.
The next night we heard the pack howling for hours in the distance.. that was almost freakier
than seeing them 10 feet away-
And finally at number 1 we have Burnt[i].
This one comes from from Reddit User Beer and Oxytocin.
Its pretty grim, so maybe skip this if youre squeamish.
They said -I’m a Ranger (non peace officer) and work at a pretty remote desert park.
This happened before I got there, but the other rangers I work with were there.
They went to do a patrol during summer (our off season) at one of our seldom used campgrounds.
On a patrol, our maintenance ranger found a burnt out car in one of the sites.
The desert is a weird place so he just calls the sheriff and waits.
Sheriff arrives and it turns out there’s a body in the drivers seat.
With no arms and no legs.
Just a torso and head.
Burnt.
Sheriffs just marked it as a suicide and removed the vehicle.
We are close to Mexico and get a lot illegal drug traffic.
So I guess the don’t even bother trying to solve those.
Super sketchy-
Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed that, Ill chat to you all properly in another video
because this one has gone on really long, thanks for watching as always guys, my name
is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next one!