Welcome back everyone, today were going deep into the woods.
By day, they can be beautiful places, full of animals and plants - but by night, they
can scare people out of their minds.
Theres something about the trees that attracts and scares people at the same time.
Perhaps youll be more scared by the time this video is over.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Depp Forest Stories.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Smiler.
This story came from Reddit user blasphemous mushrooms, and its about his friend Tom.
Tom was a new police officer who had been given late shifts.
He never came across anything too strange on his patrol - but this night was different.
He was by a local park, checking there was nobody doing anything suspicious there late
at night.
As he walked around the outskirts of the woods - he saw a man standing with his back facing
him on the edge of the darkness.
Tom yelled out to the man -Hey, you, what are you doing?
Come over here right now!- … the man turned and gave him a blood curdling smile.
Then, he ran into the woods.
Without thinking, Tom chased him into the woods.
The smiling man was leaping over branches and ducking under fallen trees like a pro.
He was on another level.
Eventually, he stopped in a clearing in the forest, smiled, and then kept running.
Finally they reached a clearing in the woods.
Tom was exhausted and only just managed to look up.
The man had stopped.
He turned around, smiled and then began walking slowly into the woods again.
Tom chased again but the man was gone - it was like he had vanished into thin air.
To this day, he swears that this wasnt a normal criminal, he had an experience with a sinister
paranormal being …
Next up at number 9 now we have The Kidnapping.
This one comes from Dr Jim Danger who said that when he was 18, he and his friends took
a trip to the Apila-chicola forest in Florida.
They drove deep into the woods so that they wouldnt be disturbed by any park rangers.
On the first night, they decided to do some exploring.
Almost immediately they started seeing signs that someone had lived there before them - big
bags of trash were strewn everywhere.
They came across a campsite with a van.
There were clothes strung up on a line, coolers around the area, and a big golden retriever.
They tried to back out but an old man stepped out and greeted them.
He was friendly and chatted to them for 10 minutes before they went on their way.
Something didnt seem quite right with him.
2 months after the trip, a friend called him and told him to turn on the news.
It showed an old guy with a van and a golden retriever.
His name was Gary Michael Hilton and he had just been convicted of at least 4 murders.
He had kidnapped and murdered a girl in Georgia, an older couple in North Carolina and a girl
in the park they had been to not long after they left.
They called the police and ended up helping with the investigation that sent the murderer
to prison …
At number 8 now we have The Mountain Man.
This one comes from Reddit user C Murda 4000.
He's a geologist who said that he did his graduate field work in Nevada.
He was way out in the middle of nowhere when he saw a handbuilt shack in the distance.
A mountain man stepped out and looked at him - he paniced and went away.
A while later he was in an area nearby when he walked up to what looked like some kind
of farm.
When he got close he could smell the strong sent of Marijuana - it was an outdoor weed
farm.
As he turned to get out of there, he was confronted by a man with a gun.
The man offered him 10,000 dollars to not report what he had seen and let him go.
He agreed but never collected the 10,000 or reported it, saying he was too scared to do
either …
Next up at number 7 we have The Screaming Woods.
This forest lies just outside of Pluckley, said to be the most haunted village in Britain.
The woods get their name because of the blood curdling screams locals hear from the forest
late at night.
They say its haunted by a highwayman who was captured by the villagers hundreds of years
ago.
They dragged the criminal into the woods, pinned him to a tree and killed him with a
sword - he screamed as he fell to his death.
Visitors come from all over to experience the paranormal goings on.
I found a story from a recent visitor that went like this -I was in pluckley and a group
of friends and i decided to go to deering woods (screaming woods) when we got there
there were birds singing and the atmosphere seemed quite happy we pulled up the other
car in the car park left we got out the car and my friend noticed that the birds had stopped
singing as we went into the woods you could have heard a pin drop we walked in up to half
way towards the cross roads and us girls decided to come out so we went in to the car and the
boys went bac in about 20 min later the boys came running out they got in the car started
the car and turned it head on to the woods were my friends brand new car stalled head
on and we saw this dark black mist coming towards us as if it was walking down the path
(there was definitely something) we then went down to the black horse pub were we discussed
the days ghost hunt a we always did and the boys said that it was only when they started
getting close to the crossroads that it appeared so they ran out.
we have talked to a few of the local people who have said that early in the morning you
can here screaming coming from the woods.-
Next up at number 6 we have The Thing.
This one comes from Surlyvet.
He said his friend was deer hunting ones in the mountains of Virginia in the 90s.
One winter morning he set out with his gun to a tree stand.
It was still dark when he arrived and so he climbed up and waited until dawn.
While he was waiting he decided to reverse the batteries in his flashlight - he had an
issue with the switch and thought this might fix it.
Suddenly though, he was disturbed by a chill running down his spine.
Out of nowhere he began to feel a crippling fear and the feeling of being watched.
He was thinking about climbing down from the tree stand and walking back to his truck when
he heard a blood curdling scream at the base of his tree along with scratches and rustling
in the bushes.
He fumbled for his torch and cursed himself for messing around the the batteries.
He said the -thing- that was down there was able to elicit a fear in him like nothing
hed ever experienced.
Before that hed always felt calm with a gun and confident he could handle any animal out
there.
This time though - he was filled with horror and dread.
The thing screamed, shrieked and scratched for 15 minutes and then - silence.
Not once did he see anything.
When he came down a few hours later, he packed up and left the area - he has never been hunting
since …
Moving on to number 5 we have The Rope.
This one was told by Rohdat on Reddit.
He wrote a first hand account which Ill read for you now.
-Me and my friends thought it would be a great idea to share a few drinks on the side of
a dark and unfrequented mountain road at 2 in the morning when everyone should be asleep
and no one would bother our drunken boisterousness.
Where I grew up, it is very common to go around on motorcycles, not the speedy racing types,
but the more commercial 150cc variety.
It is also very common to ride these motorcycles without helmets, and the weather usually calls
for just a light windbreaker; even on very dark nights on lonely roads such as the one
we were on.
After distancing ourselves sufficiently from civilization as it was, we parked by the side
of the road, under a tree.
I should mention there was a dim glow emanated by the moon and our eyes quickly adjusted
to the darkness enough to see each other.
Another thing worth mentioning is that this road led to an army encampment several kilometers
away.
So the only sort of people that would potentially drive by us were tough, army folk.
It was now 10 minutes past drunk and we were having a good time when we see headlights
creeping up towards us.
We ignore them because we were well sheltered from the pavement, sitting under a large three
whose branches grew wide and provided a good deal of cover.
The headlights belong to a jeep that zooms past us only to suddenly come to a halt.
They see us.
This was terrifying because here we were, drunk as college students usually are, on
bikes, without helmets, at 3am on a winding mountain road.
But our fear was slightly alleviated as the car drove away.
Still, why stop at all?
'Dude probably saw there are 4 of us and one of him, hahah.
Loser', we joke to ourselves.
Some more time passes, a second pair of headlights belonging to another car drive by us, stop,
book it.
At this point, we were getting more and more sober and more and more worried.
So we decide to call it a night and head home.
We get on our bikes and start riding back when one of us realizes he left his backpack
under the tree.
So, we turn around to cover those 3-4 kilometers to where we were.
As we approach the tree, the backpack owner dismounts while we turn the bikes around.
One of our headlights sweeps an intensely bright beam across the branches of the tree.
As it points to the branches just above where we were sitting, in a flash we witness, illuminated
in stark contrast to the background darkness, a human body hanging by a rope.
Now we know why they stopped.
And drove on.-
Next up at number 4 we have Sally In The Wood.
Just outside of Bath in the UK you will find some woods that many locals dare not go near.
Its a patch of woodland known simply as Sally in the Wood - supposedly its haunted by the
ghost of a murdered girl.
They say that birds in the woods cant sing.
Drivers have reported hearing a childs scream from the darkness and some swear they see
a ghost of a young girl running out into the road.
Legend says that Sally, the murdered girl, haunts the woods at night.
She causes cars to crash on the unlit stretch of road when she comes out from behind the
trees.
They say she was a gypsy girl, supposedly imprisoned in the 18th century.
She was locked up without food and water, left to die in a tower deep inside the woods.
Others say she was a local witch who lived to be 100 and now continues to torment others
in death.
Locals say that she may be dead, but her chilling stories live on …
Coming in at number 3 we have The Cougar.
This one comes from Reddit user smokey the marshmallow.
She said the scariest experience he had as a park ranger in Washington state was being
stalked by a cougar for a day and a half.
One day, she was hiking up an old trail when he had the creepy feeling of being watched.
That night she camped at the shelter made of 3 walls and a roof.
She felt uneasy all night and barely slept.
At one point she even put his emergency foil tarp around his sleeping bag so that she could
hear anything stepping around him.
The next day, she found fresh Cougar feces and scratches on trees on the trail she had
just hiked on.
About a mile past the shelter she found a half eaten deer in a brush off the trail.
Thats when she knew that a Cougar was nearby and that it was stalking her.
The last 2 hours of hiking through the dense forest were the most hair raising of any hike
she had been on …
Next up at number 2 now we have The Visitor.
Some of you guys may have heard me talk about this story in another video but its too good
to leave off the list.
It comes from Senor Puffy Pants.
He said he was once leading a group of school kids up Mt Sterling in North Carolina.
They were camping at the top of the mountain, on a beautiful night with a full moon.
The kids and the other guide went to bed in their tents.
He chose to sleep in the hammock outside.
He lay there reading his book until 1030 PM when he decided to go to sleep.
The moon was so bright that it lit up the trail they had just climbed up on.
As he was drifting off - he saw something move on the trail.
As he looked closer, he noticed it was a person.
They were in the middle of nowhere and there was someone hiking up the trail towards them
with no headlamp or any gear.
He froze as the person moved closer towards the camp.
They arrived at the top of the mountain and stopped in their tracks.
It was a man.
He sat there in a way that looked like he wasnt trying to sleep, he was watching.
The guide was terrified, he started back at the man.
They stared at each other.
This went on for hours and hours.
Then, at 330 AM, the man stood up, he took a moment to survey the camp a few minutes
longer and then went back down the trail they had come up on.
To this day, he has no idea who the man was, what he wanted and why he was staring at them
…
And finally at number 1 we have The Goblin.
This one comes from Reddit user Justinf100000.
He said this one happened about 8 years ago.
He was working as a camp counselor for Camp Tommy in New York state.
He was staying in some cabins at the top of the mountain, each one separated by about
half a mile.
One night at about 1 AM he was sneaking off to meet his girlfriend in another cabin.
He decided to cut through the forest to speed up the journey.
Suddenly he heard a rustling in the woods, and stopped to investigate it.
There are big animals that live in those woods so he was expecting something like that.
All of a sudden, this 3 foot tall humanoid looking thing jumped out of the bushes and
looked at him.
It was too dark to make out any features but it definitely had 2 feet, 2 arms and basically
looked just like a person - but tiny.
He was curious and walked towards it.
He spooked the thing and it bolted back into the woods.
It ran so stiffly but was so quick.
To this day he has no idea what the creature was, although everyone seems to have their
own theories …