Reddit Scary Stories: Feral People, Human Traps, and Near-Kidnappings (Feat. Morgan Absher)

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  @Wander_on_a_budget · 1 year ago

  When my grandpa passed he told everyone for a week leading up to his coma and him getting bad “I’m not going to pass until April 17th, that’s the day my wife died and I don’t want my kids to have to mourn more than one day a year.” A week later he went into a coma on April 12th and he held on until that date and on April 17th at midnight we had let him know he had made it and it’s okay if he wants to say goodbye now… at 3 am he passed ❤

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  @ccaw0922 · 1 year ago

  I met a deepwoods person in 2003. Me and a friend were doing a 75 mile survival hike in the Smoky Mountains area and accidentally burned our map. We had a good idea of the area as it was the final night of the hike, or was supposed to be. <br><br>We had done dozens of these hikes and were very proficient in backpacking but ended up veering off course. We were sitting by our campfire at night and I almost leapt out of my skin when we heard a deep voice ask us &quot;what are you boys doing here?&quot; When he walked into the light of the campfire he was a massive guy with a huge beard wearing a huge pelt on his shoulders and handmade clothing underneath. <br><br>He ended up being incredibly kind and gave us a map and told us we&apos;d gone off course by almost 30 miles. He fed us what he said was bear meat stew and sent us on our way and was completely understanding when we said we didnt feel comfortable with going back to his camp when he offered. We were just on what he said was his property so he was making sure we weren&apos;t causing trouble. <br><br>If he was a murderer or cannibal he was a super nice one! The only thing scarier than bears and wolves when you&apos;re in the middle of nowhere is a human voice you didn&apos;t expect to hear.

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  @jesshigginbottom3866 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My brothers HS girlfriend was riding 4wheelers through the fields &nbsp;with friends &amp; a farmer did this.. she actually literally DID get decapitated. Later that year, a boy in his friend group passed away in a car accident. YEARS later, my brother &amp; his late friends Girlfriend saw each other at a New Years Eve Party. They kissed at midnight - both sharing heartbreak and trauma (as they had BOTH lost their HS sweethearts) They ended up getting married, traveled the world, got their dream jobs, dream house &amp; had two kids. They were together for almost 20 years until my brother also died of cancer in his 40s. 😭 life is insane.

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  @trinitybernhardt9944 · 1 year ago

  My mom was with my uncle when he died. He was blind and bedridden from AIDS back in the early 90s. So she was sleeping in bed next to him to help him if needed. This was their conversation. <br><br>Uncle: P, I have to go.<br>Mom: Ok, just a second. (Thinking he had to use the restroom)<br>Uncle: No, P, I have to go.<br>Mom: (waking up and beginning to understand) It&apos;s ok, M.<br>Uncle: (reaches out for someone and passes)<br><br>My mom unexpectedly passed 10 months ago and I hope he came to get her. They were so close. The thought of their joyful reunion is one of my few comforts.

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  @juliequinn593 · 1 year ago

  Someone just did the wire thing around here. The house is empty but the owner put a wire from their house to a pole out front. A little kid on a bike ran into it and was in critical condition last I knew. The ambulance and police took the wire down and the next day someone posted that the owner had put it back up. I think they should be charged with attempted murder. Especially after putting it back up knowing what had happened.

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  @MarcT0296 · 1 year ago

  I think the real stories are scarier for me personally because you have to take different measures to protect yourself from real people versus something paranormal. And the fact that those kids literally thought it was a ghost when it was someone convicted of murder is really frightening

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  @By.the.brookes · 1 year ago (edited)

  I’m a wildlife biologist and spend half of the year alone and deep in the wilderness for my research. There are countless times I’ve been scared for my life and almost all of them involve encountering people, despite working in bear and mountain lion country. One year my project included managing an array of camera traps, which photographed anything moving in front of it. One of them captured the creepiest picture in the middle of the night. It looked like an extremely skinny leg of a naked man, just in front of the camera. My team was the only one in this section of forest though, or the only people supposed to be there, since it was extremely isolated and nearly impossible to get to. I chalked up the pic to being the leg of a deer, but we all still talk about that photo even now, years later, because it gave everyone such an “off” feeling.

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  @loridorii · 1 year ago

  I used to work in a daycare that was part of a hospital. One day, this kid with bug eyes and coke bottle glasses looked me dead in the eye and said &quot;A man just died.&quot; My coworkers were convinced the kid ate his soul 😂

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• CA

  @caitlinmurphy2598 · 1 year ago

  My husband grew up in the Appalachian mountains not far from Loretta Lynn’s birthplace and his family all lived in a cluster of trailers in the mountains, his granny wouldn’t let him walk from his aunts trailer to hers at night without her standing out there watching because she was worried feral woods people might come out and snatch him. He also had a long lost family member who went to live in the woods and never came back to society, he would come out to visit every year or so but just gave up on normal life and went off in the woods.

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  @SkaJoodleSkaDoodle · 1 year ago

  I think one of the biggest signs that something awful was going to happen is when a man “offers help” and then starts cursing you out when his plan to approach you is stumped somehow. Means you foiled plans they really wanted to go for and they’re mad about it and blaming you

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  @coastiewoody · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve grown up on a native reservation my entire life. We are nestled into a valley along the Oregon Coast. With that said, I appreciate you pronouncing Appalachia the correct way. There are a lot of things mispronounced when it comes to Oregon (including the state name, lol), so I can totally understand why anyone who grew up in Appalachia would be frustrated with the constant mispronunciation. <br><br>Also, regarding the wire story... there are a few people around the rez that have done that. I knew of someone who was internally decapitated from it. They survived, but they&apos;re a paraplegic.<br><br>I&apos;ve yet to come across any feral people, as we go into the woods often here. We also live in the woods, lol. I know there&apos;s a bunch along Appalachia, though!<br><br>I will say, I have come across things not of our normal world. We grow up with the stories here on the rez, but you think they&apos;re just scary stories to keep us kids in line. However, I did encounter the stick people. The stick people are basically like stick bugs. They&apos;re small, twig like people. If you&apos;re alone in the woods and left no offering, they will follow you. You hear snapping twigs and whatnot. The worst part is, they will attack you. They come all together to make a large being, but first, they go after your ankles and trip you up. Then, they become a large twig being and drag you into their &quot;home.&quot; I heard them following me and saw twigs moving that shouldn&apos;t have been. I straight RAN as fast as I could back to the tribal center. I never enter the woods without leaving an offering now. Sometimes it&apos;s food. Sometimes is tobacco. It doesn&apos;t matter, I just leave an offering. This land has been here longer than us humans. Other things (beings) have been here longer than us, too. Sasquatch is actually a Salish word (a language of our coast salish tribes which I&apos;m a part of). Sasquatch just means big, hairy man. It is known that he only shows up to give you a warning. It&apos;s to warn you that youre on the wrong path (physically, literally, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, figuratively, etc). Sasquatch has been here longer than us, but he doesn&apos;t live here. He can walk both our world and his (think different dimensions). <br><br>We&apos;ve seen a long of things here. Things that can&apos;t be explained or compared to urban legends and whatnot. Anyway, I&apos;m getting sleepy! 😅

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  @SunshineDaisy228 · 1 year ago

  When I was pregnant, I felt the most fear. I met and encountered so many different types of people when I was pregnant - there were such kind people but I probably encountered more scary and threatening people. My intuition was on full blast towards the last months of my pregnancy because I felt it. It’s hard to explain.

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