As The Raven Dreams Podcast - Back Woods Horror Stories - TRUE TERROR IN THE DEEP WOODS

Starting point is 00:00:09 I live in a small town in South Africa. Near my town, there is a large patch of woods, and since the outbreak of Corona, I haven't been in the woods for a long time, until yesterday. So my friend called me and asked me if I wanted to join him and a few other mates to play a game of paintball in the woods, and, obviously, I was keen. I got my paintball gear and gun, and headed off to my mate's place. There were six of us, Chase, Liam, Matt, Joey, Stephen, and obviously me. We headed off to the woods but made a few stops to fill up on petrol and just get some gas for the paintball guns. When we finally got to the woods, we parked the cars, got in our gear, and ventured out into the forest to find the perfect spot to play paintball. Eventually, we got deep enough and to an area with sufficient cover and space to play a good game of Capture the Flag.

Starting point is 00:01:11 We played a couple of games, and since it's winter, it got dark really quick, but we planned for this and brought our flashlights and decided to play a couple of night games, which is extremely hard, especially in the forest we were in. During one match, Joey and I decided to sit out because, we were both tired and just needed a quick breather, and the others continued to play from a significantly good distance away from us. While we were chilling, I was rolling up, yes, I'm a pothead, and Joey went to go take a piss a couple meters away from me.

Starting point is 00:01:49 While I was busy rolling, I had the flashlight pointing towards myself, since there was no other light to allow me to see what I was doing and around me. It was completely dark. I couldn't even see two meters ahead of myself because of how dark it was. Suddenly, I heard footsteps coming my way, but I thought it was Joey,

Starting point is 00:02:11 and I soon realized I couldn't see any light from his flashlight, so now I was more vigilant but still relaxed, thinking he was trying to play a prank on me or something, but the footsteps stopped a few meters away from me, so I lifted up my flashlight and pointed it in the direction of where I heard, heard the footsteps and scanned the area. I just saw bushes and trees, and I just thought it might be Joey hiding in the bushes

Starting point is 00:02:39 or behind the tree, waiting to give me a jump scare. And then I heard footsteps coming in the opposite direction, and when I looked, I could see that it was Joey because he was holding his flashlight. That's when I stopped what I was doing and picked up my flashlight and paintball gun, and when Joey reached me, I whispered, Bro, I think there's someone over there. Joey obviously didn't believe me, and just said to me to stop being a baby,

Starting point is 00:03:11 but he soon regretted saying that because I decided to do one last scan of where I heard the footsteps, and to my horror, I saw someone peeking and staring right at me from behind a tree, probably 10 to 11 meters away. I just shouted, What the actual hell?

Starting point is 00:03:31 And when Joey heard me say this, he looked at me, and then to where the man was, and instantly jumped up picking up his paintball gun also. We stared at each other for at least two minutes, but it felt like forever, until he stepped out from behind the tree. He was a large man, at least six foot.

Starting point is 00:03:53 He was honestly filthy, like he hadn't taken a bath in years. He was wearing baggy ripped up jeans and just an old, dirty, zipped-up bomber jacket. Plus, we could see that he was on something or it was just bad shit crazy. And he was holding something behind his back. He finally said, What are you guys doing out here when it's so dark? We couldn't even answer him because of the shock we were in.

Starting point is 00:04:21 Joey stuttered with fear in his voice. Um, we're just leaving. But the man nodded his head in disagreement and said, No, you're not. Your friends are still playing the game. I felt a shiver down my spine. How about we play a game of our own while we wait for your friends? And that is when he finally showed us what he was hiding behind his back.

Starting point is 00:04:46 It was a large machete. That's when I knew we had to get out of there. So I aimed my pace. paintball gun, and in the toughest way I could muster up, I told him, Leave now, or I will shoot. Even though I only had about six or seven paintballs loaded, and Joey did the exact same thing, aiming his gun at the man, even though he had no paintballs in his gun, but he didn't even flinch, but did something that honestly made my skin crawl.

Starting point is 00:05:18 He just smiled and said, The game starts now. And suddenly, he just rushed at us. So I told Joey to run while I fired my last bullets at him. And luckily, I shot him in his head, which caused him to fall. So that was our chance to book it and link up with our other friends. As soon as we started running, we heard his footsteps again. And he was actually gaining on us. We could barely see, but we couldn't slow down, because we knew what would happen if we did.

Starting point is 00:05:51 so we just carried on sprinting our hearts out until we heard other paintball guns being fired, so we knew we were close. Joey started shouting to get everyone's attention, and all of a sudden, I heard a loud thud. Joey tripped and twisted his ankle. I turned around to help him up, and when I did, I could see the man running full sprint towards us. In that moment, I thought it was going to be the end for us, but our friends heard our screams for help, and rushed to us, and when they saw the man, they just started firing on him, and he knew he wasn't going to be able to take us all on, so he decided to turn around and disappear into the forest.

Starting point is 00:06:34 We helped Joey up, rushed to get our stuff, and then rushed to the cars. When we got to my friend's place, we helped Joey treat his ankle, and I proceeded to tell my friends everything that happened, and they were all creeped out. It's safe to say that the next time I'm in those woods, I will be much more vigilant. A few years ago, I went camping for the first time in my life. It was about 11 or 12 when we headed out to a forest nearby our house. We were in Poland for the holidays, as every year, and right next to our house was a huge forest. So, one day, we decide to take out my mom's old tent she still had from, like, the 90s, and just stay the night or two in between some wildlife.

Starting point is 00:07:38 Good thing, the place we chose to sleep at was only about 20, maybe 30 minutes away from the house. Bad thing, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of wolves, foxes, and boars out in the forest. and honestly, I kind of regretted going there in the first place. We set everything up at around 6 p.m., and my sister and I set up the campfire. My dad chopped down some of the smaller trees earlier with his oak axe, important for the later part of the story, and by now it had dried out enough to catch fire. We sat around it for quite some time, probably around four hours until it was dark, so we decided to just head to sleep then.

Starting point is 00:08:26 My two sisters and I, on one end of the tent, and my parents on the other. It was probably just the fear of getting eaten alive by some wolves or homesickness, but I couldn't sleep at all. I heard my dad till my mom he was going out into the forest to get some wood for the morning, while it was still fairly dry, or it would have all soaked up the dew by then, the thoughts of not having my dad around

Starting point is 00:08:54 made it even worse for me to close my eyes for even a second I'm not too good at telling what time it is by just staring at the sky or trying to figure out how long it has been so I'll just say it was around 12 or 1 in the morning I was actually falling asleep when I heard some rattling outside the tent my first thought wolf I was terrified, and so I just popped out my head through the little curtain that separated the two halves of the tent,

Starting point is 00:09:28 basically a thin piece of fabric, just hanging on some threads, to see if my dad was back. He was still gone, and it had been about an hour since he went. I lay back down and just tried to fall asleep, but when I turned myself on the side, I saw this faint human shadow outside the tent. I froze and let out a teeny squeak. The person seemed to be holding some sort of axe-shovel-type thing in his hand, and so I thought it may have just been my dad coming back. The shadow walked towards the entrance of the tent and just stood there

Starting point is 00:10:11 at the zipped-up door for maybe 30 seconds. I began to wonder why he wasn't just coming inside. Then the person finally ran off into the forest, but they dropped the axe. You could hear the footsteps fade into the distance, and a thump just happened along the way. Maybe a minute or two later, I hear my dad walking back from the opposite side of the forest and enter the tent all tired and just fell asleep. seemed kind of sketchy and fishy and scary to me, but it was so late I couldn't even think anymore, and I somehow fell asleep.

Starting point is 00:10:54 The next morning, I woke up after my dad dropped his phone on his face, letting out an ouch. I peeped through the curtain at him, and he just smiled back while rubbing his nose. I needed some fresh air, because I was feeling a bit sick. and maybe from the nerves in the morning or homesickness, I couldn't really tell. Both of us got out of the tent, and we walked around for a while. We circled around the campsite for around 10 minutes until we came back to our tent. That is when I noticed something that ran the chills down my back. A few meters from the tent, in the corner of my eye, I managed to catch a glimpse of something red.

Starting point is 00:11:37 It took me a hot second to realize what I actually saw, and when I turned my head to see what it was, it was a red and black rubber axe. It was not there before. I knew it wasn't my dad's because his was by the pile of wood that he collected at night. For my dad's reaction, I probably turned pale because he started to freak out a little

Starting point is 00:12:02 like I was about to pass out or something. He turned his game. to where I was looking and we both just stared for a few seconds before he called out for the rest of the family to wake up and get moving. We were all packed up within the hour and we rushed back home. I later told my dad what I saw that night and he didn't believe me at first. I carried on with the story and he finally realized I was telling the truth. To this day, I still have no idea who the hell that was. but I'm just happy he didn't investigate our tent any further or any other animal out in that forest.

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Starting point is 00:13:35 Not because I've been scared, but simply because this is my first post since joining Reddit. Please forgive my writing as sometimes my wording and punctuation could be better. I'll start off by explaining the area so you can get a good picture of where this occurred. We lived in a small neighborhood. All the surrounding streets were dead ends and to a half-circle park. Behind the park are some woods and a railroad track. When we were younger, we all played in the front part of the woods. We never ventured too far back.

Starting point is 00:14:12 This was our play area for years. We never had an issue or a scare. This area was pretty and well-lit, wooded area. Anyhow, one day, my brother Jimmy and my best friend Sarah, and my brother's best friend Ian, were all building a dam in the middle of the small creek that ran through the park and the woods. The boys decided they were going to head back to Ian's house

Starting point is 00:14:38 for some snacks, as Sarah and I said we would stay to finish our camp area. As we're moving the rocks around, I get a very odd feeling come over me. A strange feeling that we're being watched. I immediately think it's the boys trying to scare us and just continue with what we are doing. Sarah and I load up some big rocks

Starting point is 00:15:03 and head back to the creek and put them down at the dam. I get that feeling again, And as I stand up, I see something straight in front of me, about 30 feet away. I can't clearly make out what it is yet because it's behind a bush, but I do see that it is a pattern of red and blue. I know that's nothing the boys had on, so at this point I'm focusing on trying to figure out what it is. As I'm scanning up the bush, I start to realize it's a clown. I kid you not. My heart started pounding immediately.

Starting point is 00:15:43 The clown and my eyes lock. He's wearing a blue and red hat with a reverse pattern red blue jumpsuit. I grabbed Sarah's shirt and immediately pull her upright, and she notices the man right away. He's smiling with the full face of makeup, and he has a huge knife. We both say nothing and start running as fast as our legs can take us. He begins to follow.

Starting point is 00:16:10 We can hear twigs snapping and the ground crunching, but we are booking it. We run through the front of the woods through the side of the park and up her dead-end street. Ian and Jimmy are two houses up from the end and see us running and are screaming what is going on. While running past, we scream that there's a clown and they start laughing. We are still running, screaming for our lives, and we finally make. make it to the middle of the street when Sarah's dad, Danny, is now running out the front door because he hears us screaming. We meet Danny right at the beginning of the neighbor's house, and we're trying to explain

Starting point is 00:16:51 what we saw, and he says, girls, stop it now. This is ridiculous. What are you talking about? We try to catch our breath. By this time, Jimmy and Ian have caught up to us. We're crying and pointing and telling Danny again that we saw him. saw a clown and a knife. Jimmy and Ian are laughing, and Danny is asking if they played a prank on us.

Starting point is 00:17:15 About this time, an old yellow pinto type of car comes from the dead end at the park and pulls right up next to the sidewalk of the yard we are in. Sure enough, plain as day, it is the freaking clown. No hat this time, but knife in hand and telling us to come here. Danny starts shoving us all towards the house, and he himself is scared and running now. The car drives off down the street. We get inside and Danny calls the police.

Starting point is 00:17:48 We had to give statements, and the police patrolled the neighborhood in the park for a few weeks. We were never allowed to go in the park again, and a few months after that, the city started to clear out the woods. They cut down many of the trees and made a walking, area that you could see through all the way to the train tracks. My friend and I used to talk about this many times up until her death. No one would believe us had they not seen it as well. It was just so scary.

Starting point is 00:18:21 I think they only got to see him because, whoever it was, had to go down the dead-end road to leave the neighborhood. Either way, this man was not afraid of us, nor the small group of people that gathered from our screaming. He very bravely stopped right in front of us as her father tried to comfort us and calm us down, all the while flashing his knife. We're lucky to be alive, I feel. Had it just been one of us left in the woods, which sometimes occurred, I don't think there would have been a group of four of us any longer. Sarah's dad stopped drinking that day, and we all have a fear of clowns.

Starting point is 00:19:16 So that my friends was a quick collection, kind of, of Deep Woods Horror Stories. I'm not sure if I'm going to title at Deepwood just because Deepwoods is too close to Deep Web and I don't want people confused, but maybe I'll do Backwoods Horror. Backwoods Horror sounds better. So this was a quick collection of Backwoods Horror Stories.

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As The Raven Dreams Podcast - Back Woods Horror Stories - TRUE TERROR IN THE DEEP WOODS

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