Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The Thing in the Woods Watched Me Twice—And I Know It Was Never Just My Imagination PART2 #72

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

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I didn't go looking for something terrifying, but it found me anyway. And no, I'm not trying to write a scary story just for your entertainment. This is real. Or, at least, it felt as real as anything I've ever. ever lived through. It started around dusk. I couldn't sleep and wandered out of the tent with the binoculars we had brought along. I was just scanning the forest, not expecting anything, when I noticed a blue tent set up maybe 200 yards away through the trees. At first, I thought, cool, another group camping nearby. Then something happened. This massive thing, like,

it didn't look like any animal I'd ever seen, skulked toward the tent. It had these front limbs that didn't look right, too long, almost spidery, and it moved low to the ground but quickly, like it was on a mission. It reached the tent and tore through it like it was tissue paper. I couldn't believe what I was watching. It pulled something, or someone, out from inside. I swear, I forgot to even raise the binoculars again. My brain just froze. I remember seeing a figure, dark-skinned maybe, wearing what looked like a grey or greenish shirt. Then this horrible splash of red hit the side of the blue tent like a spray paint can exploding. That's when I dropped the binoculars and stumbled back.

I was officially freaked out. This creature lifted its front limb and, I kid you not, impaled the person on one of its horns. Then it turned and calmly slinked back into the trees like nothing happened. like it didn't just murder someone. That's when my legs finally worked again, and I ran back to our tent. I tripped and face-planted in the dirt on the way, scraping my chin pretty bad. Once inside, I pulled the sleeping bag over my head like a terrified little kid. I wanted to cry.

I wanted to scream. But I did neither. I stayed there, motionless, frozen in my own fear. At some point I had to be. pee so bad, but I just stayed put and ended up wetting myself. That's how scared I was. Eventually, sunlight started peeking through the trees, and I heard my parents moving around outside. I wanted to yell at them to hide. My mom opened the tent and took one look at me and instantly knew something was off. First thing she asked was whether I'd peed the sleeping bag.

I must have looked absolutely terrified because her tone shifted immediately. She noticed the scrape on my chin and helped me out gently. I was trembling and constantly glancing around like I expected that thing to jump out again. My dad asked why I hadn't put the binoculars back in the case, but the moment he saw my face, he dropped it and came over asking if I was okay. All I could say was that I had a nightmare. I wanted to believe that. Really, I did. But the ripped blue tent fluttering in the breeze across the distance confirmed that it had not been a dream. My parents decided we should pack up and head home early. I guess they just figured I'd had some kind of breakdown.

Oddly enough, I don't remember the drive back or even what I told them once we got home. But I still remember that blue tent, and the thing that tore it apart. I buried that memory deep. So deep that it took an internet meme, a prank about some creepy creature that looked eerily similar, to yank it back out into the daylight of my brain. Now, I'm seriously considering hypnotherapy to revisit that morning and try to really understand what happened. I'd ask my parents if they remember the trip.

But my mom passed away a few years ago, and my dad's dealing with Alzheimer's now. He can't even remember my name most days, let alone a random camping trip from my childhood. I looked for missing person reports from that time and place, but there was nothing. No leads, no names. I don't know what I saw, and I don't know why it happened. But I want to stop being afraid. That's why I'm writing this. Not to spook you, but to let you know that there are things out there.

Real things. Things that don't show up on Google searches or in textbooks. People disappear in national forests all the time. It's not always just accidents or getting lost. Sometimes, it's something else. I call that creature the unknown. It feels right. I think about it almost every day.

I write about it, sketch it, describe its movements, trying to unlock more of the memory so I can finally put it to rest. That wasn't the only weird experience I had in the woods, though. Years later, a buddy of... There's so much rugby on Sports Exeter from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lot at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes.

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Totally off limits to anyone else. We'd usually split into two teams of three and give ourselves comic book code names. Marvel versus DC was the theme that day. We rode out on quads and dirt bikes until the gas tanks were about half full, then hoofed it the rest of the way. We didn't recognize the part of the property we stopped at, which made it even more fun. I set up on this small bluff, perfect spot to get a bird's eye view. While adjusting my helmet and boots, I heard something strange behind me. It was this deep, guttural sobbing.

Not like one of my friends messing around. No, this sounded, wrong. Like a grown man sobbing at a funeral after three shots of whiskey. I thought about ignoring it. But curiosity got me. Always does. I figured maybe someone was hurt. Even though this was private land, maybe a hunter got lost or something.

Halfway to the sound, I ran into one of my teammates. He had heard it too and decided to investigate. We moved quietly, paintball guns raised even though. they were more for comfort than anything else. That's when we saw it, an old, crumbling brick house. Looked like it had been abandoned since the Civil War or some crazy era like that. The sobbing was coming from upstairs, though it had quieted down by then. We shouldn't have gone in, I know that now. But we were stupid and curious. The front door was already broken open, so we slipped inside. The windows were all missing. The place said,

stank of mold, pot, and sweat. Someone had spray-painted, stay here, on the wall. Just as we reached the stairs, I called out, Hey, are you okay up there? Big mistake. Something upstairs exploded in rage. Screaming, stomping, charging straight for us. The house practically shook.

Dust and debris fell from the ceiling. We turned and ran for our lives. We didn't stop until we hit it. the tree line. We ducked behind trees, paintball guns up, in case the guy came after us. He got to the front door, squinted out at us like a confused troll, then disappeared back inside. The guy was, horrifying. Long, greasy beard, layers of coats, probably hadn't bathed in weeks. Like a scarecrow came to life and got lost. We marked the spot and ran back to our bikes. When we found the rest of the group, they told us they had been charged by two other homeless-looking dudes. They had to shoot them

with paintballs to drive them off. Back at our friend's house, we called the cops. A patrol car came fast, but the real search didn't start for over an hour, not until more backup and even a helicopter were on the scene. By nightfall, they found four homeless men living in that crumbling brick house. One of them had died overnight, probably from an overdose. Two. had gone out looking for a way to move the body. The one we heard crying had stayed behind to mourn. That old house had apparently been known to the local homeless population as a hidden refuge. Quiet, off the radar. Somewhere to disappear for a while. They found knives in the house, but no weapons on the men when they were arrested for trespassing. Our friend's parents had no

idea. There's so much rugby on Sports Exeter from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby. For the first time we've met every Champions Cup match exclusively live, bus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup and much more. Thus the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place. Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before

on Sports Extra. Jam-packed with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra. New Sports Extra customers only. Standard pressing applies after 12 months, further terms apply. That house even existed. They later scheduled it for demolition.

Just like that, the hideout was gone. It wasn't supernatural. It wasn't a monster. But it was real, and it was scary. We were just dumb kids playing games in the woods. If we hadn't been cautious, we might not have made it back. Who knows how long our bodies would have stayed hidden out there? There's always a reason to be afraid.

Always. The end.