Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Unsettling Encounters Mysterious Creatures and Hidden Dangers in Nature PART2 #18

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

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There's so much rugby on Sports Exter 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 got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus 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. Jampact 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 for the terms apply. Collini, did you know if your age between 25 and 65?

Well, you can get a free HPV cervical check. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration. It took me less than five minutes. You go online to hsec.com. But in your PPS number, check in the date of birth. And then they tell you when your next appointment is due.

Oh my God. I know. And you can check you're on the register on the website so you can phone [phone]. If your test is due today, you can book it today are hsccccc. i.e. 4 slash cervical check. The unknown. One, the morning in the forest. When I was a kid, I thought camping was just camping.

You know, marshmallows, bug bites, and the occasional spooky story by the fire to make the night seem less quiet. I didn't realize that sometimes, you don't need a flashlight under your chin to tell a horror story. Sometimes, the story walks right into your morning, completely uninvited. It happened sometime in the early 90s. I must have been six, maybe seven years old. My parents were deep into this book project they were working on about birds. That meant we spent a lot of weekends hauling gear into the middle of nowhere, pitching tents, and basically living like early settlers while my mom and dad pointed binoculars

at tree tops and scribbled notes about feather patterns. I'd gone to bed early the night before, not because I was a particularly obedient kid, but because hiking all day had pretty much worn me out. I had my own little tent, a tiny thing just big enough for me and my sleeping bag, and when I woke up at what must have been the crack of dawn, I felt like the only person awake in the world. For reasons I still can't explain, I didn't head straight for my parents' tent to wake them. Instead, I wandered over to this fold-out chair we'd set up near the edge of a small ridge. From there, you could see a wide valley laid out in front of you, all misty and quiet in the early light. next to the chair was that spare pair of binoculars my parents had brought for me,

older, heavier, and kind of clunky, but they worked fine. I sat down and started scanning for birds like I was supposed to, but being a kid, my patients wore thin after about two minutes. Then I spotted something. It was a patch of bright blue out in the distance. I focused in and realized it was another tent. I could even see the flap of the zipper hanging loose. It was far, definitely over a hundred yards, but not so far that I couldn't make out the shape.

I watched it for a while, but nothing moved. So my gaze drifted. That's when I saw it. Two, the thing with the horns, no sound, no branches snapping, no footsteps, just movement where there hadn't been any a second before. Something passed between two trees, something big. First, my little kid brain tried to make it something I knew. An elk, maybe? A moose.

For half a second I even thought elephant before realizing how ridiculous that was. It had four legs, but they were wrong. Way too long, and bent in weird angles, like spider legs that had been built for a creature ten times its size. They were thin, but not fragile, there was power in the way they moved. Where the four legs met was this bloated, dark body, small compared to the legs, almost like it was just there to hold them together. At one end, sticking up were two things I first thought were antlers. But they weren't smooth or graceful like deer antlers. They were crooked, jagged horns, like twisted branches.

That's about as much detail as I can clearly pull from memory. Even now, my brain sort of resists letting me picture it perfectly. like it's protecting me from something. I stood up from the chair and lowered the binoculars, suddenly feeling way too exposed. Three, the blue tent. The creature moved toward the blue tent without a moment's hesitation. No creeping, no testing the air, just a straight, silent march.

When it reached the tent, it didn't stop. It stepped over it, skewering the fabric between its two front legs. And then, like it was peeling back the lid of a can, it tore the tent open. Something, someone, was inside. The figure it pulled out was human. I can't swear to every detail, but I remember dark skin, maybe a gray or dark green shirt. And then I saw the red. A bright splash of it sprayed across the blue fabric, and that's when my body decided it was done being curious. I dropped the binoculars, took two steps back, and felt every muscle in my legs go tight. The creature raised one of its front legs and, God help me, it impaled the person on one of those

jagged horns. Then it turned, moving with this awful, effortless speed, and disappeared back into the trees. I ran. For the hiding, I didn't get far before I tripped. My face hit the dirt hard, scraping my chin. I scrambled back up and dove into my little tent, pulling the blankets over me like they could somehow keep the world out. I had to pee, but there was no way I was going back outside. So I didn't. It felt like hours before I heard my parents moving around the campsite. I wanted to yell for them to hide, but the words just sat in my throat.

Eventually my mom opened my tent flap. The first thing she noticed, because moms notice everything. 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 got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus 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. Stand-up Pressing applies after 12 months for the terms apply.

Kalini, did you know of your age between 25 and 65? Well, you can get a free HPV. cervical check. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration. It took me less than five minutes. You go online to hsse.d.i. forward slash cervical check. Put in your PPS number, she'll get in the date of birth. And then they tell you when your next appointment is due. Oh my god. That's real.

And you can check you're on the register on the website so you can phone [phone]. If your test is due today, you can book today or hsccc. ...sacervical check. Was that my sleeping bag was wet? The second thing she noticed was my face. You look terrified, she said, her tone shifting from annoyed to concerned in half a second. Were you sleepwalking? Did you have a nightmare?

She saw the scrape on my chin and helped me out of the tent. I kept glancing around, convinced that any second that thing would come charging out of the trees. My dad asked why I hadn't put the binoculars back in their case. When he saw my expression, he stopped asking questions and just waited for for me to explain. I told them it was a nightmare. I wanted to believe it was a nightmare. But out there, in the distance, the blue tent was still there, ripped wide open, its fabric flapping in the breeze. We packed up and left early. Five, burying the memory. Here's the strange part. I don't remember the trip home. I don't remember what I told them, if anything.

But I remember that tent. And I remember knowing that whoever, had been inside it was never coming back. I buried that memory so deep it took years, decades, and a stupid internet prank video to drag it back out. Now, I'm thinking about hypnotherapy. I want to know exactly what happened. I want to understand it. I can't ask my mom, she's gone. And my dad, most days he can't even remember my name. I never found any missing person reports from that time or place. But that doesn't mean nothing happened. Too many people vanish in national forests for me to chalk what I saw up to bad luck or coincidence. So I write. Every day, a little more, trying to pull more details from my mind. I've started calling it the unknown. Six, paintball in the marshlands.

Years later, a friend of mine lived on 40 acres of heavily wooded marshland. When the weather got warm, we'd get a group of six people together for paintball. Teams of three running around like wannabe action heroes. The terrain was perfect, rocky patches, wetland areas, steep slopes, smooth clearings. No random hikers, no worrying about trespassing. Sometimes we'd end up in corners of the property we'd never seen before. On the day this happened, we'd driven the quads and dirt bikes until the tanks were half empty, then hiked another quarter mile on foot before splitting into teams.

The theme that day was Marvel versus DC. Everyone picked a comic book villain name. I found a small bluff with a good view and set up as an Overwatch. I was fiddling with my helmet and boots when I heard something behind me. It wasn't footsteps. It was, sobbing. At first I thought maybe one of my friends had taken a paintball to the face and was being dramatic. But when I took my helmet off and listened, I realized the voice was deep.

Too deep. It sounded like a grown man crying, ugly, uncontrollable, like someone at a funeral. Halfway toward the sound, I ran into one of my teammates. He'd heard it too. We moved together, paintball guns ready, knowing full well they wouldn't help much in a real fight. 7. The Old Brick House. We found it sooner than I expected, a crumbling, two-story, brick house that looked older than anything else around. No roof in some places, windows long gone.

The sobbing was coming from an upstairs window, but it was quieter now. If the friend who owned the land had been with us, we probably would have just let him deal with it. But he wasn't there, and curiosity got the better of us. Inside, the place smelled like damp earth, sweat, and old marijuana. Rusty beer cans were scattered on the floor. On one wall, someone had spray painted, stay here. We made it to the base of the stairs, and I decided to call out. Hey, you okay up there? The reaction was instant. A roar, not just a shout, but full-blown rage, erupted from above.

Whoever was up there charged toward the stairs, the floor shaking with each step. We didn't wait. We bolted out the front door and into the trees. The yelling followed us, words. I couldn't make out, just pure fury. When the figure reached the doorway, he stopped, squinted into the daylight like it hurt his eyes. Then he turned and went back inside. Eight, not alone out there. We only caught glimpses of him, sweaty, scraggly beard, layers upon layers of filthy coats. We marked the spot and headed back. When we found the rest of our group, they told us they'd

been chased by two other guys, drunk, dirty, and furious. They'd been forced to defend themselves with paintballs to make them back off. We rode back to the house and called the cops. A patrol car showed up fast, but it was almost an hour before enough officers gathered to go in, with a helicopter overhead. By nightfall, they'd found four men living in that house. One had died the night before, probably from an overdose. Two had gone to find some. something to carry the body. The third had stayed, crying over his friend. Apparently, the house was a known hideout in the homeless community, a place to disappear for a while. My friend's parents had the place demolished. They'd never even known it. Don't let foot pain or discomfort hold you back.

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This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby. For the first time, we've got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup, and much more. That's 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 back 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 for the terms apply. Colleeny, did you know of your age between 25 and 65? Well, you can get a free HPV cervical check. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration.

It took me less than five minutes. go online to hsec. i.e forward slash cervical check in your pps number check in the date of birth and then they tell you when your next appointment is you oh my god it's real and you can check her on the register on the website you can phone [phone] if your test is due today you can book today or hscc. i.e. 4 slash cervical check existed 9. The perspective shift it might not be the scariest story you'll ever hear but it stuck with me we were just kids out there thinking we were playing a harmless game

and we'd stumbled into someone else's desperate reality. If we'd been less careful, if we'd walked in with cocky grins instead of cautious steps, some of us might not have come back. And if that had happened? Who knows how long it would have taken for anyone to find us? People like to think the woods are just trees and dirt. But the truth is, there's always a reason to be afraid. The end.