Your Scary Stories Episode #5

Luke, can you hear me? Yes, I can. He's sounding you sound good? You had our fresh haircut, you're you're you're ready to get scarier. Did have the haircut last time? I good a couple of weeks. I've had a haircutting, so long, man, how you doing, dude? Good good? Somebody wants to know if you walked your cat tonight. He actually just walked the cat before we got on it. Yeah, yeah, he was being a real asshole. Do want to come back in? So? Yeah, this is your Scary Stories, the show where we live stream and share your scary stories live live on the air. Luke, It's like I'm on the radio. You walk your cat all over you man? Well, okay, so he claims he has a dog, but I just believe personally he's probably walking the cat. He's in denial. I just don't know if he's seeing things like he just thinks it's the dog. But yeah, yeah, so everybody's calm. Many they're saying hello, Yeah, thanks for joining us live. Where's Jack? Jack is doing some behind the scenes stuff for Jeff Townsend Media, so it he's helping produce the podcasts. That's what Jack's up to. Thank you. For asking how many stories we add tonight? I think we have six in total. I think you said, yeah, three, I have three. Not only do I have three, actually have one with some video on it. So I'm super excited. I'm super I'm just absolutely thrilled to share that one. So yeah, comment along, join us whatever platform you're on. We're live across eight different platforms. I think Instagram, TikTok, YouTube of course, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch. What am I missing? I don't know everywhere they get the point across. I guess everywhere. Yeah, am I going to start off like always tonight? You think yeah? I think, well it's all for me, so as always, we I didn't get stories that are consistent with each other, which I think I probably need to get better at. You're pretty good about that. You're getting a little better at that. I just kind of have mine all over the place. Saw'll stick to that, true, I guess could hear it? Okay, hopefully that I'll send him two? Hopefully does sounded like a good volume? Oh yeah, that sounds good to me. Okay, we'll go ahead and get it. Go in here. So this is called Scary Babysitter Story. So I read wolf twenty one one read Wolf twenty one. Thank you for sharing the story, so we'll jump into it here. I said goodbye to my mom as I hung out the phone and walked up the stairs to Tyler's house, the kid who I'd be babysitting. I greeted his mom at the door. She was in a hurry. She had told me everything over the phone that she needed to tell me so she could leave as soon as I got there. She hurried at the cab out front and headed off to the airport. Tyler was five years old and had autism, so I knew watching him was going to be a bit of a challenge, and at first I had to get myself accustomed to Tyler's behavior in ways of interacting. But I got used to it and I learned to accommodate him. I would hear him talking to himself in a lot of different rooms. Usually I would assume he was playing, but sometimes it seemed like he was literally just talking to himself. I'd be watching Tyler for the whole week. On the first night, I woke up to Tyler laughing outside of the room I was sleeping in, so I thought this was pretty weird. I was confused because I saw the bedroom door open in the room of the yes room I was sleeping in, and I knew for sure I had closed it. I went to see where Tyler was. I heard his laughter coming from his bedroom. A crack and the wood floor made from me walking made his laughter instantly stop, and then the light in his room suddenly went dark, and I heard him dive back into bed and pull the blanket silver. I wasn't even halfway across the hall yet, I still calling out Tyler, stay in bed. Then at that point in time, I decided I got my poy across, so I went back to sleep. The next day, I asked him what he was doing. I couldn't get much more of a response out of him than I don't remember. For the rest of the day, I tried to play games and watch TV with him. He seemed more interested and playing in his room upstairs, though, so I let him be and I watched TV by myself basically until the sun went down, minus making dinner another few small chores. Eventually the time came for bed, I tucked Tyler in, making sure to tell him to stay in his bed. This time. I went to sleep no more than an hour later, once again, I was woken up by a noise. It was the sound of giggling. Then I heard whispering. It had to be Tyler. I sat up, rubbed my eyes and looked around the room. Tyler, I called out, there was giggling again. It came from across the room. I was in the guest bedroom. I sat up in bed and I flipped on the lamp real quick, and there was Tyler sitting in the closet with the door slid halfway oh open, revealing only half of his face. Half to admit, it was a disturbing thing to witness at two in the morning. The shade and angle of the light hitting him where it hit his face made it even more disturbing. I got up and went over to pull him out of the closet. I was upset with him, and I let him know it. I brought him back to his bed and asked him why he did that. His response was very unsettling. He said, Honey told me to. I asked him who Tony was. He said it was the man in the closet he was talking to. My heart skipped to be as he said this. Still I knew it just had to be his imagination running wild. I told him to stay in bed for real this time, or there would be consequences. I went back to my guest room and shut the door. As I laid in bed, I thought about what Tyler had said about the man in the closet, and I thought, why would he say that. I laid on my side for the longest time, tried my best to clear my head and just go to sleep. I wanted to just go to sleep, but there was a sudden sound something hitting the closet door. It almost sounded like somebody had a body part, like a knee or something bumped the closet door. Didn't sounded like a heavy object falling onto the door rather than just a bump. Again, assuming I called out Tyler's name, Tyler, hoping it was just him playing games again. Me saying his name went unanswered. So now I called out Tyler even louder, loud enough for him to hear me across the hall in his room. He called back, yes, but he came from down the hall. His answer, I could hear he was in his room. At that moment, I jumped up out of bed and I ran to Tyler's room to get him out of his bed. I carried him to the bathroom, where we hid and we called the cops. I stayed on the line with the nine to one to one operator, only whispering occasionally that we were still okay to the operator until the cops finally banged on the door downstairs. I heard them open the front door, which was weird because this front door should have been locked. They shouted police, to which I responded by running with Tyler in my arms, to the living room. The rest of the story is history. The intruder in the closet who was talking to Tyler must have walked out the front door by the next day. That was the end of me in that family. I don't know whatever happened after that, but I hope whoever was in that closet never returned. You have a couple of stories that we've heard people being hidden in the house. Actually, there was the one with the uh it was another baby, Sarah thank right, with the what's it called a baby monitor? The baby monitor story? Yeah that that was like toddler, right, a young toddler, and they covered up the camera. Yeah, that was messed up. And so this this kind of reminds you of those, and it's just absolutely terrifying. I have an autistic nephew, so, like, you know, the idea of someone be eating there talking to him, Yeah, it's it's gut riching, So you know that that's that's terrifying. I think if you just heard the kid talking, you would probably assume, like they did, that it was just someone conversing with an imaginary friend, just playing amongst themselves. Really nothing about it, right, because even my kids, I have kids, they're always talking to themselves. So you probably wouldn't think much of it. But then again, you would probably be a little concerned that the kid was in your closet that first night. That's a weird thing to do. But to you to your point, you know, obviously as a disability, strange states to do. Nevertheless, but I think to me, when you approach the room and you make that sound on the floor like you talked about, like you could you know how you could hear somebody approaching on a hard floor and then the lights got flipped off real fast at the dove into bed, that's an indication of any human this's something's going on, right, Yeah, So then you start to then the next night you actually have this happened, which is insane. That's just a terrifying idea and the story and yeah that stuff. Again, we have this scenario, like we always talk about where they seem like they go in the bathroom and hide, right, like, Yeah, it's probably partially because the bathroom is generally close to a bedroom down the hallway. Yeah, it's the safest place to shut the door. But usually they have no windows or you'd say like that, Yeah, I guess it's where you'd go if there's a storm, and I guess it's where you'd go if you were worried somebody was in your house. So yeah, a lot of times, actually when they're build houses, if they're building out a bathroom, they have more studs in the walls because it's supposed to be like a safer area. So yeah, usually in the center. It's usually some sort of I don't want to say center of the house. But nevertheless, somebody said they always hide in the bathroom at movies too. That's true. Yeah, that's true. I don't know why. It must be like a safe haven. You know, I'm going to hide in this bathroom. But I think it's interesting how the individual ends this story by saying by the next day, that was the end of me and that family. I don't know what ever happened after that, but I hope whoever was in that closet never returned. One of those instances where it's so traumatic you're just not gonna go back, right, I mean, you just didn't go back. On some of these stories we've shared, not the baby monitor one, but others, they catch the individual, like that terrifying story of the homeless guy sleeping under the kid's bed. He's arrested, right, But in this instance, you don't know, you never caught the guy. So I could definitely see where I'm gonna disconnect myself from that. Yeah, irish situation. I think that's what's happened. What'd you say. I hit some button on the computer and just flipped on some video. Sorry, I didn't know what that was. I was like, yeah, it's crazy. I thought you were doing one of those things that you do, like man, it's just that complicated, you know, not got that old rubic cute man, you like Tomada Blue red man. Then you get to one side and you mess it up on the other side. No, but it was close to it kind of sounded like that. To be honest, it did actually because I caught it like right away. So then he was like, I just thought you were trying to jump scared of me, you know. Like no, I jumped scared of myself because I was like, oh shit, all right, give me que up. Are you ready? My first story is part of a series of stories, though I read today, they're not connected by the people at all. But there is a very similar thing. And like I said, it was a bit of a rabbit hole I went down. The title of this story is the Thing on the Lake. I live in Michigan, about forty minutes away from any large town or neighborhood. I like it that way. I enjoy the solitude. I like to go camping, and I have a truck at a small rowboat that I use for fishing. I can take it anywhere because it fits in my truck, but I leave the hatch open it and strap it down. Slide that handle on my moules. That's really nice to bring a cooler of beers my fishing gear at local lakes and use my boat. I'm very careful to wash my boat between lakes because I know about the base of fishing parasites. It's not clean and wax about every time I use it. Get to the lake that I'm added two today and it's a very overgrown, horribly so I had to clear big sticks for the path that have been there for a while. It looked like they had till I reached the lake as I fulled up there with a small clearing A decent sized lake about the size I could row across at ten minutes or less if I tried. I pulled in, I loaded my boat, my beer. I was off on the lake in under twenty minutes. I brought my beer cooler on the boaty because I can't and nothing better than boats and beers of solitude. I was on the lake and I noticed that staring at my boat from the shore, it was a tall skindy and an intelligent looking animal that was standing on its hind legs. The creature had long stick like arms and long thick legs. It was a little bit far see you very well, but it may have had large brown eyes. It had to been my imagination, I thought, so I tried to stick myself out of it. I couldn't believe my eyes when I realized I wasn't hallucinating. From my view, I guess it would have been about eight feet tall, considered how tall I looked next to my truck. He was looking at me. I felt petrified. There's nothing at all that could made me feel safe in that moment. If I thought to shoot at it, I had left my gun in the car. I reached my oars after I was startled. It seemed to notice and stop looking my direction, which made me feel more upset because that meant had watched me, probably for a while before I looked over towards it. The animal that went and started to expect my truck tapping on it, and it looked like he was checking out his reflection. I couldn't do anything better to watch it horror while it made some shrieking noises and ran in the woods on all fours. Disappeared into the forest almost instantly. I can't describe how difficult it was to roll back to shore after seeing that. My hours felt like jelly and my heart was out of control. It felt like my whole body was dunked at ice water, and it was uneasy until I got home. When I got to shore, I consider leaving my boat behind, but instead, I ran to my car to get my side arm and it loaded up. The boat went on to say, I had a comment that he still goes out in nature, but this was a once in a lifetime occurrence that makes him now practice sharp shooting, and it makes him keep his gut with it at all times. Is it a side arm? If it's not on you, that's a good question. I would say. No, that's the first thing I thought. How inconvenient it just was not on you. So this is, like I said, the first and three different stories of this very similar creature. After I read these stories, and in fact, once we get to the end, I'll tell you what my thought process on this possibly be, because these days get progressively weirder. I'll tell you my thought process of what it seems like now to me, if I had to guess, it sounds like a death clall from Paul out right. Now, that's just what That's just where I've got. Somebody said, remind me to never go fishing. The creature just wanted to check out his truck. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, maybe you just like this truck. Yeah, you never know. The first day they came from my mind was possibly a bear with mange. I don't know if you ever seeing a hairless bear? Yeah, yeah, night mare, right, So that was the first thing I thought. But then I kind of dug into these stories and they are everywhere, and they get pre eight foot tall, you said, right, eight foot tall? Yeah, that's pretty scary. Yeah, so it was like twice the height of his truck. We has a boo or something like that, or well, I mean, I guess the bear could stand on its back legs where I be that tall? Yeah, grizzlies get real tall. Where was this out again in Michigan? He said, you know, on a lake in Michigan. Hm, hm, Yeah, that's a pretty deep one. So it's gonna progress. So the stories you have the rest of this Nightder guy progress off of that. Yeah. They're not even by the same person. They're just all over the place. So what happened was he ended up into the water, right, Yeah, he was on he was on his boat out there, and so he got out their ways and he kind of looked around and he saw this thing staring at over in the water, and at first it didn't know that he saw it until he started rowing back. And then the fact that it was like he acknowledged it that he was coming back put him off you more, and I agree that would be absolutely insane. He was a run anywhere too fast, was he? He even debated if he wasn't even he was just going to give up that boat. Yeah, he said, well, it doesn't even worth it. It was just a rogo deck girl. I mean, he said, it was small enough to take a fit in the back of this truck. And the man had a little it at himself. I don't think that's worth saving. Yeah, that these wise are the times you just wish he had a real damn boat. If you can't get away fast something swimming, then that's not the kind of boat. I went secre of the boats, No, buddy said. Somebody said, the hell at the boat. Everybody says, dish the boat. Yeah, this is your scary stories that you show where we share your scary stories live on the air. Luke just got done finishing his first story of the night. We're gonna dig deeper into it as tonight progresses. This sounds like there's a creature in the making. This next story I'm gonna share. I'm so excited about this. So this story has gone viral, so This story's by no means gonna be your first time hearing it, possibly credit to mister Nightmare, where I actually had heard this story. It's it's everywhere. This is a popular one, and I actually have footage to share along with it, so I'm actually excited. This should be fun. This story is called Terrifying cross space horror Story. It's by Jake h. Usually the scariest things you'll find in a cross space would be mice, sir, spiders, maybe crickets. Jake found something way more terrifying than any cree in his crawl space. Jake lives in a nice neighborhood and owns his own house where his girlfriend lives with him. Jake met his girlfriend in their local community. The two hit it off and would eventually start to date. At some point during this time, she opened up to him about her old abusive ex. She described her ex as a ticking time bomb. He would often be very sweet, and she did it like his more genuine kind side, but he could at a switch become a completely different person. One side, like she mentioned, was sweet, the other side was a very aggressive, scary man who would do things like by bouncers of bars on holls and walls, or even sometimes actually get physically abusive with her. Things would become so rocky between the two that eventually she would end things with her ex, but he didn't take that news well. She feared that her ex was stalking her. An example, at her parents house during the late night hours, either she or her parents would hear sounds from the backyard, things like a gate slamming shut or the back door shed closing. She made the decision to disable all forms of social media after the breakup, and she became very concerned, so concerned for her well being that she actually decided to move in with her boyfriend. Jake started the story with on one regular night that Jake's girlfriend wasn't in the house with him, he was in his living room when he heard noises coming from the crawl space. He moved from the living room to his kitchen and sat at the island for a while, continuing to listen and hearing these strange noises, occasionally thumping sounds from directly below him. It was at this time where he started to record a video for a Snapchat story. Assuming that he was hearing an animal of some kind such as a raccoon, he thought this should be an entertaining thing to record for Snapchat, which it does sound like it would be right. A raccoon in your cross space. I've had a spurl mattic that definitely was not fun. As he enters the cross space, he he stops recording for a second, and we'll get in this video here in a second. And I did edit this video down shorter, so if you're watching it, that's not the complete original presentation, so don't think that it's edited in any sort of way, because that was me. You'll see the light come on us sometimes so he can see when he gets down in the cross base. Also note that the crossbace appears to be mostly empty, aside from some boxes that were tucked into the corner. Jake said that he saw these boxes this way. He was confused because he didn't remember leaving them that way. So Jake decides to walk deeper into the cross space. We're going to pick up on the video now, and actually it'll do a short recap on what we talked about. He sit at the kitchen on the island when he's hearing these noises. When he starts to record this on Snapchat, who the fuck is that noise? Oh sh just gonta day oh to see that up there for a second. And I will pick back up on the story here in a moment. But it's important to note, and we'll get into here. This is where the video ends. And if anybody listening is you snapchat that's because when you you basically have to hold down the screen that says record, So as soon as you let off your finger off the screen, it stops recording. So that that explains that. Let me summarize, let me finish up the story here. Jake said that he heard a noise in one corner, like pebbles being scraped on the concrete floor. As he heard the noise, he turned to the corner and this is where he saw the was terrifying sight, the sight of somebody hunched over, addressed in all black, who was hiding in the corner. When spotted, the individual started approaching him, which you could see in the video. The screen that Jake sounded like was completely sounded, completely legitimate, somebody witnessing something very disturbing as an intruder hiding in their crawl space and then basically legended them. The video cuts out seconds later, Like I just said. Because of the snapchat, he didn't go on to explain what happened to the rest of this event. He ran back to the ladder of his crawl space, and as he was climbing up, a hand grabbed his leg and tried to pull him back down into the crawl space. By kicking the hand off of his leg, he was able to shut the crawl space door in their face. Unfortunately, the door to the closet which contained the crawl space didn't have a lock, so Jake's first instinct was to run into the kitchen and grab the biggest knife and lock himself inside the bathroom. He said he heard the closet door open and footsteps come out of the atom door, and then the person on the other side of the door tried to turn the doorknob. Not knowing what kind of weapons the intruder might have, Jake didn't engage the intruder in a fight. Instead, he silently called nine one one. It kept the line going and eventually heard footsteps quickly leave the house and out the front door. Now, Jake told the nine one one operator about the incident. Jake's girl friend refused to come to the house after hearing of this incident because she swore left and right that the man in the video had to be your ex. It's impossible to make out any notable facial features in the video. You can see that the person was worrying, all black and their head was covered by a hood. Jake also described the man to be very tall, intimidating stature, despite being hunched over in the cross space. Jake's girlfriend said her ex was very tall and upon watching the video, she squares looks just like him. Of course, it's just speculation on her part and without solid evidence, legally, they don't have many options. They didn't have any options. In the video, he shared, you can hear loud and hammering type sounds in the beginning. After going back into the crawspace and investigating, Jake found that the intruder had been ripping through some insulation on the crawl space and been actually hammering at some of the wood on the ceiling of the crawl space. It's unknown what he was doing. It was also discovered that he did a couple hides in one of their sheds. The house key was missing, which probably revealed how the intruder got inside. Jack changed the locks on the door of that exact same night. His girlfriend has yet to return to the house. She's almost certain now that she's been stocked by her crazy ex boyfriend. Jake has installed areenbuild doorbell camera recently, and on the occasion he's getting a notification by Alexa device that there's somewhat at the front door, but there's never about anybody actually there when he looks, not visibly at least. It's crazy to think this started with a guy simply trying to get a funny Snapchat story of what he's seemed to be a raccoon or something in his cross space, but turned into something much more horrifying. Okay, well, I was terrified when I saw his cross face because it looks identical to the crawl space interests in my house, same carpet, It looks pretty, it looks pretty close to mind and mine. Actually, the interest to my cross face is in my utility room, laundery room, so same sort of setup. So yeah, I'm with you there, dude. I felt it completely. You really can't walk comfortably. It's almost more comfortable to walk on scoot around on your knees. Oh man, that was rough. I saw that though, I was like, man, that is terrifying, especially since I've actually got to show that video to my nephew Emory, because recently we set them down our cross space to run some wire for us. There was the comments during this video where there are a lot there. There were dozens of co are saying, don't go down there, don't be stupid. Why would you go down there? Why? A lot of whys if that somebody said, what the hell if I hear something like that in my cross space, I'm throwing I'm throwing bug bombs down there, So I will say, Okay, So right before we bought our first house, we lived in this little rental and squirrels got into the attic that got in between the roof and whatever got into there, and you do you hear the sounds. My first instincts like it's and there's so many horror stories out there of things made in the attic too. Yeah, my first instinct was it's a squirrel, it's a raccoon or something. But in that particular house, you went up pulled down ladder into this attic and you look around and that just like my house now has that like spray foam stuff everywhere it's not like there is insulation laid up on the walls and stuff like that, but it's mostly that foam all over the floor, so you really can't see can't see shit basically, right, I mean, but in a cross space like this particular one, it's just oh wide open. And once he got around the corner and he moves that camera and you see that person, it was truly a jump scare. And the reason I think it's so real it's because when you are out Snapchat, once you let go of the screen, it's off. And if that happened to you, you would not be able to keep recording. It's not possible. First of all, you get scared, you'd release the screen. Second of all, if you're running upstairs and all that, you wouldn't be able to keep recording. So it's it's like a real legitimate story to me. I agree. Yeah. I will say though that i'd add a raccoon in my cross space before, and I would recognize that that was not a raccoon noise actually, and it touched up on at the end of the story. There were some photos of when he went back down there, and that that person was just freaking hacking away at stuff down there. I pulled off the insulation and was just like, can't I can't even have fathom what he was doing, and like like I was trying to piece it together, like what would you do? Why would you be doing that? I don't know. Maybe he was, and there was even some damage to the pipes and stuff too. My thought went to, is he trying to like do it in a spot where he could pop up and scare them, like or get the girlfriend? Like assuming it is this crazy X, you know, I don't know. I wonder what his plan was. That's pretty easy. Well, I mean, if you're crazy enough to go live with someone's ballspace, that your plans are probably not sound. Makes you wonder how long you're down there, don't doesn't seem like the type of place that you could There's no entry from the outside. So yeah, somebody brought up a good point setting up a break in. Maybe oh maybe I mean leave for the day and go back out and take your stuff. But I don't know. Seems like they could have already done that, right because they had to get into the house when he wasn't there. You'd assume, yeah, because he said he had the key with miss hating, so I think mess and this all happened in the nighttime hours, So I mean you'd assume that the person got in there and there gout there the day. But then again, I guess you never know. They just wondered how long they're down there. It's not a very comfortable place to hang out, no, because this guy was very all you could tell about how cool it was while crowd sitting down, So this would be a very uncomfortable position to be in. It's just just a phrase, yes, stay ever seen they're gonna we'll watch the end one more time before we move on. Yeah, yeah, So like right there, he's like yeah, half yeah, bent over and he's still near the top of that. Yeah. That's most terrifying thing ever. The person was definitely trying to hide in the corner, like maybe like you got stuck in a spot where you could really navigate the rest of crawl space, so you're kind of so, so, well, I'll just try to hide in the corner. That's that's scariest thing ever. Then, I don't know, Yeah, it's crazy. Someone said, best story of the show yet, thank you. I appreciate that. I was really excited to scare us share that it's not not like I originally sent to us, so we do want to note that. But definitely, if you want to see a bunch of more content like that, mister nightmare, is the way to go. A bunch of stuff like that. Uh yeah, no, awesome story, Luke, I'll kee you yup, man, We're going to go back down the rabbit hole this creature. I'm excited yet, all right, So this one takes place in Southern California, which, yeah, quite a bit of ways from Michigan, where we were last time, and this is called the South California not dear. I commute for my job. It's a retail job, but I live in a rural area area in the southern California foothills is currently my only option. I drive home every night. You're one, am. I take the highway. Always deserve these size of Some nights we're more peculiar than others, but nothing is so extreme as this incident. It's not uncommon for to see a lot of wildlife on these tribes. I would take it slow and be alert. Occasionally see a black tailed deer, coyotes, raccoon, et cetera. One recent night, it was only about ten minutes away from home. It rode up to the usual four way stop there stopped at a hundred times before, so around came to a complete stop. I saw something standing just off by side of the road across the intersection. It was obviously an animal. It's headed toward road, so it's gone a way for it to cross. Took me a second to really comprehend what it was. At first I thought it was a horse, which, although dangerous, wouldn't be that uncommon for where I lived due to irresponsible ranchers and they're constantly broken fences. Then, as I started to make out what what was, it neared light out of the headlights. I realized something was very wrong with this animal. It was tall, so much so delay looked still like. As I sat there, the shocked. It slowly steucked onto the road and came across by a car as direct beam with a headlight. At this point I realized two thadys One. It was much taller than my car. Its height was monstrous. Two Its gate was very odd, almost like it didn't know how to properly walk as a deer should. It was like all the joints wanted to bend the wrong way. It moved slowly into the uncoming lane, and it swiveled its head to look back at me. All the hair on my body rose. What spooked me the most was that there was certainly a deer, or at least something that looked like one. It looked normal every way except for the spiral like legs that were standing on At this point, I gassed the car, and the deer stood unmoving as my car spit by. I looked in my rear of the ear kind of glimpsed of it crossing the oncoming lane back into the shoulder of the highway. They read by my blake brick lights. When I got home, I ran into my house and locked myself in. I'm still understandably freaked out. That's terrifying. They're all definitely really want you to know how tall this thing is. Yeah, and kind of the I'm still the death claw man. Those legs until like skinny legs man. Yeah. But what's not interesday about this is well, he didn't necessarily said at intelligent eyes. It said it stared at him, right, which seems to be intelligent, right. Same thing with the first guy, Skinny lags there skinny appendages, really tall and the social of intelligence, and then like this guy described it as looking like a deer but not a deer. What do you do when that happen? Is is it like Jurassic Park with the t r X, Like you don't move and won't see you? Like, what do you do in that? So he decided got it and run it there? He was just like getting out there. It's out of there. I don't know what I would do. I can you almost see where you'd be like frozen though, right, like frozen in t Yeah. As you're experiencing this, like I don't know, I don't know what I do. A lot of people are asking some form of do you think this is the same thing from the first story? Let me ask you this as we get further in these stories, so you're obviously sharing them for a reason. So what's the connection that you saw to these There's a bunch of people like piggybacking off of each other. These I found so I mentioned they had different authors. They're also months or about a year apart. And then they're also fasts of different parts of the country. Nothing like what's connecting them except for there are similarities in like the height, the strange way it walks, the seeming intelligence just like some other worldliness to it. Yeah, they all kind of describe something that put them off what they saw it. To me, that speaks to something else, something not natural in terms of animal and my current working theory. You know, there's so one more story to get through, but my current working theory is something like a forest God, a forest in God. Yeah, I look up a forest gump. Yeah, if you look up any picture of forest God. Uh, they look like really tall, deer like creatures with different, like somewhat intelligent look in faces. A lot of people are commenting it reminds them of like an alien or something that's fair. I mean, what's stirerst to it? That God or a million Dang, you just got real deep there. I can't answer them, not don't. Like I said before, as we've talked about, as we've shared so many stories now, the nighttime definitely throws you off on being able to visually see the size of something. Yeah, so that makes you wonder, is something that's really big but probably seemed just gigantic, you know what I mean at night? So I'm not surprised by that at all, But I don't know. I'm curious that that first one was at night though, So yeah, land in water now though nowhere near water on the second one, right, oh, Southern California, which I think it the pretty dry eric. They don't have any water there. It's a problem. There's no water in southern California. So yeah, point being there, there seems to be no limit to where it's gonna go at least. Yeah, but it does have like the first one ran into the woods afterwards, and you can see that this is like something that lives near the forest. Possibly you should call that into the unknown. Yeah, it's a desert god, Luke, maybe it's a desert baby. You know. That's the last one, isn't there though, Well, I don't know. I will say this though, this is what it's starting to remind me of. Though. You saw the Dog, didn't you? The Black Dog. I've heard truckers talk about it on the yard to say it comes to take everything away from him, and it did it? Did it? Play? I loved the guy at the back, see he's like yeah, yeah, I know, he's all excited. That's such a good movie. That's what it's it's like you're seeing these phantom things there. It's like the black Dog. Oh, I've about one more stories, so I'm going to venture off at a different kind of story here, Luke. This is actually called Scary Wedding Guest Stories by an anonymous person. I had a pretty low key beach wedding, mostly just family and friends. My wife, who i'll just called Tricia, invited more people than me, for sure. She invited her ex boyfriend Kyle. I didn't know exactly how I felt about that at the time, but I acted accepting and fine with it because I knew they remained close friends. There were about seventy five people at the wedding ceremony, including Kyle. I didn't pay much attention this time of the day during the wedding because it's obviously such a big day, my minders racing, there was so much going on, But at the wedding Kyle was friendly to me. Throughout the wedding reception, I noticed Kyle would constantly be talking to Tricia. Then when he wasn't talking to her, he'd be looking in her general direction. Tricia and I are married now. It's not like he had any sort of shot at all so at the time I start to think maybe I was just being a little too paranoid, even if it was slightly annoying. Kyle came along to the wedding, which I thought was a tadbit weird. He didn't bring a date. That's typically what somebody would do. My wife and I stayed in a fancy waterfront hotel that night, and the next day we went back home. A couple of people who couldn't make it to the wedding came by the house to congratulate us and drop off gifts. Surprisingly, Kyle stopped by as well. Tricia and I had recently moved into a new house together, and Kyle claimed to stop by to check out her new place, also to drop off his gift that he didn't give to us at the wedding reception. He handed us the gift well, Tricia, He and a Tricia. The gift an envelope and a Teddy bear holding any heart and on the heart was our initials. I found this to be a nice, thoughtful gift. We gave Kyle a tour of the house and he stayed for a beer, but after that he said he'd better get going and he congratulated us before leaving. Inside the envelope was a card containing one hundred dollars. As nice as I thought the gifts were, I still believed he had some serious feelings for Tricia. I asked her to ease back on the friendship a bit. She couldn't see what I saw, though, apparently she swore up and down that they were just very close friends and there were no feelings left on either side. Tricia put the teddy beard next to some of the other gifts on our dresser. While my wife and I were in bed together have an a romantic moment. I stopped her when I heard this weird noise. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but it sounded like a small electrical component. I looked around for my phone and shot it was on my nightstand. I chalked it up just being a vibration from something like a text notification. Like Half an hour later, lying in bed with the light off, I once again brought up Kyle, asking if he texted her since the day before. She said he had, which honestly annoyed me. I repeated myself saying I don't want her talking to him, and told her I don't want her talking to him anymore. She got a little mad at me for accusing her of being interested in him at all. I assured her he was still interested in her, because why would he stick around and his ex's life like this. She got back at me with her assurance that she doesn't knew him romantically at all, and that she's no longer attracted to him, and that she broke up with him for that reason. She followed this up with she would ease back on contact with him. I apologized for coming at her like that, and we decided to go to sleep. The next day, when I got off from work, Tricia told me that Kyle randomly blocked her on Instagram, and when she texted him asking what's wrong, he replied, what do you care? I know you too are talking bad about me. When she tried texting back asking what he was talking about, she said that he had already blocked her. I wondered if maybe she butt dialed him on her phone while we had that conversation the previous night, but when she checked her call history, his name wasn't in there. I wasn't angry though, because him blocking her met I was right. He did seleft pooings for her, and now he'd be gone out of our lives. That night, while in bed, we talked about us some more. Then I heard the little electronic vibrating again, and I looked at the teddy Bear on the dresser. When I got up, I walked over to the teddy Bear and picked it up. My heart dropped. I ran into the kitchen, grabbed a knife fromim there, and started to tear the bear open. The inside of the bear's head was a square electrical component wired so that it was very obviously a camera behind the left eye in a microphone box wired to the left ear. This was connected to some kind of bluetooth of vice or something would probably all a phone and to send and receive data from it. We went to the police that night with the Teddy Bear and filed a police report. We then hired a lawyer and pressed charges against Kyle for invasion of privacy, and the judge ruled in our favor, and the judge required Kyle to pay US fifteen thousand dollars each. Tricia also got a restraining order against him, and that was the end of him in our lives, though we still do sometimes worried that he may pay us an unexpected visit if he was crazy enough to wire a teddy bear to spy on us and possibly watch us in the bed together. Who knows how far someone like that is capable of taking things, because that's actually a shockingly easy thing to do to so on. So I yeah, that's messed up. Look at the teddy bear. It's so cute. You know, you gotta be crazy to do that shit though, Oh you know, definitely, I'm sure you could buy something like that now. Oh yeah. Back in the day you would add to like make you know, like rig that up. But now that you could buy anything, yeah, you could get like modules all right, read rock, probably for like thirty bucks. People were guessing the story as we went a long that story. They're saying, check the teddy Bear. I bet the teddy bear. Kyle used stupid, But there are a lot of things being said. It's obviously the teddy beard Ie people were all over this from the beginning. When you get that gift, were you as well? I kind of suspected when I heard, like the mecan you said, there's an electronical noise in the room, and I was just taking there's a bug, for sure, here's a bug. They're bugged. Usually you have to get the teddy bear out of the sty card out of the teddy bear. Though, someone's saying, how did he receive the footage unless it was live streaming? Ooh. You can rig up long range Bluetooth emitterrors and stuff like that and transmit data. Or you can also hook it up to a Wi Fi, which would be even better because then you could beam it across the world. They're really cheap. I could rig what up for like forty bucks and put it at anything, but I wanted to. I've worked with a lot of like electronics stuff like that here recently, and that that maybe something you shouldn't be claiming. No, no, but I use it for like making yeah, connected light display to each his own. He brially planned this out though, Oh yeah, like I'm gonna get my sweat in the door. I'm gonna be good. I'm gonna get to this wedding, you know. If that all goes well, which I'm gonna make sure it does, I'm going to then stop by their house the next night, play it cool, get a tour, drake a beer, give them one hundred dollars smooth things over? Why would you Why would you suspect anything for me? I gave you a nice cart, I gave you a hundred dollars, I gave you a cute teddy bear, A very premeditated and very freaking weird saying to do debian it was really weird. He might as well just came out and said, it's me hosting of a bitch. What it's me hostin? It was me Austin, right, I mean, yeah. But here's the thing, though, when you make the decision to do something like that, if they find this camera, there's no turning back. They know it was you. There's not like I wonder if I wonder if Kyle did that, Like, yeah, you did it. If you get caught, you're gonna be considered the creepiest dude ever and possibly have legal action taken upon you, which he did. They got thirty grand total out of it. Could bring one of them teddy bears to my hat. Yeah, I'm saying I'll take watch sleep. You know, we'll take that thirty green altogether. Dang. Anyways, now that's a cool story though it's simple one, but I thought it was a pretty cool one. Yeah, it's a very realistic one too. You gotta be careful that you invite to your wedding, you know, Yeah, don't invite their X. The key was just so adamant on he was a right all along. Right, you got to keep throwing that little that little dagger in there that I knew I was all right. You know, I'm smart because he's kinda bit like a mood. Yeah, he's a little bit of a jerk about it all along. Here. You know, you want to fork out some money, you ship a teddy Bear to Jeff Townsend Media in Indiana. Here, I'll take it a little creepy though, but I'll take it good story. That was my last one that I You have one more, right, Yes, we do have one more cue up than music for you with that funky music, white boy, and we'll get you going, all right. This one takes place in Wisconsin, and this actually comes to trouvea an officer in the Department of Natural Resources. Okay, So, while working for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources of twenty seventeen, I was assigned to investigate science of a particular deer in the South Kettle Moraine State Forests along the ice Age National Scenic Trick. The descriptions suggested the deer suffered from chronic wasting disease. There were three different reports, each stating that the deer was malnourished, severely injured, and had a terrible odor. My first stop was the deer had been wounded and a gang green had probably set in. The part of the trail where the deer was reported was difficult to access to the vehicle, so I ended up hiking. The sightings were near one of the public shelters. The most recent report was made about twenty four hours previous. I reached the shelter just this thunderstorm again to roll in. I looked around quickly for the deer, but the rain started to fall heavily, and decided to wait it out in the shelter. The shelters of this area of the park are worst, are more like little cabins and used by backpackers. Took off my backpack and set down. I would soon overcome by the stench of rotting flesh came out of nowhere. It was so strong that I was nearly gagging. I looked around the interior of the shelter see if I could find the source. Then I thought I saw something move past the doorway, but when I peeked outside, there was something. The stench then disappeared as quickly as it had manifested. I waited in the shelter for maybe about another thirty minutes. The store kind of let up, but the stints suddenly returned. I didn't know what was going on about it. There was something terribly wrong. Can explain how I knew. I just knew, and then heard something scrape against the side of the shelter. It was a loud I looked out through the window and I saw it looks like to be white antlers. Now that didn't make any sense at all. It was early summer here Wisconsin's and bucks don't start growing their antlers until much later in the season. If they were early, they would still be covered with felt. I feared this must to be the injured deer, and it certainly smelled like it was on a death's door. Try to get a bar. Looked out of the window, but the animal appeared to be moving towards the door of the shelter. Whatever it was, I was about to see it soon enough could it shake the feeling that there was something off about this whole situation. I roved the gun twelve gage loaded with slugs I had packed to dispatch the deer. I pointed at the door and I waited. The doorway was stark because of the store, but I could still see well enough to know the creature that walked into view wasn't an old injured deer. It's about twice the size of a full grown male white tail, and its body was absolutely skeletal. Its fur was long and straight, like the kind of long hair you find out a dog. The parts were missed fur completely. But the worst part was that head was like a skull, no hair, barely any skin, just boning with antlers attached. And then seeing the eyes in the sockets, I could see it had a tongue in its jaw, and his teeth looked like those of a deer, but the lower jaw didn't appear to hanging on by much. I didn't know what the thing was. I was standing there in that dark, rain soaked doy and I fired at it. I hit that creature three times center mass, and it ran away. It's weird because it didn't fall down and the faulter where it ran. I waited another hour for the stone to pass ride before hiking out of there. I have never been so scared of my life. It was a shotgun. Couldn't stop it. There was nothing I could do if I ran into it again. I finally reached my truck. I had no idea what to report to my boss. I eventually decided to report that I never saw the deer. I thought if I reforded the truth, you would raise red flags about my confidence. Not long after that, I found another position within the department as a conserracial ward. That is a deer that I would not want to mess with. So well, again, we have this really tall deer. Something otherworldly about it, something that immediately being in the yeah, yo surrounding that put them at ill at ease. Yeah, the lights in my studio are going crazy. It's scary. It was the paintitive. I don't know why it doesn't come through. I don't see it enough. I think it's just mine. Maybe it's my end. I don't that is you reminds you of that video. I played this computer game when I was a kid. I don't remember. It would have been forever a gift where the deer were hunting the people. It was like silly, right, like they'd try to lure the human there with adult beverages and silly stuff. This is like real life, like the deer is hunting the version whatever this thing is. You know what's weird. It didn't seem to have any mallets towards him, like it was just observing him. And he reacted because of the weird feeling he got. Maybe, but he got the filling and was kind of praying on him a little bit, right, maybe, so he saw the thing that he was like, this shouldn't exist, and he fired at it. Now, this was the first guy to be on foot near it when he saw it, and he reported to stench. I have seen other stories. There are more than they see three stories about this thing, and some others have mentioned the stench also. So a consistent feeling with all these stories of is it's very tall, spinby looking limbs, A smelly smell, real smelly sound, bitch, real smellers, but also this feeling of other worldly kind of dread just being around it. A lot of people are picking up on the smell. Somebody even brought up didn't a deer what deer? And odor? Isn't that from the Steers story that you guys shared. We did talk about an elk and an odor, right, yeah, there was an elkut odor. Now you mentioned they talked about like a giant elk and the smell of rotted meat. Yeah, I bet there's so many stories of this. Like people are just like, well, I saw this guy saw that. Describe that visual of the jaw again. How did he ward that again? He described the jaw as being just barely hanging on. Yeah, a lower jaw. Someone said, Skinwalker thought it sounds like right, you know what. A lot of skinned Walker stories do sound like that too, So yeah, that's definitely a possibility. Uh. Like I said, all these these deer stories though, they kind of have like this, and that first one doesn't necessarily describe it as a deer and had like the sand legs up front, and he described it being very tall next to his thing, and it was kind of like looking around and like a deer kind of does that you know? Oh yeah, so like in my head, that sounds like a deer. I found that story first, and then I kind of found these otherwise. I was like, wait, this has some similarities to that one, and like all these days are really tall twice the size of a deer, which would be about eight feet tall as that one guy first I described, and uh yeah, thin legs. So does it make you want to go hunting or fishing? I actually I always want to go fishing. But uh, I've always had this thing where I would love to go cryptied hunting, you know, not you know hunting looks gun but trying honey with bitcoin? What does that mean? No? Like parentcia ho anywhere you say what you would you say cryptid? Like created looking up? Yeah, looking for like you know, bigfoot or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I don't I don't believe in bigfoot, but I would love to go bigfoot hunting. Do you not believe in Okay, and I'm telling you, I'm trying to think of had a word this. Do you not believe in Bigfoot? Or do you not believe in bigfoot? Does that make any in wording you there? I just don't know what you're going for. So, like, it's not that I don't believe people aren't seeing things. I just don't believe it's Harry into Henderson style bigfoot. That's a pretty good that's actually pretty good visual. I mean it's possible. Right, there's stuff out there, we don't know what it is till there's definitely things out there we don't know. Uh, And like, so these things might be not necessarily animal kingdom related. They might be some sort of something old or something more primal. So like, if it's not necessarily that it's like a a an ape, but it might be something else out there. Let me let me, let me paint a picture for you here. Let's say you're walking your cat one night or dog. It doesn't only matter you're walking your dog down a dark street, you know little woods nearby? And and uh, which version of this story is most scary if it jumped like all three stories that you shared, which version would you least one encounter? And why the second story the one with the like almost he described as almost like spider like legs because they invent in all different directions. And what would you do? What would you and your cat deer dog? Do? You? Well? All right, so I would run because it's not a side arm if it's not on you though, Yeah, I don't have a side arm on me. I don't have a carry permit. He'd run, Eh, Yeah, I would do because like a deer, though I might catch you. Yeah, if it's maybe it's something also with long legs, it will definitely catch you, right, Yeah, but I will at least I get a little bit closer to safety if I can. Someone said they'd be scared of somebody walking their cat. I've seen the cat walking though I've actually seen this though you've never seen somebody walking their cat epsy, you know. I will say, though, I have this theory about the people who live down the road from me. I just scared wives. I think they might be aliens because they act like people in the sense that they are pretending to be normal. Like it's not like a punstantly staring at them. Wherever you got a teddy bear, you could do that. But like you know, I go outside and know, like get the mail or something, and they'll be doing things that seem like normal human activities but slightly wrong, and you're like trying too hard, like this is the fling, Like they're trying too hard to do Yeah, it's almost like they're putting on a show of doing these things. So they've been doing it for like a couple of years now. It's very strange. The waves, the acknowlogy, like never once there's like on the grass without them over on, like I mean, you got a lavory here, like, I don't know. It's weird to watch people sweep their sidewalk, like I don't see if people do that very often they're bore gam proud of that sidewalk, or constantly shooting their basketball at the hoop over and over again but constantly missing but never stopping doing it or moving from that spot. You know, that same spot. Yeah, it's as good. Keep going back to the exactly as well. When they get the ball they shoot again. It may it's over and over. You never seem to actually, so they don't catch it like out of the goal and like make it shorter. They go right back to the spot. It's very strange. We need video evidence of this. Well, anyway, they do a few of those things like that, and uh, anyway, I don't know. They might be aliens. I think they are. If you're listening out there, feel free to join. Try to lie you'ious neighbors and let us know if aliens or not. Now we all have to know. Okay, So I think the deer one is the scariest for me. I'm just gonna say of that of your three stories, DEAs come across my yard all the time, and I picture and this happened to me, So yeah, I'll tell you what though. Let's let's do what we usually do. Let's share a clip. We'll go to the greatest movie ever made, Black Dog, for the greatest scene in any movie ever, and we'll come back and we will each pick. Well, we thought the scariest story of the night that we share tonight was, how's that sound sounds good? You saw the dog, didn't you? What dog? The black dog? You mean like the led Zephyr's song No Cruise? And That's what I'm talking about, don't you. I've heard truckers talk about it on the yard. They say it comes when you've been on the road too long and pushing too hard, when you get greedy, to say, it comes to take everything away from it, and it did. I was hauling a load up from Atlanta on my sixth straight Georgia run. It was my daughter's birthday, and I thought I could make it home in time. I was on this long, dark stretch of I seventy five with nothing to look up at the white line when I saw it it was in the middle of the road, coming straight at me with this teeth beard eye staring. I swore through this and I lost control. Where do you come up with the sheet? It's for real, West, Yeah, and I bet you've seen UFOs and aliens with big eyes just a black dog. I yet, dude, it gets me every time. That guy is such an able. I'll go kick it off. I'm going to be selfish Luke and say I did love the theme of your three stories being consistent ish with each other, but it's hard to beat the crawl Space story. So I gotta give you the crawl Space story, but I'll give you the creativity because you went out and like found some of this low key stuff and I just went for the cheap pop. Actually, I just wanted to really share that story because I thought it was awesome. But the crosl Space story is really hard to beat. Man. Now, yeah, I agree that cross Space one is really messed up. I'm going to to be slightly different. I am going to pick that uh first one though, with the person in the closet of the little kid and that that was really scary. But that's just to be a little different. The thing about those too. Your stories are always cool to hear and kind of go down a rabbit hole, like you said about, because there's just so many things like that out there, of people just experiencing these unknown things. These stories that I've shared, the reason they're so terrifying is because, at the end of the day, more terrifying than any creature, any monster, are actually some people. Yeah, humans could be the most terrifying thing ever you think about it, And to me, that's why those kind of stories always get to me more. Even though I love discussing and sharing stories like yours, at the end of the day, I think the humans got to be the scariest thing always. I agree, because of what then they're like, you know, eight billion of us, So like the odds of there are you? I think this actually they said, the odds you're walked by like four or five murderers in your life, you're definitely gonna come in contact with people who are just playing bad and like a lot of people go their whole lives and that they were seeing these unknown creatures. Sure like that, but it's a much more dangerous world where you consider the fact that a lot of people just are wrong and are bad well said, Luke makes some good girls go bad and I have enjoyed another episode of her and my friend. These are some awesome stories. We do this every Monday night at ten thirty pm Eastern Ish Ish in Peroty ten forty five. That gets real into walking that cat dog. It might be eleven o'clock forgets on some bitch, But who's judging. I'm not judging. I'm just thankful we get to share these stories with you. We get to share your stories with you. So yeah, sub meet your stories at your Scary stories dot com. Always tag along with us. Yeah, Jeff is ever on time. That person's right and goes into a live stream though you know, you know, life's hard, guys. Yeah, we'd love to hear your stories. If you join us every week, please, We'll get the these clips out individually on YouTube. So go to my YouTube at Jeff Townsend Media. It's a podcast. Fathers the handle work on getting the clips set up like a YouTube setup for that. But anyways, Jeff Towns and Media is housing everything, all the content I create and everything. Let's do this. Let's let's do something a little different here. For those of you that have joined late and missed the cross Space story. Why we'll go ahead and play for you the second half of it that sound good to you. Luke will hit the Charlitary story, then we'll go straight into that true yep, so good video. Okay, all right, yep, until next time, keep being you and keep being great. Jeff Townsend Media sees you. Good night. And the question is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are you going to come back? Will you be back? 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