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alone in the woods i'm darkness prevails and tonight we open in the appellachians. A 13-year-old sees something wrong

on four legs with long joints, a cat-like tail, and eyes that stare and follow. It crosses the

yard and comes back. Years later, he learns how fast it hunts, and how tall it is when it steps onto the road.

From there, a storm run becomes a trail lined with antlers that keep reappearing where the path

narrows, and a rotten shed behind a subdivision goes quiet until the door eases open and the floor

begins to move.

Have a story of your own. Send it to darkstories.org or eeriecast.com

slash outdoor. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review. It helps more than you know.

Now, throw another log on the fire, because the night is still young.

It was hunting us.

From David Vaughn 25.

I live up in the Appalachian Mountains, and yeah, I know this area gets a bad rap for weird

encounters, but it's still home. My family has been on the same piece of land for generations,

and everybody has at least one story they can't fully explain. This one is mine. I've always been an outdoorsman. I hunt,

I hike, I'm in the woods constantly. I know what's out there. At least I thought I did.

I've crawled all over the hills and hollers on our property since I was little. The only odd

stuff I'd ever found was normal stuff.

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