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In 1996, 28-year veteran forest ranger Randy Morgensen left on a routine patrol. Five

years later, only parts of him were found along a river.

Author Eric Blym, who wrote a book of his disappearance, stated,

I don't think it was an accident. After so many years with the bones nod, there's no

way to say exactly what happened. Your watching darkness prevails the best place to share your

creepy stories with the world, because this world is a strange one.

The outdoors are fierce and untamed, despite what you may have been told or believed. Every

year 750,000 missing person cases are reported. Sometimes those people are never seen again,

so what's going on? What are the horrific things forest strangers have seen? The people

who dedicate their lives to the outdoors. If you want your story in a video like this

one, I'm looking for creepy zoo stories. If you've got one, send it to me at darknessprevails.org

slash submit. Now then, step into the woods with me and let's disappear without a trace.

Number 1. The Thing in the Adirondacks, Submitted by Cal Age.

For the sake of the story, you can call me Cal. I worked as a police officer for the

Atlantic City PD of New Jersey for 18 years. When I retired, I pulled some strings for

my many years of service on the force and from cooperating with New York police officials

to get a job with the Adirondack park rangers. I'd always loved the great outdoors, something

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