A hike through the woods is a great way to clear your head after a stressful work week.

Just don't be too surprised when you're joined by an 8-foot dogman who also had a rough week.

Hunting higurs is monotonous business, you know.

Welcome back to Unexplained Encounters, the podcast where you're terrifying encounters with

the unexplained are narrated. I'm your host, Darkness Prevails, and you can follow me on Twitter

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Today I've got a new set of allegedly true and terrifying stories about disturbing things seen

while hiking. Enjoy and be sure to tell me your unexplained encounters at darkstories.org,

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My first time out of state from anonymous princess 669.

I was 22 years old when this happened. I had never been out of my home state before,

but the Rona was raging at the time and my friends never really took the pandemic seriously.

That being said, we decided to take a trip. It was spur of the moment, and I was ecstatic.

For privacy reasons, I won't use our real names, but there were four of us, Mike,

Brittany, Taylor, and myself Raven. Now the group was all into the weird stuff.

Paranormal phenomena, cryptids, demonology, all of it.

I personally have been actively practicing the craft since 13. That being said, take this story

as you wish. But the trauma from it was all too real. Our destination was Point Place, West Virginia,

then we would travel through to Pennsylvania. We visited the Mothman Museum, and everyone was

genuinely having a great time. The next day, a few locals mentioned the abandoned bunkers on

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