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You decide to go for a little walk, a hike through the woods. But an hour into your

woodsy adventure, you're not walking anymore. You're running,

because your life depends on it. Welcome back to unexplained encounters. I'm your host,

Darkness Prevails, and you should follow me on X at Dark Prevails, where I've been blindingly

angry about the new Devil May Cry Netflix show.

Today's episode is filled with scary hiking stories, featuring hungry creatures, ghostly encounters

in Belgium, and peculiar things that are on the ground or low to it. Enjoy. If you want me to

read your story on the show, send it to me at

darkstories.org. Pre-order my new and upcoming book, Creepy Campfire Stories, on Amazon, or use

the link in the description. It's a beautiful hardcover collection of scary stories that are

perfect to tell around the campfire. Your friends will be deathly impressed.

If you're listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, be sure to follow and review the show to help us

reach more people that need a good scare. Now, let's begin. Big enough to eat vultures.

From Before You Know It.

I was in seventh grade when our science teacher, Mr. Johnston, yes, there's a tea in that name,

announced we'd be taking a field trip to the mountains to study birds.

We've been going through a unit on ecology, and he thought it would be a good idea to have

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