Dead Silence in the Woods: A Terrifying Encounter

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this true scary story, we hear about what started as childhood summers in the remote Allegheny Mountains to solitary camping trips as a young adult. It was there where one man believed he understood the woods of West Virginia. He had the directions and knew the trails. But during one late-night hike back to his car, the forest changed. The insects stopped making noise, and suddenly he heard a large creature chasing after him.
Was it a predator? A legend? Or something far older that still lingers in those mountains?
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0:00.0	He had camped in those West Virginia mountains for years, under the stars completely at peace until one August night when the forest went silent.
0:10.0	My name is Edwin, and here is Nick's true scary story.
0:30.6	The paranormal, the supernatural, has always seemed to find me in one way or another.
0:41.3	This story specifically takes place out in West Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains roughly 12, 13 or so years ago.
0:52.3	My mom was married to my stepdad at a very early age in my life and I had a big brother as well.
0:56.9	My stepdad had a best friend named Barry. His family had owned several acres of land way out in the mountains,
1:02.8	40, 50 plus miles from any town, any street lights or anything.
1:09.0	I grew up in and around the woods, being around six to maybe 10 years old.
1:15.8	In the summertime, we would go out there for a week or two weeks at a time, hiking the trails,
1:22.7	playing by the river, skipping rocks.
1:25.1	We would drive into town occasionally for my mom and stepdad
1:29.1	to go shopping for us to grab food and supplies because when we were in the cabin, it was
1:34.8	pretty isolated. We would never see anybody around except for maybe Barry once in a great
1:40.9	while. He would stop in. Other than that, it was just the four of us. Just isolated in the middle of the woods.
1:47.9	At night, you would see all the stars, no streetlights, no light pollution, nothing. It was quite
1:53.2	magical, and I always really enjoyed being out there. Never ever had any weirdness, feeling any kind of weirdness, never felt scared, never felt anything other than just, you know, pure joy.
2:11.6	My teen years, my mom and dad had gotten divorced due to many reasons.
2:16.6	We were cleaning out his house of my stuff, my brother's
2:21.6	things, my mom's things. I had taken a couple of boxes from my bedroom and the attic to my dad's
2:29.1	house where I would primarily stay until I moved out as a 20-year-old. A couple of years after that, I was probably
2:37.1	about 16 at this point. I was on my dad's house one day in the basement. My high school was having
2:44.8	some kind of child fundraiser, something where we were donating kids' clothes, kids' toys, food, money, and stuff like that.
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