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Just Creepy: Scary Stories

Terrifying Park Ranger Horror Stories That Shouldn’t Have Happened

Just Creepy: Scary Stories

Just Creepy

True Crime

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

2 Terrifying Park Ranger Horror Stories That Shouldn’t Have Happened

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:00:18 Story 1

00:46:01 Story 2


Music by:

►'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au


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0:00.0

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0:12.7

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0:16.0

Hi, I was just checking my pay slip and it's all in Japanese yen.

0:19.7

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0:20.7

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0:37.8

Visit Indeed.com slash next hire and sponsor your job today. I worked as a backcountry ranger in a mountain district in the American West for a little over 14 years.

0:58.0

I'm not going to name the park. I'm not going to name the range.

1:02.0

If you know the region, you might be able to figure out which outpost I'm describing,

1:07.0

but I would prefer you didn't.

1:09.0

Because what happened there in October of 2022 is the kind of thing

1:13.4

that sticks to a place and the shelter is still in use and I don't want hikers thinking about it

1:19.1

when they're trying to sleep at 9,400 feet with nothing but a wood stove between them and the

1:24.1

weather. I'll tell it anyway. I've been carrying it for almost four years

1:28.8

now, and my wife tells me I talk in my sleep about a man who has been dead since before I

1:33.7

finished high school. The storm that came in on the afternoon of October 11th, 2022, was forecast

1:40.8

to hit our range sometime around 6 in the morning on October 12th.

1:45.0

That was the window we were working with when I signed off on the last three backcountry permits of the season.

1:51.0

The forecast had been solid for three days.

1:54.0

The system was moving east out of the Pacific at a known pace.

1:58.0

We had time, by our reckoning, for one final permit group to go up to Elk Pass Outpost,

2:04.6

spend a single night there, and come back down before the weather arrived.

2:09.1

Elk Pass Outpost is a single-room timber-frame shelter at 9,412 feet, built in 1949 by the Civilian

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