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6 Chilling Appalachian Trail Encounters Caught on Camera
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00:00Holy...
00:02What is that, a head? Is that a person?
00:06Alright, let's go back.
00:15The Appalachian Trail is stunning.
00:17But for some hikers, it's also a place of true terror.
00:20Mysterious whispers, shadowy figures, and unexplained disappearances.
00:25Are these just campfire stories, or is something far more sinister lurking in the woods?
00:31Here are six of the most disturbing encounters ever reported along the trail.
00:35In the first chilling video from Nowhere Bound, Mike sets out to investigate a haunted tunnel in West Virginia.
00:41A place so infamous, even the state's official website acknowledges its ghostly reputation.
00:46Armed with an EMF detector to measure unseen energy, he's joined by his intuitive dog, Juniper, and Gina.
00:54And Gina, who's known to attract strange experiences.
00:57They hope Gina's shiny stones might catch the attention of a female spirit rumored to haunt the area.
01:02Hey, how's it going? It's Mike with Nowhere Bound. It's good to see you all.
01:06Today, we're doing something a little bit different than usual.
01:09We're actually going to go out to a haunted tunnel and look for a ghost.
01:13Now, this channel isn't a ghost hunting channel.
01:16We are more about just doing adventures and fun things and exploring little hidden places in the middle of nowhere.
01:25So, today, our middle of nowhere is going to be a haunted tunnel in the hills of West Virginia.
01:32Even the state website for this tunnel says that it is haunted.
01:36So, this should be pretty cool, but I'm going to go prepared today and show you a few things I'm bringing to help us find ghosts.
01:44This is my high fidelity audio recorder that I usually have with me anyway for making videos.
01:51This, if you find the right pocket, I got so much stuff.
01:58Alright, here it is.
02:00This is an EMF detector.
02:02It measures electromagnetic energy in the air and is a common tool used by ghost hunters.
02:09I've never tried one before, but I tested it.
02:12It works and it should be pretty fun.
02:15A couple more things I'm bringing with me today.
02:18I'm bringing this.
02:21It's a dog.
02:23And dogs have higher senses than humans do.
02:28She can hear things I can't hear, smell things I can't smell.
02:31And she may be able to tell me if there is indeed a ghost in our presence.
02:37One more thing.
02:40I'm bringing this.
02:45It's Gina.
02:46Nice shirt, Gina.
02:47Thanks.
02:48Not only is she a shirt model, but she is sensitive to paranormal activity.
02:53She has a bit of a history with that.
02:55Driving their rugged Jeep down a rough, overgrown path, the team heads towards Silver Run Tunnel Number.
03:0119.
03:02Part of the North Bend Rail Trail.
03:04Constructed in the 1860s, the tunnel is tied to a tragic legend.
03:09A young woman was reportedly killed nearby in the early 1900s.
03:13Over the years, train operators claimed to see her ghostly figure and hear sorrowful cries echoing through the tunnel.
03:19Gina even once captured what might have been one of those cries on her phone, and they planned to play it during the investigation.
03:29The haunted tunnel that we're headed to is called the Silver Run Tunnel Number 19.
03:35It's actually on the North Bend Trail, which is a rail trail that runs from Parkersburg to Clarksburg.
03:45It's about 72 miles long.
03:47This tunnel 19 is part of a network of, I think there's 10 tunnels that still exist on the trail.
03:54And they were built just after the Civil War in the late 1860s, early 1870s.
04:01Now, full disclosure, Gina and I have been at this tunnel before.
04:05We were here a week ago just to do some reconnaissance.
04:09Hopefully we will detect a ghost today, but we definitely detected one a week ago when we were there.
04:16Gina caught some audio on her phone.
04:19There is definitely a voice that can be heard in between our footsteps walking through the tunnel.
04:26And I'll play that audio at the end of this video.
04:29Inside the dark tunnel, Mike scans with his EMF detector, but it registers nothing.
04:35He tries to communicate with any spirits, asking if anyone is present or if they once rode the train.
04:41Their dog Juniper remains calm, but the atmosphere feels off.
04:45Strange noises echo around them.
04:47And Mike's neck hairs stand on end, making him sense something unseen despite the lack of readings from his device.
04:53Okay, we have our gear on and we're now inside the tunnel.
05:00We have our gear on and we're now inside the tunnel.
05:02Juniper is fine.
05:03She probably smells horses.
05:05Do you have any drips on your head yet?
05:20Yep.
05:21I'm sure that's worse after a rain.
05:26Yeah.
05:27So this is saying zero.
05:29Okay.
05:30My recorder's been going.
05:37Wow.
05:38The further we go, the darker it's getting and it's very creepy in here.
05:48Juniper's fine.
05:49Yep.
05:50Okay.
05:51Juniper.
05:52She can't see.
05:53Sorry.
05:54Sorry.
05:55I just kicked her.
05:56Where are you puppy?
05:58Juniper.
05:59Let me get my phone flashlight.
06:01Juniper.
06:02This isn't good.
06:03Sorry.
06:07I just kicked her. Where are you puppy?
06:11Juniper.
06:13Let me get my phone flashlight.
06:17Juniper!
06:19This isn't good.
06:21Oh, she's right here.
06:25I thought maybe she high-town to the other end like...
06:29I don't know.
06:31She's fine.
06:35There's a lack of graffiti in here, which is a nice thing to see, actually.
06:40A lot of tunnels are just covered in graffiti, and this has none.
06:45So please keep up that trend, people.
06:47If you're coming out here, do not defile it.
06:52Just keep it the way it is.
06:55This is history.
06:59Nothing on the EMF.
07:01Turned off.
07:03Didn't know that.
07:05That's from your phone.
07:08It has to be right on the front of it.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Probably putting it up to one of these doorways.
07:20Yeah, they're putting it kind of up to the wall, and there's nothing.
07:26There's nothing.
07:28It's really cool now.
07:29What's back there, you know?
07:32There could have been doorways at one time, and it was like an emergency exit.
07:36Their ghost hunt is cut short when other visitors arrive.
07:40Mike plans to review the footage later, hoping to uncover any unexplained activity.
07:45The video closes with an unanswered question, hinting that their strange encounters might continue,
07:50even beyond the main haunted site.
07:55Did you hear something?
07:56I heard something.
07:57I did too.
07:59The hair on the back of my neck is standing up.
08:09You can come closer.
08:10I won't hurt you.
08:19There are people coming.
08:20Alright, let's go back.
08:31Our trip through the tunnel got cut a little bit short because some people showed up.
08:36We almost made it to the other end.
08:38Not quite.
08:41We don't know yet if we actually detected anything.
08:46We have to listen to all of the footage when we get back and analyze it and see if we found anything at all.
08:55In Mo Sargi's next eerie upload, he and his friend ventured deep into the Appalachian wilderness,
09:01guided by drone footage that revealed a strange shack near the water.
09:06Determined to investigate, they risked their safety by descending a dangerously steep mountainside,
09:11navigating past sharp wire and active train tracks.
09:15Fully aware that night will fall before they reach the river, they remain alert,
09:19wary of nocturnal predators in the rumored presence of wild people in the area.
09:24I was just in there and I had the weirdest experience in there.
09:29What?
09:30Something literally moved, something massive.
09:32So, remember when I told you I saw a house on my drone?
09:34Yeah.
09:35This is not it.
09:36No?
09:37No, there's a little shack in the middle of the forest, near the water.
09:39So, I don't know how we're going to get down there.
09:41Really?
09:42Because it's a mountain drop and there's a fence, so we've got to find a way.
09:45Alright, so we're going to try going out this way to see if there's any way down to the river
09:50to find this mysterious house or a shack.
09:53Oh, there's a way out of the fence here.
09:54Yeah, I found it on my drone.
09:55Okay.
09:56So, we could probably go from here because there's a way out of the fence.
09:58Oh, sweet.
09:59Okay.
10:00Oh, my God.
10:01So, not only are we off trail, but we're off trail.
10:04Yeah.
10:05Yeah.
10:06We're definitely doing what you're not supposed to do.
10:09And the Appalachians is go off trail.
10:12Bro, you weren't supposed to do this a long time ago.
10:14We're way past that point.
10:16Yeah.
10:17Everything that you're not supposed to do out here, we're doing.
10:19I mean, we can't.
10:20Oh, there's the trip.
10:21Hold on a second.
10:22That's the river, train tracks.
10:24We're kind of close to the shack.
10:26This is active train tracks, by the way.
10:28Yeah.
10:29Those actually work, but.
10:31Oh, they're active?
10:32Yeah.
10:33Oh, crap.
10:34Dude, we're literally climbing down a mountain right now.
10:36An entire mountain.
10:37So, we decided we're going to risk our life to give you guys some more content.
10:40Yeah.
10:41We're going to climb down this mountain.
10:42By the time we make it down the mountain and down to the river, which we don't know
10:46if that's even a guarantee, it's going to be dark.
10:48It's going to be hella dark.
10:49Yeah.
10:50I have my flashlights.
10:51We charge them, but it's going to be quite a while.
10:54Like, I don't mind the darkness, but when it gets dark, the animals come out.
10:57Yeah.
10:58And also the Pharaoh, the Pharaoh people.
11:00Which I already found their house on my drone.
11:03It's somewhere down there.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Can you imagine if we get down there and it's not there?
11:06Imagine.
11:07That'd be crazy.
11:08And then making our way back up, it's going to be all nighttime stuff.
11:10So, this adventure, it could get really dangerous, but you know what?
11:14We're living a little.
11:15Let's do it.
11:16Smash like button.
11:17Let's live a little.
11:18The treacherous descent continues over unstable ground and near vertical slopes, highlighting
11:23the extreme effort Moe puts into capturing his footage.
11:27When they finally reach the river, the scene is both breathtaking and unnerving.
11:32Surrounded by natural beauty, they can't shake the tension, knowing they're in territory
11:36that could hold bears, wolves, or even Bigfoot.
11:39Yeah, until you tumble down a mountain.
11:42And you know the worst part?
11:44You can tumble down a mountain and this is all barbed wire that you're touching.
11:46Oh.
11:47Yeah.
11:48And imagine tumbling down and getting stuck in the barbed wire.
11:51Now, coming up is going to be hell, too.
11:52Son.
11:53Whoa.
11:54Almost lost my foot.
11:55Whoa.
11:56Whoa.
11:57Whoa.
11:58Whoa.
11:59Whoa.
12:00Whoa.
12:01Whoa.
12:02Whoa.
12:03Whoa.
12:04Whoa.
12:05Whoa.
12:06Whoa.
12:07Whoa.
12:08Oh, my God.
12:09I'm losing my balance.
12:10Whoa.
12:11We're almost there.
12:12Man, we better get views for this shit.
12:16Seriously.
12:17Y'all better watch this.
12:18Yeah.
12:19Literally.
12:20You guys better watch this shit.
12:22I'm traveling all the way from Canada to freaking do this.
12:26I'm Bear Grylls and this is how you survive in the western forest.
12:32You hold on to trees.
12:35Whoa.
12:36I'm making it look too easy for you guys.
12:38Whoa.
12:39Whoa.
12:40Whoa.
12:41Let me show you the angle that this is.
12:45This is like an 80 degree angle.
12:47Yeah.
12:48This is ridiculous.
12:49How much go this way or this way?
12:50Come down the way I came down.
12:51You can at least hold on to trees and not barbed wire.
12:54Whoa.
12:55Whoa.
12:56Whoa.
12:57Coming up here.
12:58Holy shit.
12:59This is a 90 degree angle at this point.
13:02Hey, be careful.
13:03Be careful.
13:04Careful.
13:05Careful.
13:06Careful.
13:07Oh my God.
13:08He almost died.
13:09Please be careful.
13:10Hold on.
13:11I already slid halfway down here.
13:12Whoa.
13:13Whoa.
13:14Whoa.
13:15Whoa.
13:16Whoa.
13:17Whoa.
13:18Whoa.
13:19Whoa.
13:20Whoa.
13:21That's ridiculous.
13:22That's ridiculous.
13:23You thought you I am half monkey?
13:24Dude, this...
13:25Au, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:26beam.
13:27Oh, be careful.
13:28Yeah, it gets slippery here.
13:29So, watch out.
13:30Gravity is working against you right now.
13:31It's like, come on down, sonny.
13:33i already slid halfway down here whoa this is crazy whoa dude i feel like i'm in like a wild
13:46wild west movie right now what the hell so as you guys can see there is absolutely nothing
13:54down this way and there is nothing down this way all there is is train tracks
14:01and more mountain to scale down okay as you guys can see we are almost down by the river
14:11and i'm kind of nervous because there might be a bear here trying to drink some water or some wolves
14:16or bigfoot himself let's see if we can see anything or anyone
14:24we're gonna regret this tomorrow tomorrow's gonna be a painful day that's for sure
14:29suddenly something terrifying happens one of them vanishes without warning when they find him he
14:36appears unconscious with a bump on his head claiming someone or something hit him the group suspects it
14:41might have been wild people or something unknown i'll do oh hey oh fuck fuck oh my god oh my god
14:52yo yo yo hey hey oh shit spiderwebs
15:07yo yo hey hey are you okay yo hey hey hey
15:12what is that thing he fucking fell yo aldo wake up hi hello
15:23k
15:32Whoa, what happened?
15:35What happened?
15:37What happened?
15:38Get up.
15:39Did you hit your head?
15:41Okay?
15:44Take it easy, okay?
15:45Let's take your time.
15:46Take your time.
15:48Did you fall?
15:53Did you fall?
15:54Do you remember what happened?
16:00Yo, do you remember what happened?
16:07Hey.
16:13Bro, do you remember what happened?
16:20Bro, seriously, are you playing a joke on me or what?
16:22Like, are you okay?
16:24Why do you keep looking up that way?
16:27What happened?
16:29Bro.
16:30What happened?
16:31I was...
16:32Did you slip and fall?
16:33No, no.
16:34So what happened?
16:35Something was following us.
16:36Something was following us?
16:37Yeah.
16:38I heard something.
16:39Because I was on the rocks, looking at the water.
16:40I looked back and you're not here.
16:42And I'm like, what the hell?
16:43Did this guy disappear on me?
16:44I heard something.
16:45I heard something.
16:47And then everything went black.
16:49And then everything went black.
16:50So somebody hit you?
16:51I saw someone.
16:52Yes.
16:53I think someone hit me.
16:54Someone's here.
16:55Wait, wait, wait.
16:56Take it easy.
16:57Take it easy.
16:58Take it easy.
16:59Does your head hurt?
17:00Does your legs hurt?
17:01My head hurts.
17:02Your head hurts?
17:03Right here.
17:04Go through it.
17:05There's a bump.
17:06You feel it?
17:07Holy shit.
17:08That's a big bump.
17:09Where can this person have gone?
17:10Am I bleeding?
17:11In your blood?
17:12No, you're not bleeding.
17:13You're good.
17:14Actually, somebody hit me.
17:15Someone hit me.
17:16Someone hit me.
17:17Yes.
17:18I think someone hit me.
17:19Yes, I think someone hit me.
17:20Someone hit me.
17:21Yes, I think someone hit you.
17:22Someone hit me.
17:23Wait, wait, just take it easy.
17:24Take it easy.
17:25Take it easy.
17:26Does your head hurt?
17:27Does your legs hurt?
17:28My head hurts.
17:29Your head hurts?
17:30Right here.
17:31Come through it.
17:32It's like a bump.
17:33You feel it?
17:34Holy shit.
17:35That's a big bump.
17:36Someone hit me.
17:38As they make their way back up the trail, unsettling clicking sounds echo around them.
17:43Then, in the window of a nearby structure, they catch a glimpse of a face.
17:48Or perhaps an orange figure.
17:50Staring out.
17:51One thing is certain.
17:52They're being watched and followed.
17:55Man, worth it though.
17:58Worth it.
17:59Get out of here.
18:00Look at it.
18:02Don't touch it.
18:03What the f***?
18:04What the f***?
18:05What the f***?
18:06What the f***?
18:07What is that?
18:08What the f***?
18:09Run, run, run, run.
18:10Run, run, run.
18:11Run, run.
18:12Run.
18:13Go.
18:14What is that?
18:15Come on!
18:16Let's go.
18:17Run, run, run.
18:18Run.
18:19Go.
18:20What is that?
18:21come on let's go that's someone there there's someone there there was someone there i think
18:33they're trying to keep us out of their territory there was clicking there was actual clicking
18:36hey we're not afraid of you well maybe a little bit but
18:41geez geez there was definitely 100 someone there
18:46what if it's following us dude wait what's that in the window what's that in the window
18:53oh my god oh my god there's there's a face dude look at my screen look at my lens you can't zoom
19:02in that far there's a guy standing right there look at his face oh what the fuck is that go go go go go
19:09down go down oh my god what the hell is that oh what the hell is that dude i can't run no more
19:19i can't run no more what is that a head is that a person someone watching us dude there's something
19:24orange over there look at that it looks like a face what's here what the hell is that i can see it on
19:29your camera yeah what okay this is crazy man they are watching us we're being watched right now why
19:37there's something orange looks like a face and in the window we saw something in the window yeah
19:42that looked like a fucking face we're probably being watched i don't feel like maybe our brains
19:46are playing tricks on us exhausted and disoriented they come to the unsettling realization that they're
19:52lost having panicked and wandered off the main trail while searching for shelter they stumble upon
19:57an old blast bunker a relic from the area's mining days and decide to wait out the night there
20:03believe what we just stumbled upon in the mountain we uh just found a structure
20:07in the mountain it's not the mine shafts and the other stuff that we found earlier
20:12something completely different
20:15oh
20:17yo shelter yes yes yes yes yes shelter oh bro what the fuck is this
20:30oh my god yes we're so exhausted guys
20:34oh my god
20:36bro this must have must have been something that was part of the the mine shaft you know
20:44yeah bro let's just let's just chill here tonight i don't want to go any further
20:48i bet you this is probably what it's designed for
20:49like if you're like been walking for a long time yeah it's just like a little shelter hiding spot
20:55yeah i don't know about that but i mean it's shelter for tonight that yeah i don't know like god is on
21:01our side i mean god's always on our side but today god is on our side extra we got lucky
21:05well we're still not out we still don't know where we are we're still lost we're gonna i think wait
21:11out the night here yeah we can do with that well tomorrow and we have a baseball bat right here so
21:16if anyone tries to come at us we got the bat and uh maybe we didn't even take turns like
21:21staying up kind of thing yeah i think i want to take a like a nap yeah despite the fear and lack
21:27of sleep they take turns staying awake haunted by the eerie events around them when the sun finally
21:33rises they manage to find their way back vowing never to return after making it through the harrowing
21:39night all right just stay here i'm not sleeping yeah let's just we have a couple hours to go we'll
21:44just stay awake yeah and then uh we'll head out of here so that's what we're gonna do we're just
21:48gonna sit here hold down the floor and just keep our ears and eyes open i'll check back with you
21:53guys once i get a chance yeah if anything else happens actually i should say yeah fuck it
21:58the sun is starting to come up guys i don't really get much sleep last night especially because of
22:11what happened but uh um we're gonna keep you guys updated as the sun gets up and gets brighter
22:17and i cannot wait to get out of here once it gets a little bit brighter we're gonna start our trek out
22:22of here and find our way out the sun is coming up we are we got lost last night coming back out of
22:29here yeah we spent the night in some little thing random shack a little random shack we're we're trying
22:36we're trying to get out of here right now yeah um it was it was a tiring night man that was creepy
22:41man we actually uh as you guys saw we took turns staying awake but i guess the sun is finally coming
22:49out so soon everything's gonna be let up but we can actually start to see now so yeah we can probably
22:55start finding our way out of here but we're not at the woods yet we still have a quite a bit of a
22:58hike out of here like a lot of a hike how's your battery doing mine's almost dead man i'm using my
23:03gopro night because my other camera died my night vision camera it died i don't have any more
23:06batteries for it i only have half a battery left for this so yeah it's morning now we're gonna find
23:11our way out of here and get the out i'm never coming back here again that was a terrifying night
23:14in this chilling video from the hogat project the host ventures deep into the mountains in search of
23:19the perfect camping spot after scouting the area the very first location he finds turns out to be ideal
23:25a flat patch of land beside a small stream just right for pitching his tent and hanging a tarp
23:30despite the presence of oddly shaped trees he sets up his shelter just as night begins to fall
23:35preparing to settle in back out here in the mountains and i'm thinking i'm going up to the
23:41top there having a look that doesn't work back in here looks like it's flattening out
23:46made it to the top it's a nice creek that comes through here and you can have a look see all the way
23:54down the pipeline so this is a nice little level spot here to pitch a tent and there's some trees
24:11to hang a tarp and we're just going to kind of explore the area see what else is around here
24:24it would appear that the very first spot we found ironically turns out to be the best one
24:51you can see it's how soft the ground is just how other animals come through here
24:58so it just came through scooped on on out and kept on trucking
25:04with the tarp secured he readies his campsite gathering double the amount of firewood he thinks
25:23he'll need and using a thick jacket under his chair legs to keep them from sinking into the soft earth
25:28the open setup allows a bit of light to spill into the woods but unsettling echoing sounds from
25:33deeper within the forest soon break the quiet whether it's falling branches or something else
25:38the eerie noise leaves him incredibly on edge
25:41i gathered twice as much firewood as i thought i'd need that's usually what you do so that's what i got
25:59went back to the vehicle i have this car heart here this thing's tough you know so i think what i'm
26:07going to do is just lay it down on the ground right there to keep these legs from sinking into the ground
26:24yeah it's looking good
26:34i kind of like how it's open out that way too lets a little bit of light into these woods
26:41that way i cannot see a thing and i don't think i was recording earlier but something made a heavy
26:48sound over there could have just been some old rotted logs settling but up that way a couple miles there
26:57is a camp but i don't think anybody's hiking this way back down anywho i've heard that the red lamp keeps
27:06the bugs away i don't know if that was me or something over there
27:29as night fully settles in the eerie sounds grow louder starts with a noise near his chair
27:35followed by heavy crunching coming from the stream just 50 feet away he scans the forest
27:40with his flashlight but sees nothing and the noises suddenly stop it's the second time this has
27:46happened earlier he'd heard similar sounds coming from uphill despite scouting the area in daylight
27:52the unsettling noises in the stream known to attract wildlife make him question whether he should
27:57remain there and i thought if my keys have like hit the chair a certain way and as i'm thinking about
28:04it i'm about to go about my business then i hear behind me where the creek is about only 50 feet
28:12i hear a couple more loud crunches and that's when i stand up and i just shine the forest
28:18of course the noises stopped and i'm guessing whatever whoever it was it found a good spot to lay low
28:27i didn't see any eyes glowing back didn't see any movement other than i did see a bat but definitely
28:34that is not what made the loud noises and all this i probably shined the light on the forest for a good
28:40three to four solid minutes nothing and i said okay and i'm thinking i'll go back to just doing what
28:48i'm doing but this is the second occurrence probably about a half an hour before that i heard it up the
28:54hill this time it's down parallel with me i scouted the wood to put in his daytime just so i can get a
29:01good idea what's around me it's not really easy terrain to maneuver and anywho i sat there for a minute
29:08and i was just thinking okay do i go ahead with the fire and i was like you know i'm not scared
29:15right now but i'm also thinking maybe i'm too close to the stream that's going to attract animals coming
29:20to get a drink ultimately he decides to pack up and leave the campsite under cover of darkness
29:27as he reaches the road a final glance toward the stream stops him cold what first appears to be
29:33a small animal morphs under his flashlight into something far more disturbing a motionless figure
29:40around six feet tall dressed in camouflage and standing completely still like a statue
29:46without looking back he hurries away realizing the spot he thought was secluded might not be so hidden
29:52after all well that said i decided to pack up camp i was like yeah well i don't know if i'll have fun
29:57now than the other one out here and it was really dark back in these woods um getting all packed up and
30:03once i get out to the road i just take a quick look up towards where the creek is and this is where it
30:10gets terrifying i thought i had pressed record but it was not recording but anyhow i've got my low beam
30:20on at this point i think i see something small maybe it's like a raccoon or something right there
30:25by the water and as i hit the high beam this is when i see it i see something standing there on the
30:33side of the road pretending to be a statue whatever this was decided it was just going to freeze and then
30:41maybe i wouldn't think it was anything but as i'm looking in that direction i'm not even kidding it
30:47looks like somebody dressed up in camo and they've got their back slightly angled away i'd say like
30:56at a 45 degree they're standing there about six feet tall looking like a human that i just caught that
31:03was probably sneaking up on me that's all i can think when i saw what it was a human i kept the light
31:12on them for a good 20 solid seconds without saying anything you know the fear just kind of washed
31:18over me because i'm thinking what i'm what's what's going to happen call them out like hey what are you
31:24doing and they're all camoed out maybe they'll just say oh crap he caught me now i'm going to shoot
31:30i mean we're out in the middle of the woods they say that um people are the ones to fear
31:35it's not the animals that is what happened and eventually after the 20 seconds he didn't move he
31:43just kept standing there so i just pretended like oh maybe i didn't see you then on my way out
31:52periodically i turned back check nope didn't see him didn't see him he's gone and that's that very very
32:02strange and i don't know what the what the plan was for me if i'd stayed there
32:10yeah it just seems kind of silly i thought i found a good spot but yeah this place is kind of riddled
32:16with people and i don't know what the future holds now in dawson toller's latest unsettling video he
32:26begins his exploration in elkmont a ghost town tucked deep in the appalachian mountains
32:32visibly uneasy from the start he explains that after the government forced residents to leave
32:38most of the town's buildings were demolished by 2017 though a few were preserved dawson plans to
32:44explore the remaining houses during the day then return after dark to investigate for paranormal
32:49activity hoping to catch anything unusual on camera tonight i'll be investigating elkmont the
32:55terrifyingly abandoned appalachian ghost town all alone to try to see if any of the paranormal
33:02tales are indeed true elkmont is now a town dedicated to preservation within the smoky mountains in the
33:10year 1990 there were still around 70 buildings left but due to the government forcing everybody out or
33:18only allowing them to stay until they die by 2017 most of the town was in ruins and was decided for
33:27liability purposes to demolish all but of the most savageable of homes left
33:36okay guys we are in elkmont the appalachian ghost town and this place just has a bunch of houses i
33:45believe there's 17 or 19 houses that they preserved it used to be much bigger but this is an entire ghost town
33:55that they kicked the residents out they gave them options they said you can either sell it to us at a
34:02discount and once you die it's ours or we can pay for it at the full price and you leave right now
34:11they're those were the only options so we're going to be walking around exploring some of these houses
34:17and then when it gets dark out we're going to come in here and try to find out if there's any spirits
34:26roaming this abandoned ghost town within the appalachia dawson delves into elkmont's history
34:32mentioning a tragic train crash in 1909 that ironically brought more visitors to the area eventually leading
34:39to the rise of the wonderland hotel when a lumber company secretly removed the train tracks in 1925
34:45threatening the town's survival the governor stepped in building permanent roads that breathe
34:51new life into elkmont in the year 1909 the town experienced a great loss with a deadly train crash
34:58killing multiple people including engineer gordon bryson and a conductor samuel jenkins due to the
35:06train plummeting down the mountain and crashing into a nearby river this accident drove in a lot of
35:13tourism as it was a rare occurrence within tennessee leading to a luxurious hotel construction project in
35:201912. this was the infamous wonderland hotel in 1919 the wonderland hotel was purchased by a group of
35:29businessmen and was renamed to the wonderland club due to the popularity of the area some of the wealthy
35:37tourists began buying land to build vacation homes within elkmont all of that came to a halt when in 1925
35:46little river lumber company decided to pull the plug it was decided to not inform any of the citizens of the town that it was relocating its operations
35:57in the dead of the night railroad workers began removing the tracks in secret at the time the
36:03tracks were the only modern way in and out of the town luckily governor austin paye had a vacation home
36:11in elkmont so we arranged to have permanent roads constructed to breathe new life in what would have been the
36:19end of elkmont tennessee as dawson explores the remaining houses including former servants quarters
36:27he reflects on the lives of those who once called this place home this might be like a cooking house
36:33because back in the day they would have houses separate for cooking and all of that because heat
36:42in the like summer you wouldn't want to heat your house obviously and they didn't have air conditioning
36:48so they would have separate areas to cook and prepare food and everything but that was mainly
36:57like rich people had the opportunity to do that but this is like a little wood cabin area behind this
37:05house and there's a back door that leads right here so it makes me think that whoever lived here probably
37:11use this as a cooking house and then there's another one that leads behind it it says the oh colonel townsend's
37:22servants quarters
37:23i mean it's very small but it has a bathroom and another little area back here and then this larger
37:39space so as long as there's one person living in here or maybe even you know a person and a child
37:46it's not that bad but i could see i mean people nowadays they get these tiny houses that are smaller
37:54than this and they put like four people in them uh but that's my choice and if it's a servant
38:00and not a slave then you know they had a choice so maybe maybe it wasn't so bad
38:11the story shifts to the 1930s when families were forced to relocate to make way for the creation
38:17of great smoky mountains national park dawson recalls uncle lim a local whose home was demolished
38:24by the government after his death during the 1930s the residents were given two options begin selling
38:30their land and homes immediately to the government to make way for the great smoky mountains national
38:37park for full price or get paid a fraction of its worth but be allowed to live there until they die
38:45one of the most colorful characters in elkmont was none other than uncle lem ownbee he lived to be 94
38:53years old and passed away in 1984. uncle lem was a true mountain man and loved to enrage the government
39:01and tourists with his antics when he died he was the last original settler in the area almost immediately
39:08the government came and demolished his home as if to wipe away his memory or as a middle finger as the
39:16home was not in disrepair as night falls dawson begins his ghost hunt starting with the park
39:22oldest cabins he sets up his equipment sensing an eerie atmosphere but admits he's more worried
39:29about real dangers like people or bears than any spirits he might encounter here we are guys we're
39:35in elkmont and we're heading to the first cabin i'm super creeped out it is just an entire town completely
39:45empty and the first spot that we're going to go to is going to be number seven seven and five are some
39:53of the oldest ones here so i figured we would start out at one of the oldest ones and then move on from
40:00there there is a freaky freaky ass vibe and i don't know if that's just because it's dark out and i'm alone
40:14or if it's because there's ghosts but i'm ready to find out here's five let's go into five
40:24and give it a shot we brought minimum equipment it is literally just a voice recorder we brought
40:30the spirit box and we brought a rem pod
40:39let's do the polite thing
40:43can i come in
40:47let's give a good scope out
40:48oh i didn't even realize that number five was the one that had the really cool backyard patio thing
41:01i don't know if that was a trick of the light but i'm not kidding i swear i saw something um
41:11during review i noticed what i saw was indeed not a trick of the light but just a bug flying outside
41:20let's go over here and see what we got going this just leads back
41:27okay
41:29so perfect we have the rem pod set up
41:33super sketchy guys
41:34i mean let me tell you like i'm allowed to be here but it's scary at the same time because
41:45like if a real person comes that's probably going to be more scarier than if a ghost comes
41:50but if there's anybody in here people probably don't come and ask you guys very many questions
42:00but i have a device right there on your fireplace and if you walk up to it it just lights up blue
42:09and it lets me know that you're here with me
42:12a mysterious voice coming from his device one that sounded like it had been recorded long before
42:18sent him fleeing from the terrifying ghost town vowing never to return i must have hit that you
42:24don't want to hold voice recorders while you're ghost hunting because when you hold it even the
42:28slightest movements can cause noises which can essentially make you think that they're voices
42:37and we try to eliminate that because we want to make sure that when we do catch something it's as
42:44undisputable as possible so let's just set it down
42:50what why is there a voice recording of 52 seconds this was empty
43:04what's the name of the person who used to live
43:07that's a voice recording from like a few weeks ago but i literally deleted everything so that's
43:16really in the next chilling video from squatch tv two explorers investigate an abandoned train bridge
43:22in a remote location as they venture deeper they start hearing strange unsettling noises animal-like
43:29but unlike anything they've ever encountered sending shivers down their spines they know
43:34they're on forbidden ground yet the area is usually deserted suddenly a loud mysterious sound startles one
43:41of them who wants to turn back the other insists they press on to capture it all on video
43:46it's hard to tell with the wind but it almost sounded like something definitely made some kind of noises over
44:01there so we're gonna check it out occasionally snowmobilers come through here but other than that
44:09it's pretty remote this isn't a banded train bridge
44:19okay i almost kind of don't want to go back over there
44:27um yeah my brother said he heard some weird things
44:30but uh that's that's pretty weird i've never heard a grizzly bear sound like that before
44:40you got like chills going down your spine yup i hope the camera got that
44:51technically this train bridge is trespassing so no one comes by here anymore
44:55why we come here late at night search for animals stuff like that but there's no people back here
45:11we can take that one path up here yeah is that right there yeah picture the babies
45:28oh baby okay i don't even want to go i don't even want what the hell is that
45:48dude fuck this should we yeah you got your knife
45:58we got the deer tracks oh uh did joe hear like a rabbit get killed
46:06yeah that was too loud though far to turn back yeah we can turn back going
46:14about half an hour from home still deep in the woods the eerie sounds persist the creator armed
46:20only with a knife admits he's genuinely scared as the noises grow closer signaling something unknown
46:26nearby the wind picks up hinting at an approaching storm
46:43yeah
46:52okay so we've been hearing some really spooky dude
47:15i'm only giving in like maybe five more minutes
47:18so we're walking yeah we're in the middle of the woods about half an hour from my house
47:23i only got a knife but that's not going to stop the fucking river or whatever
47:31it's coming from up there i don't even know if i want to
47:34we'll see what it is but at the same time it's like i mean this is like something fucking unknown
47:40let's be safe how long we're out here because i think there's a storm coming
47:44it's getting real windy then a sudden loud noise and a fleeting glimpse of something unseen
47:50force them into a panic sprint they race away putting distance between themselves and whatever
47:55was making those strange sounds clearly shaken the creator shuts off the camera an honest moment
48:00revealing just how terrified they were by the unexplainable encounter
48:15go that's pretty loud that's close
48:17oh
48:31oh go it's coming it's got oh crap wait don't wait go
48:37wait holy i think i saw it go go go go
48:56oh crap
49:03okay we're far enough away let's just go dude fuck that
49:07these chilling encounters along the appalachian trail are a stark reminder that even the calmest
49:12stretches of wilderness can conceal unimaginable horrors which story gave you the creeps let us know
49:19in the comments and remember to like subscribe and stay alert because you never know what's hiding just
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