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SCARY HIKE While Being Followed For Days on Virginia’s Appalachian Trail
A young couple is on the Appalachian Trail in southern Virginia when they become aware of someone or something following them. The next few days were a harrowing experience.
I received the following account recently:
‘Back in 2018 my girlfriend and I decided to hike the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. We had hiked other parts of the AT north of Virginia but had never gone this far south. The section we took ran through George Washington and Jefferson National Forests from Roanoke County to Giles County. It is one of the more remote parts of the trail, which is exactly what we were looking for.
We gathered our gear and made our way to the Virginia Creeper Trail to begin our journey. It was early October and the air was crisp and cool. Perfect hiking weather with beautiful scenery. The majority of the trip was pretty uneventful. Just your typical hike. But, our last couple of nights is where things got strange
On this portion of the trail, you are supposed to camp on the trail or at a designated shelter. We didn’t really want to run into other people and didn’t want anyone coming up on us in the middle of the night. We decided to ignore those suggestions and find our own little spot off the trail. After a little searching around and we found a spot a little ways off the trail in the middle of a small clearing. We set up camp, cooked some food, talked for a while then snuggled up and went to sleep for the night.
Somewhere around 2 am, I was awakened by my girlfriend shaking me awake and telling me “Get your gun! Someone is outside walking around our tent!” She told me that she woke up to what sounded like someone right outside the tent running a knife or something along the side while circling us. When hiking I carry a .45 automatic. You never know exactly who or what you might run into when at a remote location. I got the gun out of my pack and then we sat silently listening for any sounds.
After a while, we heard snapping and crunching sounds of someone or something walking in the woods behind our tent. I got the flashlight and silently made my way out of the tent. Our fire had gone out so it was nearly pitch black. I told my girlfriend to stay put while I checked it out. I didn’t flick the flashlight on right away. I waited to hear more noises. After a few minutes, the sounds were bipedal. I turned on the flashlight and flooded the area with light. I thought I saw someone move behind a tree. I yelled out and told them to go away and that I was armed. I kept the light on the area with my gun drawn and slowly approached the area where I thought I saw the figure. Then, from my right, I hear what sounds like someone running away through the woods. I spin and face my light that way, and then from the original spot hear who or whatever was there take off into the woods. There’s no way I am giving chase, so I return to the campsite. I end up sitting guard outside the tent, in the darkness until daybreak.
In the morning, I looked around a bit for signs of who or whatever it was and I discovered a boot print in some soft moist dirt not far from our tent. It wasn’t mine and it wasn’t my girl’s. This freaked me out as it confirmed that someone, perhaps more than one, was stalking around our tent. I kept it to myself because I didn’t want to freak my girl out any more than she already was. At this point, we were pretty deep in and still had 2 days left.
When it came time to set up camp, I found a spot near a cliff where we could place the tent in a small overhang and prevent anyone from coming up behind us. The whole day up to this point I had a feeling we were being followed. I had no confirmation of this as I hadn’t seen or heard anyone else, but it was just a gut feeling. We set up camp and made some food, then retreated to the tent. I kept the gun right next to me and I assured her that if I slept at all it would be with one eye open. After a while, she drifted off to sleep and I stayed awake listening to the sounds of the woods at night.
I was awake for a few hours, just waiting to see if anything was going to happen. At some point, I drifted off. I awoke sometime later to what sounded like someone going through our stuff outside the tent. I grabbed my gun and woke my girlfriend. From the faint glow of the fire, I could see someone’s silhouette against the tent. There was really someone out there. I yelled out to them that I was armed! They stopped what they were doing and bolted. I came out of the tent, gun drawn and ready to shoot someone. Our stuff was strewn all about. I walked to the edge of the woods in the direction of whoever was out there who had fled. There was a creek nearby and I walked to the edge, where there was a small trail running alongside it. Down the creek, I could see a light. it looked like a lantern the way it flickered. Then I saw 3 more emerge from the other side of the woods.
I told my girlfriend to start packing up whatever she could and that we were leaving. Now! We packed up everything of value, left the tent and a few other items, and headed back onto the trail, in the middle of the night. I kept hearing people talking off in the woods and hearing branches snap for quite some ways. I kept looking behind us every few seconds to make sure nobody was coming up to us. It was completely nerve-wracking. If something happened, we were still a long way from anywhere and quite literally on our own, since we hadn’t seen another hiker the entire time we had been out there. I really felt we were in serious danger.
We had been walking for quite some time when I heard something in the woods behind us. As we rounded a corner I turned around and saw someone step out onto the trail and just stand there watching us. It was just as the sun was coming up and barely any light. I couldn’t make out any features, just the silhouette. I stopped and looked at them for a second and asked them who they were and what they wanted. They just stood there silently, watching us, and then turned and walked back into the woods.
We picked up the pace and kept going, looking back every so often. We didn’t see them again. But my gut told me they were still there for quite a ways.
We eventually reached the end of the trail and got to where we had parked my girlfriend’s car, extremely exhausted. We made it out of the Virginia woods without becoming a victim of whoever was following us.” AA
NOTE: This section of the Appalachian Trail is well-known for Bigfoot encounters and other unexplained incidents, including ‘Not Deer.’ It’s difficult to determine who or what was actually following them. Lon
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Scary ALTERNATE REALITY Incident in Labrador Woods
Peggy, her husband Derek, and their two children moved to Clarke’s Beach, a small town on Conception Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador back around 2000. Peggy always enjoyed the area until she had a frightening experience while picking berries in the woods near her home in August 2022.
“I had an experience blueberry picking that left me scared to go back for a while. I still get the chills thinking about it to this day. I always loved the summer. Where we live, there are only seven houses on our road with only one entrance. It’s surrounded by trees. My yard had lovely wildflowers, strawberries, and cherry trees. My neighbor had a plum tree that the moose come out and eat every fall.
Across from my house, there was a big piece of undeveloped land overgrown with trees and giant blueberries. It’s one of my favorite spots to go to. Every year I’d make a few trips across the road onto this little path until I came to a small clearing full of blueberry bushes.
Every year was the same for years until it just a little while ago I remember I was waiting for my sister to come and visit. I said to my husband that I was going to pick a few berries while I waited for her, so I grabbed a bucket and I was off. It was around 6:00 PM in late August, so it was starting to get dark earlier but I figured I had plenty of time. Now keep in mind I could see my house and hear if my sister pulls into the driveway from where I was. The piece of land I’m on is maybe a couple thousand feet.
So there I was picking away one for me one for the bucket. The berries were big but today they were huge. I mean I had never seen berries so big, it was blue all around. I kept picking and picking. I soon started to notice it was getting dark. ‘Oh no, another big patch, look at those!’ I said to myself. I couldn’t leave but no matter how many I picked, my bucket just wouldn’t fill. ‘Oh, it’s just my eyes playing tricks on me, because it’s getting dark. Keep picking, Peg, and you’ll fill your bucket soon,’ I said.
Suddenly, I got this strange silence coming over me. The air got a little colder. No wind. It got so quiet. No birds. Nothing. I couldn’t even hear the sound of the highway. I can always hear the highway. I thought I was deaf. All I could hear is my heart and I believe that stopped for a second too. Everything started to go in slow motion around me. All of a sudden something clicked and a voice said, ‘Get out of here, now!’ I remember standing up and trying to go and my feet felt heavy.
I looked for the path but I couldn’t find it. I started to panic because I could see my house but I couldn’t find my way to it. The harder I tried to get through the trees and reach the road, the further away it would seem. It’s like I was looking through something. I was walking on a treadmill in front of a big screen. I saw my sister’s car pull into the driveway and my husband talking to her on the step and calling out to let me know she was there, but I couldn’t call back. I tried and only whispered. I started to get scared. It was getting dark and I wanted out of those trees. I remember saying ‘Not tonight, buddy, not tonight. Leave me alone! I’m not playing your games!’
Next thing you know, I’m out on the path and standing on the road in front of my house unsure of how I got there but glad I was.”
Transcribed source: The Round Table Of Knowledge By HTH
NOTE: This Conception Bay, Labrador account is very interesting. I have been there a few times and I had heard of weird incidents. My father was stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador during the Korean War. He and others experienced a bunch of unexplained activity. There have been several Bigfoot encounters there as well. It’s a joint Canadian / US military facility where Special Forces have often trained. Some of the later unclassified training books mention incidents at Goose Bay, especially those involving Bigfoot encounters and how to react. I had 2 of these manuals many years ago but lost them when I had a fire in my apartment in 2005. Lon
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Do you like scary movies? Where to watch every ‘Scream’ in 2023
There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a Scream sequel. For instance, number one: You must stream the original and the other sequels ASAP.
Now that the first trailer for Scream VI has dropped, there’s never been a better time to brush up on this slasher series. Plus, with fan fave Scream 4‘s Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) returning, who knows what other Easter Eggs are in store for diehard fans? Better start studying up now — you’ve got until March 10, when Scream VI hits theaters.
To fully appreciate the journey ahead, eager audiences should plan to set aside roughly 10 hours to binge the first five Scream movies. The first two are groundbreaking slashers that helped repopularize the horror genre after it waned in popularity during the late ’80s. Their tongue-in-cheek approach helped define satirization and criticism of the horror genre for years to come, even if Scream 3 and Scream 4 weren’t quite as good. And as for 2022’s Scream, well, reviews were mixed, but it had enough blood in it to bring the franchise back to life.
Listed in chronological order with some franchise history to boot, here’s every Scream movie and where to watch them. Happy haunting!
1. Scream (1996)
Credit: Miramax
Any horror fan worth their Shudder subscription will tell you Scream (1996) changed the game. But there’s more to this slasher’s modern sales pitch than just saying, “It’s important.”
Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, this whip-smart whodunnit is unflinchingly fun and freaky with a killer cast, script, and style that haven’t lost their collective edge yet. It’s widely considered one of the most unimpeachably re-watchable scary movies ever made. Plus, it cleverly references half a dozen other legendary genre titles, giving those who watch a taste of horror’s best and worst instincts in less than two hours.
Neve Campbell stars as Sidney Prescott, a likable final girl-type navigating a sinister murder plot. When a masked figure with a fondness for horror movies starts attacking suburbanites in a southern California town, Sidney and more of Woodsboro’s residents must fight to survive a night against their mysterious foe. But even Sidney and her friends’ very meta knowledge of horror movie survival can’t save all of them from the villain known as “Ghostface.”
This all-star cast includes Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, Drew Barrymore, and more ’90s icons. It also introduces franchise favorites David Arquette as rookie cop Dewey Riley and Courteney Cox as crime reporter Gale Weathers. If you’re going to watch just one movie ahead of Scream (2022), then it really ought to be this one.
How to watch: Scream (1996) is is available for rent/purchase on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
2. Scream 2 (1997)
Credit: Miramax
Horror expert Randy Meeks may have warned audiences to never say they’d “be right back” in Scream (1996). But the franchise itself made a speedy return with a sequel from Craven and Williamson featuring all of the original’s surviving characters less than a year later.
Scream 2 follows Sidney Prescott to a college in Ohio, where the infamy of her face-off with what turned out to be not one but two Ghostfaces still haunts her. Not only has her ordeal from the original been made into another monosyllabic horror movie series, hysterically named Stab; but an unsolved double homicide at a nearby theater has local police and Gale Weathers thinking copycat killer.
When Dewey arrives on campus to check on Sidney, it’s clear we’re in for another harrowing Ghostface encounter. But it’s how the characters played by Scream newcomers Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Jada Pinkett Smith, and more fare against this new enemy that makes up the meat of the movie.
With a bigger budget and sequels to satirize, Scream 2 delivers everything the first one did well and then some. It’s a bit of a toss up to say which one is better, but you can safely assume that Scream 2 is more violent and more confident in its humor.
How to watch: Scream 2 is available for rent/purchase on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
3. Scream 3 (2000)
Credit: Miramax
Scream 3 is generally regarded as the series’ low point and with good reason.
Craven returned to direct the third — and, for more than a decade, final — installment in his previously masterful franchise. So many fans placed blame for its bloated story and weighed down pacing on screenwriter Ehren Kruger, who took over for Williamson on this film only. But more than a mediocre plot, Scream 3 lacks the conviction of its predecessors. It doesn’t honor the smarts or successes of the franchise up to that point, fails to exhibit the knowing guidance Craven imbued in the first Scream sequel, and just generally can’t seem to decide what it’s doing. That said, it’s canon.
Back in California, Scream 3 catches up with Sidney who has become a recluse. But her story is tangential to a spree of murders in Hollywood, many of them on the set of the upcoming Stab 3. Wearing the Ghostface disguise and using an impossible voice changer that mimics anyone the user wants (that technology doesn’t exist now, let alone back then), the third antagonist of Scream starts in on a boring slog of mundane kills, tiring chase sequences, and needless retconning that’s just super sloppy.
It’s understandable. Scream 3 had a tortured production, impacted by the national conversation around violent media following the Columbine High School shooting. Still, there are moments in it that are fun in an aughts nostalgia sort of way. Plus, it’s heavy on the comedy and does give us more screen time with Sidney, Dewey, and Gale.
How to watch: Scream 3 is available for rent/purchase on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and other digital platforms.
4. Scream 4 (2011)
Credit: Miramax
Reuniting with Craven for the director’s last film before his passing in 2015, original Scream screenwriter Williamson returns for the franchise’s fourth outing. The result is a perfectly passable flick that doesn’t live up to the greatness of the first two, but is worlds better than Scream 3.
At the start, Sidney is being framed for the murders of numerous Woodsboro teens. Meanwhile, her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and Jill’s classmates (Hayden Panettiere, Nico Tortorella, Marielle Jaffe, Rory Culkin, Erik Knudsen, Britt Robertson, Aimee Teegarden) are dodging the real killer.
Scream 4 is stuffed with red herrings and meta jokes about true crime obsessives and scary movies re-made to death. It’s just as packed with kills and gore, bringing Scream into a new era of terror. Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Marley Shelton, Mary McDonnell, and Anthony Anderson appear in small parts. But it’s once again the original characters’ show, with Sidney, Dewey, and Gale stealing focus throughout. (Seriously, Dewey and Gale are married in this one and it’s very fun.)
You’ll like this sequel if you’ve liked the others, but only watching Scream 4 ahead of Scream (2022) likely doesn’t make practical sense. So get to this one last.
How to watch: Scream 4 is streaming on Netflix and is available for rent/purchase on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
5. Scream (2022)
Credit: Miramax
Helmed by Ready or Not co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, this movie should probably be called Scream 5. But it wasn’t, so here we are.
Scream brings Gale, Dewey, and Sidney back to Woodsboro, alongside a slew of new characters mysteriously related to the original gang. However, this return left Mashable Film Editor Kristy Puchko lukewarm; she wrote, “If you’re going for just one more haunted hayride through Woodsboro, then this Scream (or Scream 5 or 5cream) will satisfy you. But these filmmakers had the chance to make their mark on this franchise by doing something bold and new, and they just didn’t. It’s a shame, because the most shocking sequence is one where they break the slasher standards of nighttime homespun homicide. Regrettably, their finale is far safer.”
How to watch: Scream (2022) is streaming on Paramount+ and is available for rent/purchase on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
Bonus: Scream: The TV Series
MTV’s Scream: The TV Series is a surprisingly fun spinoff from the films that doesn’t include any characters we know but does make ample use of the franchise’s fantastic formula. Seasons 1 and 2 are connected, but Season 3 is totally separate. With 30 episodes to its name, there are plenty of kills and in-jokes you’ll enjoy, even if you’re only passing time before Ghostface’s return this March.
How to watch: Scream: The TV Series is streaming on Netflix.
UPDATE: Jan. 19, 2023, 1:51 p.m. EST We have updated this with the latest streaming and rental/purchasing information, as well as more recent information about “Scream” (2022) and “Scream VI.” Additional reporting by Jenni Miller.