4 Disturbing State Park Encounters: Boarskin-walker, Ghost Girl, Skinwalker, and Bigfoot

The Boarskin-walker of Tishomongo

• 💡 An 11-year-old narrator recounts his cousin Elliot's terrifying experience at Tishomingo State Park in 1997.
• 🐗 Elliot claims to have seen a creature with the head of a boar and the body of a man while using an outdoor bathroom at night.
• 😱 Later that night, the narrator and Elliot saw a face with a snout and tusks peering into their RV window, accompanied by scraping sounds.
• 🐾 The next morning, their uncle found boar tracks and other unidentifiable footprints and handprints around the RV, leading them to cut the trip short.

She Haunts the Firewatch Tower

• ⛰️ Two friends, Wes and the narrator, hike off-trail in Black Rock Mountain State Park and decide to camp in an abandoned fire tower.
• 👻 They hear local legends about a ghost girl and a park worker who died there, but dismiss them as campfire stories.
• 👧 The narrator repeatedly wakes up to see a spectral young girl with wet hair and an old-fashioned dress, who disappears when he tries to look directly at her.
• 🚶‍♀️ The girl eventually crawls towards them, defying gravity by climbing walls, and her appearance causes Wes to finally wake up in terror, prompting their escape.

Skinwalker at Navajo State Park

• 🌲 The narrator and his Aunt Dell go camping at Navajo State Park to cope with the death of his dog, Jasper.
• 🐺 Dell, who practices traditional customs, becomes concerned after the narrator encounters a strangely behaving coyote with unnervingly human-like eyes.
• 🗣️ While camping, they hear footsteps and a voice mimicking the narrator and his deceased father calling for help, which Dell identifies as a skinwalker.
• 🛡️ Dell uses cornmeal and cedar ash to create a protective barrier, chanting in a language the narrator recognizes, as the skinwalker, appearing as a shifting figure in a coyote skin, tries to lure them.

Not Your Grandpa’s Bigfoot Story

• 🌲 Two retired friends, Howy and Vern, go on their annual camping trip in a remote part of California's forestry.
• 👣 They discover unusually large, human-like footprints around their campsite and notice their food bag was tampered with without anything being taken.
• 🌳 While fishing, they spot a massive, 8-foot-tall hairy figure that moves into the dense forest, and later find broken branches high up on a tree and stacked rock piles.
• 🔊 That night, they hear rhythmic knocking, strange vocalizations, and rocks being thrown at their tent, followed by a musky, overpowering smell and a large, hairy figure pressing against their tent.
• 🌕 At dawn, they find more footprints of varying sizes and tufts of coarse hair, suggesting multiple creatures, and decide to leave, feeling watched until they reach their truck.