The Hide Behind of British Columbia

• 🌲 A logging crew in remote British Columbia encountered unsettling phenomena after a local warned them about a "hide behind," a tall, thin entity glimpsed moving behind trees.
• 👻 Tools went missing and reappeared, and the crew felt constantly watched, leading to unease and superstitious practices like leaving offerings.
• ⚠️ The incidents escalated with unexplained marks on trees, disembodied whispers, and a violently removed elk head, suggesting a territorial spirit.
• 😨 Old man Riley shared a story of a similar encounter in the 80s where three men disappeared, reinforcing the crew's decision to abandon the contract.
• 🌲 As they left, the narrator glimpsed the tall, thin figure again, emphasizing the importance of respecting the forest's unseen inhabitants.

The Crying Forest of Minnesota

• 💔 Another logging crew experienced a different kind of haunting in northern Minnesota, centered around a section of woods known as the "crying forest."
• 👧 Local legend tells of a logger's daughter lost in a snowstorm in the 1920s, whose spirit is said to cry and ask passersby if they are going home.
• 👣 The crew discovered delicate, bare footprints of a young girl mixed with their own bootprints, appearing on top of their tracks from the previous day.
• 👂 The narrator heard the girl's voice asking "Are you going home?" and, remembering the legend that answering could lead to getting lost, chose to remain silent and leave the job.
• 😥 This encounter, though less aggressive than the hide behind, was deeply unsettling due to its tragic nature and the potential danger of empathizing with the lost spirit.

The Glimmer Man of New Mexico

• 🔧 A mechanic working weekends cutting firewood to supplement his income began experiencing unsettling phenomena on his property.
• 🚶 He felt constantly watched, heard unexplained breathing, and noticed footsteps paralleling his path through the brush, all while seeing no visible source.
• 🌫️ The climax involved seeing a distortion in the air, like a heat shimmer, that bent the background around an invisible, human-shaped form.
• 🏃 The presence then manifested as heavy, deliberate footsteps that pursued him as he fled on his ATV, pushing him down before receding.
• 🪵 The experience led him to abandon his firewood operation and become more cautious about his surroundings.

Crazy Old Kenny Boon

• ⚙️ Two equipment technicians investigated numerous inexplicable machinery failures at a remote logging operation in northern Maine.
• 🔪 They discovered the failures were not accidental but deliberate sabotage, showing intimate knowledge of the machines' vulnerabilities and designed to cause catastrophic accidents.
• 🌲 The culprit was identified as Kenny Boon, a former lead mechanic fired for an assault, who had disappeared into the woods and was now seeking revenge.
• 🪓 Evidence of his presence included his hatchet found buried in a tree, and the crew heard his chainsaw revving in the darkness at night.
• ⚠️ The operation was eventually shut down due to continuing accidents, and Kenny Boon was never found, leaving a lasting psychological scar on the technicians.

The Phantom Lumberjack

• 👻 A grandfather shared a chilling ghost story about a phantom lumberjack from his own experiences as a crew supervisor in the 1960s.
• 🌲 Strange symbols were found carved into trees, and marked trees would mysteriously become unmarked overnight.
• 🎶 The crew heard disembodied whistling of old logging songs echoing through the forest, and sightings of an impossibly tall, translucent figure in old-fashioned gear.
• 🔪 The story culminated with the discovery of a skilled logger, Whitfield, decapitated by a single clean cut, with his head never found, and the same strange symbols found at the site.
• 🪵 The grandfather kept a piece of bark with the mysterious symbols as a reminder of the reality of these unsettling encounters.