Sep 24, 2026 · 55 min
Haunted woods turn ordinary encounters into supernatural warnings
Encounters x350 - Haunted Forests, Campgrounds & Appalachia
The episode examines how isolated landscapes, local history, and ambiguous evidence shape stories about ghosts, cryptids, and unexplained encounters.
- 1Appalachian woods frame reports of a deer-like entity, unexplained footsteps, voices, and other unsettling disturbances.
- 2A child’s laughter in remote Mississippi woodland gains new significance after an archaeological survey uncovers a vanished homestead.
- 3A jail surveillance figure, a Tahoe scream, and physical sensations leave witnesses debating spirits, animals, and cryptids.
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A Forest Service worker’s memory of a child laughing in the woods becomes more unsettling when an archaeological survey finds a vanished homestead at that exact spot.
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Corinne and Sabrina open with Halloween-season banter before turning to the woods of Appalachia, where listener stories blur the line between folklore, fear, and firsthand experience.
An Appalachian account describes footsteps, window tapping, voices, and a deer-like figure rising onto two legs, prompting discussion of the not-deer phenomenon and what such entities might want.
At a Vermont state park, a strange plant-material figure follows a death and a series of disturbing events, leaving its origin, influence, and disappearance unresolved.
A Forest Service worker hears a child laughing in remote Mississippi woodland; an archaeological survey later finds an old homestead at the exact location.
The episode closes with a bizarre scream near Lake Tahoe and a white figure on Appalachian jail surveillance, as witnesses and hosts weigh animals, cryptids, and spirits.