After reading the 411 books, I don't want anything to do with the woods. We ride motorcycle and pull a tiny pop up camper be hind it. We've traveled from cost to cost and once up to Alaska. A few yrs ago we went to the crash site in Pennsylvania where the 911 terrorists crashed that plane. We left there and rode south, heading toward West Virginia. We camped at an RV park on a wide river. My wife tells the host as we're checking in, that we'd like to be away from other campers, so they stick us at the far end of the park, the last site on the rivers edge and the park rode turned up hill for the upper park sites. Dense forest is at the edge of out camp site, maybe 30 ft away. There is a clear mountain stream running down to the river. I told the wife, it looked like perfect Big Foot habitat. She said," oh knock it off." Well I stayed up till about 11pm looking at FB then you tube. The wife went to sleep at about 9pm. At about 11pm I start to hear wood knocking in the forest. Now had I not read the 411 books, I wouldn't have known about this, but since I did read the books I know what wood knocking means. I didn't get much sleep that night but nothing became of it anyway. That was the first and only time I've heard wood knocking.
I've read a couple of the 411 books. The ones on the Smoky Mountains are full of factual errors. Overall, they're badly written. They're self-published, and there's generally a reason for that.
Excellent Storytelling, but . . . I was a 13 year old scout in Utah in 1973, and we would have heard about this, believe me. I went to the Deseret News archives between June 9-11, 1973. 3 people drowned, 2 died in car accidents, 1 found dead after a 2 week search who wandered from a mental hospital, but no mention of the missing scout. Loved the fact though, that the storyteller was smart enough to find out if June 8th was a Friday, it was!
Yes, all the stories on this page are very well written. They are all fiction - some of them based on old urban legends of course, but fiction. For example there was no murder of a family named Putnam in Salem Massachusetts in 1926 also. There is a disclaimer on these videos that they are fiction. But very good short fiction.
WHETHER TRUE OR NOT, GREAT STORY TELLING. IS IT POSSIBLE WE'LL BE SEEING THIS ON A UPCOMING CRIME SHOW EPISODE, AND POSSIBLE BOREDOM HAS SET IN FOR THIS STRIKING HOLLYWOOD WRITER 😂
Good grief!!!! That story is so tragic and horrifying!! I cannot imagine the second heart ache of this man as he saw his friend and could do nothing for him.
Wow this is heartbreaking. All those years of guilt being the last to see your best friend before he disappeared. Then years later seeing him again but only for an instant because he was trying to save you from 'them'. Knowing he's alive but torn about saying anything is just like losing him all over again 😥😥😥
Well "if" this story is real it reminds me of that newspaper boy Johnny something. He was abducted at the age of 12 and was missing for years and one day according to the mother a young man knocked on the door and when she seen him she knew it was Johnny but grown. She said he told her he had been abducted and had been abused and trafficked. He told her he took a big risk to see but he wanted her to know he wasn't dead and was doing ok now to give her some relief from her grief. She said he then was adamant about keeping this a secret . The police are doubtful this event happened though.
I NEVER go into the woods or wilderness without several forms of personal protection, including very sharp knives, heavy caliber firearms with at least 100 rounds of ammo in my backpack. I will not go quietly into the night. It will be a war of biblical proportions. 😊
Have you seen a mountain lion stalking it’s prey? With some luck somebody will find some bones and a lot of of brand new and never fired heavy caliber cartridges.
A very bizarre Elk hunting trip in 2016 changed my outlook on the wilderness. After running around solo in the mountains for over 40 years. I have no problem now believing what Dakota says could be true.
I don't know what the boy scouts do, but in girl scouts we are taught the buddy system. It doesn't matter where you are going or how long you think it will be. If it's even a second, you never go anywhere without your buddy.
Jake had been coping with whatever or whoever "they" were for two decades. Ya think he knew how to handle the situation? Dakota clearly trusted his old friend, and split.
Wait, so after 20 years the dude walks out of the forest, and his BFF doesn't grab him and make him go with him? And how would he know it is his friend, the guy has been in the forest for 20 years. Supposedly....... sorry but ihave to ask such questions, these seem like campfire stories, which is cool, and I believe in weird things
Hello Ms. Teresa! I was thinking that too. What about..Stockholm syndrome is it?- where you actually would be able to leave, but you have been with that kidnapper for so long, that you give up on trying to get away? I believe and have seen many things I cannot explain, as have my children (not by choice either) and I thank God, that when we were figuring something's out, those that...started observing is, only seemingly wanted to play with the kids, or do what our kids do during the day, when they play out at night. we have Sas and other beings around us, going on 7 years now. No one goes out alone, day or night, and if someone has togo out, it's me. There have been plenty of times we could have been harmed (again, before we knew what was out there) and have not been, Thankfully. I have been told by others that 5bey believe we are being guarded or protected for some reason...but we cannot figure out why..
why did he never try to escape? he obviously knows how to get to the lake and i mean its a park and people should be there soo wtf? whats keeping him there? the forest people? how? why? why take people to begin with if not to murder them, eat them, or use them to make babies??
He was taken by Gnomes or Elves. They spent their time mostly underground. And they do their "magic" so that's why the victim doesn't run away. Sounds strange maybe. But think of people in a cult. A cult leader can use all sorts of tricks to keep someone under his control. Hypnosis, brainwashing, fear, promising stuff, rewards etcetera. The Fairy (little) people do similar stuff but than multiplied by 10. They can make someone see things that aren't there.
I live next to Yosemite National Park, and met up with bears, mountain lions..ect.ect.. but the scariest thing here is a squirrel! We’ve had outbreaks of bubonic plague from the fleas they carry ! Love Grandma Debbie
Now this is what I'm talkin' about, most definitely my kinda shit bro!👌 I just came across your channel tonight and I'm glad I did! After listening to only a couple of your videos I subbed up quick! I'm about to start listening to the rest of your videos, so keep em' comin' brother! Appreciate ya!👊
excellent narrating you had me captivated! As a parent of a Boy Scout, this crossed my mind ... every time they went to scout summer camp but thankfully, my son is grown and safe!
Now it might just be me, but if I had camped in the woods and my friend disappeared, presumably dead. I'm being honest by saying I wouldn't go back to the scene for the love of money and especially alone. However, i'm sure any criminal psychologist will tell you, killers do like revisiting their crime scenes.
This is a very strange story. First Jake disappeared without a trace. Then suddenly he appears twenty years later in front of his best friend at the same spot where they went fishing. It’s quite likely as Dakota went back there fishing all those years Jake was still alive and watching from a distance all this time.
The "they" in question are not known for taking anyone btw, this is odd I would love to do a privy conversation with the guy to find out what he is not telling anyone even still. by privy conversation I mean one where the details do not leave the confines of the room or ear they are spoken into as is and "Was" the ancient way of speaking on such things as of what the "they" are.
I know these are fictional stories as there is never any information on the internet about the murders, or disappearances of people in these stories. Still if it was real....why would any adult supervisors WAIT through the night before leaving in the morning to go get help? It sounds like they had multiple vehicles....an adult could have driven down the mountain during the night, got to town, rounded up help so that they could get everything they needed to do a search and get back up the mountain to be there before or at dawn, rather than hours later.
@@petervermeer.4904 I was 10 in 1973, it wasn't like people were 'that' isolated from the world. We had radio, t.v., newspapers, even word of mouth. News of a child gone missing would have been in the papers, and most papers from that era have been or are being archived digitally. And from time to time, local news would do an update on 'that kid, that went missing 5 years ago' and wonder why he didn't write home. :P So there would probably something on the internet, even if it's some blog from some small town historian who recalls the story and has clippings from the papers back then and photos of the person missing. Also, many obituaries were listed back then and are a part of a city/county/state's records. But as I said, these are fictional stories - None of them can be confirmed on the internet with all of it's recourses for looking up names, archived files, or courthouse documents...etc.
When I first visited the USA I had never seen so many pictures of missing people mostly teens in one supermarket that I was overwhelmed, this story reminds me of Stephen King!s Storm of the Century movie...
I know if I returned to the place were my friend disappeared no matter how long it had been I would be heavily armed. I don't think I could leave my friend even if it required my life. The fight would be on. Maybe if he were well armed and stood up for Jake he would have come with him.
Man, what a tale. If it's true, how could he not go back? I don't care how scared I was, I would not be able to think about anything else until I went back and tried to get some answers.
The remote country is beautiful of nature. I lived in a cabin surrounded by trees. I heard noises at night. I decided to move.I can't imagine loosing a friend. 😢😢
@@petervermeer.4904 yes, I would see a light ( flash light ?). Near, The house kind of near, no one stayed there in the winter. I didn't take chances. I just moved.
@@petervermeer.4904 yes definetly. I live a remote city in Canada. The cabin was beautiful. At nights was very eerie . Lots of trees, appears super dark. Moving was a good move...especially the flashlight. Definetly kept outside lights on.
Stories like these remind me of the movie and the book "the shack". The family goes on a camping trip, little girl named missy comes up missing. No one knows what happened to missy.
This story here, I’m speechless. Is this real? Jake just coming out of the woods hairy, shoeless & literally dirty. A 13 yr old when he was taken away from the campsite away from his friend away from his parents to just show up 20 yrs later. Wow! And Dakota not to ask further important questions or try to take Jake away from there & back to his parents .. these stories are fascinating
No not real. I don’t mean it’s made up. The narrator is likely telling the truth as he remembers it. What happened is #1 a tragedy (the boy was abducted and killed) and #2 the capitalizing on a tragedy (demons often appear as dead victims to perpetuate the false belief that a mysterious soul survives physical death and lurks about. They are master deceivers). In this case it was not death and survival as the method since he never said he was dead but watch the comments carefully and you will see the number of people who suggest this was the case. It’s nearly an ingrained deception at this point. Demons know this
As one of many who love to listen to these types of scary stories to fall asleep to, I LOVE these! I like them short, because I DO like to actually listen to them, this way I don't have to search thru so much, for where I fell asleep at...ha... I do not care for gory stuff & murder.. I watch a lot of crime shows, so going to sleep with that isn't so cool. 😬
I think I’m probably a little older than you, although it’s hard to tell. I’m 68. When I was growing up mostly in Arizona, but a little in New Mexico and finally Colorado, there used to be radio stations, AM stations, that in the evening would broadcast radio hour mystery stories. All the effects were done in the studio as these were usually broadcast live. Most were stories like the one we listened to here. I can remember making several trips to Texas in my ‘68 bug, and I usually traveled in the afternoon and night because it was cooler (no AC in a bug!). The radio stations were usually in central to northern states, so you had to hope that conditions were good for ‘skip’ so you could hear the story. Mostly, as I recall, these were hour long stories. Every now and then I could pick up some of the stations from my house in Colorado, but the same ‘skip’ conditions applied. Usually the stories were broadcast in the late evening, 10 or 11pm. Your comment reminded me of the enjoyment I had growing up. I thought I would pass on some of the ‘good old days’ that I would sure wish were still around so kids today could enjoy them as much as I did. Take care!
I was a girl scout and my brother a year younger than me was a boy scout, we weren't allowed to go with our troops for the weeklong camping trip, I got my badge because I was allowed to go on a camping trip for a weekend.
@@horrorstirychannel2930 weird I couldn’t find where anything had changed. If there was any substantial changes or updates I’d love to know what that was. I listened again last night. Assuming it was a different story. I did listen to the original and I could not find anything changed or added. Kinda weird.
I can not imagine not asking a ton of questions, this was a best friend. How could you just abandon him, not try to rescue him? There had to have been more said than what’s here.
I don't believe it; If that were my best friend, I'd call in the cavalry to help my buddy and right as soon as I could. I wouldn't give a damn who wouldn't believe me, either. However, I've heard of things like lucid dreaming, where the thoughts in your imagination and reality are indistinguishable.
Great and sad storytelling, I wonder if the feral people took him? Fiction or not, I believe it could've be possible since a lot of people goes missing in the woods
Spooky and weird - very disturbing and disconcerting… except I have to say, I find it difficult to believe that a grown adult would freak-out and irresponsibly bolt as is noted in the story… logically, I’d wager most would further pursue their lost friend and simultaneously alert authorities….
I've seen this story before, and it's one of the most bizarre disappearances I've ever heard of. Who took Jake, where did they take him, why wasn't he able to leave and go home? Is he still out there somewhere? Was that really Jake, or some entity disguised as him? It's all very odd.
He was taken by Gnomes or Elves. They spent their time mostly underground. And they do their "magic" so that's why the victim doesn't run away. Sounds strange maybe. But think of people in a cult. A cult leader can use all sorts of tricks to keep someone under his control. Hypnosis, brainwashing, fear, promising stuff, rewards etcetera. The Fairy (little) people do similar stuff but than multiplied by 10. They can make someone see things that aren't there.
Some of you know already --- while "Horrorstiry"s stories are entertaining - they are all FICTION ! Horrorstiry gives you dates and places of these "events", but they never happened in real life. But thanks for the entertainment anyway.
I'm having deja vu or I'm bugging the hell out!!! Didn't you do this story about 10 days -14 days ago and wasn't there a picture of a platoon of boy scouts with circles around 2 of the boy scouts ' head. If you didn't tell this story before then it's happening to me again!!!! Holy shit I have to go play the lottery and use those numbers that keep popping up in my mind!!!! Great story.... again!?!?!💯😱🤪🤪😂😂🤔😲🤑👁️... I'm super serious about hearing you tell this story before!!!!
If the event in 1995 wasn't an hallucination, it could have been some guy pranking Dakota, someone who knew about the disappearance and who knew that Jake occasionally returned to the spot to fish. Still, it would be hard to know exactly when he would be there and go to the trouble of waiting in the woods in costume to emerge just when Dakota showed up. Conceivably it could be some off-grid character who had heard about the case and just decided to pretend to be Jake when he saw the man at the lake...but how would he recognize the adult Dalota? It's not likely that a 13-year-old kid could have survived twenty years in the woods on his own, or even with some old hermit, without someone knowing about it. IF this story is true, it is weird.
cool story. it reads like a story that could have been written in the nineteen fifties. the bit about waiting until morning to tell the police makes me skeptical about it being real.
Wow. I live in England, I can’t really comprehend a ‘wilderness’ such as described here. We have the Yorkshire Moors and the Highlands of Scotland but they are as nothing compared to this.
When I was younger, I used to go hiking with my aunt. They lived in bear country so she always brought her .45 magnum just in case as we would hike in summer and cross country skiing in winter. We only had a close encounter once thank goodness. Never had to actually use her pistol.
I was only able to find one other reference to this case, and it was also on a scary story video. Unless more evidence is presented, I will assume it is just a story. Both the narrator and Jacob would be in their mid sixties by now.
I am sorry, I don't know if it's from his own loss or the psychological guilt of not being able to help his friend, but I don't believe the sighting. If nothing else, I would get other friends to go with me, go armed, whatever was necessary to get my friend out. I don't believe you, and I also don't care. I am, however, sorry for the loss of your friend.
Dakota should have told everything to Jake's parents. They believed he was alive. People always want to know the truth. And if some feral people are taking children, the authorities should know about it.
After reading the 411 books, I don't want anything to do with the woods. We ride motorcycle and pull a tiny pop up camper be hind it. We've traveled from cost to cost and once up to Alaska. A few yrs ago we went to the crash site in Pennsylvania where the 911 terrorists crashed that plane. We left there and rode south, heading toward West Virginia. We camped at an RV park on a wide river. My wife tells the host as we're checking in, that we'd like to be away from other campers, so they stick us at the far end of the park, the last site on the rivers edge and the park rode turned up hill for the upper park sites. Dense forest is at the edge of out camp site, maybe 30 ft away. There is a clear mountain stream running down to the river. I told the wife, it looked like perfect Big Foot habitat. She said," oh knock it off." Well I stayed up till about 11pm looking at FB then you tube. The wife went to sleep at about 9pm. At about 11pm I start to hear wood knocking in the forest. Now had I not read the 411 books, I wouldn't have known about this, but since I did read the books I know what wood knocking means. I didn't get much sleep that night but nothing became of it anyway. That was the first and only time I've heard wood knocking.
I've read a couple of the 411 books. The ones on the Smoky Mountains are full of factual errors. Overall, they're badly written. They're self-published, and there's generally a reason for that.
Excellent Storytelling, but . . . I was a 13 year old scout in Utah in 1973, and we would have heard about this, believe me. I went to the Deseret News archives between June 9-11, 1973. 3 people drowned, 2 died in car accidents, 1 found dead after a 2 week search who wandered from a mental hospital, but no mention of the missing scout. Loved the fact though, that the storyteller was smart enough to find out if June 8th was a Friday, it was!
Yes, all the stories on this page are very well written. They are all fiction - some of them based on old urban legends of course, but fiction. For example there was no murder of a family named Putnam in Salem Massachusetts in 1926 also. There is a disclaimer on these videos that they are fiction. But very good short fiction.
@@patcadle2599I agree, the stories on Horror Channel are all so well written and narrated, and so believable. Thank goodness they are fiction.
Obviously fake when heard second part of old Jake showing up in raggy clothes and hairy with they are watching stuff 😆
WHETHER TRUE OR NOT, GREAT STORY TELLING. IS IT POSSIBLE WE'LL BE SEEING THIS ON A UPCOMING CRIME SHOW EPISODE, AND POSSIBLE BOREDOM HAS SET IN FOR THIS STRIKING HOLLYWOOD WRITER 😂
@@lindaboughner7307 Would have been good for an episode of "X Files".😳😬
Good grief!!!! That story is so tragic and horrifying!! I cannot imagine the second heart ache of this man as he saw his friend and could do nothing for him.
Survivor guilt is a very powerful and totally human reaction to trauma. I wish him peace and happiness.
It's a story
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This is fiction you fool.
@@dshe8637 it's a real story. Names were changed.
@@emimon2351 noooo
Wow this is heartbreaking. All those years of guilt being the last to see your best friend before he disappeared. Then years later seeing him again but only for an instant because he was trying to save you from 'them'. Knowing he's alive but torn about saying anything is just like losing him all over again 😥😥😥
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Can't find any references to Jacob Swenson missing. Is this fiction? Links welcome. Great story nevertheless.
@@bobblue_west it's fiction
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Well "if" this story is real it reminds me of that newspaper boy Johnny something. He was abducted at the age of 12 and was missing for years and one day according to the mother a young man knocked on the door and when she seen him she knew it was Johnny but grown. She said he told her he had been abducted and had been abused and trafficked. He told her he took a big risk to see but he wanted her to know he wasn't dead and was doing ok now to give her some relief from her grief. She said he then was adamant about keeping this a secret . The police are doubtful this event happened though.
I NEVER go into the woods or wilderness without several forms of personal protection, including very sharp knives, heavy caliber firearms with at least 100 rounds of ammo in my backpack. I will not go quietly into the night. It will be a war of biblical proportions. 😊
Word up you sound like someone not fuck with my reputation precedes me need I say more lol
Have you seen a mountain lion stalking it’s prey? With some luck somebody will find some bones and a lot of of brand new and never fired heavy caliber cartridges.
Precisely SK.
I don’t blame you. Smart
I hear you Rambo...
A very bizarre Elk hunting trip in 2016 changed my outlook on the wilderness. After running around solo in the mountains for over 40 years. I have no problem now believing what Dakota says could be true.
Come on dude you can’t leave us with that! Tell us more!
I don't know what the boy scouts do, but in girl scouts we are taught the buddy system. It doesn't matter where you are going or how long you think it will be. If it's even a second, you never go anywhere without your buddy.
I’m so glad I ran across ur channel. Love your story’s. This is a good one.
Thank you!
I truly enjoy hearing these stories told. And they are quite chilling. Keep it up!
Thank you!
Jake had been coping with whatever or whoever "they" were for two decades. Ya think he knew how to handle the situation? Dakota clearly trusted his old friend, and split.
Hey & hello everyone!! How awesome this is to find today, thank you!!
Wait, so after 20 years the dude walks out of the forest, and his BFF doesn't grab him and make him go with him? And how would he know it is his friend, the guy has been in the forest for 20 years. Supposedly....... sorry but ihave to ask such questions, these seem like campfire stories, which is cool, and I believe in weird things
Hello Ms. Teresa! I was thinking that too. What about..Stockholm syndrome is it?- where you actually would be able to leave, but you have been with that kidnapper for so long, that you give up on trying to get away? I believe and have seen many things I cannot explain, as have my children (not by choice either) and I thank God, that when we were figuring something's out, those that...started observing is, only seemingly wanted to play with the kids, or do what our kids do during the day, when they play out at night. we have Sas and other beings around us, going on 7 years now. No one goes out alone, day or night, and if someone has togo out, it's me. There have been plenty of times we could have been harmed (again, before we knew what was out there) and have not been,
Thankfully. I have been told by others that 5bey believe we are being guarded or protected for some reason...but we cannot figure out why..
How else could he have known Dakota's name?
why did he never try to escape? he obviously knows how to get to the lake and i mean its a park and people should be there soo wtf? whats keeping him there? the forest people? how? why? why take people to begin with if not to murder them, eat them, or use them to make babies??
This is fiction
He was taken by Gnomes or Elves. They spent their time mostly underground.
And they do their "magic" so that's why the victim doesn't run away. Sounds strange maybe. But think of people in a cult.
A cult leader can use all sorts of tricks to keep someone under his control. Hypnosis, brainwashing, fear, promising stuff, rewards etcetera. The Fairy (little) people do similar stuff but than multiplied by 10. They can make someone see things that aren't there.
I live next to Yosemite National Park, and met up with bears, mountain lions..ect.ect.. but the scariest thing here is a squirrel! We’ve had outbreaks of bubonic plague from the fleas they carry ! Love Grandma Debbie
Great job on this story.
Keep them coming!!! ✌👍👍👍👍👍🌞
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Now this is what I'm talkin' about, most definitely my kinda shit bro!👌
I just came across your channel tonight and I'm glad I did! After listening to only a couple of your videos I subbed up quick! I'm about to start listening to the rest of your videos, so keep em' comin' brother! Appreciate ya!👊
Thank you!
Ditto! I keep listening to story after story since I stumbled onto the channel a few hours ago. So glad UA-cam suggested this channel.
@@songbird1307 That's what I'm sayin' brother! 👌
Please, keep the stories coming! I am binging on your stories. How are you not over a million subs. ❤❤
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Keep developing your channel with new, interesting features.
Eventual competition for the King, Mr. Ballen?
excellent narrating you had me captivated! As a parent of a Boy Scout, this crossed my mind ... every time they went to scout summer camp but thankfully, my son is grown and safe!
Thank you for the compliment!
I love you Channel. I always look forward seeing something new or I just go to the ones I watch. And the great job that you do for us.
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Wow great narration how sad and creepy 😳
This is a great campfire story, new subscriber!
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Wow that is so heartbreaking and sad but what a shock it would be too ,great story 💯🙏
Great channel my only complaint is there's not more videos to watch ones w/commentary anyway
Fantastic.
Thank you my friend.
You have such a nice soothing voice you are perfect for this great content watching from Melbourne Australia 🎉❤🎉
Thank you! It’s much appreciated!
I can't even imagine. I tried to stand in Dakota's shoes to live the experience but to put it simply, I wasn't there.
Pretty creepy story, can't wait to hear the next one. 👍
Thank you.
What an eerie and fascinating story, leaving the listener with only, many more questions than the mysteries of this world are willing to uncover😶
I like the stories told on Horror Channel, but I can't listen at night. Too scary. LOL.
@@sheilaburns8977 Lol, me neither... I NEVER listen to anything paranormally or horrified at night, way too creepity👻👹😱
Now it might just be me, but if I had camped in the woods and my friend disappeared, presumably dead. I'm being honest by saying I wouldn't go back to the scene for the love of money and especially alone.
However, i'm sure any criminal psychologist will tell you, killers do like revisiting their crime scenes.
I am subscribed and hooked on this channel. So scary 😫 😳
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I would like to know why Jake didn't jump into Dakota's truck & say "Let's go - get me out of here".
I find this story totally unbelievable.
Part of it should be believable, he did go missing as mentioned in this story.
This story is fictional nonsense.
It's a story,that's all. Unfortunately a whole lot of people go missing while camping in these parks and yes quite a few are kids
It's only a story.
Supposedly they were being watched,but why wouldn't the bad guys have taken advantage of the situation?
I love your stories🔥🔥🔥. They truly make u think twice about being so care-free when u go into the woods👍.
You should remain hyper alert when anywhere remote.
I cannot work out your accent but I adore it! These stories are so weird and I love that! Good luck.
But he speaks fluent English lol.
Creepy 😁 I can't wait for more stories 💜🖤💜
Poor guy being accused at such a young age of hurting his best friend... People are awful...
Think about it! You act like kids have never killed before!
Wow love this guy the way he reads amazing making it so chilling love it please keep them coming ❤️subbed!!!😂
This is a very strange story. First Jake disappeared without a trace.
Then suddenly he appears twenty years later in front of his best friend at the same spot where they went fishing.
It’s quite likely as Dakota went back there fishing all those years Jake was still alive and watching from a distance all this time.
Ppl will say what they think is the easiest explanation, their minds cannot wrap around bigger situations . I believe every word of your story.
A great story! I wonder if Dakota has done any research or has heard of others that were "taken"
The "they" in question are not known for taking anyone btw, this is odd I would love to do a privy conversation with the guy to find out what he is not telling anyone even still. by privy conversation I mean one where the details do not leave the confines of the room or ear they are spoken into as is and "Was" the ancient way of speaking on such things as of what the "they" are.
Hey I've viewed all of your stories and mann you do know how to tell a story keep it up man my favorite one was of the 8 German soldiers
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I know these are fictional stories as there is never any information on the internet about the murders, or disappearances of people in these stories. Still if it was real....why would any adult supervisors WAIT through the night before leaving in the morning to go get help?
It sounds like they had multiple vehicles....an adult could have driven down the mountain during the night, got to town, rounded up help so that they could get everything they needed to do a search and get back up the mountain to be there before or at dawn, rather than hours later.
This was 1973. Different times from now. One child missing wasn't a big deal. And it was a boy scout. So he was used to be in the woods.
@@petervermeer.4904 I was 10 in 1973, it wasn't like people were 'that' isolated from the world. We had radio, t.v., newspapers, even word of mouth.
News of a child gone missing would have been in the papers, and most papers from that era have been or are being archived digitally. And from time to time, local news would do an update on 'that kid, that went missing 5 years ago' and wonder why he didn't write home. :P
So there would probably something on the internet, even if it's some blog from some small town historian who recalls the story and has clippings from the papers back then and photos of the person missing.
Also, many obituaries were listed back then and are a part of a city/county/state's records.
But as I said, these are fictional stories - None of them can be confirmed on the internet with all of it's recourses for looking up names, archived files, or courthouse documents...etc.
When I first visited the USA I had never seen so many pictures of missing people mostly teens in one supermarket that I was overwhelmed, this story reminds me of Stephen King!s Storm of the Century movie...
I know if I returned to the place were my friend disappeared no matter how long it had been I would be heavily armed. I don't think I could leave my friend even if it required my life. The fight would be on. Maybe if he were well armed and stood up for Jake he would have come with him.
Man, what a tale. If it's true, how could he not go back? I don't care how scared I was, I would not be able to think about anything else until I went back and tried to get some answers.
It's not true
@dshe8637 thank God
@@dshe8637 how are you so sure?
@@heliosgnosis2744 it's a fiction channel
It's Fiction, a couple of people looked it up. It's just a Fictional Horror story
The remote country is beautiful of nature. I lived in a cabin surrounded by trees. I heard noises at night. I decided to move.I can't imagine loosing a friend. 😢😢
There is something in the Woods..
@@petervermeer.4904 yes, I would see a light ( flash light ?). Near, The house kind of near, no one stayed there in the winter. I didn't take chances. I just moved.
@@petervermeer.4904 yes definetly. I live a remote city in Canada. The cabin was beautiful. At nights was very eerie . Lots of trees, appears super dark. Moving was a good move...especially the flashlight. Definetly kept outside lights on.
Stories like these remind me of the movie and the book "the shack".
The family goes on a camping trip, little girl named missy comes up missing.
No one knows what happened to missy.
This story here, I’m speechless. Is this real? Jake just coming out of the woods hairy, shoeless & literally dirty. A 13 yr old when he was taken away from the campsite away from his friend away from his parents to just show up 20 yrs later. Wow! And Dakota not to ask further important questions or try to take Jake away from there & back to his parents .. these stories are fascinating
No. It isn't real.
No not real. I don’t mean it’s made up. The narrator is likely telling the truth as he remembers it. What happened is #1 a tragedy (the boy was abducted and killed) and #2 the capitalizing on a tragedy (demons often appear as dead victims to perpetuate the false belief that a mysterious soul survives physical death and lurks about. They are master deceivers). In this case it was not death and survival as the method since he never said he was dead but watch the comments carefully and you will see the number of people who suggest this was the case. It’s nearly an ingrained deception at this point. Demons know this
Good story x I enjoyed it xx
Thank you!
My God😢this story is so frightening. Also so sad. 😮
This is truly a terrifying story, I don't believe I could ever go camping, if you know what I mean!!??
Interesting…. It sounds like Jake adjusted to his new friends & home, yet so so many questions 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
As one of many who love to listen to these types of scary stories to fall asleep to, I LOVE these! I like them short, because I DO like to actually listen to them, this way I don't have to search thru so much, for where I fell asleep at...ha...
I do not care for gory stuff & murder.. I watch a lot of crime shows, so going to sleep with that isn't so cool. 😬
Thank you!
I think I’m probably a little older than you, although it’s hard to tell. I’m 68. When I was growing up mostly in Arizona, but a little in New Mexico and finally Colorado, there used to be radio stations, AM stations, that in the evening would broadcast radio hour mystery stories. All the effects were done in the studio as these were usually broadcast live. Most were stories like the one we listened to here. I can remember making several trips to Texas in my ‘68 bug, and I usually traveled in the afternoon and night because it was cooler (no AC in a bug!). The radio stations were usually in central to northern states, so you had to hope that conditions were good for ‘skip’ so you could hear the story. Mostly, as I recall, these were hour long stories. Every now and then I could pick up some of the stations from my house in Colorado, but the same ‘skip’ conditions applied. Usually the stories were broadcast in the late evening, 10 or 11pm. Your comment reminded me of the enjoyment I had growing up. I thought I would pass on some of the ‘good old days’ that I would sure wish were still around so kids today could enjoy them as much as I did. Take care!
Never had a friend disappear, can’t say how I would feel
I was a girl scout and my brother a year younger than me was a boy scout, we weren't allowed to go with our troops for the weeklong camping trip, I got my badge because I was allowed to go on a camping trip for a weekend.
There was a Jacob Swenson in my 3rd grade class 1980-81. 😮
Did you repost this? I swear just heard this.
Updated/edited version
@Horrorstiry Channel Ah. Thank you. It was worth a second listen.
@@horrorstirychannel2930 weird I couldn’t find where anything had changed. If there was any substantial changes or updates I’d love to know what that was. I listened again last night. Assuming it was a different story. I did listen to the original and I could not find anything changed or added. Kinda weird.
I believe you mate ,,,honestely I really do, thank you for telling us your story, God bless you
Anyone that goes in to the woods with out a firearm is just asking for it you never know who or what you might run in to.
I can not imagine not asking a ton of questions, this was a best friend. How could you just abandon him, not try to rescue him? There had to have been more said than what’s here.
Because Jacob was serious and HE knew it!!
My favorite channel.
Thank you!
I don't believe it; If that were my best friend, I'd call in the cavalry to help my buddy and right as soon as I could. I wouldn't give a damn who wouldn't believe me, either. However, I've heard of things like lucid dreaming, where the thoughts in your imagination and reality are indistinguishable.
Why didn't you ask him to leave immediately with you?
Fascinating yet heartbreaking. Definitely enough angles for a plot to a big budget movie.
Are these stories you tell Fiction or Non Fiction?
Great and sad storytelling, I wonder if the feral people took him? Fiction or not, I believe it could've be possible since a lot of people goes missing in the woods
Spooky and weird - very disturbing and disconcerting… except I have to say, I find it difficult to believe that a grown adult would freak-out and irresponsibly bolt as is noted in the story… logically, I’d wager most would further pursue their lost friend and simultaneously alert authorities….
If a grown hairy person approach me I would freak out too. In the woods or not.
These are great wee stories I like how they’re narrated
Thank you! It’s much appreciated!
I've seen this story before, and it's one of the most bizarre disappearances I've ever heard of. Who took Jake, where did they take him, why wasn't he able to leave and go home? Is he still out there somewhere? Was that really Jake, or some entity disguised as him? It's all very odd.
He was taken by Gnomes or Elves. They spent their time mostly underground.
And they do their "magic" so that's why the victim doesn't run away. Sounds strange maybe. But think of people in a cult.
A cult leader can use all sorts of tricks to keep someone under his control. Hypnosis, brainwashing, fear, promising stuff, rewards etcetera. The Fairy (little) people do similar stuff but than multiplied by 10. They can make someone see things that aren't there.
Sasquach! They can talk..highly intelligent 😮
Some of you know already --- while "Horrorstiry"s stories are entertaining - they are all FICTION ! Horrorstiry gives you dates and places of these "events", but they never happened in real life. But thanks for the entertainment anyway.
Great story! I was almost there until the “really hairy” part. But it was an exceptional effort.
I'm having deja vu or I'm bugging the hell out!!! Didn't you do this story about 10 days -14 days ago and wasn't there a picture of a platoon of boy scouts with circles around 2 of the boy scouts ' head. If you didn't tell this story before then it's happening to me again!!!! Holy shit I have to go play the lottery and use those numbers that keep popping up in my mind!!!! Great story.... again!?!?!💯😱🤪🤪😂😂🤔😲🤑👁️... I'm super serious about hearing you tell this story before!!!!
This is heartbreaking 😢😢 I can't imagine what Dakota must've felt after such an ordeal 😱😱😱 really scarey 💯👍♥️
Great stories/accounts yet such a simple format, yet it works perfectly. Taken by Sasquatch maybe? There’s a few accounts of them taking kids.
That's what I was thinking.
This story gave me the chills!! Sad and absolutely terrifying! We don't know what is out in the woods! Thanks!
You’re welcome! Thank you!
That is truly terrifying
If the event in 1995 wasn't an hallucination, it could have been some guy pranking Dakota, someone who knew about the disappearance and who knew that Jake occasionally returned to the spot to fish. Still, it would be hard to know exactly when he would be there and go to the trouble of waiting in the woods in costume to emerge just when Dakota showed up. Conceivably it could be some off-grid character who had heard about the case and just decided to pretend to be Jake when he saw the man at the lake...but how would he recognize the adult Dalota? It's not likely that a 13-year-old kid could have survived twenty years in the woods on his own, or even with some old hermit, without someone knowing about it. IF this story is true, it is weird.
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cool story. it reads like a story that could have been written in the nineteen fifties. the bit about waiting until morning to tell the police makes me skeptical about it being real.
Wow. I live in England, I can’t really comprehend a ‘wilderness’ such as described here. We have the Yorkshire Moors and the Highlands of Scotland but they are as nothing compared to this.
It was not your friend, what you seen was one of the shape shifters, its a creature that can mimics humans.
Also possible. "They" can make you see and hear things that aren't there.
@petervermeer.4904 we know that, but the average brainwashed person does not know these secrets.
When I was younger, I used to go hiking with my aunt. They lived in bear country so she always brought her .45 magnum just in case as we would hike in summer and cross country skiing in winter. We only had a close encounter once thank goodness. Never had to actually use her pistol.
Good story. Creepy. Just now saw this same story on another channel. How so?
Thank you! Getting swiped and copied by other channels.
@@horrorstirychannel2930 I thought so. Yours was told before.
I was only able to find one other reference to this case, and it was also on a scary story video. Unless more evidence is presented, I will assume it is just a story. Both the narrator and Jacob would be in their mid sixties by now.
Oooh that was a good one!
This is so sad😢
I love these stories! Are any of them real?
Why didn't he try to take him with him? The only thing I would have loaded up was Jake. The hell with the fishing shit.
That was a good story. mystery to it.👍🇮🇪💚
Thank you!
I am sorry, I don't know if it's from his own loss or the psychological guilt of not being able to help his friend, but I don't believe the sighting. If nothing else, I would get other friends to go with me, go armed, whatever was necessary to get my friend out. I don't believe you, and I also don't care. I am, however, sorry for the loss of your friend.
What a strange story. Wow.
Great story !! Hope it was not true. I would hate to think of his family missing him and not being able to get closure. GOD bless us all.
Missing 411
Very similar to another story about a man camping with his girlfriend..
Cool
Feral people???
You do have some hair-raising, scary stories!
Thank you!
Dakota should have told everything to Jake's parents. They believed he was alive. People always want to know the truth. And if some feral people are taking children, the authorities should know about it.
This story reminds me of David Paulides Missing 411... disappeared people in forests or woods...no trace no signs of struggle...just gone...
So where did this happen? What state, what area etc.?
Sounds eerily like another story I've recently read. Just can't remember the details of where or when
Amazing story. It would be a great campfire story.
Thank you!