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The Haunted Forest …
Discovered: The Haunted Forest
It’s the Fall of 2004, and I’m standing in a remote swath of ancient forest in Redwood National and State Parks. Cold fog penetrates my jeans, my sweatshirt. My hair is washcloth-damp and cold. It’s a Saturday morning.
Owing to the heavy fog, visibility is down to 50 feet. My pickup truck is parked a mile away, uphill. And despite the fact that I’ve hiked into this desolate cathedral of old growth for the explicit purpose of encountering a fabled, 800-pound, uncatalogued primate that I had good reason to believe may live here, I very much want to be back in my truck. Right now. With the doors locked and windows rolled up, heater on high and whizzing by Orick’s burl stands, on my way home to Eureka.
And yet to reach the truck — to reach safety — I first have to overcome a prickly labyrinth of sticker-brush, dangling spider webs and a graveyard of chest-high, ancient redwood logs. Not to mention the near-vomit-inducing, Blair Witch fear that permeates my shivering body.
I hear them. The nearest designated hiking trail is at least a mile away, and these woods bear absolutely no sign of human visitation. I’m perfectly alone. And yet, all around me — emanating from just beyond the radius of my visibility, just out of sight in this gloomy cloudworld — I hear them: knock, knock, knock. Always a series of three reports, and always answered by a corresponding trio of knocks, only coming from a different location, roughly surrounding me.
Someone, or something, is communicating .
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