Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 3: Stay Out of the Woods, #3

By Tom Lyons

The woods have fascinated outdoor enthusiasts for millennia. Thousands seek solace in the beauty of nature while exploring the lush forests of our planet. But sometimes, folks find something that doesn't want to be found—dangers that should only lurk in the corner of your eye. If you buy this book, prepare to be shocked, scared, and even terrified.

These are your survival stories, your terrifying encounters, your impossible tales with the most frightening creatures on Earth no one wants to believe because they're too terrifying—and they don't like us.

The Stay Out of the Woods series offers readers a uniquely different, chilling, and unfiltered perspective about the most bizarre, dangerous, and unexpected encounters with nature's most elusive creatures.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Lyons Books
• Release date: Jul 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798224870059

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Report #1

Back in the year 2007 , I began the most mind-boggling, unsettling period of my life. It forced me to learn a valuable lesson. There are things in this world that we’re not yet able to understand. Sometimes embracing the unknown can even save lives.

My name is Elliot, and I was lucky enough to marry the girl of my dreams, Jennifer, in the summer of 1999. She was a girl that I had had an enormous crush on throughout high school but had never had the guts to ask out on a date. I suppose you could say I was a late bloomer and didn’t acquire confidence until after I had finished college. By that point, everything was different in my life. I had a good job. I exercised and socialized regularly. In other words, I had found myself.

Growing up in Connecticut, it wasn’t uncommon for my peers to move to New York City after school. It seemed like most students in my high school class moved out there at some point. When I bumped into Jennifer at a grungy bar in Brooklyn, it felt as though it was finally my time to make up for my past lack of courage. Embarrassingly enough, she didn’t even recognize me at the start of our conversation. When I reminded her of my full name, she even had trouble recalling that we graduated from the same high school. But none of that discouraged me because I could tell that she was intrigued by our reintroduction.

One thing led to another, and before we knew it, we got hitched. After we married, we purchased a cozy little condo in Brooklyn that was walking distance from various restaurants, pubs, and concert venues. Life felt perfect, that is, until I started having what I initially assumed were merely night terrors.

The first time it happened, Jennifer was away visiting her parents back in Connecticut. I was in the bathroom connected to our bedroom when I noticed an alarming silhouette in the reflection of the medicine cabinet mirror. Frankly, it was just like one of those scenes in a horror movie where the victim closes the door and spots a figure standing behind them. To say it was disturbing would be to put it lightly. I had my electric toothbrush in my mouth at the time, and I was so startled that I lost control of it, causing toothpaste to spill all over my bare chest. But when I turned around, there was nothing there.

It wasn’t one of those situations where I mistook a piece of furniture or a dresser for an intruder; I saw facial features and all during that brief moment. But since I could tell that I wasn’t dreaming, I concluded that I must’ve hallucinated it. I had never dealt with anything even remotely close to this leading up to that point. I don’t think I even knew anyone who claimed to have experienced anything paranormal. And it was maybe because of that that I had never had much interest regarding the realm of unexplained mysteries.

The strange face and shape of the figure made it seem as though I had imagined someone dressed in a Halloween costume. Since there was no longer any trace of what I deemed to be a delusion, I continued onward with my night as though nothing unusual ever happened. But it was early in the morning, around 3:00, that I abruptly woke for what I thought was no reason. But then I saw what