Why is that? This trail I frequent has always been silent n I’ve been going to it for years. Is it cuz of the winter. I’ve also found it strange too cuz other trails usually are full of life
@@ravindecavalier2912 no it means there’s a bigger predator than you…😂 usually the type of predator most people from the city don’t believe in. Ya know it stands usually 9 Ft to 12 foot tall. Hairy and smells worse then death.
This is exactly what I came here to comment. A friend and I were on that trail and it was the strangest thing, I’ll never forget it was pure silence. We sat there for a couple minutes after I brought it to her attention and nothing. No wind , no bugs , no leaving cracking or birds. It was as if it was muted, very strange to experience and still don’t know why . It was like that the entire time we were out there
@@ravindecavalier2912 animals hibernate in the Winter, but when you're in a trail in the midst of Summer with birds chirping and insects buzzing and it all goes silent all of a sudden, there might be something Strange or Dangerous around. In that case never Talk, If you're with other people get Out there and communicate with Hand signals. It might Just be a bear but it could be something worse...
I have experienced that complete silence before on my hikes in the GSM....So silent that my ears would be humming. No birds or any noise what so ever....it is so creepy and terrifing
December 10th 2007. I was hiking alone and when I reached Preacher’s rock trailhead I stoped at the parking spot for a break and there was an old grandpa wearing a bright and old green sweater that stinked kinda bad. He was sitting on the back of his van with a golden retriever so I asked him if I could pet his dog ( as I have 2 golden retrievers and they’re the best dogs) he said yes and he started asking me where I was from and what do I do for a living? And if I was hiking alone or in a group? He also asked me if a have any guns or knifes because last week there was a mountain lion attack that almost killed a hiker. I told him not I don’t have a gun but I have a small pocket knife that I showed him. He said that’s not enough to kill a mountain lion. I was like well I hope I don’t encounter one. Then we chatted for a little bit and he started ranting about the federal government. And before I was leaving he told me If he could join me on the trail because he really wanted to hike up but he being an old man and suffering from heart conditions so if something happens to him at least I could tell police where he was. I felt something, a strange sensation in my gut by the way his eyes looked. He had some really penetrating gaze and he would always make direct eye contact that I couldn’t hold so I would look away for some seconds. After thinking what should I say this old grandpa I told him “I’m sorry but I’m in a hurry and I really want to walk fast to get to the top before sunset” he kinda looked mad and said aight I’ll just wait for someone else. I proceeded to hit the trail but I could never forget his gaze. Even tho he was an old man his gaze gave me a bad vibe and I was thinking about it the whole trail. 25 days later when I was at home I watched this same guy in a mugshot on the news channel so I turned the volume up because I was intrigued I thought he died on the trial (because he told me he had heart problems) to find out he kidnapped and killed a girl about 15 miles on another parking lot. The guy I interacted with was fcking serial killer Gary Michael Hilton. I think he asked the same questions and told the same story to Meredith Emerson and she was kind and good hearted so she agreed to hike with the “old grandpa with heart problems”. So now I don’t trust anyone even if they have good intentions and they greet me I just say hi and continue my hike without stopping and if they ask me to stop to ask me a questions I just say sorry I’m in a hurry and keep going. I also carry a 9mm Glock 43x. It’s small and concealable. Another crazy experience happend another year before when I was hiking and at the distance I saw a naked old guy just walking around. So I freaked out and stopped before he was gone. Stay safe guys. Never trust anyone. Edit2023; for those saying it’s a fake story because you’ve seen this same post on other videos. Well maybe read the username before making claims. It’s me sharing my story, I also shared it on Reddit with the same username. Why would I lie? Also thanks to everyone who shared their stories as well. I’m glad we made it but it’s kinda sad to think about how many people are gone that maybe had problems with their family members and stoped communication with them and they’re forever gone without anyone asking about them.
I can't believe no one has responded to your comment. Wth. Lol. Anyway, so glad your intuition kicked in and you followed it. It's crazy how many weirdos are out there and many of them prey on others in the wilderness. Once, when I was very young, about 10 or so, my sister (who was 6) and I had a chilling experience, though we didn't even realize it at the time. We lived on a long one lane road and often played in a field across the creek from our home above the Capon River. We were used to seeing outsiders and tourists travel through to the many campgrounds along the water. This particular day, an older man parked his car nearby our play area and called to us. We were hesitant to go, so he got out of his car and asked if we could walk down to the river where he had been walking to help him find his glasses. He said he couldn't see a thing. We really wanted to help him but I said we'd have to ask permission from our parents first. I hollered for my father, who was already heading our way and the man said nevermind, he'd just buy a new set and off he went. Dad was somber afterwards and said he didn't believe that man lost his glasses at all as he drove away. I've never forgotten that day in all my years and have been thankful that my father taught us to ask before leaving sight of the house. Who knows what that man's intentions may have been and if we'd have made it. Had we gone just over the ridge towards the river, no one could have seen us.
It’s a wonder he didn’t follow you 😳or wait for you at night (if you followed the same route back). I’d be so nervous the rest of the hike that it would be ruined. How old were you at the time? & what is ur physical build ?? Do u think he had already killed at the time you met him?
That sounds like a panicked cow. I would have investigated. Also would have walked her off the trail. Cows will not survive the winter on their own. With breeding for domestication, they rarely retain the ability to survive by free foraging in deep snow. When you get further north, such a sound might be a moose off key. lol Trek on. Love the silence of a solo hike. Thanks for sharing.
I spent a few nights on the trail alone & one night I heard the craziest sounding something-or-another. Every time it made a sound it was closer than the last time. Eventually it was right outside my tent. Then it moved on. I was in Massachusetts at the time where I was born & raised & to this day I've never heard anything like it before or since. It sounded like a combination of about 5-6 different animals in one. I understand that animals can make certain sounds we don't hear often, but I lived up in the Berkshires surrounded by the woods for years & never heard anything like it. It was definitely a unique sound. I had been on the trail with my kid & because of something going on with some nutcase I had her go stay with family for a few days. Literally, the first night alone & that thing came trapsing through.
That sounds like a cow bellowing. Anyone that spends alot of time in nature knows there is no predator issue when the forest is still, chirping and twittering. There would be ABSOLUTE silence no birds, frogs, crickets, NOTHING BUT SILENCE.
Sounds like a moose. Might be easier to identify if while you're recording you stopped walking on the noisy gravel for 10 or 20 seconds. Just a thought.
Having had a very serious encounter.. u are 100% correct.. listen to "dogman encounters" with vic cundiff.. its one of the most prevalent circumstances when having real encounters... the woods will be "ALIVE" with life.. then out of nowhere... it will cease.. generally when a person walks into a vast wooded area.. things are silent BECAUSE the person is the predator "in the wildlife eyes".. but after 5 min.. they go back to normal realizing the human is just trotting along not harming anything.. but when you have spent a hour hiking through dense woodlands... and you get that instant dead silence... thats when your situational awareness meter should be through the roof.. fight or flight instincts kick in and its now time to take your travels very serious... 9/10 times.. its a mistaken identity of a sound your hearing... vixen fox calls.. raccoons.. can sound like a woman screaming bloody murder... even seasoned outdoorsman can mistake it.
Very good advice. At that point hide. Unless you have a GE mini gun with ammo pack. But this not Fallout but real life. So yes not good when the woods go quite.
people say this all the time but some places are just quiet, especially forests up in the foothills of mountains. also animals that would be quiet if there were "predators" around would be quiet if there were people around too. not to mention animals that are specifically loud around predators like squirrels. if bugs and birds don't care about you they don't care about predators.
i'm from east-central KY, live in the mountains now, grew up on a farm. couldn't help but giggle myself, like tell me you're from the city without saying you're from the city, lol. i think people need to seriously listen to animal sounds before they start traipsing around these woods, to familiarize themselves, cuz they're liable to get got by any number of animals out here. specially if they ain't even able to tell a durn cow from a bear, lol! that's your sign your ass ain't really got no business in these woods
@@rsuriyop sometimes cattles escape the farms or they just live in the wilderness. That's a normal thing which we don't expect because we only think that tamed animals live on the farms.
@@rsuriyop also, "wilderness" (esp in the eastern part of the u.s.) isn't always far from people. Sometimes city folk just think they're in the middle of nowhere from the lack of their familiar surroundings
Sounds like Elk to me, but the scariest noise we've ever heard at night in the woods, is the screaming of a fox. If you've never heard it it will seriously send chills down your spine like never before. Search that on RU-vid.
@@zhongxena1155 I am living testament to such testimony, yes you are correct. I could not sleep due to the noise of the night, irrational fears of the lone camper killing me in my sleep because he was bragging about how great of a fighter, pig hunter and shooter he was in a brief introductory conversation me and my buddy had with him upon our arrival to the camp ground.
yeah i live where sleepy creek is in the eastern panhandle and bro i hear the neighbours cattle from bout a mile and half out from me they are loud asf
First time I heard that noise I was 28. I threw my clothes on and went out into the street to rescue that poor woman. Only to find a couple of foxes having the time of their life @@emmsue1053
Two times in a forest I frequent I heard what sounded like man wailing but if a man was mixed with a cow, and it was echoing through the woods. And I only heard it twice. I go there all the time and it’s terrifying.
You guys have never heard cows before?? I grew up near cows, camped near cows, and worked near cows. This is their warning sign to gather/move on if they hear something going on nearby. They're sounding out to each other.
@@susanglenn9402 it's an iconic element from the movie Deliverance, which btw has a great premise and character development in the story. It's actually fantastic in many ways, but it very much mostly has a stigma that demonized rural people (& places) as one of the main characters who happens to be a man gets raped (opposed to countless movies where women have unwanted sexual advances that are actually shown onscreen) There's much more about the movie that could be unpacked, but I think that could sum up why people get horrified
When I was hiking I heard what I thought was a baby crying. All of my motherly instinct said go help it. Till a passing hiker informed me it was a mountain lion and to keep moving lol 😂
Mountain lions and other big cats have some very "interesting" calls, they would scare the crap out of me, also some owls....freaky blood curdling calls. 😮
It's for sure a squatch .... Imitating the sound of a COW . Never leave the cul-de-sac , stay under the street lights , and NEVER go where there is no cell service and wifi 😂
I use to live in Boone/Blowing Rock NC & back then i was homeless & a severe alcoholic. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth but it does hold mysteries that mankind will never understand.
Lol, thats a cow in someones field 😂. I grew up listening to those sounds. When we heard the cows making this bellow one of us would shout..."Get off her Ronnie!" (One of the friends was named Ronnie🙂).
Those mountains scare the crap out of me. Been through Tennessee and western NC a few times. They're beautiful and I'm not inherently afraid of mountains as I grew up in the rockies in CO. There's just something about the Appalachian mountains that make my whole being; body, mind, and soul say, "nope.".
Yeah I live in western NC and sometimes when your deep in the woods hiking alone you randomly get chills and start to act cautious. Could just be me as I’m a very cautious guy and nothing bad has happened to me so yeah.
I live 5 minutes from several different AT access points and hike these mountains all the time. I’ll pack a blanket, iron skillet, fishing pole, and just hike in and camp right on the ground. Nothing around here to be afraid of. I’ve been really, really deep in the woods before and felt like something was watching me, and when I tell you this story you probably won’t believe it. But I’ve never been afraid. My dad and 3 friends (whom he worked with in the mines) were “coon hunting” one night and we had a few prize winning red ticks. My uncle gave over $6,000 for one of them. All amazing hunting dogs, never chased deer or anything else other than the scent of a coon. Anyway, dad (+3) had let the dogs go and back then you didn’t have tracking collars nor gps…so you let your dogs go, walk a bit, then stop and listen for the direction the dogs were barking and you just walked in that direction until you found your “tree’d dogs”. They let the dogs go and they topped a ridge, but they weren’t staying in one place. It was like they had tree’d, but they were running across the top of the ridge (left to right back and forth) taking a fit. So, dad +3 stopped to sit down and build a fire to make coffee and wait until the dogs stopped in one place. (My dad was a coal miner and feared nothing. He ran a “continuous miner” which dug the coal out so he was the first one in.) So, they’re sitting by the fire drinking coffee and talking and they’d been there about 45 minutes (they guessed) and were getting fed up with waiting on these dogs to tree. One of the guys said “Well I wish whatever they’re after would just run straight down through here!”. Dad said it wasn’t but maybe 15-20 minutes and they hear something HUGEEEEE breaking brush and small trees coming straight down toward them. He said they thought it had to be a bear, which would just run on by if the dogs were after it. The brush they were next to split wide open and this huge thing landed on one of the guys’ back and rolled over the fire! The others grabbed guns and a hefty tree branch and started beating the crap outta this thing across its back. They rolled a little more and it jumped up on its two hind legs and started running down the mountain, and they watched it until it disappeared with fire on its back. Dad said it had very long, course hair and its face looked like a gorilla, but being in the mountains of deep southwest Virginia, they knew it couldn’t be. My dad died back in 1997 from lung cancer and he swore this to his dying day. The other 3 are still living and they still swear to it. The city of Norton erected a Bigfoot statue in the park above the city because so many people have had run ins with these things. There’s no doubt whatsoever in my mind that what they encountered that night was indeed, the legendary Bigfoot. (None of them went coon hunting for quite a while, nor would they be caught in the woods at night, for a very long time.) After that, when me and dad would go hunting, he was always looking around more than he ever had on any of our other hunts.
As well they should. There's people from the Appalachian mountains that don't go in the Appalachian mountains. I know that's kind of hard to understand but those who live in the Appalachians know what I'm talking about. Don't go poking around much. You might get poked back.
I was hiking a trail on the mountains, and have an even scarier noise. The total lack of any noise at all. Me and my friends heard birds and cicadas one moment, and absolutely nothing the next second. Considering that it went on for more than 15 seconds, we decided to get out of there. No clue why it happened, but glad I wasn’t there to find out
Right. If the woods go silent, a predator has arrived. Pick up a big stick, keep to the trail, and walk deliberately. No fear vibes, and you'll be okay. Predators avoid one another, and you're one of them.
@@lukasmakarios4998 was walking down from the summit of one of the local mountains. About 5mi away from the trailhead the woods went dead quiet. Even the crickets and squirrels stfu. For about another mile and a half it was dead quiet. I had seen a juvenile cougar earlier that day who came a little too close for comfort before I caught my chameleon giving the focused look they normally only give bugs and puffed tf out on my shoulder. Figured that was what it was hunting me then. Used my phone camera to keep an eye on my back jic and walked my ass out of there. Never saw what it was that made the woods go silent though. Even with large predators the bugs usually keep going though as they know simba's estranged cousin isn't interested in them. But yeah, anything making that much noise like the cow in the video aint a threat. Unless it's a moose. Moose are evil. Anything that could or would hunt and take down a human you arent going to hear coming.
That's a donkey or a cow, or other barnyard livestock. This must be someone who grew up in an urban environment. "Terrifying." lol (I enjoyed the video, though.)
Well yeah, it very well could be terrifying to someone who grew up in an urban environment. I could almost guarantee that you were a little spooked the first time you heard something like that until you learned what it was.
@@Space_CowboyHD You should be scared by strange sounds that could be coming from an animal. Animals can kill you. Personally, the first time I heard a cow making a loud sound like that [Around 3 years after moving to a rural area], I was scared. And that was a good thing, because I didn’t know what was making the sound and it could have been dangerous. If I hadn’t been scared and it turned out to be coming from something which wanted to hurt me, then I may have died or been seriously injured.
It's just cattle. I live in the geographic center of West Virginia where it's nothing but country. I've heard this sound my whole life from cattle nearby. Its nothing to be afraid of. However, if I did not already know that cows make that noise, it would definitely scare me.
I was walking a narrow ridge in Smokies & hear flapping like a helicopter whirring got loud but couldn't see copter, then noticed a flock of turkeys trying to fly. They did about a yard off ground for about 30 feet. Amazing noise.
What you heard is called Bovinus sinisterious. They inhabit some portions of the trail and are responsible for most animal related injuries and fatalities on the AT. I would be very careful; youre lucky it didnt catch your scent.
hiking videos like this worth a million to watch. You people are lucky to have lived in places with a very wide areas of hiking trails. We envy you, we are islanders.
OK so that’s the sound of a moose. When you’re on the Appalachian Trail, as long as you can hear the birds, animals, the wind blowing…you’re good. Its when everything fall silent that you need to worry…
@@78dogrun Well, a mature male moose is called a bull, and a mature female a cow… We care for moose on our land and are accustomed to hearing them all day.
@@78dogrun Domestic cows don’t scream…Bull moose make several noises, including a loud bellow, as well as croaks, barks and screaming. Cows make long quavering moans, ending in cough-like moo-aghs, and a grunt like noise. Usually around mid September early October when the moose are in rut, you will hear them frequently…and there are plenty of moose on the northern ridge and throughout most of the northern valleys of the AT.
If you pan to the right, you'd see the cleared field where the terrifying noises originate... probably the source of milk for your cereal or next roast.
