SO EP:637 Forest Ranger Confessions
In this episode, Carl—a retired forest ranger—shares his full, unedited account of six encounters that changed the course of his 25-year career with the U.S. Forest Service. From 1994 to 2019, Carl worked in wildlife tracking and wilderness patrol, but early on, a senior ranger showed him a footprint and warned him about things they don’t put in reports. That moment marked the beginning of a quiet obsession.Carl eventually left the job five years before qualifying for full pension. What drove him out was a long trail of unexplained phenomena—patterns he could no longer ignore, and stories the agency refused to acknowledge. His encounters span decades and locations, from Oregon to the Adirondacks, each one revealing signs of intelligence, curiosity, and restraint from something that doesn’t officially exist.
We hear about a Vietnam vet stalked through the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in 1974. A ranger whose remote cabin in Colorado was examined nightly by something that left gifts and tested the walls. A deputy in Kentucky whose search team recovered hunters after days of being watched by something that left massive footprints. A software engineer whose solo retreat turned into a strange, silent communication using stones and twigs. A rescue volunteer who found a bone-lined cave near where a missing woman reappeared with braided hair she didn’t remember. And finally, a Seattle couple who captured clear video of a massive figure arranging objects and leaving fish as gifts—an event that pushed Carl to go public. What ties these encounters together is a pattern.
The creatures leave food, stones, and handmade arrangements. They study tents, cabins, and gear without aggression. They approach but do not harm. And over time, they’ve grown bolder—closer, more deliberate, as if testing the idea of contact.Carl also exposes how the system handles these stories. Official reports always blame bears. Quietly, rangers and deputies keep their own records, bound by an unspoken agreement to protect the truth from bureaucracy.
Carl has spent decades collecting these accounts, and now he stores them in a secure unit, with instructions to pass them to researchers after he’s gone.After hundreds of cases, Carl is certain: we’re not alone in the forests. These beings are real, intelligent, and have been here longer than we have. And lately, something in their behavior has shifted.Carl ends with this advice for anyone who senses they're being watched in the wild: be calm, let them know you see them, and back away slowly. Whatever they are, they’re watching. And they remember.
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