Never Whistle Alone In The Forest: True Scary Hiking Experiences

Hey guys, today we're going to be

discussing an encounter that one of my

subscribers went through while wild

camping over a week with his dog. Now,

I'm on my work break,

so going to try and cover this as

compacty as possible. If you are new,

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channel, just leave a like. So this

particular encounter

is something that took around 3 to 4

hours to understand on a call and he

went through pretty much every detail

there was to go through from why he was

there, why he was camping. Basically all

you guys need to know is that this guy

goes camping pretty much every month and

he goes for between 3 to 6 days.

And when he goes, he tends to go with a

purpose of just relaxing. So this

subscriber had a history of like

depression, mental health issues and

stuff. And he always used to say that

doing this would kind of reset his mind

and relax him. But after what just

happened to him uh last month actually,

now the weather's heating up. We got uh

you know, some warmer temperatures. He's

back out doing the wild camps uh in the

national parks. He mostly does it in his

van on campsites that are on the edge of

the national parks. But um

yeah, if I'm out of breath, you guys,

it's cuz the tripod is so heavy. I need

to get a new setup and also my um

shoulders like busted up. So, he was

doing this wild camp, right? And he took

his dog. Uh it's a German Shepherd. The

guy is roughly in his 50s. He's of good

health um physically anyway. But uh he

was doing this to reset his mind and to

relax. And he would sometimes go up to

10 mi, 20 mi into the forest. Um and

when he would do this, he would feel

fine. He would rarely meet anyone. He

said he would sometimes meet other

hikers and trekers, but it would never

be something that he was nervous about,

worried, or anything like that because

he never really dealt with anxiety. was

always depression and coming out to

places like this,

fresh air and just amazing trees would

relax him. So he would come out for

retreats for 3 to 6 days and it would

allow him to reset and just relax.

So he was on this trip. He was 3 days

into this one week wild camp. He had

left his van, locked everything up, you

know, given a couple treats and biscuits

to his dog, and he set off on a trail

that he said was supposed to be an

outback, not a loop. So on outback

trails, they can go forever. You'll just

get lost. So you have to, you know, like

prep a point either with your GPS or

your map of when you're going to just

turn around cuz otherwise it gets too

long and too strenuous

and you can get lost getting stranded

out in the forest. you guys in the

night. It's dangerous as hell. Doesn't

matter what you've got, what sidearm or

torch.

There's things out there which I'll be

covering on this channel which uh no

bullet ain't going to stop. Let's just

say that. So, this guy gets out there.

It's beautiful day like today. He said

pretty much no clouds, uh 5 mph, 6 m per

hour winds, and um he's pretty chill.

He's loving life. uh his dog uh I can't

remember her name but uh she's around

seven or eight so she's you know full of

beans, full of energy and she's just

leaping around. She loves the trails and

he's going on his way. Now the trail he

was on was much shorter than this one.

This trail I'm on is big. It's for

vehicles really. So

um his was a quarter of this. Very very

small. And he said that he could tell

that no one was really walking it

because it was so overgrown at the sides

and there was a lot of like grass like

here, but natural grass, not like um you

know people's grass they have in um

gardens and stuff. So

he's walking along, things are going

okay. He's super chill and he started

whistling. Now, he pointed this out to

me that he doesn't tend to whistle. And

he didn't know why he started whistling.

Just something within him wanted to

whistle. When he hikes, he doesn't

listen to podcasts. He doesn't listen to

music cuz he's a firm believer that you

should always be able to hear your

surroundings. And although he was never

anxious or scared, he understood that,

you know, you just it's like bikers when

they sometimes wear um headphones and

the earpieces. uh it's it's not really a

good idea in my opinion and I used to be

a biker. Some of my friends would do it

is okay, you've got your helmet on, but

it's best to always still be able to

hear uh what's going on around you cuz

if someone comes up behind you and you

haven't got headphones in, you're going

to be able to hear their footsteps

unless you have some very um bad hearing

issue or you have hearing aids or

something. So this guy was just hiking

along this this very very narrow trail

and he starts whistling and the next

thing he realizes he's he starts hearing

unusual whistles. So if you listen now

you can hear the birds maybe just about.

I don't know how good the mic is on this

camera. Um I'm going to get a new mic to

attach to it so stay tuned for that. And

a less heavy tripod as well. My

shoulders are going to be big and strong

by the end of this. But um wow you guys,

this bit up here is beautiful. So he was

actually um whistling, you know, and he

stopped and he was like, "Doesn't sound

like a bird whistle. It doesn't sound

natural. It didn't sound normal." So he

stopped whistling immediately. And this

particular whistle sounded like it came

from

maybe he said around 300 y away. And I

was like, "How the hell can you tell

that?" Cuz that's a long way away. 300 y

across a field is long. Like to hear

someone whistle, they'd have to have one

of those powerful whistles, you know,

like those soccer players and stuff and

the referees. So he said, "Well, yeah,

that's what it sounded like, but it

didn't really make sense where it was

coming from." Cuz if you whistle or yell

at someone from a clear field, there's

not much that's going to be absorbing

your sound waves of the whistle or the

shout. But if I was to yell in here,

uh, someone could stand literally 50

yards and they would struggle. I'd have

to yell really loud and all these trees

would absorb the sound. So, he was

really confused cuz he was hearing a

whistle that wasn't like the birds, you

know, it wasn't like the birds whistle

in all different octaves and variations.

It's a beautiful kind of frequency

harmony. Uh, very healing um to listen

to. So he started listening and it

wasn't normal. It was like, you know, if

you got a elderly neighbor, you know,

they're taking their trash out and

that's they're whistling songs from like

the 50s, the 60s, you know, the the

bands they used to listen to as a kid

where they used to go out to the discos

and rollerblading. They're listening to

that kind of stuff and they're whistling

it. Obviously, you ain't going to have a

bird unless it's one of those trained

ones, you know, those budgies and stuff

in the cages that people have at home

that are going to mimic that whistle.

It's very rare. It does happen, don't

get me wrong. I do know, but it's very

rare. Most of the time, bird whistles

are very sporadic. They're very up and

down the octave, unpredictable,

and it's it's in their DNA. They're

programmed to just, you know, you're not

imagine seeing a neighbor go out and

he's taking the bins and he's like,

be a bit weird, wouldn't it? You'd

think, why is he trying to mimic the

birds? Uh, so yeah, he immediately

thought, "What's going on? I'm hearing

these whistling noises and it's too

slow, too intentional.

It sounds like somebody