Mystery of Misty Woods
In the mountains of Colorado, there is an urban legend about a crazy lumberjack that went whacko and kidnapped and killed two hikers that were hiking in the woods. It was the year 1985 and the hikers were missing for two weeks when a local who was hunting in the woods found when he tripped over the bodies. Now legend has that this lumberjack who was cutting down trees near the mysterious woods known as Misty Woods, he claimed to hear demonic voices call to him and he followed the voice into the woods, and something grabbed him and possessed him, and he went crazy from it. He was the one responsible for killing the hikers, he killed them with his ax and covered their bodies with leaves and dirt. He lives in a log cabin between the Misty Woods and Misty Mountain, and he still lives there. According to locals there are two stories one is an urban legend and the other is a ghost story. Locals say the area of Misty Mountains is a paranormal patch of woods and is haunted by ghosts and demons and that there is some type of demonic creature that comes out of Misty Woods and grabs people and drags them into Misty Woods and they are never seen again. One who was hiking in the woods in the mountains claimed to see a ghost and followed it into the Misty Woods and disappeared and was never seen again. The town of Calabasas was quaint and small and had a small population of locals of about two hundred people had lived there, they knew of the legend and the ghost story and some believed it some didn’t some just believed it was the lumberjack. In town, there was someone who has been following the urban legend and the ghost story that did believe and he was a paranormal investigator and just recently the mayor from the town of Calabasas had called him to investigate to see what he could, he had been called because he was the most trusted paranormal investigator in Colorado and he was well respected and had a good reputation and has done a lot of paranormal investigating around the world but was the first in his hometown. He knew of Misty Woods but had never been up there before and it’s not because he’s scared because Lord knows he’s seen his share of ghosts, spirits, and even demons. It’s just that he was always busy traveling around the world on cases and doing investigating. This time it was different the mayor himself Troy Myers, now Mayor Myers was a skeptic and didn’t believe in the paranormal but did believe in being a good mayor and caring about the people in his town that were friends and family. He knew the hikers, the hikers were young kids going out for a hike in the mountains near Misty Woods and one of the kids called pulled into the woods and the other kid who was a young male teen went in to look for her, it so happened that a local who was looking for mushroom saw one of the kids get pulled in by ghostly, ghastly hand, the girl screamed the young teen looked and his friend was gone, he went in after her but they never came out. Now the local followed the young teen into the misty woods and claimed he saw a portal, and the kids got sucked in. Now the witness claimed to get close enough to the portal and said he saw things that would haunt him forever, he screamed and ran, and something came out of that portal and tried to grab him, but he got and ran as fast as he could and ran home and never spoke of the incident again. That next day Tuck Evans packed his gear, packed his backpack, and headed into to town to speak to some of the locals, the first stop he made was Mayor Myers house, he had a nice house at the base of the mountains, he was working in the home office when…. he heard a knock at his door, and it made him jump. “I’m coming.” The mayor yelled. He got to answer the door. He opened it. “Hi, mayor. I’m Tuck Evans. He said as he reached out his hand. The mayor reached his hand out and shook it. Come on in. The mayor said.” Tuck followed the mayor and went to his home office where they were in privacy. Tuck sat down on a comfortable, leather couch and the mayor sat down across from in his leather chair. He began to tell Tuck the story about the hikers that disappeared. “The hikers, Jack and Julie were friends of mine from high school I was just a kid then and they wanted me to hiking with them but that day I couldn’t because I was going to be busy that day told my friends to go without me. They were just going for a hike in the woods just for fun and no one expected this to happen, some guy a local here in town claimed to see them get pulled into the woods by a ghostly hand, and he followed them in and saw them get pulled into a portal; he then saw some creature coming out of that portal and it began to chase him, but he escaped. Also claimed to see the crazy lumberjack that day in the woods and his ax was bloody and he looked pretty suspicious. He ran back home and never spoke about it again. “Now Mr. Evans.” If there is a portal in Misty Woods, is it possible that my friends may still be in there? Or is it the urban legend true about the lumberjack killing them? The mayor queried. Well, sir, that’s what I’m going to find out. Did the police find the murder weapon? Did they find the bodies? Did they find any blood or clues leading to the murder of your friends? What about the hunter and what he found is he still alive? Tuck asked. The hunter I’m afraid died of a heart attack, and anyway, no one really knows if the hunter is real or just from the urban legend same for the lumberjack. Some say the lumberjack is real and still living in the mountains. Crazy Leo thinks that the lumberjack is the demon, and they are somehow one he killed my friends, but no one really knows. My friends for about twenty-four hours but before then my friends’ parents came to me asking me of, I saw Jack and Julie and told not since we had plans to go hiking in the woods, but I told them I couldn’t because my family had plans to go swimming in the lake that day. The parents had gone to the police to tell them that their kids were missing the police told them they had to miss at least twenty-four hours before reporting them missing. It wasn’t till that following week that a hunter who was deer hunting had stumbled across the bodies and that’s how the urban legend got started. The police and search party didn’t find anything. But nobody believed it, we searched for them for two whole weeks and came up empty-handed, and then we gave up and moved on with our lives. The ghost story goes there’s a demonic creature that comes out of the portal grabs people and drags them into Misty Woods making them disappear. Honestly, only one person claimed to see this creature and he’s not the most reliable source. Nobody really knows if my friends disappeared in Misty Woods or they were truly murdered by the crazy lumberjack the mayor claimed. If you want my advice, go into town, and talk to crazy old Leo. Go to the local library and be sure to check out the archives. The mayor continued. Tuck Evans wrote everything down the mayor told him in his notes. Thank you for your time, sir. I will keep you posted and this strictly confidential until I find out truly what happened to your friends.” With that Tuck Evans left and headed into town. He was headed into town and to crazy Leo’s house who was known as the town looney. In honesty and reality, he was crazy he just had experienced something he didn’t know how to explain or now deal with all he knew is what he saw was real and true and now it frightened him, and he was scared. Tuck walked into town and saw Leo’s name on the mailbox, so he knocked on the door, Leo was looking out the front window and acting nervous, almost paranoid. He walked to the door and opened it. “Hi, Leo.” Tuck replied. I’m Tuck Evans, I’m a paranormal investigator I’m here to investigate the mystery of Misty Woods. Hi there. Leo retorted. Come on in.
Tuck followed Leo into his house, and they sat at the kitchen table and talked. Leo told him about that day he saw Julie and Jack in those woods. I was hunting for mushrooms with my old coon dog who is now dead God rest his soul, and I was near Misty Woods and my dog was rooting for mushrooms next to a big willow tree, you see mushrooms like damp places to grow and the willow tree was flooded with them now mind you, they weren’t any mushrooms that make see things but the kind you eat and put-on steak. I think were morals, they are common up and grow and like wildflowers. I was close to the woods and was just watching my dog when I saw those two kids come up the hiking trail and walking past the woods, not the kids knew not to go in there, but I swear too some long ghostly arm came out and grabbed that girl, and then she screamed and her friend or brother or whatever he has heard her scream, he turned around and she was gone. He followed her into the misty woods, I watched him follow her in, but he never came out. Those their woods, are paranormal you see, and strange things happen in there, you like screaming, whispering, seeing ghosts and spirits, but the most famous one that haunts them woods is that creature. What’s not told in this urban legend is that the demon the one that crawls out the portal, is the one that possessed the lumberjack; also, that the demon and the lumberjack are the same and they are responsible for the killing of those kids. I’m not crazy I assure you, sir, I don’t know what to believe after I saw, I don’t know. I am a reasonable, smart man, I have a good head on my shoulders, I know what I saw, I those kids get pulled into some type of portal, and when I ran, I saw a demon creature crawl out it and it after me. After Leo was finished Tuck answered him. Sir, I believe you and I will find out what happened and prove you’re not crazy, look I have been following this story since it happened, I believe in the paranormal and everything that goes along with it, it’s my job, and I have been there so I know how that feels and I can relate to you. Thank you, your time Leo.” Tuck said, shaking his hand, he saw himself out. He made his way to the library archives, we walked into town the library. He walked right in and went downstairs to the archives and began searching for clues to find out what happened to the missing kids. He looked through the boxes and looked into the boxes and looked through the papers, no reports had been made by the police about the missing kids, no murder reports, no evidence, clues no nothing. Hmmm., he thought to himself, that’s weird. No evidence, no clues, no weapon, no nothing. He kept searching records of missing kids one had come in a file he missed, it was about two young teenage kids hiking in the woods alone and they disappeared. One witness saw the whole thing. The police never reported it because they didn’t believe Crazy Leo, they dismissed the whole thing. They searched for two whole weeks and never found anything they even searched Misty Woods but all traces of them were gone. No backpacks, and nothing to identify them, but something happened to those kids, and Tuck could feel it in his gut and he always followed his gut. Either someone in this town is hiding something, or Crazy Leo is telling the truth. That day Tuck decided to go into the woods himself and find out what was going on. He walked back into the town and back into his hotel and grabbed and all his gear and headed to the hiking trail. He went to the tree where the kid’s bodies were supposedly found in the urban legend, no traces of blood, no torn clothes, no bones, no nothing. He even went to the spot where Crazy Leo was picking mushrooms. Tuck Evans was a bit perplexed; he was never going to buy into an urban story a ghost story maybe especially if there is some truth behind it. He thought about the cabin in the woods from the urban legend about the crazy lumberjack that lived there, maybe, just maybe he could find a clue or some kind of evidence. He hiked his way to the cabin which was up the trail just a way he could see from here. It looked rundown and dilapidated, but it looked like anyone had been living there in years. He hiked up the trail a few more feet and walked up to the rocky, stony, driveway. It looked like the door had been busted open he cautiously walked in looking around picking up things trying to find some type of clue. The house was dark, the windows covered in newspaper and it smelled of rotting meat, at first Tuck thought an animal crawled in here and died but it was much more pungent than that. He moved through the cabin sniffing at the air trying to find the foul smell, he continued to walk through the cabin and went to the back bedroom and it seemed that’s where the smell was strongest, and there on lying on the bed was the infamous possessed lumberjack from the urban legend and he was real, he was actually real, except now he was dead. But to know he actually existed was pretty cool. But he the lumberjack would be eliminated as a suspect. Tuck went over to the bed and examined the body, there was a gunshot to the lumber jack’s head it looked like he shot himself. I guess he couldn’t take being possessed any longer, so he ended his life. Tuck looked around the room for any evidence of murder, the bloody ax, torn clothes, any souvenirs he would have taken, or anything evidence he would’ve hidden. There was no sign of the ax in the cabin, Tuck tore the place upside and inside out and found nothing. He went outside and searched by the big woodpile where the lumberjack often chopped wood, he found the ax but there was no blood on it. So, Tuck thought to himself. The lumberjack was real, and he was truly possessed but he wasn’t a murderer. That leaves one scenario left, the ghost story may be there was some truth to it. Now he couldn’t talk to the lumberjack and asked him questions about the missing kids, he turned on his e.v.p. recorder and camera on and began filming and began asking questions, he felt a strong presence lingering around him. There were two presences in the room one being evil and the other good, the spirit was protecting Tuck. A man’s voice came through and said “creature and demon, possession, house, woods, portal, and kids. He could feel this presence around him it felt good and angelic like and he knew right then and there it was the lumberjack. It’s like the spirit kept Tuck in a protective bubble, keeping the demon at bay and from harming him. Then a scary, evil, voice came on the recorder and spoke. “GET OUT”. He heard a voice from the r Tuck jumped but stayed in the house, then he began seeing a shadow on the wall and it began creeping up to him, its plan was to possess him like it possessed the lumberjack, and by the size and shape its shadow it looked like the creature from the portal. Tuck couldn’t be sure, his e.v.p. was going crazy it was beeping and blipping, the room was so cold, and yet at the same time, it felt hot too. Behind him, there was a low, guttural growl and then a creepy hiss. “Aww… freak!!’’ Tuck yelled. He ran, the demon lunged at him, Tuck jumped out the way and it missed and crashed into the wall and fell. Tuck ran out the door and headed for Misty Woods, he was looking behind him the whole way, the demon shook itself off and ran after the human and was gaining on him fast, Tuck had no choice but to run into Misty Woods, he ran into the opening of the woods and looked behind him as if the world he left behind just disappeared. Was Misty Woods its world set apart from ours? Was truly paranormal? Was it just a myth, a story, or an urban legend? Tuck could hear ghosts and spirits all around him, he saw floating orbs on his camera some were dark grey, some were black, others were light and white He began to see things, things you would never believe. Things would whisper in his ear telling him things, spirits would follow him or play tricks on him. He heard a loud crash behind him he turned to look and there was the demon, it was big and tall and scary. He hurried to the portal running as fast as he could he didn’t even think he just jumped in. The force of the portal sucked through this weird like a wormhole to another dimension like a ghost world. There were ghosts and spirits of all sorts floating around, and buildings that looked so old and historical. He dashed to the nearest building and hid in there, the demon jumped into the portal and landed on its hind legs and ran off looking for Tuck, and hissed “I’m going to find you human, and tear you to shreds.” Tuck was hiding in the basement of an old coal factory. His e.v.p. detector was flipping out, so he decided to turn it off. He left the camera on and just watched the room; he watched spirits and ghosts go by talking and whispering, and some spirits were curious and would peek around corners wondering about this new guest that is their world. Then just for a minute, it was quiet, and he sat there and listened, “HELP US PLEASE”! He thought he heard someone yell. Then again, “HELP WERE IN HERE.” Tuck got up and followed the sounds of the voices and it sounded close like it was in the next room over, he went to the closed door and opened it slowly and it creaked as he opened it and there all tied up was Jack and Julie. “Oh my God!!!” Tuck exclaimed. It’s you kid from the urban legend and ghost story; you guys are alive! Tuck proclaimed excitedly. “Please untie us we have been down here for way too long we are hungry and thirsty. Tuck kneeled to the ground and untied the kids, he pulled out some water and granola bars he had packed into his backpack. Here you go. Eat up. Tuck said handing him the kids the food and water. Thank you they said in unison. We have to get out of before the demon comes back. How did you guys end up here? We were hiking in the woods all those years ago and the demon thing pulled us and dragged us into the portal and tied us up and left us there I thought for sure it was going to kill us, but it left us here, but I’m sure it has plans for us. There was this lumberjack in those woods the day we disappeared, and he saw everything, I thought the lumberjack was going to kill me, so I ran into the woods and that’s when the demon grabbed me and pulled into the portal. Jack was off doing something, and he heard me scream and he turned and ran and then he was drug in too. The lumberjack came to my rescue and he was about to raise his ax and kill the demon, but the demon was too powerful it overtook him and knocked him to the ground and possessed him, I watched his blue eyes go black and his face changed. I’ll never forget it and we’re drug into the portal. That’s the last time we saw the lumberjack. Before we got pulled into that portal, we saw Crazy Leo at the time he was just called Leo, he saw that every creature that possessed the lumberjack crawl out of the portal. I don’t it that demon- possessed the lumberjack totally or if it came and went and as it pleased, whatever it was scary, he saw it and ran and he was never the same.” Julie explained. Come let’s get out of here. Just then the demon was thundering down the steps, hissing, and growling, saliva dripping down its fangs. He was mad. “RUN!” Tuck yelled. They all scattered in different directions, the demon lunged onto Tuck trying to scratch him, Tuck took his video camera and hit it in the face, it hissed and was got thrown backward it the wall stunned. Tuck got up quickly and ran up the steps the kids following him, they raced up the steps as fast as they could looking behind them, the demon still on the ground knocked out. This was a chance to escape, they kept running until they reached the portal, they all held hands and jumped through the portal. They looked to see if the demon was coming but there was no sign of it yet, something in the sun was glistening and catching their eye. Tuck walked over to the tree and there was the ax just resting there but was no ordinary ax it was special, and Tuck could feel it. “Get back kids.” He commanded. He grabbed the ax by the wooden handle and threw it at the portal and it shattered into a thousand pieces and fell to the ground and the portal was no more. Misty Woods was no longer scary; it was no longer spooky it just felt like regular woods. There were still ghosts and spirits lingering but they were the protectors of those woods and always be there as they were guardians. They were finally safe, and the demon was trapped in the portal forever. Tuck and the kids hiked back down the mountain and into the town much to their surprise was the whole town waiting for them and their huge block party and welcome back party for the kids and they were reunited with their parents. Tuck was nominated and awarded town hero was given a medal of honor, Tuck told the town his whole story and he told them of the lumberjack and a statue was made in his honor of also being a town hero. Nobody ever saw the demon again and Misty Woods was safe to explore.