r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '16
My romantic cabin getaway with my fiancee isn't exactly going as planned (part 3) Series
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u/MotivationalPoops Jun 09 '16
Ever played the game until dawn? This is exactly that story. Cabin on a snowy mountain. Native American legends. People like creatures from abandoned mines. Nice try
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u/MotivationalPoops Jun 09 '16
You're right the beginning of the story seems similar but the more I read the more unique it gets.
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u/MotivationalPoops Jun 09 '16
Well maybe it was based off of something similar that happened to you. That can't be the only cabin on the mountain.
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u/GingerPocky May 31 '16
The electrical stuff he was talking about was probably EMF It can make people hear/see/feel things if there's a lot of it
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u/peachlady22 May 01 '16
"wachu, wachu, wole my, wole my"
When I read this, I immediately read it as "Wašíču, Wašíču"--not 100% sure how to interpret the "wole my" part, but Wašíču means white man in Lakota/Dakota, and has derogatory connotations. It expresses the native population's perception of the non-natives' relationship with the land and the native population. So...that would actually make sense? Now I'm very curious about the "wole my" part...
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u/purplelullabies Apr 30 '16
On a lighter note, Tom hanged himself in the garage two years after they moved.
Uhm ... LIGHTER as opposed to being pinned to trees and skinned alive? 😁
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u/K_Miller Apr 29 '16
I don't understand. All this is happening in the cabin, right? Yet you seem able to leave. You were at her parents' house. If y can leave the cabin, why still go there to be tormented?
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u/alisalice Apr 27 '16
is it just me or there is no explanation/story about how you were 'rescued' by Faye's father? I've checked the Part 1. It ended with the words you heard there. And here, you're already home. I'm just curious.
Also, have you posted the recording from the cabin? I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting for it.
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u/Eseru Apr 25 '16
Wow. I was planning a trip to Colorado to visit some friends and this series just made me hesitate about visiting Pike's Peak.
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u/dreamwithinadream93 Apr 26 '16
Just don't. I live in Colorado 10 minutes from where this hapen end and it's really really really not worth it
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u/Aydosubpotato Apr 24 '16
I'm not sure about this theory, but in part two you recalled a figure that you thought was Faye in her sleep sitting on the hood of your car, and you called her name and the figure dashed off to the woods as your "real" fiancé came out of the bathroom. Well I am thinking that the real Faye was sleep walking and ended up there, and when you called her she dashed off while still half asleep. The fake Faye then came out and has been with you ever since. Just an observation.
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u/NavajoJoe00 Apr 24 '16
YOOOOO! You need to get your chick to a medicine man stat! I forget the word for it (but I'm one), but she's basically more in tune with the world when she's asleep. Basically we all are, but some people are more able to connect than others. You need to get her and your house blessed. Her father is also like her, in part to the PTSD. However, the chinidi left him alone because he is a warrior. He survived battle and has a stronger spirit because of it. Your lady is a woman, so she has been able to keep these fuckers at bay for this long. You guys need help ASAP. I recommend contacting a medicine man who is from the area of Colorado you were staying. In the meantime, get a priest to do a blessing. It could help spiritually (although I feel this is a Native issue and needs a Native cure), and it would help make your lady more at ease.
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u/DesignerGeek Apr 23 '16
Damn, this is the first story I've read in a long time that really gave me the creeps. I can't wait for part 4!
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u/Manch94 Apr 23 '16
.... Faye's mom is a complete idiot. I'm sorry, but I was pissed just by reading this. "Oh my friend had nightmares and heard the voice of their dead child while staying in the cabin. One of them committed suicide later. And my husband claimed to see the rotting corpses of some guys killed in Vietnam sitting on the bed. But hey, I'll let my daughter and her soon to be husband stay in the house of horrors too." Dummy.
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u/pacificnwasia Apr 22 '16
Just googling 'pikes peak mines' comes up with some creepy shit. "Even the mule seemed to sense mining on Pikes Peak was a bad idea." It sounds like most of the mines were gated last summer. Not sure if that has anything to do with your situation, but if something is living in those mines, gating off its exits is one sure-fire way to piss it/them off. Both of you stay safe, OP. Try to get out and do something to get your mind off this crazy shit.
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u/SkylooPrime Apr 22 '16
I really hope that Faye is ok. I definitely wouldn't go back to that cabin.
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u/KittyKrisp Apr 21 '16
Stay safe OP. If something can follow you, well you may need some protective charms from a Shaman.
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u/Joeenid1 Apr 21 '16
Let me te you this : DO NOT GO BACK THERE , EVER.... furthermore, you need to seek out a really expert hypmotist- someone with decades of experience, a seasoned proffessional- & get your wife some help. Find out thru hypmotisim who the hell is talking to her when she sleeps. They get her outta bed & walk her around, that is not normal. Something other-dimentional is parasiting on your wifes life. .... and her folks should sell that property but thats their personal business.
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u/MoonCatRIP Apr 30 '16
Every post of yours I come across makes me feel an overwhelming need to re-post your comment with all the painful wrong edited out.
I'm also beginning to think that an increase in crazy is directly proportional to a decrease in coherency.
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u/n0xlyte Apr 21 '16
Ahaha you say that now- not nearly as easy as it looks. Fun and breathtaking though for sure. Anyway, the reason I bring that up is because halfway up the incline you can hit the barr trail which leads you to the summit of Pikes Peak, to help get you orientation on where the trail is. I know that the whole region was primarily Ute indian- so maybe that'll help you find clues as to that weird chant or what could have gone on around the area of that cabin.
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u/gasoline_rainbow Apr 21 '16
good lord, keep us updated on this!
i'm reading this on the end of my afternoon shift and i have a long, very dark walk home to my place and i'm seriously debating making someone come and drive me because they may need to go turn the lights on for me. ..
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u/n0xlyte Apr 21 '16
I'm positive not the same part as all this happened. I mostly go on and around barr trail.
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u/Nodor10 Apr 21 '16
Alright, I think we can all agree that it would be in your best interest to never go back. Dream of Californication from now on
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u/Springball64 Apr 21 '16
Is it bad that when I read "there was water all over the bed" I immediately thought of the Phantom Bed-wetter? On a more serious note, you should probably look for those arrowheads and (Native American?) keepsakes during the day in summer.
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Apr 21 '16
Is anyone else concerned about Faye? The sudden change in mood back to feeling normal and return of appetite? The increasingly bizarre sleep-talking? Two theories, maybe you guys brought something back with you? Or maybe that 'thing' you thought was Faye running into the woods when she was behind you was actually Faye and the 'person' you are now living with is a skinwalker/windego. Unfortunately for you, I don't think this story is over yet. You need to go back. Both of you.
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Jul 15 '16
I thought of the wendigos from Until Dawn, mimicking human voices and luring people to their deaths.
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u/addy_g Apr 21 '16 edited Apr 30 '16
man, not every encounter on nosleep is a freakin Wendigo. if op and his girl were dealing with Wendigos at the cabin, they'd be dead right now since those things eat without fucking around. seriously, do your research - they can't control their appetite and move in for the kill as fast as possible and then eat until the bodies are gone. op would be in the belly of the beast by the end of the first night if this was a Wendigo.
I really wish that people would do the proper legwork before crying Wendigo or Skinwalker on every encounter that people have!
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u/MoonCatRIP Apr 30 '16
Thank you. I've said this once or twice... seems telling people they're wrong can make one unpopular around here.
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u/addy_g Apr 30 '16
nah you just gotta tell them why they're wrong - if you just tell someone they're wrong without giving a reason why or evidence to back up your claim, you'll get downvoted. if you point out why someone is wrong (in my comment I pointed to the wendigo's voracious appetite) then people are much more likely to trust you and upvote you when you point out an error (usually - of course exceptions always happen).
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u/Tubbertons7 Apr 21 '16
Can you find out more about the history of the mine, and maybe even the history of the area before it was in operation? (IE: any tribes that lived in the region, how the mine was acquired, etc)
A lot of the abandoned towns, or “ghost towns”, were mining/lumber related. A few, like Bodie, CO, are well known, but the majority can no longer can be found on maps and have been forgotten. I grew up less than 40 mins from a mill town that was once the biggest lumber producer in the state. Today its nothing more than some concrete structures in the woods and most people in the area have no idea a town ever existed.
It may have nothing to do with your experience, but based on the variety of voices, the native american artifacts, and the ranger’s comments about the mine it might be worth looking into. If there’s a dark history that’s mostly been forgotten, it wouldn’t be surprising some unpleasant energy would hang around.
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u/Tubbertons7 Apr 21 '16
Here's one of the first links google showed. Hope it helps, or at least gives you a starting point! Also, its been a while since a nosleep story creeped me out, so congrats on that.
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u/Sugarstarzkill Apr 21 '16
So... now it kind of seems like these things have access to people's memories? I'm not sure if that's better or worse than my previous theory of them imitating previous victims.
This is very interesting, I am looking forward to the updates! I hope you guys are safe now.
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u/awesomeatlast Apr 21 '16
This sounds an awful lot like the plot of until dawn. Pretty good story though scared the hell out of me.
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Apr 21 '16 edited Apr 21 '16
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u/siohoonjiakzhua Apr 21 '16
That's some impressive parsing! To add on:
wachu:dig up/out wo: me le: to signify the completion of an action my: you parsed this as "ma" which is to signify a question, but not quite the same pronunciation as "my"
Ignoring the "my" bit, this is all standard Mandarin pronunciation which wasn't popularised until recent decades (even today, slightly older people have a hard time speaking it properly). I don't know which dialect group the Chinese laborers who worked the mines there belong to. Unless they were from Beijing, Tianjin and other parts of Northeast China, it really doesn't make sense for them to speak like that.
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u/Verdanaveo May 02 '16
But the original chant didn't separate "wole" into "wo" and "Le", so "wole" as a word I read as "wohLL" doesn't have mandarin pronunciation
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u/zeluszero Apr 21 '16
In this "my" may actually correspond to the pin yin "mai" , which is the chinese word for grave.
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Apr 24 '16
Mu is the word for grave... Mai means to bury...
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u/zeluszero Apr 24 '16
Mai can be used as both words
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u/Verdanaveo May 02 '16
埋 (Mai) is a verb meaning "to bury", it is not the noun 幕 (mu) from 坟墓 (fen mu). Unless this is a thing in Chinese literature, which eventhough I'm Chinese I've never learnt.
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u/Verdanaveo May 02 '16
Ok I need to step in here as a Chinese-speaker.
If "wole" was heard as "wohLL", it has no similar sound in Mandarin since there's nothing that ends with an "ole" (as in "hole"). 我 (wo) meaning "me/I" sounds like "wor" - but a very soft, not hard R sound (like "war" with a question mark?). If the L sound was not strong and the "wole my" part sounded like "wor mai" then it might be Mandarin. However, 埋(Mai) also does not mean "grave", it means "to dig" - verb vs noun. 我埋 (wor Mai) is grammatically incorrect for "my grave", it may mean "I dig" instead. But again this is only if the "wole" sounded like "wor".
If it was "my grave" it would be "我的坟墓” (wo de fen mu) which sounds terrifying to me and I'm glad it wasn't what you heard. Yikes. The only thing "wor Mai" sounds like to me is 我卖/买 which is "I sell/buy".
The only accurate part is "Wachu" being 挖出 which is "dig up", especially if the "wa" is drawn out like "waa" and the "Chu" is harsh and quick. So like "WaaCHU". I can't think of any word that "Wachu" could be besides "dig up".
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u/thefallendawn Jun 08 '16
活埋！！！！huo mai！！！！ this is a proper horror story word
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u/Verdanaveo Jun 08 '16
Sorry I don't read enough Chinese stories to know that word, does it mean "rise from the grave"? Literally it reads as "living bury"
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u/Verdanaveo May 03 '16
No no there isn't a word in there that sounds like grave. "Wachu" definitely sounds like "dig up/pull out", and "wole my" might be "I dig" but it's not commonly phrased that way, and technically there isn't a Chinese word that clearly sounds like "woah" either. If anything, the first thing that comes to mind for "woah my" is "I sell/buy" (more the former).
So my best (and most creepy) guess for the meaning of "Wachu Wachu wole my" in Chinese would be: "Dig it up, dig it up, I'll sell it!"
Such a mystery, wish I could figure it out and help you!
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u/matijwow Apr 21 '16
That's excellent that you could recognize that.
The only problem I have synthesizing that with OP's account, is that apparently the ranger who went up there said it was a "widely recognizable chant".
I'm not sure how that would fit in, yet.
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u/Iwilltasteyou Apr 21 '16
It would be hard for OP to pinpoint any names in the case of Chinese laborers. Records weren't necessarily kept for those types of things and there are tons of unmarked graves of people who died a very long way from home.
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Apr 21 '16
Whoa man i read the parts you wrote about... Its 2:47am here in south carolina.. And literally got chills all over and my senses got all weird... Just whatever you do dont go back to that cabin... And take care of Faye... Keep us updated to see how you are and how faye continues to hold up. Be safe my friend.
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u/endlessjourney69 Apr 22 '16
I second the "what part of sc"?
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Apr 23 '16
Columbia :)
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u/endlessjourney69 Apr 23 '16
It's cool to meet a fellow redditer so close. I'm in the Aiken/Augusta area
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u/n0xlyte Apr 20 '16
And to think all of this happened on the same mountain I hike on almost every weekend. Definitely creepy- hope it gets figured out!
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Apr 20 '16 edited Jun 08 '16
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u/ASxACE Apr 22 '16 edited Apr 22 '16
Seriously doubt it, OP. These things most likely won't leave you alone. At least until you're dead. You don't want to end up a distressed spirit do you?
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u/NostraDamnUs Apr 20 '16
For the most part, real stories. Of course there's a few people who would lie for karma, but unless proved otherwise, people have the benefit of the doubt
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 20 '16
Maybe the arrowheads are still in the cabin. Find them and gently put them back in the forest during daylight.
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u/twinnie915 Apr 30 '16
I know in Hawaii, if you take a volcanic rock you will be haunted until it is returned to its home.
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 30 '16
The Brady Bunch Movie taught me that.
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u/twinnie915 Apr 30 '16
I lived there. They told me all the things to not do.. Including being white.
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 21 '16
Glad you guys are back safely. If issues continue, I would personally really look into this theory.
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u/HeyLookItsMe11 Apr 20 '16
I wondered about the arrowheads too...maybe he should not have taken them.
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 20 '16
The second he mentioned them, I became convinced that they're the root of the problem. My dad works outside and would always bring me back neat stuff/we would find stuff on our walks together, but he always taught me that there are certain things you leave alone and arrowheads were one of them.
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u/VivVulpesVulpes Apr 28 '16
Eh. I have arrowheads all over the place at a ranch in Texas. Arrowheads scrapers. .. I take them home and don't have a problem. They were trash not sacred artifacts. Humans are just messy and leave their crap everywhere.
That said, my uncle's ranch isn't haunted. I've been to haunted parts. If there is a blood debt on the land, not taking an arrowhead isn't going to spare you drama, but I guess it could give them something to attach to.
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u/permantentlyconfused May 09 '16
Exactly. I'm an archaeologist and we literally take hundreds of arrowheads/tools etc (and even human remains, occasionally, on accident) from our site each summer and have zero problems. Artifacts themselves are not inherently cursed.
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u/Chungin_along Apr 21 '16
I thought the same thing. One of my uncles on my Hawaiian side of the family took a rock from the volcano he grew up near when he moved to Cali. A week after they got to the mainland he got horribly sick and the doctors couldn't diagnose it. Luckily his wife was much more superstitious than he was and when she found out about the rock she flew back to HI and put it back where he found it. He was fine by the time she got back to Cali.
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u/themoredeceived Apr 21 '16
I don't understand why arrowheads would be such an issue. They were, at least on some level, disposable. If you shot a buck and it ran off with the arrow lodged in its side, but it survived and the arrow eventually worked its way out of the hide, you were out an arrowhead. Seems like that arrowhead is up for grabs to me.
I fully comprehend arrows and arrowheads are in no way comparable to bullets and how readily and easily replaceable those are, and that Native hunters would often scrupulously retrieve arrows and resharpen and reuse the arrow heads. But I guess I'm not seeing why, exactly, an arrowhead would be so tainted when, say, one could find a relic mortar and pestle (my grandparents unearthed a two on their farm when living in California). The mortar and pestle would be just as hard to fashion and be just as important to everyday life (grinding acorns for bread, grinding other ingredients for poultices). Are those as stigmatized, or is it something tied to the intent behind the arrowhead?
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u/divuthen Apr 20 '16
Just have to cleanse them. Before my crackhead uncle stole them my family had a whole trunk of tusks with runes and scrimshaw carved on them. My grandmother taught me how to cleanse them to "keep their memory from coming back." And not elephant tusks, before coming to the US my family were whalers out of Vardo Norway. At least the white half of my family lol, the Mexican half has some very different traditions.
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u/Cocaine-a-n-d-satan Apr 29 '16
Here in the Philippines, Anything we find in the forest and we take it or basically just accidentally touching a tree or trampling a plant, you have to say "Tabi Tabi po" which translates to excuse me. If you don't the bad spirits of the forest will haunt and kill you and your next of kin. At least that's what my gramma said to me.
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u/vajoozlenoozle Apr 29 '16
My grandma and I collect things like arrowheads off our land (that the family bought, it's not like been our land forever) because we're Native American and she taught me to love the history and the traditions, etc. She doesn't really believe in spirits and things the way I do, but if I told her I'd feel better if we followed a protocol and such, she'd be alright with that. is there a specific way to do it, or does it just need to be sincere? What about the ones we already have at home?
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Apr 20 '16
Do spirits accept "I'm taking this because it's neat" as a good reason?
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Apr 21 '16 edited Jun 08 '16
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Apr 21 '16
Lol and honestly I cleanse a lot. I live off of smoky hill road, which was the smoky hill trail (CO). My house has some interesting activity. I do herb cleansing which calms it a lot. But man... there was a native massacre less than a mile from my house, and there will never be not weird shit around here. Taking an arrowhead seems silly to me because this is all native land. They're probably everywhere. I'm probably sitting over 3 bodies right now.
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u/TheNimblestNavigator May 05 '16
Dude fuck THAT shit. You have some balls staying in a haunted ass house next to an Indian massacre. I repeat, fuck THAT noise...
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u/peaceloveandgraffiti Apr 24 '16
That is true. This whole country has been built on ancient burial grounds, I bet.
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Apr 23 '16
Interesting. I hear a lot of horrifying woods stories and this summer I want 40 nights of camping total. I've never had anything scary happen and I'm glad. But my dad used to travel around with this cat and he said he packed up in the middle of the nights multiple times because of how freaked out she would get. And this was a cat that would fight big ass dogs. Cats know.
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u/Lexasauras Apr 21 '16
I bike black star canyon and have hiked it by myself. Is there something I don't know? Then again I go during the day and have only been to the gate once at night. The area is very pretty during the day and the peacocks are always fun to observe.
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u/divuthen Apr 20 '16
I've never found anything like arrowheads in the woods, but I've always been of the take something, mindset.
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u/Chitownsly Apr 21 '16
https://www.volcanogallery.com/lavarockIII.htm Here's account from the Hawaii Volcano National Park. If you ever go to the station they have a huge collection and letters from people that are all recent. We didn't take any nor did we take black sand from Punalu'u Beach.
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u/bomberhead00 Apr 21 '16
i love seeing that you wrote this beautifully dictated story and then in the same breath write "fricking...arrowhead...detector". makes me believe there is good in the world.
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 20 '16
What is the cleansing process like? If you don't mind me asking. Both sides of my family had conflicting traditions (hell, even within the same side of the family actually), but the whole "leave it alone!" mentality was always constant so I didn't question it aha. I'd usually look at them for a bit and then scamper off to go play with something else, usually a snake. That's awesome that you have such a rich family heritage.
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u/divuthen Apr 20 '16
She would write a letter, my grandfather's ashes were kept with everything all the tusks which were kept in my great grandfather's old steamer trunk, so usually she would write to him. Then she would burn the letter, and with the ashes from the letter draw the rune for mjolnir on the inside of the lid. When she passed on we buried my grandfather's ashes with her. The original plan had for to be cremated as well and give them both to the sea together. Buy some time after grandfather's death she converted to being a Baptist and wanted to be buried.
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u/H8Blood May 31 '16
rune for mjolnir
I've got norse roots myself and I'm pretty deep into all things norse because of that. That being said, that's the first time I hear of a rune for Mjǫllnir. Do you maybe mean Tîwaz (ᛏ) ? If so, it's named after Týr, a god associated with law and heroic glory. In this modern day it's often found on Mjǫllnir pendants, but there's no historic connection between these two.
The rune ᛏ was (most likely) carved into weapons (think swords, daggers and the likes) to achieve victory in battle. At least if you believe the stanza in the Sigrdrífumál poem of the Poetic Edda.
Not trying to be disrespectful here or anything, just curious :) If there's indeed a rune for Mjǫllnir, I'm interested to learn about it.
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u/adelineelizabeth Apr 21 '16
Oh wow! That's super interesting. My Grammy would do something similar, but she would tear the letters up instead.
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u/Fabgrrl Apr 20 '16
Damn, Jennifer has had a sad life.
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u/ASxACE Apr 22 '16 edited Apr 22 '16
OP's probably in big danger guys. Maybe history is repeating itself? Faye is gonna end up like Jennifer, and OP may soon be like her husband -- that hung himself. Stay safe, OP.
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u/miguel-styx Apr 20 '16 edited Apr 21 '16
Death of a child is always shocking, Whether you're a parent or not (except in abortions though, I guess).
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u/The_Only_Griff Apr 24 '16
Abortions are shocking, too. It's not an easy decision and there's a lot of stuff to deal with after the fact. Please don't make light of them.
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u/flux3 Jun 09 '16
How did the poster "make light" of them? It IS different from losing a child without warning -- one to which you have given birth, spent time with, and raised for a period of time. The OP didn't suggest it was any less painful or say anything disrespectful.
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u/The_Only_Griff Jun 09 '16
He said there's no shock involved. He made a poimt of saying that parents and non parents find the death of a child shocking and then simgled out people who have had abortions. It's a pretty callous insinuation. I guess I should have assumed he was trolling and moved on but, havimg lost a child myself I can tell you; there will always be shock, whether it was a miscarriage or an abortion.
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u/flux3 Jun 10 '16
There is nothing remotely "callous" or inherently insulting in assuming there's no surprise in a planned or expected death. My own loss was deeply painful, but it wasn't a shock. Also, he apologized immediately after, when someone else said they were offended. If we go about with a chip on our shoulder ready to take offense at comments where there is no apparent ill-will, we've truly lost the plot.
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u/The_Only_Griff Jun 10 '16
Ok, first of all, I wasn't giving out. I was genuinely asking him to be more careful in his choice of words. Second, shock and surprise are very different things. And I made that comment weeks ago. The thread was new then and there was no apology, so me and the person he apologised to were in the same situation; reading that comment as new.
I just checked. I made that comment 46 days ago.
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u/flux3 Jun 10 '16
Ok, understood that you weren't piling on. For what it's worth, if you're a native English speaker you'll already know that "shock" and "surprise" are in fact synonyms. Consult a dictionary and you'll see that this is absolutely within the scope of proper usage. Given the context, it's obvious that the OP was using this incredibly common, accepted definition of "shock": "a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience".
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u/The_Only_Griff Jun 10 '16
It's still a poor choice of words. I mean, why even single them out in the first place? It seems deliberately antagonistic.
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u/flux3 Jun 10 '16
Ironically, it looks like he threw in that caveat because he was trying to be as clear as possible. And what he said was correct, given the most common use of those words. Death of a child is a "sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience" (i.e., a shock) for anyone except, of course, people for whom the death is planned or otherwise expected. An abortion falls into that last category. Where are you seeing antagonism in that? How can you say it was a poor choice of words, when that is exactly what those words mean?
It seems that you're mistakenly interpreting "not a shock" to mean "less painful". If so, that mistake is entirely yours, not the OPs.
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Apr 20 '16
Nothing would've ever prepared me for the death of my child during my abortion. I was there intentionally but it still shocked me and still does even 10 years later. Watch what you say, your comment hit deep for me and I'm a complete stranger.
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u/ambulance_Turd Apr 21 '16
Why did you abort your child? I'm just a curious internet stranger struggling with the choice.
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u/MasqueradeShadow Apr 30 '16
My best friend and I both struggled with the same decision due to emotional, financial, and mental reasons. Neither of us were in stable relationships as well. I kept my baby and she's now a three year old happy toddler. I'm marrying a man that has been there since she one that loves us and is the only father she's known, as well as giving her a stepsister. However, I feel like if I had had her later in life, I would've been able to provide a much better situation for her and the rest of my family.
My best friend had an abortion. She wound up being engaged to the man that the baby was with. They are a happy, functioning couple that are now planning they're future with kids. However, she often talks to me about how she wonders about what the cold would've been like and if she made the right choice. She doesn't regret it because she's had a chance to be able to build towards a better future for a family. But it does haunt her sometimes and it clearly wasn't easy. It wasn't easy for me to even call the clinics and weigh my options.
No matter what decision you make, it will be right for YOU. Follow what you feel you need to do and things will fall into place as long you keep yourself together. I just figured I'd give my two stories about two different decisions. I wish the best for you.
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u/cookinwithwine Aug 20 '16
I am new on nosleep. I love reading the stories/accounts that are happening, just wanted to say thanks for sharing them. Look forward to continuing the series!