A Reddit user said the story happened at camp in the middle of a national forest. According to the post, he and the others were near the fire when they suddenly heard someone yell “Help” out in the woods. It was not distant enough to ignore, and it was clear enough that they all understood the word immediately. The voice sounded like it was coming from outside camp, out in the dark, where no one in their group was supposed to be.
He wrote that one of the men with them, who he called “The Doctor,” took off down a trail across the two-track road toward the voice. That trail looped around and came back to the road on the far side of camp, so it gave them a way to move toward the caller without just crashing blindly through the brush. While The Doctor ran down the trail, the rest of them stayed in the road listening and trying to keep track of where the sound was coming from.
Then they heard “Help” again.
This time, according to the user, it sounded like it was coming from in between them and The Doctor. That was what made the whole thing so strange. They knew where their friend was, and now the voice seemed to be somewhere between the group in the road and the man already moving in to help. He said it was crystal clear, and that was the part that bothered him most later. It did not sound far away, muffled, or warped by distance. It sounded close and understandable.
At that point they all went in. He said they walked fanned out through the woods with flashlights, scanning and calling and moving toward where they thought the voice had been. While they were doing that, they eventually saw their cousin on the other side doing the exact same thing toward them. So now both sides were moving through the trees toward each other, both convinced the person calling for help had to be somewhere in between.
He said they were out there for about 20 minutes easy. During that whole time, they never heard the voice again. No more yelling. No crashing through brush. No sign of a lost hiker, another hunter, or anyone injured. They searched the area with their lights, kept moving, and still came up with nothing. He said they never found out who needed help or whether there had ever been anyone there at all.
After that, they went back to the fire. Some of the group went to bed, and the rest stayed up listening toward the woods. He wrote that they never got an answer and never learned what had happened. All they had was one clear yell for help, then another from a different-seeming spot, then 20 minutes of searching in a national forest at night with nothing there when they got to where the voice should have been.
What do you think — if you heard someone yell “Help” out in the woods and every time you moved toward it the voice seemed to shift, would you keep searching longer, or go back to camp once you realized you couldn’t find anyone?
Original Reddit post: Have you ever experienced something weird while hunting?
