Welcome back to SWTLO! Something Followed Him Out of The Woods, and you'll never guess what it was. In Volume 39, We're Diving Into 2 True Paranormal Encounters of Eerie experiences from unforgiving forests.

The forest is a place where time bends, where shadows move just beyond the edge of your vision, and where the ordinary world slips quietly away. You might think a walk through the woods will bring calm and peace, but sometimes the trees hold darker secrets—secrets that reach out and pull you into something you can’t explain.

Tonight, we travel from the dense, whispering forests of Massachusetts to the murky swamps of South Carolina, following two very different yet equally unsettling encounters. One man steps into a forest and vanishes for hours, returning with no memory of where he’s been—and a lingering sense that something followed him home. The other is a swamp where a creature, half man and half reptile, prowls the shadows—its glowing eyes watching, waiting, striking fear into anyone foolish enough to cross its path.

So if you ever find yourself lost among the trees or hearing strange noises in the dark, remember: some forests don’t want you to leave. And some things that dwell within don’t want to be seen—only felt.

We'll see you on the inside...

STORY TIME STAMPS:

4:11 - STORY 1: The Missing Time Incident (Freetown-Fall River State Forest, MA)

14:19 - STORY 2: The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (Lee County, South Carolina)

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