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Why? Why do people insist on bringing toddlers and little kids out here if they're not going to watch them constantly? I just can't imagine the level of negligence that would lead to your fucking two year old wandering off and falling down a god damn ravine. Fun fact: When someone's skull is shattered, it rumbles when you move it. Sort of like broken pottery sliding around.

So yeah, sorry I haven't been around much. Here are a few thing I thought you guys might like:

I've got a buddy down in Deschutes county who's a vetern PR. About two years ago he was spending the summer in a fire tower, and it was an unusually dry summer, so he was on high alert. His particular fire tower looked something like this like this: http://tinyhouseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Lookout_1HiRezLookout_1.jpg

One night around six or so, he was out on the balcony and looking around the area through binoculars. About what he estimated to be a mile away, he saw something moving in the brush. Someone was walking along a trail that skirted the base of the mountains. The man appeared to be in his late 50's, with a full beard and a heavy gut. He moved along at a slow but steady pace. Unfortunately for him, however, he was in a no-go area, and my friend reached for his radio to call in and request another PR to intercept him. But it wasn't on his hip where he usually kept, so he lowered the binoculars to look around. He found it and attempted to relocate the man. He found the area that the man had been in, but he was gone. My friend was puzzled, and worried as well. Had he fallen? Was he hurt? He scanned all around but there was absolutely no trace of the guy. He lowered his binoculars but as he did so there was a flash of red across his vision. He raised them and the entire field was full of a shifting red, and he could make literally no sense of what he was seeing. Of course eventually he figured it out and when he did he looked up and the man was no more than 100 yards away, still walking with that same slow pace. My friend went into what I'd guess was a mild state of shock at the impossibility of the situation because he remembers freezing and being forced to watch the man come closer to the base of the tower. There was something wrong with his eyes. They were looking down, but so far down that only the very tips of the irises were visible. That's how close he got before he stopped, just below the balcony. He craned his head up but his eyes didn't move and he opened his mouth but didn't say anything for a moment. Then his jaw moved up and down a bit and he said:

"I saw you."

The man's irises started to roll up just as they were about to make eye contact my friend managed to break his paralysis and booked it into the cabin. He slammed the door and locked it and the man was there so fast my friend said he couldn't even register it. He tapped on the glass and my friend refused to look at him. He turned his back and waited for the thing to go away. My friend believes that turning your back on a demon or other unholy thing will force it to leave, and I guess in this case he was right because the thing eventually left. My friend stayed out there for the rest of the summer but made sure to keep the doors locked at night.

It's probably some kind of really weird refraction from a lake or a kind of mirage but there's been a little cluster of sightings that I thought were interesting. They happened in the same place and at the same time, but on different days. Universally, the reports basically described the observer hiking up to a scenic viewing spot and seeing something up above the horizon. Higher up than a mirage would normally be, almost at eye level. When viewed with plain sight, it was impossible to tell what it was, but it was obviously stationary. When viewed with magnification it was possible to make out someone suspended in the air upside down, hands at his sides. Someone's teenage kid compared it to those glitches where you can see through walls and the NPCs are just standing around in weird places. Like I said, we're pretty sure it's a weird mirage from a lake, or possibly even some stupid prank, but we'll keep an eye on it.

Do you ever have a memory you can't remember, but you remember remembering it? God it's driving me crazy.

There was a big case down south a few months ago. Uncle from a prominent local family went out hunting and didn't come back. The theory was that he'd fallen into a sinkhole, since they'd been popping up in that area with the unusually heavy rainfall. Even though the search was largely conducted with this in mind, it took a long time to find him. It didn't help that his legs were gone by that point.

He was the victim of one of the absolute dumbest fucking accidents I've ever seen. One of those things that'll happen once and never again. This poor guy tripped on an exposed root and fell forward. When he reached out to catch himself, he had the unfortunate luck of breaking through into a sinkhole. It wasn't particularly deep, but unbeknownst to him it had a second entrance at the base of a tree fifty yards away. Unfortunately, the sinkhole was occupied, and he landed awkwardly on his wrists into a pile of diamondbacks. The guy survived long enough to feel one puncture his eye and another bite through his lip, but not much longer than that. Stuck almost vertically, the venom basically main-lined to his brain and he died before he could figure out a way to escape. It goes down and one of the most idiotic, senseless ways for someone to die that I've ever heard of.