I Love My Job
#Area/Woods #Sounds/Screaming #Unexplained/Paranormal
Emergency services worker 10+ years. I have seen it all. Literally, hangings, suicides, murders, horrific road traffic collisions.
We were trying to find a missing person one night in a largewood near where I was posted. It was around 1am and a team of us set off into these woods in search for this missing teen (phone was pinging from that area)
It ends up with me and this new guy.
We're walking through these woods for approx 1hr before I start hearing this shrieking noise(a sound not of this earth) I've heard crazy stuff before but this was indescribable. Me and this proby I hadn't seen before go chasing this disembodied noise while the rest of the crew set up in different directions and a few stay put for potential rescue if all goes sideways.
Ten minutes in we come to this super tree. I mean it's massive, unearthly thing, it's dark and I can only see as far as my industrial lamp allows. From behind this tree I can see this what looked like a shoulder, jittering.
Now proby decides this isn't the job for him and pissed off giving it legs at high speed leaving me at 3am faced with what I can only describe as the grudge. Being a sceptic and void of all emotion due to work and the damage it does mentally, I decide that I radio it in and approach incase the kids just taken some high grade shrooms and having a "balls deep freshman style whiteout"
I reach out to grab it/he/her/thing. But my hand just breezes through, I come round to get a look and theres just this transparent outline, still there, just jittering, like it's glitching. I put my hand through again and I swear everything just lit up. Like the forest was 40° summertime, I could hear birds and it was all calm.
BOOM. It's dark again. The thing is gone and my colleagues are approaching. I tell them what I saw and they weren't in disbelief as I'm a pretty serious guy so usually If I'm seeing something it's not really bullshit.
I say to them "where tf is that proby, he bolted the little shit"
Now...their response is the most unusual thing of this story.
"What you talking about, we lost you half a mile north, there wasn't anyone with you or any new guys working tonight, we found the kid"
Turns out the kid had been found hanging from a tree further up.
I went went to examine the body and as I approach him I take one look at it and it's proby. Same guy I had been walking around with most of the night, talking to him about his family, his dreams, aspirations. He wasn't there. Just a figment of my imagination.
I love my job. I wouldn't change it for the world.