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I create horror stories brimming with the supernatural, cryptids, and eerie mysteries. Park rangers—nature’s guardians—often witness hair-raising encounters most people never see: from Dogman and Skinwalkers to Wendigos and werewolves. On Reddit, countless threads detail these paranormal events, thrilling and terrifying fans of horror and the unknown. For rangers, bizarre disappearances and strange creatures are just part of the job. But our stories go beyond the deep woods, featuring truckers on dark highways, small-town police, fire lookouts, border patrol agents, and more.

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April 4, 2026

The Appalachian Festival That Turned Into Every Local's Worst Nightmare

The Appalachian Festival That Turned Into Every Local's Worst NightmareFive masked strangers carried something to the bonfire at a mountain festival in West Virginia. When the carpet began to unroll in the flames, six thousand people realized the celebration was over.This is a true scary story set deep in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia during the winter of 2021. A young couple travels five hours through narrow switchback mountain roads to visit a friend they met online. What begins as a weekend ski trip quickly turns into something far darker when five men wearing oversized papier-mâché mascot heads begin stalking them across a frozen beginner slope. The men move in unison, never speak, and perform a perfectly synchronized gesture that makes no sense until much later.The couple flees the ski resort to an isolated mountain town with a population of sixty. There is no cell service. There is no police presence. The nearest law enforcement is a forty-minute drive through ice-covered mountain passes. The town is preparing for a traditional Swiss winter festival, a celebration that has been running for generations, where masks are worn to chase away Old Man Winter and an effigy is burned in a massive bonfire. For a few hours, the warmth and hospitality of this tiny Appalachian community makes the terror of the ski resort feel distant.Then the festival goes viral. A social media post draws six thousand visitors to a town designed for sixty. The narrow dirt roads become gridlocked. Thousands of masked strangers pack the streets. And among them, five familiar grinning faces reappear, moving through the crowd with the same silent coordination, the same synchronized thumbs-up, and something far worse than anyone imagined tucked inside a rolled carpet.This story explores the terrifying intersection of online radicalization, real-world violence, and the vulnerability of isolated communities overwhelmed by outsiders. It is a true horror story about human predators hiding in plain sight, using masks and festival chaos as cover for an act so disturbing that an entire town was changed forever. The five men were strangers from four different states who met on an internet forum built around escalating dares and cruelty, a place where belonging meant proving you would go further than the last person.If you enjoy true scary stories that actually happened, horror stories from the mountains, disturbing true stories about human predators, or stories that will keep you up at night, this narration was made for you. This is not a ghost story or a cryptid encounter. This is a true account of what happens when the darkest corners of the internet spill into the real world at the worst possible time and place.#HorrorStories #TrueScaryStories #ScaryStories #WestVirginiaHorror #MountainHorror 📌 Disclaimer:This video is created for educational and entertainment purposes only. It features original fictional storytelling inspired by real-world professions, verified public safety experiences, and firsthand accounts shared by law enforcement officers, emergency responders, and behavioral experts.All characters, incidents, and details are fictionalized or anonymized to protect privacy and ensure ethical storytelling.itsRoland is your destination for true scary stories, true horror stories, and real-life encounters that will keep you up at night. From cryptid sightings and Bigfoot encounters to Dogman reports, skinwalker stories, and unexplained mysteries — every story is narrated to pull you deep into the darkness.

April 2, 2026

This Wyoming Valley Has a Dark Secret. And It's Not What You Think.

This Wyoming Valley Has a Dark Secret. And It's Not What You Think.Something lives beneath Wyoming's geothermal fields. When a horseback tour guide and five guests disturbed a thermal terrace in the Absaroka Range, the mineral formations pulled free from the earth and began to move.This is the true story of what happened on a backcountry horseback tour through the sulfur springs of Wyoming one October evening, when the ground itself woke up and started following a group of riders toward Sulphur Creek.Timestamps0:00 — Horses know before people do1:30 — The mineral collector gets off his horse3:00 — The terraces move5:30 — The group runs for Sulphur Creek8:30 — Dale breaks through the crust into boiling water9:45 — The secret Jolene has been keeping for three years12:00 — Jolene goes back for Dale14:00 — What her grandmother tried to tell her about the keepers15:00 — The formations start herding them downstream16:30 — The collector tries to return the sample. It makes everything worse.18:00 — Twenty-six shapes blocking the stars on both banks20:00 — Nine hours through the dark22:00 — What Jolene did after that nightExtended DescriptionJolene Bitter Creek had been running horseback tours through the geothermal fields of Wyoming's Absaroka Range for eleven years. She knew the sulfur springs, the switchback trails, the way the light turns everything gold at dusk over the mineral terraces. She also had a secret. For three years, she'd been chipping silica formations from the thermal fields and selling them to a mineral shop in Billings. The springs had let her get away with it. Until one October evening, when a Denver mineral collector named Richard Caster brought a rock hammer on the tour and broke open something that the earth had spent three centuries building.This horror story takes place in the real backcountry of Wyoming, in the geothermal landscape surrounding Sulphur Creek where boiling pools, silica terraces, and sulfur springs create one of the most beautiful and dangerous environments in the American West. If you enjoy true scary stories that actually happened, wilderness horror, or stories about things that shouldn't be alive but are, this one was made for you. It's the kind of horror story that stays with you because the threat isn't a ghost or a demon. It's the earth itself. And the earth has rules.The formations in this story are territorial. They look like stone because they are stone. They're made of heat and time, built layer by patient layer over centuries of mineral deposition in the thermal field. They can't cross cold running water. They leave acid burns in the shape of hands. And they remember what you took. This is a story about indigenous knowledge that turned out to be right, about a grandmother's warning that went ignored for too long, and about what happens when the land decides to collect its debts.#ScaryStories #HorrorStories #WyomingHorror #TrueScaryStories 📌 Disclaimer:This video is created for educational and entertainment purposes only. It features original fictional storytelling inspired by real-world professions, verified public safety experiences, and firsthand accounts shared by law enforcement officers, emergency responders, and behavioral experts.All characters, incidents, and details are fictionalized or anonymized to protect privacy and ensure ethical storytelling. itsRoland is your destination for true scary stories, true horror stories, and real-life encounters that will keep you up at night. From cryptid sightings and Bigfoot encounters to Dogman reports, skinwalker stories, and unexplained mysteries — every story is narrated to pull you deep into the darkness.

March 31, 2026

Something Lives in Venezuela’s Unmapped Canyons

Something Lives in Venezuela’s Unmapped CanyonsDeep in the unmapped canyons of southern Venezuela, an Italian geographer led a five-man expedition into a region that has been marked as unknown on every map since the colonial era. What they encountered over the next seventy-two hours has never been explained.In 1974, Dr. Matteo Serri, an Italian geographer who had spent three years charting river systems in the deep interior of southern Venezuela, convinced a local riverman named Cristiano to guide him into a canyon system in the Gran Sabana region. Cristiano had lost his eldest daughter Lucía to something in those canyons years earlier, and his refusal to enter was not superstition. It was grief. But Serri was a man who could not accept blank spaces on maps, and he doubled the pay until Cristiano said yes.What the five-man team encountered over the following days defies easy categorization. The jungle went completely silent as they entered the canyon. They discovered handprints pressed into wet clay that measured twenty-three centimeters across the palm, far larger and deeper than any human hand. They found a constructed observation platform built from freshly cut and woven branches, oriented to face the only path into the canyon. And on their first night deep inside the gorge, something began vocalizing from the ridges above their camp, a deep, chest-vibrating roar that came from three separate positions surrounding them, circling for four hours in the darkness.This is the true, harrowing, and deeply personal account of the Serri Expedition, one of the most complete cryptid encounter narratives ever documented. It is a story about the limits of science, the cost of curiosity, and the terror of encountering something that your framework for understanding the world simply cannot hold. The creatures that Serri observed at dawn, three bipedal figures standing between seven and eight feet tall, holding stripped branches and watching his camp with what he described as obvious awareness and intelligence, have never been identified by any scientific authority.This story is perfect for a dark night with headphones. The narration is designed for immersive listening, whether you are settling in for sleep, driving through a long stretch of empty road, or simply looking for a true scary story that will stay with you. The audio production is crafted for atmosphere and clarity, and the story unfolds at a deliberate pace that lets the dread build naturally.Between 1920 and 1981, at least four separate expeditions into the canyons south of the Orinoco River reported encounters with large, aggressive, bipedal creatures that could not be identified. None of those reports were ever published in a peer-reviewed journal. This is the story of the fifth expedition, and i 📌 Disclaimer:This video is created for educational and entertainment purposes only. It features original fictional storytelling inspired by real-world professions, verified public safety experiences, and firsthand accounts shared by law enforcement officers, emergency responders, and behavioral experts.All characters, incidents, and details are fictionalized or anonymized to protect privacy and ensure ethical storytelling.itsRoland is your destination for true scary stories, true horror stories, and real-life encounters that will keep you up at night. From cryptid sightings and Bigfoot encounters to Dogman reports, skinwalker stories, and unexplained mysteries — every story is narrated to pull you deep into the darkness.

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What is itsRoland?: I create horror stories brimming with the supernatural, cryptids, and eerie mysteries. Park rangers—nature’s guardians—often witness hair-raising encounters most people never see: from Dogman and Skinwalkers to Wendigos and werewolves. On Reddit, countless threads detail these paranormal events, thrilling and terrifying fans of horror and the unknown.

For rangers, bizarre disappearances and strange creatures are just part of the job. But our stories go beyond the deep woods, featuring truckers on dark highways, small-town police, fire lookouts, border patrol agents, and more.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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