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Bash Riprock

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Not sure if this is the right forum. Was going to put it in Lulz but this didn't make me laugh.

So I was browsing Reddit this morning and I came across a thread titled "What's the most disturbing, scary post you've seen here on Reddit?" and someone mentioned a story that this guy had posted about experiencing something whistling at him throughout his life. After reading his story it sort of gave me chills. Now I know some of these stories on  Reddit are created by aspiring writers just trying to test their skills, but this guy posted video evidence. 

Read the story before you watch the video. 

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I've been waiting a long time to tell Reddit the full story of The Whistler. This story requires many details, but it is unexplainable, creepy, and 100% true. I also have video evidence.

When I was about 8 years old I was taking my dog for a walk through the neighborhood with my mom. It was maybe 11pm. We live next to a swamp/woods area on the edge of our neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. I remember it being very silent and slightly windy. From down in the swamp we heard somebody whistling at us. It sounded sort of like a bird, but each whistle was different enough where the lack of consistency made it human-like. The whistle sounded higher, then lower. I can't really describe it. My mom had a concerned, slightly terrified look on her face and grabbed my hand and said that we should go inside quickly. I didn't understand because I was too young, but seeing my mom freak out made me freak out too. After a while, though, I kind of forgot about it.

Two years later, I was taking my dog out again, late at night. There is a large bush that could easily obscure a person behind it just next to the front door. As I was finishing the walk, the whistling noise started again, same pitches, same inconsistent, human-like tones. As soon as I heard it, a chill went down my spine as I remembered exactly the feeling of seeing my mom, terrified, looking down into the swamp at something I couldn't see (maybe she couldn't either). I ran inside as fast as possible.

Years went by and I thought about it less and less. I told only a handful of people, and eventually it slipped from my mind.

Fast forward to last summer: I'm 24, started dating my girl Sarah. We moved out to South Dakota for work. For Independence Day, we decided to go to Pierre, SD and watch the fireworks along the bank of the Missouri river. There was a free camping spot behind a hospital where you could pitch your tent, hang out, and see the fireworks up the river. We were near the end of the campground and there were very few people around us. As it was getting dark, the fireworks began. They were pretty far away, so the illumination they brought was very little. Thus, we had to sit right at the edge of the river to be able to see them. A huge thunderhead was moving in and a storm was imminent, so the air seemed electric and the wind was picking up. The atmosphere was eerie to say the least.

The police boats herded all the other boats off of the river and had left our area to do that elsewhere. Most of the other campers walked up the river to have a better view of the fireworks, but Sarah and I stayed back and were drinking PBR tallboys and kicking it. Suddenly, we heard the sound of a paddle methodically dipping into the water. We saw a figure steering a canoe about 20m off shore. Sarah decided to go get more beers from the car, leaving me alone to stare at this mystery person. And then, of course, they whistled at me. My entire body was frozen and covered in goosebumps. It was the exact same whistler from my childhood, more than a decade earlier. I looked at the figure, but it was much too dark to discern who it could be. They were wearing a hat. When they were perpendicular to the shore from me, they stopped paddling, turned the canoe to face directly at me, and whistled right at me. I was so frightened I stood up and shouted at them "who are you?!?" They didn't say anything, just whistled a couple more times, turned the canoe 180 degrees, and paddled out of sight.

I'm a videographer, so I already had my camera by my side and was taking video of the fireworks. As the canoe was almost out of sight, I grabbed my camera and got a shot of them whistling as they went away. When Sarah came back from getting beers, she was very confused as to why I was so freaked out. When I explained, she was freaked out a bit too. I was convinced we would both be murdered that night. How did this whistling person follow me, after 14 years, all the way to South Dakota? Was it a coincidence? Why was it the same whistling noise?! Who was that person and where did they go?!?! So many questions still unanswered. To this day I'm more afraid of being outside in the dark where I might hear that whistling again.

I'm open to any explanations.

If there is interest, I will find a plug and edit a little video of the fireworks and the whistling noise and the canoe disappearing. I'm in Uganda currently and the internet is spotty where I am, so I'll do my best.

tl;dr whistling person has haunted me since I was a boy. Can't explain. Halp.

EDIT: Video is coming, I promise. Where I'm at in Uganda the power goes out sometimes so if you don't hear from me either that happened or the Whistler finally got me.

EDIT 2: OK! Finally. I spent all afternoon uploading this video.

 
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When I was still getting shots of the fireworks I heard the whistling starting. I was too afraid at that moment to point the camera directly at the canoe, so I just turned my microphone towards it and kept a low-key shot facing down river towards the fireworks. If you wear headphones you can hear it better. It's the two note whistle, high then low. You can hear me ask my gf "Are you whistling? Is that you?" She said no but I wasn't sure so I told her "Stop it!" because I was getting scared.

The last shot I boosted the brightness as much as I could and still make out the person in the canoe. It looks like they're wearing a red sweater or something.

 

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Eastwood

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99% of Reddit is made up content created solely to drum up attention, as a social networking experiment, or some other thought experiment. You should immediately assume any original content on Reddit is fake unless overwhelming evidence proves otherwise.

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56 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

99% of Reddit is made up content created solely to drum up attention, as a social networking experiment, or some other thought experiment. You should immediately assume any original content on Reddit is fake unless overwhelming evidence proves otherwise.

You must be fun at parties

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Hell, I love a good ghost story. I'll tell you where places like Reddit get it wrong, though. Evidence. Evidence kills a good ghost story. Ghost stories rely on your own imagination to run wild and conjure up all the horrors your mind created for you as a child staring down a dark hallway in the middle of the night when you woke up to go pee only to feel some presence bearing down on you, forcing you to sprint in your own house. This guy had a great one. Then what did he do? He introduced "evidence." He threw in a shitty video of some dude whistling and said "see? Told you so!" So, it went from some specter or ghoul who had doomed him from childhood to a lifetime of haunting into to some random dude in a red sweater chumming around the lake. 

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Some of y’all have seen my photography of abandoned places. I have been in dozens of such places, many of which were supposed to be haunted. Everything from abandoned hospitals/mental institutions to hotels. Never saw a goddamn thing. Ever. The spookiest thing probably has been needing to take a shit in an abandoned building with nothing to wipe with. Bye bye socks.

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Some of y’all have seen my photography of abandoned places. I have been in dozens of such places, many of which were supposed to be haunted. Everything from abandoned hospitals/mental institutions to hotels. Never saw a goddamn thing. Ever. The spookiest thing probably has been needing to take a shit in an abandoned building with nothing to wipe with. Bye bye socks.

Pretty sure this is a cross post I read the other day.
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4 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Some of y’all have seen my photography of abandoned places. I have been in dozens of such places, many of which were supposed to be haunted. Everything from abandoned hospitals/mental institutions to hotels. Never saw a goddamn thing. Ever. The spookiest thing probably has been needing to take a shit in an abandoned building with nothing to wipe with. Bye bye socks.

The best haikyo / urbex picture I've seen was of a rusted ore car with "#1" painted on its side in an abandoned mine. Captioned "The World's Best Mining Cart". 

Used to follow a Japanese girl's blog. Abandoned amusement parks, the Paris subway and a cathedral rooftop, love hotels, castles ...  Lost my bookmarks and haven't been able to find her.

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The best haikyo / urbex picture I've seen was of a rusted ore car with "#1" painted on its side in an abandoned mine. Captioned "The World's Best Mining Cart". 

Used to follow a Japanese girl's blog. Abandoned amusement parks, the Paris subway and a cathedral rooftop, love hotels, castles ...  Lost my bookmarks and haven't been able to find her.

Not sure who you are talking about, but you might enjoy this site:

http:// http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/
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8 hours ago, Sandman said:

It's amazing how ghost stories and bigfoot sightings have almost vanished, ever since the entire planet started carrying a video recording device 24/7. 

Don't forget the Loch Ness Monster.  He was always around until cell phones with cameras were invented.

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11 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Sounds like his mother is doing a 20 year gas light treatment of this guy.

 

10 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

Sounds like his mother has some inheritance she’s trying to crazy him out of 

Well, we did find an exclusive picture of his mother:

0038513_arrangement-in-grey-and-black-po

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I just woke up from a nightmare so I'll just leave it here. A dinner party at my house is just breaking up. People are milling around in the living room, saying their goodbyes. The doorbell rings, and I think that's odd, it's around midnight. So I go to the door and it looks like they are cops, so I start to panic that something has happened to my kids. I open the door, and while they are wearing body armor, they are not cops. They are cartel assassins, and I knew in that moment they were there to kill me and everyone in my house. All I could do was wonder why as the lead sicario with no pity in his eyes and a tiny smirk on his face, leveled his pistol at me. And then I woke up.

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