A woman is driving through Olympic National Park and stops at the Quinault River. She stripped down to her underwear to take a quick dip. That is when she encounters an unknown man!
The following account was forwarded to me by a colleague who was contacted by the witness:
"I was traveling solo around the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state and making various stops in the Olympic National Park. I decided to stop in Quinault for the first time and took a random road that dead-ended at a beautiful spot at the edge of the Quinault River. There was an ancient footbridge that led across the river but it looked like it might collapse if I tried to cross it, so I decided not to.
It was off-season and I was not in a tourist area. I was the only one there. It was so unusually hot outside that I decided that I needed to get in that water. I backed my car all the way to the edge of the dead-end road, faced it out in the direction I would need to leave, and started hiking through thick brush, down an embankment, to the edge of the water.
It was mid-fall and I didn't have a suit since I didn't plan on swimming, so I just took my clothes off and got in the water in my bra and underwear. I had a nice swim but I could not shake the feeling that I was being watched even though I was in the middle of nowhere. After about 5 minutes the creepy feeling was enough for me to want to head back so I started to climb out, turned my back to the other side of the river, and walked toward my clothes and shoes that I had left behind.
When I turned around there was a big, tall man standing in plain view, just across from me on the other side of the river, but higher up on his embankment than I was on mine. He was wearing a poncho made of animal pelts, had long hair full of sticks and twigs, and looked like he had been living out in the wild for a very long time. We stood and stared at each other (me in frozen terror) for what felt like forever when all of a sudden he frantically took off in the direction of the footbridge leading across the water.
I grabbed my car key, and tried to grab my clothes and shoes but they got tangled up in some blackberry vines so I left everything and went running for my life, through the thick brush and blackberries, barefoot in my underwear, trying to make it to my car before he made it across the river. There was no doubt in my mind that he was trying to harm me.
When I made it out of the blackberries, I could see he was crossing the bridge toward me rapidly. I got to my car and flung my door open just as he arrived. I locked the doors while he pounded on the hood of my car, just screaming and grunting non-verbally. The moment he went for my driver's side door, I hit the gas and took off as fast as I could. I looked back and he was chasing after me. He must have run after my car for at least a mile until he faded from view.
I was bleeding everywhere from running nearly naked through blackberries. I was wet, unclothed, shaking, and crying. Had I hesitated for literally 10 seconds longer, I don't think I would have made it out alive. Even typing this story out again all these years later I am starting to shake. I felt like I was being hunted. That is the only way I can describe it.
I will never, ever go back to that area. Since that moment, I always bring a hiking buddy with me when I venture out into the forest. That day is going to haunt me for life. I have had many years of therapy and that experience is still as vivid as the day it happened." E
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