Romania's Hoia Baciu forest is a place which has long been associated
with strange and paranormal happenings, especially by locals in the
nearby village located on the edge of the forest. Residents of this
remote village report seeing strange lights in the sky, beams of light
rising from the forest at night, spectral figures are seen and strange
sounds and voices are heard by anyone who ventures into the forest. Some
people have even reported being assaulted by unseen forces, but let's
take a look at the known history of the forest before we get to that.
In
1968 a military technician named Emil Barnea went camping in the forest
to get some quiet time (that was his first mistake). Accompanying Emil
were his girlfriend Zamfir and two friends, the group had ignored
warnings about the forest given to them by villagers, apparently Emil
and co. had never ever seen a horror movie in which ignored warnings
lead to terrible/hilarious deaths. Anyway it turns out nothing to bad
happened to the group, but they got three very clear black and white
pictures of a silver disc UFO, which Emil described as executing a
difficult flying manoeuvre then flew of into the blue at a steep angle.
Long
before Emil and co. had their sighting, the Hoia Baciu forest was
producing weirdness. Locals have always reported physical effects like
feeling sick, feeling very anxious for no reason, sudden headaches and
sometimes even burns and scratches appearing on the skin of those who
have gone into the forest. Another visitor to the forest of eternal
creepiness was one Alexandru Sift, a biologist who became intrigued with
the stories surrounding Hoia Baciu. He began to venture alone into the
forest hoping to experience the phenomenon first hand. Alexandru began
to notice that as he walked through the trees shadowy shapes were
following him, always seen from the corner of his eye. It was tricky to
form a solid opinion of who or what they were, so he began photographing
the shadows or at least the areas in which he seen them, the results
were impressive. Not only did the photographs he took show the shadows,
but also figures of people that he never noticed with the naked eye and
also light orbs, his photographic evidence only served to add interest
to an already interesting and scary place.
In September of 2009
the crew of the Syfy channel's popular program, Destination Truth,
traveled to Romania to check out this infamous haunted forest for
themselves. As it turns out they got slightly more than they bargained
for. They started by interviewing a professor in the city of Cluj named
Adrian Patrut who is Romania's leading expert on the Hoia Baciu forest.
He has personally observed strange bright lights and human shaped
apparitions on his trips to study the forest, Adrian directed the
destination truth team to a small village near the edge of the forest
where they would get the local take on things. The villagers the team
interviewed confirmed the reports of strange lights above the forest and
disembodied voices and shadowy shapes and also warned "don't go".
Village advice ignored t,he team proceeded into the forest for an all
night vigil.
After patrolling through the dark forest and
observing quite a few strange lights among the trees they arrived at the
area of most interest in the forest which is a circular clearing near
the centre with no trees, and it was here that the team conducted an evp
session, where one team member sits in the middle of the circle alone
for 30 minutes and asks questions and and later the audio evidence is examined to look for replies, the other
team members watch the individual from their base camp nearby.
Everything was fairly uneventful until Evan's turn. He reported over his
radio that he was hearing female voices which seemed to be coming from
different parts of the forest, about three seconds after saying this he
was thrown or pulled backwards with considerable force, an event which
was captured clearly on the groups night vision camera set up. The other
team members sprinted from base camp to help Evan and when they got to
him he was visibly shaken and some scratch marks had appeared on his
forearm.
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