Terror in the Woods (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Cabin in the woods/Bigfoot encounter - full transcript

A night of terror ensues when James and Weste stay the night in an abandoned cabin / Eric is stalked by an unknown creature.

I'm fascinated
with the paranormal,

The thrill of it,
the excitement.

There was this prison.

I hear that it's haunted.

When you walk into the building,
you know you're being watched.

You can feel it.

I know there's a chance of,

When you leave
haunted locations,

Spirits, entities
can follow you.

That's when things
got really bad.

It was one of the scariest
things I'd ever seen.



You know, if you're going out
looking for something,

You know,
you just might find it,

And it might not be exactly
what you want to find.

My name is amy bemis.

I am from cincinnati, ohio.

This is a story
I have kept to myself.

Hey, jake.

I've talked about it
with my husband and a friend,

and that's it.

It's just too hard
to talk about.

I've always been fascinated
with the paranormal

Since I was very young.

I wanted to go to some
notoriously haunted locations

Close to where I live.



There was this prison, you know,
not far north of me,

Just outside of columbus.

You know,
I hear that it's haunted,

And, you know, people have some
very interesting experiences.

So, at the end of may of 2016,

I was able to go up
for a ghost-hunting event.

I traveled by myself.

Driving up to the place,

I am so excited
to finally be here

After years
of waiting to finally get there.

I can't imagine
how long it took

To actually build
this building.

It's humongous.

It goes on and on.

Like, the pictures
don't do it justice.

It's a rather large,
menacing building.

I didn't know anybody there.

This is gonna be
so much fun.

First time?

When you walk
into the building,

Immediately...

You feel
eyes looking on you.

You feel uncomfortable.

Hey, stick with me.

You'll be fine.

There was people
kind of floating

Throughout different areas
of the prison that night.

When you start
to head to the cells,

Paint is chipping off.

Like I said,
it's a very musty smell.

Hey, check this out.

You coming?

It's gonna be fun,
remember?

Going down
into the basement,

Or the hole, as it's known,

You know
you're being watched.

You can feel it.

I believe it was 1930.

There was a large fire,

And I believe it was the largest
prison fire in history.

Over 300 people died
in that fire,

So I know,
right where I'm standing,

There was a horrible tragedy.

Standing with my back
against the wall,

Looking up at all the different
levels on the cell block --

When you look up, you just --
you feel like there's people

On all the different levels
just looking down on you,

Like there's dozens
of people watching you.

hey, slow down a bit.

I was alone.

There was nobody around me
with flashlights.

I felt very uncomfortable,

For the first time,
in the prison.

In the pitch dark, your feelings
turn from excitement to fear.

The farther
you get into the building,

I mean, it changes.

You're constantly, you know,
looking around and wondering

If you're gonna walk
around a corner,

If something's
gonna be standing there

That's not
supposed to be there.

The energy in the air --

It changes.

It becomes very thick,
very electric,

Like a static charge
is all around you,

Like you can feel
that it's coming,

And that's when your emotions
kind of change,

And you start to get that
fight-or-flight instinct.

I keep telling myself
to stay calm,

To stay calm until there's
a reason to not be calm.

And I'm looking,
and I'm seeing --

In the cell,
I'm seeing a shadow,

And I don't see
any features.

It's just
a dark shape of a man.

Are my eyes playing tricks
on me, you know,

'cause it's dark?

I was watching it
with my own eyes.

I couldn't think
of a logical reason

For what I was seeing.

And I went
to snap a picture,

And the flash did not go off,
so I was, like,

"okay, I don't know
if I got anything or not."

Open!

Knowing the history inside
the prison with the fire,

I mean, I have no doubt
what I was seeing

Was some sort
of spirit or entity,

You know,
whatever you want to call it.

Luckily,
whatever was in there

Somehow showed up on the picture
I took on my phone.

It was nice to get out of it
and to drive away

And to know that
I was getting away from it.

I thought that was it.

It wasn't.

Hey, boy.

Come on.

Come on!
Jake, come on.

Come on, boy.

Come on.

You know, I'm thinking
back on it,

And now that I've had time

To kind of process
what happened,

It's a bit of a mixture
of feelings.

It's excitement, you know?

I had this
amazing experience

That I'll never forget,
you know?

But it was
a little bit scary.

So I get home,
and I'm telling my husband,

You know,
about my experience.

He's a total skeptic,
you know?

He tried to kind of find
a logical explanation for it,

You know?

And when I showed him
the picture

I had gotten from the cell
in the west cell block,

He was a little bit
in awe of it.

You know, he couldn't find
an explanation for it, you know?

He was asking me, "well,
was there somebody with you,

You know, that was standing
inside the cell?"

I'm like, "no, I was by myself.
There was nobody in there.

There was nobody around me
at all."

Late that Sunday night,

I had stepped outside
on my front porch.

I was out there
about a minute or so,

And I heard my dog
on the other side of the door

Just whining,

And my dog is 11 years old.

That's not his behavior,

And I was like,
"okay, that's a little weird."

Hey, jake.
What's up, buddy?

That's when things got
really bad for me,

And it lasted for months.

Kill yourself.

About a week after the incident,

My husband woke up
by something --

A manly, dark, raspy voice
whispering in his ear,

"kill yourself."

Geez, dog.
What the hell?

My dog was sitting
in the doorway.

Jake is sitting
at our bedroom door

And would not cross
the threshold.

He didn't know
what that was about, you know?

He thought it was
a little bit weird

And, you know,
he was worried.

I'm fascinated
with the paranormal

And possibly finding answers
to things we don't know

And questions
that have been asked

For hundreds and thousands
of years.

So I started to think about it,
and, you know,

It definitely
creeped me out,

And I know
there's a chance of,

When you leave
haunted locations,

Spirits, entities
can follow you,

Can follow you home.

Jake?

Jake!

Jake, where are you?

Jake!

Jake!

What is up with this dog?

Come on, boy.

Jake, come on.

Come on, boy.
Let's go.

Jake, come on.

The nightmares
started that night.

I'm dreaming,
or it's happening.

I really can't tell,

And I look over
in the corner of my room,

And I see the same exact
dark shadow figure

In the corner,
looking at me.

Bobby.

Bobby.

I don't see any features.

It's just a dark shape.

Wake up.

Bobby, wake up!

And it's just slowly walking
towards me,

And I feel
the intent of it.

Bobby!

Wake up! Wake up!
Please, wake up!

I'm standing there,
looking at myself sleeping.

I'm looking down on myself.

I can't move.

The only thing I can move
is my eyes,

And I'm wanting
to get up and run

Or try to yell
for my husband,

And I can't.

Wake up!

Please, please, wake up!

wake up!

As it's getting closer to me,

It starts to reach out to me
and starts to lean down,

And as it goes
to grab my legs...

Wake up!

Please, please wake up!

wake up!

I wake up.

And this type of dream
went on for months.

About a day after
that would happen,

I would find bruises
on the top part of my legs

That looked like fingerprints.

If somebody was
to come up to you

And dig their hands
into you really hard,

That's what it looked like
on my upper legs.

I was terrified to go to sleep.

Sometimes, I would be able
to wake myself up

From the nightmare

And fall back asleep,

And it would start over.

These are
not regular nightmares.

These are lucid nightmares.

I had them
multiple times a week,

The same dream all the time.

Somewhere
between 20 and 30 times,

I had the same nightmare.

It was really difficult to sleep
for months.

My husband --
he was in bed asleep.

Something tells me
to turn around

And walk through my house
towards my back door.

And I go to turn,

And as I peer
around that corner,

I see my dog by the door,
like he wants to go outside.

Jake?

Jake!

Jake?

Jake?

Jake, where are you?!

Jake.

Jake!

What is it, jake?

As I'm starting to lean
a little bit farther,

I see what I would best describe
as a hellhound.

When I saw that, it --
I mean, it terrified me...

...And so I start to run
back to my house.

Aah!

And the next thing I know,
I'm awake.

It was one of the scariest
things I had ever seen.

When I saw this in my dream,
I looked it up.

If you see a hellhound
or a black dog,

It's supposed to be an omen
that you are going to die.

But I was like,
"okay, that's just a bad dream."

I had found out that
actually seeing

Some sort of black dog
in the prison

Is an encounter
that people have had.

They are seen in graveyards,
cemeteries,

Places of execution --

Wherever there's been
a lot of death,

That's where they're seen.

I had no clue that anybody had
ever had any sort of experience

With what would be known
as a hellhound in the prison.

So, for me, that kind of added
a little bit of validation

To what I had experienced

To know that other people
had seen the same thing I did,

Although
I didn't see it there --

I saw it in my home.

Jake!

I let my dog out
early in the morning...

Jake!

Food's ready, boy!

Jake!

What's the matter?

Bobby!

...And would not get up.

Bobby!

So I get my husband.

He won't get up.

You're gonna be okay.

So, we took him to the vet.

My husband had to carry him
out to the car.

so, we got to
the vet's office early Saturday.

They give him some medication,
some steroids,

To try to see

If it would help him get
some feeling back into his legs,

And it didn't work.

So we had to, unfortunately,

Make the decision
to put him down.

Basically, they said it was
a spinal-cord-type issue --

Nerves going to
the back of the legs

Were not functioning
properly.

He could not feel
his back legs.

He could not walk.

This is something
that would occur in dogs

Over months, years,

So the fact that
this happened out of nowhere,

I mean,
just in a split second --

They couldn't explain that.

when I walk past jake's ashes,

I can't help but think...

...That it was my fault,

That what I did
by going to mansfield

Led to his death...

That I did that to him.

When my dog died
three months to the day

Of me having that nightmare,

It kind of all came together.

And going back through the dates
when the nightmares started,

It was may 22nd
when they started.

I had the dream
with the hellhound and my dog

On July 22nd...

...And on October 22nd,
we had to put our dog down.

My husband is not a big believer
in the paranormal,

But this changed.

He agrees that
how this played out

Is just a little bit too weird

To not think that there's
something paranormal about it

When you factor in everything
that happened

From the night I left mansfield
until the day my dog died.

It absolutely
has changed my life.

I am definitely
a little bit more cautious

When it comes to the paranormal.

You know, I would like
to try to find answers

For what happened to me.

I would like to find out
if anybody else has had

The exact same experience
as me.

I almost want to go...

And confront
and face my fears

And try to get
some resolution.

If you're going out
looking for something,

You know,
you just might find it,

And it might not be exactly
what you want to find.