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Something is watching from the trees, and the people who notice it will never be the same. Across rural America, Australia, and deep forest regions, witnesses describe the same chilling realization that something unseen had already been observing them long before they ever looked back.
In this episode, Phantoms and Monsters Radio presents a chilling collection of true first-person encounters with cloaked figures, tree line watchers, and silent forest entities that remain just beyond clear visibility.
• Nine immersive firsthand accounts of forest and treeline observers
• Cloaked humanoids, pale beings, and shadow figures
• The moment witnesses realize they are no longer alone
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Hey folks, welcome to Phantoms of
0:04
Monsters Radio.
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Now, there is a moment in certain
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encounters that never leaves a person.
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It's not the scream and it's not the
0:16
movement.
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It's not even the fear.
0:20
It's the realization.
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A moment when the woods are the same as
0:26
they were a second ago. The air is
0:29
still. The light has not changed. And
0:33
yet something deep inside you suddenly
0:36
knows that you're not alone.
0:40
Not because something moved, but because
0:43
something has been there all along.
0:47
Now, the witnesses in tonight's episode
0:51
all describe that movement.
0:53
They did not stumble into danger and
0:56
they did not walk into something
0:58
unexpected.
1:01
They realized slowly and horribly
1:05
that they were already being watched.
1:11
Now, this first case, the witness
1:14
states, "When I was a little boy, my
1:17
family lived in a small two-bedroom
1:19
house.
1:21
One night, my brother and I stood at the
1:24
front window, watching the rainfall.
1:27
Lightning flashed across the sky, and a
1:30
thunder rolled in the distance. But
1:33
somehow everything else felt unnaturally
1:36
quiet.
1:38
There was only one tree in our front
1:40
yard. It was a horrible looking thing,
1:43
dead, twisted.
1:46
It never had leaves.
1:48
That night, the wind whipped its black
1:51
branches violently as if the tree itself
1:53
were angry at the storm.
1:57
We stood there in silence, listening to
1:59
the rain tap against the glass, when
2:02
suddenly a huge bolt of lightning lit up
2:05
the entire yard.
2:08
In the branches of that tree staring
2:10
directly at us was something I had never
2:13
seen before.
2:15
In that instant, I knew five things all
2:19
at once.
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It was solid.
2:23
It was standing on two feet. It was
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standing on one specific branch. It knew
2:30
we were there. And my brother was seeing
2:33
it as well.
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But somehow we were not seeing the same
2:39
thing.
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To me, the creature looked like a
2:43
grotesque cartoon farmer.
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Its body was flattened and distorted.
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It wore what looked like a flannel shirt
2:51
and overalls.
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A wide, unnatural grin splits its face
2:57
from side to side. In its right hand, it
3:00
held a metal pitchfork.
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But at the same time, I realized my
3:05
brother was seeing something else. Years
3:09
later, he told me that he saw a skeleton
3:13
in that same spot. Thick bones, hollow
3:17
eye sockets, standing in the same
3:20
branches where I had I saw the farmer.
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The lightning flickered again.
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And then it went dark.
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When our eyes adjusted to the dim glow
3:31
of the storm clouds, the branches were
3:33
empty.
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Whatever had been there was gone.
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Neither of us screamed and neither of us
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cried. There was only the pounding in my
3:43
ears as I slowly turned my head and
3:46
looked at my brother. In his eyes, I
3:50
could see that he had experienced the
3:51
same shock.
3:54
He did not have to speak.
3:57
Years later, my father cut that tree
3:59
down.
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We never told him why.
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Reports of entities appearing
4:10
differently to multiple witnesses are
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not rare. Now, in folklore, paranormal
4:15
research, and even modern UFO cases,
4:18
witnesses standing side by side often
4:20
describe completely different forms.
4:23
This suggests not a simple
4:26
hallucination, but something capable of
4:28
being perceived in more than one way at
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the same time.
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Now, this W next witness states, "In
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June of 1995, I lived on a large
4:42
property near Spokane, Washington.
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One afternoon, I was moving or mowing
4:49
the front lawn, which was scattered with
4:52
old apple trees. Now, on my first pass,
4:55
I felt something strange near one of the
4:57
trees, a sensation I couldn't explain.
5:02
Now, on the second pass, I felt it
5:04
again.
5:06
And on the third, it became undeniable.
5:09
I was being watched.
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I kept looking around, scanning the lawn
5:14
in the trees, but I could not see
5:17
anything.
5:20
By the fourth pass, I was frustrated and
5:22
uneasy.
5:25
When I reached the corner of the tree
5:27
again, the feeling was stronger than
5:29
ever.
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I looked up the branches.
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That's when I saw it. About 8 foot up in
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the tree was a small bean with dark
5:40
almond shaped eyes and thin limbs. Its
5:44
body was almost translucent.
5:47
Its outline wavered and shifted like
5:49
heat rising from payment.
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At times it was barely visible at all.
5:56
It was just sitting there watching me.
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Fear hit me so hard I nearly lost my
6:02
balance.
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I left the lawn unfinished and went
6:06
inside without telling anyone.
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I knew how it would sound.
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Then three nights later at around 12:30
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in the morning, I was reading in bed
6:18
when my whole body began tingling.
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It was an intense electric sensation
6:24
that made me sit up.
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I walked to the window and looked out
6:29
over the field.
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About 200 yards away, hovering just
6:34
above the ground, was a dimly glowing
6:37
oval-shaped craft.
6:40
I could see lights blinking underneath
6:42
it.
6:44
Through large windows, I could see
6:46
movements inside.
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I tried to wake my girlfriend, but she
6:50
wouldn't stir.
6:53
Then I felt pressure building in my
6:55
ears.
6:57
and the craft vanished in an instant. I
7:00
have always believed that the being in
7:02
the tree was waiting for it.
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Now, in both these cases, the witnesses
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sensed its presence before they ever saw
7:10
it. A quiet awareness that something was
7:14
already there, hidden just out of view.
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But for others, the moment of discovery
7:20
was far more sudden.
7:27
Next witness states, "In the early
7:29
1990s, I lived in a small town in
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Tennessee called Antioch.
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One afternoon around 3:00, I was outside
7:38
with my dog when I felt something
7:40
watching me.
7:43
It was the same feeling, pressure, a
7:46
presence.
7:47
I looked towards the woods.
7:50
At first, I could not see anything, but
7:52
I could hear leaves rustling.
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Then I started looking higher toward the
7:58
top of the trees.
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That's when I saw it. There was
8:03
something crouched up there, sitting in
8:06
the branches. It was the size of a man,
8:09
but the branches should never have been
8:11
able to hold or support its weight.
8:14
Its outline was visible,
8:18
but I could see through it like a
8:20
shimmering distortion in the air. It
8:23
looked exactly like the cloak creature
8:25
from the Predator movies, even though I
8:28
had not seen those films yet.
8:31
Without thinking, I dropped the leash
8:34
and ran toward it, yelling.
8:37
It took off across the tops of the
8:39
trees. It moved impossibly fast. Then it
8:42
stopped about 50 yards away, turned and
8:46
looked at me. We stared at each other.
8:50
Then it vanished into the woods. I never
8:53
told anyone.
8:59
This next witness states, "I was biking
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home one late night in Anoka County,
9:05
Minnesota.
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Most of the route was dark forested
9:10
trail with almost no street lights. I
9:13
had just reached the area where the
9:14
lights ended in the woods began, so I
9:17
turned on my phone's flashlight.
9:20
A few seconds later, I tilted it upwards
9:25
and froze.
9:27
For just a brief moment, I saw a tall,
9:30
thin,
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skinny,
9:34
pale figure standing in front of me. It
9:36
was upright like a man. Then it dropped
9:39
on all fours and vanished into the
9:41
woods.
9:43
I pedled as fast as I could. I could
9:46
hear it running behind me, hidden in the
9:48
trees, keeping pace.
9:51
A low screech following me through the
9:53
darkness.
9:55
Later, when I reached an open field, I
9:57
smelled something strange, sweet, like
10:01
fresh blueberry pancakes or waffles.
10:05
There were no buildings nearby. It felt
10:07
like something was trying to draw me off
10:09
the trail.
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10:29
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Now, this witness says, "I live in a
10:43
very rural part of northern New Jersey
10:45
in Sussex County.
10:48
Now, behind my property and to the left
10:50
of my house is nothing but forest.
10:53
There are a few narrow trails back
10:56
there, but most of them are dense,
10:58
untouched woods.
11:00
Next door to us is a protected
11:02
wilderness area where nothing can be
11:04
built.
11:07
Occasionally, I will take my young son
11:09
out in his little wagon and have a small
11:12
picnic in the clearing near the woods.
11:16
We would sit a few feet from the treeine
11:18
and just enjoy the quiet.
11:22
One afternoon, he started doing what he
11:25
always did, mimicking the sounds around
11:28
us. He copied birds, squirrels, even the
11:32
neighbor's dog.
11:34
I turned my back for just a moment to
11:36
get some fruit from our basket when I
11:38
heard him say, "Mom, mom,"
11:43
but he wasn't looking at me. He was
11:46
staring up in a tree, pointing, not
11:49
blinking.
11:51
I turned and asked him what he saw,
11:53
thinking it might be a bird. But then I
11:56
noticed something else.
11:59
There were no sounds, no birds, no
12:02
insects, no wind.
12:05
He began walking towards the woods,
12:08
still pointing upward, still staring.
12:12
The only movement I could see were
12:15
leaves rustling in the branches.
12:19
But that's when I saw it. In the tree
12:21
was something that looked like heat
12:23
rising off a payment.
12:26
a cloaked crouch shape with one arm out
12:29
and bent knees. It had the shape of a
12:32
humanoid, but the posture reminded me of
12:35
a preying mantis.
12:38
I felt its gaze hit me like fire. Then I
12:42
heard a clicking sound.
12:45
The moment it in the moment it turned
12:48
its attention from my son to me, my son
12:51
suddenly snapped out of it and panicked.
12:54
He mimicked the clicking sound it had
12:57
made. I grabbed him and ran.
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Now, that was 6 months ago. Even now,
13:04
when I lie in bed at night, I hear faint
13:07
clicking sounds coming from the woods.
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I believe it's still there.
13:16
Now, across dozens of cloaked humanoid
13:19
encounters, witnesses describe clicking
13:22
or ticking sounds that precede movement.
13:25
Now, these sounds appear to be either a
13:27
form of communication or a byproduct of
13:30
whatever process allows the entity to
13:32
remain visibly distorted.
13:38
Now, the next witness states, "One
13:40
Saturday night near Adah, Oklahoma, my
13:44
teenage daughter was bored,
13:46
so I suggested we drive out of town and
13:49
watch the sky.
13:51
We parked near a hill and started
13:53
looking for satellites."
13:57
She suddenly asked me if they zigzag and
13:59
move in circles. I said no.
14:03
She was watching something moving
14:05
erratically in the sky.
14:09
I went to get my night vision goggles.
14:12
While she lost interest, I scanned the
14:14
tree line just I mean because I had done
14:18
Bigfoot investigations. I know how to
14:20
look for eyes shine.
14:23
But that's when I saw them eyes.
14:27
I told her to look. She did and
14:30
immediately
14:32
said she could see ears and that she was
14:35
scared.
14:36
At first I thought Bigfoot.
14:40
Then I saw them. Two tall pointed ears
14:43
like a German Shepherd's sticking up
14:45
from the head of something standing in
14:47
the trees about 30 yards away.
14:51
I realized my infrared beam was shining
14:53
directly into its face. Its eyes were
14:57
squinted shut.
14:59
When I lowered the beam, its eyes slowly
15:02
opened. That moment froze me.
15:06
I got back terrified and ran for the
15:10
truck.
15:15
The next witness says, "My father grew
15:17
up in rural Costa Rica in a region
15:20
filled with oil palm groves where you
15:22
could go miles without seeing another
15:25
house.
15:28
One night while delivering vegetables,
15:30
he was stopped by a herd of goats
15:32
blocking the road.
15:35
Then he heard a voice behind him asking
15:37
how much for lettuce.
15:41
When he turned, he saw a man at least 10
15:43
ft tall. He was painfully thin, pale,
15:47
and dressed in overalls, a flannel
15:49
shirt, a bandana, and a straw hat.
15:53
The hat shadowed his eyes.
15:56
The man bought lettuce and walked away
15:59
whistling.
16:00
The goats filed him into the palm
16:02
groves.
16:04
Now, in Central American lore, beings
16:07
known as Eldeno del Monte are said to
16:10
appear as tall for farmers who command
16:14
animals and dwell in the palm forest.
16:17
Their eyes are never seen.
16:24
Now, this next woman states,
16:27
"One night
16:29
in November 11, 2013, I was standing on
16:32
my balcony in Queensland, Australia,
16:35
sometime between 2:30 and 3:00 in the
16:38
morning.
16:40
I got out there most nights at that hour
16:42
just to look at the stars before going
16:44
to bed.
16:47
It's quiet then and you can see a
16:49
surprisingly amount of the sky.
16:53
That night, something caught my
16:55
attention almost immediately.
16:58
A few blocks away, there's a forest
17:00
street covered hill with phone towers at
17:04
the top.
17:06
The sides of the hill are thick with
17:07
trees and people do not normally go up
17:10
there.
17:12
I noticed a bright white pulsing glow
17:14
inside the trees.
17:16
Now, it was not blinding, but it was a
17:18
light in a strange way, like daylight
17:20
coming from within the forest itself.
17:24
The light pulsed slowly, rhythmically.
17:28
I watched it for several hours, trying
17:30
to work out what it could been.
17:34
Then, a glowing white ball slowly rose
17:37
up out of the trees.
17:40
It hovered about 10 m above the
17:42
treetops.
17:44
The light it gave off illuminated the
17:46
forest around it,
17:48
but it didn't hurt my eyes. It felt
17:51
controlled, not chaotic.
17:55
Now, after maybe 10 seconds, the boss
17:57
simply disappeared.
17:59
It did not move away. It just switched
18:02
off.
18:04
I got into my car and drove around the
18:06
block to where the forest begins.
18:09
I parked and walked in, heading toward
18:11
the area where I'd seen the light.
18:14
The deeper I went, the quieter
18:16
everything became.
18:19
There were no insects, birds, or wind.
18:23
Then another glowing ball appeared ahead
18:25
of me. It was about 30 m away when I
18:28
began to see dark silhouettes moving
18:31
around it.
18:33
They were walking past the light, their
18:35
forms blocking it. I tried to move
18:38
closer, but suddenly I couldn't.
18:41
My body simply would not respond.
18:45
A calm, gentle voice behind me said, "Do
18:48
not be afraid."
18:51
The moment those words were spoken, I
18:53
was able to move again, and I fell
18:56
forward onto the ground.
18:59
When I rolled over, a very tall man was
19:01
standing over me. He had a long white He
19:04
had long white blonde hair and extremely
19:07
pale skin.
19:09
He was wearing what looked like a fluffy
19:12
white one-piece suit. And he reminded me
19:15
of the Albano men from the Matrix.
19:19
He reached down and helped me up.
19:22
That's when I noticed something I'll
19:24
never forget.
19:26
On either side of his neck were long
19:29
slits that opened and closed when he
19:31
breathed. They looked like gills.
19:35
He led me toward the glowing ball.
19:39
Around it stood several small figures
19:41
wearing black hooded robes.
19:45
Each had a long rod like a staff.
19:48
They never showed their faces.
19:52
The tall man was calm but terrifying.
19:57
He would paralyze me without touching me
19:59
at all. I don't know what they were
20:03
but they were waiting.
20:11
This next witness states, "As teenagers,
20:13
my friend and I went camping in the
20:15
Annapapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.
20:20
We decided to sleep in an abandoned
20:22
camper deep in the woods.
20:25
It had been sitting there so long that
20:27
trees had grown up around it. We arrived
20:31
after dark, lost and tired. Inside, rats
20:35
scured in the ceiling.
20:38
The wind made the camper creek and
20:40
groan.
20:42
We were already on edge.
20:45
At some point in the night, I woke up
20:47
and saw a man's silhouette staring in
20:50
through the window in the far end of the
20:52
camper.
20:54
He was standing perfectly still,
20:57
watching us.
20:59
I woke my friend and for 10 minutes, we
21:02
stared at that figure.
21:05
He never looked away.
21:08
When we shone a flashlight on it, we
21:10
realized it was a mirror, but the fear
21:14
was real.
21:16
And for those 10 minutes, we were
21:18
absolutely convinced something was out
21:20
there.
21:25
Now, the reason these stories stay with
21:27
people is not because of what was seen.
21:30
It's because of how it felt.
21:33
Being watched is one of the most primal
21:35
fears we have. It's older than language,
21:39
older than memory, and it's the instinct
21:43
that tells prey when a predator has
21:45
locked on to them.
21:48
That instinct does not need proof.
21:52
The witnesses you have just heard from
21:55
did not stumble into danger. They became
21:58
aware of it.
22:01
Something stood just beyond the edge of
22:03
vision, behind the trees, inside
22:07
shadows,
22:08
beneath branches.
22:10
Sometimes it reaches itself or reveals
22:13
itself. Sometimes it stays hidden.
22:18
But the awareness was always the same.
22:22
They were being observed.
22:25
Now whether these things are
22:26
ultraterrestrial, interdimensional or
22:28
something far older that shares this
22:31
world with us, the behavior is
22:33
consistent.
22:35
They do not rush and they do not chase.
22:39
They wait.
22:42
And sometimes when the woods goes silent
22:45
and the air grows heavy, they let you
22:47
know that you have finally noticed them.
22:52
That moment when the realization sets in
22:56
is what changes people forever.
22:59
Because once you know something is
23:01
watching,
23:03
you can never look at the trees the same
23:05
way again.
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Now, if you have experienced anything
23:10
like this or had an unexplained
23:12
encounter or sighting, you can send your
23:14
report to Phantoms and Monsters. And as
23:17
always, thank you for listening.
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