3 Terrifying TRUE Remote Cabin Horror Stories | The Host Said: "I Don't Have a Caretaker😱"

[music] >> This happened about 2 years ago. I work a logistics job out of Roanoke, Virginia and hadn't taken a real vacation in close to 4 years. My manager finally told me to use my PTO or lose it. So, I blocked off 5 days in late October and found a cabin rental in the West

Virginia mountains. One bedroom, wood stove, [music] a small deck that backed up against the tree line. The listing said the property sat on 12 private acres, 7 miles off Route 39, with the nearest neighbor well over a mile away. That was the whole point. I wanted total isolation. I arrived Thursday afternoon just as the

light was dropping through the ridge line. The host had [music] texted me the lockbox code. No one there to meet me. Just the cabin and the cold mountain air. I got a fire going in the wood stove, brought my bags in, made [music] dinner, and within the first hour felt every month of that last year start to come

loose. The quiet in those mountains is a different kind of quiet. It has actual weight to it. >> [music] >> Around 7:00, I stepped out onto the deck to eat. Full dark by then. The trees were solid black in every direction. The ridge above me just a darker shape against the sky. I stood there for a while after I

finished. Not doing anything. Just listening. >> [music] >> That's when I heard the footsteps on the far end of the porch. Three slow, deliberate steps. Heavy enough to [music] press into the boards and make them creak. Then nothing. I looked toward the far end. The porch light only reached halfway. I waited for another sound, but the

woods had gone completely still in that particular way they do when something is out there. After a long minute, I walked to the edge and shone my phone flashlight into the tree line. Nothing. Just black [music] trunks going back into the mountain. I told myself it was a deer. The deck sat right at ground level,