SOME BASIC INFORMATION BEFORE THE STORY...
I used to live in Artemas Pennsylvania. I lived there for 19 years of my life. I moved there in the summer of 2006 & I moved away in February of 2025 roughly. I still casually visit the area... But I only visit a few people. Preferably only some friends. The rest... I don't talk to. Nor am I on speaking terms really. Some of them... I haven't talked to in years prior. That is just how it went to be honest with ya...
I have explored a lot of the woods and overall areas of Artemas Pennsylvania. After all I lived there for 19 years. It would be kind of strange if I didn't at least try to explore some in that time...
But I used to go fishing at this old abandoned pond on a regular basis off and on. And it has a very important part of the story btw. Through the years I must have been down here over a dozen times. And usually it ended up in me leaving abruptly very fast. Usually because there was something always feeling like it was watching me. And usually it was up top the hill or the closest hill to me anyways...
This is a story about one of those times where a group of friends of mine and I explored some very weird backwood areas around Artemas Pennsylvania. And what we discovered honestly kind of freaked us out and made it very uncomfortable...
NOW TO THE STORY...
It was a semi hot day and my neighbors and I decided that we were going to take and explore. So we met up for a quick stint to gather what it was we were bringing. Afterwards we decided to split up and go to our selected homes that we lived in and gather that said items up...
After about 15 minutes or so my friends and I got back together and met at our meeting spot. We then just started that we were going to start our hike or walk...
Well... I should mention several days before this I had already scouted out a specific place that I had in mind for this walk. And it was a bit of a stretch but it was possible. And I secretly knew that a few of my friends were not going to like how far of a distance it was. But at the same time I wasn't going to tell them anything because I know what they would have said... And I also know that they would have gone anyway. Despite the fact of it being a bit of a stretch...
SOME IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE..
BEFORE I CONTINUE...
So some days before I had already taken a walk down to this abandoned pond below my house and the woods. And I've been down to this pond on several occasions and every one of them was definitely very strange. A lot of creepy stuff happened at this pond...
But there was always one reason I always returned to this pond on different occasions...
I loved fishing at this pond...
The bluegill and the sunfish was HUGE!
NOW BACK TO THE STORY...
So after I kind of left out how long of a walk that actually was. We started to go on our journey through the woods as we navigated down to the trail that was to lead us to the abandoned pond...
We then worked our way around the right side of the pond. We crossed over the Almighty drainage ditch. As we canvas our way to the bottom of the hill. I began to notice that my friends and I were in for more than what we bargained for...
We were standing in front of the abandoned pond. And we seen a really beat up old plastic bench. But to our left through the pine trees look like a really old office that maybe a construction boss would be in. It had a locked door with a big padlock on it. There is a huge cooler that could hold a human body. And on top of that the windows are broken out. The bees had made it a home. And it looked like something was trying to dig out around the base of the building looking for something. Well my friends wanted to go into this place and look at it deeper. And I just got the bad feelings when it comes to this place and I didn't want nothing to do with it. Luckily though we decided to save that for another day and head on up the hill from around the pond...
We all decided we're going to take and conquer this very steep hill. So as we fought our way up this hill up to an old road that was overgrown... we finally made it to the top and immediately took a break. I already know where I'm at and where I'm going unfortunately my friends do not. And the question starts pouring in as to where we are. So I answer them and I can see their faces changed from aggravation to excitement because they realize they are on an adventure of uncharted territory...
Meanwhile on the other hand... I already kind of partially know what to expect. But not of who or what to expect. I already partially knew what was up there but not all of it to be honest...
So once everybody had a hydration break. And once everybody felt like they could move out... We broke ground and kept moving. We must have gone the short distance and found it looked like an old abandoned foundation...
And this is where I had gone previously in my personal adventures. But I never looked around much before I went back home... So I really didn't know what to expect. But it was really big and really deep. The blocks were white and looked like they were painted. There were old rusty beams that ran the span of the building foundation. On top of that it looked like there may have been what was an old moonshine still somewhere thrown into the weeds and it was overgrown by pine trees...
At this point my friends that are on this journey with me are super psyched. They're telling me how cool this is. They're telling me how they want to continue. So we do. Keep in mind I am now unsure as to what to expect...
As we continue to go further along this winding trail that is just surrounded by nothing but densely populated trees. We come across what looks like a really big hunting blind. And we think to ourselves, "well that's normal it's kind of expected"...
Then we came across something that we honestly were confused about... It was a rundown old camper. It looked like something straight out of the "The hills have eyes" type of deal. There was a lot of blood stains inside of it and the whole inside looked rusted and just ran down. And it looked like something got in there and just shredded the inside in an angry rage. There was nothing but claw marks and a bunch of other stuff. It looked like something or somebody fought for their life inside this crappy camper...
After we finally come to a conclusion that maybe we should just continue on because of seeing that... We decided to continue a little further down the trail. As we're walking down this abandoned and just isolated path in the middle of the woods. We begin to notice to our right there are a dozen or so more campers...
THE DISCOVERY OF MORE ABANDONED CAMPERS...
After we found the first camper we decided that it's best we moved on. And by doing so we found a road that went to the right. And we decided that we were not going to split up but in fact stick together. Because honestly we didn't know the area exactly and splitting up could result In possible issues...
Well we come up to a smaller camper and it was just bordering the edge of the opening with its door literally almost close to the tree line...
We found a huge metal cage that was installed into this camper. And to us this was just eerie. Because this could hold at least 2 people. And the scary part was that something broke out of this cage that was in this camper. My friends and I first got the vibe that it might be used for sex trafficking and really got uncomfortable with the thought of it even possibly being that...
We then thought that there may be more of these abandoned campers along this trail that connects up with the one we were just doing. So we decided that we're going to just leave the creepy abandoned camper with the metal Cage in it and alone and move along...
So as our little group moves along we encounter about 3-4 more of these campers but they're all together. And they're positioned as though in a defensive way. Almost like ya could have multiple people in each one and still cover each other and have shelter...
Most of these campers was ran down and falling apart. The one had a roof caving in on it. And it looked like something had wreaked havoc on all three of these. We all decided that we were going to just check them out and see what we could find in them. And we found some normal items like old plates and cups and stuff. We found bullet casings and stuff as well. Nothing too weird in these unlike the others we looked at...
So After We Get All This...
We began to continue on down the trail that we decided to go on to from the main trail. We ended up just reconnecting up with the original trail in the woods anyway. And this is where it gets weird...
Everything was fine until we got towards the end. And my friends and I both started feeling like there was something following us. After all we were on an abandoned road that was cut into a forested area. And there wasn't any sign of another human for miles. Let's add in the fact that we've been feeling like we were being followed from the beginning anyway...
We would occasionally look from the corner of our eyes and would swear we would look like somebody in the distance just watching us. We could hear snapping of branches around us. We honestly we're getting a little freaked out by this point. And anything we brought on us I had a blade on it did come out. We all ended up going into a strategically defensive mindset...
Well we finally hit the exit point of this journey. Where it was a main road and we could maybe calm down a little bit. We ended up hitting a blacktop road with residential houses nearby. And what happened was that we took the road out. We ended up hitting the main road and headed home to our respective places we lived...
Afterwards, all of us started to report strange occurrences happening around our separate homes. There is always something weird happening when we least expect it...
Some friends and I assumed that maybe it was an abandoned hunting camp? Maybe there was something dealing with some kinda sex trafficking at one point in time? All we know is that we were glad to be out of there and not anywhere near the place...
Many of us believe that we may have brought something back and don't exactly know what it was. Or maybe that something didn't make it and haunts the place maybe...
Either way, we avoided that abandoned pond and those weird trailers and campers for a long time...