Ranger Spills the Beans on What's Living Inside Pennsylvania's Abandoned Wells
Donovan Dread
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In the Allegheny National Forest of northwest Pennsylvania, there are more than a thousand abandoned oil and gas wells, rusted pipes left open in the leaves since the days of the Bradford oil boom.
Ray had twenty-two years as a Forest Service ranger in the Allegheny. His job was to find those wells so they could be plugged. At one of them, north of the Allegheny Reservoir, he found fresh scratch marks on the inside of the pipe. He tapped three times on the casing, and three taps came back. The next night, something came up out of the ground and followed him to his truck.
This is an original horror story set in real places: the Allegheny National Forest, Kane, Bradford, PA Route 321, Tracy Ridge, the Allegheny Reservoir and Kinzua Dam. Historical photographs are public-domain images from the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives.
Have you ever come across an old pipe sticking out of the ground in the woods? Tell me in the comments where it was and what it sounded like when the wind moved across it.
Subscribe, because there are a thousand more of those wells out there.
Map imagery: Esri and its data providers (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, GIS User Community). Terrain: Mapterhorn / Re:Earth (CC BY 4.0). Roads and water: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Elevation: USGS 3DEP. Well locations: Pennsylvania DEP. Forest boundary: USDA Forest Service.
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Any simulated testimony, reports, recordings, or documents appearing within the story are storytelling elements, not authentic evidence of the depicted encounter. AI-generated imagery and other dramatized visuals are illustrative and are not footage documenting that encounter.
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20 Comments
I will tell you that if you hear a baby crying or a woman’s voice softly asking for help, it’s time to pack it up for the night and head out!
I do know Pennsylvania has some of the best crude oil on the planet
I think they are night badger like creatures operating underground
Ranger Spills the Beans on What's Living Inside Pennsylvania's Abandoned Wells
Donovan Dread
376,472 views
In the Allegheny National Forest of northwest Pennsylvania, there are more than a thousand abandoned oil and gas wells, rusted pipes left open in the leaves since the days of the Bradford oil boom.
Ray had twenty-two years as a Forest Service ranger in the Allegheny. His job was to find those wells so they could be plugged. At one of them, north of the Allegheny Reservoir, he found fresh scratch marks on the inside of the pipe. He tapped three times on the casing, and three taps came back. The next night, something came up out of the ground and followed him to his truck.
This is an original horror story set in real places: the Allegheny National Forest, Kane, Bradford, PA Route 321, Tracy Ridge, the Allegheny Reservoir and Kinzua Dam. Historical photographs are public-domain images from the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives.
Have you ever come across an old pipe sticking out of the ground in the woods? Tell me in the comments where it was and what it sounded like when the wind moved across it.
Subscribe, because there are a thousand more of those wells out there.
Map imagery: Esri and its data providers (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, GIS User Community). Terrain: Mapterhorn / Re:Earth (CC BY 4.0). Roads and water: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Elevation: USGS 3DEP. Well locations: Pennsylvania DEP. Forest boundary: USDA Forest Service.
*STORY DISCLAIMER:* This video is an original work of fiction created for entertainment. The characters, dialogue, supernatural encounters, and story-specific events are invented and are not presented as verified accounts.
Real locations, historical background, and references to organizations are used as settings and context. Invented characters are not intended to depict actual employees or representatives of those organizations. Any resemblance to actual persons or their experiences is coincidental.
Any simulated testimony, reports, recordings, or documents appearing within the story are storytelling elements, not authentic evidence of the depicted encounter. AI-generated imagery and other dramatized visuals are illustrative and are not footage documenting that encounter.
No affiliation with or endorsement by any park, government agency, scientific institution, or other organization mentioned is claimed.
Copyright Notice
You must receive written permission from me to use any form of my content. reproduction of any of my narrations on any platform or medium is not allowed without prior written consent.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.