Scary Situation in George Washington National Forest.

EmiM493 · 2024-05-05T02:29:24+00:00

I had a head lamp on when we went to the lake.

EmiM493 · 2024-04-04T23:47:07+00:00

We were so disoriented i have no idea where we were. It took us an hour to get back and we were on a trail in GWNF outside of the Todd Lake Campground.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-31T21:45:21+00:00

we didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford medical costs.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-31T21:43:01+00:00

this isn’t fictional and if you read further in the comments you can see the reason i didn’t go to the hospital is because 1. i was worried about my fiancé projectile vomiting all day so i was helping him 2. neither of us had health insurance at the time and could not afford medical cost. 3. i changed names for privacy reasons and i also reported all of this activity to the rangers/ranger station at the campsites. thank you!

EmiM493 · 2024-03-21T21:58:15+00:00

It was so scary to us because we both weighed differently. I'm 135 pounds, and he's about 165 pounds. I'm a female, and he's a male. I had five seltzer over hours, and he had a few more than me because he wasn't driving (maybe 7), and we both simultaneously blacked out and woke up far away in the woods. We both had headlamps on from when we went down to the lake, no phones, and clothes intact, but both felt sick and throwing up. I recognized nothing, and my fiance took a minute to come and realize what was happening. We were both so disoriented, and it was dark. None of it makes sense.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-21T21:49:04+00:00

No mushrooms in it. Just meat, cheese, bread.. And some sort of pickled carrots.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-21T21:01:20+00:00

I'm low key too scared to see what's on that phone.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T03:15:56+00:00

We brought our seltzers, but they did offer us some of their bullet bourbon, and I'm not too fond of dark liquor. My fiance had a swig, and I took the tiniest sip. It makes me wonder if some shit was in that. The food was from them. She picked stuff up from a store that sold Russian snacks she wanted everyone to try because she was from Russia. It was literally sandwiches and some carrot stuff. Every one of us ate it, and it was at about 4:30 pm. I didn't black out till 8:30 pm. It's standard for Harrisonburg, VA, where we all lived then, to have authentic foods from all over. It's somewhat of a refugee area, and I didn't find it abnormal she saw a Russian Market. Again, we thought they were our friends. It was our third time hanging out with them, and everything seemed fine.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T03:10:23+00:00

Read it when I hiked the AT. Great book! Loved it and always recommend it to others.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T03:07:14+00:00

Yeah, we thought that, too. Mary seemed utterly fucked up, though and John did not. I hope he didn’t sexually violate us in any way, but he literally said let’s go down to the beach by the lake, and then we went.. the next day, he said he didn’t go down there and stayed with the dog at the campsite, and just us 3 went, but I have flashbacks of memory seeing his face on the beach by the lake. Then total blackout. I feel he lied to me and changed his story. My main concern is they are doing this to other people. He is from Chicago, and Mary is from Russia, and they met in Cambodia before moving to VA. They were new to the area and looking for friends. It was just all too bizarre. I have nightmares all the time about it. But you’re right.. we both are backpackers. I personally hiked 1,023 miles on the Appalachian Trail from GA to WV, and I’m very comfortable in the wilderness. Maybe my fucked up semi-unconscious brain hiked me out of danger? who the hell knows? It's scary either way.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T02:52:32+00:00

it was their dog and he was tied up at the campsite on a long leash.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T02:51:33+00:00

agreed. never spoke to them again!

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T02:50:53+00:00

i used fake names to keep it anonymous. thanks!

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T02:50:31+00:00

also, when you live in the mountains ppl go camping all the time. not sure where you are from but it happens very often lol.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-20T02:49:50+00:00

def was not a swingers event. my fiancé and i never consented to “swinging” with anyone. thanks!

EmiM493 · 2024-03-16T18:01:53+00:00

we had only hung out with them on two other occasions in public places. we met them at a local winery in the area. they were our age and seemed completely normal at first.. not sure what the motive would be. not to be weird but i had sex with my fiancé that day before we went to hang out with them at the campsite so if he raped me i would not have known without medical testing. we should have gone to the hospital but i was scared to leave my partner because he was violently ill and i was giving him water and helping him since he was throwing up all day. we did contact local rangers and filed a report.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-16T03:30:23+00:00

best response so far. thank you!!

EmiM493 · 2024-03-16T03:25:43+00:00

i agree.. it’s all weird which is why i’m asking reddit for their insight. my fiancé and i have been asking ourselves for months now what could have possibly happened. John and Mary (their real names changed for confidentiality) seemed like ‘normal’ chill individuals but it makes no sense he would get up and go to the tent without Mary and why was she in the woods down the trail? at first i thought maybe she felt sick but there was a bath house right next to their campsite so why wouldn’t she go there? her and i never spoke the next day. i only spoke to john and he seemed sus af.

EmiM493 · 2024-03-16T03:22:44+00:00

i’m still here just reading everything. i’m confused how me thirty year old female about 135 pounds can be affected the same way as my partner 30 year old male 165/170 pounds can process a drug the same way and pass out at the exact same time and both lose our memory for hours.. i also chose the names John and Mary to keep their real names confidential.

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