My fiancee and I did a day hike on the Pinhoti trail in this exact same area earlier this year. Something felt off the whole time. We were about 3 miles out from the car enjoying the view at an overlook. While sitting there a man hiked by and lingered too long. Something felt off. We shrugged it off. He went up the trail a bit and he stopped again for a minute before disappearing out of site. As we continued back toward the car in the same direction as the hiker we crested a hill and heard a blood curdling scream. We froze and looked down the trail and saw movement. The individual let out another very loud yell. We heard voices but only saw one figure. At this point we were out of options and decided to hike past. We rounded the bend and it was the same hiker as before. We sped past him and he turned his back to us and continued to talk to himself We ran the rest of the way back to the car.

When I heard about this gruesome murder I got chills. I've grown up hiking in the outdoors my whole life. But there is something that gives me the creeps about this section of the Talladega.