Don't Go in the Woods: True Stories of Mysterious Disappearances in the Woods

by Steph Young

People in the Woods are disappearing....People snatched soundlessly, never to be seen again. Something in the Woods is taking people... hikers missing in national parks. Don't go in the Woods...Something in the woods is taking people. Something unknown that we cannot define; something that others have had the misfortune to encounter. People snatched soundlessly, never to be seen again. Or they are returned; dead. Strange and highly unusual predators are in the woods. Highly intelligent. Very successful. And able to overpower someone in an instant. This is a puzzle. A deadly one. Here follows some disturbing true accounts....True Stories of Unexplained Disappearances in the Woods.

Natural predators can lurk in the wilderness; bears, mountain lions, cougars, and occasionally a hiker will be victim to these wild animals. They feed where they kill or drag their bloody victim to a nearby lair; they leave a trail that is obvious to searchers. However, the victims in this book show no evidence of an animal attack. For these victims, there is no logical explanation.... only cryptic mysteries, enigma and many unanswered questions... Something in the Woods is taking Baffling, strange cases.

Author Steph Young has appeared on national radio shows including Coast to Coast AM, telling true tales of creepy unexplained disappearances, and on her Podcast; True tales of Mysteries UnexplainedPeople missing in the True Stories of Unexplained Disappearances, Unexplained Mysteries. Strange vanishings. Missing hikers missing in national parks. Baffling, strange, creepy and cryptic cases. True Stories of Unexplained Mysteries, Unexplained Disappearances...

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 16, 2023

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 2 out of 5]

starts off strong then veers badly off course

This book starts strong. The first 5 or 6 chapters are very interesting and well constructed. However, around chapter 9 the writing felt much more like a casual rehatch of old news stories that seemed thrown together and were confusing to read. I felt like I was reading the notes a researcher intended to use to later write something more cohesive- cut and paste of official accounts, newspaper articles and other reports. But instead of crafting a well thought out explanation of the circumstances they are strewn together with no more than a “next, they….” (More cut and paste). Not to imply anything was not attributed. It was just not edited in any cohesive manner. I skipped ahead to chapter 11, but encountered more of the same. Skipped ahead again- more of the same.

Too bad.

[Nellie Presser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting cases

Some very interesting stories, and historical cases that make you wonder about the unknown. I really like the books by this author but, my only critical note would be that I wish the editing was done a little better. Lots of sentence structure and punctuation errors.

[Abrielle Emory · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favorite, and I honestly skimmed the last half of it due to repetitiveness and haphazard writing. It sounded interesting, but truly fell flat for me.

The whole book unfortunately just felt like a written out Wiki page of “people that went missing in the woods.”