STORY:
It’s late in the evening; the sun is just beginning to set over five mile drive. The park closes at nightfall so you are hurrying to exit before the gates close. As you round the last bend, you see a young short-haired girl leaning against her bike on the side of the road. You slow down, worried she might need help. As you near, your headlights glare off the wet pavement and wash over her slight figure. She gives you an eerie smile but doesn’t see you. There are voids where her eyes should be. In a moment of shock, you stop car, attempting to lock eyes with her and desperately hoping for them to be revealed; healthy and normal. Overcome with fear, you drive even faster towards the gate, keeping your eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror. There is nothing but trees and winding road to seen.
HISTORY:
The ghost who allegedly haunts the Point Defiance Five Mile Drive is 13 year old Jennifer Marie Bastian. She went missing on August 4th, 1986 and her body was found several weeks later by joggers, just off of the main drag of Five Mile Drive. The name that comes up most frequently in connection with Bastian’s murder is Terapon Adhahn. Adhahn has been convicted of rape and incest, charged with aggravated murder and is suspected of murdering other local girls around the same age as Jennifer in the late 1980s to mid-1990s. He made headlines as a suspect in the abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman, the namesake of the AMBER alert program. Though he was not convicted of Jennifer Bastian’s murder, due his criminal activity around the time of her disappearance he is widely considered to be her killer.
one night, the sun went down, and before we knew it, it was pitch black. The 5 mile drive closes at Dusk. We realised that we were going to have to walk at least 3 miles through the 5 mile drive in order to reach an exit in order to reach our vehicles. When the darkness sprouted, a tall girl with blonde hair on a bicycle was swerving and riding in zig zags. My older brother Jaycee was alone, standing against the fence along the edge of the cliff on the opposing side of the road across from Fort Nisqually.
ReplyDelete(Fort Nisqually: Located in Point Defiance State Park, Fort Nisqually is a replica, based up on archaeological surveys from the original site. Two of the buildings are from the original fort. They brought the ghost of former Hudson's Bay Company employee Edward Huggins.)
All was quiet, and there was silence in the sound dead forest; however, the calm girl on her bicycle, with no eye balls in her head, continued riding through the parking lot, toward my older brother, and she slowly announced to all of us, "You know these woods are haunted at night!”.
We were all ducked down hiding in the bushes, except for Jaycee. Jaycee was far to the right of our group of friends, and he was standing against the fence in the parking lot, near the winding hill on the road which leads toward the exit of 5 mile drive. Suddenly, about five feet in front of all my friends and I, who were crouching in the bushes, afraid for our lives, a large army man outfitted in old military gear wearing a giant black backpack followed the girl on the bike. He was slowly tromping down the road, almost directly toward Jaycee. Soon, they went around the street lamp semi-lit corner, and they disappeared. We were in shock from what we saw.
Matt, Danny, Bobby, Elle, and the rest of us were freaking out, and we were babbling because we were unsure of the circumstances.
We were smart to remain calm, but we realized since it was dark, the path we had to take to get to the car was going to be difficult to follow with such a large group of friends, and without any light except for our cell phones. After we walked down the dirt hill where the ghosts had vanished, we panicked from eerie sounds in a shack that was near us, and a covered hutch with picnic tables. We all picked up our feet, and sprinted through the trails in the forest to escape the 5 mile drive. The time was near 11:00 pm.
I accidently took the wrong trail, and everybody else was on the right trail, because the path split into many different sections, so I was running directly toward the shack. This is when I realized that I was alone. I tripped over a horizontal log in front of me, and I really lost control at that point. All I could do was look to my left through the bushes. There was the dreadful wooden shack covered in moss with an indoor dim light. It was always locked with a padlock, and a thick latch that was proofed from destruction so that nobody could enter the shack, or even exit. The door creaked open, and I heard groaning. There were no words that I expected to hear, there were just angry groans.
I was looking through the thin layer of shrubs, and the shack door whipped open. I stood on my feet and started stumbling backwards screaming in tears “Guys,GUYS!”. Then the shadows were growing large in the moonlight along the bushes in front of me. The dim light in the shack was completely darkened by the covered living figure approaching the trail that I was on.
I felt a tug on the back, noticing it was Elle who grabbed my jacket. She had her cell phone with the numbers 911 dialed into it. The man was groaning louder, and Elle said “I had a feeling that shack was haunted!”.
ReplyDeleteWe were sprinting and running as fast as possible, and we finally stumbled upon a main trail with a wide opening. We were bruised and scraped from violent clusters blackberry bushes, and the sharp pine tree limbs, which scraped against us as we were running through the brush.
We caught up with our group of friends on a broad trail, and we all felt stupid for not having a solution to the issue, for being powerless in a situation with ghosts. We had no phone reception, and my video camera battery died. Huddling together pushing out tears from our eyes, we babbled, trying to create psychological situational safety.
Then as we continued walking down the broad trail together, we witnessed the historical Camp 6 Touring Train railroad track to our left, where there was a broad, clear, and an empty opening of space consisting of pine needles and dirt. A railroad bridge, raised roughly 15 feet above the ground, made of logs and lumber, was being used by a strange man with a chainsaw. A Chainsaw!
We were really sprinting together in a group this time, and it took us a good ten more minutes of running, to escape the 5 mile drive. When we found our vehicles, we were in shock. Jaycee did not say a word that entire night, because he was in close contact within five feet near the ghosts of the 5 mile drive.
my mom was best friends with that girl she was training for a bike race and i showed my mom and she cryed that was her best friend cant belive she is there
ReplyDeleteTell your mom they found the killer. Would love to have a vigil for her in the 5 mile drive.
Deleteyour mum would be happy to see who the killer was...
DeleteI recorded an EVP back when I was doing paranormal investigations. I am a psychic medium. You hear me asking questions, and you can hear the spirit responses. This is not faked. We had sightings of the spirit on 5 mile drive.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdkxhWaYS4&feature=youtu.be
Haha! my mom has been a paranormal investigater for 34 or 32 years! she isnt afraid, she would talk back to mean ghosts and pin them, and she has been able to hear,and see ghosts since she was 9! we just went through and we parked with our friends. It was about dusk and i hadnt even known about the story. I tugged on my mom and said "Can we pelase walk a little bit on the side of the 5 mile drive? I really wanna see some racoons!" our friends husband said "Havent you heard?" then he asked my mom "Has she heard about the girl?" "No she hasnt! i think you should tell her she wouldnt believe me would you? you can tell her." so he said the story about her riding around there and she went missing and all they found was her bike by the trail. And then 2 weeks later they found her body. she had been hurt really,really bad. They had killed her. and this one person driving by saw her ghost by a sign. it was unusual cause the park was closed. he said "Little girl, where are your parents?" she turned around and he saw she had a black face and no eyeballs. he ran back to his car, screaming like heck and speeded away as fast he could." i wasn't scared, but i just didnt wanna go anymore. so i just got back in the car and left. Thank you for reading this.
ReplyDeletei don't think you can touch ghosts??
DeleteWant to find shack and talk to this figute/ghost. Email me at danilerobertcena@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI've been in five mile drive many times at night and have never heard or seen anything. I have spent hours wandering out in the woods and trails and been down every road and never experienced anything supernatural. If there is something out there I want to see it!
ReplyDeleteI've heard of the murder of the girl, and also have been at the park twice now with two different experiences . The first was on a family picnic my entire family came to the park to have a BBQ right behind the zoo where that park area that is right after the pagoda . My mother and i went to the bathroom up the hill, it was just us in there, i was waiting for her to come out when we heard the girl. She was crying it was such a sad and loud cry, i looked under the stall where i heard her she wasn't there. i even looked around the bathroom on the outside , no one was around. then just the other day while taken pictures of the park my brother and i stopped at Fort Nisqually i went down the path that was along side the gate on the Opposite side of the fort , taken pictures i felt this eerie feeling of being watched. Where i was you couldn't miss a person coming by. It felt constant and at one point uncomfortable. I never told my brother about that because he's not the type to believe in the supernatural. But i feel like that park has it's history whether the public wants to realize it or not it's very much alive.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I've heard about this. I'm interested in my own experiences. I'm not easily scared and always curious.. Might even go investigate later on today.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I've heard about this. I'm interested in my own experiences. I'm not easily scared and always curious.. Might even go investigate later on today.
ReplyDeletei feel the presence of a Girl here in the trails friendly and curious i could tell she was timid to me, and i immediatly intuitiveley thought OH SH@!*@&$*#*$ i prayed for her ...and well i knew it was the girl on the news... and pray they catch this Beast that murdered her... he will be tormented indefinably in the lake of fire......now i go there and things feel alot better ...anyone else notice this?
ReplyDeleteI was just watching "A Haunting" on TLC. And remembered an incident that I had at the Point Defiance Zoo during Zoolights 3 years ago so I googled "Ghost at Point Defiance Zoo" and found my way here. I don't know if others have had an expierence there-but wanted to share anyways. I have always been sensitive to ghosts around me. I'm constantly burning sage around me to put my mind at ease to any "negative" ghosts. I went to Zoolights in December of 2013 with my Mom. (Mind you I was 44 in 2013). I was walking behind my Mom into one of the animal exhibits. It was a very wide entry way....like 25-30 feet. It was dark. All of a sudden I felt 3 taps on my right shoulder and I gasped and turned quickly to look. I guess I gasped so loud that my Mom heard me. She turned and said "What?" I laughed and said "There's a ghost here-and it just tapped my shoulder to get my attention". She knows my sensitivity to ghosts. I turned and asked if there was anyone who "needed anything". That was all that happened.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to share.
Before i start this, I am descendant from shamans from my Samoan side and my Native side, I am quite sensitive to the paranormal and my friend in the group who is the other woman is a decedent of witches from Salem, Michigan who also has some sensitivy. anyways to the crazy night, that happened around 10pm yesterday. A group of friends and i went to 5 mile Drive at around 10pm, we were goofing off asking if there was any spirits around and we stopped off before the 3 and a half marker to take our dogs out to go to the bathroom and drink some water. there we decided to start audio recording the rest of the way because a friend in the group and i were both feeling like someone was watching and following us. as we finally hit the 3 and a half marker and stop by the small dog park. we start hearing noises in the forest, like foot steps moving faster and faster towards us, thats when we immediately started moving on, we still felt like someone was following us so my friend who is a woman by the way and myself also a woman started asking questions and i would speak on the past , of the horrific deaths that happened in the area. as we felt chills and more feelings of something is watching us, we made it out of the 5 mile drive and headed over to the gas station near by. the scariest thing is when we got to the gas station we decided to listen to one of the recordings. it is about 10 mins long and there are voices telling us clear as day ” get out”, “Help me” “Save me”, and the last one that scared is all is when my fiance yells out ” Jennifer we got you a new bike, and we found your killer !” seconds after saying the first phrase. the finally thing this deeper male voice says is ” I said get out nooooow” like he was trying to yell at us but it came out as a whisper. we did not hear any of these voices as we were talking and goofing off, but they will forever be in my memory. now we feel like we need to research more on this matter and want to find more information on the deaths and haunting that happened. how clear this audio is no one would believe but when you start listening to it you notice that the male voices are always talking over us and it sounds like he is talking right into the mic, but my friend had her hand out of the window with the audio recording. one thing i can say for sure is that who ever the person is. he wants us to leave and these occurrences started around the 3 and a half mark around 10:20pm. we legit thought it was my fiance playing games with us, but i didnt hear him once say anything like this and the phone was out the window while the voice sounds like it is right on the mic speaking. if any one has a follow up on something like this i would love to hear more on it, and if anyone wants to hear this audio uncut i can send it through email , but i will be posting it on youtube, or somewhere once i bleep out the cuss words and such. thank you all for reading.
ReplyDeleteElan- WOW!!!! I legit got goose bumps reading this. You guys are legit crazy, lol. I won't go out there at night-only during the day but I am curious now and want to go try to get recordings myself. I might research it further and go out one night. Anyways, would love to hear the recordings and glad that you offered to send them. I can't wait. Here is my email address.... christineangelino@gmail.com Thank you 😊
DeleteWalked the trails a couple of times this summer with family at night. The first night I brought a camera and a digital recorder. No EVPs as there was too much horsing around by other people - recording themselves making gorilla hoots. I did get some interesting shots of orbs with faces and what appears to be a partial apparition: A girl's face. There is also what appears to be a large skull turned sideways above Ft. Nisqually. I checked the pollen count when I got home and learned that it was low at the time when I took the photos. Knowing that digital cameras often matrix dust to look like orbs I do not generally jump to conclusions about the legitimacy of orbs - If they have a face with actual discernible features then they are likely authentic. Wondering who may be interested in seeing these photos to perhaps verify what is there?
ReplyDeletewow you saw a skull?? does that signify evil towards ft. Nisqually?
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