Listener accounts

Something
happened
to you
out there.

You've told it maybe twice. Once to someone who changed the subject, and once to someone who laughed. So you stopped telling it. Tell it here instead.

Tell us what happened →
accounts on file states and provinces 1968 earliest encounter Every account read by a person
What belongs here

If it happened,
it counts.

You don't need proof. You don't need a photo. You don't need to know what it was. You need to have been there.

Wilderness Untold is one story per episode, told straight. No dramatization, no sound effects pretending to be footsteps, no host talking over you to guess what it was. What you experienced is the episode.

Most of what we run comes from people who never reported it to anyone. The forest service, the sheriff, the newspaper — none of them were going to write it down, and you knew that at the time. So it stayed with you.

01

Something upright

Bipedal. Wrong proportions. Too tall, too fast, or too quiet for what it should have been.

02

Something in the sky

Craft, light, or object that moved in a way nothing you know of moves.

03

Someone who wasn't there

A person on the trail, in the cabin, at the window. Then gone, or never possible to begin with.

04

Missing time

Hours you can't account for. A drive that took twice as long as it should have.

05

The place itself

Ground that felt wrong. A canyon that went silent. A road you turned around on and can't explain why.

06

Something you can't name

No category fits. That's often the best kind. Tell us anyway.

After you send it

What actually
happens next.

Four steps. No submission disappears into a void, and nothing airs without your say-so.

1

A person reads it

Not a filter, not a queue that never empties. Every account gets read within a week and you get an email confirming it landed, with a file number.

2

We check what can be checked

Dates, weather, moon phase, road closures, whether anyone else reported something nearby that week. Not to catch you out — corroborating detail is what makes an episode land.

3

We call you

If your account is a fit, we set up a conversation. Recorded or not, your choice. Most of the best detail comes out in that call, not in the form.

4

You approve it before it airs

You hear the episode first. If the name is wrong, the location is too specific, or you've changed your mind entirely, it doesn't run. That holds forever, including after it's published.

Witness statement

Tell us what happened.

Take your time. There's no length limit and no wrong way to write it. If you only remember fragments, send the fragments.

Account intake DRAFT — NOT YET FILED
01 — Who you are
We need your real name to verify. It is not what we broadcast — that's the next field.
Only if you're open to a call.
02 — Where and when
As specific as you're comfortable being. We never broadcast an exact location without asking you first.
A season and a year is plenty.
03 — The account
What kind of thing was it *
0 characters — 200 minimum
A second witness makes an account much stronger. Note if any of them would speak to us.
Is there anything physical
Previously told is fine. We just like to know.
04 — Permission

Your name, email and phone are never published and never sold. Location detail is generalized unless you tell us otherwise.

Filed

It's on record.

WU—0000

Check your email for confirmation. Someone will read this within the week, and you'll hear from a real person either way.

From the file

Others got there first.

A few lines from accounts already on record. Published with permission.

Siskiyou Co, CAAug 2011
It stepped over the deadfall. Didn't climb it, didn't go around. Stepped over it like a curb.
Filed by D.R. — WU—0042
Chaffee Co, COOct 1998
Every elk in that meadow was facing the same direction, and none of them were facing us.
Filed anonymously — WU—0061
Fraser Valley, BCJun 2019
My dog wouldn't leave the truck. She has never once not wanted out of the truck.
Filed by Marisa — WU—0088
The Signal

You don't have to have a story to stay.

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