Hi there. Crafter lake employee here. I’ve been to Crater Lake on a multitude of times for 20 years and a lot of the stuff is true and a lot of it is just myth. For example: 1. The old man of the lake is actually a giant ant colony in a tree log. That is why it floats vertically and floats in an odd way around the lake. If you look close enough at the log you can see a lot of them, coming out of the log. The ants will eat whatever insects float their way and they will bring it into the colony and feed the rest. That is why all the weight is at the bottom of the log because that is where the main ant colony lives. 2. The story of the old man falling off the ledge is true but the circumstances are shrouded in mystery. More than likely the guy was depressed and didn’t like his married life and committed suicide. However, there are more than five incidents of helicopters crashing into the crater in attempt to rescue people who have fallen into them and were heavily injured. 3. There was a submersible that went to the very bottom of the lake and they only discovered not even 1% of the bottom of the lake. I believe that is the most mysterious part of the lake out of all the stories. Because who knows what is at the bottom and what kind of relics or a new species live there. 4. The mystery of the man disintegrating, is a very mysterious thing indeed. A lot of my employees and myself agreed that it was just animals eating his corpse and his feet just remain because the animals didn’t want to eat it. Typically animals won’t eat the feet of prey or whatever they scavenge. The only thing that really does that are maggots. Which as you would imagine during the highest snow season of the year, there are no flies to be found whatsoever. So that explains the strange decomposition. 5. I have hiked on Garfield Peak and around the outer edge of the crater and I’ve never heard any voices whatsoever in the 20 years I’ve been up there. A lot of that is just myth and nothing to be scared of. I highly recommend anyone to go there and check out its beautiful splendor because you’ll never find anything like it. Also the lodge has fucking awesome pancakes! Go check it out.
@@GoreTorn16 I would love to visit for the island alone. If I ever make it to that side of the states I will definitely include this in my list of adventures! Thank you so much for your reply.
I lived near Crater Lake for most of my life, and never experienced anything weird. I think if you go to a place with the expectation that it will be creepy, you'll notice more creepy stuff and there ends up being a confirmation bias.
I live oregon I’ve been here my whole life have gone and stayed at so many of these rivers in Oregon and they’re so beautiful and everyone is just family’s dude
here here ... respect nature and it will tolerate you... a magic storm when they secured the old man though... cmon... better to talk about the ancient mos around the island or the thermal vents they found while exploring the lake with the submersable... who would be crazy enough to go to the bottom in a boat?
The strangest thing that happened to me at Crater Lake was when I went in to the gift shop near the hotel parking lot at the crater rim, I left $180 there and got a few shot glasses, some calendars, and some photo postcards. Some mysterious force sucked the life out of my Visa card. Some of the other guys in our motorcycle club felt this force as well. But the Prospect Historic Hotel was worth staying in.
Man, I got a list too..join the club!! Riding into Gatlinburg, and any Harley shop I usually visit on vacation rides out of state always makes my wallet possessed!!
I've visited Crater Lake many times, and the only "scary" thing I ever saw there was a bunch of drunken idiots in the campground using pressure-treated lumber as firewood.
My dad took our family to Crater Lake when I was 9, 70 years ago. I loved Wizard Island. It was beautiful. We stayed in Klamath Falls before returning to the southern part of the California Central Valley. On the way home we stopped and went swimming in the Kings River. My remembrances are so fresh as if it happened yesterday.
@@paulespinoza974 yes sir it is. I enjoy seeing old pictures and hearing stories from back in the day. My grandma and grandpa used to tell me old stories and to this day I pass those stories onto my kids
@@MrPsh-xs7ul: My son was born in Klamath Falls, New Years Eve 1971. There was 6ft. of snow in the basin that winter. Kingsley Field was my very first assignment in the U.S.A.F, but I actually worked atop Haymaker Mountain at 25th NORAD Keno RADAR Station not far from KF. The RADAR Station's gone now, replaced by satellites. Loved the area with all the lakes & wildlife, and damn near rode the wheels off my dirt bike.
I've lived in Oregon my entire life and I've been to Crater Lake. Not once have I heard of these "mysteries". Crater Lake is not scary, but it is pretty cool to see.
I've never heard of them either. My Great-Aunt lived in Oregan, and my grandparents would go and visit her about every other year. They always made a trip to Crater Lake, camped up around there somewhere, and did whatever activities there were. I remember seeing the lake and camping somewhere around there too when I was 5, and it's what I remember most of the two weeks we were in Oregan. This is the first I've heard of any mysteries or of 'the old man.' To visit there again is on my bucket list.
Yes, I visited Oregon several times and then retired here. Have visited Crater Lake three times, including once a trip around in a park shuttle, with narrative from a ranger. No one ever mentioned mysteries to me, and the NPS literature and signage doesn't mention anything.
I've only managed to visit Crater Lake once immediately after the solar eclipse of 2017, and it was mostly shrouded in smoke from nearby wildfires, but what I could see was still beautiful. The waterfall on the S.E. side, seen from the access road was stunning. People love making up mysterious and supernatural stories, especially if it brings them clicks on TH-cam. It's just mythology. Crater Lake is a wonder to see and visit. Will do it again when I get the opportunity.
It's from this absolutely retarded conspiracy theory called "Missing 411" I despise it. I love most mysteries that aren't like this, it's the disrespectful and cheap nature of gaudy serial killer macabre-porn but extremely vague and paranormal at the same time, as if they are fictional people and nobody is grieving.
@@saydrar Same here. The color is remarkable, reflecting the sky. I thought I'd seen everything, until I visited the lake. It's one of America's true gems. And not at all weird.
Our family has a cousin that visited Crater Lake several years back now. He was camping alone there somewhere, and was doing a lot of hiking around the lake. A visitor last saw him standing at the end of a cliff overlooking the lake taking pictures, and that was the last time he had ever been seen. Suicide was ruled out by friends and family members that knew him closely. Officials searched for his body below in the rocks for many days but never could find it. A very mysterious disappearance of his body to say the least.
I went there with my husband, off-season in 1970. Very few people around. I had no expectations nor had I heard anything frightening about the area, we were just traveling through the state and stopped there on a quiet Thursday afternoon. I don't know how it looks now, but in 1970 you could walk right up to the rim in this one particular area; we were alone, except for the sound of people speaking German and laughing…it sounded faraway through the trees. We never saw anyone, we could just hear them. My husband leaned up against a small tree in the shade, and I approached the rim. Mind you I have a terrible fear of heights, and especially of standing on the edge of tall things… I looked out over the expense of the lake, and I found it to be a very deep dark blue, I could see the forest beyond in an unbroken panorama of trees. Now here's where it gets strange. All of a sudden I had the most peculiar urge to just step back about 10 feet and take a running jump off the rim, tumbling sliding and bouncing from boulder to boulder on my way down to the water's edge. Of course it would've been fatal, but just for a second there it seemed like the right thing to do. It's very hard to explain; I didn't think consciously of such a thing, and it only lasted 2 or 3 seconds, but it almost seemed attractive, as if it was desired of me and it would be the correct thing to do… even that doesn't explain it. I'm not sure there's any words. In any event, before I was going to back up to jump off I looked again at the water; it seemed ancient, in kind of I guess, you’d call it a reptilian way. Something ancient, eternal, and then in my minds eye it seemed as if this ancient being was curled deep in the waters of the lake, ever waiting, ever patient. ( Yes, I know how that sounds ) I don't know if anybody's ever looked into the eyes of a shark, but if you have you know that vacant soulless look in its eyes, and I felt about that lake like you might feel looking into eyes like that shark…I looked up into the forest that stretched behind it and I felt the same way about the forest; I just didn't like it. It felt aware somehow. Waiting. The feeling about the water was what made me step back, turn around to my husband and tell him it was time to go. I can't adequately explain what happened, we weren't drinking, using any drugs, and I have no mental illnesses. The whole event lasted four or five seconds, then it was over; I felt a little afraid of what I’d almost done and I never forgot it. Since watching so many David Paulides videos and movies on missing people, and hearing so many accounts of people that “just wouldn't do that”…”it was totally out of character” or “they knew better” what happened to me at Crater Lake makes me always wonder if other people have been, oh, I guess the best word would be beckoned, or lured, in some unnameable way, somehow with the notion that what they were about to do was the right thing, the correct thing and inevitable in some sort of way. Pleasurable even, rewarding…Well, that's my strange account, I’ve felt that way about one or two other places in my 73 years on the planet, but that was one of the strangest! That isn't quite the end of my Crater lake tale, more strangeness waited 20 miles down the road, but that's another story for another time… I haven't told this particular story in over 40 years; why would I, and who’d believe it?
@@JP-ml3rj Hi there, thanks for your interest! ☺️. I'm afraid it's rather anticlimactic to the first tale, but since you asked: let me fill you in a little bit… we were traveling on motorcycles; there was my husband, myself, a friend and his girlfriend. Just for arguments sake I’ll imagine that we were going north, it seemed like it, we were heading back up to Portland, but in any case we’d been traveling for about 15 minutes on a mostly deserted narrow Highway, maybe 25-30 miles from Crater Lake and it was dusk. I forget why we pulled over to talk, but we decided instead of heading north we might just camp in the woods, and there was a low spot so we pulled about 40 feet into the woods; we could still see the occasional car go by, but we were a little elevated above the road, so mainly just saw the lights and the tops of the cars. In any event, we pulled out some snacks, cheese, sausage, general munchies… put out our sleeping bags and tried to relax. The odd thing about the trees is that they were evenly spaced, no low branches, they were not in rows, but in equal distances of about 15 to 20 feet between each one. We could look back into the woods without interruption except for the trunks the trees; there was a little or no brush. And it was dead silent. No breath of wind, no moving branches, no scurrying small animals, just silence. And I think to all of us it felt kind of heavy, oppressive and unsettling; it wasn't a peaceful silence. I think I started looking back into the woods behind us first, I'd like to say something grabbed my attention but there was nothing there. After a few minutes we were all looking back there. There was a feeling of imminence bordering on dread; we started packing our things up without even talking about it; and I remember all of us seemed to feel the need to be quiet, and hurry. I thought I’d seen smoke back in the trees, but didn't want to say anything; and smoke isn’t exactly the right term, it almost looked like some kind of tiny particulate ash, like after a volcano, but it wasn't falling, just hanging in the air. Like I said, I didn't mention it, but later we compared notes and the other three saw a darkening in the dusk as well, that didn't seem natural… it was Too dark back there somehow…I didn't feel immediately threatened; this dark “smoke” didn't seem to be coming towards us but there was a feeling of menace in the air… again, I just don't have the words. I know most stories have real creatures, how tall they are, if they had fur, or if their eyes were glowing, etc., and neither of the things I've spoken of have any of that; in some small way it might've been a relief…it's hard to understand being that fearful when there's nothing you can see, but you know something is there! The whole area was just wrong somehow. Maybe it was just that day, maybe it was just us! Maybe if I went back now I’d have a totally different experience. In sort of a loosely connected way, I'd had an experience a couple years earlier in an old house on Queen Anne hill, in Seattle, that was just “wrong”, and ever after that I had a particular ability to feel threats in some way, even when no visible threat is present, and I felt it there, that night… someday when I feel really ambitious I'll tell you about that house! That's a god-awful story; to this very day, I have sleep paralysis events that harken back to what happened there. It was the first time I ever came across disembodied evil, with a capital E. The events that happened there activated some part of me that can sense danger, some kind of intuition I guess, and it's always served me well… I'm sorry this wasn't more entertaining… I don't tell these stories to anyone I know, but somehow it seems safe putting them down here… thanks for your interest… have a blessed weekend! ☺️ ( mostly I just put these things down in writing because I suppose I'll always wonder if that's what happens to the disappeared, just an odd feeling maybe, a few hunches, and then…? )
@@tirzah4930 Wow. That's really something. Sometimes it's what we can't see. I completely believe in hunches and interior warnings, and the fact that the others felt it as well shows it wasn't your imagination, although I doubt it would have been imagination even if they hadn't. I would love to hear your other story as well one day. Thank you for sharing, and never ignore those hunches. (I doubt you'd ignore them anyway.) Happy Easter, and thanks again for sharing these interesting experiences!
@@tirzah4930 Wow. That's really something. Sometimes it's what we can't see. I completely believe in hunches and interior warnings, and the fact that the others felt it as well shows it wasn't your imagination, although I doubt it would have been imagination even if they hadn't. I would love to hear your other story as well one day. Thank you for sharing, and never ignore those hunches. (I doubt you'd ignore them anyway.) Happy Easter, and thanks again for sharing these interesting experiences!
@loanna Cool: You tell very interesting stories. I'd love to hear about your experience at the old house. I do believe that certain places hold evil around them. Glad you guys got the hell out of those woods!
I once caught a glimpse of a saucecrotch roaming the aisles of the Walmart, rooting and rifling around in the 2 dollar DVD bins. It was wearing sawed off stretchy pants daisy dukes britches and a sponge bob snow vest. I panicked and ran
@@MTBXCSKI65 Tread careful if you encounter another of these critters, I heard some of em are pretty fast and if yer carrying any beanie babies or keys to an el camino? Shooooooo Buddy
My experiences at Crater Lake were totally different. My father was a park ranger and they lived at the lake for 10+ years. We left the park in 1942 when I was 4 and my brother was 6. I still have home movies from that period and many good memories of return trips while I was growing up. I have one shot taken in the winter of 1951 or 52 showing the roadside snow bank at the rim village with 37 Ft. of snow. The 2 story log cabin that we lived in was at Annie Springs and sadly was demolished in later years to allow more space for roadway improvements.
I went there as a kid with my family in the early 80s. I don't recall the old man phenomenon. The only scary part was when my uncle parked the van up close to the guard rail, and if you're not used to vans it feels like you're driving into the crater. My grandma almost had a heart attack.
Yeah, gotta say the old man is completely new to me also. Don't remember anything about that weirdness with all the other wierdness as a Bigfoot haven and the water coloration is one I remember. UFO hot spot but just learned of the "Old Man", interesting.
I live in the town next to Crater Lake and have been there many times. Wizard Island is not the old volcanoes top. That thing is long gone. Following the cataclysmic caldera-forming eruption, which left a hole about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep where the mountain had once stood, a series of smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet (820 m) above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
@@sissyrayself7508 You don’t need a time machine to know this fact.... Check out Mount St Helens in Washington. It blew it’s top in 1980. Since then, there’s a cinder cone that has developed over the years, just like the one in Crater Lake.
@@sissyrayself7508 "That's how you know ball this is true? Or wait.m it's what "science" TOLD you. Ok. Whatever." So where are you planning on going for your health care? Health care is all about that evil science stuff!
@@suez8070 That’s not true. There are rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon that live in that lake. They survive just fine. Matter of fact, you can, and people do fish there.
I've swam in crater lake twice and it was one of the most life changing experiences ive ever had. Humans are made up mostly of water so to get personally connected with the deepest body of water in north america was very humbling and adrenaline provoking. kind of like being in the ocean. or like how our planet is compared the universe. it can make you feel very small, yet humbled to be apart of it somehow
I dove in and swam from the dock on Wizard Island. It doesn't look as deep as it is because it is so clean. If it looks 10 feet deep it is actually 90. It was a unforgettable moment for sure.
Yes, I've swam in that lake when I worked up there during summer of 1978. Took the boat ride twice, hiked Wizard Island, enjoyed a packed lunch on one of the picnic tables. I loved the experiences, always felt deep love and respect for that place. To me, it was deeply spiritual, a time like no other. Now, I live in Klamath Falls and can't help but feel actual pain when someone goes missing or is injured or someone using the land as a racetrack. It's a place that commands respect to its environment. I pray this place remains as it is and supposed to be. Oh, and I drank straight out of Vidae Falls, Annie Creek and others with never a problem, as well as filling my canteen from the Wizard Island dock. Back then it was the best water, wherever I filled my canteen! When I pass on, my ashes will be scattered around the Wildflower Trail. ❤️
My dad and mom when I was a small child use to take us to Crater lake camping all the time, I love Crater lake ❤️ I have never experienced anything weird 🤨
People get lost in rainforest areas over here (Australia) because they hear 'voices' in the forest. If you have ever been in a forest with a stream or creek around, the sound of the water running can sound like voices. I've been camped by a creek with a rocky base and the sounds from the water became very creepy at one point. I could swear I heard people talking upstream and went looking. Nothing. It was the stream talking to me... And thank you to @GoreTorn for the informative stuff about Crater lake. Legend.
I went to crater lake with my wife and kids. We went out on the boat and had a great time. Don't let this guy stop you from going. It is beautiful and there are waterfalls from the melting snow.
Haha, this is one of the last places that would come to mind when I think of scary or mysterious places, personally. I've been there so many times. We understand the mechanism behind deadhead logs. We also understand basalt columns like in the Giant's Causeway, also, it's not a mystery. It's just that nature is awesome and cool. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, but I believe Great Slave Lake in Canada is deeper, making it the deepest lake in North America overall. But Crater Lake is so awesome because it's not exactly huge in diameter, just ridiculously deep, and it is completely filled by precipitation. There's no spring or river that feeds it. Among other reasons! Plus it's beautiful!
Yes! There are basalt columns in cliffs in the Columbia River Gorge also. The "miracle" (if you want to deal in the supernatural) is that the precipitation from the heavy snowfall and other precipitation is balanced by the "outflow" from the lake through fissures in the rock where water seeps out, becoming the headwaters of various streams and rivers in the area. So the lake never overflows and never empties out.
@@elainechubb971 The Gorge is one of my favorite places. The geology of Oregon is amazing and my family used to do road trips to all the cool features like the Gorge, Crater Lake, Big Obsidian Flow, Mt. Hood, Lava Cast Forest, Painted Hills, Alvord Desert, sea stacks on the coast, and more. I feel so lucky to live in such a gorgeous place, so close to many natural wonders and diverse biome.
Local tribe's witnessed Mt Mazama's upper half implode, about 7700 years ago. They considered the lake a very spiritual and sacred place. I have zero belief in the paranormal. But I have returned twice to a trail at it's outer base, where the source of the Rogue River comes out of the ground. The warm positive energy, flowing from this young tree, had me return to it a second time. It's a special area, I've spent lot's of time in. People die almost every year, trying to take selfies next to the edge of the caldron. I'd like to believe that the area's experience, depends on the amount of respect given to it. The high desert area just east of the lake, have felt strange since I was a kid. This is where most of the area's tribe's lived, for the past 15,000 years. They were hunted down by the army and killed, or removed to reservations. The area was later used for Japanese internment camps, during ww2. The area has seen a lot of suffering, and you can almost feel it. P.S. Bigfoot is in the connecting Siskiyou Mountain's, Red Buttes Wilderness. It's about 60 miles southwest of the lake. There's a massive iron Big Foot trap up there. Sorry for the rant, great video!
Wow great comment, thanks so much for educating me about it, there’s only so much you can research but hearing from a first hand experience is so much more valuable to me. Thanks for watching 👻
The bigfoot trap is no longer active. Its just sight seeing place. Worth reading up about it though. Government set it in the 70s. Its at applegate lake.
I was camping at the Crater Lake Campground for my birthday June 8, 2018 when in the middle of the night, maybe 4ish in the morning, a skinny, naked, Native American man walked across my campground space. My friend who was about twenty feet from me was wide awake and she saw this man or phantom also. Her dog started low growing at the figure. I told two of the Park Rangers the story the following morning, and they both said that ghost inhabit the campground and lodge. I want to also share that when I started to pee near a tree I felt a tug or pull on my body that I couldn't control. It felt as if there was a magnetic pull trying to pull me down the hill. I do have a Titanium Plate in right arm, so who knows what that was about There is certainly unexplained forces going on there.
Every single place says this like 39/50 states think they have the most unpredictable wheaten I’ve had days where irl gone from 115 to lighting during a heat wave
Weather 🤣...I live in Oklahoma..(100 degree temperature Diffrence in less than 24hours) Day b4 Thanksgiving 1980 Blizzard snowstorm minus - 40 windchill ,Thanksgiving day Sunny 80 degrees. but aside from a few F5 tornadoes & allseasons in1day ,it's a terrible place to live..The Folks are some of the nicest u will ever meet ...🤣
My family had a wonderful time there and swam in the lake. The only scary thing we experienced was hearing and seeing a large boulder roll down into the lake.
Hubby and I went there while working up in Oregon a couple years ago, it was absolutely stunning. Weird things happen everywhere don't let fear keep you from experiencing life.
There is a name of these type of vertical floating logs, "deadheads" Basically when the tree trunk fell in the lake and the bottom end with all the roots was holding enough rocks and dirt to keep that end weighed down and submerged. In the time it took the roots to rot enough to release the rocks it was holding, the top end dried out from the sun, and the bottom end became saturated with water, maintaining its position in the water.
My wife and I visited Crater Lake. We lived in Oregon for a decade and nearly ended up living in the Crater Lake area but decided to move home to Kentucky. It's a beautiful place.
Wizard Island was not the old peak of the volcano. Also, I've been here many times, each time more enjoyable than the last. I encourage everyone to see this lake in person at least once in your life.
@@sissyrayself7508 I went 3 1/2 years ago right before i turned 16 it was the most amazing thing I ever saw, kind of thought about jumping from the observation rock I'm sure it was a couple hundred feet up but it rlly doesn't look like it something about the big blue beauty calling you in the sheer size and history is astonishing I recommend if you have good self control XD
Bite your tongue. Ha vent you been listening to the wise and truthful words that this young man speaks in this video. You should recommend no such thing. It would be like recommending someone to jump into Niagara falls or into a pot of boiling oil. No sir I will not ever visit this lake after hearing about the on goings there. It`s the devil I tell you.
my mother passed away there on July 27th 1990. She fell from the cliff on Discovery Point. She was rescuing me from Cliff's Edge. She threw me to my older brother and lost her footing
There is a regional vortex Field, which is centered to the west of Crater Lake. The demarcation lines, where stuff happens, pass through Cottage Grove, Oregon. That explains the anomalous events that occur in that town. I saw a bear jump through an invisible portal and disappear near there. That demarcation line travels way down to California and I know a man who was transported instantly, about 110 miles down a highway in northern California. He wrote a book and charted this vortex field. The book is called The Golden Vortex, by Nick Nelson. I've read the book four times, because it is a bit technical, yet absolutely fascinating! My experience with the bear happened as I was reading his book for the first time. They were attempting to get my attention. It worked!
I was in the Union Pacific railroad, a freight conductor. We run on a line to the east of crater lake. One day, as we were running parallel to crater lake, I looked west in the vague direction of crater lake and farted. Very very mysterious. My engineer can confirm the smell.
My friend went there who was in the U.S. Army and he said that he seen an encampment of FUCKIN UNION SOLDIERS (from the civil war) and he said one of the men saw him, fired a warning shot, so he ran away. He came back maybe 10 minutes later and they were gone without a trace. No evidence anyone had ever been to that spot. He believes the lake and it’s surroundings have some kind of higher knowledge and the lake KNEW he was in the army. (I’m not sure if any soldiers hung around crater lake during the civil war, but nonetheless I find this extremely strange) he also claimed every night he was out there there would be screaming and chanting from the forests and strange lights in the sky.
I believe all that shit tbh. A lot of weird shit goes down in oregon in general, doesnt have to be crater lake, that whole states got some weird vibes to it, at least i felt it whe i lived there for 2-3 years, and im from NYC born and raised.. so you could say it would normally take a lot to vibe me out... oh not in oregon.
I and my family have camped at Crater Lake a number of times...been around Rim Road and down to the Pinnacles, even the boat cruise..enchanting and beautiful but in no way weird, strange or creepy.
Just came across your channel. Nice 👍🏻. Good job making it interesting and creepy. My wife and I plan to go to Crater Lake. I probably won't be showing her this.
I used to live in Bend, OR and went to Crater Lake a few times. It really is something special. There was an eerie vibe the first time but it was mainly the smoke from the wildfires that did that. It is impossible to explain just how big Crater Lake is until you see it.
The sun always rises in the east and sets in the west. How can anyone get confused? The directions never change. There is only 2 roads in and one road that goes around with a scenic drive to the pinnacles that is one way. Easy peasy. Hasn't changed.
I was there a few days ago and it was magnificent! The nutcrackers were very friendly and unafraid to come inches close to me. The chipmunks were darling! The trees were wonderful. What a sight it all was!
I visited Crater Lake about 15 years ago...traveled all the way from Florida to visit there. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen...photographs don't do it justice. It wasn't scary at all. It's a geothermal lake, meaning that there is still volcanic activity beneath it, causing the warm water to circulate with the cold water...causing currents. So, that's probably why the vertical log moves around.
It will most certainly erupt again too. It is considered an active volcano as geologists count such things plus consider any volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years as active. Being a large Cascade stratovolcano Mt. Mazama (its Native American name) is going to erupt again and still has earthquakes every few years, but the most recent recent ones were a 6.00 and a 5.9 in 1993 with about 2500 aftershocks for three months that were mostly only detectable by a seismograph they were so small. So far since monitoring has begun the quakes are centered on faults nearby and are not of volcanic origin although they had some volcanic activity in 1945 called the "Burp". Clouds of bluish gray clouds would form on windless mornings and dissipate, plus water temps rose in area lakes enough to kill fish. Also the water was discolored as if a small eruption occurred on the bottom of the lake, but by the time the USGS got there with seismograph equipment in 1946 it had ended. npshistory.com/nature_notes/crla/vol25c.htm
Your voice, sir, is something to fall asleep to. I don't know if that's a compliment, or an insult, but I just found you. Just now. And I like history and geography and stories. They affect my dreams! I'm gonna subscribe just to have something playing while I go to sleep. The script is pretty well-written, too. I give this channel, and the narrator, a thumbs up.
I have been there alot, Even hiked wizard island to the top, however there was one time as a kid, I hiked down a steep steep hill behind our campsite in the camp ground, the hill was mostly very soft pumice, what I remember was as I explored, the rim of the top kept getting further away, it was increasingly harder to even climb up, the more I side stepped, the more down hill I gradually went, I was increasingly scared and no one knew I went there even after yelling, I eventually saw a "path" and side stepped carefully and somehow found a way back up to the rim of the campground. I still shiver at that memory.
Take this experience for what it's worth. My 2 daughters and I traveled to Crater lake early one spring. We came up the south side from Klamath falls. Not much traffic going up. We could see plenty of snow around the rim of the mountains surrounding the lake. We saw one of the peaks at the lake and decided to try to climb it. No visible trail because of snow so made our own way. The view is spectacular but be careful. Some areas were not covered by snow and you walk on a lite valcanic rock. Going back my oldest daughter started complaining her feet and legs were very cold. My youngest daughter and I had no complaints. We all walked the same self made trail. We sat down on a log and as I took her shoes and socks off I noticed her feet steaming and hot 🔥. I didn't believe her. She felt her own feet. Hot. Put back shoes and socks and down we continue. When home I tried to find out were we had climbed. This area is off limits most of the time of year and climbing is only permitted during snow. We had climbed it at a time half and half snow and rock. The area is Lao Rock. A place where 12 year old Indians went for a vision quest. My daughter was 12.
There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation. My guess would be something akin to hypothermia--she was either more lightly clad than you and your younger daughter, or her shoes were not as well made or as padded, or she is just more susceptible to the cold. As her feet got cold, her body directed heat to her feet. (In hypothermia, of course, often the person feels hot rather than cold.) If her feet were wet, when you took her shoes and socks off in the cold air, the moisture on her feet could have evaporated, just as our breath comes out accompanied by steam in cold weather. I am not a doctor or physiologist, so am simply making suggestions. But there is no doubt a scientific explanation.
I think the thermal activity at the bottom of the lake has everything to do with it. There’s no outlet, or inlet of water, like a creek, or river. The lake is completely enclosed inside the rim of a volcano. The water levels maintain through snow and rain, and evaporation. There’s still geothermal activity at the bottom of the lake, so it’s possible that the log sits upright and moves do to that activity. Something to consider, but I’m only assuming. I can’t say for certain, but it’s the likely cause.
@I'm Banned In Hidden It could be the wrong answer, that’s why I said in the very beginning, “I think”….. I’m all ears, what’s the correct answer then?
@I'm Banned In Hidden After reading my own comment, I should’ve clarified a couple of things. I wasn’t referencing the reason why the log is up right. That can happen if the log was submerged up against the bank at one point, and the bottom half became water logged before it freed itself, and now floats permanently like that….. I was referring to the movements the log travels around the lake. It’s known that the log goes against the wind. There’s no river or creek running out of the lake either causing a constant current. So I was explaining my thoughts as to why the log floats around the lake. I assume it’s because of the geothermal activities from the bottom of the lake causing currents from the lake floor. Again, this is just an idea, not a definitive answer. Scientists don’t even know the answer, so I’m curious as to how you know I’m wrong.
I drove a Suburban around the lake and was white knuckled the whole drive. Thought we were going over the edge for sure. Probably cause it’s only 1.5 lanes wide for two way traffic but still. So beautiful though.
For me, nothing is more entertaining than watching videos like this in bed with the lights out. I do enjoy a good history mystery with superb visuals, accompanied by soft narrative. Outstanding work.
I have a crazy hypothesis, but I a born and raised Oregonian have never had a bad experience there but all the none Oregon born people who've been to crater lake I know have had weird or bad experiences there. Maybe it doesn't like outsiders.
I was born in New York, and I've lived in 10 states besides Oregon and 3 other countries, but I've lived in Oregon longer than everywhere else put together. I have NEVER had a weird time at Crater Lake. A nice dip onetime tho.
I lived near Crater Lake for about 20 years but only visited once. It one of the most mysterious nature places I’ve ever been. It seemed alive. It’s luring nature was palpable. It seemed very mystical. I was with three other friends and we didn’t stay long. If I’d been there alone, my fate could have taken a very different turn. I’m so glad you posted this video. My advice is to go there with a group and enjoy it’s alluring beauty.
The lake IS alive. It is home to around 70k salmon and trout. Very good advice to go into nature with at least one other person because we are an urban population except for the lucky few who are used to wilderness and can survive out there.
I love crater lake. It's so beautiful and peaceful there. My family went to crater lake for a vacation when I was a kid. I never knew there was any scary stories about it though
Hey man great video, I live in Oregon and agree the lake is super creepy... we’ve had a ton of people disappear under mysterious circumstances and the ones who are found seem to have had their memory wiped as they can’t recall what happened. Keep up the good work ... subscribed!
I have seen a lot of places! I wasn't to excited about going to crater lake, yet when I arrived, I actually felt emotions run through me, my eyes got a little moist....
I don't think the lake is haunted or creepy but when I see photos of the Old Man of the Lake I get a strange chill and feel weird but I can't look away, it's the strangest feeling.
I lived and worked at Crater Lake. In 1988. I feed the sub crew and all fire fighters that summer. I also worked again in 1998. I lived in the dorms up on the rim back of the Lodge. I can say it was two of the best summers of my life. Crater Lake is a Magical Place. I can say swimming in the lake is a cold but refreshing experience. The hike back up the rim will heat you back up, the switch backs are a lot better now then in 1988. I made some great friends while working at Crater Lake. I Loved being a Cook at the Watchman restaurant. The Native Americans Discovered Mount Mazama aka Crater Lake way before any White man did, Just sayin. If you drive around the lake and read the lookout signs It will tell you what the Native Americans called things at the lake way before we came along and took over the lake and the land around it. Sorry my kids are half Native American. I haven't heard of 95% of the stories you talked about in your video. I know about the old man in the lake. But I call B.S on the storm bit. As It would have been news that spread like wild fire all over the lake employee's. Considering I feed the sub crew and the scientists I would have forsure have heard them talking about that at dinner.
My family visited in the late 1960's. I remember the gift shop & parking lot area. When I looked down at the lake I was stunned by the deepness. I got that feeling you get when your afraid of heights. I have had a desire to go back. It is mesmerizing.
@@HiddenFiles no, not at all. My friend is much more spiritually intune than I and I think we were both equally at peace. We just walked around in the snow taking long exposure pictures of the lake, talking and watching the night sky. We didn't want to leave. Noone else was in the park and it felt no soul was in the park either. I really suggest you give it a try, honestly.
That's the headwaters of the Rogue River. When you're driving there from the time you leave Crater Lake and get on Oregon 62 it's downhill along the Rogue most of the way almost to Medford. I believe I was told that's about 50 miles or so - ALL downhill. At Shady Cove they had small rubber boat rentals at the store where they'd take you up to the dam and drop you off and you slow floated back down to Shady Cove about 3 hours later as I recall. That's a beautiful area and there's lot's of things to do there. At Gold Beach where the Rogue empties into the Pacific we rode the jet boats all the way up to Paradise and it was hotter then blazes with the temps well over 100. They have guided river floats from Grants Pass to Gold Beach that take 2 or 3 days but if you haven't ever been there you should try to at least drive through there. Along with it's beautiful coastline, it's one of the nicest areas to visit in southern Oregon...
Thanks for doing this vid. I’m extremely intrigued by the stories of crater lake. If you do make another part to this video, I would advise to look into the Native America legends about this place
Hey thanks for watching, I did look into it, super interesting stuff I’m too scared to research those kinds of rituals and voodoo if you will, but I’m going to explore it more lol
@@HiddenFiles It wasn't voodoo to the Native Americans who were the peoples of America before it was colonised by others eventually - try to be more sensitive, calling it voodoo is childish !!!!
I never experienced anything strange up there with my parents, except the most clean, bracing breeze up there at the rim, in the middle of August...so refreshing! :)
I think my dad took me here when I was a kid... He sometimes worked for NASA and when we got out there he just stood by the waters edge starring into it... I asked him what the heck he was looking at and he just said that he had heard the lake was reported to be bottomless... After hearing all the reports of ufo's I have to wonder if that wasn't what he was hoping / expecting to see?
"my dad...worked for NASA and he just said that he had heard the lake was reported to be bottomless... After hearing all the reports of ufo's I have to wonder if that wasn't what he was hoping / expecting to see?" What kind of work did he do at NASA? I hope it wasn't any more mind searing than janitorial work.
@@MTBXCSKI65 Sometimes he was contracted to inspect parts for all kinds of aerospace projects. He wasn't that hight up in security clearance or anything. Only four levels more the president.
Oh wow… your dad knows some really deep stuff then.. But all puns aside, seriously. He knows the real shape of the earth and that the lake could very well connect to somewhere we aren’t supposed to know about.
Wow this is very interesting! I have never heard of this place before and now I need to know more. You definitely have a thumbs up from me and I'm subscribing.
I’ve been to Crater Lake once. I was camping up there and we had a bear come visit our tent, but went away. The only weird thing that happened was hearing the noise of a old airplane fly above our campsite. I read more about it and there was a WW2 plane that crashed near the lake. Otherwise that was it, nothing strange about it and it was a pretty cool place to be at.
It is a bit creepy there, especially when ur alone or there by urself at night. Just got back from a vacation there cos it’s on my bucket list... it was a powerful spiritual place both good and bad. I would recommend staying out of the woods, some of the animals in the surrounding woods there gave me an OFF Vibe. 10/10 recommend seeing the lake before you die though! Most beautiful body of water you will literally ever see... so massive it makes you wonder what could be down there
My parents met and got married in Oregon and my mother had lots of relatives there, so we spent a lot of vacation time there. Crater Lake was one place that we visited and thought to have a picnic lunch there. But, as soon as we got out of the car, dozens of large mosquitoes showed up and began trying to land on us. We didn't have any repellent that day, for some reason and we got back in the car very quickly. Each of us had several bites from the 2 or 3 minutes that we were outside. We took pictures from the inside of the car, but we didn't get out again and we never went back.
My experience with Crater Lake is when I jumped into the water. There was weird bowling water noise and bubbles came out between my legs and surrounded me and THEN..... A very strange and strong odor followed shortly after and it smelled like rotten eggs. I had to leave the area immediately. I just about died.
I have heard that any depth they publish for the lake is actually an estimate. No one really knows how deep it really is. I also understand that the volcano is dormant and not extinct. So if it blows, the devastation will be even worst due to all that water being blown out.
bro you're lucky af to live in Oregon, but thats good, glad you had a safe trip when you went. I keep seeing people going missing there even with everything that's going on.
There are disappearances In every park in the country. The lack of a body is obvious. If it was snowy the only thing moving around would be mice rats mink skunk moles voles I could go on and on. Perfectly capable of burrowing in and getting every little bit. If his feet were down in the snow frozen too solid. But parts above snow would partially thaw by day.
Great video. Never heard of 'the old man'. For those who say nothing unusal there.. I believe some people are more sensitive to energies then others. The frequency given off may not be in tune with your own. Some may feel peace while others it causes anxiety. The same as music and how ppl react to genres. It's personal and individual. Just because you didn't experience anything or feel anything in particular or at all does not mean the place itself is not mystified. All places carry some kind of vibe. Good or bad.
"different frequencies" Some ppl get just get more easily creeped out by things than others. They're scaredy cats and can see eeriness in anything. There's nothing creepy about Crater lake I've been up there many times.
I have been to Crater lake at a time when you could rent a rowboat and Wizard island wasn't off limits.getting in the boat my dad and I started rowing out to the island. The lake is much bigger then it looks and the island appears to be closer then it is because it's soo big. The island is massive but it doesn't appear that big from the rim or lookout point. It took us 2 1/2 hours to row out to the island and because the surface of the water tends to spin around the island we had to constantly alter our course. About half way we stopped alering our course and rowed with the current and ended up landing on the island on the opposite side from the visiter center. We were only on the island for a short time when it seemed like we had woken something up by being there the ground of the island seemed to come alive and had an almost electrical charge building up in it. I could reach down and try to pick up a rock and would feel a sort of shock hit my arm as if i had been dragging my stocking feet on a carpet and touched a door knob. My dad and I very purposely made our way back to our boat which stra gely was now about 10 feet from the waters edge but when we had left the boat the stern was still in the water. It felt almost like the island had started breathing because as we were dragging the boat to the water all of a sudden the boat was in the water floating and i was knee deep in the lake when just a half second before i was standing on dry land. I was kinda freaking out cuz I felt really weird and dizzy and a little sick to my stomache.my dad scooped me up and dumped me into the boat at the same he literally jumped clearing the side of the boat landing in it and grabbing oars. We rowed with thecurrent flow around the other side of the island and toward the hotel. The water seemed to be moving much faster and had waves to it eminating from the island to the rim then back out to the island. Instead of it taking 2.5 hours to row back it took only 45 min.I noticed when we rounded the island where i could see the dock and where all the people were near the lake shore they were all gone and I could a small group hurrying back up to the top of the rim. We got back up there and started talking to the park people working the visiter center and they said they werent quite sure what happened but that they had felt what they said was a slight thud as if a car had hit the side of the building. I explained what we had experienced on the island and they said it sounded like an eruption quake but that was impossible because the cauldara beneath the mountain was dead.the next summer dad and i went back but the boats were gone and you could no longer go out to wizard island. They said because the island was unstable and it had suffered some pretty significant rock slides on it including the 1 that caused the island exposed to air to bcome bigger. From an aireal view you can now see where the island had slid extending the 1 side further out into the lake then it had before. I'm sure there's a scientifc explanation for what we experienced ut as far as I'm concerned us being on the island made the mountaina bit mad andit reacted. Thats all i know.
I visited there. Did not observe any weirdness. In fact, it was summer and all I remember is that it was boiling hot. But our guide did not mention the old man tree trunk, which was pretty interesting once I read about it. In fact this is the first I’ve heard that the area is “haunted.” 🤷🏽♀️
There’s SOME THING living in the depths of that lake. Something ancient and evil Never meant to be seen nor heard by mortals Madness and terror rule those depths I tell you.
Don't let these ghost tales scare you away. The area around the lake is so beautiful. The water is unimaginably blue and beautiful. Photos kinda capture the blue but in person its so much more gorgeous. You got to visit it!
my GF sister and husband a park ranger live there on the rim of cater lake in the park rangers complex. lived up in KF for 4 yrs. Best drive was going up there-never had any creepy sightings. However, her husband would talk about E.T. and UFO sittings. 50 miles south I was sleeping in my mummy bag outdoors at night and woke up to colorful lights in a circle hoovering over me and then it shot straight up and disappeared.
The couple times I've been there I've always got a feeling of being watched and that was almost 10 years before I ever heard of the strange things happening at crater lake!
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Great video mate! I've never heard of the stump, creepy stuff! Sounds like a very haunted spot to me. I don't think I'll be visiting anytime soon! Awesome editing work too 👍👣 that last story was crazy, sounds kinda like spontaneous combustion.
Go! I did the drive from tahoe to mt hood plenty times. Somewhat of an interesting drive. I still remember all the little Towns i passed driving up to hood. A lot of weird and interesting towns id say. God i miss the west coast.
Hi there. Crafter lake employee here. I’ve been to Crater Lake on a multitude of times for 20 years and a lot of the stuff is true and a lot of it is just myth. For example:
1. The old man of the lake is actually a giant ant colony in a tree log. That is why it floats vertically and floats in an odd way around the lake. If you look close enough at the log you can see a lot of them, coming out of the log. The ants will eat whatever insects float their way and they will bring it into the colony and feed the rest. That is why all the weight is at the bottom of the log because that is where the main ant colony lives.
2. The story of the old man falling off the ledge is true but the circumstances are shrouded in mystery. More than likely the guy was depressed and didn’t like his married life and committed suicide. However, there are more than five incidents of helicopters crashing into the crater in attempt to rescue people who have fallen into them and were heavily injured.
3. There was a submersible that went to the very bottom of the lake and they only discovered not even 1% of the bottom of the lake. I believe that is the most mysterious part of the lake out of all the stories. Because who knows what is at the bottom and what kind of relics or a new species live there.
4. The mystery of the man disintegrating, is a very mysterious thing indeed. A lot of my employees and myself agreed that it was just animals eating his corpse and his feet just remain because the animals didn’t want to eat it. Typically animals won’t eat the feet of prey or whatever they scavenge. The only thing that really does that are maggots. Which as you would imagine during the highest snow season of the year, there are no flies to be found whatsoever. So that explains the strange decomposition.
5. I have hiked on Garfield Peak and around the outer edge of the crater and I’ve never heard any voices whatsoever in the 20 years I’ve been up there. A lot of that is just myth and nothing to be scared of. I highly recommend anyone to go there and check out its beautiful splendor because you’ll never find anything like it. Also the lodge has fucking awesome pancakes! Go check it out.
Can you legally go hiking around on the island?
@@jenniferroach4153 Yes of course! However, the boat tours have to be open. Usually during spring-summer.
@@GoreTorn16 I would love to visit for the island alone. If I ever make it to that side of the states I will definitely include this in my list of adventures! Thank you so much for your reply.
@@jenniferroach4153 No problem! Safe travels!
Can I go kayaking on Crater lake? 👀
I lived near Crater Lake for most of my life, and never experienced anything weird. I think if you go to a place with the expectation that it will be creepy, you'll notice more creepy stuff and there ends up being a confirmation bias.
exactly !!
Or ghosts.
All this.
I live oregon I’ve been here my whole life have gone and stayed at so many of these rivers in Oregon and they’re so beautiful and everyone is just family’s dude
here here ... respect nature and it will tolerate you... a magic storm when they secured the old man though... cmon... better to talk about the ancient mos around the island or the thermal vents they found while exploring the lake with the submersable... who would be crazy enough to go to the bottom in a boat?
The strangest thing that happened to me at Crater Lake was when I went in to the gift shop near the hotel parking lot at the crater rim, I left $180 there and got a few shot glasses, some calendars, and some photo postcards. Some mysterious force sucked the life out of my Visa card. Some of the other guys in our motorcycle club felt this force as well. But the Prospect Historic Hotel was worth staying in.
Lmao....Same thing happens to me every time I go to that eerie place in the Desert they call Las Vegas....lol.
Man, I got a list too..join the club!! Riding into Gatlinburg, and any Harley shop I usually visit on vacation rides out of state always makes my wallet possessed!!
This would be a great synopsis for a movie script.
Haha Brava!!
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I've visited Crater Lake many times, and the only "scary" thing I ever saw there was a bunch of drunken idiots in the campground using pressure-treated lumber as firewood.
That's why I will not stay in a public campground, drunken idiots.
Haha
I've seen sober people do that lol
Yikes! That's really scary!! 😆
Why? What happens?
My dad took our family to Crater Lake when I was 9, 70 years ago. I loved Wizard Island. It was beautiful. We stayed in Klamath Falls before returning to the southern part of the California Central Valley. On the way home we stopped and went swimming in the Kings River. My remembrances are so fresh as if it happened yesterday.
I live in Klamath falls born and raised.
@@MrPsh-xs7ul Beautiful country Mr. Psh
@@paulespinoza974 yes sir it is. I enjoy seeing old pictures and hearing stories from back in the day. My grandma and grandpa used to tell me old stories and to this day I pass those stories onto my kids
@@MrPsh-xs7ul Fair weather my friend.
@@MrPsh-xs7ul: My son was born in Klamath Falls, New Years Eve 1971. There was 6ft. of snow in the basin that winter. Kingsley Field was my very first assignment in the U.S.A.F, but I actually worked atop Haymaker Mountain at 25th NORAD Keno RADAR Station not far from KF. The RADAR Station's gone now, replaced by satellites.
Loved the area with all the lakes & wildlife, and damn near rode the wheels off my dirt bike.
I've lived in Oregon my entire life and I've been to Crater Lake. Not once have I heard of these "mysteries". Crater Lake is not scary, but it is pretty cool to see.
I've never heard of them either. My Great-Aunt lived in Oregan, and my grandparents would go and visit her about every other year. They always made a trip to Crater Lake, camped up around there somewhere, and did whatever activities there were. I remember seeing the lake and camping somewhere around there too when I was 5, and it's what I remember most of the two weeks we were in Oregan. This is the first I've heard of any mysteries or of 'the old man.' To visit there again is on my bucket list.
Yes, I visited Oregon several times and then retired here. Have visited Crater Lake three times, including once a trip around in a park shuttle, with narrative from a ranger. No one ever mentioned mysteries to me, and the NPS literature and signage doesn't mention anything.
I've only managed to visit Crater Lake once immediately after the solar eclipse of 2017, and it was mostly shrouded in smoke from nearby wildfires, but what I could see was still beautiful. The waterfall on the S.E. side, seen from the access road was stunning. People love making up mysterious and supernatural stories, especially if it brings them clicks on TH-cam. It's just mythology. Crater Lake is a wonder to see and visit. Will do it again when I get the opportunity.
It's from this absolutely retarded conspiracy theory called "Missing 411" I despise it. I love most mysteries that aren't like this, it's the disrespectful and cheap nature of gaudy serial killer macabre-porn but extremely vague and paranormal at the same time, as if they are fictional people and nobody is grieving.
That's because us Oregonians ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN there, so the "Made Up Stories" don't "Work" for US,
"Q-Anon" anyone?
Crater lake is one of the most beautiful enchanting places I have ever seen. It diffently pulls you in. Everyone should visit this awesome place.
everyone one should visit. Ya right. Not if they dont want to be impulsed to jump off the cliff and feed the hungry Gargantuan lake monster,
Most majestic place I've ever seen. I have never in my life felt as serene and at ease as when I'm visiting crater lake.
@@saydrar Same here. The color is remarkable, reflecting the sky. I thought I'd seen everything, until I visited the lake. It's one of America's true gems. And not at all weird.
YES !!
@@chupacabra1765😂
Our family has a cousin that visited Crater Lake several years back now. He was camping alone there somewhere, and was doing a lot of hiking around the lake. A visitor last saw him standing at the end of a cliff overlooking the lake taking pictures, and that was the last time he had ever been seen. Suicide was ruled out by friends and family members that knew him closely. Officials searched for his body below in the rocks for many days but never could find it. A very mysterious disappearance of his body to say the least.
I went there with my husband, off-season in 1970. Very few people around. I had no expectations nor had I heard anything frightening about the area, we were just traveling through the state and stopped there on a quiet Thursday afternoon. I don't know how it looks now, but in 1970 you could walk right up to the rim in this one particular area; we were alone, except for the sound of people speaking German and laughing…it sounded faraway through the trees. We never saw anyone, we could just hear them. My husband leaned up against a small tree in the shade, and I approached the rim. Mind you I have a terrible fear of heights, and especially of standing on the edge of tall things… I looked out over the expense of the lake, and I found it to be a very deep dark blue, I could see the forest beyond in an unbroken panorama of trees. Now here's where it gets strange. All of a sudden I had the most peculiar urge to just step back about 10 feet and take a running jump off the rim, tumbling sliding and bouncing from boulder to boulder on my way down to the water's edge. Of course it would've been fatal, but just for a second there it seemed like the right thing to do. It's very hard to explain; I didn't think consciously of such a thing, and it only lasted 2 or 3 seconds, but it almost seemed attractive, as if it was desired of me and it would be the correct thing to do… even that doesn't explain it. I'm not sure there's any words. In any event, before I was going to back up to jump off I looked again at the water; it seemed ancient, in kind of I guess, you’d call it a reptilian way. Something ancient, eternal, and then in my minds eye it seemed as if this ancient being was curled deep in the waters of the lake, ever waiting, ever patient. ( Yes, I know how that sounds ) I don't know if anybody's ever looked into the eyes of a shark, but if you have you know that vacant soulless look in its eyes, and I felt about that lake like you might feel looking into eyes like that shark…I looked up into the forest that stretched behind it and I felt the same way about the forest; I just didn't like it. It felt aware somehow. Waiting. The feeling about the water was what made me step back, turn around to my husband and tell him it was time to go. I can't adequately explain what happened, we weren't drinking, using any drugs, and I have no mental illnesses. The whole event lasted four or five seconds, then it was over; I felt a little afraid of what I’d almost done and I never forgot it. Since watching so many David Paulides videos and movies on missing people, and hearing so many accounts of people that “just wouldn't do that”…”it was totally out of character” or “they knew better” what happened to me at Crater Lake makes me always wonder if other people have been, oh, I guess the best word would be beckoned, or lured, in some unnameable way, somehow with the notion that what they were about to do was the right thing, the correct thing and inevitable in some sort of way. Pleasurable even, rewarding…Well, that's my strange account, I’ve felt that way about one or two other places in my 73 years on the planet, but that was one of the strangest! That isn't quite the end of my Crater lake tale, more strangeness waited 20 miles down the road, but that's another story for another time… I haven't told this particular story in over 40 years; why would I, and who’d believe it?
That's really interesting. I would love to hear your other story!
@@JP-ml3rj Hi there, thanks for your interest! ☺️. I'm afraid it's rather anticlimactic to the first tale, but since you asked: let me fill you in a little bit… we were traveling on motorcycles; there was my husband, myself, a friend and his girlfriend. Just for arguments sake I’ll imagine that we were going north, it seemed like it, we were heading back up to Portland, but in any case we’d been traveling for about 15 minutes on a mostly deserted narrow Highway, maybe 25-30 miles from Crater Lake and it was dusk. I forget why we pulled over to talk, but we decided instead of heading north we might just camp in the woods, and there was a low spot so we pulled about 40 feet into the woods; we could still see the occasional car go by, but we were a little elevated above the road, so mainly just saw the lights and the tops of the cars. In any event, we pulled out some snacks, cheese, sausage, general munchies… put out our sleeping bags and tried to relax. The odd thing about the trees is that they were evenly spaced, no low branches, they were not in rows, but in equal distances of about 15 to 20 feet between each one. We could look back into the woods without interruption except for the trunks the trees; there was a little or no brush. And it was dead silent. No breath of wind, no moving branches, no scurrying small animals, just silence. And I think to all of us it felt kind of heavy, oppressive and unsettling; it wasn't a peaceful silence. I think I started looking back into the woods behind us first, I'd like to say something grabbed my attention but there was nothing there. After a few minutes we were all looking back there. There was a feeling of imminence bordering on dread; we started packing our things up without even talking about it; and I remember all of us seemed to feel the need to be quiet, and hurry. I thought I’d seen smoke back in the trees, but didn't want to say anything; and smoke isn’t exactly the right term, it almost looked like some kind of tiny particulate ash, like after a volcano, but it wasn't falling, just hanging in the air. Like I said, I didn't mention it, but later we compared notes and the other three saw a darkening in the dusk as well, that didn't seem natural… it was Too dark back there somehow…I didn't feel immediately threatened; this dark “smoke” didn't seem to be coming towards us but there was a feeling of menace in the air… again, I just don't have the words. I know most stories have real creatures, how tall they are, if they had fur, or if their eyes were glowing, etc., and neither of the things I've spoken of have any of that; in some small way it might've been a relief…it's hard to understand being that fearful when there's nothing you can see, but you know something is there! The whole area was just wrong somehow. Maybe it was just that day, maybe it was just us! Maybe if I went back now I’d have a totally different experience. In sort of a loosely connected way, I'd had an experience a couple years earlier in an old house on Queen Anne hill, in Seattle, that was just “wrong”, and ever after that I had a particular ability to feel threats in some way, even when no visible threat is present, and I felt it there, that night… someday when I feel really ambitious I'll tell you about that house! That's a god-awful story; to this very day, I have sleep paralysis events that harken back to what happened there. It was the first time I ever came across disembodied evil, with a capital E. The events that happened there activated some part of me that can sense danger, some kind of intuition I guess, and it's always served me well… I'm sorry this wasn't more entertaining… I don't tell these stories to anyone I know, but somehow it seems safe putting them down here… thanks for your interest… have a blessed weekend! ☺️ ( mostly I just put these things down in writing because I suppose I'll always wonder if that's what happens to the disappeared, just an odd feeling maybe, a few hunches, and then…? )
@@tirzah4930 Wow. That's really something. Sometimes it's what we can't see. I completely believe in hunches and interior warnings, and the fact that the others felt it as well shows it wasn't your imagination, although I doubt it would have been imagination even if they hadn't. I would love to hear your other story as well one day. Thank you for sharing, and never ignore those hunches. (I doubt you'd ignore them anyway.) Happy Easter, and thanks again for sharing these interesting experiences!
@@tirzah4930 Wow. That's really something. Sometimes it's what we can't see. I completely believe in hunches and interior warnings, and the fact that the others felt it as well shows it wasn't your imagination, although I doubt it would have been imagination even if they hadn't. I would love to hear your other story as well one day. Thank you for sharing, and never ignore those hunches. (I doubt you'd ignore them anyway.) Happy Easter, and thanks again for sharing these interesting experiences!
@loanna Cool: You tell very interesting stories. I'd love to hear about your experience at the old house.
I do believe that certain places hold evil around them. Glad you guys got the hell out of those woods!
I see martians, sasquatch, the loch ness monster, the blair witch, and the virgin mary every time i go to walmart. I just can't stay away.
That's not out of the ordinary for a Walmart lol
I once caught a glimpse of a saucecrotch roaming the aisles of the Walmart, rooting and rifling around in the 2 dollar DVD bins. It was wearing sawed off stretchy pants daisy dukes britches and a sponge bob snow vest. I panicked and ran
So, you can't afford cable...
@@gmfw9777 I believe I seen the same! Then I seen some old guy had drug it out! Where too?
@@MTBXCSKI65 Tread careful if you encounter another of these critters, I heard some of em are pretty fast and if yer carrying any beanie babies or keys to an el camino? Shooooooo Buddy
Iv been there a bunch my whole life. Nothing strange has ever happened there
Heading there next week :)
@HearthCricket And not everyone is so gullable to believe in myths.
All believers were skeptics at one time!.The truth will out!
That's because you were the strange thing there. People probably thought you were a monster.
@@stephenpemberton9943 Not true, some people are believers from the get go
My experiences at Crater Lake were totally different. My father was a park ranger and they lived at the lake for 10+ years. We left the park in 1942 when I was 4 and my brother was 6. I still have home movies from that period and many good memories of return trips while I was growing up. I have one shot taken in the winter of 1951 or 52 showing the roadside snow bank at the rim village with 37 Ft. of snow. The 2 story log cabin that we lived in was at Annie Springs and sadly was demolished in later years to allow more space for roadway improvements.
You are truly blessed to have experienced that. I envy you! I love Crater Lake and I never get tired of going there. It’s truly amazing.
Digitize and upload to your channel. We need more home footage online. Thanks for sharing
Please share the footage, I absolutely love old photos and film.
You should post those home videos on TH-cam , would be nostalgic for all of us
Interesting! Thanks for sharing : )
I went there as a kid with my family in the early 80s. I don't recall the old man phenomenon. The only scary part was when my uncle parked the van up close to the guard rail, and if you're not used to vans it feels like you're driving into the crater. My grandma almost had a heart attack.
Yeah, gotta say the old man is completely new to me also. Don't remember anything about that weirdness with all the other wierdness as a Bigfoot haven and the water coloration is one I remember. UFO hot spot but just learned of the "Old Man", interesting.
The comment section is more entertaining than the video.
I live in the town next to Crater Lake and have been there many times. Wizard Island is not the old volcanoes top. That thing is long gone. Following the cataclysmic caldera-forming eruption, which left a hole about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep where the mountain had once stood, a series of smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet (820 m) above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
Cool 😎 you have a time machine 🤣. That's how you know ball this is true? Or wait.m it's what "science" TOLD you. Ok. Whatever.
@@sissyrayself7508 was that a joke?
@@sissyrayself7508 imagine denying factual science
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You don’t need a time machine to know this fact.... Check out Mount St Helens in Washington. It blew it’s top in 1980. Since then, there’s a cinder cone that has developed over the years, just like the one in Crater Lake.
@@sissyrayself7508 "That's how you know ball this is true? Or wait.m it's what "science" TOLD you. Ok. Whatever." So where are you planning on going for your health care? Health care is all about that evil science stuff!
All you have to do is take one look at crater lake and you know there are at least 5 lake monsters living down there
It gives a very strange vibe
It's fine, I live in Oregon and have been there, the worst thing in there is some big lake trout
Just ask the rangers and guides. Fish don't survive after being planted. It is to clean. How can a monster survive if a fish can't.
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That’s not true. There are rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon that live in that lake. They survive just fine. Matter of fact, you can, and people do fish there.
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I've swam in crater lake twice and it was one of the most life changing experiences ive ever had. Humans are made up mostly of water so to get personally connected with the deepest body of water in north america was very humbling and adrenaline provoking. kind of like being in the ocean. or like how our planet is compared the universe. it can make you feel very small, yet humbled to be apart of it somehow
I dove in and swam from the dock on Wizard Island. It doesn't look as deep as it is because it is so clean. If it looks 10 feet deep it is actually 90. It was a unforgettable moment for sure.
Yes, I've swam in that lake when I worked up there during summer of 1978. Took the boat ride twice, hiked Wizard Island, enjoyed a packed lunch on one of the picnic tables.
I loved the experiences, always felt deep love and respect for that place. To me, it was deeply spiritual, a time like no other. Now, I live in Klamath Falls and can't help but feel actual pain when someone goes missing or is injured or someone using the land as a racetrack. It's a place that commands respect to its environment. I pray this place remains as it is and supposed to be. Oh, and I drank straight out of Vidae Falls, Annie Creek and others with never a problem, as well as filling my canteen from the Wizard Island dock. Back then it was the best water, wherever I filled my canteen!
When I pass on, my ashes will be scattered around the Wildflower Trail. ❤️
Check out the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea, ,ה 'מ המלכ
Try swimming in lake superior . The deepest part is over 1,400 feet deep. August is when it is the warmest and it is so clean and clear.
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My dad and mom when I was a small child use to take us to Crater lake camping all the time, I love Crater lake ❤️ I have never experienced anything weird 🤨
People get lost in rainforest areas over here (Australia) because they hear 'voices' in the forest. If you have ever been in a forest with a stream or creek around, the sound of the water running can sound like voices. I've been camped by a creek with a rocky base and the sounds from the water became very creepy at one point. I could swear I heard people talking upstream and went looking. Nothing. It was the stream talking to me... And thank you to @GoreTorn for the informative stuff about Crater lake. Legend.
Yep. Absolutely! Birds, animals, critters, the trees rustling in the wind, water, all of that causes noises.
I went to crater lake with my wife and kids. We went out on the boat and had a great time. Don't let this guy stop you from going. It is beautiful and there are waterfalls from the melting snow.
I didn’t think that it was possible for me to be afraid of a floating log, but I really feel like it’s gunna get me 😩
IT'S WHAT EVER IS ATTACHED TO IT!!! FRIGGEN HORRIFIC BRUH
Give the log a big hug, and see if the clouds come!
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Elizabeth is not a bruh but yeah, what a nightmare!
@@kingofthecatnap5780 SHE COULD BE . WE WOULD HAVE TO SEE HERE FIRST .KATELYN IS ASKING TOO BRUH
@@timomalley1470 Bruce Jenner is still a man and always will be one too.
Crater Lake is one of the most amazing places to visit. I was in awe how blue the water is. Can't wait to go back.
Haha, this is one of the last places that would come to mind when I think of scary or mysterious places, personally. I've been there so many times. We understand the mechanism behind deadhead logs. We also understand basalt columns like in the Giant's Causeway, also, it's not a mystery. It's just that nature is awesome and cool. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, but I believe Great Slave Lake in Canada is deeper, making it the deepest lake in North America overall. But Crater Lake is so awesome because it's not exactly huge in diameter, just ridiculously deep, and it is completely filled by precipitation. There's no spring or river that feeds it. Among other reasons! Plus it's beautiful!
Yes! There are basalt columns in cliffs in the Columbia River Gorge also.
The "miracle" (if you want to deal in the supernatural) is that the precipitation from the heavy snowfall and other precipitation is balanced by the "outflow" from the lake through fissures in the rock where water seeps out, becoming the headwaters of various streams and rivers in the area. So the lake never overflows and never empties out.
@Elaine - excellent summary, thank you!
@@elainechubb971 The Gorge is one of my favorite places. The geology of Oregon is amazing and my family used to do road trips to all the cool features like the Gorge, Crater Lake, Big Obsidian Flow, Mt. Hood, Lava Cast Forest, Painted Hills, Alvord Desert, sea stacks on the coast, and more. I feel so lucky to live in such a gorgeous place, so close to many natural wonders and diverse biome.
This sounds like a great place for LA and/or Las Vegas to drop a few municipal straws since Lake Mead is drying up.
The comments are just as interesting as the video, really cool to hear all the personal stories! I’m so caught up in them
Local tribe's witnessed Mt Mazama's upper half implode, about 7700 years ago. They considered the lake a very spiritual and sacred place. I have zero belief in the paranormal. But I have returned twice to a trail at it's outer base, where the source of the Rogue River comes out of the ground. The warm positive energy, flowing from this young tree, had me return to it a second time. It's a special area, I've spent lot's of time in. People die almost every year, trying to take selfies next to the edge of the caldron. I'd like to believe that the area's experience, depends on the amount of respect given to it. The high desert area just east of the lake, have felt strange since I was a kid. This is where most of the area's tribe's lived, for the past 15,000 years. They were hunted down by the army and killed, or removed to reservations. The area was later used for Japanese internment camps, during ww2. The area has seen a lot of suffering, and you can almost feel it. P.S. Bigfoot is in the connecting Siskiyou Mountain's, Red Buttes Wilderness. It's about 60 miles southwest of the lake. There's a massive iron Big Foot trap up there. Sorry for the rant, great video!
Wow great comment, thanks so much for educating me about it, there’s only so much you can research but hearing from a first hand experience is so much more valuable to me. Thanks for watching 👻
The bigfoot trap is no longer active. Its just sight seeing place. Worth reading up about it though. Government set it in the 70s. Its at applegate lake.
It's contended that the tale of Mazama's eruption and collapse might be the oldest/longest-lasting folk memory.
I have no desire to be in that area. None. Zero.
How interesting and intriguing! 😲
I was camping at the Crater Lake Campground for my birthday June 8, 2018 when in the middle of the night, maybe 4ish in the morning, a skinny, naked, Native American man walked across my campground space. My friend who was about twenty feet from me was wide awake and she saw this man or phantom also. Her dog started low growing at the figure. I told two of the Park Rangers the story the following morning, and they both said that ghost inhabit the campground and lodge. I want to also share that when I started to pee near a tree I felt a tug or pull on my body that I couldn't control. It felt as if there was a magnetic pull trying to pull me down the hill. I do have a Titanium Plate in right arm, so who knows what that was about There is certainly unexplained forces going on there.
Did you defecate on your grandmother's chest?
Weird because titanium is not magnetic at all.
Nah that’s just the weather of Oregon you can literally have every season in a sing hour
Sounds like Nebraska
Michigan
Every single place says this like 39/50 states think they have the most unpredictable wheaten I’ve had days where irl gone from 115 to lighting during a heat wave
I hate oregon weather!!
Weather 🤣...I live in Oklahoma..(100 degree temperature Diffrence in less than 24hours) Day b4 Thanksgiving 1980 Blizzard snowstorm minus - 40 windchill ,Thanksgiving day Sunny 80 degrees. but aside from a few F5 tornadoes & allseasons in1day ,it's a terrible place to live..The Folks are some of the nicest u will ever meet ...🤣
My family had a wonderful time there and swam in the lake. The only scary thing we experienced was hearing and seeing a large boulder roll down into the lake.
Hubby and I went there while working up in Oregon a couple years ago, it was absolutely stunning. Weird things happen everywhere don't let fear keep you from experiencing life.
There is a name of these type of vertical floating logs, "deadheads"
Basically when the tree trunk fell in the lake and the bottom end with all the roots was holding enough rocks and dirt to keep that end weighed down and submerged. In the time it took the roots to rot enough to release the rocks it was holding, the top end dried out from the sun, and the bottom end became saturated with water, maintaining its position in the water.
@Eric Roberts I was thinking more along the lines of Grateful Dead. Lol
That's some paranormal shit right there! 👊😉
And I learned something new today! Thanks for the information!
s s s s s swamp monster! lmao oh wait.. la la la la la lake monster!
no y do they move
My wife and I visited Crater Lake. We lived in Oregon for a decade and nearly ended up living in the Crater Lake area but decided to move home to Kentucky. It's a beautiful place.
Kentucky..., ya ain't it?
Wizard Island was not the old peak of the volcano. Also, I've been here many times, each time more enjoyable than the last. I encourage everyone to see this lake in person at least once in your life.
Nahhhh.. I'm good.. thanks anyway. I'll pass
@@sissyrayself7508 I went 3 1/2 years ago right before i turned 16 it was the most amazing thing I ever saw, kind of thought about jumping from the observation rock I'm sure it was a couple hundred feet up but it rlly doesn't look like it something about the big blue beauty calling you in the sheer size and history is astonishing I recommend if you have good self control XD
it's a trap
Bite your tongue. Ha vent you been listening to the wise and truthful words that this young man speaks in this video. You should recommend no such thing. It would be like recommending someone to jump into Niagara falls or into a pot of boiling oil. No sir I will not ever visit this lake after hearing about the on goings there. It`s the devil I tell you.
Saw it once. Wow!!
my mother passed away there on July 27th 1990. She fell from the cliff on Discovery Point. She was rescuing me from Cliff's Edge. She threw me to my older brother and lost her footing
I'm so very sorry.
shit im sorry mate😞
Damn. Sorry to hear that. God bless her soul
I am so sorry! Your mother is a hero! A mother’s love is forever! I am sure she is watching over each of you!
omg that is so sad im sorry! :./
There is a regional vortex Field, which is centered to the west of Crater Lake. The demarcation lines, where stuff happens, pass through Cottage Grove, Oregon. That explains the anomalous events that occur in that town. I saw a bear jump through an invisible portal and disappear near there. That demarcation line travels way down to California and I know a man who was transported instantly, about 110 miles down a highway in northern California. He wrote a book and charted this vortex field. The book is called The Golden Vortex, by Nick Nelson. I've read the book four times, because it is a bit technical, yet absolutely fascinating! My experience with the bear happened as I was reading his book for the first time. They were attempting to get my attention. It worked!
I've heard this alot so I don't rule it out
I was in the Union Pacific railroad, a freight conductor. We run on a line to the east of crater lake. One day, as we were running parallel to crater lake, I looked west in the vague direction of crater lake and farted. Very very mysterious. My engineer can confirm the smell.
My friend went there who was in the U.S. Army and he said that he seen an encampment of FUCKIN UNION SOLDIERS (from the civil war) and he said one of the men saw him, fired a warning shot, so he ran away. He came back maybe 10 minutes later and they were gone without a trace. No evidence anyone had ever been to that spot. He believes the lake and it’s surroundings have some kind of higher knowledge and the lake KNEW he was in the army. (I’m not sure if any soldiers hung around crater lake during the civil war, but nonetheless I find this extremely strange) he also claimed every night he was out there there would be screaming and chanting from the forests and strange lights in the sky.
There’s so much reported stories like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if more people saw the same soldiers that’s scary!
Wait what? How long did he search for his bullet? That’s real strange
Hidden Files searched for an hour straight. Nothing. Something real strange up there for sure man, that’s why I try to stay away from that area.
I believe all that shit tbh. A lot of weird shit goes down in oregon in general, doesnt have to be crater lake, that whole states got some weird vibes to it, at least i felt it whe i lived there for 2-3 years, and im from NYC born and raised.. so you could say it would normally take a lot to vibe me out... oh not in oregon.
Oh heck no. I ain't going nowhere near that place. Nope.
Mabey all the people in Oregon don’t notice anything off or weird because we are just use to all the weird stuff.
Oregonian people are weird .. trust me.. our state motto is "Keep Oregon weird". So yes. It's true.
@@sissyrayself7508 that is not our state motto
Keep Oregon weird is the state motto..unofficial
@@raam1666 haha!!😂
@@sissyrayself7508 That's Portland, not Oregon. We aren't the same people
I and my family have camped at Crater Lake a number of times...been around Rim Road and down to the Pinnacles, even the boat cruise..enchanting and beautiful but in no way weird, strange or creepy.
Just came across your channel. Nice 👍🏻. Good job making it interesting and creepy. My wife and I plan to go to Crater Lake. I probably won't be showing her this.
I used to live in Bend, OR and went to Crater Lake a few times. It really is something special. There was an eerie vibe the first time but it was mainly the smoke from the wildfires that did that. It is impossible to explain just how big Crater Lake is until you see it.
The scary part is once you make it in, it’s hard to figure out how to get out.
Is this from personal experience? 😳
Not really it’s pretty simple lol
Couldn’t be easier, then again I’ve lived here my whole life
What do you mean? You get lost leaving or what
The sun always rises in the east and sets in the west. How can anyone get confused? The directions never change. There is only 2 roads in and one road that goes around with a scenic drive to the pinnacles that is one way. Easy peasy. Hasn't changed.
I was there a few days ago and it was magnificent! The nutcrackers were very friendly and unafraid to come inches close to me. The chipmunks were darling! The trees were wonderful. What a sight it all was!
I visited Crater Lake about 15 years ago...traveled all the way from Florida to visit there. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen...photographs don't do it justice. It wasn't scary at all. It's a geothermal lake, meaning that there is still volcanic activity beneath it, causing the warm water to circulate with the cold water...causing currents. So, that's probably why the vertical log moves around.
It will most certainly erupt again too. It is considered an active volcano as geologists count such things plus consider any volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years as active. Being a large Cascade stratovolcano Mt. Mazama (its Native American name) is going to erupt again and still has earthquakes every few years, but the most recent recent ones were a 6.00 and a 5.9 in 1993 with about 2500 aftershocks for three months that were mostly only detectable by a seismograph they were so small.
So far since monitoring has begun the quakes are centered on faults nearby and are not of volcanic origin although they had some volcanic activity in 1945 called the "Burp". Clouds of bluish gray clouds would form on windless mornings and dissipate, plus water temps rose in area lakes enough to kill fish. Also the water was discolored as if a small eruption occurred on the bottom of the lake, but by the time the USGS got there with seismograph equipment in 1946 it had ended.
npshistory.com/nature_notes/crla/vol25c.htm
Your voice, sir, is something to fall asleep to.
I don't know if that's a compliment, or an insult, but I just found you. Just now.
And I like history and geography and stories. They affect my dreams!
I'm gonna subscribe just to have something playing while I go to sleep.
The script is pretty well-written, too.
I give this channel, and the narrator, a thumbs up.
I have been there alot, Even hiked wizard island to the top, however there was one time as a kid, I hiked down a steep steep hill behind our campsite in the camp ground, the hill was mostly very soft pumice, what I remember was as I explored, the rim of the top kept getting further away, it was increasingly harder to even climb up, the more I side stepped, the more down hill I gradually went, I was increasingly scared and no one knew I went there even after yelling, I eventually saw a "path" and side stepped carefully and somehow found a way back up to the rim of the campground. I still shiver at that memory.
Take this experience for what it's worth.
My 2 daughters and I traveled to Crater lake early one spring. We came up the south side from Klamath falls.
Not much traffic going up.
We could see plenty of snow around the rim of the mountains surrounding the lake.
We saw one of the peaks at the lake and decided to try to climb it.
No visible trail because of snow so made our own way.
The view is spectacular but be careful.
Some areas were not covered by snow and you walk on a lite valcanic rock.
Going back my oldest daughter started complaining her feet and legs were very cold. My youngest daughter and I had no complaints. We all walked the same self made trail.
We sat down on a log and as I took her shoes and socks off I noticed her feet steaming and hot 🔥.
I didn't believe her. She felt her own feet. Hot.
Put back shoes and socks and down we continue.
When home I tried to find out were we had climbed.
This area is off limits most of the time of year and climbing is only permitted during snow. We had climbed it at a time half and half snow and rock.
The area is Lao Rock. A place where 12 year old Indians went for a vision quest.
My daughter was 12.
That's wild.... coincidence¿.... I think not....
This guy's a scaredy ass douche. Oh my god, daily the sun goes down and it gets fearfully dark.
There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation. My guess would be something akin to hypothermia--she was either more lightly clad than you and your younger daughter, or her shoes were not as well made or as padded, or she is just more susceptible to the cold. As her feet got cold, her body directed heat to her feet. (In hypothermia, of course, often the person feels hot rather than cold.) If her feet were wet, when you took her shoes and socks off in the cold air, the moisture on her feet could have evaporated, just as our breath comes out accompanied by steam in cold weather. I am not a doctor or physiologist, so am simply making suggestions. But there is no doubt a scientific explanation.
@@elainechubb971 it was 82 degrees that day.
She walked the same trail as my younger daughter and I.
We all were dressed similar.
@Elaine - ah, the voice of reason. The beauty of science is that it's never quantified in it's scope, while at the same time seeking to quantify.
It is kind of incredible that a piece of wood floats vertically without rotting washing ashore or getting entangled.
I think the thermal activity at the bottom of the lake has everything to do with it. There’s no outlet, or inlet of water, like a creek, or river. The lake is completely enclosed inside the rim of a volcano. The water levels maintain through snow and rain, and evaporation. There’s still geothermal activity at the bottom of the lake, so it’s possible that the log sits upright and moves do to that activity. Something to consider, but I’m only assuming. I can’t say for certain, but it’s the likely cause.
I read the last part of your post the exact same time the narrator said almost the same words...
@I'm Banned In Hidden
It could be the wrong answer, that’s why I said in the very beginning, “I think”….. I’m all ears, what’s the correct answer then?
@I'm Banned In Hidden
After reading my own comment, I should’ve clarified a couple of things. I wasn’t referencing the reason why the log is up right. That can happen if the log was submerged up against the bank at one point, and the bottom half became water logged before it freed itself, and now floats permanently like that….. I was referring to the movements the log travels around the lake. It’s known that the log goes against the wind. There’s no river or creek running out of the lake either causing a constant current. So I was explaining my thoughts as to why the log floats around the lake. I assume it’s because of the geothermal activities from the bottom of the lake causing currents from the lake floor. Again, this is just an idea, not a definitive answer. Scientists don’t even know the answer, so I’m curious as to how you know I’m wrong.
I thought so too, I mean organic material eventually decays into nothing, especially in the water! It's super weird and I'd like to see it some day!
I drove a Suburban around the lake and was white knuckled the whole drive. Thought we were going over the edge for sure. Probably cause it’s only 1.5 lanes wide for two way traffic but still. So beautiful though.
I hate thin roads on mountain drives 😅 I live in Colorado and drive through them very often, super sketchy 😂
For me, nothing is more entertaining than watching videos like this in bed with the lights out. I do enjoy a good history mystery with superb visuals, accompanied by soft narrative.
Outstanding work.
Gorgeous spot, gotta see it in person at least once.
I was there last Friday, I had my Yorkie with me and picked her up to look, even she was enchanted!
I went there this past weekend. It’s amazing. Didn’t feel off at all
I have a crazy hypothesis, but I a born and raised Oregonian have never had a bad experience there but all the none Oregon born people who've been to crater lake I know have had weird or bad experiences there. Maybe it doesn't like outsiders.
I was thinking that reading these comments
I was born in New York, and I've lived in 10 states besides Oregon and 3 other countries, but I've lived in Oregon longer than everywhere else put together. I have NEVER had a weird time at Crater Lake. A nice dip onetime tho.
Not Oregon born, but never had any weird experiences at Crater Lake. This entire video is bunk.
The old man was probably thinking: “I just can’t take anymore of this nagging old bit!” And jumped off the cliff! 😂🤣
Probably like “ if I die I’m dead
That's really disrespectful. I don't think it's funny at all. Would you say that if it was your dad?
It's even bigger looking in person. It's beautiful.
I lived near Crater Lake for about 20 years but only visited once. It one of the most mysterious nature places I’ve ever been. It seemed alive. It’s luring nature was palpable. It seemed very mystical. I was with three other friends and we didn’t stay long. If I’d been there alone, my fate could have taken a very different turn. I’m so glad you posted this video. My advice is to go there with a group and enjoy it’s alluring beauty.
The lake IS alive. It is home to around 70k salmon and trout. Very good advice to go into nature with at least one other person because we are an urban population except for the lucky few who are used to wilderness and can survive out there.
I love crater lake. It's so beautiful and peaceful there. My family went to crater lake for a vacation when I was a kid. I never knew there was any scary stories about it though
I grew up in a small town not far from Crater Lake. I’ve been there many times. Nothing bad happened. It’s a beautiful place.
Hey man great video, I live in Oregon and agree the lake is super creepy... we’ve had a ton of people disappear under mysterious circumstances and the ones who are found seem to have had their memory wiped as they can’t recall what happened. Keep up the good work ... subscribed!
That’s really creepy, do you have any personal stories? I would love to make a second part 👻
It’s probably a portal. There are Deep Underground Military Bases everywhere that connect to one another too.
@@kristenbrowning7287 watch above majestic
@@kristenbrowning7287 Tahoe too.
@@skylerhudson3007 can you put the link in here? It’s hard to find exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks!!😊
I have seen a lot of places!
I wasn't to excited about going to crater lake, yet when I arrived, I actually felt emotions run through me, my eyes got a little moist....
I grew up going here living south in Klamath falls, this lake is very creepy and so still
The most beautiful and awe inspiring places I have ever been.
I don't think the lake is haunted or creepy but when I see photos of the Old Man of the Lake I get a strange chill and feel weird but I can't look away, it's the strangest feeling.
Deepest lake in the United States actually. The deepest lake in North America is Slave Lake up in Canada. It is a glacial lake.
Hell of a name for a lake lol
I went there years ago. It was beautiful. Would love to go back and visit again.
Yeah…. It’s pretty haunted. People probably shouldn’t go visit it. Except me….
I lived and worked at Crater Lake. In 1988. I feed the sub crew and all fire fighters that summer. I also worked again in 1998. I lived in the dorms up on the rim back of the Lodge. I can say it was two of the best summers of my life. Crater Lake is a Magical Place. I can say swimming in the lake is a cold but refreshing experience. The hike back up the rim will heat you back up, the switch backs are a lot better now then in 1988. I made some great friends while working at Crater Lake. I Loved being a Cook at the Watchman restaurant.
The Native Americans Discovered Mount Mazama aka Crater Lake way before any White man did, Just sayin. If you drive around the lake and read the lookout signs It will tell you what the Native Americans called things at the lake way before we came along and took over the lake and the land around it. Sorry my kids are half Native American.
I haven't heard of 95% of the stories you talked about in your video. I know about the old man in the lake. But I call B.S on the storm bit. As It would have been news that spread like wild fire all over the lake employee's. Considering I feed the sub crew and the scientists I would have forsure have heard them talking about that at dinner.
My family visited in the late 1960's. I remember the gift shop & parking lot area. When I looked down at the lake I was stunned by the deepness. I got that feeling you get when your afraid of heights. I have had a desire to go back. It is mesmerizing.
Shame. My friend and I went here late in the night and the park was completely empty. It was an amazingly peaceful experience.
Did you hear any voices?!
@@HiddenFiles no, not at all. My friend is much more spiritually intune than I and I think we were both equally at peace. We just walked around in the snow taking long exposure pictures of the lake, talking and watching the night sky. We didn't want to leave. Noone else was in the park and it felt no soul was in the park either. I really suggest you give it a try, honestly.
That's the headwaters of the Rogue River. When you're driving there from the time you leave Crater Lake and get on Oregon 62 it's downhill along the Rogue most of the way almost to Medford. I believe I was told that's about 50 miles or so - ALL downhill. At Shady Cove they had small rubber boat rentals at the store where they'd take you up to the dam and drop you off and you slow floated back down to Shady Cove about 3 hours later as I recall. That's a beautiful area and there's lot's of things to do there. At Gold Beach where the Rogue empties into the Pacific we rode the jet boats all the way up to Paradise and it was hotter then blazes with the temps well over 100. They have guided river floats from Grants Pass to Gold Beach that take 2 or 3 days but if you haven't ever been there you should try to at least drive through there. Along with it's beautiful coastline, it's one of the nicest areas to visit in southern Oregon...
I live very near Crater Lake. I love going there and seeing the amazing structures! Nothing weird at all!
Oh damn!!! I’ll be headed to crater lake next Tuesday, gonna be a long trip from LA to Oregon
I will not ever show up to this lake again, especially high off the shrooms
lol!!!
Man i lowkey wana trip shrooms or cid there now..
that will do a dude for sure man
I took acid in lake tahoe, best experience ever
Thanks for doing this vid. I’m extremely intrigued by the stories of crater lake. If you do make another part to this video, I would advise to look into the Native America legends about this place
Hey thanks for watching, I did look into it, super interesting stuff I’m too scared to research those kinds of rituals and voodoo if you will, but I’m going to explore it more lol
Hidden Files Honestly, the legends can be nightmare fuel. I can't blame you, cause honestly I'm scared too lol
I think it would be fun to explore but I am worried I’ll cast a spell on myself on accident lol
@@HiddenFiles It wasn't voodoo to the Native Americans who were the peoples of America before it was colonised by others eventually - try to be more sensitive, calling it voodoo is childish !!!!
@Hidden Files - if you had actually "...looked into that...", you would not refer to it/any aspect as voodoo.
Went there as a kid with my father, cousin, aunt and brother. It was beautiful, awesome and I want to go back with my kids.
I never experienced anything strange up there with my parents, except the most clean, bracing breeze up there at the rim, in the middle of August...so refreshing! :)
I've never had anything scary happen there.
My profile picture is of Crater Lake.
Have u went there
@@sliverc3po117 yes
I go there and hang out with Big Foot, and even he says lots of crazy shit happens here! 😂
I think my dad took me here when I was a kid... He sometimes worked for NASA and when we got out there he just stood by the waters edge starring into it... I asked him what the heck he was looking at and he just said that he had heard the lake was reported to be bottomless... After hearing all the reports of ufo's I have to wonder if that wasn't what he was hoping / expecting to see?
"my dad...worked for NASA and he just said that he had heard the lake was reported to be bottomless... After hearing all the reports of ufo's I have to wonder if that wasn't what he was hoping / expecting to see?" What kind of work did he do at NASA? I hope it wasn't any more mind searing than janitorial work.
@@MTBXCSKI65 Sometimes he was contracted to inspect parts for all kinds of aerospace projects. He wasn't that hight up in security clearance or anything. Only four levels more the president.
@@MTBXCSKI65 they be working in Olympic pools I could see the allure
Oh wow… your dad knows some really deep stuff then..
But all puns aside, seriously. He knows the real shape of the earth and that the lake could very well connect to somewhere we aren’t supposed to know about.
Wow this is very interesting! I have never heard of this place before and now I need to know more. You definitely have a thumbs up from me and I'm subscribing.
Everything you mentioned here is all a great reason to visit.
I’ve been to Crater Lake once. I was camping up there and we had a bear come visit our tent, but went away. The only weird thing that happened was hearing the noise of a old airplane fly above our campsite. I read more about it and there was a WW2 plane that crashed near the lake. Otherwise that was it, nothing strange about it and it was a pretty cool place to be at.
What's strange about an old plane flying overhead? Most private planes are "old" by most peoples' standards, which makes them typical, not strange.
It is a bit creepy there, especially when ur alone or there by urself at night. Just got back from a vacation there cos it’s on my bucket list... it was a powerful spiritual place both good and bad. I would recommend staying out of the woods, some of the animals in the surrounding woods there gave me an OFF Vibe. 10/10 recommend seeing the lake before you die though! Most beautiful body of water you will literally ever see... so massive it makes you wonder what could be down there
My parents met and got married in Oregon and my mother had lots of relatives there, so we spent a lot of vacation time there. Crater Lake was one place that we visited and thought to have a picnic lunch there. But, as soon as we got out of the car, dozens of large mosquitoes showed up and began trying to land on us. We didn't have any repellent that day, for some reason and we got back in the car very quickly. Each of us had several bites from the 2 or 3 minutes that we were outside. We took pictures from the inside of the car, but we didn't get out again and we never went back.
I went there as a kid and I remember getting a very eerie creepy feeling and thinking I would never ever want to swim in that lake.
My experience with Crater Lake is when I jumped into the water. There was weird bowling water noise and bubbles came out between my legs and surrounded me and THEN..... A very strange and strong odor followed shortly after and it smelled like rotten eggs. I had to leave the area immediately. I just about died.
Most likely gasses coming up from the crater, it is a volcano so it still spews out gas.
That’s why the waters so acidic
😂🤣.
@@erichedge6369 oh I get it now lmaooo
@@zekefredwins5890 🤣🍻.
I have heard that any depth they publish for the lake is actually an estimate. No one really knows how deep it really is.
I also understand that the volcano is dormant and not extinct.
So if it blows, the devastation will be even worst due to all that water being blown out.
Bro I live in Oregon and I haven’t seen or notice anything weird when I went to crater lake.
bro you're lucky af to live in Oregon, but thats good, glad you had a safe trip when you went. I keep seeing people going missing there even with everything that's going on.
Who said something strange happens to every single person, everytime they go there?
Fender Tremolo true that
There are disappearances In every park in the country. The lack of a body is obvious. If it was snowy the only thing moving around would be mice rats mink skunk moles voles I could go on and on. Perfectly capable of burrowing in and getting every little bit. If his feet were down in the snow frozen too solid. But parts above snow would partially thaw by day.
I suppose that’s true
Great video. Never heard of 'the old man'. For those who say nothing unusal there.. I believe some people are more sensitive to energies then others. The frequency given off may not be in tune with your own. Some may feel peace while others it causes anxiety. The same as music and how ppl react to genres. It's personal and individual. Just because you didn't experience anything or feel anything in particular or at all does not mean the place itself is not mystified. All places carry some kind of vibe. Good or bad.
That’s a good way to put it for all the skeptics 👻
"different frequencies" Some ppl get just get more easily creeped out by things than others. They're scaredy cats and can see eeriness in anything. There's nothing creepy about Crater lake I've been up there many times.
@@TrueNorthProductions you are ignorant of the truth.
I have been to Crater lake at a time when you could rent a rowboat and Wizard island wasn't off limits.getting in the boat my dad and I started rowing out to the island. The lake is much bigger then it looks and the island appears to be closer then it is because it's soo big. The island is massive but it doesn't appear that big from the rim or lookout point. It took us 2 1/2 hours to row out to the island and because the surface of the water tends to spin around the island we had to constantly alter our course. About half way we stopped alering our course and rowed with the current and ended up landing on the island on the opposite side from the visiter center. We were only on the island for a short time when it seemed like we had woken something up by being there the ground of the island seemed to come alive and had an almost electrical charge building up in it. I could reach down and try to pick up a rock and would feel a sort of shock hit my arm as if i had been dragging my stocking feet on a carpet and touched a door knob. My dad and I very purposely made our way back to our boat which stra gely was now about 10 feet from the waters edge but when we had left the boat the stern was still in the water. It felt almost like the island had started breathing because as we were dragging the boat to the water all of a sudden the boat was in the water floating and i was knee deep in the lake when just a half second before i was standing on dry land. I was kinda freaking out cuz I felt really weird and dizzy and a little sick to my stomache.my dad scooped me up and dumped me into the boat at the same he literally jumped clearing the side of the boat landing in it and grabbing oars. We rowed with thecurrent flow around the other side of the island and toward the hotel. The water seemed to be moving much faster and had waves to it eminating from the island to the rim then back out to the island. Instead of it taking 2.5 hours to row back it took only 45 min.I noticed when we rounded the island where i could see the dock and where all the people were near the lake shore they were all gone and I could a small group hurrying back up to the top of the rim. We got back up there and started talking to the park people working the visiter center and they said they werent quite sure what happened but that they had felt what they said was a slight thud as if a car had hit the side of the building. I explained what we had experienced on the island and they said it sounded like an eruption quake but that was impossible because the cauldara beneath the mountain was dead.the next summer dad and i went back but the boats were gone and you could no longer go out to wizard island. They said because the island was unstable and it had suffered some pretty significant rock slides on it including the 1 that caused the island exposed to air to bcome bigger. From an aireal view you can now see where the island had slid extending the 1 side further out into the lake then it had before. I'm sure there's a scientifc explanation for what we experienced ut as far as I'm concerned us being on the island made the mountaina bit mad andit reacted. Thats all i know.
I visited there. Did not observe any weirdness. In fact, it was summer and all I remember is that it was boiling hot. But our guide did not mention the old man tree trunk, which was pretty interesting once I read about it.
In fact this is the first I’ve heard that the area is “haunted.” 🤷🏽♀️
There’s SOME THING living in the depths of that lake.
Something ancient and evil
Never meant to be seen nor heard by mortals
Madness and terror rule those depths I tell you.
Lay down the blunt Alan Wake
And fish?
Don't let these ghost tales scare you away. The area around the lake is so beautiful. The water is unimaginably blue and beautiful. Photos kinda capture the blue but in person its so much more gorgeous. You got to visit it!
Crater Lake might have its mysteries but it is definitely a must-see, especially in winter.
my GF sister and husband a park ranger live there on the rim of cater lake in the park rangers complex. lived up in KF for 4 yrs. Best drive was going up there-never had any creepy sightings. However, her husband would talk about E.T. and UFO sittings. 50 miles south I was sleeping in my mummy bag outdoors at night and woke up to colorful lights in a circle hoovering over me and then it shot straight up and disappeared.
I think scientists would keep tying up the old man log and see if storm forms again, untie, rinse repeat...
The couple times I've been there I've always got a feeling of being watched and that was almost 10 years before I ever heard of the strange things happening at crater lake!
I've just finished watching this.. Wow! You really have a great amount of talent and you deserve so much more attention than you're ready getting. It's clear to see how much time, effort and passion goes into making your videos. You're a real inspiration.
Thanks so much bro, 👻
Great video mate! I've never heard of the stump, creepy stuff! Sounds like a very haunted spot to me. I don't think I'll be visiting anytime soon! Awesome editing work too 👍👣 that last story was crazy, sounds kinda like spontaneous combustion.
Thanks for watching! I know, I wonder what happened to him, and why was the only thing left his feet! so many questions
You should visit. Don’t believe this garbage
Can confirm this is absolute bs
To bad, it's an awesome place you should visit.
I remember visiting Crater Lake as a child....it was one of my favorite vacations....I've Always wanted to return one day.
Lol love how this is the first video I see when researching my future drive up north from California. Might still go though
Lol if you go send me pictures 👻
Go! I did the drive from tahoe to mt hood plenty times. Somewhat of an interesting drive. I still remember all the little
Towns i passed driving up to hood. A lot of weird and interesting towns id say. God i miss the west coast.
I just returned from Crater Lake, it made me want to fly drone over it, find a path to the lake, and cliff dive in it.