Our friend Jeremy tells the story he kept quiet for years: a close, unnerving encounter deep in Ohio’s Tar Hollow State Forest that changed the way he moves through the woods.

In 2010, bowhunting miles from the road, he watched something come straight through a six-foot wall of greenbrier no person could walk, smelled it before he saw it, and realized he wasn’t alone in a way that hunters remember for the rest of their lives.

He stayed in the tree long after dark, climbed down inch by inch with a pistol in hand, and ran out of the woods without his climber.

We talk about fear, instinct, credible witnesses, and why people who know the woods best are often the slowest to tell stories like this.

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Episode art is a monoprint by Matt.