The Waiting Tree

The tree grabbed him before he could scream.” At 2:16 AM, a forest camera

in Oregon recorded something impossible a tree ripping its roots out of the ground

and dragging a living man toward its trunk By the time rangers arrived, the man was gone.

Only blood smeared across the bark… and fingerprints pressed into the wood from the inside.

This wasn’t the first death. For years, hikers vanished in the same forest.

Search teams found boots… phones… torn clothes— but never bodies. Until one storm

knocked the tree down. Inside the trunk were human faces, eyes open,

mouths frozen in screams, their skin fused into the wood like the tree had