>>2863051Not really a trail story, still Appalachia, or a couple feet off I guess, idk. Used to live up at the north end of Georgia. Family was really poor so we were in a hostel sort of set up and getting ferried around as homeless people to places that would take us. Churches and the like. Spent a month in an empty barn house that would take us. Pretty nice place, but my brother and I were slammed into a small room on the back end of the house, with a window out into the backyard. I was sleeping right under the window. There were no houses for miles back that way but we did have neighbors, they were in the same situation as us but I didn't really like them. The backyard had about 500 feet of clearing until you hit the trees. It'd freak me out looking out the window at night, the moon would rise straight above the trees meaning the room was always filled with moonlight in the late hours. Woke up one night and felt something was off. I stood stark still for a minute, listening to the fan in the room before realizing what it was. Some guy was standing at the window looking down at me, I realized his shadow made the room dark. It took me like a minute before I screamed, and the dude bolted from the window. Woke my brother up, he's older, so he wants to go confront the guy. He tries to chase the guy by going out the back door which isn't too far from our room, and I follow him not wanting him to get stabbed. We watched the guy from the backdoor as he booked it into the woods on bare feet, running the whole yard fast as shit. We found out the next day it was one of our fellow homeless neighbors getting high as shit, PCP or something. We left the mountains very soon after, renting a place from our distant in-laws. They were still looking for him by the time we left.
