Lived in Las Cruces back in the 80's. Used to camp with buddies and sometimes alone, at Bonito Lake. It's located up in the Sierra Blanca mountains northwest of Ruidoso. Always carried a rifle. On one of my alone trips, I'd set up camp, had a fire going and was in to about my 3rd beer, when something with a high-pitched voice yelled out to me. I couldn't quite understand what they/it was saying. One minute it would be my North, the next minute, to the South. Went on for about 30-40 minutes. Me shining my flashlight and rifle at the sound every time it was made. Never saw a thing, but something was there and close. I let the fire die down (hoping I could see better) and got into my tent but didn't go to sleep. Laid down on my stomach and just watched out the door. Swear I saw something move several times, real quick. Fell asleep in that position with my rifle at my side. Was woken up later in the night by something throwing small stones at my tent and making that high-pitched noise, but not as loud as before. Scared the p!ss out of me and I didn't go back to sleep. At first light, I broke camp and got out of the area. Never went back to that spot again. True story. There are things out there that we humans don't know anything about. I wish I'd had a cell phone back then to record it all. Crazy......

I have been an 'outdoors person' all my life, I'm 62yo now, and I am perfectly at home in the woods or on a mountain. I came to work in the oil fields in 2011 and came to west Texas in 2015 and worked most of my time in Lea and Eddy counties in SE New Mexico. I began going to Ruidoso NM in spring of 2016 and found it to be a wonderful, cool, change from the flat lands below. I drive an off road capable vehicle and had camping gear with me and I camped out in the Lincoln national forest when the weather was nice, which was just about all year round other than the dead of winter. I was going to try a new spot up out west of Nogal. This is quite remote which didnt bother me in the slightest, but i found a nice spot and set up camp and cooked and ate and was enjoying the stars. I went to sleep and something woke me up a couple hours before dawn. Cant say what it was, but I got up to answer the call of nature and went back to my sleeping bag and had an uneasy feeling. Woke up as the sky was brightening and that uneasy feeling was growing as I made coffee and looked at a map of the area I was in as I was going to hike around and see what was to be seen that day. The uneasy feeling crept toward dread as i hiked away from my camp and after less than an hour, I was back at my vehicle packing up and I left before 0900. I do not know what was making me feel that way, but there was something there. I have had this kind of feeling before and had very odd things happen when I was in the woods, but this time it was a feeling like something was stalking me. I wont go back up that way, other than to drive through and past Nogal. I am, in fact, going to head up to Ruidoso tomorrow or Saturday for the first time this year, but I'm going to stay in town, this time. There are strange and odd things out there that our .gov knows all about but they wont admit which is why I am ALWAYS armed when I go out into the woods. My personal advice is this: If your 'gut feeling' is anything but at ease with your situation, do NOT pass it off without regard. If your gut feeling is screaming at you to get the hell out of where you are, get out. Many people disappear in national parks and wilderness areas every year and nobody ever figures out what happened to them. Just GONE. BEWARE.

I was outside of Jasper, TX while being a Contractor for FEMA during Hurricaine Rita. I was working with some army corps of engineers emergency services guys, and had a dread feeling all morning, when we heard a terrible scream. Can't explain it. Scream sounded like it was next to us, although we wear in a huge clearing. We could not define which direction the scream came from, just strange. The ACE had a retired US Park Ranger with them. When he heard the sound, he just told everyone to get out of the area, and the area was no longer safe. He was white as a ghost. We all pulled back and met at a Texas Ranger Station about 15 miles south of us. Next day, we were told it was a wondering Mountain Lion and we all had to go back to the DFO in Beaumont, TX. I have heard Mountain Lions.....this wasn't one of them. I still have no words to explain that day.

Years ago there were five of us quail hunting. It was a late autumn weekend and we were all friends in high school. The area, where we were hunting, was desolate with miles and miles of mesquite covered prairie bordered, in places, by hundreds of square miles of sand hills. The area was open range remote land with great hunting. We were in two four-wheel drive vehicles. One had some engine problems. I and another friend took the working vehicle back for help. Our other three friends decided to stay and hunt. When we returned with another friend, with mechanic tools, and a chain for pulling, if necessary, we found the auto as it was. Yet, we could find no one else. The day was cloudy and cold and it was beginning to lightly snow. We looked and looked for our friends. We walked and drove around looking for hours with no one being found. Returning to the downed vehicle we did a closer look around the area and still found nothing. This was the era before cell phones so we had to go back a good many miles and telephone the authorities. We returned to the area with a sheriff’s deputy and continued to look. Then, after a good while of searching, other law enforcement arrived. We were asked a few questions and told to go home. We were questioned by the authorities several times as the next few weeks came and went. It has been a good many years since this happened and our three close friends have never been found. To this day, no one knows what happened.

You are a first rate story-teller, the tales that you tell are converted into pictures in the mind, which mesmerise and terrify, at the same time!

Hey, that was a great story! Good read. Thank you. Im 72, retired Army disabled veteran. I got back to the world from overseas in 1971. I was retired out after being badly hurt overseas. I was 19. I didn't fit back in when I came home. I got a big back pack and started hitchinking. I spent lots & lots of time exploring in national forests & wilderness areas. I often load up on food items and head into the wild for weeks. I saw lots of animals. All types, lving, moving, eating & dying. I saw other people. I never saw anything that was too strange. No big foot, no aliens. I've had close encounters with a bear or 2 and a few with mountain lions. I've had moose & elk encounter. I ran around Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, California. Been to lots of far out places. But no UFOs or dead cows.

Wife and I visited Lincoln in 2012. I was fairly surprised at the old buildings still standing nearly 130 plus years later. The small museum with many Indian artifacts was a good one. Competing Businessmen and hired guns. Walking through the jail gave me the feeling that there is anger and sadness still there. Lincoln seemed such a remote place. From there we drove to some relatives place in Macintosh, just below I-40. Even in broad daylight, that drive seemed to take forever. It’s an empty landscape; desolate.

That's crazy. My dad found mutilated cows that had a perfect circle cut in them on a ranch outside Capitan and another ranch outside of Nogal NM.

I have hiked the crest trail there by Nogal. First night I camped in a field of wild garlic. Tremendous thunder,lightning and rain storm. Hiked towards 3 rivers the next 2 nights. Camped near an old restored cabin and spring and next day hiked down to 3 rivers for my brother to pick me up. Had a steer charge me. Other than that no experiences like described here. Thank God!

I lived in Ruidoso for 6 years, and I still interact a lot with the locals. I still go back to zozo on occasion. I'm not going to repeat what some locals have told me, it's too crazy & too undefined, but there's definitely some strange strange things going on in those mountains. I'd rather take my chances with grizzlies.

Went elk hunting in the mountains above Silver City in the fall of 1986. While out hunting one morning came across some small human type footprints with what looked like a claw or talon coming out of the tips of the toes. Was clearly visible in the wet dirt. Went back to camp and got my hunting buddies and a Polaroid camera and returned to the footprints and took a picture. My buddies and I couldn't believe it. After a week in the mountains we left to go back to Cruces and stopped at the police station in Silver City. Showed them the picture but they just laughed at it. I still have that picture but folks today think it's photoshopped or something. Come on, it's a Polaroid picture, how could you possibly photoshop that? Anyway, it's a crazy picture of something not normal and completely out of place. If you're a hunter then you know that there are things in the mountains that just don't make sense sometimes.

My Husband is a Picuris Pueblo (Tewa) Indian of the tribes known as THE EIGHT NORTHERN PUEBLOS of New Mexico. The Taos and Picuris are of the same gene pool. We have an old handwritten account of some of the Taos Indians throwing many out of there tribe during the 16th century due to witchcraft practices and that group became the Picuris (pron. Pick kur eez). My Husband was born and raised in Colorado Springs as his mother left the reservation during the 1950’s, became a nurse and lived in modern America. My husband visited his numerous family members at the rez during his childhood but is a modern person with no desire to live there even though it is a truly beautiful mountain area of 18,000 acres ( Federal Indian grant land) with about 300 people residing there (about 25 miles from Taos). He has stated numerous times that there is a real wickedness that exists in the area and going outdoors at night is very dangerous.

I live in Ruidoso New Mexico! Lincoln County. Capitan and Lincoln are extremely close to me just a few miles! Very interesting! Thank you! 😁👋🏼💞

I had a similar occurance north of Meeker Colorado in 1981 . I never went back. It haunts me to this day.

What a gruesome and spectacularly mysterious story. There are so many mysteries in our strange world. For a horse lover, her terrified screams were heart-breaking but I also, only just survived my overnight stay in downtown Alburquerque, lol!

The narration is just perfect. The stories are always creepy and ones I’ve never heard before. One of my fave channels

Billy the Kid, I presume. Well I guess Billy thought taking his chances in town was better that the fate that awaited him in those mountains. An interesting account from a historic figure.

There's a place I go shooting on a friend's ranch land near Cerillos, NM. I go back away from the road into a small canyon. It's nice and isolated and protected. There is a rock gap at one end of the canyon. It is wide enough to drive through, but I never drive up it. I don't even walk through it. Something in my gut tells me not to go through there. Been going there for nearly 20 years now, and still don't walk through there. There's a cow trail through it, and nothing shows up on Google Earth. The one strange thing about it is that rock outcropping is granite, when all the other rock around the area is a shale. Just one of those weird things. I respect the woo woo and the woo woo leaves me alone.

Reminds me of the Predator movie where the predator mimics but it seems to be Skinwalker like or shape shifter, but the fact it uses a child's voice describes a very sinister creature that has skills and tools for these horrible attacks. The clean cuts have me thinking of cattle mutilations. We have had our share of them in Alberta, Canada. West of where I live along the Rockies there are things in the forest that I respect deeply. Some of my family were actually Sasquatch enthusiasts and describe all manner of sign from them then Les Stroud and Todd Standing or Standen have gone out that way and shared their experience on YT, it's all pretty crazy but we also make assumptions about what we think we know when we know very little. Thanks and great work. I would rather listen to this stuff than watch movies!

I read a huge biography of Billy and had to write a 30 page paper on him for school, and I’ve never heard this story before! Wow! Thank you!

I love your channel, I've listened to similar ones on YT and all of them are the same. They start out good, but end up sounding more like long winded after school specials by the end. I'm so happy I found yours, bc you actually tell all the story to the point, and don't add stupid flowery details. Thank you!😊

I live on the Mescalero Apache reservation, but am a Chiricahua Apache. I have seen many different cryptoids and had many interactions with them over my 50 years, from little people climbing trees to hide from us, to them running on rooftops, to seeing Bigfoot 3 times in my lifetime. 2 times in the last year, 2023, and having rocks thrown at my mother and I and tree knocks to screams before dawn, I could go on and on about the things your not supposed to see at night...

Yikes, I just spent the weekend in Alto, NM and drove back home through Capitan and Lincoln. Thank god I hadn't watched this until now. Great story.

A Billy the Kid horror story! Fascinating tale, and well done. The man who confessed to killing Pat Garrett had a nephew who owned the property near Roswell, NM that was the center of the 1947 controversy. So if your tale were interpreted to have an extraterrestrial villain, there is an amusing real-life connection to alien conspiracy!

The tale is scary. It was probably not true, but it was entertaining. Thanks for narrating.

About 30 years ago my brother in law and I were looking for a good spot for a deer stand just a little north oh Little Rock Arkansas we were not armed just walking looking for ruts or trails. About 2 minutes after starting out we both heard sounds like footfalls off in the woods on our right side about 25 feet into the woods. We both stopped suddenly and listened and the noise stopped at once too. We shined our flashlights into the woods to try to see better. But we couldn’t see anything. We decided to take 4 more steps and stop again just whispering so whatever was there couldn’t hear. On the fourth step we stopped again listening intently. But whatever was there stopped almost exactly when we did. We got worried as we were pretty far away from civilization and anything could happen and no one would know. We whispered again that after 2 steps we would break into a steady trot and run back to the pickup which was about 2 miles back over the hill. To this day neither of us has been back in that area. We have since found good hunting in an area closer to home

Yikes! There are many strange things that exist in our deserts and forests. I'm so glad I wasn't aware of this when I was young. I never would've left my house! 😱

This has quickly became my absolute FAVE channel by far!!! I stumbled across this channel for the first time about a year ago maybe and ever since, I constantly crave more & more. I’m a horrorstry addict!!🤦🏻‍♀️😂😎. I understand this may come off a tad bit selfish yet I simply can’t help it but I wish the uploads were more frequent like several times each week yet I totally understand why you don’t . I know it’s tough to juggle work, family time, alone time & then narrate in between so thank you for all you do & we do appreciate you and all of your hard work. 💚💪🏼😇🙏🏻

This was one of the Best most interesting stories I have yet to hear on KZfaq. Thanks 😊 so much for passing it on, as it should, was meant to be. Keep up the great 😊 work. Daniel

omg your stories are so amazing!! This one had me glued to every word. Well done Sir👍 Thank you once again and will try to patiently wait for the next. So so worth the wait💯👍 Thank you!!!😊😎👏👏👏👍

Another really great story you are an excellent storyteller. I’ve listened to all of your stories and they just keep getting better. I can’t wait till the next one.

Well worth the wait...thanks for another great story!

Yay, new video! I was waiting for this diligently.....Thanks for all your uploads, they are fantastic.

OMG!! That story scared the daylights out of me!! I get so excited when I see you have posted a story! Hope everyone had a happy and blessed Easter!!

Always a good day when we get a good story! Thank you!

I just found your channel, and I couldn't be happier. It is so fascinating! Please keep the stories coming, just like that thing told Mr. Elderman, "more," I want more of your stories. I humbly tell you that you are darn good and beat most of the other channels out there that present material like yours out there! Keep up the good work! 🥰

There is some weird stuff in the world that we cannot comprehend. Very strange stuff

I was waiting for A new story .this one was amazing I believe all your posted stories really happened.yours is the very best of stores.keep them coming this🌎 sure has strange happenings . Bravo

Terrific, the description had me right there. It is spoken like how Billy the Kid would have talked. He was extremely intelligent.

Your narration is excellent you capture the moment which stimulates the mind to follow the story word by word. You have a new subscriber.

These stories are so entertaining...through your wonderful story telling, I am able to visual the events. Great job!

I’m just delighted to see all the comments to the story. I lived in New Mexico for 19 years and because of my working courts all around the state, I literally got everywhere. Everywhere included most of the reservations in the state (EG, various Apache and Pueblo reservations, Zuni, different Ute reservations, and the Navajo Nation). In fact, my medicine man lived in red cloud, Arizona, and had been a famed silversmith in the 60s and 70s. 15 years of that was in Farmington so everything was very convenient. I’ve had some very rational, very functional professional people who grew up in those areas tell me some pretty hair-raising stories; especially the Navajo. They were sober and they weren’t trying to freak me out. They were very matter-of-fact about it. Frankly, I believe them.

I couldn’t finish it once I heard about the screaming horse. My nerves can’t take it.

I am a relative of Pat Garrett, my great grandfather and Pat were first cousins in Claiborne, Parish Louisiana and my grandfather and Pats younger brother Alfred were close. My grandfather was a young Deputy Sheriff in Claiborne and Alfred Jarvis Garrett was a old man but were very close.

Been waiting for your story. Happy Easter.

This is the first time I've ever heard this story. I hrew up in Tularosa NM at the bottom of the mountain from Mescalero, Ruidoso. I knew there had to be something on that mountain. Always eerie up there at night. I spent many weekends on the rez in Mescalero and nobody went anywhere after dark. I remember that.

I'm a history nut, and when he said his name was William and later mentioned Lincoln County, my brain pointed directly at William Bonnie, or Billy the Kid. You must remember their short lives were spent in survival mode and never had a good upbringing like kids have today.... I want to believe in "Brushy Bill Roberts" and how he wasn't shot by Pat Garrett.

What a great story. It makes my day when I get the notification ring. Keep up the great work. Happy Easter

Can you imagine Billy the Kid thinking this was the most afraid he had ever been. He constantly lived in fear of death by hanging or being shot. Great story for a scary movie.

I’ve loved seeing your channel grow. I was one of your first subscribers ❤

I am thankful for the great story. For the first time comments section feels like a group of friends sharing their stories, its nice of all of who shared their experiences and strange encounters. Looking forward to such conversations further.

Woot Woot, Almost 100k!!! Well done my dude!!

I love your work... I only wish there was more of it. Best wishes from Ruth x

Never heard of this story. Enjoyed very much. Thank you

Billy the Kid crapping in his pants, at this cryptid, while on the lam, is a good premise!

Was happy to see another story! Happy Easter 🐰.

Great story, all of my favorite elements. Thank you.

Love it!!! I always wait patiently for your stories ( not an easy feat )! 😂 The fact this one is an account by William Bonney makes it all the more fascinating!! 👏👏

Omg, my son is driving through New Mexico at this very moment!! He said he might sleep in his car tonight!! I texted him this video and told him to listen to it right now!! Yeeeeeeeks!!!!!!! (And, tonight I am going to binge-watch all of your other videos!! Thank you!!)

Yay!! I get so happy when I see a new post! Thank you!!

There is the Skinwalker Ranch,and other places in the West that have had Cattle Mutilations,and the same circular holes,are a trademark,of that phenomena! There have been several books put on the subject,and Linda Moulton Howe,is one main reporter on the ongoing knowledge gained! Hopefully,this is useful information,and I didn't know data,went that far in the past! As a side note,Billie the Kid,was out of Brooklyn,New York,and was another transplant from the East! And Wyatt Earp,wound up working for an Eastern newspaper! Ah,history! Thank you 😇 😊!

And the horse was never spooked?

Awesome… I felt chills running down my legs w this story…always a great story right before sleep

I'm so stupidly gullible. Is this for real? I absolutely loved this. Thanks!

I love listening to your stories!!! I think you're voice is mesmerizing and it's perfect for story time.

DAMN! THAT IS ONE HELL OF A STORY!

Where did you get this story from? Never heard it and it shows up nowhere, that I can find in Billy archives or books. One, I lived in Alamogordo, NM for years and was obsessed with Billy the kid...been to all the Billy locations and have several books on him, and have absolutely never heard the story... Second, your date of July 22, 1879 in or near the Capitan mountains would be impossible. Billy was in Las Vegas, NM during that time, 145 miles away. Bily had dinner at the Adobe Hotel outside Las Vegas, with Dr. Henery Hoyt, on July 26, 1879. No way he made that distance in 4 days. He would have to go over the Capitans, or go around them West and THEN take the old trails North 145 miles.

Brilliant storytelling, I'm with Billy, I don't want to sleep tonight either! True or not, I could picture every word!🤠

im so glad to see you make more content

Another great story. I've watched all of your videos and look forward to seeing what you are doing next.

More western horror stories please!

Cool billy the kid story.

Happy Easter, Bro! You are dearly missed!

WOW! Quite a tale!! Another first class story!

This is fantastic! Thank you for this story! I may not sleep too well tonight, but it was worth it!

I really love this channel I would like to have so much more from you you're the best I always enjoy listening to your Channel please make more so I can enjoy them more often

Your storie's are first class..and the narration is too..many thank's bro. ✌🏻🍻

Been waiting for your story

I used to know a guy whose neighbor's cousin once took a taxi with a guy whose teacher's aunt gave piano lessons to a girl whose dad once knew a guy whose grandfather served Billy a beer in a bar. We're pretty sure it was him, we think...

Thanks for another great story!

I call Bull. I’ve been hunting the Capitan Mountains for 49 years now. I’ve spent weeks at a time in those mountains both the North side and South side, camping and hunting. I would love to get the location of where this took place.

Just discovered the channel-and subscribed!👍🏼

Awesome video. Thanks! This one was quite chilling.

I can find this account nowhere else on the internet. Did you just invent this whole thing? I mean, really?

Love your stories, you make them come alive.

Awesome as always! Love your channel ❤

You're always safer alone in the woods than you wil ever be in town. 51 years a forester. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois , Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, California and Oregon. No spooks out there. The tormentors Billy the Kid had were in his mind, for good reason I might add.

❤❤ love your voice makes the stories even better xx

Good story, scary! Thank you. I will be checking out more of your content.

Love your work, the content is spellbinding. Thank you

My family came from this area and lived there for over a hundred years! Never heard this story! However, our family is, has serious gun culture, all family get togethers, had shooting practice! Mostly liberal Democrats, with college education!

I love all your stories!!! They are gripping and keep you on the edge of your seat!!!!

I love your stories and who is in them I hope you had a wonderful Easter everyone and god bless

Horrifying story 😱 . I must say you're very talented and telling stories . Thank you , I can wait for the next one, have a good week!

Just another tale that can't be proved

Excellent story! And well-told too!

Wow that's awesome. Great story. Thank you.

Always seems like forever to get new video. Worth the wait. But that poor horse😢

Gotta wonder about the use of the word 'scabbard', instead of "I grabbed my rifle", and why a guy in an 1879 small town needs to describe to the sheriff how big elk are. Things that make you go hmm...

Wow. Don’t go into the woods - ever., you don’t know what’s lurking