The Parallel Forest - The Government Experiment in Oklahoma!

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The Parallel Forest - The Government Experiment in Oklahoma!

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Watch as Brylan and Chad take an adventure together to visit the Parallel Forest in Oklahoma. This dust bowl experiment has a checkered past and is rumored to hide numerous caves and old silver mines.

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@Runnin2Live Ай бұрын

There is absolutely nothing creepy or weird about the Parallel Forrest 😂

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

Idk I thought the absolutely lack of insect sounds inside the forest was pretty weird! Everywhere else, they be loud af.

@PatrickKnowles2024 11 күн бұрын

@@ghostgeeksyou gotta realize nature is weird and not something that can be predicted 100%, just bc you don't hear something doesn't make this some kind of government conspiracy. You're sounding kinda out there bud

@mysteriousoklahoma777 5 күн бұрын

I remember reading on forums back in the early 2000’s… that there was a sacrificial alter in the area…people had seen dried blood and hair. I can’t vouch for this account…but it was posted

@Runnin2Live 5 күн бұрын

@@mysteriousoklahoma777 just rumors

@gillythakid2000 23 күн бұрын

Some of those larger tracks that are kind of split are more than likely wild boar. Would explain the strong oder you smelt walking through.

@JonSmith-xh2jf 14 күн бұрын

I had to leave a massive dump in there because of you guessed it- no public restrooms. So watch out.

@ghostgeeks 12 күн бұрын

We came a across a spider as big as my hand...ain't no way I'd ever get my ass that close to the ground where that SOB could bite it lol

@unluckycharms9017 Ай бұрын

I’m an outdoors man, okie, and been a hunting guide about an hour from where you’re at. The first tracks definitely looked like just a full-size buck track to me. Could be an elk kid, but the second one, definitely elk. Not even a really big one, they get to about 700-750 in the witchitas. Buffalo tracks are gonna look more like a cow track but obviously bigger if it’s an adult. Also, no wolves in Oklahoma, I’d guess German Shepard lol.

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

There’s actually a rare wolf species (red wolves) that still run through here all the way to the Ouachita mountains and into Arkansas. Again super rare and they are trying to get the population to grow. Thank you for the info!

@unluckycharms9017 Ай бұрын

@@ghostgeeks I have hope that red wolves are still around but there’s never been evidence found anywhere in Oklahoma for quite a while. And Arkansas as well. Hoping Forrest Galante takes a look see at some point but I’ve never seen any evidence and I’ve been all over the state my whole life.

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

@@unluckycharms9017 I actually just read an article about a group that’s been running through broken bow. Spotted like 3 month ago. A group from OSU is trying to get one tagged so they can keep tabs on them.

@unluckycharms9017 Ай бұрын

Also, I don’t mean any of this to sound like it’s impossible. New animals are found all the time and “extinct” species have been discovered 100 year after they were declared distinct. Also, genuinely if you ever have suspicious tracks that don’t look right, your more than welcome to send them to me if you would. I don’t claim to be as good as a the Cherokee were a 120 years ago, but I’ve spent my whole life learning as much as a can about tracking. And have seen in person or tracked many animals that are very rarely seen here. And HOLY SHIT, can’t believe I hadn’t seen that!!

@sparkytp01 Ай бұрын

Or maybe a coyote? Which i know we have here….

@johnnyebelindabewley4536 Ай бұрын

All that I have seen there we re coyote, elk, deer, Buffalo, as well as seeing a build of bent over limbs that were tangled from a tornado that went thru there. That was in 2004. My husband's great grandfather and uncles help the army cor of engineers to build it as a wind break and was also to be a place native Americans could cleanse their mind to commune qith the great spirit.

@Nova_Avalon 20 күн бұрын

I dare you guys to go back when its dark! 😄

@ghostgeeks 20 күн бұрын

@@Nova_Avalon seeing how it’s illegal and the federal parks agents patrol the place really hard, I’d suggest not doing it…I mean unless you like $1000 fines.

@thomascopass4995 29 күн бұрын

Perfect example of over stimulated imagination in my humble opinion. But entertaining

@butchtruman9558 Ай бұрын

The tracks you're seeing are Buffalo.

@holliday0191 22 күн бұрын

My daughter seen 2 black wolf pups N.of Oklahoma City near the Cimarron river. Some are saying the wolves are small here when you go far north they are big.

@rubberknees 21 күн бұрын

Saw, not seen.

@holliday0191 20 күн бұрын

@@rubberknees Move on, you got the message.

@rubberknees 19 күн бұрын

@@holliday0191 pull your head out, you are an adult, try speaking like one.

@holliday0191 12 күн бұрын

@@rubberknees .Since your so worried know it all go solve the world's problems.

@rubberknees 12 күн бұрын

@@holliday0191 " You're" not your. There, I fixed it.😉

@KimCrisp92 23 күн бұрын

Native American people use to bend the trees to mark locations

@oneofhis1979 19 күн бұрын

OMG! The parallel forest is not cultivated. The refuge is a pristine natural environment as much as it can be, (not perfectly, but with as little intervention as possible). The whole Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is. It is meant to be as natural an environment as it can be for the animals and insects that make it their home.

@ghostgeeks 14 күн бұрын

@@oneofhis1979 the parallel forest section of the area was intentionally planted as an experiment in combating the dust bowl conditions in the mid 1920’s. It’s highly documented and there are a number of papers written on the experiment. So, yes the parallel forest, while not planted for any type of harvesting, was cultivated for a purpose.

@MrOkrick 12 күн бұрын

For somebody that talks as if they know things, your knowledge is kinda thin to say the least. Those are NOT red cedar trees. Those are deciduous trees..(trees with leaves" Red cedar are coniferous trees which are (trees that produce CONES and most with needles instead of leavse) The trees that you called red cedar were deciduous because they produced leaves, not cones and needles. Additionally, those are REGULAR SIZED ANIMAL TRACKS. The reason the tracks appear to look BIG is because of something that YOU said, it rained in the "woods" that you were walking in. When animals walk in wet dirt or (better known in the science world known as "MUD") their paw will sink in this mysterious material, "MUD" and will push out the "MUD" on all sides as the paw sinks deeper making the track look larger. I have spent A LOT OF TIME in the "woods" throughout my life, I have hunted, cut down trees for lumber or firewood or just spent time in the "woods" there is NOTHING paranormal or ODD about this. I did hear a couple of the noises that you brought attention to. But really, who knows what those noises were. The only really odd thing was the lack of animal or insect sounds or even the presence of animals while you guys were in the interior of the "woods". In Oklahoma, these large areas of trees are known as "woods" not forest. And one last thing...PLEASE STOP SUCKING YOUR SNOT OR SUCKING YOUR NOSE AND SWALLOWING YOUR SNOT WHEN YOU MAKE VIDEOS. It's a huge turn off and it's disgusting. You did it several times throughout this video. Just saying.

@ghostgeeks 12 күн бұрын

www.atlasobscura.com/places/parallel-forest here you go. They are Red Cedar trees, there are some oak trees and mesquite trees growing inside now but the initial plantings were red cedar. Also if you watch the video closely, a large portion of the tree you see are conifers (until we get outside of the 16 acres site). The science world doesn't use the word "mud". Waterlogged soil would be the appropriate term...though loamy soil types are the best for leaving tracks. Also, it should be noted that tracks don't get magically bigger when the soil is wet. What you are referring to is called haloing. it's when the print is pressed with the weight of the animal and expands the soil then retracts when the animal steps away. This action causes a ring around tracks that give the appearance the track is larger than it is...the size of the actual impression can be used to accurately determine a number of physical attributes of the animal that left them. I call it the Parallel FOREST because that is what it's called...so you know just being accurate with the information. As far as the sniffling, couldn't help it at the time, I had a medical issue that had to be fixed with surgery. Thanks for watching.

@PatrickKnowles2024 11 күн бұрын

@@ghostgeekswaterlogged soil my ass. You're a fool dude stop trying

@PatrickKnowles2024 11 күн бұрын

@@ghostgeeksI promise you if a large animal steps in meds while walking it's gonna push their prints out bigger. The damn soil will not f-ing contract

@StoreBoughtTeeth 11 күн бұрын

Wild hogs...yes, we have cougars in OK. I saw one in the mountains...

@SnafuFourTwo 9 ай бұрын

Were you able to find any documents or reports about the Parallel Forest? I’ve searched for maybe an hour and all articles I find only learn their info by word of mouth and seemingly none of them have actual sources from where they learned the info. I’m really curious in finding the original plans or at least documents by the government about the forest itself.

@ghostgeeks 9 ай бұрын

Yes there’s documentation, you just have to go the the national archives to get it. However, that documentation only deals with the purchase, the theories into how planting this Forrest could help prevent dust bowl conditions etc. there is a very old doc the mentions Spanish mining operations in the late 1600’s. But other than that I haven’t found anything concrete on anything else.

@wandeezy7919 10 ай бұрын

I think this shows we need another investigation of this Forrest. Something wasn’t right and I feel we still have some unresolved questions.

@ghostgeeks 4 ай бұрын

I think we are going back right after Oklahoma State University let’s out for summer!

@ruffheidi7574 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure at the point where you discussed how heavy the air felt in the distance a large dark object moved. I'm not sure if you looked back on the video. You captured it just before the comment panned around only to return to the same point when the comment was made. There was a pause movement then camera back on you. Off to the left miscreants. Not sure if it was shadowing and body adjustment or something more. I'm going to see if I can caprure a couple screen shots of what I observed while watching the video. Don't go back without another camera capturing the distant surroundings. You'll come back with some creepy footage.

@michaelallen3172 23 күн бұрын

@@wandeezy7919 They are OSU forestry extension test plots , they are scattered all over the Eastern half of the state .

@wandeezy7919 23 күн бұрын

@@michaelallen3172 this particular Forrest was created by the federal government, not state, to help combat the dust bowl. I’m from eastern Oklahoma and haven’t heard of any other installment like this. Can you please provide these other installments? I’m curious as for this Forrest is west Oklahoma and was abandoned due to the lack of effect it had.

@sparkytp01 Ай бұрын

The bent over twisted trees? You do know your in tornado country right? I live about 50 miles feom this place. Not an Ok native im from Minnesota. Up there you will see this all over. After the trees are harvested for lumber or pulp they replant the trees. Yup it gets confusing when they all look the same in rows. This is why you don’t go out in the woods without a compass

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

@@sparkytp01 so 1 tree inside a massive group of trees….that’s awfully specific damage for a tornado….plus there’s no records from NOAA showing a tornado track has ever gone through this area.

@sparkytp01 Ай бұрын

@@ghostgeeks it was a taller weaker tree. Have you ever seen when a tornado hits a house and the neighbors houses right next door are untouched? Not all tornados are monsters. Some will stretch out little vortexes that will barely touch anything or miss everything. Not all tornadoes are seen or get reported.

@sparkytp01 Ай бұрын

@@ghostgeeks this is OKLAHOMA i dont think there is anyplace in this state that hasnt seen a tornado at some point

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

Yup I lived in Oklahoma most of my life. I’ve seen weird stuff and been in a few tornadoes. The tree wasn’t any taller than the rest. It was more likely rot from insect infestation and the tree slumped and fell.

@michaelallen3172 23 күн бұрын

@@sparkytp01 Weyerhaeuser has over 300,000 acres of trees in our county that are planted 8 feet apart , I know because I planted several thousand of em .

@laurabarfield1152 Ай бұрын

Very hard to hear. You need a microphone 🎤 What's your point?

@randysanders5560 15 күн бұрын

I currently live a few miles East of there. My first visit there was in high school, 1971. Lol. The trees were about 15 ft tall then. Ive never heard stories of any type about it. But cool video

@ghostgeeks 14 күн бұрын

@@randysanders5560 that’s another weird thing about this experiment….you’d think if they were testing out ways to combat the dust bowl conditions they would have tried to use faster growing trees vs the Red Cedars that grow super slow!!!

@randysanders5560 13 күн бұрын

@@ghostgeeks yeah, that didn’t make sense either. The dustbowl ended in what, the 30s? I thought this forest was planted much later. Like the late 50s or early 60s.

@ghostgeeks 13 күн бұрын

@@randysanders5560 planted in 1912 also referred to in docs as the cedar plantation.

@randysanders5560 13 күн бұрын

@@ghostgeeks oh, ok. They just weren’t very tall in early 70s. But maybe they grow slowly. Thanks.

@johnfarrell-w1j Ай бұрын

Its an old cedar tree farm.

@ghostgeeks Ай бұрын

@@johnfarrell-w1j there’s way to much documentation regarding its purpose as an experiment in soil erosion control and wind breaking planted by the United States Department of Agriculture to simply say it’s an old cedar tree farm. The other thing is, no one has ever removed trees from the forest and it’s illegal to do so since the land is part of a national forest.

@lindaoakes6218 18 күн бұрын

Elk?! In Oklahoma?

@ghostgeeks 18 күн бұрын

@@lindaoakes6218 yup there are lots of them actually. But it’s still more majestic when you come across the buffalo herds.

@StoreBoughtTeeth 11 күн бұрын

Yes...we have elk in the mountains of the refuge.

@KimCrisp92 23 күн бұрын

Voodoo has to do with chicken bones

@michaelallen3172 23 күн бұрын

@@KimCrisp92 The chicken bones are turkey , bobcats and Coyote's are skilled turkey killers .

@KimCrisp92 23 күн бұрын

This could have been a witch coven or portal

@PatrickKnowles2024 11 күн бұрын

If you could easily get lost in there you have no business in the woods. Also if you think that's thick and dense then you haven't spent much time in the woods, especially Oklahoma forests. I live in northeast Oklahoma and what I consider "thick" is not being able to see 20 feet in any direction because of thorns and trees and vines and river cane all entangled together crawling under and over every single step. The woods you're in would be considered new-growth, open park-like forest. That's easy woods to hike and navigate

@PatrickKnowles2024 11 күн бұрын

Boy you probably walk outside at night, hear nothing, and instantly pull the camera out claiming some kind of conspiracy