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Last week, I told you I found two interviews in the Milbrook Historical Society. Both were conducted by a reporter named Jacob Springer and Both were with men who had worked for the Blackwood Logging Company. The first was Walter Harlan. The second… was Tomas Bell.

Today we walk through Tom’s story, built from reporter Jacob Springer’s original interview notes. You’ll hear why Tom volunteers for the winter crew, the specific rules foreman Frank Mercer lays down about the forest, and how the Blackwood slowly changes from “cold and quiet” to “quiet in the wrong way.” Then it escalates: an unseen force drags a man from his tent after he answers to his name, voices imitate mothers and dead brothers, and Tom’s own wife calls him from the trees with a fear he cannot ignore. When boot prints appear around camp that match the tread of the crew’s boots, the line between folklore and evidence disappears.

The mystery only deepens when radios fail, compasses disagree, their stored water turns oily overnight, and the crew breaks the one rule they were warned about: do not drink from the creek. What follows feels like contamination, hallucination, and something else entirely. A radio call finally goes through and headquarters insists a search team already reached Site 27 and found nothing there, no camp and no men. When rescuers arrive, they claim the survivors are miles from where they think they are.

If you’re into paranormal podcasts, supernatural mystery, wilderness horror, and investigative storytelling, this chapter of The Millbrook Files pushes all of it to the edge. Subscribe so you do not miss what we uncover next, share the episode with a friend who loves eerie true-style investigations, and leave a review with your theory on what happened at Site 27.