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Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

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Katie Finishes the Appalachian Trail After a Ghost Encounter

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 Sports

Despite being driven from her shelter by invisible footsteps and paranormal activity, Katie refused to quit the Appalachian Trail. She completed the entire 2,083.5-mile trail in 30 days, listening to Morbid podcast for significant portions of the journey. She hiked through the Smoky Mountains and says she learned more about herself in those 30 days than in 22 years of life.

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Tale 5 — How Ghosts Turned My Appalachian Trail Hike Into a Sprint

At 1:26:55 · chapter starts 1:17:00

Katie describes the scariest night of her life: 20 days into a solo hike of the Appalachian Trail in the off-season, alone in a large rectangular shelter, she begins hearing heavy footsteps approaching from multiple directions that stop before anyone appears.^{[1]

— Alaina Urquhart

"Twenty days into her solo Appalachian Trail hike, listener Katie heard heavy footsteps approaching her shelter from multiple directions — b…"

1:18:30} She presses her face against the hammock's bug net to see outside, but sees no one. The sound of what she can only describe as a baseball bat being dragged along the wooden siding of the shelter sends her into tears. She steps outside with bear spray raised and calls out — finding nobody. She texts her father her location in case something happens, calls multiple hostels in a panic, and eventually reaches a resort that sends a maintenance man to collect her at a road. In the truck, the driver calmly tells her the trail runs through Native lands and she had encountered angry spirits. Back at the resort, she discovers a protection crystal given to her by a friend has broken — her witchy friends later tell her it absorbed too much negative energy. Despite nearly ending her trip, Katie returns to the trail and completes all 2,083.5 miles in 30 days, hiking through the Smoky Mountains and listening to Morbid podcast throughout.

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Ghost on the Appalachian Trail: Invisible Footsteps at the Shelter

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026 History

Twenty days into her solo Appalachian Trail hike, listener Katie heard heavy footsteps approaching her shelter from multiple directions — but when she stepped outside with bear spray raised, nobody was there. She called a hostel sobbing, was picked up by a maintenance driver who calmly explained that the trail runs through Native lands with known angry spirits, and discovered her protection crystal had shattered. She went back and finished the trail anyway.

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Ghost encounter 20 days into solo AT hike

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026

Katie was 20 days and alone on the Appalachian Trail when invisible footsteps circled her shelter, a baseball-bat dragging sound ran along the walls, and no one was visible when she went outside.

I knew right then and there that what I was dealing with wasn't human.

Alaina Urquhart

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

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Katie hiked 2,083.5 miles in 30 days

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026

After encountering invisible footsteps and ghostly phenomena on the Appalachian Trail, listener Katie refused to quit and completed the entire trail — 2,083.5 miles — in 30 days.

I continued to hike for the rest of the month and finished proudly after having hiked 2,083.5 miles in 30 fucking days.

Alaina Urquhart

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales

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Maintenance driver confirmed trail runs through Native lands

Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales · Jun 25, 2026

The resort maintenance man who rescued Katie from the Appalachian Trail shelter explained that the trail runs through Native lands and that angry spirits are a known phenomenon in the area.

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