The Horrifying Legends of Hoia Baciu | The Worlds Most Haunted Forest

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I had a Romanian born pothead as a college roommate.I called him "Vlad The Inhaler" and the name stuck.He's now a pediatrician.

Never have I ever thought somebody outside of Europe would cover our forest and its stories so incredibly good. The naration is also top notch. Have been watching ya for a few months now, and gotta say, this was a pleasant surprise. Greetings from Romania.

Every time I go into Hoia Baciu forest I feel like a guest whose host is unsure if it wants me there or not. Sometimes it's nice, sometimes it's not, but the unsettling feeling never goes away.

Listening to this at night, as you began describing the old woman I heard a knocking on the conservatory door. I jumped out of my skin looking towards the sound and saw nothing. Got up to grab a torch and look out in to the darkness and knock knock knock again. Terrified I looked towards the sound and there was a Seagull flapping around on the decking !

I think we should have a Tape Library field trip to Transylvania and visit this forest. It's crazy to think that a forest can be so peaceful and horrifying at the same time. Here is one more reason to avoid the woods if possible. Lol. You put together another awesome video, I have been thinking about last weeks episode a bit also. It always brings happiness into the day with new Tape Library or Night Drive videos.

I’m so glad you decided to do this full time. You are the only one I’ve found that I like the content and you are also the only channel I can fall asleep to.

Hello TTL, phenomenal video. I live in Cluj and have been in Hoia-Baciu more than a hundred times since 2008. It’s funny how close to the growing city this forest is and is by no means dense or outwardly objectively foreboding yet I can confirm nearly all phenomena you highlighted here. I’ve camped and hiked my whole life and have experienced many harrowing supernatural things in the wilds but no other place comes close to this forest for me. Now 95% of time, it’s a quaint little wood right next to the city, filled with hickers, visitors, families and their pets and the cityscape sounds very familiar close by. Yet it’s those 5% that the High Strangeness goes from 0 to 1000 in an instant. To keep it short, I experienced ufo sightings, Sasquatch and Wilderness Poltergeist phenomenon, shadow people, phantom dogs apparitions, getting eerily lost numerous times, orbs floating through trees, flashes of light in the woods at night, growls, disembodied voices, screams of horses right next to me that weren’t there, batteries draining instantly, technical glitches and the worst fits of nausea and headaches I’ve ever had including radiation burns. My top 3 most unnerving experiences to me are the footsteps - compared to the others this sounds tame, but I cannot describe the terror when they appear and how they play with you. 2nd is flutes playing at night - it feels like daggers to the spine when you hear it. But by far thr worst is my only Missing Time experience, where I lost ten+ hours and my memory is just blacked out, it feels strangely violating. Much too much to write here but grateful nonetheless for the opportunity and I greatly appreciate how you used actual footage of the woods and not the silly footage that is so prevelant online, how you brought up Sift, Patrut ( who was my uni Chemistry teacher lol ) and even the neolithic settlement. Some last thoughts: the phenomena moves around the place, never staying still, so sometime the Clearing is chill while another place is ‘hot’ and viceversa. It’s never consistent. Locals that have grown up in the rural area around the woods, flatout refuse to go there and I now agree with them. Also I never go there unless invited by others, as a sort of guide and I never go without offering gifts of bread and drink to the Spirits. Yes, the trees are utterly eerie - some burned, some sick, twisted, horizontal sorry things. And yeah, this is basically the Transylvanian Skinwalker Ranch, even though it is absurdly close to a large, half a million city. Careful y’all out there, treat the Unknown with respect and decorum and it usually does the same in return. Thank you again, TTL and to anyone who had the patience to read.

Yes! I'm from the west part of Romania and have always been fascinated with this forest and would love to visit one day. Thank you for covering it !

So glad someone FINALLY mentioned the crazy episode of Destination Truth with incredible evidence.

Beyond excited for another TL. The consistent content is practically unmatched.

I believe the clearing is a Fairy Circle. Those who walk thru the forest are stepping on a Stray Sod - a fairy that lives in the grass and when you trod on it off you go - literally with the fairies. The way to find your way back is to turn your jacket or shirt inside out. Sometimes when people claim they have seen aliens upon viewing their drawings, the aliens look like fairies. I really enjoyed this episode.

This documentary program about Hoia Baclu is extraordinarily in that so much evidence is available to look-up. You did a lot if detailed research into this strange place. So many tragedies have happened in Romania it's surprising the entire county is not haunted. Thank you so much for this fantastic opportunity to hear and see what you discovered. ❤❤❤

You know this is the only time I am actually watching a TL episode while actually drinking a hot drink, Tea. I'm excited to get into it.

Lol. Watching this video at 23:49 from my apartament in Cluj Napoca, Romania. The Hoia forest is like 3 miles away from where i live.

I used to live in Cluj, and been to Hoia lots of times. I have two stories. The first comes from my judo coach. He was mushroom hunting, when he saw a bell shaped light, then he felt like his eyelids where being torn off (or something similar, I can’t remember exactly, then all of a sudden he was flying above an unknown landscape, seeing a large mountain. The second is my brother’s experience. My mother, little brother and I where on a forest road, when I head my brother screaming behind me. I turn around and he’s hysterical (he was about 8-10 yo). He told us that he turned around for some reason, and a cloaked figure in monk robes stood behind him, monstrous face, with a large knife in his hand. I know they weren’t lying, something absolutely happened, but, to be honest, they seem more like hallucinations to me, but who knows.

OK but this was absolutely amazing. You're getting better every time, even though it seems you're already at your best. The quality of your videos greatly surpass the crap they offer on paying platforms. Thank you so much!

I absolutely ❤❤❤ The tape library. I'm so glad I found you, and you deserve all the recognition you have received. You have an amazing channel.

Awesome! I personally requested an episode here on Hoia Baciu just a few months ago and here it is. Well done as always.

Your channel is so so so good. I love that you speak as you are, modified slightly of course for pertinence and nuance in the delivery, but not too fast, not too slow. Its never about you, its about the art, it's about the visuals, the sounds. You paint a picture with your videos, it's an art ❤