Mark Twain National Forest

The best hikes are the ones with few other humans around. If you share that sentiment, whatever you do don't tell anyone about a secret Missouri place in the middle of the Mark Twain National Forest which offers 16 miles of trails to hike.

If you're a farmer in Missouri, you know there are a many ways that cattle can be attacked by predators. However, there has to be something huge lurking on a Missouri farmer's land due to the sheer number and method that his cattle and deer are being mutilated.

When I daydream, I don't even imagine places as nice as this one. It's a Missouri fire tower that's hidden deep in the woods of the Mark Twain National Forest and includes a telescope to stargaze with and a natural rock hot tub. Yes, please.

If you're a farmer and/or rancher in Missouri, having your cattle attacked by a predator is a part of life. However, there's a new share of a story from a Missouri farmer who claims that his sheep were attacked by a creature that towered 7 feet above him.

A war has been raging in Missouri that you likely knew nothing about. The enemy that the state has in its sights is quite literally thousands of invasive feral hogs who are destroying the land and some of the species that are endangered and native to the state.

Bears are curious creatures. One Missouri man learned that the hard way as he's shared video of a black bear he encountered in the Mark Twain National Forest. Spoiler Alert: it did not run away.

I've heard similar stories to this, but this one is new. A Missouri woman claims that she heard 'something' call her name from the woods, but when she investigated, no one was there...at least nothing she could see.

If you'd like to potentially see Bigfoot/Mo-Mo/Sasquatch or whatever name you'd like to give this legendary creature, there's an area in southeast Missouri you should know about. One eyewitness claims that the woods there are so "loaded with Bigfoot", he calls it Monkey Mountain.

It's easy to dismiss one person who claims to have witnessed something strange in the woods. However, it's more difficult in my opinion to ignore an entire Missouri neighborhood that claims it saw a beast with red eyes peering out of the woods.

The Mark Twain National Forest is one of the wildest wildernesses in America. Miles and miles of trees and wildlife. If new stories are to be believed, there is also something else roaming these Missouri woods. Strange beasts that many describe as "hellhounds" are now a part of numerous stories of encounters there.