Day Z Urban Legends

[Yeung-Jin 28]

The name was just a quick idea. Call it Myth-Hunters or whatever :D

Or perhaps even "Ghost-Busters"

[YourStepDad 6]

It was a few days ago, in some barn, I have killed a zombie with a hatchet, I saw the whole dying animation.

I picked up all the supplies that were there, and as I faced the zombie again on my way out...he faced me too. He was just looking at me. I came a little closer and he kept staring. I have then axed him again and this time he died for good...I think :P

An infected that managed to regain some of his humanity? :lol:

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

My friend told me about a bus stop in the middle of a forest. Some say it's haunted :o

I found A bustop in the woods near Rog Pur. No ghosts though. If I go there again I'll put a screenie up.

[DemonGroover 8836]

I found A bustop in the woods near Rog Pur. No ghosts though. If I go there again I'll put a screenie up.

You needed to wait for the bus and see what happens

[Yeung-Jin 28]

I've never seen a bus stop, but I can guarantee there is a sidewalk in the middle of the forest around 040120.

[bassist05 69]

I found A bustop in the woods near Rog Pur. No ghosts though. If I go there again I'll put a screenie up.

Where is Rog Pur?

[gilatar 0]

When I first started playing DayZ, I spawned by a lighthouse. After searching through it and trying to find my friend somewhere around Chernogorsk, I wandered around some docks in the middle of the night. Trying to find and gather whatever supplies were there, I decided to get some flares out and I lit up the area a bit.

Now, I knew my friend was close, and we were sure that we had seen eachother atleast once earlier that night. I had no idea bandits existed back then, and when a player stepped out of the dark and aimed his M9 at me I quickly tried to talk to him in the chat. He just stood there for about a minute, and I thought he was typing back to me, and so I waited.

A couple of minutes later, I got tired of him and I moved away from the flare and disappeared somewhere behind him. I moved up to some trees and decided to watch the guy when a couple of zombies approached him. I was thinking I could loot his body if he got attacked, but before I could even consider doing so, I heard shots. Loud bangs, probably from a shotgun or a hunting rifle somewhere inside of Cherno.

I had a look behind me, just for a brief second. Nothing. Turned around again. Nothing. The flare was gone. The other survivor; gone. The zombies? Gone. 3 seconds later I was dead on the ground, shot to death by what seemed to be three bandits running all over me. That was my first time playing DayZ, and I will never be as scared as when I heard those first shots.

(May not be much of a Urban Legend, but it surely scared the living shit out of me. Enough to make me leave DayZ for a couple of weeks)

Edited July 14, 2012 by Gilatar

[aoshi 32]

there are people sayng, there is ents, and Whomping Willow on dayz

[skoomer 12]

So somebody want to check out the Bus Station, Green Mountain or other scary places on a night time server with me? I really want to do this but I definitely dont want to do this alone. I would shit bricks if something scary happens while Im alone in the dark :D

We can meet in teamspeak. My english isn't perfect but I think its good enough to communicate without problems.

Edited July 14, 2012 by Skoomer

[Katana67 2907]

The other night, I logged in along the broken concrete wall of the NWAF. I heard a pretty sustained firefight going on across the tarmac so I decided to head West on my usual route through Lopatino, south through the woods to a farmhouse at Myshkino where I spent a night once when I had just started out.

For old time's sake...

Fortuitously, I found a pair of tents across the field outside of the NWAF. One had a Coyote Pack, NVG, GPS, AS50, and a few other goodies inside. I left the AS50 and swapped my M4A1 for a M4 CCO SD that I found in the other tent. So, now I made my way off on my journey much more equipped than normal. I was pretty confident and was trying out my flashy new NVG's in the darkness.

I made my way west to Lopatino, heard some of the church bells ringing, which didn't really sit right with me for some reason. But, I never actually enter Lopatino on my usual route so I keep heading West until I hit the large band of forest. I proceed to the forest without incident, and take the big left turn south toward Myshkino. North of Myshkino and Pustoshka, there's a house in the middle of a -wide- open field, which normally has a hatchback nestled underneath the awning there. Which I often stop to eyeball briefly, just to see if people have been repairing it.

I whip out my binoculars, turn my NVG's off and have a look at the hatchback. It is not there.

"Okay", I thought, "Somebody's been busy and has repaired the thing".

I glass the area around the house, there's a few shambling zombies there... no big deal, I didn't plan on killing any of them seeing as they weren't in my way. So I stow my binoculars away and make ready to head further south. Just before I was about to head out, I see a bright green flash cut through the darkness at the house that I was just looking at. It reminded me of a green chemlight, but it seemed just a bit brighter.

I pulled out my binoculars again, thinking that maybe there was still someone in the area. I glassed the house again, the zombies are gone, and there are little cuts in the grass that could potentially be the dead zombies... But as I was trying to get a better view, I did catch another brief flash of distinct green light in my peripheral vision, on the opposite end of the house. I jolted my binoculars over to catch it fully, but it died down as I brought it into focus. I stood there for a few minutes, to see if I could catch the glimmer again but it did not come.

"Zombies must have despawned, and it was a bug", I thought as I collected myself and headed south.

I made my way through the forest and started to get an eerie feeling, not that I was being watched, but just that someone was out there in the woods. Periodically, I kept flipping on my NVG's to see if I could see anything in the thickets, but didn't find anything. So I made my way to this barn north of Myshkino, where I know there's a deer stand right next to it... which is the real reason I normally visit. I arrive at the barn, or more specifically, the deer stand behind it, climb up and check it out.

Pile of empty cans. Damn, I really needed another mag of STANAG SD to feel fully confident in a firefight.

I sighed and briefly looked across the field at the barn, there is usually a broken truck there and I check it out every now and again for the same reason I check the hatchback, to see if people have been repairing it recently. The truck is there, under a rickety corrugated metal awning in front of the barn, nestled between some hay bales. I could practically smell the rust on the rims as I looked it over, I had often dreamed about repairing it myself... but never had the means.

At that moment, the light appeared in the foreground in the field. It appeared to grow in intensity, and then slowly fade. The green and linear center matched a chemlight, but it seemed somehow more like an orb than a stick. The light illuminated the cut field for only a second, then faded. I was perplexed to say the least. Then I realized something...

There were no living zombies, not when I went to the deer stand, and the usual crowd of twenty or so near the barn were sprawled out over the field... dead. Normally, due to the state of the alpha, those zombies spawn instantaneously near the truck. I sat there for a few minutes, waiting for the zombies to spawn and waiting for the light to return. Neither one of those happened.

I sat there alone, in the crisp night, waiting. Some people find zombies creepy, and for all intents and purposes they are. But, as I've been playing Day Z, having zombies around is kind of reassuring. I can say, where I'm at, is safe... where they're at is not. It's a black and white divide, an "us and them" dynamic. But now, it's just me. I start to get a little creeped out.

I notice that I need to eat, so I quickly climb down off of the deer stand and make my way back through the woods to the north. There's a quiet little grove of trees that separates two fields, angled on a rolling hill, that I like to camp in from time to time. It's isolated, and I can see people coming from a mile off.

"What the hell is going on?", I thought. I ran through all the usual game explanations for what was happening, bugs, hacks, server latency, desync... stuff like that. "If there were players killing zombies in the area, I would've heard gunfire... or they would've hidden the bodies... or the zombies would've respawned and the bodies would've despawned... something", I kept thinking as I bolted across the field to the grove in the moonlight. Normally I feel pretty vulnerable in the middle of a field, this time was no exception. I listened to the pit-pat of my heavy stride intently as I made my way across the field, every step seeming to draw me further away from the familiarity of the area.

I pause, thinking I'm lost, and then eye the grove again.

I finally make it to the grove and quickly set about collecting some firewood. I set up a fire in a small clearing in the grove, so that I could see both fields that surrounded it, and cooked some meat I had in my pack. So, I get a little more relaxed again. I've got a warm fire illuminating the immediate area, food in my belly, so I sit down just to take a breather for a moment.

Bear in mind, I switched off the in-game music long ago... it can get annoying and often leads to me hearing distant shots that aren't there.

It's nice to have the familiar swaying of the trees echoing, crackle of the fire, and wind pushing through the air all working in unison for a while.

I sat there for a good six or seven minutes, went away to grab something out of the fridge and chatted up my roommates about how creepy the game I was playing was. Came back and sat down at my chair.

The night was oddly still, trees had stopped rustling, yet the normal ambient sound of wind moving through the air was somehow more piercing. The fire was still roaring, but there was something else on the air. I leaned in to my speakers and thought I could hear some whispering, nothing intelligible but I had to investigate. So, I rummaged around in the dark room of my apartment, bent down underneath my desk to plug in my headset.

I came back up, and grabbed my controller (I play with a 360 controller, get over it). I slowly cranked up the volume as I listened in, getting up to a kneeling position in case it was some bandits fooling around. I could definitely hear whispering above the fire and wind, still nothing intelligible... but it was surely not an ambient environmental sound. I readied my M4, absolutely convinced I was being fucked with by a group of bandits off in the trees. I turned on my NVG's and saw nothing, but the whispering seemed to continue unabated.

I spoke calmly into the mic, "Hello? If anyone's out there...". I didn't know what else to say... What? "Hey, I'm a good guy! Don't kill me!". I shut myself up.

The whispering continued for a few seconds after I stopped talking, before coming to an abrupt halt. It was as if a train had stopped on a dime, the sound just dropped out, as did the warm light of my fire.

I glanced about, green tinge of my night vision catching no movement. I centered my gaze on the field before me and my night-vision flared for a moment. I squinted and turned it off, to be confronted with an eerily dazling sight. A cloud, of around 30-40 of the green lights, non-uniformly scattered through the field was pulsating slowly, like I had seen before. The lights seemed to be moving, across the field, in my direction. They weren't in formation, and weren't moving fast. They just seemed to float whimsically across the field toward me, moving in one distinct cloud stretching the length of the field.

I scoped in, now entirely convinced this couldn't be a prank or the work of bandits. The lights glowed on and off sporadically as they slowly inched in my direction, with no body behind them. I stood there confused, scared, and in awe. As the lights drew nearer, they began to fade for good, until the last one reached the treeline of my grove and faded out. As this happened, the sound of the trees returned... I stood there for a few seconds, confused as to what had just happened... and why it had followed me along the Myshkino route that was so familiar to me.

I bolted north, I needed to get away from whatever I had just seen.

It didn't seem malicious, but if you're ever in the area, beware of the Myshkino lights.

Edited October 26, 2013 by Katana67

[JesterEric 67]

Okay everyone, I've got a new one that happened just a few hours ago.

I recently died and started up a new guy, I loaded around Elektrozavodsk. and I walked into the city to hit the hospital up for some morphine (I'm not having any of that "broken leg" shit) and other medical supplies, After I left I made my way north figuring I'd try my luck with better weapons at the big inland air field since I was only armed with the CZ 550 and revolver. I took the road leading to Topolka Dam since I was very familiar with that area, after that I took a left at the big road fork and made my way to Mogilevka.

About 2 or 3 kilometers out from Mogilevka I started hearing this really weird static which felt like it was coming from all around me, I tried walking in different directions for a little bit until I knew where it was coming from. It was such a strange sound, I say "static" but it was more like static played on a fast speed and muffled a little bit. After some experiments i THINK it was coming from the direction of Mogilevka. I continued on made it past the town and I followed the main road that turns east after you leave the town and then curves back north but as I continued this path the static started to faid away a little bit. Again I heard it all around me in no particular direction, but as I turned back it got louder again.

After a few more experiments I figured the noise was coming from the north west so I followed it, every time I hit a road I started following it so I wouldn't get lost again but as I did the noise kept fading away, so I continued to off road to the north west. after I passed a town called Vyshnoye on my left I started hearing breaks in the static. as I moved even further I heard other noises in the static, after a while it really felt like they were voices talking. I couldn't make out anything they said between the static and drops in noise.

Eventually these sounds lead me to Pop Ivan (A little hill north of Vyshnoye) as I approached a tower made from wire and pipes the noises got louder, but the words were still garbled too bad for me to hear anything. (I'm still not sure if they were really voices or just strange sounds) but right when I was about 5 feet from the tower all the noise stopped. It was nothing but silence except the normal noises (leaves rustling, birds chirping, ect.)

I'm not sure what ANY of this was or if any of it was a bug or not. But I've dubbed this event "The Static of Pop Ivan Tower"

[Metalhead (DayZ) 0]

I was told of an unmarked island somewhere off the coast.

If anyone knows, is this true? As I've heard it from a couple of people.

[Robert Shannon 27]

The Predator is lurking the forests, every little noise might be him ready to kill you.

[Metalhead (DayZ) 0]

Bumping this.

[disorder 344]

The Predator is lurking the forests, every little noise might be him ready to kill you.

"Any time.." (if you got that reference well done, you're not an idiot)

[MeatAbstract 47]

Myshkino lights was probably the best story I've heard on here so far. Very well written as well!

Let's keep the magic rolling, people.

[DemonGroover 8836]

Anymore strange goings on people?

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

Well damn...I met the shadow again...

This time it was in up near Vobyr.. I was making the usual loot runs at night. I should say that this is the first time i've gotten back onto a server during the night since the last time. So I probably actually saw it a few times a distance... but it was too dark and it blended in with the other infected silhouettes at distance. But when I think about it, the shadow never really moves when I see it. It stands perfectly still, not like a glitched animation but how you'd expect a normal human to stand. so after looting the usual supermarket/office combo (And seeing it a few times in my periphery) Finally I come face to face with it again.. It's in the lobby of the offices when I was exiting. It felt like it was always looking, though you couldn't really tell with the wisps and shadows it seemed to cast from nowhere. This time I try something new, I open up direct chat "Hello?... can you hear me?" Nothing... just stares "Hey, uh-.. friendly?" Still stares. So I slowly back out of the office, keeping an eye on him and keeping my wits up if it shows up again... So I make my way out and come to a pretty barren field and start heading for the treeline.Everything goes quiet....no insects, no wind, just dead silence. I reach about the middle of the field and suddenly

*THUD*

it pops up in front me and makes me just about jump outta my chair. It kinda left some weird echoing thud as it popped in. Anyway, I yell "JESUS! What the hell are you, what do you want?" It stares and I kinda hear some soft breathing...almost distorted... then

IT

starts talking. It's this weird voice, really distorted and echo-y, like it's far off I'd say. And I couldn't really tell if the voice was a guy or a gal. "I-.....I want..." it started off, I replied "What? why do you keep stalking me? Why the hell do you keep running? How the hell do you just take bullets like last time?!" I just start barraging this thing with questions, but it keeps talking while I am "want....I.....to.....I.....infec-..." I could only make out little bit of whatever it was trying to say. The rest was just inaudible whispers overlaying each other. so it's just about at this point that I whip out my flashlight (cause that drove it off last time) and flick it on. And for like half a second I actually see past the shadows...I don't even know how to describe it, a mangled mess of red gore that resembles a decayed human, I think. As the light hit it, all the whispers and odd sounds it was making just stopped, and it was gone...At this point I'm shaking and my heart is in my throat so I just DC and sit...

Fuck night-time servers...

Edited July 16, 2012 by Foogals

[DemonGroover 8836]

Well damn...I met the shadow again...

This time it was in up near Vobyr.. I was making the usual loot runs at night. I should say that this is the first time i've gotten back onto a server during the night since the last time. So I probably actually saw it a few times a distance... but it was too dark and it blended in with the other infected silhouettes at distance. But when I think about it, the shadow never really moves when I see it. It stands perfectly still, not like a glitched animation but how you'd expect a normal human to stand. so after looting the usual supermarket/office combo (And seeing it a few times in my periphery) Finally I come face to face with it again.. It's in the lobby of the offices when I was exiting. It felt like it was always looking, though you couldn't really tell with the wisps and shadows it seemed to cast from nowhere. This time I try something new, I open up direct chat "Hello?... can you hear me?" Nothing... just stares "Hey, uh-.. friendly?" Still stares. So I slowly back out of the office, keeping an eye on him and keeping my wits up if it shows up again... So I make my way out and come to a pretty barren field and start heading for the treeline.Everything goes quiet....no insects, no wind, just dead silence. I reach about the middle of the field and suddenly

*THUD*

it pops up in front me and makes me just about jump outta my chair. It kinda left some weird echoing thud as it popped in. Anyway, I yell "JESUS! What the hell are you, what do you want?" It stares and I kinda hear some soft breathing...almost distorted... then

IT

starts talking. It's this weird voice, really distorted and echo-y, like it's far off I'd say. And I couldn't really tell if the voice was a guy or a gal. "I-.....I want..." it started off, I replied "What? why do you keep stalking me? Why the hell do you keep running? How the hell do you just take bullets like last time?!" I just start barraging this thing with questions, but it keeps talking while I am "want....I.....to.....I.....infec-..." I could only make out little bit of whatever it was trying to say. The rest was just inaudible whispers overlaying each other. so it's just about at this point that I whip out my flashlight (cause that drove it off last time) and flick it on. And for like half a second I actually see past the shadows...I don't even know how to describe it, a mangled mess of red gore that resembles a decayed human, I think. As the light hit it, all the whispers and odd sounds it was making just stopped, and it was gone...At this point I'm shaking and my heart is in my throat so I just DC and sit...

Fuck night-time servers...

We need to get a campfire going at night at Green Mountain and tell some more of these Ghost Stories.

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

We need to get a campfire going at night at Green Mountain and tell some more of these Ghost Stories.

I'm in for it, just hope the shadow stops following me...

[MeatAbstract 47]

We need to get a campfire going at night at Green Mountain and tell some more of these Ghost Stories.

I'd be game for that.

[DemonGroover 8836]

Foogals, you need to bring the Shadow along!

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

Foogals, you need to bring the Shadow along!

Fuck that! Have you ever been around it? It fills you with fear... like he took the hope and love right outta you. It's like staring right at fear itself!

[skoomer 12]

We need to get a campfire going at night at Green Mountain and tell some more of these Ghost Stories.

Tell me when and I'll go with you

Edited July 16, 2012 by Skoomer

[DemonGroover 8836]

Well, it would have to be at night of course (3am - the Witching Hour), a full/part moon, preferably, and lots of willing participants.