We Found A Perfectly Made Bed Of Moss Nine Miles From Any Trail
65% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #333
FILED: Apr 9, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Wilderness Encounters
WITNESS ON RECORD: SitterHollis
JURY OF 396 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 259 believed it, 64 had doubts, 73 weren't buying it.
My partner and I go off-trail, which we are allowed to do where we live, and which we do because we like the quiet and we hate people.
Nine miles in, in a stand of old trees, there was a bed.
I do not know what else to call it. It was two metres long, maybe a metre wide, and it was made of moss that had been taken from somewhere else — you could see the scars, the pale patches on the rocks it had been pulled from — and laid down in overlapping courses, like roof tiles, with the growing side up.
At the head end there was a rolled log with more moss packed round it.
It was the most careful thing I have ever seen in a wood.
My partner, who is not fanciful, knelt down and put her hand on it. Then she took her hand away very quickly and stood up and said we were going.
It was warm.
Not sun-warm. There was no sun on it; we were under canopy in October. It was body-warm, in the middle, in a hollow the shape of something long.
Nine miles in, in a stand of old trees, there was a bed.
I do not know what else to call it. It was two metres long, maybe a metre wide, and it was made of moss that had been taken from somewhere else — you could see the scars, the pale patches on the rocks it had been pulled from — and laid down in overlapping courses, like roof tiles, with the growing side up.
At the head end there was a rolled log with more moss packed round it.
It was the most careful thing I have ever seen in a wood.
My partner, who is not fanciful, knelt down and put her hand on it. Then she took her hand away very quickly and stood up and said we were going.
It was warm.
Not sun-warm. There was no sun on it; we were under canopy in October. It was body-warm, in the middle, in a hollow the shape of something long.
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