Park Ranger Story: The Baby Cry

Published on September 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM

 I was a ranger for glacier National park in northern Montana. We got a call around 3amish for camper in distress near our post but would require a 45min hike through some pretty rocky terrain to get there. So, we geared up and start hiking, me and my partner are about 30min into our hike when I just get a gut feeling that something isn’t right.

 

Keep in mind it’s pitch black only using headlamps in the middle of grizzly territory, we are about 10 min out and we start to hear this sound of a baby crying so we kick it into high gear and start shouting and moving faster until I noticed something odd and my gut completely dropped. The sound of the child crying was played on a loop it was the same cry over and over again.

 

I told my partner to stop and listen to prove I wasn’t going crazy. He was a new hire, and I just saw all the color on the kids face vanish when he realized also. We decided to hightale it out of there fearing for our lives and the unknown. Never got another call of a stranded camper after we left. I still get chills telling the story.

 

Credit: Doug

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