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The Silent Killer in the Forest

A Tale of Curiosity, Radiation, and Tragic Consequences

By Lily💜 Published 12 months ago 21 min read

Welcome Guys,

That is Estonia, 1994, Middle Europe. A middle-aged man called Ivan, who lived there, is walking into a forest to collect firewood. This forest is very close to his town.

So, he didn't come here for the first time. He has been coming to this forest to collect firewood for many years. But he never went inside the forest.

But that day, he couldn't find any firewood. So, he decided to walk into the forest. As he walked slowly into the forest, his town, which was behind him, began to disappear from his sight.

The person who walked a little further, began to like walking into the forest. Let's look for firewood later. First, let's enjoy this.

After enjoying the view, he began to walk. After about an hour, he suddenly stopped in a place. Because there was a big clearing in front of him.

He saw a big fence in front of the clearing. He also saw a barbed wire fence. He had never come inside like this before.

So, he had no idea what it was. Now, he began to walk closer to see what it was. As he walked, he began to see what was behind the fence.

He saw a big building in the middle of the big clearing. It looked like a big factory or a secret government building. The building was a little away from the fence.

Ivan, who was shocked by this, began to wonder what was inside the building. But he didn't know that the thing inside the building was waiting to take his life. The next thing that happened to him was something that no one could find out.

Finally, when he found out what happened to him, no one could believe it. We are going to decode a true story about what happened to Ivan.

In the middle of a deserted forest, Ivan sees a building and is curious to see what is inside. So he walks near the fence. He places his hand on the fence and looks around to see what is inside.

When he looks around, he does not see any human being inside. The whole place looks like humans have been here for many years. So it looks like an abandoned building.

When he realized this, the first thing that came to his mind was scrap metals. Ivan's family is a very big family. He and his brothers have been a big family together.

Not only that, they have also been a very struggling family. So when Ivan and his brothers go out somewhere like this, they steal the scrap metals they get there and sell them for some extra money. He has been feeding his family with the money he gets.

When Ivan sees the abandoned building, he knows that there must be a lot of scrap metals in this building. So he plans to sell it for a good amount of money. He stands there for a while and starts looking around.

Until he sees that there is no one there. He reconfirms again that it is an abandoned building. He goes back to his house and his town from there.

On the way, he took some firewoods. As soon as he goes home, he tells his brothers about the abandoned building he found. Upon hearing this, his brothers are very happy.

They plan to go there tonight and see what is there and bring it back. The time now is exactly 9 o'clock in the evening. Three brothers are getting ready.

They take some tools such as flashlights and bowl cutters and start walking into the forest. As soon as they walk for more than an hour, the fence comes as Ivan said. They stand near the fence and use the flashlights they had and start walking around.

But there is no one there. So they put their flashlights back and each of them jumps on the fence and starts walking towards the building. When they go near and see, it looks like an abandoned building as they thought.

But there is a problem. All the doors and windows of the building were sealed. That is, it was sealed so that it could not be opened.

Now they are very frustrated. They decide not to spend much time here and go back home. So they start walking towards the fence again.

As they walk, they keep looking at the torchlight all around them. When they look at it, they see a small structure on the far right side. As soon as they see this, the brothers look at each other.

We didn't even check it. Maybe the scrap metals we were looking for were there. Let's go and check there.

They go near it. When they go and see, it was locked with just a small lock. As soon as they open it with a bolt cutter and open it, they see a staircase like a tunnel below.

Now as soon as they see it, they start getting a little scared. But there is no sound or reply from inside. So they look down at the flashlight they have.

They go down very carefully. As soon as they get down and stand, they hit the flashlight all around. Those who hit the flashlight cannot bear the happiness.

Because all that was in that underground bunker was scrap metals. The place where they put their feet was all scrap metals. Not only that, they had a shelf a little far away.

At the bottom of that shelf, they see a very different structure like a box or a suitcase. They see a big aluminum drum in the shelf above it. Now the brothers who saw this know that these drums are very expensive.

So they started to be happy that this is a jackpot they got. But now it would be better if these drums were empty. Suppose there was something in that drum, it would be very difficult to take it away.

So to check if it was empty, he went near that drum and pushed it. As soon as he pushed it, he understood that it was empty. Those who were very happy pulled it down from the shelf above and put it near the staircase they came down.

Now when they go to take the next drum, they pull another drum from above. When they take that drum, another drum next to it starts falling down. But it's not an empty drum.

There was something in that drum. Also, the weight of that drum is about 250 kgs. The drum that fell down did not directly fall on Ivan's leg.

But after it fell down, it crashed on Ivan's leg and crushed his leg. Immediately, the two brothers next to him fell on Ivan's leg and pushed the drum. But Ivan was badly damaged by it.

He couldn't even get up. Immediately, the brothers decided to take everything here. But Ivan couldn't walk now.

So they decided to take all the scrap metals here and go home. After Ivan recovered completely, they came back here and decided to take all the scrap metals here. After that, they took all the scrap metals in their pockets and carried Ivan on their back.

They climbed up the stairs, walked slowly, jumped over the fence and slowly reached their home. As soon as they reached home, the two brothers made Ivan sleep in bed. Ivan also started sleeping in a little while.

The next morning, when Ivan woke up, his leg was a little better. Today, he was happy to go there. But to tell you the truth, his leg was in a much worse condition than before.

They waited for the next two days and thought that his leg would get better. But after four days, he couldn't bear the pain in his leg. To that extent, Ivan's leg started to hurt a lot.

So finally, he decided to go to the hospital. When he was admitted to the hospital, the doctor asked him what happened and how he was injured. Obviously, we went to steal.

We can't say that a can fell on my leg there, right? So they said that a tree fell on his leg. So the doctors said okay and started giving treatment for that injury. But none of the treatments they gave didn't seem to work.

For the next few days, Ivan couldn't bear the pain in his leg. His leg started to swell. His health continued to deteriorate.

When he was admitted to the hospital ten days later, Ivan's kidney failed and he died. Now the doctors who saw this didn't understand anything. The patient who was injured in the leg died of kidney failure.

They were very confused about how this would happen. They immediately informed Ivan's family. His family was very shocked.

After that, they took Ivan's body and began to bury it. But how did this happen to all his family members? How did Ivan suddenly die? But even before they could answer those questions, another shock was waiting for them. Their family dog, who was loved by them, suddenly died.

Now those who saw this didn't understand what was happening here. Because that dog was not a very old dog. It was a dog that was fine without any problem.

But it died suddenly like Ivan. Seeing all this, those who didn't understand what was happening in our family After four days, Ivan's stepson woke up one day and came down from his room. As soon as he came down, he said that he was not feeling well and that his body was doing something.

When his family members saw his hand, it looked like his two hands had been taken out of the fire. When he asked about it, he said that he didn't know and he didn't do anything like that. He said that he didn't know what was happening here.

Now they immediately take that boy to the hospital. The doctors also ask what happened. But that boy also said that he didn't know.

But when the doctors were asking that boy, that boy said the opposite thing. For the past few days, I took some tools from his stepfather Ivan's toolbox and kept them somewhere else. That's what I did.

He said he didn't do anything else. Now the doctors already know what happened to Ivan. They know everything about the recent death of the dog in their house.

Now that the boy's hand is like this, all the other doctors are starting to discuss it. After discussing that, they immediately contacted some authorities and said that this is what it is. As soon as they said that, the authorities immediately came to Ivan's house.

But when they got out of their car, they were wearing hazard suits all over their body. They also said to evacuate all the family members from Ivan's house immediately. As soon as all the family members came out of the house, the authorities took some special tools and went into the house.

All the equipment they had was pointing at the right place. Those who followed them went to a closet in the kitchen. Ivan's toolbox was in that closet.

That's the toolbox that the boy had been using for the past few days. When they opened the toolbox, they saw some tools that were always in the toolbox. Not only that, they also saw a very strange small scrap metal piece.

When Ivan was about to leave for home after getting injured in the bunker that day, Didn't I tell you that the brothers brought all the scrap metals they had? Then Ivan only brought this small piece. After Ivan's death, his stepson handled the toolbox. That's when he took this small piece of metal from Ivan's jacket and kept it in the toolbox.

But Ivan and his family members didn't know that this small piece of metal was extremely dangerous. Because that small piece of scrap metal was not an ordinary scrap metal found in an abandoned building. It was an abandoned nuclear waste storage facility.

The building that Ivan saw in the middle of the forest was an abandoned building. But it was a nuclear waste storage facility. That's where Ivan and his brothers went to pick up the scrap metals.

But no one knew that it was a nuclear waste storage facility. Because they had climbed up to the side of the fence and went inside. But there was a strong warning sign at the gate in front of the fence that a nuclear waste should not come here.

Not only that, there was a shelf in the underground bunker. There were aluminum drums on top of the shelf and a square box on the bottom of the shelf. It was said that Ivan saw something like a suitcase.

It was nothing but radiation shields. There was radioactive metal inside the shield. When they tried to pick up the empty drum on top of the shelf, the drum that was next to it fell down and fell on Ivan's leg.

The drum that was full first fell on this radioactive metal box. As soon as the drum fell on this box, the shield box broke. The radioactive metal inside it came out and fell right next to Ivan's leg.

But it didn't touch Ivan's body. When it touched Ivan's body, everyone went home. But the next day, they took the scrap metals in their hands and put them in their pockets.

Unfortunately, Ivan took only one piece of metal. That too, the small radioactive metal piece next to his leg. Actually, when Ivan came home from the storage facility, he was already dead.

But he didn't even know that he was dead. Because the small metal piece he took was in his jacket pocket, next to his stomach. That's called a fatal dose of radiation.

That's how much radiation went into his body. Even if he had known that radiation had affected him when he was admitted to the hospital, no one could have saved him. Because he was already dead.

You may wonder how the dog in his house died. Actually, the dog always slept on Ivan's jacket. Likewise, when the small metal piece was in the jacket, the dog also slept on the jacket.

Likewise, he died of radiation. The reason why Ivan's stepson's hands burned like that is... He took the metal piece directly from Ivan's jacket and put it in Ivan's toolbox. Because of the radiation in his body, his body and hands were damaged.

The doctors suspected that Ivan's death, the death of the dog, and the wound on Ivan's stepson's hand were all radiation poisoning. Likewise, they also went to Ivan's house and found out. Ivan's other two brothers and his stepson are all recovering well.

So My dear friends, did you think? Did you guess how this story would end? Or did you think of any other reason? Don't forget to comment below what you think.

Welcome Guys,

That is Estonia, 1994, Middle Europe. A middle-aged man called Ivan, who lived there, is walking into a forest to collect firewood. This forest is very close to his town.

So, he didn't come here for the first time. He has been coming to this forest to collect firewood for many years. But he never went inside the forest.

But that day, he couldn't find any firewood. So, he decided to walk into the forest. As he walked slowly into the forest, his town, which was behind him, began to disappear from his sight.

The person who walked a little further, began to like walking into the forest. Let's look for firewood later. First, let's enjoy this.

After enjoying the view, he began to walk. After about an hour, he suddenly stopped in a place. Because there was a big clearing in front of him.

He saw a big fence in front of the clearing. He also saw a barbed wire fence. He had never come inside like this before.

So, he had no idea what it was. Now, he began to walk closer to see what it was. As he walked, he began to see what was behind the fence.

He saw a big building in the middle of the big clearing. It looked like a big factory or a secret government building. The building was a little away from the fence.

Ivan, who was shocked by this, began to wonder what was inside the building. But he didn't know that the thing inside the building was waiting to take his life. The next thing that happened to him was something that no one could find out.

Finally, when he found out what happened to him, no one could believe it. We are going to decode a true story about what happened to Ivan.

In the middle of a deserted forest, Ivan sees a building and is curious to see what is inside. So he walks near the fence. He places his hand on the fence and looks around to see what is inside.

When he looks around, he does not see any human being inside. The whole place looks like humans have been here for many years. So it looks like an abandoned building.

When he realized this, the first thing that came to his mind was scrap metals. Ivan's family is a very big family. He and his brothers have been a big family together.

Not only that, they have also been a very struggling family. So when Ivan and his brothers go out somewhere like this, they steal the scrap metals they get there and sell them for some extra money. He has been feeding his family with the money he gets.

When Ivan sees the abandoned building, he knows that there must be a lot of scrap metals in this building. So he plans to sell it for a good amount of money. He stands there for a while and starts looking around.

Until he sees that there is no one there. He reconfirms again that it is an abandoned building. He goes back to his house and his town from there.

On the way, he took some firewoods. As soon as he goes home, he tells his brothers about the abandoned building he found. Upon hearing this, his brothers are very happy.

They plan to go there tonight and see what is there and bring it back. The time now is exactly 9 o'clock in the evening. Three brothers are getting ready.

They take some tools such as flashlights and bowl cutters and start walking into the forest. As soon as they walk for more than an hour, the fence comes as Ivan said. They stand near the fence and use the flashlights they had and start walking around.

But there is no one there. So they put their flashlights back and each of them jumps on the fence and starts walking towards the building. When they go near and see, it looks like an abandoned building as they thought.

But there is a problem. All the doors and windows of the building were sealed. That is, it was sealed so that it could not be opened.

Now they are very frustrated. They decide not to spend much time here and go back home. So they start walking towards the fence again.

As they walk, they keep looking at the torchlight all around them. When they look at it, they see a small structure on the far right side. As soon as they see this, the brothers look at each other.

We didn't even check it. Maybe the scrap metals we were looking for were there. Let's go and check there.

They go near it. When they go and see, it was locked with just a small lock. As soon as they open it with a bolt cutter and open it, they see a staircase like a tunnel below.

Now as soon as they see it, they start getting a little scared. But there is no sound or reply from inside. So they look down at the flashlight they have.

They go down very carefully. As soon as they get down and stand, they hit the flashlight all around. Those who hit the flashlight cannot bear the happiness.

Because all that was in that underground bunker was scrap metals. The place where they put their feet was all scrap metals. Not only that, they had a shelf a little far away.

At the bottom of that shelf, they see a very different structure like a box or a suitcase. They see a big aluminum drum in the shelf above it. Now the brothers who saw this know that these drums are very expensive.

So they started to be happy that this is a jackpot they got. But now it would be better if these drums were empty. Suppose there was something in that drum, it would be very difficult to take it away.

So to check if it was empty, he went near that drum and pushed it. As soon as he pushed it, he understood that it was empty. Those who were very happy pulled it down from the shelf above and put it near the staircase they came down.

Now when they go to take the next drum, they pull another drum from above. When they take that drum, another drum next to it starts falling down. But it's not an empty drum.

There was something in that drum. Also, the weight of that drum is about 250 kgs. The drum that fell down did not directly fall on Ivan's leg.

But after it fell down, it crashed on Ivan's leg and crushed his leg. Immediately, the two brothers next to him fell on Ivan's leg and pushed the drum. But Ivan was badly damaged by it.

He couldn't even get up. Immediately, the brothers decided to take everything here. But Ivan couldn't walk now.

So they decided to take all the scrap metals here and go home. After Ivan recovered completely, they came back here and decided to take all the scrap metals here. After that, they took all the scrap metals in their pockets and carried Ivan on their back.

They climbed up the stairs, walked slowly, jumped over the fence and slowly reached their home. As soon as they reached home, the two brothers made Ivan sleep in bed. Ivan also started sleeping in a little while.

The next morning, when Ivan woke up, his leg was a little better. Today, he was happy to go there. But to tell you the truth, his leg was in a much worse condition than before.

They waited for the next two days and thought that his leg would get better. But after four days, he couldn't bear the pain in his leg. To that extent, Ivan's leg started to hurt a lot.

So finally, he decided to go to the hospital. When he was admitted to the hospital, the doctor asked him what happened and how he was injured. Obviously, we went to steal.

We can't say that a can fell on my leg there, right? So they said that a tree fell on his leg. So the doctors said okay and started giving treatment for that injury. But none of the treatments they gave didn't seem to work.

For the next few days, Ivan couldn't bear the pain in his leg. His leg started to swell. His health continued to deteriorate.

When he was admitted to the hospital ten days later, Ivan's kidney failed and he died. Now the doctors who saw this didn't understand anything. The patient who was injured in the leg died of kidney failure.

They were very confused about how this would happen. They immediately informed Ivan's family. His family was very shocked.

After that, they took Ivan's body and began to bury it. But how did this happen to all his family members? How did Ivan suddenly die? But even before they could answer those questions, another shock was waiting for them. Their family dog, who was loved by them, suddenly died.

Now those who saw this didn't understand what was happening here. Because that dog was not a very old dog. It was a dog that was fine without any problem.

But it died suddenly like Ivan. Seeing all this, those who didn't understand what was happening in our family After four days, Ivan's stepson woke up one day and came down from his room. As soon as he came down, he said that he was not feeling well and that his body was doing something.

When his family members saw his hand, it looked like his two hands had been taken out of the fire. When he asked about it, he said that he didn't know and he didn't do anything like that. He said that he didn't know what was happening here.

Now they immediately take that boy to the hospital. The doctors also ask what happened. But that boy also said that he didn't know.

But when the doctors were asking that boy, that boy said the opposite thing. For the past few days, I took some tools from his stepfather Ivan's toolbox and kept them somewhere else. That's what I did.

He said he didn't do anything else. Now the doctors already know what happened to Ivan. They know everything about the recent death of the dog in their house.

Now that the boy's hand is like this, all the other doctors are starting to discuss it. After discussing that, they immediately contacted some authorities and said that this is what it is. As soon as they said that, the authorities immediately came to Ivan's house.

But when they got out of their car, they were wearing hazard suits all over their body. They also said to evacuate all the family members from Ivan's house immediately. As soon as all the family members came out of the house, the authorities took some special tools and went into the house.

All the equipment they had was pointing at the right place. Those who followed them went to a closet in the kitchen. Ivan's toolbox was in that closet.

That's the toolbox that the boy had been using for the past few days. When they opened the toolbox, they saw some tools that were always in the toolbox. Not only that, they also saw a very strange small scrap metal piece.

When Ivan was about to leave for home after getting injured in the bunker that day, Didn't I tell you that the brothers brought all the scrap metals they had? Then Ivan only brought this small piece. After Ivan's death, his stepson handled the toolbox. That's when he took this small piece of metal from Ivan's jacket and kept it in the toolbox.

But Ivan and his family members didn't know that this small piece of metal was extremely dangerous. Because that small piece of scrap metal was not an ordinary scrap metal found in an abandoned building. It was an abandoned nuclear waste storage facility.

The building that Ivan saw in the middle of the forest was an abandoned building. But it was a nuclear waste storage facility. That's where Ivan and his brothers went to pick up the scrap metals.

But no one knew that it was a nuclear waste storage facility. Because they had climbed up to the side of the fence and went inside. But there was a strong warning sign at the gate in front of the fence that a nuclear waste should not come here.

Not only that, there was a shelf in the underground bunker. There were aluminum drums on top of the shelf and a square box on the bottom of the shelf. It was said that Ivan saw something like a suitcase.

It was nothing but radiation shields. There was radioactive metal inside the shield. When they tried to pick up the empty drum on top of the shelf, the drum that was next to it fell down and fell on Ivan's leg.

The drum that was full first fell on this radioactive metal box. As soon as the drum fell on this box, the shield box broke. The radioactive metal inside it came out and fell right next to Ivan's leg.

But it didn't touch Ivan's body. When it touched Ivan's body, everyone went home. But the next day, they took the scrap metals in their hands and put them in their pockets.

Unfortunately, Ivan took only one piece of metal. That too, the small radioactive metal piece next to his leg. Actually, when Ivan came home from the storage facility, he was already dead.

But he didn't even know that he was dead. Because the small metal piece he took was in his jacket pocket, next to his stomach. That's called a fatal dose of radiation.

That's how much radiation went into his body. Even if he had known that radiation had affected him when he was admitted to the hospital, no one could have saved him. Because he was already dead.

You may wonder how the dog in his house died. Actually, the dog always slept on Ivan's jacket. Likewise, when the small metal piece was in the jacket, the dog also slept on the jacket.

Likewise, he died of radiation. The reason why Ivan's stepson's hands burned like that is... He took the metal piece directly from Ivan's jacket and put it in Ivan's toolbox. Because of the radiation in his body, his body and hands were damaged.

The doctors suspected that Ivan's death, the death of the dog, and the wound on Ivan's stepson's hand were all radiation poisoning. Likewise, they also went to Ivan's house and found out. Ivan's other two brothers and his stepson are all recovering well.

So My dear friends, did you think? Did you guess how this story would end? Or did you think of any other reason? Don't forget to comment below what you think.

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  • Kalix12 months ago

    I thought it's a haunted house I was expecting some one was living there OMG This story is very different .Didn't expect this climax. Well done keep writing.

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