In 1951, a hunting trip in Wyoming’s backcountry took a dire turn for a teenage hunter when he became lost in a thick fog. He believes that he would have come to a tragic end except for a supernatural intervention that to this day he cannot explain.

The hunter had told his story to Debra D. Munn, author of “Wyoming Ghost Stories,” but asked to remain anonymous. He had kept his story secret for more than 35 years and still had no answer for what had happened to him all those years ago.

He just knows that it is real and not a tall tale despite what naysayers may claim.

It was fall 73 years ago and the 17-year-old was hunting elk with his father and a small group of men. They had left their camp on a cold, cloudy dawn to hunt in the timber of North Trapper Creek in the Bighorn Mountains. They could see their breath as they plunged deeper into the woods, rifles in hand.