Wenson Trail

## History

The Wenson Trail is a hiking trail in southern Wisconsin that has been surrounded by tales of horrific events since the beginning of human written records. Étienne Brûlé, the first European to explore Wisconsin, wrote in a journal that "The natives warn me of a terrible path in the woods, where spirits take over your mind and drive you to certain death. I do not plan on further exploring this place, for obvious reasons." When settlers from the 13 colonies began exploring further west, a small group of people settled nearby, leading to a makeshift fence quickly being built around the entrance of the trail. In 1985, after a crisis in which teenagers began exploring the area in mass, leading to the disappearance of an estimated 70 individuals, the military stepped in and built a chain link fence, topped with razor wire, around the entire area.

## The Wenson Trail

### Location

Southern Wisconsin
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### What happens on the Wenson Trail?

For many years, it was unknown what happened on the trails that caused people to go missing. It was also unclear what happened to them, as any search parties who went down the trail never came back. The Trail was surrounded by a shroud of mystery, until 2013, when Pornhub user BoobsLover1990 livestreamed himself going on a Blair-Witch style suicide mission to capture the mystery on the trail. His livestream was captured and uploaded to the porn site in its entirety by user KeithW, who had no other activity on the site before or after uploading the full stream recording.

The video exhibits strange technical qualities, such as generating a random link every time it is viewed, preventing viewers from ever sharing the video to somebody else. Attempts to record the video show nothing but a black screen, and one viewer who tried to record by pointing a cellphone camera at a mirror facing a laptop screen only managed to capture a bizarre porn film featuring a celery stalk and a mountain.

### A summary of the Wenson Trail Footage; collected from multiple viewer testimonies

The video starts at some point at the beginning of the stream, but KeithW seemed to have not recorded the introduction BoobsLover1990 provided (if one was provided). The first five minutes of footage feature a view of BoobsLover1990s' shoes trampling through fallen leaves in the dark, while BoobsLover1990 mutters under his breath about the cold air, saying "If I knew I was going on this stupid ass trail, I would brought a sweatshirt. Thanks for the forecast, you lying dick." It is unclear who BoobsLover1990 is addressing when he says this. Then, for a brief moment, he turns the camera and light towards his face, revealing his identity and a middle finger raised to the camera. Witnesses describe BoobsLover1990 as a skinny man, somewhere in his twenties, with curly brown hair and brown eyes. In the video, he has a large pimple on his forehead.

The next few minutes are silent. He continues forward, shining the light onto trees and the ground. Some of the trees appear to be pine varieties, while others are bare, seeming to be maple or oak. At around 12 minutes into the video, a piercing shrieking sound is heard in the distance. He stops, and wildly swings the camera and light through the trees, revealing nothing. He turns the camera around again, pointing it towards his face, but not letting his eyes leave the treeline. BoobsLover1990 is smiling fervently, and he then says his full name, address, date of birth, and social security number. The only information we will pass on from that is that his first name is Leonardo. Leonardo goes on to say, "When I show up missing, you will all know exactly what happened. You will know who I was, and somebody will have to do something." He says something incomprehensible, some accounts saying he's asking somebody to feed his cat if he doesn't come back, others state that he said something along the lines of "Can you see that over there? Please?"

Leonardo turns the camera towards the treeline again, but nothing is visible from the camera's perspective. Leonardo stands still for a short amount of time, breathing deeply, scanning the treeline, before he begins to walk forward again. He begins to ramble to the audience, talking about his experience with his father, and telling the viewers that he hopes he "gets what he deserves." Leonardo does not elaborate on what his father deserves. He goes quiet again, and he trudges through the leaves. At around 20 minutes, Leonardo begins to hum "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. While he is humming, a deep voice joins in, seemingly from directly behind Leonardo. He does not notice, and continues to walk forward. Once he stops humming, the voice stops as well. At about 30 minutes, Leonardo stumbles upon a strange structure.

The structure is a Penrose Triangle, constructed of twisted and rusted metal. It towers over Leonardo, appearing to be between 20-30 feet tall. Leonardo cautiously approaches the triangle, breathing heavily. He holds out his palm to it, as if feeling heat radiating off of it. The camera scans up and down the structure, and Leonardo seems absorbed in the design of it. While panning the camera around the structure, a looming figure can be seen out of focus, standing and watching Leonardo. He does not notice the figure, and when he pans to the angle where it was spotted again a few seconds later, it is gone.

Leonardo leaves the Penrose Triangle behind at around 45 minutes. He continues on into the woods, but at a slower pace than he was travelling at before he stumbled into the structure. Leonardo turns the camera around to reveal the pimple on his forehead is swelling. He looks concerned at this, and moves his hand up to poke at it. Nothing happens. He turns the camera around again, to show the ground cover has changed. The leaves from before are no longer there, and the ground beneath his feet looks like ash, or another grey powder. Leonardo leans down and swipes his finger in the powder before holding it up to the camera to examine it. After a second, he wipes it on his pants and continues on, as if there is nothing strange about the powder at all.

The next half hour or so of footage, nothing notable happens. It's just a constant video of his feet slowly walking through the ash, occasionally interrupted by him panning the camera through the trees. At about 1 hour and 20 minutes in, he pans the camera towards his face again. The pimple from before is now golf ball sized, and the skin around it is ghoulishly white. Leonardo does not comment on this. He emptily looks into the camera, and his mouth moves as if he is saying something, but no words come. Leonardo sits down on the floor of the woods, crossing his legs. He rests the camera and light on something, pointing it towards himself. Leonardo rocks back and forth slowly, holding his arms tight around himself. He does not blink for the rest of the video.

Leonardo continues to sit and rock back and forth for five minutes or so, until the pimple on his face erupts into a stream of small insects. The insects appear to be the size of a house fly, and they create a piercing noise similar to a whistle being blown when they fly away from him. Leonardo does not react to this, he simply continues rocking back and forth. After all of the insects have moved away, three looming figures appear behind him. They approach slowly, and their footsteps are in unison. Leonardo still does not move. The figures quickly reach him, and the camera focuses on them. They appear to be at least two feet taller than leonardo, and they all wear matching outfits, consisting of long, flowing black robes and a ceramic mask. The mask is white, and has no marks or holes carved into it. They crouch around Leonardo, drawing metallic instruments from their robes. The figures wear black gloves that house seven fingers. All of the figures lean forward, and begin carving symbols into Leonardo's face. Some report the symbols to resemble ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, others report that the symbols were actually numbers. The camera does not have another chance to focus on Leonardo's face, so there is no way to be certain. Once the figures finish their carvings, they stand and leave in the same direction they came from.

After a short minute, Leonardo sits up. He is out of focus, but he appears to lean over and scoop up a handful of the grey powder. He can be heard speaking to the powder as he walks away, and the last audible words the camera picks up on are "I don't know what came over me, you were right this whole time." He continues talking as he gets out of earshot of the camera.

The rest of the footage is simply the camera and light pointing towards where Leonardo had sat. At 8 hours and 30 minutes, the light turns off. It is unclear if this is because it ran out of battery, or for another reason.

At around 10 hours, the sound of the insects humming can be heard faintly. They draw closer, and land somewhere in front of the camera, lingering for around ten minutes, before flying off again.

At 13 hours, the stream ends, presumably due to the camera running out of battery.

### Other information about the video

The source code for the page on Pornhub that the recording can be found is blank. The comment section on the video is also empty. The view count reads 4, and it does not change.

A viewer theory suggests that the insects that came from Leonardo's pimple were a variation of a grasshopper, although this is merely a theory.

Some viewers report hearing a low humming noise emitting from the Penrose Triangle. Leonardo reaching for the Penrose Triangle suggests that it was in fact emitting something, although unclear what.

Some people theorize that Leonardo was talking directly to KeithW while streaming. Others disagree, and say that Keith not recording from the beginning implies that he stumbled upon the stream by chance.

Neither the account BoobsLover1990 or KeithW return any results while searching for them, but both usernames are included in every report from viewers.