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Up until now, the majority of our readers have probably viewed the Forest series as if they were reading a more relaxed Natgeo magazine, where we dazzle our users with high-quality photos. However, Forest is not only about that. Our goal is to present the forest environment shown in the photos in full reality, which unfortunately also includes the less positive, but all the more memorable events.
During the production of the series, we went several times to the areas of the forest where we had previously been involved in dangerous situations, and on some days we even drew the attention of our users to this in Aftercup:
In many cases, the creation of Forest was accompanied by hidden dangers that ordinary people rarely run into. In this article, we explore this topic.
The animals of the forest are basically harmless: you can mostly see roe deer, pheasants and occasionally foxes, which would rather run away than get into any kind of conflict with us. The foxes were also vaccinated against rabies on the photo days, so the foresters keep the area somewhat under control.
The only animals that can be dangerous are stray dogs, which may attack people (especially when they are lost). By the way, we know that something like this has already happened in the area.
If you listen to the Aftercup Podcast, in one of the broadcasts we talked about a case when one of our editors, as a child, saw a dead-looking man lying on the ground, with a car rushing towards him. Although by themselves they mean almost nothing, it caused a kind of trauma, in connection with which this doubtful feeling remained about the people walking in the forest.
While deviating from the road, we noticed many oddities even during the photo shoots.
Such was the case, for example, with this small, wooden shelter, the history of which unfortunately/fortunately we did not know. In any case, in the situation where one walks alone in such places, these things are a bit scary.
It also freaks you out quite a bit when you suddenly find yourself walking into a relatively wide circle made of bricks.
These are all things for which we do not know the background story, but at the same time we do not suspect anything good behind them and we want to leave the scene as quickly as possible - before we get into trouble.