I heard this happened somewhere in 1997-1998, where college students, I think around 5 of them, went camping around the parts of Lake Isabella. They were on the camping place, you know, reservation type stuff. They decided it's not real camping. They decided to go out way deep in the forest. The rest of this is like the Blair Witch, but this was told before it ever came out.
Before they left, they got some supplies. Some of the kids were talking with the other locals. One of the locals said that there was once a hermit type guy living out in the woods. There this man lived off the land; killing animals and feading himself from the forests. This guy would come to the town every week just to see his friend and get items.
The hermit did not see his friend for a month. So his friend went out to look for him. He turned up missing. A search party was sent to search for the missing friend. The search party was missing and they just forgot about it.
Sometime later, a couple and their dog, went out camping. One day the dog had in its mouth a racoon tail and a human hand. Again, a search party was sent, but nothing.
The kids just thought, Urban Legend, so they decided to camp. They having fun drinking and getting buckwild. One of the college kids took a piss out in the forest. This kid didn't come back. For a week, the college kids came out looking for their friend. Search party and parents came out to look for this kid. Nothing happened. The friends just stayed a couple of days later to try to find their friends still. They never found the guy.
They left around 11 pm at night and in the middle of the night, they had a flat tired. The four of them were out in the middle of the desert now, around I-14 maybe. They decided to walk out in the dark, no moonlight. The next day their car was found with a flat, but they were never found.
No one knows what actually happened. Some people actually say that the hunter just became crazy, he just didn't care anymore. But why? Who the hell knows. Is he still out there? No one really knows either.