2 missing hikers are saved by rescue helicopter when they saw a SOS sign, but the sign was not made by the hikers

Holy creepers. The wiki is horrifying. Your movie script is set, just don't have the helicopter show up until after the unwinding of the horror is complete, maybe throw in a caretaker or local perp still active in the area.

Still missing mans belongings stuffed in a tree with a female (maybe?) skeleton found near the sign, man deemed far to weak to have built the sign. No tools found, a recording of a man screaming for help, and the felled birch tree sign made of logs thats estimated to have taken 2 days to build. Sign was estiamted to be built 2 yrs before.

Better than most horror movies plots.
I don't really get it I'm sorry. Usually I'm terrified by creepypasta stuff but I don't really see the creepiness here.

Basically someone made an SOS sign but they weren't found and they died?

The wiki is an absolute mess though, lots of conflicting bits.

The terrain is difficult to escape. This was supported by the fact that a few days after the incident was discovered, a news media interview team who visited the site was unable to escape from the area and was rescued.[11][6] lmao

I weirdly don't find this creepy, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's because the terrain is difficult and it's very perfect timing, but not creepy?

Before I read it, I thought it was going to be some deserted island and a living person, who wasn't them, made it for them. Kinda like a "get off my island" type deal, but creepy because they didn't know a living person was nearby, which could've been bad.

But instead it's just lost people get lost close to a place where someone got lost previously, and it just so happens a helicopter flew by and saw the sign from the previous person.

Just make SOS signs whenever you're going on a hike in case someone gets lost there. It's just being nice to your fellow hikers.
- Or better yet just start random smoke signals any time you're out so we dont waste rescue times on sos signals that stay after you dont need rescuing anymore
  
  Plus it will be a good way to stay warm
That but they don't know how he made the SOS sign. Its huge, those are trees not branches. The ID they found is from one guy, did he make the sign? Add in the video, a man calling for help but he says "The place is where I first met the helicopter." What helicopter? Why was there a helicopter? Oh and the parents of the man whose ID was found say that isn't his voice on the video. But it was his video tape.
- The parents just said that they couldn't confirm that it was him, not that it wasn't him. Also, audio not video
But it wasn't just one person that was previously lost there. Possibly three other times ...

The female remains.

the ID and recodeings of a man from '84

whoever made the SOS
- Was the SOS recent? And not possibly made by either of the two others?
Bro, that would be a dope short story or TV show episode!

The body that was found was of another missing person, but he didn't have the strength to create the sign, or the tools to do so.

Meaning at least one unknown person came to grief in that area.

It had to have been him, it's too coincidental otherwise. They believed it possible until they checked his remains and said he was too weak but he may not have always been, he could have died months after making the sign too
- This was my thought too. Plus they thought the remains were female for quite some time. Not sure I entirely trust Japan's forensic abilities at the time.
- Yeah that's way more plausible than there being another person
- These are fully grown trees we're talking about, he had no tools to cut them down with, or the strength to move them.

Protip. When camping, leave a SOS sign. You never know if your sign might save somebody.

I go out into the woods and leave a new one every weekend. We all have to do our part.

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” Or fell trees to make an SOS that won't be found in their lifetime.

Edit: The "505 Gang" tagging crew could not be reached for comment.

That story just keeps on giving. Really mysterious, possibly all just a mix of coincidence and speculation due to lack of evidence, but great source for a fictional story

A person dreams of a future where in his dreams he helps someone construct an sos sign knowing that he himself is doomed to die because he crippled his legs during his fall. But in his dreams his body is whole.

In the future a mysterious figure helps several lost hikers, but the figure is unable to speak, only coming out when the sun is gone.

Upon their rescue they were unable to find the mysterious figure. But the rescuers find a skeleton of a decades old corpse, the clothes of the corpse matches the clothes of the figure described by the rescued group.
- Not bad.

Oh hell yes, the first community I've actually wanted to subscribe to!

The SOS sign was here if anyone's interested - it can be seen in this video which confirms the location.

I saw this on MrBallan's channel I think. How awful. Incredible creepy story.

Wow.

Oldie but goodie