It all started back in the summer of 2008. I was about 13 or 14 at the time. My friend and his family had invited me to go camping with them up in Northern California, almost at the border of Oregon. We had lots of stuff planned and one of those things was to go to some caves.
When we got to the caves my friends mom had told us to take a sweater and a flashlight because it was very cold and very dark in there. Me and my friend came to the entrance of the cave and his parents and sisters followed. When we were walking through the cave there was a bunch of these little culdesacs to our left and right. Me and my friend went into one. It was called "Lucifers Corner".
We stayed in there for about 5 minutes just looking around and realized that we were alone. So we turned off our flashlights and it was pitch black. You could not even see your hand inches from your face. This was kind of random but I told my friend to say "bloody mary" 3 times. He did it and nothing happened. So we fired up our flashlights and headed for the exit.
We got out and we couldn't find his family so we assumed that they we back inside the caves. My friend and I went back to the entrance, entered the cave, and walked through once again. We eventually came back to "lucifers corner" where my friend said "bloody mary" 3 times and noticed that there was 3 lit candles melted on the cave wall in the EXACT spot where my friend said it! We looked at that and then looked at each other then we both bolted toward the exit.
When we got outside we were breathing heavily trying to catch our breath. We were both trying to come up with an explanation of why the candles were there but there just wasn't any! There was no candle holder things, no candles on any of the other cave walls, barely any people visiting these caves. What were the chances of 3 candles being in the EXACT same spot where my friend said "bloody mary" 3 Times! There was just no way!
What exactly 'all started'? Oregon Caves is near enough to California, and it's been explored for nearly a century and a half. I very much doubt that a cave system that isn't under the control of a Federal agency is going to be pristine.