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Hikers Who Reported Friend Dead Were Just Extremely High on Mushrooms

The two were “in an altered state of mind” when they made a panicked phone call to 911.

Two hikers in New York state’s Adirondack Mountains made a panicked call to 911 to report that their friend had died, only for rescuers to discover the friend was very much alive and the two callers were extremely high on magic mushrooms. Forest rangers responded to a call on Saturday about a hiker who had reportedly died while climbing Cascade Mountain, a popular peak in the Adirondack High Peaks region, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation said in a statement. But authorities soon discovered the hikers were under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms—and their supposedly deceased friend was alive and unharmed. The group claimed they were lost, and a summit steward who encountered the disoriented hikers quickly deduced that the pair appeared to be “in an altered state of mind” and got a ranger to escort them to an ambulance, which took them to a nearby hospital. As for the “dead” hiker, he was confirmed alive and well after calling the authorities himself to prove he wasn’t deceased. The third hiker was eventually escorted back to the group’s campsite, where he was reunited with his psychedelic partners, officials said.