{"id":200350,"date":"2025-09-04T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200350\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:42:17","slug":"hikers-experiencing-debilitating-high-from-magic-mushrooms-rescued-from-n-y-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200350\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikers experiencing ‘debilitating high’ from magic mushrooms rescued from N.Y. wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four hikers were rescued by officials after they admitted to authorities that they had consumed magic mushrooms and were suffering from a “debilitating high.”<\/p>\n

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers said that its rangers and local firefighters rescued the hikers in the Slide Mountain Wilderness, a park about 20 miles west of Woodstock, on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n

“The original caller admitted the group had consumed mushrooms and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high,” the agency said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Rangers and firefighters located the group of hikers and escorted them “to the trailhead where they were evaluated by Shandaken Ambulance,” the agency said. <\/p>\n

Officials said that they provided a courtesy ride to the group’s rental lodging. <\/p>\n

They added that one of the hikers lost their car keys, which rangers recovered the next day in a sling bag with the keys under a log in tall ferns. <\/p>\n

An image of the rescue released by the agency shows what appears to be a man in a white hoodie being held up by two rangers. <\/p>\n

Psilocybin mushrooms, known as magic mushrooms or shrooms, are a naturally occurring hallucinogen that typically cause shifts in how a person perceives reality, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Upon consumption, people may see colors, shapes or scenes; hear things that aren\u2019t real; or lose their sense of time and space, according to the agency. <\/p>\n

As of July 1, the agency had conducted 139 search and rescue missions in 2025, according to the release. It completed 362 search and rescue missions in all of 2024.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matt Lavietes<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Matt Lavietes is a reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n

Cristian Santana contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four hikers were rescued by officials after they admitted to authorities that they had consumed magic mushrooms and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-200350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115147737899032617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}