Creepy and mysterious things people saw in scary places (r/AskReddit - Reddit Scary Stories)

what is the creepiest thing you've seen in the woods or in the mountains or in deserts or caves or in small towns or in remote or rural areas or while on large bodies of water or while on a aircraft or a nautical vessel I've been at football training with a few of my cousins when I was about 10 years old we decided to take a walk before our parents picked us up so we went along the canal towpath my cousin looked down in the canal and say a really nice jacket floating along and being a weird scavenger person decided to reach in to fish it out well the jacket turned over and so did the man wearing it he also had no face left not gonna lie that was rough this took place in the Australian bush around 10:00 11:00 at night I was 17 leading a staggered column of about 60 cadets to our detachment campsite due to light discipline rules only myself at the very front of the group and the other flight commander at the rear had torches on this was so that any vehicles coming along the trail could see us and so that most of the cadets could maintain their night vision we were camouflaged up and thus difficult to see at night as we walked along I periodically looked to my sides and kept seeing what looked like dew drops on the ground almost like tiny blue gems glinting in my torchlight either side of the road I had to maintain my position in the formation so I couldn't get a good look at what they were however after a while we stopped for a very brief break and I took the opportunity to have a closer look walking over to the side of the trail I spotted a small cluster of the diamonds and focused my head torch on them rather than seeing diamonds or dew drops or anything remotely pleasant I instead saw a group of about five large spiders just crouching in the leaf litter and staring at me they look like Huntsman's which are about the size of an adult's hand sweeping my head around I realized there were thousands of the things all over the ground some on the trunks of trees and everywhere around me glaring at the light affixed to my head I had a very brisk walk back to the formation and attempted to play it cool while screaming in my head being a massive arachnophobe I have no effing clue how I managed to set up a tent and spend the next week in that cursed forest it's 2:00 a.m. we're in a tent in the woods in Maine I'm about eight mom there's something creeping around outside the tent hmm you're dreaming go back to bed mom there really is something out there no there isn't just then something whacks on the side of the tent hard enough to shake the whole thing and my mother who is entirely to God darn tired to deal with this crap sits bolt upright and whacks right back in the same spot and from outside the tent we hear meow edit it was a house cat we didn't hear anything more the rest of the night your mom is metal felt like running at night last year because the park near where I live gets all pretty with the lights on in the dark so after five minutes into the exercise I feel the need to adjust my shoes because I forgot to wear a longer sock and they were hurting my ankle I look up and I see this dark silhouette running towards me at full speed wearing a hoodie about 50 meters away I was on the left side of the street and he was on the right so it was clear he was running towards me i legit almost crapped my pants and felt an adrenaline surge I thought about fighting him if he got any closer but in a blink of an eye the person trips falls face planted on the ground and starts crawling in my effing direction again f that dude is committed on leaving I have a similar story I was doing a paper route and a guy in a wheelchair appears out of nowhere at 3 a.m. just racing towards my car we encountered him again about a week later he did the same thing just hightailed it towards my car in his wheelchair murder in his eyes this took place like two streets over from our house we floored it out of there and quit the paper route never seen him again I was driving home after an extremely late night at work I lived in the middle of nowhere about a mile before I got there a woman covered in blood jumped out of the woods into the middle of the road screaming I panicked and went around her then slammed on the brakes to help her boyfriend had beaten her and was currently chasing after her in the woods I got her in my car and called the police they met us at the hospital because I told them there was no way I was waiting on the side of the road when he was coming walking on the beach with my boyfriend and we had walked to a giant rocky cliff to make out somebody was just gazing at the ocean crying and shaking mind you this is late at night like around 9:30 p.m. we asked him if he was okay he apologized and practically ran back down the cliff away from the dangerous areas my boyfriend and I watched him until he reached the public area and decided to call it a night I'm pretty sure he was going to jump you just might have saved that dude's life that night in order to get back home from a popular kebab restaurant I need to walk a short path through the woods along the way there is an extremely old abandoned partially collapsed chapel and occasionally I'll stand there for a few seconds admiring it it's quite beautiful in its own way one day during winter season I decided to rest there for a minute so I placed my kebab on the bench right next to the chapel and just stood there taking in the scenery it was already rather dark in the woods were almost completely silent but right as I was about to continue my walk I heard footsteps rapidly getting louder it was a child running towards me and as soon as it realized I was there it started to repeatedly scream run he is coming or variations of that same sentiment I was a bit perplexed by the situation so I watched the child run past me without moving an inch myself it didn't take another second for a much more weighty pair of footsteps to appear I could make out a silhouette in the distance which seemed to be their origin and at that exact point in time I got really scared as opposed to running I decided to hide in the chapel next to the altar and after tripping over an old broken Chapel bench I reached my hiding place the footsteps got louder and louder but right as they approached the vicinity of the chapel they suddenly went silent a about 15 seconds of complete quietness had passed just for the words boy you effing idiot left your kebab on the bench to break the silence turns out it was a resident of the very same street I inhabit his nephew was visiting and he wanted to race him to the kebab stand I don't know whether this was the right place to post this ultimately this is more stupid than creepy best story here emo when I was about seven or eight my parents sent me to a local summer camp that they would pick me up from in the afternoons I never really liked it because the kids were mean everything was either broken or not clean and the counselors obviously didn't care I remember the girls changing room had a door that lead out to the woods but the doorknob was gone so it was unlocked all the time and you could see into it this was primarily where the girls changed into their bathing suits and there was usually someone blocking the view while we changed so the boys couldn't look in well one day I'm changing alone and then someone wasn't blocking the door I look over and see and I peeping in through the hole watching me change I pulled the rest of my clothes back on quickly and run out to tell my twin brother I tell my dad that I don't wanted to go back to that camp anymore and he be grudgingly takes us out of the camp pretty soon after because he knew how much we hated it years later the camp has been closed down for many many years and I'm asking my dad about it he gets really grim and tells me it shut down because a 13 year old boy had raped seven year old girl in the woods right behind the girls bathroom a few weeks after I had told him about someone watching me change during a YMCA Camp 15 to 20 years ago was around 11 to 13 at the time we were camping in tents in a forest area was middle of summer so stayed light till around 10 p.m. 11 p.m. till it was fully dark so we go on a night walk with the group and are halfway into the forest when we noticed someone definitely not belonging to our group following us camp leaders rushed us back to camp and put us into our tents with one leader staying up to watch us que halfway through the night wake up and have to pee like a madman get out of the tent to walk to the bathroom and see the leader supposed to watch as asleep in his chair by the campfire look around and see the the guy following us earlier has opened up in his peeking into one of the tents while fumbling in a bag he is next to him screamed louder than I ever screamed in my life leaders wake up jump the guy and hold until the police arrive turns out he had a Taser blindfold rope in several knives in his bag that made me nearly pee myself oMG if you'd not awakened can you imagine trust me I thought about it more than I can count pretty sure one or more of those boys would not be here anymore I was a cook on board several NOAA research ships up in the Bering Sea I saw what appeared to be a massive black triangular shaped craft dive under the water I viewed it from a distance of maybe two nautical miles I was on a camping trip with some friends of mine and we found like seven or eight chipmunks and squirrels all in a pile but they were all dead without arms or legs when I was a kid I used to live on a tiny property in the woods my house was basically built around where stables were once my room was back when it was still stables where the hay was stocked before getting to the creepy thing I need to say some other stuff when you were in my room you could sometimes smell hay out of nowhere my dog was always refusing to go upstairs because something was scaring the crap out of it there you could sometimes hear knocking on doors they were three entrance doors in my house sometimes all at once now that this had been said we can go to the fun thing so my room had a big window that gave a big view over the woods and my garden was basically a clearing once I effing heard a kid giggling from upstairs I ran there only to find my window open and something running out in the woods I spent two more years in this house and effing felt insecure the whole time small town in a relatively rural area a few years after the fact I'm now relatively certain it was a skinwalker about ten years ago I was at my dad's house for the weekend in Kentucky the Appalachian people are very superstitious hailing from the scots-irish people and just never losing that side of them my dad wasn't superstitious I thought and was not one to be easily scared it was about I'd to know 10:00 at night and we randomly decided to go into town to get some McDonald's daddy always insisted on walking in front of me and I always assumed it was so I wouldn't accidentally step on a snake but now I don't think that's the case so he turned on the porch light and opened the screen door he had put one foot on the porch and there was this god-awful sound I will never in my life forget it there was a screech followed by the sound of a crow but it wasn't a crow the best way I can describe it as if a person was mimicking a crow call my hair stood up on the back of my neck and my dad retreated into the house he slammed the big door and locked it something I had never seen him do before I could ask a question he said it isn't safe we can go tomorrow morning and so we did but the rest of the night we stayed inside my dad didn't even go outside to smoke a cigarette he even let the outside dog stay in the house we never talked about that again but that was one of the scariest moments of my life went walking in the woods while camping with an old boyfriend to where the road ended and found a giant underground cage after exploring we started kissing and suddenly her little kids giggling all around us hightailed it out of there and never looked back Cowlitz River Washington State camping with my dad and sister me buddies early 90s something was throwing rocks and sticks into our camp we shined a flashlight out and caught a reflection of eyes and a silhouette very very tall kept throwing stuff in our camp randomly for about 15 minutes we just stoke the fire really high in the morning I woke up to heavy footsteps in our camp and something wreaked woke up my dad he shook the tent and yelled whatever it was ran off human retinas don't reflect light back at night that's a fun little fact I like sharing around the campfire I was driving through rural parts of Missouri with a buddy we drove down a single lane road that had no exit at the end of the road there was a group of deer corpses laid in a perfect circle I'd say there was at least 10 deer we btfo real quick I've told this before and will stick with me till on my deathbed was a high schooler mid-90s went fishing off the coast of Corpus Christi with uncle and cousins we were about 18 miles out been out all day was around 8 p.m. and we're gearing up to head back in it was before DST so Sun was already going down and getting dark I was at the stern bringing in the traps as I'm pulling it and I see this glow about 100 to 150 feet off it's nothing I have ever seen best way I can describe it it's like if you stuck a toaster underwater in the orange glowing elements were still working but still not quite and it was very large we were on a 38 feet boat all I can guess it was 5 to 6 times bigger kind of hard to judge sizes on open water the water above it is not churning but you can tell that it is disturbing it I don't know hard to explain almost like it was pushing the water up this whole time I'm expecting something to break the surface and just froze you know like when you're walking the dog or something at night not really paying attention and a cat or opossum runs out how you freeze and everything stops unlike that the whole time finally I let out a call to my uncle he comes around stops right by me he's not saying anything just kind of like me this thing object or whatever the hell just jets out towards the Gulf I'm talking like not picking up speed instantly jets out all I say is you seen that before my uncle just says nope let's go I say absolutely nothing the way back and he doesn't either my cousin's asked us what happened all my uncle says is nothing now what could it have been I've researched it on and off for past 25 years especially when the internet came out I found a lot of people seeing something very similar there is a naval base down there but no sub bases we know about it kind of took over my life for a lot of years if we have something like that though we've been holding out on technology that could change our lives super long story TLDR nearly got murdered backpacking and rural Tasmania my boyfriend and I were backpacking through rural Tasmania a few years ago while on a bus we were discussing our plans for the ensuing two weeks the girl in the seat in front turns around and offers us a place to stay in her town we declined as we were headed elsewhere first but she gave us her mobile number and said that she and her partner would love to have us a few days later we decide to take them up on their offer we call her and she says they're happy to host us so far so good they meet us at the train station and immediately something feels off it's really difficult to explain but it's that primal an ephah bull feeling in your guts that tells you that something isn't right we ignored our guts and followed them they lead us straight out of town we ask them where we're going and they say that they live on the outskirts this town is creepy as f it's an old mining town that has been largely abandoned and as we walk to fifteen odd minutes to their home the houses get crappier with boarded up windows overgrown gardens and know people in sight eventually weary the house at the very end of the town it's their house we go in set up in the middle of the living room is a single mattress with a sheet hanging around it they show us around the house except for one door which stays closed when I asked what was behind it they pretended not to hear our room has a made bed chest of drawers and looks like a normal room it seems weird that they sleep on mattresses in the living room when they have a guest room we go back into the living room and look around knives a lot of knives my boyfriend asks if they go hunting no the partner hands one of the knives to my boyfriend and asks him to open it it's a massive effing bowie knife with what looks like blood staining around the edges of the blade my boyfriend laughs awkwardly and sets it down they have a tattoo gun to practice my boyfriend asks if they have any tattoos no there's a small axe at the door I asked if they collect wood no suddenly the guy says he wants to go to the shops we agree quickly because we're creeped out and want to get back into the town the four of us leave and they start walking in the opposite direction to the town I say that the town is back the other way the guy says this way would be more interesting because it goes up through the trees he says that they have never been up the mountain before but he knows the area and it would take the same amount of time I tell my boyfriend that I'm freaking out but he thinks it's ok we follow them into the trees the path goes up the mountain we are going the total opposite direction of the town the girl turns around to her partner and whispers so where was the place again my boyfriend and I freeze I say I want to take the road back to town and start walking when the four of us arrive in the one shop in town no one recognizes the couple and this is a really small town we make an excuse that we want to go look at sites and that will catch up with them later and instead booked a hotel room and freak out I did some snooping on the area their house had an extra room behind the mystery door and a basement the path that we were taking led straight out of town and up the mountain there was no way it could loop back into town so yeah pretty sure we narrowly avoided being murdered or maybe they were just massive weirdos to be honest the creepiest thing was the fact that there was no drug paraphernalia at all the state of the house and the weird behavior would have been understandable if they were intoxicated but that wasn't the case they were gonna kill your boyfriend and sell you as a prostitute the tattoo gun is to mark you as their property and the mattress is probably where you would have worked holy crap I have never thought of this before [Music] [Music]

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Published: Mon Aug 19 2019