More Scary Things You've Seen In The Woods (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

serious campers over debt what is the scariest creepiest most disturbing thing that has happened to you in the woods when I was younger around 14 or 15 years old my family used to camp at a state park every night my friend and I would walk through the woods we called this the ritual this particular night we decided to walk further into the woods than usual we had flashlights be we liked to try and navigate through the woods were then turned off we were about half a mile from the nearest campsite when we heard soft whispering behind us obviously we hid the flashlights and spun around didn't see anything so we kept walking and we hear it again this time we stop and look around a bit before we decided to head back to our campsite so then we see what's whispering it's a lady crawling on the ground whispering just random words she was wearing dark clothes and was covered in dirt when she sees that we notice as she stands up and declares that she is looking for her campsite we ended up walking her back to the campground and tried helping her find her group turns out she was just super drunk and got lost trying to find a bathroom her friends didn't even notice she was missing and if we didn't go that far into the woods she would have been lost all night it was pretty creepy I'm picturing a witch crawling on the ground calling you my pretties went camping and Ginny springs in Florida there about 10 years ago in some time it's night I heard that sound you hear in movies TV of a huge tree falling didn't think anything of it about 10 minutes later I started hearing lots of people talking outside my tent so I got out and discovered the tree fell on someone's tent kind of close by and killed them a helicopter had to come and airlift them out safari guide here woke up one morning with something very warm rather soft and comfy on my back realized my back was against the canvas of the tent realized it was an animal it was a really cold winter night temperatures dropped close to zero here in the low vault WTF as I moved a bit I heard the voice from my buddy from his tent he spoke a bit hushed and with a definite tremble in his voice the Africa bog are you awake stupid me replied with a strong voice yes the animal next he got up and luckily ran away it was a big male loan my cat does the same when it's cold outside she likes to snuggle up behind my back the line was just a big kitty who wanted to cuddle I was camping in a valley by myself with no cell service I stayed late on a trail and ran into a nice local dude as it was getting dark he showed me a local camping spot close to the road and the river but camouflaged I had a fire drank beer and listened to my friends comedy podcast I was loud and visible because it was dark already I decided to sleep in the back of my truck under my topper next to all of my gear as opposed to setting up my tent the next morning I made a fire cracked a beer and started making breakfast then I noticed that there is a man at the edge of my camp he comes closer but never looks directly at me this dude looks homeless has a long ratty beard and his at least a hundred plastic grocery bags tied all over his clothes I comment about how nice the day is no response from him I offer him breakfast nothing he sawed-off paces around the perimeter of my camp I offer him a beer but he just turns around the dude is just standing there back to me wandering around I'm realizing that there isn't going to be any good happenings I had my bear spray and buck knife super close I gave him an ultimatum mother you are either going to acknowledge me or leave immediately he ignores me I grab the bear mace and walk a few steps towards him he sulked away and I threw my crap in my truck and left that place right quick I wonder if he had watched me during the night and I thanked my laziness for staying in my truck instead of a tent camping alone in a bit of secluded bushland lots of sticks and leaf litter so can hear critters and people moving easily hearing a plopping noise during the night with no other noises to wake up to see a decapitated kangaroos head next to the tent that obviously wasn't there when I put the tent up no explanation got the F out of there went camping with my friends back in high school we hiked way out into the woods mountains and collapsed exhausted into our tents middle of the night I hear something outside my tent then another something and another all around the tent it sounded so much to me like something stalking up to our tent surrounding it I gathered my courage and looked out shining my flashlight in at the pitch-black darkness all I could see in the dark was shining eyes looking back at me not little eyes or eyes close to the ground but almost man hight and large turned out it was a herd of deer it was 2 a.m. pitch dark low fire we heard rustling in the woods flashlights pan out all of his sudden a Miller comes running towards us and into the fire we could hear it sizzling while we all were screaming the next day the charred body was buried with a proper funeral suicide by camp fire that's pretty brutal my wife and I were camping alone in a kind of remote area but there were little campsites made by the parks depths that were flat and clear we found a great looking spot but it was right on a lake which I thought was to be avoided but we were beginner backpackers and figured the parks depth wouldn't make a spot there if it wasn't safe so we set up camp mid-afternoon I was feeling a little beat so I took a short nap while my wife read a book when I woke up she told me that somebody was walking around in our campsite I looked around but didn't see anything there were some other campsites maybe 500 feet away so I figured it was another camper checking the place out late that night after we'd gone to bed for the night it was drizzling a little rain and I was sort of half asleep at probably 2 or 3 a.m. then I realized that if I listened really closely I could hear someone walking around our campsite very very quietly I didn't have a knife or any sort of weapon and started freaking out I carefully woke my wife up to get her ready and we listened together then suddenly we heard it it sounded like a cat cleaning itself we have cats then more walking around in circles around the tent then the sound of a large cat lapping up water just feet from our tent then walking back to the tent immediately beside me I heard it flopped down on the and cat owners know how a relaxed cat flops over it was like that but way bigger I was trying to control my breathing as carefully as I could so it wouldn't hear me but I was so panicked it was hard to do it hung around for what seemed like a long time I really had to pee but I wasn't ready to move or brief let alone go out there the scariest part is that the whole time it was so quiet that if you didn't concentrate you couldn't be sure that it was even there so when I think it left well it might have been way before a way after it actually left but no idea eventually I was sure I hadn't heard it in a long time so I very cautiously poked my head out I didn't see anything it was pitch black did my business went back to bed the next morning we get up and there are massive paw prints in our campsite looks just like a cat's paw print but more like eight inches across later after getting home I called the park ranger to let em know in case they are monitoring encounters with dangerous animals or something I dunno I'm not a wilderness expert and they told me it must have been a mountain lion and how lucky I was to have an encounter with one when I think about my wife telling me that someone was in our campsite around 12 hours earlier than the encounter it creeps me right out to think that we might have been stalked by a mountain lion for some time I love that it just acted like a normal cat I had a nasty thunderstorm that spawned a tornado roar over me one night the tornado cut a path a couple of kilometres away at one point the Lightning was almost continuous no choice but ride it out my parents story not mine they were on a canoe trip way up in nowhere Saskatchewan far from any semblance of civilization one morning they hear a rustling outside their tent still half asleep my dad sits up and tries to figure out what is going on the noise is loud and very close before he can collect himself enough to go investigate his whole side of the tent collapses in on top of him the weight lifted quickly now entirely awake my parents scrambled to open the tent flap and figure out what was going on about ten feet away was a spooked black bear staring confused and concerned at the 10th after being yelled at a bit it ran off we figure it had been foraging in the bushes right behind the tent and lost its balance sir my dad can truthfully say he has been sat on by a bear I love how the bear was just sitting there confused and concerned like Oh golly me I hope I didn't hurt anything oh they're mad I will leave now friends so sorry goodbye we like to hike three five miles down a trailhead in deep Georgia one night the temperature dropped into the low twenties which is really rare for mid fall we got a solid fire going and a heat mixed with a full belly put a soy to sleep I woke up to my buddy tapping my foot with a stick I looked up at him and he nodded toward the fire there were two wild boar kicking up dirt around the dying fire we didn't have any sort of weaponry except a hand like Santa was out of our reach my friend and I laid there completely silent watching these two for about an hour till the fire died completely down him they moved on if you don't know wild boars in Georgia are easily 150 pounds pee all the time and prone to Gore literally anything we were really lucky we didn't spook them they were clearly just concerned about the fire going with no one watching it and kicked dirt on it until it went out my time in the army meant I spent a ton of time in the woods of upstate NY I remember many of nights waking up to things reaching into my pockets pulling things from my kit body armor it woke up to a raccoon pillaging my things literally unzipping pouches and such I still swear to this day they were organized rallied behind this giant raccoon Frick stick who would sit outside and keep guard and coordinate them raccoons are super resourceful little suckers goddamn trash pandas my family went camping every summer when I was growing up we usually bounced between Virginia Beach Assateague and this god-awful place called Westmoreland one trip we were in Assateague near the beach and we had to tempt setup in different parts of the site sometime in the middle of the night my mom woke up which woke me she was sitting up straight but completely still and looked over at what she was staring at in the moonlight there was the silhouette of what looked like an old woman looking into our tent long wire hair and everything I was young so it terrified me and I started asking my mom what that was who was outside once I made noise it spooked the old woman and she took off and that's when we realized she was actually one of the feral ponies that live on the island we had set up that particular tent on one of their trails and they were going down to the beach I'm not sure why but I find this story so cheering I know someone who while hiking in Colorado with some friends they found an abandoned cabin in a roughly circular region around the cabin everything inside was dead plants small animals etc they didn't step inside and have no idea what was up sounds like you found the elusive Colorado nope scariest was camping with my wife when a windstorm blew up I am talking trees being blown over branches falling the works in a forest full of jack pine the creepiest was camping with my best friend we were in a semi remote camping area drivable usually to get to it but definitely only with a 4x4 it was a semi maintained camping area as if there were a couple of fire pits a few rotting picnic tables and a rundown outhouse parks check this place once a year or so so we get there and start setting up when buddy wanders over to the toilet and opens the door he stands there for a second or two and then closes the door and goes to the second one goes on and comes out a few minutes later he comes back to me and says go check out that first one I assume someone crap on the floor or an animal got stuck in there and died or something nope three full backpacks and I am talking big bags like the bag I have that size I use for week-long trips so we are nosy we open them up to a full of good quality gear nothing unusual the third is full of Skittles bulk bags small bags regular tropical sour every flavor and size of bag you can imagine just full of fricking skittles camped for four days never saw the soul still there when we left we let the CIO's know when we got to civilization who left all that gear why did one person pack 80 litres of skittles don't know but it was weird oh another scary one Doug and I were backpacking spur-of-the-moment overnight trip wasn't far off the road or anything so I just have at our Papa's a small shelter small little fire wasn't really hiding per se but wasn't being obvious just dozing off when I hear a truck rip up and a bunch of drunken voices then the shooting started now they probably didn't know I was there I was parked on a different road and hadn't realized I had walked as close as I had to the second one but I still don't like being in the area when a bunch of drunken Yahoo's are shooting off guns especially when I was fairly certain they were shooting in my direction based on the lay of the land but so I put popper on a tight leash and headed out ASAP a backpack full of Skittles abandoned in the bathroom what the actual Frick saw a mountain lion looking at me from about 100 feet away while pooping good thing I had a gun with me just in case but it was at my most vulnerable moment also it really helped me take a crap faster 25 years ago or so so eyes in the darkness of the trees when shining a flashlight out seemed kinda high up they were red reflecting also was having sticks and rocks occasionally thrown into our camp nothing big and it was directed at the fire eventually it stopped and we went to bed there was four of us I'm a light sleeper and so is my dad we both woke up to footsteps and a really bad stink about 5:00 a.m. my dad shook the sight of the tent and yelled get the Frick out of here whatever it was it ran off calm it's country waa well that is where I am now so thank you you have been visited by the swell skeleton he'll give you good calcium if you Spock Riband five seconds if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Published: Mon Jul 08 2019