I was car camping with my family, it was about midnight. My wife and kids were already in the tent and I was cleaning up around camp. I hear a man say "Nice night" and have no idea where he is because I had just put out the fire and my eyes were adjusting to the darkness. Finally I see he's standing in our campsite near our picnic table smoking a cigarette. He continues, "It must be scary camping here with your family, lots of sketchy people around." I was carrying a .45 handgun on my hip under a jacket, I don't think he had seen it. So I showed it to him and replied, "Yeah that's why I'm always armed. Never know when a bear or something might cause trouble." His tone quickly changed from intimidating to friendly and he laughed nervously. "Well that's smart of you, have a good night." Then he walked away. The next morning the camp host came to our campground with a very concerned look on her face and ran over to where I was cooking breakfast. She says "Did you guys get hit last night, are you missing anything?" Apparently someone had gone through and robbed almost every campsite that night. Every camp site except for ours
My scary story wasn't really scary, just evidence I'm a dorktastic spaz. On one of my very first solo camping trips (Tennessee in the late fall, btw). I woke up in the dead of night hearing something snuffling around my tent. I also heard a "cracking" noise, like the sound of bone being bitten through, coming from the same spot. I'm my half-asleep mind, I determined a wild boar was outside my tent, its powerful jaws crushing the bones of some poor bunny or squirrel. I then remembered the granola bars in my tent, and how animals can smell food. By this time, I was convinced that the boar was going to smell my granola bars, and tear into my tent at any moment. I laid perfectly still for some reason (it made sense at the time) and waited for the wild boar to go away. A few moments later, I heard the cracking of bones again, this time from a bit farther away. I finally summoned up my courage and peeked out the flap of my tent. At which point I discovered my ferocious wild boar was actually a fawn deer, probably 40 pounds soaking wet, munching down on acorns. It gave me a "what're you looking at, stupid?" look and went back to eating acorns. I sunk back into my sleeping bag and tried not to die of embarrassment.
Back in 1997 I got my truck stuck on Flaming Gorge in Wyoming. I left the truck and started walking the pitch black dirt road back to the main road. It was so dark you couldn't see anything. As I was walking something snorted and growled at me. I fired a shot in the air and waited and the growling actually got closer to me. I ended up shooting in it's general direction 3 times and each time it moved closer, and the growling got louder. So now it's closing in probably 15 yards away to my 2 o'clock as if it was trying to flank me. I fired one last shot in it's direction and after let out the loudest most blood curdling scream that I could. After that I heard something heavy sprint off it sounded like it had hooves but I can't be sure. Luckily about an hour later a guy was driving in to do some cat fishing and was nice enough to drive me back into town. I will never forget being that scared with a rifle in my hand.
😳😳😳😳 wow that was scaryyy omg ... Thank God you got out alive I'm shivering just listening 🎧 I read it to my husband he said he believes there some type of experience from the government going on out there too many people have seen things that are not normal animals or there either breeding them with humans idk but it's very eerie and scary 😳
I was bow hunting bear in the middle of nowhere in the UP of Michigan with my buddy. Some dude showed up at our little camp site in the woods, and my buddy proceeded to tell him his life story. He had that bad habit of oversharing. Why did this guy show up at our camp site. We hadn't seen anyone in days. Be wary of the people. Yeah, we heard wolves, but hey, we were sleeping outside in the woody forest. It's the people. Watch out for the people. They are the apex predators.
I can't do the long hikes anymore, my last multi-day hike was the Pinhoti Trail thru Alabama. I was always well armed on a hike even now on little day hikes I tote two pistols and a folding pack rifle. Its an absolute disgrace to feel the need to tote self defense weapons on a hike.
@@MAGAMANPATRIOT I did a 1,200 mile cross country motorcycle trip in 2.5 days one way to visit family back in my college days. Well, I borrowed a gun for protection and slept off my bike in some crazy places to and from. I never took a gun again after maybe 100,000 miles on motorcycle trips and maybe 500 nights of camping and backpacking. The western united states & Canada have been good to me but maybe Alabama I would have needed a machine gun. Crimes usually don't happen on hikes. My experiences have been meeting awesome people in the outdoors and the animals have never been a problem.
i *really* like these sorts of videos. not sensationalized or polished, just honest stories from the woods. the woods at night are creepy enough, these stories don't need embellishment. thanks for sharing!
Your 1st fear was realized with my dad when we were younger. In a tent, he heard something barreling through the brush, sat up and smack, he and the bear smashed heads. My Dad was ok, huge shiner, but it was something I’ll never forget. We all slept in the car after that.
Scariest thing for me. 2013 hiking alone in Yosemite and I see a huge curved tail going over a log to my right. I could only imagine it being a mountain lion but then was like no way. Later down the trail, I ran into two women who were waiting for me to catch up. When I asked if they saw a mountain lion, they said "yeah, there were three".
I was stationed at Naval Hospital Millington Tn back in 1975. After working the mid-shift we would go drive through Shelby Forest along the Mississippi to spot wildlife & unwind. There was 5 of us in the car & as we drove past a picnic grove on the way to the public boat launch we saw a Bigfoot/Sasquatch casually walking along the tree line. A few moments of panic ensued but we turned around to get a second look. As we drove past in the opposite direction Squatch was still doing his stroll & looked at us as we stared back at it. It didn't seem to be concerned by our presence. Anyway, we had a hard time believing what just happened but around 10 days later we were driving thru the forest again and a Shelby County Sheriff pulled us over. He asked us what we were up to that late at night & I told him we were Navy corpsmen out for a drive to spot game & the next thing he says is "Have y'all seen Bigfoot yet?" Three of us were in the original group & yelled YES! and the cop spent the next 10-15 minutes telling us stories about the most recent sightings. So he confirmed what we & everyone else had a hard time believing.
That's true. Once we all got big scare about 2 a.m. We were teenagers and we all sat around fire, talking about ghosts and scary stories, when we heard big rustling in the distance and getting closer. In pitch dark noise was getting louder and louder, someone or something was coming towards us - and we were getting grey hair ...... When the noise came about 10 yards from us - we fired up our flash lights in that direction and saw ......invisible creature. Very noisy rustling - but couldn't see anyone or anything ..... After a lots of nerves and investigation - we discovered hedgehog.
I myself have been terrified by the late night rustling of a bear that, upon examination, turned out to be a bunny. He did not even run from me after I shined my flashlight at him. Just went back to eating grass.
@@GruntProof I just told you the truth about cryptids existing. That's probably why TH-cam won't let me add this last sentence here to my comment above. It is like most mainstream media. It censors the truth. Thanks for your service.
While getting camping permits in Yellowstone for a four day pack trip the ranger informed us (a fellow fisherman) would be hiking through three of the five areas in the US that were “grizzly infested”. My buddy and I were obviously concerned but held on to our plans. After listening to a half hour presentation on the do’s and don’ts we were assigned a camp site in a campground. We were told that we had to stay in our assigned site “incase they had to come and get us out”. The first night at ~2:00AM I was awakened by heavy breathing and loud footsteps outside my tent. This was obviously not a raccoon, it walked around my tent snorting and clawing at the ground. Eventually it walked about twenty feet away and laid down. I could hear it breathing. I was wide awake with my fish cleaning knife in hand the rest of the night. At dawn I unzipped my tent as quietly as possible and could see a buffalo. My buddy in his tent slept through the night.
A shocking side note to my backpacking trip, almost a year to the day a grizzly tore through a packers tent and ate 70 pounds of the guy. There was a friend there that tried to stop the attack but was unsuccessful as the bear turned on him, he managed to escaped with his life. Grizzlies are real and dangerous!! This was in 1982.
@@Melsincatuation You got to be kidding! No bigfoot animal, dogman animal, or werewolf animal. Lies and dishonesty. Because a Christian and you will get answers! There are Bear, wild dogs, mountain lion, ect.
On a canoe trip with my young sister in Algonquin Park. Stopped for lunch on the shoreline, sitting with my back to the forrest, my 8 year old sister sitting in front of me, facing into the forest. All of the sudden she starts crying, I say "whats wrong?" - she says "there is a wolf behind you" - my heart kinda stops.... I slowly turn around, to see a friendly dog with tags looking for treats who musta been from a local backcountry cottage 😂
I had something like that happen to me in Alaska, i had bent down to tie my shoes and heard the sound of something running up behind me. I had a giant adrenaline rush, Of course my first thought was, crap a bear is charging me, but it turned out to be two friendly slobbering Rottweilers
Only once: outside canyonlands in January. We drove in very late on a Friday after work. Set up camp in the dark. I woke up at some point and heard footsteps, clearly bipedal, approach, walk around the tent, and walk off. I didn't sleep much that night. We were miles from the nearest dirt road, let alone pavement.
@George Lynch Dixon I've seen sasquatch disappear twice. It was the one that had been standing next to me. We were also very closely surrounded by its clan both times. They may have all been close enough to spit upon but at least they weren't all close enough to touch, like the one standing beside me and slightly forwards of my position. I never saw it's face either time. Lots of different types of cryptids exist. We can't expect people to believe it. They normally need to experience it firsthand in order to know of their existence.
@George Lynch Dixon They've warned people before and saved many peoples lives. If the one next to me wanted me dead, I would be. It had 2 opportunities to take my life and I'm still here. You watch Steve Isdahl don't you? His channel is the best of its kind. I'm glad to be a member of "The Club Of No Return." It made camping there where our encounters occurred, so much better than it had been before. I love that farm. There is just something about experiencing more fear than I had ever felt being instantly transformed into more joy to be alive than I had ever experienced before. It was amazing. I was already an adrenaline junky but my God I'd never experienced anything like those massive adrenaline dumps, I had on both of the nights of my encounters. I had 5 each time. I had never been so jacked up on adrenaline.
@George Lynch Dixon It was incredibly awesome but that fear was something else. When it was instantly replaced with elation, I wanted more. What can I say, other than that I'm definitely an adrenaline junkie? Absolutely love the stuff. I can see the attraction to adrenochrome but I'd rather be dead than to use it. I prefer the real deal not it's metabolite. Adrenochrome is a product that only sick people will use and the methods used to procure it are incredibly evil. They need an equal punishment to fit the crime.
@@donolinger6904 Yeah, I watch Steve too....And YES he is definitely the best channel on here anywhere about the sasquatch & cryptids. I too am a member of 'The club of no return'
@@gloriamitchell2376-. I think we need to start spelling it this way. The Club Of kNOw Return. I think it's slightly more fitting because of it being hidden from the public. It's forbidden knowledge because we might conclude that other types of giants exist like the Bible said. Heaven forbid that we think that God might actually exist. Hells more like it. God wants it revealed and He will make sure it is. That's why it's hidden, the bad guys get more souls that way.
Sounds are louder and lights is brighter when sleeping outside. It is crazy how much more you can see after half an hour of no headlamp or smartphone use.
I once biking with my bro in Topanga National Park and we was racing until we get specific spot marked as finish. I told him if one of us going to be the last in the line, do not wait just keep on goin meet each other when we both reach the finish spot. He was ahead of me n was out of sight, then i heard how he screamed my name n i got worry i thought maybe something happened so i speed up even more and saw him down the little hill, he was ok and i asked him ''did u just call my name?'' and he said ''no, i stopped cuz i thought u called my name'' so basically i heard him calling me, and he heard me calling him, thats why he stopped n waited on me, but it looks like not me nor him didnt call each other. It was creepy n sinister.
That would be genuinely scary. Fair amount of meth cookers in my neck of the woods, and I would not want to stumble onto one of their "operations" in the middle of nowhere.
happened to me too only i was lost for three days figured my life was over and that was going to be my unfortunate death luckily i had a backpack full of food and great survival gear. i Was lost in the middle of nowhere deep in the thick forest up by Mt. Hood Oregon, no GPS or Cellphone service at all. As i was trekking through the thick brush using just a compass, using my machete to cut thru some berry bushes i came into a small clearing and i noticed trash like a gardening water-hose, a tire, some buckets. i was happy i found trash left behind by humans so i continued to look for more in hopes i would come across a cabin, some campgrounds, or a road nearby. i heard a truck start and take off so i followed the sound a came across a brook or stream so i crossed and kept walking. i lost the sound of truck and kept walking eventually i couldn't find it again. i set up camp, made some dinner, watched a movie i had on my tablet downloaded. the next morning i went back to try and find where that truck sound came from, i kept walking and sure enough i cam in contact with an RV. the Truck wasnt there so i creeped up slowly to the front door and knocked, nobody answered but the door was slightly ajar and i saw a meth lab and it hella smelled like meth. i left and camped by closely so that when the truck came back and left again i could follow their way out when they left. and thats what i did. I have no idea how they got that huge RV into the forest in the middle of nowhere, no roads or trials either. the way the truck came in and left was awkward terrain and weird obstacles to get in and out. if it wasnt for that meth lab in the middle of nowhere, i wouldn't have never made it out alive. thank god for that meth lab in the middle of nowhere near Mt. Hood Oregon
I began backpacking in Ohio at age 10, 64 years ago. Slept many a nights alone in the woods next to the Scioto River, Black Walnut Creek and the Olentangy. I was awakened by a stray horse while cowboy camping under a tree once...nothing scary. Most of my scariest incidents happened on night hikes. In Germany while hiking not far from an old barn. This long deep menacing growl sound literally had me shaking. my heart pounding and my pace almost turned into a run; but I knew if I ran the animal instinct in whatever it was would kick in and it would chase me. It never left the barn but every few seconds I would stop and turn to look on the trail behind me. I was using my Volksmarche hiking staff and I was prepared to use it. What made the situation worse was it was overcast and a slight fog was settling on the ground. Eerie feeling overcame me. Another incident happened on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. I stopped to take care of nature's call and as I stood next to a tree I felt as though I was being watched. You develop extra sensory perception after years of hiking and camping alone. I slowly turned and as I did so I could see the outline of a very large cat, a mountain lion, not sixty yards up on a rock ledge. I immediately raised my arms and started shouting. Fortunately I was with two Air Force buddies and they ran back to my position. The cat turned and ran out of sight. While hammock camping at Grayson in Virginia, I was awakened by a curious pony that stuck his nose up against my bug net near my face. It shocked me but I realized it was a pony and and said something stupid, go find someone else to sleep with or kiss :)
venomous snakes! that's my biggest fear. it's the reason i gave up on tarp camping. i was never able to get a good nights sleep thinking about one of them crawling in with me.
Very,very strange incident when I was much younger., maybe 19. Out with my girl friend in the florida everglades at night. Found a spot to stop, there are no roads at this point, driving dodge ram,4x4. We are sitting on the ground ,on a blanket, getting cozy when we both see a glowing, perfectly round sphere "floating" about 4 ft off the ground and about 10 yards away. I got the feeling it was inspecting us as it went by. No sound, completely silent. We were a bit surprised and didn't stick around to find out what it was or follow it. Amazing experience.
I've heard about those, supposedly they want you to follow them. Don't, because they're trying to take you deeper into the woods until you get lost. I heard they may be the fae folk or even sasquatch. Who knows. Some say it's just ball lightning, but that's like saying UFO's are swamp gas.
When I was around 3, I was with my parents in a campground right next to the road following one of my dad's softball games. The whole team was there, in a state of semi-passed-out drunken stupor as usual. It was hot and dry in the middle of summer, and I THINK we were in either southern Washington or just into Oregon, and didn't have the fly or a tarp on the tent. Given how sloshed everyone was, I'm actually surprised they all got their tents up and were inside them... I had fallen asleep, and the adults had gradually passed out in their tents here and there. In the middle of the night, I woke up to these awful animal screaming and snarling noises down the road a ways. They went on for what seemed like several minutes, then really abruptly ended, and I just laid there terrified, surrounded by unwakable adults. There were a lot of wet ripping sounds and gutteral slurps, then a big thud. Gradually, these squelching footsteps came closer and closer from down the road, and this viscous smell of blood and death washed over the campground. In the moonlight visible through the net top of the tent, something huge and dark loomed at the edge of the road, literally dripping blood, and I hid myself down into my sleeping bag and began silently bawling. It continued those disgusting steps as it sniffed around, and I heard it continue up the road. Eventually, the adrenaline explosion ended, and I fell back to sleep. Only to be borderline yanked out of the tent, sleeping bag and all, by my dad a couple hours later, and stuffed into the car. He told me everything was fine and not to look around. I did anyway. Everyone was working as fast and as quiet as possible to pack up and get out of there. Bloody footprints and bits of gore and hair were everywhere in a trail from where the screaming had come from. They weaved between the tents, circled here and there, before going back along the road and out of sight. My parents just kept saying we had to get to the next ball field for that day's game, and I got chewed out when I asked about what was on the ground. I only just learned a couple years ago that what had happened that night had been a bear had attacked and killed a horse just up the road. I still remember seeing it rise up on its hind legs to sniff around, and having no idea what it was. The only other time in my life I've had that hard of an adrenaline surge was when my then 2-year-old choked on something and turned completely pen ink blue going into a seizure.
I was alone and about 100 miles from civilization way out in the mountains.. had something stalk my camp one night. I could only see it's eyes through the trees. Scariest night if my life.
Had a creepy experience myself last October. For background, I've got a subaru forester that I have set up for overlanding and I'll sleep in the back. Was in the Appalachian mountains, 30 miles deep on a backwoods road, was already kind of uneasy in that spot but decided to stay since I wasn't familiar with that road and the campsites I had passed miles down the road were in use. But it was about 8:30 at night, coyotes were starting to howl so I decided to let my dog do his business and then we climbed into the car to get ready for bed. At around 9pm, the forest went dead silent, no bugs, no frogs, no coyote howls, nothing, when moments before their sounds were almost deafening. A few seconds later, I hear something walking down the road, the hair on the back of my neck stood up, and my gut told me to stay absolutely still, and to not make a sound, was filled with a horrid feeling of dread. I don't know what it was, but it sounded very large, and sounded like it was walking on two legs. After it walked away, the forest came back to life. Since then, I've looked up different sound clips of various large animals walking down gravel trails, including those not native to the area I was in, like grizzlies and mountain lions. You can obviously tell that they were on 4 legs, and even a grizzly didn't footsteps that sounded as heavy as what I heard. Ever since then, while I've gone down that road, I am NOT going to camp there, and I feel rather uneasy being in that area. Hell, I feel uneasy just recalling it.
Scariest for me was definitely the bear that walked over my tent in New Mexico twenty years ago. It stepped on me but when I yelled and punched the nylon it took off. It left some scratches in the rain fly and a little bit of slobber. 🐻⛺️⛰
I lived on 47 acres in Franklin Ohio just below Dayton, and one night I had a fire going in the fire pit just off of our deck, and this huge we called them coy dogs came within 10 feet of the fire and started growling at me and I grabbed my dagger and made aggressive moves toward it and it finally left…we’ve seen packs of these dogs quite frequently…they were all a good size like bigger then German shepherds…
When we were in Zaleski a few years ago, we heard a chorus of coyotes. One started howling, then others joined in. It reminded me of the "children of the night" line from the original Bela Lugosi Dracula movie. It was cool, but spooky. Even my dog looked at me like "WTF was that?!?!" He saw one in the morning and angrily barked at it and scared it away. He's a dachshund.
My first camping trip as a kid in the Boy Scouts, mid-70s. Upper Adirondack region of NY. The youngest kids were sent to get water sometime after sunset, down a short trail then down a longer trail to a well. So three of us went, two of us had flashlights, and we each had a jerry can that we filled with water. On the way back, the other kid with a flashlight happend to shine it into the woods to the left, and swear to God, we all saw a pure white face staring at us, attached to a human formed figure maybe 25 feet in the trees. Needless to say we flew up the trail back to camp. Honestly have no idea what that was, could have been a prank or overactive imaginations, but we would never have seen it unless we actively shined the light there, and we all described the same thing afterwards.
1) First wildcamp I woke up to a farmer lamping rabbits so random flashes of light and the sound of an air rifle. 2) hearing something rustling (fox) while I was in my hammock but then feeling its nose run down the spine of my back 🥶😂
I few years ago i was day hiking in Harriman State Park in NY 45 mins away from NYC during a weekday. I did not see ppl that day and my plan was to do abt 15-20 miles. As I was ascending to 1200 feet on the right was a thicket of rhododendrons as i got midway past the thicket a roar came from the thicket. I sounded like a lion in a movie. I was about 20 feet away and the roar vibrated my stomach. I froze looked at the thicket and walked away when i was out of sight of the thicket i ran like hell till i couldn’t run anymore. Years later ive been looking up known animal roars and haven’t found a similar sound yet. BTW in Harriman park there are 3-5 BFRO bigfoot reports. I still dont know what it was. After that i started hiking in groups.
#1 populate urban areas, as well, and have great potential for danger, despite their environment. Many are harmless if left unbothered, but others are downright terrifying. ...I'm joking, but I'm also not. I'm pretty sure we have the same order.
Canada has released hundreds of wolves of various species into the wild and it's possible that a pack has migrated south. We know that some of them have migrated into Yellowstone from Canada that weren't part of the grey wolves the US released. Its wierd that conservationists decided to rekease a bigger, more aggressive species than farmers in Montana had eradicated.
Scariest for me. Solo backpacking..in a hurricane, watching the trail turn into a waterfall, 6 miles downstream there was a landslide that took out parts of a town. In Colorado, found an Elk leg on a trail, and a half mile later, there was a little lake with elk prints and mountain lion prints, our camp was about 2 miles from there. In New York, I saw an animal in broad daylight, face of a hyena, body of a hairless dog, tail of a cat..ran out of a cornfield. Definitely a chupacabra. Recently was in Cades Cove, one night heard coyotes, next night saw 2 of them run through the campsite, about 50 feet away. Only reason it was scary is because my 10 pound Yorkie is coyote food.
When I lived in Alaska a coworker went salmon fishing on Kodiak Island. He was camped in a field, when in the middle of the night he heard large animals moving around the tent - knowing that Kodiak Brown bears are immense,. He laid quietly through the night, scared to death. In the morning they were still there, so he opened the text zipper and took a peak and was shocked. It was a small herd of cattle. After that he rented those $19.99 U-Haul trucks and slept in the back of that.
Ok, you wanted a Bigfoot story, you got it. I’m Mike from Trigger Warning Channel, and this happened to me and my cousin Jeremy some years ago, but it’s as scary and intimidating to me today as it was that night. We had secured deer hunting tags for C4, which at the time was a prime deer hunting zone near Mt. Shasta in Northern California. We drove from Southern California, arrived early in the morning, set up camp near our truck, and spent the rest of the day still-hunting. It started to get late and neither of us spotted any bucks in their prime, so we headed back to camp, made a nice campfire and sat around in our camp chairs roasting some meat on sticks for dinner. I kept hearing noises in the forest, slight sounds like footsteps coming from one side of our camp, then another, then another. It was pitch black at that point and we couldn’t see anything beyond the edge of light given off by our campfire. I knew that some forest land in California is leased for cattle grazing so I pretty much assumed perhaps the sounds were from cattle browsing around our campsite. I was wrong. The sounds stopped around the two o’clock position from where I was sitting and for a few minutes I didn’t hear any more sounds and then I distinctly saw eyes. I had been looking intently at that area of the woods where the sounds stopped, half expecting a cow’s “moo”, and I was looking at what I estimated to be about the height of a cow, when I saw the glow of red eyes about five feet higher than that. Whatever was out there was either perched on a branch about 10 feet off the ground, or it was 10 feet tall. The sudden appearance of red eyes opening and looking at us was startling to say the least. Neither one of us could make out any shape in the darkness except the eyes, but we could clearly see that whatever it was looked left, right, back at us, blinked, and was clearly not imaginary or a trick of light. The eyes were wide apart, and we knew they didn’t belong to a bird both because they were very large and very widely spaced. The edge of the forest was about 25 feet from us and that meant that whatever it was, it was big. The creature made no aggressive movements, nor did it growl or “umph” as I’ve heard in other stories, nor were the eyes particularly predatory. They were even gentle, and aside from being red, they weren’t particularly scary, but despite all that I felt intimidated. I had a feeling of dread like the creature was imparting that feeling directly into me. To simplify the feeling, I felt like it was simply putting a thought into my head to leave. I know it sounds weird to say that, but that’s what I felt: Leave. Being stubborn and a bit young at the time my response was to stand my ground. We both picked up our deer rifles and my cousin let off a shot into the air to try to scare it off, but the creature didn’t even blink at the report of the rifle in the quiet of the forest. It just continued to stare at us. I keep wanting to say it glared at us, but that word would imply some aggression on its part, but at no point did it turn aggressive. It just was not intimidated by our guns or by us. It had a superior confidence and my feeling of dread was increased with the realization that if this being wanted to harm us, neither us nor our guns would win this fight. I made what I consider to be the wise decision to put out our fire, take whatever we could carry on our person and book it to the truck a few hundred feet away. We left our tent, our camp supplies, even our extra boots behind in that meadow. The feeling of dread completely left me the further away from the area that we drove, but I kept looking into the forest all along the dirt road half expecting to see something chasing us down. Again, None of the encounter was physically aggressive. All the feeling was in my chest and in my head, and I didn’t talk about it even with my cousin for years, thinking that I’d be laughed at. However, over Thanksgiving dinner some ten years later I talked with my cousin only to find out that he had exactly the same experience and feeling of dread as I did, down to the minute detail of the thought in his own head: “Leave”. I claim this as my Bigfoot encounter despite never seeing a physical Bigfoot creature or any shape other than those eyes. However what convinces me more is those involuntary feelings. We’re both big guys, trained individuals, not much scares me, and we were armed with 30-06 rifles. I for one have spent many nights alone and in groups in forests and jungles, both sheltered and under the open sky, yet we were both driven out of the woods that night like boys scared of the dark.
If I was with a big strong, armed man and he suddenly got frightened like a little girl..oh actually I have once ..so me and this guy I just started dating were sleeping in his bed one night it was about 2 am we both were asleep and I suddenly woke up to a sensation right in between my boobs..I woke up fast brushing whatever it was off..I felt something.. I screamed a little and he woke up and turned the light on..just then I saw a HUGE scorpion running away on the floor..it stung me right in between my boobs!! Anyways this guy flys out of bed so fast and was backed up against the wall on the other side of the room!!!! Then he started screaming throwing his shoes at it..while I was still sitting in bed!!! Then I just walked over to it and picked it up with my cup and walked it outside. All while he is in tears saying he can't sleep in his bed anymore ! Needless to say I never saw that pansy again!!! I need a man who isnt more afraid of things then I am!!
@@johngloser9423 You may be right... then again you may be completely wrong. I have no idea if there's a Bigfoot or not. I'm telling a story that happened to me personally that sure walked like a duck and quaked like a duck. Then again, maybe it was just an undiscovered enormous owl with red eyes. ;)
@@fourbandits There is God who created Adam and Eve from the rib of Adam. God created the animals and had Adam name them. No werewolf animal, no dogman animal, and no bigfoot animal. God however did create bear, wild dogs, mountain lion, ect. If you would because a Christian then the Lord would set you free. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Then you can gather in the church in holy obedience to Him which is the Bride of Christ. A Holy Marriage. Jesus Christ is the Husband and the gathering church is the Bride. If you decide to be saved, you will need to be born of God's Spirit and water baptized. There is however one third of the angels, who are fallen angels of whom God has in chains. The devil deceives people into things that are not true.
@@johngloser9423 I'm sorry John, but WHAT? The argument you just made is extremely fallible. Up until the 1850's Christianity had no idea that gorillas existed, and the name Gorilla didn't exist until then. Adam certainly didn't name Gorillas. The same goes for many other African animals that weren't discovered until recently. They don't exist in the Bible, despite many Christian children's books depicting them climbing aboard Noah's Ark in pairs of two. That's pure modern fantasy mate. There are animals being discovered in the Congo and the Amazon today that nobody in Christianity ever knew existed until recently, so to claim that Adam knew and named them despite there being no evidence to support that claim is simple wishful thinking. You're certainly entitled to it, but don't forget that Christianity also didn't know anything about the existence of the extinct Giganthopithecus until it was discovered in 1935, and that many Christians STILL deny that dinosaurs ever existed! With due respect, I think we can do without the Christian wisdom on this topic. Lastly, if the Devil deceives people into believing what’s not true, how do you know he didn’t deceive you into believing in God and the Bible? That sword has two edges mate.
I was in the middle of nowhere, deep into the forests of risnjak national park, it was night and I could not sleep because of all of the events of the day. So I thought it might just help listening into the "silence", so I put out the earplugs and then just a few seconds later I heard sniffing, some heavy footsteps and a deep grunt. My heartbeat instantly rose and I kinda knew what I was dealing with, so I tried to make my self heard as big branches cracked and the footsteps came closer.
Once i was car camping in a natl forest campground. It was nine miles up a dirt road, I was the only person in the campground. I was in my tent just dozing off, when something just outside my tent started snarling like the devil himself. Id never heard such a creepy angry snarling , cursing and growling in my life. I lay there petrified wondering what it could be, perhars a crazed rabid badger. Then to make matters worse something big jumped out of the fir tree two feet from my tent and landed with a thud that shook the ground and bounded off. After that i went and slept in my car. I did find out the snarling devil was a bobcat. The heavy thing that jumped out of the tree, who knows..
Camping when I was a teenager near a swamp. My camp was attacked in the middle of the night. I mean torn up! My tent was down on me and I heared grunting. Too scared to come out. No gun. In the morning I finally inched out. My gear was everywhere. My story was Bigfoot but now much older and “ wiser” I think territorial buck. No tracks! Scared the bejesus out of me! Lower west Michigan.
Your first one described one of my bigger fears. Whether in a hammock or tent, I often get nervous about some big animal on the run not seeing my hammock or tent in time and running right into it or tripping over a corner of the tent or a guy-line and bringing my tent down with it. Last summer with Devin, I had a desert rat hopping all around the leaves around my tent that I found myself trying to scare off with my own noises because it kept scaring me, er, annoying me, until I finally caught sight of it with my flashlight. But my all time scariest moment was also last summer when I had my boys out backpacking with our hammocks. I had hung our food out the proper distance and all that, but didn't do a proper bear hang because there were no good trees to do a good hang from so I relied on my odor proof layers for securing my food as I often do. There was a loud snap and thud in the middle of the night that awoke me from the direction our food was. I figured it was tree branch thad had fallen, but couldn't shake the thought that it was a bear that had pulled our food down from the branch I had hung it on. My heart pounding, I mustered up just enough courage to unzip and walk over with my flashlight to check the food bag and was relieved to find it untouched. Turns out there was a bear in the area messing with other camps just a few miles away over that same week though.
The scariest thing I've ever had happen in the woods was stumbling onto a super creepy group camp that had clearly been there for a while. People were obviously living there but no one was present that I could see. I had that eerie feeling like I was being watched and I thought I heard some twig snaps coming from the other side of where their tents were set up. I noped out of there as fast as I could and ever since then I concealed carry my pistol when I go out into the woods alone. A second creepy thing I experienced was more my friend than me, but we went camping with a few guys in a pretty remote area. My buddy snuck off into the woods to relieve himself. He was finishing up when a couple of the guys noticed a copperhead snake getting into the striking stance right next to the tree he was hiding behind. They alerted us and we all yelled for him to run and so he did. He almost got a butt cheek full of venom that day.
Camping in the Witchita mountains, Oklahoma. Heard a sniffing noise next to the tent. I opened the flap and was staring in the face of a bison. I could have touched his face. He was not alone. The herd decided to bed down with us. The car was close by so tip toed to the car and slept there the rest of the night.
Try having a black figure peeping out around a tree about head level and then hearing a loud scream that made you stop breathing then 4 guys walk over to the tree and nothing there
I've had a few weird things go bump in the night but in general I'm pretty comfortable in the woods. Confidence in my skills helps. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
I was camping in Paradise Valley in Banff NP when, just after going to bed, I had large porcupines circling my tent (3 or 4 of them). I looked out my front window/vent and there was one and I looked in my back window/vent and there was another. They did this all night and would even come up to my little tent window/vent and take a big sniff. Freaked me out especially as I was lying on the ground and they were huge. I had to keep turning my head lamp on and banging my camping shovel to scare them off. They circled all night until about 3am when what sounded like a satanic worship was going on near my tent really freaked me out. However, I had heard a similar sound back home that was told to me to be raccoon's mating so I think I had accidentally set up my tent in the porcupine's mating area. I couldn't wait for the sun to come up so I could get out of there asap. I thought about leaving in the middle of the night but the place was also crawling with grizzly bears which I never saw or heard but didn't want to bump into in the middle of the night. It made for a very interesting night with a very restless sleep.
Porcupines are curious and even friendly, they arent afraid of humans and don't have many predators. I had one that would come in my house to eat dog food if i left the door open. He'd hang out, the dog and cats would eat out of the bowl next to him. Sounds like a mom and offspring checking you out.
Girlfriend and I were lying on the ground in a Colorado Aspen grove. We were maybe 3 or 4 feet apart. Yellow leaves flashing gold filtered light on a warm autumn day, just magic. The ground started to rumble and a second or so later a huge bull elk ran right between us at a full speed dash and was gone. It happened so fast that it was hard to even understand what had happened at first. Picture a horse at full run. He was a couple feet away from each of us. After we just started laughing in shock. I still don't know if he ever even knew we were there.
Whenever I’m out there solo I haaaaaate getting out of my tent at night to pee. For some reason I always feel like someone is gonna run out of the darkness while I’m doing my business 😂
Thanks, this was just what I needed. Some encouragement and assurance it's not just me. My last solo overnight was terrifying. Because I've only done it twice, There are all sorts of new sounds at night. There was a pack of coyotes very near by that made the most incredibly loud sounds I've ever heard. And it went on for quit a long time. I grew up spending loads of time in the woods, but not alone at night. Thanks for mentioning that over time, this will abate some!
About five years ago, I was hammock camping in the woods along the side of Burke Mountain in East Burke, VT. I was over 200 feet off the Red trail, maybe 2 miles from the trailhead. During the night, two separate packs of coyotes ran by my site, turkeys were incessantly chattering on another occasion, and some random rodent was also adding to sleeplessness. Just as dawn approached, there were very heavy sounding footsteps on the trail downhill from my position. As I mentioned, I was well over 200' away from that trail. As I laid there, I could actually feel the footsteps as vibrations in my hammock. After maybe a dozen or so footsteps, there was a sudden, loud animal call. It was like a very loud call, but maybe with a elk-like sound. Whatever it was, it was loud and startling. I've googled sounds to see if I could figure it out, but nothing seems to match. I searched for moose, bear, and deer sounds - nothing. Luckily, it was my last night there so I didn't have to try another night weirded out by the local animal life - freaky!
At half moon state park in Vermont I saw an apparition across the lake of a woman right as the sun was coming up. I guess I believe in that sort of thing now.
A group of 12 friends out of high school were camping about 5 miles out of town. Full moon out, sitting around the campfire about midnight. The moon light lit up the pasture and we saw a tall black figure flowing through the field about 50 yards away. We were all freaking out. We watched it slowly zig zag its way closer to us. This thing turned out to be some 50 year old long haired hippy with a long grey beard wacko with a black blanket over his head with his arms folded tight against his chest. He walked up to our group, the fire was dancing five feet high and really lit up his face. He quickly opened his blanket spreading the blanket open like a bat with a hatchet in one hand and yelled, " HATCHET MAN!" We all screamed and one of my buddies jumped up with a machette and yelled, "MACHETTE MAN!" The guy froze like that for 30 seconds, slowly closed his arms back into his chest and turned and floated off into the night. Not many of us got much sleep that night.
One of mine was while in Canada. I was around 12 years old with my bother. Two older teenage boys, who were friends of the family, took us camping. It was on a lake, so we took a boat out to find an island to camp on. The older boys saw an island with a tent already on it. Their dad dropped us off and left us alone on the island. He would pick us up the next morning. They were like cool let's camp here, and we don't need to set up a tent. We put our stuff in the tent and hung out on the island. Night time came and then a boat with like 6 people showed up. They were shining a flashlight on us, as they approached the island. The older boys told us to take the stuff out of the tents. Once the others landed they seemed a bit menacing and upset we hijacked their camping spot. Setting up a tent was the way people claimed their spot, and this flew over the heads of the teenagers I was with. Anyway, it later became friendly and both groups stayed on the island together. The scary part is that it was unexpected and we had no way to get off the island.
My wife and I hiking a local trail had a mountain lion cross the trail in front of us. It stop looked at us and it kept walking. Was amazing to see. Stay safe keep out of the woods booger will get you
Also...hearing bugling elk out in the woods in the fall can be really scary sounding if you don't know what it is. Thankfully...I was quickly informed at the time of my first encounter of that now wondrous sound.
Went camping at a pond with my ex girlfriend a few summers ago at a local pond, we were the only people there. Woke up to a frog tied to a tree hanging by its leg outside our tent. Ive got a video of it somewhere.
On a very windy kayak trip on Lake of the Woods, I set the tent up on a high-ish rock knob. In the middle of the night I woke up to my legs being lifted. I thought to myself, "The aliens are taking me!" And almost as an aside; "And they're doing it wrong!" Turns out the wind had increased, was blowing up the slope of the knob, and under the tent. The older Meter Light tent stood up to this no problem. Me, not so much... LOL!!
Junior year 3 buddy's and I were taking spring break. One friends Father lived near Tampa he hadn't seen him a coupla years so we drove there first. We decided to take the old highway from Tampa back up and west to Panama City. We're on Hwy 98 about midnight heading west not far from ST. Marks FL. this was in 1974 and the area was pretty desolate. We stopped at an old historical marker to take a leak. One of us said whats that light we were all already seeing it. First it looked like a neon blue the size of a basketball then it started moving through the little trees and bushes that lined the road and either a river or inlet. The thing was moving fluidly and the closer it came the larger it became and had changed color's 2 or 3 times now it was purplish. I wasn't driving when we stopped but one instant we all had jumped back into my car with me driving. I pulled back on the Hwy as I was picking up speed to maybe 40 mph everything about my car died. The motor , the lights , the stereo I mean it shutdown I put it in neutral and started coasting. That was it next any of us knew the car started itself without my touching the key , the lights and stereo fired back up. I've always been one to figure time and distance (this was way before GPS) I had our ETA figured I can't recall exactly just say 3AM. We were an hour and 45 minutes later than expected. Strange thing we never talked about this amongst ourselves , if two of us were in a room and one started talking about it invariably the other would get up and leave the room. Two of my buddy's have died and the other one will not answer any type of message from me. I asked his sister to ask what he remembered he told her he remembers the light very well and that's all he would say. Another odd thing is about two weeks afterwards I was working out and noticed a small round knot in my right forearm about the size of a BB. I can still feel and see it but I used to be able to move it a very little. One more thing several times through all these years I lose a little time. The time is always close to an hour and 45 minutes also a few times as I'd be getting out of bed I'd be sore like I had fallen out of bed or something and my hands would be swollen. This is something I have never been able to figure out. If anyone reads this and has had a similar occurrence let me know. I have another weird thing while bow hunting years ago but maybe for a different time. OK before anyone asks this might've been the mid 70's but no drugs or drink was involved two of us were athletes and the other two stayed in shape also.
I was on AT in my home state solo. I heard what sounded like Ric Flair with his wooo,I kept hearing it over and over. I ended up reading the book at the shelter and a bunch of people were talking about the owls. I have heard owls plenty of times, I swear it was Mr Flair. Wooo
I don't know if it was Bigfoot, but some years ago my wife and I went on a dirtball "overlanding" excursion in my T100. We left pavement east of Eureka, Ca and ventured up Route 96 - the Bigfoot Scenic Byway which took us through the Hoopa Reservation into the Six Rivers National Forest. It was probably midnight. It was dark and smokey, we were in the middle of nowhere and we had to answer a call of nature. I pull over, we get out and just off the embankment of the road, down the slope of the mountain we start hearing this eerie sound of something big moving through the undergrowth. It sounded like it was headed right for us. We hop back into the 'Yota and scamper before whatever it was got too close. We never saw anything, and it could have easily just been a bear or even a person, but it just wasn't something that we were in a position to deal with. A think a year or two later in about the same location, a bear jumped off the embankment above the road and knocked a cop car over. So it could have just as easily been a bear that was checking us out, but I still kind of hope that it was Bigfoot.
Back in 2016, I was driving in the exact same area with a friend and we decided to turn down a dirt road around midnight looking for a place to pull off and sleep. Just like you, we got out of the car to take care of business and both immediately had this terrifying feeling that someone/something was watching us. Both of us have camped all over the western US and never experienced a feeling quite like that, especially not simultaneously. Neither of us actually heard or saw anything that night but our spidey senses were telling us that something was "off" about that spot. Needless to say, we didn't stick around to see if our intuition was correct. I'm not sure if it was just our minds playing tricks on us but it was definitely unnerving at the time.
Of all your vids I love the most when your Moms dog shows up. I mean really, it is not like you live in your moms basement but the fact he shows up on your camp trips is just so heart warming. Luke on Outdoorgearreview, Cody on Wranglerstar, David Pearson on Reallybigmonkey1, have had dogs just show up and It is such an addition to the Vids.
Hello, I am new too. your Chanel. I want to share two spooky stories with you. The first happened about 7 years ago. I was camping with a friend near Petrolia Beach in Northern California. It was around 2:30 a.m. and we both spotted something zipping back and forth in the sky. I would say about two minutes total, then it suddenly plunged into the ocean. The second event occurred on June 8, 2018. I was hiking around the rim of Crater Lake and felt as though someone was watching me or possibly following me. That evening at the Campground, the one closest to the lake, my friend's dog started growling, so I unzipped my tent to see what he was growling at, but there didn't appear to be anything out there I could see, but he started growling louder, so I popped my head out the tent and saw an old, ghost-like a skinny naked man walk about 40 feet from my tent. I saw him for about 5 seconds. My friend and I both saw this man and told the camp host the following morning. He told us many, people have reported seeing spirits like this. Personally, I do believe in spirits and I live in Big Foot Country. I remember several older Natives in the 1960s who shared stories with my father and me about their encounters with Sasquash. Most of these Elders encourted them near the Hoopa Reservation. Thanks for allowing us to share our stories.
On the first night of my first solo trip, I was at the Twin Valley Trail near Germantown, OH. I had what I assume was a group of pranksters come through the area. They must have been fans of the show "Finding Bigfoot" because they proceeded to make the sounds they made on that show for nearly 30 minutes. I believe they were trying to scare me off and take my gear. I have to say though, they were talented at vocalizations because it did creep me out. I even caught some of it on video. Not a fun experience on my first solo, but I love it now.
My only backpacking experience consisted of my wife drinking wine in the tent while I was outside having bourbon and eating a stew after a 10 mile hike. We got swarmed by giant hornets, I’m talking an inch and a half long and they sounded like fighter jets. It started to get really intense and I literally could not get into the tent, so I started spraying bug killer in pretty much every direction. Problem was that we were on this really nice, sandy dirt padded area so I was barefoot. The area became completely covered with these huge writhing beasts rolling around in the sandy dirt. I thought I’d made my way through them when I stepped on one and oh my god it was the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my entire life. Like someone took a hot metal nail and drove it through my foot. My foot was swollen for at least a week. And honestly, I’m lucky I didn’t die with the swarm that hit us. It was a scenario you’d see in a sci-fi movie or something. These things were HUGE and there were probably 50 of them.
Last September i was camping at Loch Doon in the Galloway Forest Park(Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland). I was sleeping by around 9pm, at some point through the night, i wakened enough to be aware the tarp i had up around the tent was rustling quite aggressively, but only on one side of the tent and only at the point directly behind me. I could tell it wasn't windy, so that wasn't the cause. As i lay there on my right side i felt a hand cup around my left shoulder, it began shaking me quite violently, this obviously wakened me fully, very quickly. The shaking continued for around another 5-10 seconds. I wanted to look round but instinct told me not to. The hand lifted off my shoulder and i heard both the tent, then the tarp rustle one after the other as though whatever it was, was now leaving and passing through both layers. It was then absolutely silent, not a sound could heard. I was alone, this, whatever it was entered and exited through the side of the tent, not the doorway. I lay awake for probably the next hour, just listening, eventually the sounds of bird calls started up, i'm guessing around 3am, but that was the first sound i heard. I then fell asleep for a few hours before wakening around 7am, when i promptly packed everything up and headed off...
My scariest hunting trip was in Southern Ohio I forgot my flash like that morning and I walk to my tree stand with the moonlight there was something in the woods growling at me I couldn't see it but funny thing I tried to track whatever I heard I could not find any tracks and it sound like a truck going through the woods breaking brush but I could not find them pass that it took
First time I went camping/backpacking into the woods I was alone and around 3 AM I woke up to something rubbing against my tent right next to my face, scared the shit out of me lol. Probably 10 years ago my cousin and I were on our way back from storm chasing in Southeastern Kansas. It was probably around midnight and we were out in the middle of absolutely nowhere on the highway and we spotted some thing on the side of the road that we swear was the chupacabra. It was a little smaller than a coyote and it looked like it had mange because almost all of its hair was missing but it had like a cats head. Like with coyotes they have a snout and the skull was more flat like a cat on this but it was way too big to be a cat. We turned around to see if we could find it with the spotlight but it was already gone. Honestly not sure what it was but we always joke around and called that spot the chupacabra spot.
I once managed to call some coyotes to my camp by blowing a predator call. It was kinda creepy hearing what sounded exactly like 2 or 3 dogs quickly moving through the brush within 50 feet of the light of my campfire. But I'd totally try doing that again!
My son and i heard two animals screeching and fighting each other from our shelter near lake George in the Adirondacks at about 3am. Later listening to sound bites we decided it was either Martins, bobcat's, or both... made my hair stand up on my neck.
Absolutely wolves in ohio. Saw a small pack (3?) while hiking in Southern Ohio. Huge, daunting beasts but awesome to see. I want to say it was John Bryan s.p. but it was a long.time ago. Was guiding a group of teens in a summer camp program and they ran across our path. Kids were stoked to see them.
Here in Australia we have a lot of "wild dogs" Dogs that have gone feral, possibly dingo/domestic hybrids and often live in packs. Several times I have come across them when remote camping. Once I was about to pack up in the morning when a couple of dogs just walked into camp ahead of me. I heard some noise and more were being me, about maybe 6 in total. They slowly moved in on me until I shouted and waved my arms around. That felt pretty dangerous and scary.
Authorities say that we don't have puma in Ohio. My brother and his wife have seen one twice when they owned land out in the country. We don't have bear in Ohio either. The first night we encountered sasquatch we saw bear tracks that the farmer pointed out to us. Yes I said (posted) sasquatch. They exist and when our encounters occurred southwestern Ohio took the top sasquatch hot spot in the nation from the whole state of Oregon and held it for 3 to 4 years. Yes I know Washington normally has the most sightings.
My $0.02: I’ve heard that people get scared when they think things are being thrown at them. Big rocks? 100% human. Small things like acorns are flung/thrown by squirrels and birds. I’ve seen this with my own eyes multiple times. And, I don’t know about y’all but coyote howls are just about the most terrifying, primal fear I’ve ever experienced. Mountain lions make no sounds if they are hunting, so…. They’ll crouch for hours in wait for their prey-your dog or cat. Hearing the grunting and snorting of bears is pretty scary but awe-inspiring too. Also feral dogs do run around in packs. Wild pigs are very noisy in general. The saddest thing is the sound of an animal dying after some bone-head human has shot it in a bad spot. Extremely sad. Animals really don’t want to eat us, we stink. If you are in an open area surrounded by woods, of course it’s going to be a game trail. I’ve only hiked/camped in CA. :)
I live in the Rocky Mountains. I've camped in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and California. I've had encounters with grizzly, black bear, Elk, and moose. The Moose was actually the scariest out of all the big game I've been around. Partly because the other ones were from a distance. This Moose had worked it's way into the camp why'll my group was out fishing and kayaking. When we were heading back the light was fading and was getting hard to see. Myself and a buddy of mine were ahead of our group. We had made it to the edge of the camp and we heard some movement and looked in the direction of the noise. This thing was massive! Absolutely huge. We managed to see it's rack of antlers. As we got a flashlight on it. We stood about 30 feet away from it. I nearly died from a heart attack. Thankfully it turned and quickly left. Definitely was a big bull moose and you hear about how aggressive these things can get when startled. We were lucky that night.
I went camping with my boyfriend and my family at a spring in Florida. In the middle of the night, my boyfriend and I were hanging out in our tent and we start hearing these growls and high pitched howls right behind the tree line that our tent was butt up against. I would say they were about 50 feet away. I can tell they are coyotes. The howling multiplied then it turned into this very scary sound. There were coyotes fighting and killing each other. You can hear them tearing into each other and pouncing on each other. It lasted for 5-7 mins and I just couldn't handle the sound anymore. I mean it was a terrible cry from both of them. I yelled super loud for them to leave, which then startled them and ended the fight.
Nothing like the sound of a cougar in heat in the middle of the night... my daughter and I were sheltering under a tarp in a tree well. I kept switching on my headlamp to see if there were reflective eyes looking back at us. Didn't sleep much that night!
I went camping with my sister somewhere in upstate new York. It was a terrible camp with people crammed in tiny camp spots. But we were passing through and just need a place to pitch our tent for the night. That night as I was trying to go to sleep, I started hearing the most vicious gnarly growling animals outside my tent. I was convinced it was one or two badgers fighting or something... Also I was starting to feel very nauseous due to someone in the campground burning nasty wood. I needed to get out of the tent to find somewhere to upchuck but I was also to scared to leave with the menacing animals outside... I finely gave up and unzipped the tent to see two adorable racoons fighting over something. Terrible night but my sister and I still laugh about it.
Yeah, here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I was doing a Solo overnight along a stream I fished the next day. I was listening to my bluetooth speaker during dinner, before bed time. As soon as I shut my speaker off, the Coyotes started talking. That was fine, but as they started, a min later the Wolves chimed in. The Coyotes shut Right up, and I laid in my tent, pretty nervous all night, next to my loaded 30/30.
You should look up the narrator "Let's Read" here on TH-cam, he narrates an absolutely terrifying true story about a man hiking the Appalachian trail. Something happened to him while he was in his hammock. It is one of the scariest things I've ever read.
My top 3 in no order: about the halfway point of sheltowee trace trail thruhike in 2016 in an established campsite I woke up in my floorless tent to what I thought was a mouse trying to get in my backpack (I use to elevate my legs -- my food was properly hung a distance away) ... nope, wasn't a mouse ... it was a copperhead strolling through. I just crossed my arms on my chest and went back to sleep figuring if its my time, its my time. Also on sheltowee trace trail between cumberland falls and laurel lake, I heard a noise and got bluff charged by a bear from about 100 yards away. It was standing 15 feet away before I even realized it was a bear. I just slowly walked away ... if its my time, its my time. 3rd ... on benton mackaye trail thru hike in 2018, I was on this sketchy narrow section on the side of this mountain and when it finally got wider I was in tall weeds over my head. I am making my way through the weeds and walk into this clearing and when I reached the clearing I looked up to another bear also entering the clearing from the opposite side about 50 feet away. We both stand there looking at each other for what seemed like forever but I'm sure it was just seconds because I didn't want to go back the way I just came and it was almost as if the bear was thinking the same thing. Eventually he moved forward, turned around, and slowly went back the way he came and then I had to stand there for like 2 hours to give him time to get ahead of me.
oh yea, comment about your howl ...I don't consider this scary but dang it was odd ... I was winter camping in red river gorge and like you, I had a coyote howling off in the distance wake me up. I remember laying there watching the snow falling and going back to sleep. Some time later I get woken up again with the howling and this time I was like ... holy crap, thats a lot closer. But I lay there watching the snow falling and just go back to sleep. The next morning when I wake up and go to put my boots on so I can go pee, I noticed coyote tracks within 3 feet of my tent ... the go in the direction of my food bag hanging in a tree and I follow them. I think I recorded this in one of my red river gorge videos. I would have never thought in a million years they would have gotten that close to me without waking me up. My food bag was good, it looks like maybe they stopped there briefly and moved on.
last one because I forgot about it ... also on benton mackaye trail ... I had gotten behind on miles and decided to night hike to make it up. It just so happened to be that this particular night hike was mostly along this creek for about 6 or 7 miles (really rough country, you couldnt hike very fast with all the rocks and obstructions) and as I am making progress I start to notice how many snakes there are. Its like every where you look there are snakes, sometimes 3 or 4 close together. I'm not afraid of snakes, actually have 2 pet snakes and i find them all the time around my homestead everything from black rat snakes to copperheads to timber rattlers. So anyways, long story short the sun finally starts coming up and the snakes which are mostly nocturnal start going away. By now its full daylight and I come up on this one on this rock that I have to cross and I identify it as a black rat snake from a distance. I've been up for about 28 hours straight hiking in rugged territory and I have my camera out recording a small video for "status update on instagram" and I am talking to this snake talking about how beautiful this black rat snake is, about 6 feet long, and I say something like hey buddy, you need to let me cross here and I take a step forward and it lunges at my throat and only missed because I turned away from it and I see its belly and I say something to the effect "holy f*** ... thats a blue racer" and they are very territorial and he wasn't having anything to do with me invading his space lol. That video is on instagram, if you search for bmt or benton mackaye trail it will probably show up from around 2018 (i tagged most of the images and videos and same name as my youtube)
I was camping with my best friend and our kids in the Grand Tetons, when I was woken up by a bear sniffing around right outside my tent in the middle of the night. I mean Right Outside. He brushed up against it as he walked by. I froze as I calculated what to do. Bear mace didn't do me any good in the tent. Could I make it to the truck with the kids, or should we just stay put. Should I alert the other tent or would that spook him. Should I scream to scare him away or would scaring it make it attack. By the time I finished going though all these possible options, he was gone. He was just making the rounds of the camp sites, looking for food. Please remember to always keep your food put away in a vehicle or up in a tree away from your camp site.
While camping on Cumberland Island GA I had a wild horse almost walk over my tent. I heard the hooves on the sand and yelled out “no!”. The next morning you could see the tracks went right up to the tent, backed away and then went around.
I was car camping with my family, it was about midnight. My wife and kids were already in the tent and I was cleaning up around camp. I hear a man say "Nice night" and have no idea where he is because I had just put out the fire and my eyes were adjusting to the darkness. Finally I see he's standing in our campsite near our picnic table smoking a cigarette. He continues, "It must be scary camping here with your family, lots of sketchy people around." I was carrying a .45 handgun on my hip under a jacket, I don't think he had seen it. So I showed it to him and replied, "Yeah that's why I'm always armed. Never know when a bear or something might cause trouble." His tone quickly changed from intimidating to friendly and he laughed nervously. "Well that's smart of you, have a good night." Then he walked away. The next morning the camp host came to our campground with a very concerned look on her face and ran over to where I was cooking breakfast. She says "Did you guys get hit last night, are you missing anything?" Apparently someone had gone through and robbed almost every campsite that night. Every camp site except for ours
😯wow. That is unnerving. Thanks for sharing.
Wow what a story 😳
i remember that night
Shoulda dispatched him when he had the chance. Prevention is worth an ounce of cure.
Always carry a firearm and now how to use it
My scary story wasn't really scary, just evidence I'm a dorktastic spaz.
On one of my very first solo camping trips (Tennessee in the late fall, btw). I woke up in the dead of night hearing something snuffling around my tent. I also heard a "cracking" noise, like the sound of bone being bitten through, coming from the same spot.
I'm my half-asleep mind, I determined a wild boar was outside my tent, its powerful jaws crushing the bones of some poor bunny or squirrel. I then remembered the granola bars in my tent, and how animals can smell food.
By this time, I was convinced that the boar was going to smell my granola bars, and tear into my tent at any moment. I laid perfectly still for some reason (it made sense at the time) and waited for the wild boar to go away. A few moments later, I heard the cracking of bones again, this time from a bit farther away.
I finally summoned up my courage and peeked out the flap of my tent. At which point I discovered my ferocious wild boar was actually a fawn deer, probably 40 pounds soaking wet, munching down on acorns. It gave me a "what're you looking at, stupid?" look and went back to eating acorns. I sunk back into my sleeping bag and tried not to die of embarrassment.
Back in 1997 I got my truck stuck on Flaming Gorge in Wyoming. I left the truck and started walking the pitch black dirt road back to the main road. It was so dark you couldn't see anything. As I was walking something snorted and growled at me. I fired a shot in the air and waited and the growling actually got closer to me. I ended up shooting in it's general direction 3 times and each time it moved closer, and the growling got louder.
So now it's closing in probably 15 yards away to my 2 o'clock as if it was trying to flank me. I fired one last shot in it's direction and after let out the loudest most blood curdling scream that I could.
After that I heard something heavy sprint off it sounded like it had hooves but I can't be sure.
Luckily about an hour later a guy was driving in to do some cat fishing and was nice enough to drive me back into town. I will never forget being that scared with a rifle in my hand.
😳😳😳😳 wow that was scaryyy omg ... Thank God you got out alive I'm shivering just listening 🎧 I read it to my husband he said he believes there some type of experience from the government going on out there too many people have seen things that are not normal animals or there either breeding them with humans idk but it's very eerie and scary 😳
@@BF4023 Thank You! There might be something we have never seen out there, it definitely was terrifying. Take Care
I was bow hunting bear in the middle of nowhere in the UP of Michigan with my buddy. Some dude showed up at our little camp site in the woods, and my buddy proceeded to tell him his life story. He had that bad habit of oversharing. Why did this guy show up at our camp site. We hadn't seen anyone in days. Be wary of the people. Yeah, we heard wolves, but hey, we were sleeping outside in the woody forest. It's the people. Watch out for the people. They are the apex predators.
The scariest thing to encounter in the woods are people.
I can't do the long hikes anymore, my last multi-day hike was the Pinhoti Trail thru Alabama. I was always well armed on a hike even now on little day hikes I tote two pistols and a folding pack rifle. Its an absolute disgrace to feel the need to tote self defense weapons on a hike.
@@MAGAMANPATRIOT I did a 1,200 mile cross country motorcycle trip in 2.5 days one way to visit family back in my college days. Well, I borrowed a gun for protection and slept off my bike in some crazy places to and from. I never took a gun again after maybe 100,000 miles on motorcycle trips and maybe 500 nights of camping and backpacking. The western united states & Canada have been good to me but maybe Alabama I would have needed a machine gun. Crimes usually don't happen on hikes. My experiences have been meeting awesome people in the outdoors and the animals have never been a problem.
I AGREE 👍 💯
U are so right I will take ,animals over humans any time MS peggy from COLOGNE mn
Running into people is always the scariest.
Animals are rarely dangerous.
People are
especially when a mthafcka comes creepin up outta nowhere and right off the bat says the most creepiest shit
So true 👍👍👍
So true
i *really* like these sorts of videos. not sensationalized or polished, just honest stories from the woods. the woods at night are creepy enough, these stories don't need embellishment. thanks for sharing!
Your 1st fear was realized with my dad when we were younger. In a tent, he heard something barreling through the brush, sat up and smack, he and the bear smashed heads. My Dad was ok, huge shiner, but it was something I’ll never forget. We all slept in the car after that.
Scariest thing for me. 2013 hiking alone in Yosemite and I see a huge curved tail going over a log to my right. I could only imagine it being a mountain lion but then was like no way. Later down the trail, I ran into two women who were waiting for me to catch up. When I asked if they saw a mountain lion, they said "yeah, there were three".
"Clever girl"
@@j0ndav1s haha Jurassic Park, nice
Never hike alone in Yosemite
One who lays in silent dark forest will be frightened by 3 oz. Bird walking through leaves.
I was stationed at Naval Hospital Millington Tn back in 1975. After working the mid-shift we would go drive through Shelby Forest along the Mississippi to spot wildlife & unwind. There was 5 of us in the car & as we drove past a picnic grove on the way to the public boat launch we saw a Bigfoot/Sasquatch casually walking along the tree line. A few moments of panic ensued but we turned around to get a second look. As we drove past in the opposite direction Squatch was still doing his stroll & looked at us as we stared back at it. It didn't seem to be concerned by our presence. Anyway, we had a hard time believing what just happened but around 10 days later we were driving thru the forest again and a Shelby County Sheriff pulled us over. He asked us what we were up to that late at night & I told him we were Navy corpsmen out for a drive to spot game & the next thing he says is "Have y'all seen Bigfoot yet?" Three of us were in the original group & yelled YES! and the cop spent the next 10-15 minutes telling us stories about the most recent sightings. So he confirmed what we & everyone else had a hard time believing.
Everything rustling leaves at night sounds like a stegosaurus moving through the forest.
That's true. Once we all got big scare about 2 a.m. We were teenagers and we all sat around fire, talking about ghosts and scary stories, when we heard big rustling in the distance and getting closer. In pitch dark noise was getting louder and louder, someone or something was coming towards us - and we were getting grey hair ......
When the noise came about 10 yards from us - we fired up our flash lights in that direction and saw ......invisible creature. Very noisy rustling - but couldn't see anyone or anything ..... After a lots of nerves and investigation - we discovered hedgehog.
I myself have been terrified by the late night rustling of a bear that, upon examination, turned out to be a bunny.
He did not even run from me after I shined my flashlight at him. Just went back to eating grass.
Then you shine a light at it and its a chipmunk or a squirrel
Mice in leaves seem to stress people out 🤣
@@GruntProof I just told you the truth about cryptids existing. That's probably why TH-cam won't let me add this last sentence here to my comment above. It is like most mainstream media. It censors the truth. Thanks for your service.
While getting camping permits in Yellowstone for a four day pack trip the ranger informed us (a fellow fisherman) would be hiking through three of the five areas in the US that were “grizzly infested”. My buddy and I were obviously concerned but held on to our plans. After listening to a half hour presentation on the do’s and don’ts we were assigned a camp site in a campground. We were told that we had to stay in our assigned site “incase they had to come and get us out”. The first night at ~2:00AM I was awakened by heavy breathing and loud footsteps outside my tent. This was obviously not a raccoon, it walked around my tent snorting and clawing at the ground. Eventually it walked about twenty feet away and laid down. I could hear it breathing. I was wide awake with my fish cleaning knife in hand the rest of the night. At dawn I unzipped my tent as quietly as possible and could see a buffalo. My buddy in his tent slept through the night.
A shocking side note to my backpacking trip, almost a year to the day a grizzly tore through a packers tent and ate 70 pounds of the guy. There was a friend there that tried to stop the attack but was unsuccessful as the bear turned on him, he managed to escaped with his life. Grizzlies are real and dangerous!! This was in 1982.
@@hope2someday691 Shiiiiddd that's a hell of a big "F THAT" right there!!!! Uh uh, buddy!! No camping for me! **Nervous laugh**
Are u sure it wasn't bigfoot!!
@@Melsincatuation You got to be kidding! No bigfoot animal, dogman animal, or werewolf animal. Lies and dishonesty. Because a Christian and you will get answers! There are Bear, wild dogs, mountain lion, ect.
@@Melsincatuation Based on the end of his story, apparently it was a buffalo.
On a canoe trip with my young sister in Algonquin Park. Stopped for lunch on the shoreline, sitting with my back to the forrest, my 8 year old sister sitting in front of me, facing into the forest. All of the sudden she starts crying, I say "whats wrong?" - she says "there is a wolf behind you" - my heart kinda stops.... I slowly turn around, to see a friendly dog with tags looking for treats who musta been from a local backcountry cottage 😂
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I had something like that happen to me in Alaska, i had bent down to tie my shoes and heard the sound of something running up behind me. I had a giant adrenaline rush, Of course my first thought was, crap a bear is charging me, but it turned out to be two friendly slobbering Rottweilers
Did you give him the treats? Might be neighborly of you.
Only once: outside canyonlands in January. We drove in very late on a Friday after work. Set up camp in the dark. I woke up at some point and heard footsteps, clearly bipedal, approach, walk around the tent, and walk off. I didn't sleep much that night. We were miles from the nearest dirt road, let alone pavement.
@George Lynch Dixon I've seen sasquatch disappear twice. It was the one that had been standing next to me. We were also very closely surrounded by its clan both times. They may have all been close enough to spit upon but at least they weren't all close enough to touch, like the one standing beside me and slightly forwards of my position. I never saw it's face either time. Lots of different types of cryptids exist. We can't expect people to believe it. They normally need to experience it firsthand in order to know of their existence.
@George Lynch Dixon They've warned people before and saved many peoples lives. If the one next to me wanted me dead, I would be. It had 2 opportunities to take my life and I'm still here. You watch Steve Isdahl don't you? His channel is the best of its kind. I'm glad to be a member of "The Club Of No Return." It made camping there where our encounters occurred, so much better than it had been before. I love that farm. There is just something about experiencing more fear than I had ever felt being instantly transformed into more joy to be alive than I had ever experienced before. It was amazing. I was already an adrenaline junky but my God I'd never experienced anything like those massive adrenaline dumps, I had on both of the nights of my encounters. I had 5 each time. I had never been so jacked up on adrenaline.
@George Lynch Dixon It was incredibly awesome but that fear was something else. When it was instantly replaced with elation, I wanted more. What can I say, other than that I'm definitely an adrenaline junkie? Absolutely love the stuff. I can see the attraction to adrenochrome but I'd rather be dead than to use it. I prefer the real deal not it's metabolite. Adrenochrome is a product that only sick people will use and the methods used to procure it are incredibly evil. They need an equal punishment to fit the crime.
@@donolinger6904 Yeah, I watch Steve too....And YES he is definitely the best channel on here anywhere about the sasquatch & cryptids. I too am a member of 'The club of no return'
@@gloriamitchell2376-. I think we need to start spelling it this way. The Club Of kNOw Return. I think it's slightly more fitting because of it being hidden from the public. It's forbidden knowledge because we might conclude that other types of giants exist like the Bible said. Heaven forbid that we think that God might actually exist. Hells more like it. God wants it revealed and He will make sure it is. That's why it's hidden, the bad guys get more souls that way.
Winter on the AT. Only one sleeping in a shelter. Woke with a flashlight shining in my face. Finally realized it was the moon.
Sounds are louder and lights is brighter when sleeping outside. It is crazy how much more you can see after half an hour of no headlamp or smartphone use.
Ha! A common AT experience. Something similar happened to me.
I once biking with my bro in Topanga National Park and we was racing until we get specific spot marked as finish. I told him if one of us going to be the last in the line, do not wait just keep on goin meet each other when we both reach the finish spot. He was ahead of me n was out of sight, then i heard how he screamed my name n i got worry i thought maybe something happened so i speed up even more and saw him down the little hill, he was ok and i asked him ''did u just call my name?'' and he said ''no, i stopped cuz i thought u called my name'' so basically i heard him calling me, and he heard me calling him, thats why he stopped n waited on me, but it looks like not me nor him didnt call each other. It was creepy n sinister.
Coming across a meth trailer in the middle of nowhere...That was my scariest moment.
I knew I heard someone outside!
yes - sometimes its the bipeds who are scariest. Best to leave quietly and quickly.
That would be genuinely scary. Fair amount of meth cookers in my neck of the woods, and I would not want to stumble onto one of their "operations" in the middle of nowhere.
happened to me too only i was lost for three days figured my life was over and that was going to be my unfortunate death luckily i had a backpack full of food and great survival gear. i Was lost in the middle of nowhere deep in the thick forest up by Mt. Hood Oregon, no GPS or Cellphone service at all. As i was trekking through the thick brush using just a compass, using my machete to cut thru some berry bushes i came into a small clearing and i noticed trash like a gardening water-hose, a tire, some buckets. i was happy i found trash left behind by humans so i continued to look for more in hopes i would come across a cabin, some campgrounds, or a road nearby. i heard a truck start and take off so i followed the sound a came across a brook or stream so i crossed and kept walking. i lost the sound of truck and kept walking eventually i couldn't find it again. i set up camp, made some dinner, watched a movie i had on my tablet downloaded. the next morning i went back to try and find where that truck sound came from, i kept walking and sure enough i cam in contact with an RV. the Truck wasnt there so i creeped up slowly to the front door and knocked, nobody answered but the door was slightly ajar and i saw a meth lab and it hella smelled like meth. i left and camped by closely so that when the truck came back and left again i could follow their way out when they left. and thats what i did. I have no idea how they got that huge RV into the forest in the middle of nowhere, no roads or trials either. the way the truck came in and left was awkward terrain and weird obstacles to get in and out. if it wasnt for that meth lab in the middle of nowhere, i wouldn't have never made it out alive. thank god for that meth lab in the middle of nowhere near Mt. Hood Oregon
@@DrDevilish1 Dude...That sounds like the start to a good movie right there! Glad you made it out though :)
I began backpacking in Ohio at age 10, 64 years ago. Slept many a nights alone in the woods next to the Scioto River, Black Walnut Creek and the Olentangy. I was awakened by a stray horse while cowboy camping under a tree once...nothing scary. Most of my scariest incidents happened on night hikes. In Germany while hiking not far from an old barn. This long deep menacing growl sound literally had me shaking. my heart pounding and my pace almost turned into a run; but I knew if I ran the animal instinct in whatever it was would kick in and it would chase me. It never left the barn but every few seconds I would stop and turn to look on the trail behind me. I was using my Volksmarche hiking staff and I was prepared to use it. What made the situation worse was it was overcast and a slight fog was settling on the ground. Eerie feeling overcame me. Another incident happened on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. I stopped to take care of nature's call and as I stood next to a tree I felt as though I was being watched. You develop extra sensory perception after years of hiking and camping alone. I slowly turned and as I did so I could see the outline of a very large cat, a mountain lion, not sixty yards up on a rock ledge. I immediately raised my arms and started shouting. Fortunately I was with two Air Force buddies and they ran back to my position. The cat turned and ran out of sight. While hammock camping at Grayson in Virginia, I was awakened by a curious pony that stuck his nose up against my bug net near my face. It shocked me but I realized it was a pony and and said something stupid, go find someone else to sleep with or kiss :)
That's amazing. Good stories.
i fear meeting a cat more than anything in the woods, those fuckers will not hesitate
venomous snakes! that's my biggest fear. it's the reason i gave up on tarp camping. i was never able to get a good nights sleep thinking about one of them crawling in with me.
When I camped with Bryce Newbold a few years ago was my scariest. 😱😂
Very,very strange incident when I was much younger., maybe 19. Out with my girl friend in the florida everglades at night. Found a spot to stop, there are no roads at this point, driving dodge ram,4x4. We are sitting on the ground ,on a blanket, getting cozy when we both see a glowing, perfectly round sphere "floating" about 4 ft off the ground and about 10 yards away. I got the feeling it was inspecting us as it went by. No sound, completely silent. We were a bit surprised and didn't stick around to find out what it was or follow it. Amazing experience.
Sounds like ball lightning.
I've heard about those, supposedly they want you to follow them. Don't, because they're trying to take you deeper into the woods until you get lost. I heard they may be the fae folk or even sasquatch. Who knows. Some say it's just ball lightning, but that's like saying UFO's are swamp gas.
When I was around 3, I was with my parents in a campground right next to the road following one of my dad's softball games. The whole team was there, in a state of semi-passed-out drunken stupor as usual. It was hot and dry in the middle of summer, and I THINK we were in either southern Washington or just into Oregon, and didn't have the fly or a tarp on the tent. Given how sloshed everyone was, I'm actually surprised they all got their tents up and were inside them...
I had fallen asleep, and the adults had gradually passed out in their tents here and there. In the middle of the night, I woke up to these awful animal screaming and snarling noises down the road a ways. They went on for what seemed like several minutes, then really abruptly ended, and I just laid there terrified, surrounded by unwakable adults. There were a lot of wet ripping sounds and gutteral slurps, then a big thud. Gradually, these squelching footsteps came closer and closer from down the road, and this viscous smell of blood and death washed over the campground. In the moonlight visible through the net top of the tent, something huge and dark loomed at the edge of the road, literally dripping blood, and I hid myself down into my sleeping bag and began silently bawling. It continued those disgusting steps as it sniffed around, and I heard it continue up the road. Eventually, the adrenaline explosion ended, and I fell back to sleep.
Only to be borderline yanked out of the tent, sleeping bag and all, by my dad a couple hours later, and stuffed into the car. He told me everything was fine and not to look around. I did anyway. Everyone was working as fast and as quiet as possible to pack up and get out of there. Bloody footprints and bits of gore and hair were everywhere in a trail from where the screaming had come from. They weaved between the tents, circled here and there, before going back along the road and out of sight. My parents just kept saying we had to get to the next ball field for that day's game, and I got chewed out when I asked about what was on the ground. I only just learned a couple years ago that what had happened that night had been a bear had attacked and killed a horse just up the road. I still remember seeing it rise up on its hind legs to sniff around, and having no idea what it was. The only other time in my life I've had that hard of an adrenaline surge was when my then 2-year-old choked on something and turned completely pen ink blue going into a seizure.
My first-ever backpacking trip was a solo night in the Uwharrie National Forest! It's infested with Bigfoots!
I was alone and about 100 miles from civilization way out in the mountains.. had something stalk my camp one night. I could only see it's eyes through the trees. Scariest night if my life.
@Cascade Backcountry • Why didn't you say "Hi 👋🏽" to it?, that's all it wanted was a friendly "Hi 👋🏽".
@@brooklynzoo2810 if only I had known! Haha
Had a creepy experience myself last October. For background, I've got a subaru forester that I have set up for overlanding and I'll sleep in the back. Was in the Appalachian mountains, 30 miles deep on a backwoods road, was already kind of uneasy in that spot but decided to stay since I wasn't familiar with that road and the campsites I had passed miles down the road were in use. But it was about 8:30 at night, coyotes were starting to howl so I decided to let my dog do his business and then we climbed into the car to get ready for bed.
At around 9pm, the forest went dead silent, no bugs, no frogs, no coyote howls, nothing, when moments before their sounds were almost deafening. A few seconds later, I hear something walking down the road, the hair on the back of my neck stood up, and my gut told me to stay absolutely still, and to not make a sound, was filled with a horrid feeling of dread. I don't know what it was, but it sounded very large, and sounded like it was walking on two legs. After it walked away, the forest came back to life. Since then, I've looked up different sound clips of various large animals walking down gravel trails, including those not native to the area I was in, like grizzlies and mountain lions. You can obviously tell that they were on 4 legs, and even a grizzly didn't footsteps that sounded as heavy as what I heard.
Ever since then, while I've gone down that road, I am NOT going to camp there, and I feel rather uneasy being in that area. Hell, I feel uneasy just recalling it.
Scariest for me was definitely the bear that walked over my tent in New Mexico twenty years ago. It stepped on me but when I yelled and punched the nylon it took off. It left some scratches in the rain fly and a little bit of slobber. 🐻⛺️⛰
sorry, bro. that was just my dog. he a lil chunky
I lived on 47 acres in Franklin Ohio just below Dayton, and one night I had a fire going in the fire pit just off of our deck, and this huge we called them coy dogs came within 10 feet of the fire and started growling at me and I grabbed my dagger and made aggressive moves toward it and it finally left…we’ve seen packs of these dogs quite frequently…they were all a good size like bigger then German shepherds…
It was raining hard outside Damascus VA on the old AT loop and a bear started sniffing my tent. I punched him in the nose. He left. I lived.
Lot of bears in that region I've heard
When we were in Zaleski a few years ago, we heard a chorus of coyotes. One started howling, then others joined in. It reminded me of the "children of the night" line from the original Bela Lugosi Dracula movie. It was cool, but spooky. Even my dog looked at me like "WTF was that?!?!" He saw one in the morning and angrily barked at it and scared it away. He's a dachshund.
Lol!
My first camping trip as a kid in the Boy Scouts, mid-70s. Upper Adirondack region of NY. The youngest kids were sent to get water sometime after sunset, down a short trail then down a longer trail to a well. So three of us went, two of us had flashlights, and we each had a jerry can that we filled with water. On the way back, the other kid with a flashlight happend to shine it into the woods to the left, and swear to God, we all saw a pure white face staring at us, attached to a human formed figure maybe 25 feet in the trees. Needless to say we flew up the trail back to camp. Honestly have no idea what that was, could have been a prank or overactive imaginations, but we would never have seen it unless we actively shined the light there, and we all described the same thing afterwards.
1) First wildcamp I woke up to a farmer lamping rabbits so random flashes of light and the sound of an air rifle. 2) hearing something rustling (fox) while I was in my hammock but then feeling its nose run down the spine of my back 🥶😂
I few years ago i was day hiking in Harriman State Park in NY 45 mins away from NYC during a weekday. I did not see ppl that day and my plan was to do abt 15-20 miles. As I was ascending to 1200 feet on the right was a thicket of rhododendrons as i got midway past the thicket a roar came from the thicket. I sounded like a lion in a movie. I was about 20 feet away and the roar vibrated my stomach. I froze looked at the thicket and walked away when i was out of sight of the thicket i ran like hell till i couldn’t run anymore. Years later ive been looking up known animal roars and haven’t found a similar sound yet. BTW in Harriman park there are 3-5 BFRO bigfoot reports. I still dont know what it was. After that i started hiking in groups.
Here’s what I am afraid of in this order.
1.Human males
2. Grizzly
3. Cougar
Yes Human males
#1 populate urban areas, as well, and have great potential for danger, despite their environment. Many are harmless if left unbothered, but others are downright terrifying. ...I'm joking, but I'm also not. I'm pretty sure we have the same order.
Cougars usually won’t bother you
Canada has released hundreds of wolves of various species into the wild and it's possible that a pack has migrated south. We know that some of them have migrated into Yellowstone from Canada that weren't part of the grey wolves the US released. Its wierd that conservationists decided to rekease a bigger, more aggressive species than farmers in Montana had eradicated.
Scariest for me. Solo backpacking..in a hurricane, watching the trail turn into a waterfall, 6 miles downstream there was a landslide that took out parts of a town.
In Colorado, found an Elk leg on a trail, and a half mile later, there was a little lake with elk prints and mountain lion prints, our camp was about 2 miles from there.
In New York, I saw an animal in broad daylight, face of a hyena, body of a hairless dog, tail of a cat..ran out of a cornfield. Definitely a chupacabra.
Recently was in Cades Cove, one night heard coyotes, next night saw 2 of them run through the campsite, about 50 feet away. Only reason it was scary is because my 10 pound Yorkie is coyote food.
When I lived in Alaska a coworker went salmon fishing on Kodiak Island. He was camped in a field, when in the middle of the night he heard large animals moving around the tent - knowing that Kodiak Brown bears are immense,. He laid quietly through the night, scared to death. In the morning they were still there, so he opened the text zipper and took a peak and was shocked. It was a small herd of cattle. After that he rented those $19.99 U-Haul trucks and slept in the back of that.
Uhaul van wouldve been better
Ok, you wanted a Bigfoot story, you got it. I’m Mike from Trigger Warning Channel, and this happened to me and my cousin Jeremy some years ago, but it’s as scary and intimidating to me today as it was that night. We had secured deer hunting tags for C4, which at the time was a prime deer hunting zone near Mt. Shasta in Northern California. We drove from Southern California, arrived early in the morning, set up camp near our truck, and spent the rest of the day still-hunting.
It started to get late and neither of us spotted any bucks in their prime, so we headed back to camp, made a nice campfire and sat around in our camp chairs roasting some meat on sticks for dinner. I kept hearing noises in the forest, slight sounds like footsteps coming from one side of our camp, then another, then another. It was pitch black at that point and we couldn’t see anything beyond the edge of light given off by our campfire. I knew that some forest land in California is leased for cattle grazing so I pretty much assumed perhaps the sounds were from cattle browsing around our campsite. I was wrong.
The sounds stopped around the two o’clock position from where I was sitting and for a few minutes I didn’t hear any more sounds and then I distinctly saw eyes. I had been looking intently at that area of the woods where the sounds stopped, half expecting a cow’s “moo”, and I was looking at what I estimated to be about the height of a cow, when I saw the glow of red eyes about five feet higher than that. Whatever was out there was either perched on a branch about 10 feet off the ground, or it was 10 feet tall. The sudden appearance of red eyes opening and looking at us was startling to say the least.
Neither one of us could make out any shape in the darkness except the eyes, but we could clearly see that whatever it was looked left, right, back at us, blinked, and was clearly not imaginary or a trick of light. The eyes were wide apart, and we knew they didn’t belong to a bird both because they were very large and very widely spaced. The edge of the forest was about 25 feet from us and that meant that whatever it was, it was big.
The creature made no aggressive movements, nor did it growl or “umph” as I’ve heard in other stories, nor were the eyes particularly predatory. They were even gentle, and aside from being red, they weren’t particularly scary, but despite all that I felt intimidated. I had a feeling of dread like the creature was imparting that feeling directly into me. To simplify the feeling, I felt like it was simply putting a thought into my head to leave. I know it sounds weird to say that, but that’s what I felt: Leave.
Being stubborn and a bit young at the time my response was to stand my ground. We both picked up our deer rifles and my cousin let off a shot into the air to try to scare it off, but the creature didn’t even blink at the report of the rifle in the quiet of the forest. It just continued to stare at us. I keep wanting to say it glared at us, but that word would imply some aggression on its part, but at no point did it turn aggressive. It just was not intimidated by our guns or by us. It had a superior confidence and my feeling of dread was increased with the realization that if this being wanted to harm us, neither us nor our guns would win this fight.
I made what I consider to be the wise decision to put out our fire, take whatever we could carry on our person and book it to the truck a few hundred feet away. We left our tent, our camp supplies, even our extra boots behind in that meadow. The feeling of dread completely left me the further away from the area that we drove, but I kept looking into the forest all along the dirt road half expecting to see something chasing us down.
Again, None of the encounter was physically aggressive. All the feeling was in my chest and in my head, and I didn’t talk about it even with my cousin for years, thinking that I’d be laughed at. However, over Thanksgiving dinner some ten years later I talked with my cousin only to find out that he had exactly the same experience and feeling of dread as I did, down to the minute detail of the thought in his own head: “Leave”.
I claim this as my Bigfoot encounter despite never seeing a physical Bigfoot creature or any shape other than those eyes. However what convinces me more is those involuntary feelings. We’re both big guys, trained individuals, not much scares me, and we were armed with 30-06 rifles. I for one have spent many nights alone and in groups in forests and jungles, both sheltered and under the open sky, yet we were both driven out of the woods that night like boys scared of the dark.
If I was with a big strong, armed man and he suddenly got frightened like a little girl..oh actually I have once ..so me and this guy I just started dating were sleeping in his bed one night it was about 2 am we both were asleep and I suddenly woke up to a sensation right in between my boobs..I woke up fast brushing whatever it was off..I felt something.. I screamed a little and he woke up and turned the light on..just then I saw a HUGE scorpion running away on the floor..it stung me right in between my boobs!! Anyways this guy flys out of bed so fast and was backed up against the wall on the other side of the room!!!! Then he started screaming throwing his shoes at it..while I was still sitting in bed!!! Then I just walked over to it and picked it up with my cup and walked it outside. All while he is in tears saying he can't sleep in his bed anymore ! Needless to say I never saw that pansy again!!! I need a man who isnt more afraid of things then I am!!
You got to be kidding! No such thing as a bigfoot animal!
@@johngloser9423 You may be right... then again you may be completely wrong. I have no idea if there's a Bigfoot or not. I'm telling a story that happened to me personally that sure walked like a duck and quaked like a duck. Then again, maybe it was just an undiscovered enormous owl with red eyes. ;)
@@fourbandits There is God who created Adam and Eve from the rib of Adam. God created the animals and had Adam name them. No werewolf animal, no dogman animal, and no bigfoot animal. God however did create bear, wild dogs, mountain lion, ect. If you would because a Christian then the Lord would set you free. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Then you can gather in the church in holy obedience to Him which is the Bride of Christ. A Holy Marriage. Jesus Christ is the Husband and the gathering church is the Bride. If you decide to be saved, you will need to be born of God's Spirit and water baptized. There is however one third of the angels, who are fallen angels of whom God has in chains. The devil deceives people into things that are not true.
@@johngloser9423 I'm sorry John, but WHAT? The argument you just made is extremely fallible. Up until the 1850's Christianity had no idea that gorillas existed, and the name Gorilla didn't exist until then. Adam certainly didn't name Gorillas.
The same goes for many other African animals that weren't discovered until recently. They don't exist in the Bible, despite many Christian children's books depicting them climbing aboard Noah's Ark in pairs of two. That's pure modern fantasy mate.
There are animals being discovered in the Congo and the Amazon today that nobody in Christianity ever knew existed until recently, so to claim that Adam knew and named them despite there being no evidence to support that claim is simple wishful thinking.
You're certainly entitled to it, but don't forget that Christianity also didn't know anything about the existence of the extinct Giganthopithecus until it was discovered in 1935, and that many Christians STILL deny that dinosaurs ever existed! With due respect, I think we can do without the Christian wisdom on this topic.
Lastly, if the Devil deceives people into believing what’s not true, how do you know he didn’t deceive you into believing in God and the Bible? That sword has two edges mate.
I was in the middle of nowhere, deep into the forests of risnjak national park, it was night and I could not sleep because of all of the events of the day.
So I thought it might just help listening into the "silence", so I put out the earplugs and then just a few seconds later I heard sniffing, some heavy footsteps and a deep grunt. My heartbeat instantly rose and I kinda knew what I was dealing with, so I tried to make my self heard as big branches cracked and the footsteps came closer.
Once i was car camping in a natl forest campground. It was nine miles up a dirt road, I was the only person in the campground. I was in my tent just dozing off, when something just outside my tent started snarling like the devil himself. Id never heard such a creepy angry snarling , cursing and growling in my life. I lay there petrified wondering what it could be, perhars a crazed rabid badger. Then to make matters worse something big jumped out of the fir tree two feet from my tent and landed with a thud that shook the ground and bounded off. After that i went and slept in my car. I did find out the snarling devil was a bobcat. The heavy thing that jumped out of the tree, who knows..
Camping when I was a teenager near a swamp. My camp was attacked in the middle of the night. I mean torn up! My tent was down on me and I heared grunting. Too scared to come out. No gun. In the morning I finally inched out. My gear was everywhere. My story was Bigfoot but now much older and “ wiser” I think territorial buck. No tracks! Scared the bejesus out of me! Lower west Michigan.
Bigfoot for sure.
Your first one described one of my bigger fears. Whether in a hammock or tent, I often get nervous about some big animal on the run not seeing my hammock or tent in time and running right into it or tripping over a corner of the tent or a guy-line and bringing my tent down with it. Last summer with Devin, I had a desert rat hopping all around the leaves around my tent that I found myself trying to scare off with my own noises because it kept scaring me, er, annoying me, until I finally caught sight of it with my flashlight. But my all time scariest moment was also last summer when I had my boys out backpacking with our hammocks. I had hung our food out the proper distance and all that, but didn't do a proper bear hang because there were no good trees to do a good hang from so I relied on my odor proof layers for securing my food as I often do. There was a loud snap and thud in the middle of the night that awoke me from the direction our food was. I figured it was tree branch thad had fallen, but couldn't shake the thought that it was a bear that had pulled our food down from the branch I had hung it on. My heart pounding, I mustered up just enough courage to unzip and walk over with my flashlight to check the food bag and was relieved to find it untouched. Turns out there was a bear in the area messing with other camps just a few miles away over that same week though.
The scariest thing I've ever had happen in the woods was stumbling onto a super creepy group camp that had clearly been there for a while. People were obviously living there but no one was present that I could see. I had that eerie feeling like I was being watched and I thought I heard some twig snaps coming from the other side of where their tents were set up. I noped out of there as fast as I could and ever since then I concealed carry my pistol when I go out into the woods alone.
A second creepy thing I experienced was more my friend than me, but we went camping with a few guys in a pretty remote area. My buddy snuck off into the woods to relieve himself. He was finishing up when a couple of the guys noticed a copperhead snake getting into the striking stance right next to the tree he was hiding behind. They alerted us and we all yelled for him to run and so he did. He almost got a butt cheek full of venom that day.
Camping in the Witchita mountains, Oklahoma. Heard a sniffing noise next to the tent. I opened the flap and was staring in the face of a bison. I could have touched his face. He was not alone. The herd decided to bed down with us. The car was close by so tip toed to the car and slept there the rest of the night.
That's crazy!
Try having a black figure peeping out around a tree about head level and then hearing a loud scream that made you stop breathing then 4 guys walk over to the tree and nothing there
I've had a few weird things go bump in the night but in general I'm pretty comfortable in the woods. Confidence in my skills helps. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
I was camping in Paradise Valley in Banff NP when, just after going to bed, I had large porcupines circling my tent (3 or 4 of them). I looked out my front window/vent and there was one and I looked in my back window/vent and there was another. They did this all night and would even come up to my little tent window/vent and take a big sniff. Freaked me out especially as I was lying on the ground and they were huge. I had to keep turning my head lamp on and banging my camping shovel to scare them off. They circled all night until about 3am when what sounded like a satanic worship was going on near my tent really freaked me out. However, I had heard a similar sound back home that was told to me to be raccoon's mating so I think I had accidentally set up my tent in the porcupine's mating area. I couldn't wait for the sun to come up so I could get out of there asap. I thought about leaving in the middle of the night but the place was also crawling with grizzly bears which I never saw or heard but didn't want to bump into in the middle of the night. It made for a very interesting night with a very restless sleep.
Porcupines are curious and even friendly, they arent afraid of humans and don't have many predators. I had one that would come in my house to eat dog food if i left the door open. He'd hang out, the dog and cats would eat out of the bowl next to him. Sounds like a mom and offspring checking you out.
Girlfriend and I were lying on the ground in a Colorado Aspen grove. We were maybe 3 or 4 feet apart. Yellow leaves flashing gold filtered light on a warm autumn day, just magic.
The ground started to rumble and a second or so later a huge bull elk ran right between us at a full speed dash and was gone. It happened so fast that it was hard to even understand what had happened at first. Picture a horse at full run. He was a couple feet away from each of us. After we just started laughing in shock.
I still don't know if he ever even knew we were there.
Whenever I’m out there solo I haaaaaate getting out of my tent at night to pee. For some reason I always feel like someone is gonna run out of the darkness while I’m doing my business 😂
Cats are what scare me out here in the west.
i love stories like this.true stories and i love to read comments with topic like this.
Thanks, this was just what I needed. Some encouragement and assurance it's not just me. My last solo overnight was terrifying. Because I've only done it twice, There are all sorts of new sounds at night. There was a pack of coyotes very near by that made the most incredibly loud sounds I've ever heard. And it went on for quit a long time. I grew up spending loads of time in the woods, but not alone at night.
Thanks for mentioning that over time, this will abate some!
About five years ago, I was hammock camping in the woods along the side of Burke Mountain in East Burke, VT. I was over 200 feet off the Red trail, maybe 2 miles from the trailhead. During the night, two separate packs of coyotes ran by my site, turkeys were incessantly chattering on another occasion, and some random rodent was also adding to sleeplessness. Just as dawn approached, there were very heavy sounding footsteps on the trail downhill from my position. As I mentioned, I was well over 200' away from that trail. As I laid there, I could actually feel the footsteps as vibrations in my hammock. After maybe a dozen or so footsteps, there was a sudden, loud animal call. It was like a very loud call, but maybe with a elk-like sound. Whatever it was, it was loud and startling. I've googled sounds to see if I could figure it out, but nothing seems to match. I searched for moose, bear, and deer sounds - nothing. Luckily, it was my last night there so I didn't have to try another night weirded out by the local animal life - freaky!
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At half moon state park in Vermont I saw an apparition across the lake of a woman right as the sun was coming up. I guess I believe in that sort of thing now.
Bryce - I’m curious on the scariest/most dangerous people you’ve come across & how you handled it.
yes I fully expected THIS to be in his list. You see some special folks out there.
yep. I'm much more afraid of people. except Grizzlies. I'm afraid of Grizzlies 🤣
Yeah Bryce we want a scary people on trail video.
A group of 12 friends out of high school were camping about 5 miles out of town. Full moon out, sitting around the campfire about midnight. The moon light lit up the pasture and we saw a tall black figure flowing through the field about 50 yards away. We were all freaking out. We watched it slowly zig zag its way closer to us. This thing turned out to be some 50 year old long haired hippy with a long grey beard wacko with a black blanket over his head with his arms folded tight against his chest. He walked up to our group, the fire was dancing five feet high and really lit up his face. He quickly opened his blanket spreading the blanket open like a bat with a hatchet in one hand and yelled, " HATCHET MAN!" We all screamed and one of my buddies jumped up with a machette and yelled, "MACHETTE MAN!" The guy froze like that for 30 seconds, slowly closed his arms back into his chest and turned and floated off into the night. Not many of us got much sleep that night.
Hatchet man meet Machete man, that needs to be a 3D movie.
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One of mine was while in Canada. I was around 12 years old with my bother. Two older teenage boys, who were friends of the family, took us camping. It was on a lake, so we took a boat out to find an island to camp on. The older boys saw an island with a tent already on it. Their dad dropped us off and left us alone on the island. He would pick us up the next morning. They were like cool let's camp here, and we don't need to set up a tent. We put our stuff in the tent and hung out on the island. Night time came and then a boat with like 6 people showed up. They were shining a flashlight on us, as they approached the island. The older boys told us to take the stuff out of the tents. Once the others landed they seemed a bit menacing and upset we hijacked their camping spot. Setting up a tent was the way people claimed their spot, and this flew over the heads of the teenagers I was with. Anyway, it later became friendly and both groups stayed on the island together. The scary part is that it was unexpected and we had no way to get off the island.
My wife and I hiking a local trail had a mountain lion cross the trail in front of us. It stop looked at us and it kept walking. Was amazing to see. Stay safe keep out of the woods booger will get you
Also...hearing bugling elk out in the woods in the fall can be really scary sounding if you don't know what it is. Thankfully...I was quickly informed at the time of my first encounter of that now wondrous sound.
Elk do make weird vocalizations, and spooky if you dont know what it is
Went camping at a pond with my ex girlfriend a few summers ago at a local pond, we were the only people there. Woke up to a frog tied to a tree hanging by its leg outside our tent. Ive got a video of it somewhere.
On a very windy kayak trip on Lake of the Woods, I set the tent up on a high-ish rock knob. In the middle of the night I woke up to my legs being lifted. I thought to myself, "The aliens are taking me!" And almost as an aside; "And they're doing it wrong!" Turns out the wind had increased, was blowing up the slope of the knob, and under the tent. The older Meter Light tent stood up to this no problem. Me, not so much... LOL!!
Junior year 3 buddy's and I were taking spring break. One friends Father lived near Tampa he hadn't seen him a coupla years so we drove there first. We decided to take the old highway from Tampa back up and west to Panama City. We're on Hwy 98 about midnight heading west not far from ST. Marks FL. this was in 1974 and the area was pretty desolate. We stopped at an old historical marker to take a leak. One of us said whats that light we were all already seeing it. First it looked like a neon blue the size of a basketball then it started moving through the little trees and bushes that lined the road and either a river or inlet. The thing was moving fluidly and the closer it came the larger it became and had changed color's 2 or 3 times now it was purplish. I wasn't driving when we stopped but one instant we all had jumped back into my car with me driving. I pulled back on the Hwy as I was picking up speed to maybe 40 mph everything about my car died. The motor , the lights , the stereo I mean it shutdown I put it in neutral and started coasting. That was it next any of us knew the car started itself without my touching the key , the lights and stereo fired back up.
I've always been one to figure time and distance (this was way before GPS) I had our ETA figured I can't recall exactly just say 3AM. We were an hour and 45 minutes later than expected. Strange thing we never talked about this amongst ourselves , if two of us were in a room and one started talking about it invariably the other would get up and leave the room. Two of my buddy's have died and the other one will not answer any type of message from me. I asked his sister to ask what he remembered he told her he remembers the light very well and that's all he would say. Another odd thing is about two weeks afterwards I was working out and noticed a small round knot in my right forearm about the size of a BB. I can still feel and see it but I used to be able to move it a very little. One more thing several times through all these years I lose a little time. The time is always close to an hour and 45 minutes also a few times as I'd be getting out of bed I'd be sore like I had fallen out of bed or something and my hands would be swollen.
This is something I have never been able to figure out. If anyone reads this and has had a similar occurrence let me know.
I have another weird thing while bow hunting years ago but maybe for a different time.
OK before anyone asks this might've been the mid 70's but no drugs or drink was involved two of us were athletes and the other two stayed in shape also.
I was on AT in my home state solo. I heard what sounded like Ric Flair with his wooo,I kept hearing it over and over. I ended up reading the book at the shelter and a bunch of people were talking about the owls. I have heard owls plenty of times, I swear it was Mr Flair. Wooo
Woooo!!! 🤣
Yeah, he was out there practicing his "wooo". 🤣🤣
I don't know if it was Bigfoot, but some years ago my wife and I went on a dirtball "overlanding" excursion in my T100. We left pavement east of Eureka, Ca and ventured up Route 96 - the Bigfoot Scenic Byway which took us through the Hoopa Reservation into the Six Rivers National Forest.
It was probably midnight. It was dark and smokey, we were in the middle of nowhere and we had to answer a call of nature.
I pull over, we get out and just off the embankment of the road, down the slope of the mountain we start hearing this eerie sound of something big moving through the undergrowth. It sounded like it was headed right for us.
We hop back into the 'Yota and scamper before whatever it was got too close. We never saw anything, and it could have easily just been a bear or even a person, but it just wasn't something that we were in a position to deal with.
A think a year or two later in about the same location, a bear jumped off the embankment above the road and knocked a cop car over. So it could have just as easily been a bear that was checking us out, but I still kind of hope that it was Bigfoot.
Back in 2016, I was driving in the exact same area with a friend and we decided to turn down a dirt road around midnight looking for a place to pull off and sleep. Just like you, we got out of the car to take care of business and both immediately had this terrifying feeling that someone/something was watching us. Both of us have camped all over the western US and never experienced a feeling quite like that, especially not simultaneously. Neither of us actually heard or saw anything that night but our spidey senses were telling us that something was "off" about that spot. Needless to say, we didn't stick around to see if our intuition was correct. I'm not sure if it was just our minds playing tricks on us but it was definitely unnerving at the time.
@@stevesmith8097 That's so trippy! I'm glad that I'm not the only person who experienced that!
@@SamwiseOutdoors Yeah, it's a strange place for sure!
Of all your vids I love the most when your Moms dog shows up. I mean really, it is not like you live in your moms basement but the fact he shows up on your camp trips is just so heart warming.
Luke on Outdoorgearreview, Cody on Wranglerstar, David Pearson on Reallybigmonkey1, have had dogs just show up and It is such an addition to the Vids.
Hello, I am new too. your Chanel. I want to share two spooky stories with you. The first happened about 7 years ago. I was camping with a friend near Petrolia Beach in Northern California. It was around 2:30 a.m. and we both spotted something zipping back and forth in the sky. I would say about two minutes total, then it suddenly plunged into the ocean. The second event occurred on June 8, 2018. I was hiking around the rim of Crater Lake and felt as though someone was watching me or possibly following me. That evening at the Campground, the one closest to the lake, my friend's dog started growling, so I unzipped my tent to see what he was growling at, but there didn't appear to be anything out there I could see, but he started growling louder, so I popped my head out the tent and saw an old, ghost-like a skinny naked man walk about 40 feet from my tent. I saw him for about 5 seconds. My friend and I both saw this man and told the camp host the following morning. He told us many, people have reported seeing spirits like this. Personally, I do believe in spirits and I live in Big Foot Country. I remember several older Natives in the 1960s who shared stories with my father and me about their encounters with Sasquash. Most of these Elders encourted them near the Hoopa Reservation. Thanks for allowing us to share our stories.
On the first night of my first solo trip, I was at the Twin Valley Trail near Germantown, OH. I had what I assume was a group of pranksters come through the area. They must have been fans of the show "Finding Bigfoot" because they proceeded to make the sounds they made on that show for nearly 30 minutes. I believe they were trying to scare me off and take my gear. I have to say though, they were talented at vocalizations because it did creep me out. I even caught some of it on video. Not a fun experience on my first solo, but I love it now.
Good thing they didn't get shot .
My only backpacking experience consisted of my wife drinking wine in the tent while I was outside having bourbon and eating a stew after a 10 mile hike. We got swarmed by giant hornets, I’m talking an inch and a half long and they sounded like fighter jets. It started to get really intense and I literally could not get into the tent, so I started spraying bug killer in pretty much every direction. Problem was that we were on this really nice, sandy dirt padded area so I was barefoot. The area became completely covered with these huge writhing beasts rolling around in the sandy dirt. I thought I’d made my way through them when I stepped on one and oh my god it was the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my entire life. Like someone took a hot metal nail and drove it through my foot. My foot was swollen for at least a week. And honestly, I’m lucky I didn’t die with the swarm that hit us. It was a scenario you’d see in a sci-fi movie or something. These things were HUGE and there were probably 50 of them.
They nest in the ground. You probably disturbed their nest.
Murder hornets?
Nothing will get you in Ohio, just the grass man .
Last September i was camping at Loch Doon in the Galloway Forest Park(Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland). I was sleeping by around 9pm, at some point through the night, i wakened enough to be aware the tarp i had up around the tent was rustling quite aggressively, but only on one side of the tent and only at the point directly behind me. I could tell it wasn't windy, so that wasn't the cause.
As i lay there on my right side i felt a hand cup around my left shoulder, it began shaking me quite violently, this obviously wakened me fully, very quickly. The shaking continued for around another 5-10 seconds. I wanted to look round but instinct told me not to. The hand lifted off my shoulder and i heard both the tent, then the tarp rustle one after the other as though whatever it was, was now leaving and passing through both layers. It was then absolutely silent, not a sound could heard.
I was alone, this, whatever it was entered and exited through the side of the tent, not the doorway. I lay awake for probably the next hour, just listening, eventually the sounds of bird calls started up, i'm guessing around 3am, but that was the first sound i heard. I then fell asleep for a few hours before wakening around 7am, when i promptly packed everything up and headed off...
I know that place. I live not far from there.. what do you think it was??
@@ianadams1132 ghost
My scariest hunting trip was in Southern Ohio I forgot my flash like that morning and I walk to my tree stand with the moonlight there was something in the woods growling at me I couldn't see it but funny thing I tried to track whatever I heard I could not find any tracks and it sound like a truck going through the woods breaking brush but I could not find them pass that it took
First time I went camping/backpacking into the woods I was alone and around 3 AM I woke up to something rubbing against my tent right next to my face, scared the shit out of me lol.
Probably 10 years ago my cousin and I were on our way back from storm chasing in Southeastern Kansas. It was probably around midnight and we were out in the middle of absolutely nowhere on the highway and we spotted some thing on the side of the road that we swear was the chupacabra. It was a little smaller than a coyote and it looked like it had mange because almost all of its hair was missing but it had like a cats head. Like with coyotes they have a snout and the skull was more flat like a cat on this but it was way too big to be a cat. We turned around to see if we could find it with the spotlight but it was already gone. Honestly not sure what it was but we always joke around and called that spot the chupacabra spot.
I once managed to call some coyotes to my camp by blowing a predator call. It was kinda creepy hearing what sounded exactly like 2 or 3 dogs quickly moving through the brush within 50 feet of the light of my campfire. But I'd totally try doing that again!
My son and i heard two animals screeching and fighting each other from our shelter near lake George in the Adirondacks at about 3am. Later listening to sound bites we decided it was either Martins, bobcat's, or both... made my hair stand up on my neck.
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People also say we don't have big cats here in Northeast Kentucky but we do 🤣🤣
Absolutely wolves in ohio. Saw a small pack (3?) while hiking in Southern Ohio. Huge, daunting beasts but awesome to see. I want to say it was John Bryan s.p. but it was a long.time ago. Was guiding a group of teens in a summer camp program and they ran across our path. Kids were stoked to see them.
Here in Australia we have a lot of "wild dogs" Dogs that have gone feral, possibly dingo/domestic hybrids and often live in packs. Several times I have come across them when remote camping. Once I was about to pack up in the morning when a couple of dogs just walked into camp ahead of me. I heard some noise and more were being me, about maybe 6 in total. They slowly moved in on me until I shouted and waved my arms around. That felt pretty dangerous and scary.
Very scary
@@clairevyanse5645 No but they did put a shrimp on the barbie ; )
There's quite a few of sasquatch and dogman sightings in and around the Shawnee area
Authorities say that we don't have puma in Ohio. My brother and his wife have seen one twice when they owned land out in the country. We don't have bear in Ohio either. The first night we encountered sasquatch we saw bear tracks that the farmer pointed out to us. Yes I said (posted) sasquatch. They exist and when our encounters occurred southwestern Ohio took the top sasquatch hot spot in the nation from the whole state of Oregon and held it for 3 to 4 years. Yes I know Washington normally has the most sightings.
There is 100% wolves in Ohio!
Type 2 fun! Lol! It’s the best... and worst! Thanks for sharing!
My first night camping I saw Sasquatch.
Man what a great topic. Think I'll have to share mine via a video! Everything goes bump in the night.
My $0.02: I’ve heard that people get scared when they think things are being thrown at them. Big rocks? 100% human. Small things like acorns are flung/thrown by squirrels and birds. I’ve seen this with my own eyes multiple times. And, I don’t know about y’all but coyote howls are just about the most terrifying, primal fear I’ve ever experienced. Mountain lions make no sounds if they are hunting, so…. They’ll crouch for hours in wait for their prey-your dog or cat. Hearing the grunting and snorting of bears is pretty scary but awe-inspiring too. Also feral dogs do run around in packs. Wild pigs are very noisy in general. The saddest thing is the sound of an animal dying after some bone-head human has shot it in a bad spot. Extremely sad. Animals really don’t want to eat us, we stink. If you are in an open area surrounded by woods, of course it’s going to be a game trail. I’ve only hiked/camped in CA. :)
I live in the Rocky Mountains. I've camped in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and California. I've had encounters with grizzly, black bear, Elk, and moose. The Moose was actually the scariest out of all the big game I've been around. Partly because the other ones were from a distance. This Moose had worked it's way into the camp why'll my group was out fishing and kayaking. When we were heading back the light was fading and was getting hard to see. Myself and a buddy of mine were ahead of our group. We had made it to the edge of the camp and we heard some movement and looked in the direction of the noise. This thing was massive! Absolutely huge. We managed to see it's rack of antlers. As we got a flashlight on it. We stood about 30 feet away from it. I nearly died from a heart attack. Thankfully it turned and quickly left. Definitely was a big bull moose and you hear about how aggressive these things can get when startled. We were lucky that night.
I went camping with my boyfriend and my family at a spring in Florida. In the middle of the night, my boyfriend and I were hanging out in our tent and we start hearing these growls and high pitched howls right behind the tree line that our tent was butt up against. I would say they were about 50 feet away. I can tell they are coyotes. The howling multiplied then it turned into this very scary sound. There were coyotes fighting and killing each other. You can hear them tearing into each other and pouncing on each other. It lasted for 5-7 mins and I just couldn't handle the sound anymore. I mean it was a terrible cry from both of them. I yelled super loud for them to leave, which then startled them and ended the fight.
Nothing like the sound of a cougar in heat in the middle of the night... my daughter and I were sheltering under a tarp in a tree well. I kept switching on my headlamp to see if there were reflective eyes looking back at us. Didn't sleep much that night!
This is why I recommend wearing headphones while sleeping in the woods 😅
Fall asleep to podcasts every night out there 😂
@@lumpsinthewild5451 I do too!!
@@lumpsinthewild5451 same.
I went camping with my sister somewhere in upstate new York. It was a terrible camp with people crammed in tiny camp spots. But we were passing through and just need a place to pitch our tent for the night. That night as I was trying to go to sleep, I started hearing the most vicious gnarly growling animals outside my tent. I was convinced it was one or two badgers fighting or something... Also I was starting to feel very nauseous due to someone in the campground burning nasty wood. I needed to get out of the tent to find somewhere to upchuck but I was also to scared to leave with the menacing animals outside... I finely gave up and unzipped the tent to see two adorable racoons fighting over something. Terrible night but my sister and I still laugh about it.
Bro, I'm always looking for UFO's and Bigfoot too Hahah I love it
Yeah, here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I was doing a Solo overnight along a stream I fished the next day. I was listening to my bluetooth speaker during dinner, before bed time. As soon as I shut my speaker off, the Coyotes started talking. That was fine, but as they started, a min later the Wolves chimed in. The Coyotes shut Right up, and I laid in my tent, pretty nervous all night, next to my loaded 30/30.
You should look up the narrator "Let's Read" here on TH-cam, he narrates an absolutely terrifying true story about a man hiking the Appalachian trail. Something happened to him while he was in his hammock. It is one of the scariest things I've ever read.
Good one. If you have not already, go a bit south to Red River Gorge KY and get a bit spooked...fun times.
I’ve been waiting a long time for someone to bring up this topic!
My top 3 in no order: about the halfway point of sheltowee trace trail thruhike in 2016 in an established campsite I woke up in my floorless tent to what I thought was a mouse trying to get in my backpack (I use to elevate my legs -- my food was properly hung a distance away) ... nope, wasn't a mouse ... it was a copperhead strolling through. I just crossed my arms on my chest and went back to sleep figuring if its my time, its my time. Also on sheltowee trace trail between cumberland falls and laurel lake, I heard a noise and got bluff charged by a bear from about 100 yards away. It was standing 15 feet away before I even realized it was a bear. I just slowly walked away ... if its my time, its my time. 3rd ... on benton mackaye trail thru hike in 2018, I was on this sketchy narrow section on the side of this mountain and when it finally got wider I was in tall weeds over my head. I am making my way through the weeds and walk into this clearing and when I reached the clearing I looked up to another bear also entering the clearing from the opposite side about 50 feet away. We both stand there looking at each other for what seemed like forever but I'm sure it was just seconds because I didn't want to go back the way I just came and it was almost as if the bear was thinking the same thing. Eventually he moved forward, turned around, and slowly went back the way he came and then I had to stand there for like 2 hours to give him time to get ahead of me.
oh yea, comment about your howl ...I don't consider this scary but dang it was odd ... I was winter camping in red river gorge and like you, I had a coyote howling off in the distance wake me up. I remember laying there watching the snow falling and going back to sleep. Some time later I get woken up again with the howling and this time I was like ... holy crap, thats a lot closer. But I lay there watching the snow falling and just go back to sleep. The next morning when I wake up and go to put my boots on so I can go pee, I noticed coyote tracks within 3 feet of my tent ... the go in the direction of my food bag hanging in a tree and I follow them. I think I recorded this in one of my red river gorge videos. I would have never thought in a million years they would have gotten that close to me without waking me up. My food bag was good, it looks like maybe they stopped there briefly and moved on.
last one because I forgot about it ... also on benton mackaye trail ... I had gotten behind on miles and decided to night hike to make it up. It just so happened to be that this particular night hike was mostly along this creek for about 6 or 7 miles (really rough country, you couldnt hike very fast with all the rocks and obstructions) and as I am making progress I start to notice how many snakes there are. Its like every where you look there are snakes, sometimes 3 or 4 close together. I'm not afraid of snakes, actually have 2 pet snakes and i find them all the time around my homestead everything from black rat snakes to copperheads to timber rattlers. So anyways, long story short the sun finally starts coming up and the snakes which are mostly nocturnal start going away. By now its full daylight and I come up on this one on this rock that I have to cross and I identify it as a black rat snake from a distance. I've been up for about 28 hours straight hiking in rugged territory and I have my camera out recording a small video for "status update on instagram" and I am talking to this snake talking about how beautiful this black rat snake is, about 6 feet long, and I say something like hey buddy, you need to let me cross here and I take a step forward and it lunges at my throat and only missed because I turned away from it and I see its belly and I say something to the effect "holy f*** ... thats a blue racer" and they are very territorial and he wasn't having anything to do with me invading his space lol. That video is on instagram, if you search for bmt or benton mackaye trail it will probably show up from around 2018 (i tagged most of the images and videos and same name as my youtube)
mt lions , bears , and bigfoot out here man.
I remember you telling that wolf story at one of the meetups. Still freaks me out!
I was camping with my best friend and our kids in the Grand Tetons, when I was woken up by a bear sniffing around right outside my tent in the middle of the night. I mean Right Outside. He brushed up against it as he walked by. I froze as I calculated what to do. Bear mace didn't do me any good in the tent. Could I make it to the truck with the kids, or should we just stay put. Should I alert the other tent or would that spook him. Should I scream to scare him away or would scaring it make it attack. By the time I finished going though all these possible options, he was gone. He was just making the rounds of the camp sites, looking for food. Please remember to always keep your food put away in a vehicle or up in a tree away from your camp site.
Storms with many lightnings are very scary in the woods.... I passed through it many times....
I'm always relieved when I click on these videos and hear an American accent.
While camping on Cumberland Island GA I had a wild horse almost walk over my tent. I heard the hooves on the sand and yelled out “no!”. The next morning you could see the tracks went right up to the tent, backed away and then went around.