I don’t know why I’m starting to watch all these horror camping stories just before my camping trip in few weeks ….. Pray that I’ll survive my camping trip without passing out from my own imagination! 😱🙏😬
Just let them know that you are only here to visit, you mean no harm, and that you will be leaving soon. If you show respect, “they” will respect you in return. Have a wonderful trip!
I used to teach my son’s boy scout troop night navigation. I got really adjusted to it and did a lot of night hikes on trails in south Texas. One night in 2013 I was on a 7-mile circle hike in the Sam Houston State forest. I stopped to check my map and folded it up and sat it on a large rock near the trail and had a drink of water. I had to pee and out of habit I walked about 20 feet off the trail. While I had my back turned I heard something like a person tripping over a root. Then I heard a grunt that came from further down the trail. I thought it was a bear or raccoon so I kind of yelled to scare it off. I started at 30 degrees back to the trail when I realized I’d left my map on the rock. I walked back to the rock and reached up for my map and there sitting right on top of my map was a small pair of rusty pliers as if someone had left their map and weighed it down from the wind. But it was my map and I hadn’t brought any pliers and wouldn’t have needed them anyway. I could feel my heart beating in my ears. I sat there stone frozen for about five minutes waving my light around. Nothing. And then I hiked the last two miles with nothing else happening.
Encounters like yours are no joke. I was on a backpacking trip with one of my adult sons when we had a similar situation happen to us. We were at a lake in Oregon we had hiked into….but we had TWO of these very heavy beings to deal with. They walked into our camp and sent and received a signal from each other. The creepiest part of the whole thing was they left in complete and utter stillness. Not a brush or a rustle of any of the undergrowth that was thick all around the camp. My son and I are long time backpackers. These creatures are out there…..we found that out for ourselves that night. There was no one else at the lake. We didn’t see any other human out there that whole trip. Some folks want to make these encounters a big joke. Well it ain’t funny when you are the ones sitting in a small backpacking tent in the dark and your car is several miles away.
Why can’t all of these encounters simply be bears of different sizes/breeds and with varying Heath conditions? Look up hairless bears, they look terrifying...They also live in the woods, are very quiet when they want to be, and can be bipedal as well. Wouldn’t we have found some bones or a corpse of one of these creatures at some point?
@@bkb04g that’s the big question isn’t it? Why no evidence: no bones, no good footage, no reliable Dna, nothing. Yet I’ve talked to a lot of people (I interview them in my channel), upstanding members of the community who have no doubt about what they saw. Listen to the late Kerry Arnold’s story, a hunter, and tell me that guy is making it up.
My husband and three of his buddies had an encounter in the Oregon forest at his parents’ cabin. It was winter and he and his friends went up to ride snowmobiles and spend a couple nights in the woods. They still talk about it when they see each other and my husband says that anytime they do the hair on his arms still stands up. The experience they had was with an aggressive creature. I hear other stories where they talk about how they were docile, but that was not their experience.
I had an experience in Canada while I was running a 200 mile relay race from Jasper to Banaff. I was running leg 10 I believe( this was way back in 99 or 2000) So all the teams were pretty spread out by then. So my team was in a van about half mile ahead of me and I was all alone I could not see a runner ahead of me of behind me. Oh did I mention it was also at 12 midnight!!! So I was passing A large lake on my right and a heavily forested steep incline on my left. The moon was pretty full and no clouds. As I was about in the middle of the lake up ahead I saw a HUGE FIGURE down by the water. I thought it was a bear at first because cause it was crouched over like drinking water. I remember feeling so terrified.. My heart started beating faster and it was already fast cause I was running fast!! I just wanted to get past it without it seeing me, no chance. I was fairly close when I saw this "bear" stand up on 2 feet!! WTF!!! Cause it then right in front of me jumped the guard rail ,stop for a second , stare at me, and it took 1 bounding step across the 2 lane hwy. The smell in the air was horrendous and the feeling I had was terrified then I have ever been I my whole life!
For the longest time I never told anyone because when I was. 10 yrs old me and friend had another experience while riding our ponies. Then a couple years ago I found Steve over at How to Hunt and I told my experiences on there!! First time ever! Man I already had felt a HUGE WEIGHT Íift offf me!! So many people have experienced these things and are afraid to talk
Wow - quite an experience Melanie. Had to be frightening...thank you for sharing that. Steve does a good job of telling as many stories as possible of peoples encounters.
I've always thought those sorts of night races sounded dangerous because of possible bears or mountain lions, but what happened to you is even more terrifying. I think I would have completely freaked out if it happened to me. I'm glad you lived to tell the tale.
@@gardyloo3093 awe thank you so much and ya know I was pretty young back then( just got out of college) do I didn't even think about it! But now I would !!!
Wow Chris you are pretty brave considering you share so many other's creepy experiences. For me, its a no brainer, these creatures DO exist, but they are very elusive. I love your story telling and how you incorporate the history of each location. And describe the geographicals together with awesome photos. This channel is a gem. Thanks so very much.
@@Gavin-my6jb yes that is one of the theories! And their ability to do thar is also why they walk so gracefully and not leave footprints if they dont want to. And that also contributes to their eyesight and how and why they avoid trail cameras! That infra red light is like blinding sun to them. Their vision is incredible because of how they see between dimensions.,,.
There is NO way I would pitch a tent and camp with all those footprints around!! Especially because of the little footprints cuz Mom and Dad will be wanting to protect those little footprints!!! So no way!
Chris , have been an avid hunter for over 30 years , hunted big game and upland birds in my province of Manitoba Canada. Cottaged east of Lac du Bonnet in what’s called Nopiming Park . Have been reports for years of employees of a mine near my home seeing a creature that was described as Sasquatch crossing the highway which is cut through mature boreal forest with many lakes and rivers . Anyway , in the 1990s my hunting partner and I where crossing a freshly cultivated small parcel of land to access a snowmobile trail to go for upland game birds . We came upon a set of human like tracks in the mud . They were unmistakable in appearance. Not rained on and fresh in soft clay . No camera in phones at that time and don’t think we even had phones with us either. We both looked at each other and were shocked ! It was like we knew no one would be out walking in bare feet in October through fresh cultivated field . We were both size 9 boot and our tracks looked like a child’s print beside these tracks . And they headed toward the snowmobile trail we were accessing to hunt birds . Ground cover on the trail prevented us from following any further . To this day don’t think we have discussed what we found but one time . We have hunted together for years , even on fly in moose hunts in remote lakes where it was just the two of us , 1 hour north of where we found those prints and never saw anything like it again . Firm believer that they do exist . S.L
The fact is once you are aware of these creatures then you start noticing things, and when that happens they notice that your more observant than a typical human, and you will start having encounters with them.
I had a strange experience when I went camping last October. Was about 30 miles in on a forest service road in the Appalachians doing some car camping. Coyotes were starting to come out, so I decided to get into bed in the back of my car to relax at around 8:30pm. About 30 minutes later, the forest went dead silent, no bugs, no frogs, nothing, it was that really eerie silence that makes you unnerved. A few seconds after that, I heard something walking down the road, and when it passed, the forest came back to life. Now I don't know what it was walking down that road, but I do know 2 things: it sounded large with its slow, heavy, lumbering footsteps, and it was bipedal. I even looked up videos of large animals walking on gravel to see if it sounded similar. Nope, sounded just like something large taking slow, lumbering, footsteps on 2 legs. I'm still a big freaked out camping in that area.
I do Van Camping in remote areas, and I've had terrifying experiences while camping in my Toyota alone. I even have claw damage to my van that I have on video.
@@benhikingoutdoors1632 it was around 9pm at night and pitch black outside. Wasn't about to shine my light on something harmlessly walking by camp that sounded quite large and made the surrounding forest go dead silent lol
What someone needs is a drone with thermal imaging camera to fly around even miles from base camp and collect data on a large grid and see if these things show up on thermal imaging
That “deep chest” breathing sound you made have me chills. I had an experience in Northern Utah while camping, it was the same noise. Great videos, love hearing these stories.
I'm an Indonesian hiker, so I was doing hiking in a mountain in Indonesia that named Lawu mountain. It's my second time hiking. This mountain is so familiar with it's haunted things. The moment is when I was to go descent from the mountain, I was walk with 2 strangers because it feel so terrified to walk alone at the sunset. At the dark time, me and one of the stranger heard a laughs of "woman" that little bit far from the track, the voice is heard from the woods side. It's so scary because there's no one who passed for hiking or descent from the mountain. And when arrived at the basecamp, someone tell me near in that area (the place I heard a voice of woman) there's cemetery that claimed to be sacred. I don't know whose cemetery it is. Yeah remembered that moment always got me chills 😬 That's it, thanks to read it and sorry for my bad English 😅
When I was in high-school me and a group of friends were walking through our school ground at around midnight. We were joking and laughing when suddenly I heard a little girl laugh loudly and playfully like she was laughing with us. I could tell where it came from and we just walked by that area, there was nobody there at all. It spooked me and I asked my friends if anybody else heard it. Only the one friend who was right next to me heard it too..
Interesting, I live in Sierra, w plenty of bear & their sign, but when I was 10 yrs old I was fishing far off trail and found a clear detailed "hominid" footprint in the creek silt, nothing like our bear, about 10" very similar as yours. I've never seen anything like it since. We've had nice UFO events, scary tree shakes, and paralyzing Sierra sounds too. Anyway love your channel much, great job, thanks !
When my cat and I had just moved to the countryside, one night we heard this almighty scream right outside the front door. We were standing up in bed with shock! We knew it couldn't be a burglar so we thought a ghost had come. Next day, we asked around if anyone knew what it could be. Well, folks said foxes and all that, vixens (female foxes) can scream like banshees. Maybe it was a vixen - but I've encountered a lot of foxes meanwhile, cat fights and all sorts (lived in the countryside for over 20 years now) and never heard such a scream again. I don't know what it was but that sure was scary!
@@Tom_McMurtry No, not here, I'm in the UK. No mountain lions here. No racoons or skunks either. Just deer - in the forests, not where I live - and foxes, and a few microbats. Cats too, but only the domestic kitties that all have a home and occasionally wander around outside. None of all these animals would make such an almighty scream, not even foxes or the cats. It was really an almighty scream, never heard anything like it again since then.
I live very far away from the places you describe, and would perhaps never be able to visit them, in spite of the fact that I would very much love too. Your stories, along with the ambience of the dark misty forest behind you, really make my day. I am listening to your stories right now, as I study for my upcoming examinations. Thank you for your stories and please keep on telling them... we really need more storytellers like you
Chris you've earned my Sub and the bell ring for this one... Because you are the Only other person relaying an encounter story with that description of 'stomping'. When I was a kid camping around the base of Mt. Lassen next to a creek, me and my uncle and brothers all heard that same stomping around and between our tents that night. When you mimicked it your cadence got my attention! THAT'S what we heard! Scared the crap outta us kids!
Hi Chris! Found your link for this story in "Frightening Encounter for Father & Son on the Arkansas river" Wow! I was on the edge of my seat and my chips were gone within the first 5 minutes of your story!😩 A true inspiration seeing you take photos of what you encounter- we all need to remember to do the same. Spooky stuff and you still run around at night out in the woods alone😳 You are a great story teller indeed Chris🤙 You keep hiking, I'll watch😁👍
Buckets, that's terrifying! I do not have a story like that to tell and I am quite frankly relieved I don't. I only remember feeling like I was being watched or hunted once, but that lasted for only a few minutes, felt like hours. Foot prints, noises, all you were missing was the hair! Great sound effects, really brought the story home. Just stay safe out there, bring that bear mace and cheers!
Lake Tahoe is shaped like a Big Foot imprint ! A funny poem on big 🦶🏻“I’m big in the belly , I’m wide in the seat . I’m really unclear why, I’m known for my feet” 🦧 Please do more hiking and camping trips 😎 Keep on smiling you light up the woods 😂
Chris, you are one brave man!! My heart raced hearing this story! I am not sure if I could have stayed after hearing that third howl! My camp pack up would have been one of the fastest on record! Omg what a great story!! 😳😬😲
Hi Chris - FINALLY I got the juice about a first hand experience with your camping adventures!! Wow man, that took nerve to go back to sleep if you ask me. lol I am preparing an email to you right now to share an adventure I had in the early 90s that was "out of this world". Thank you for sharing, you would be a fun person to go camping with!
I had something walking around my tent at 3 on the morning in the kiamichi mountains in the middle of nowhere. I’m definite it was on 2 legs. We heard wood knocks and woops the same night. It was terrifying
I’m fascinated with the subject of Sasquatch. Those a great prints btw and I’ve also heard they leave a trackway like walking on a tightrope. I’ve never seen one, but I’m convinced they exist.
Pretty creepy story! You would not catch me camping anymore! I've traveled most of Nevada, California, Washington, Oregon and for sure some strange feelings driving on those roads. Tell us more!
Scariest thing that happened to me in the woods was I was walking thru the bush in the evening down a trail. Then something wet and squishy hit me in the cheek with enough force to take my hat off. I started looking all around didn't hear anything really. I was like wtf and I noticed just beyond my hat maybe 5 feet away was a big dill pickle. Someone or something hit me with a pickle.
Okay, so now I want a beer, pretzels and a big ol' crisp dill pickle, the kind you buy at a deli, they keep in a really huge jar-- plus pastrami and good rye bread-- I know what I'm shopping for tomorrow :-)
Chris, I've listened to about a dozen or so of your stories (not in sequence) and after listening to this. I now know how you segued into becoming Base Camp Chris with not one, not two, but three anomalous personal encounters. Once again, as an experiencer myself I find these stories sort of self affirming.
I started watching these while camping with my son. We had a lot fun. Afterwards, he slept like a baby. As for me all I could imagine was a bunch of hephelumps and woozles crunching the leaves outside the tent lol no sleep for me that night lol!
THANKS FOR YOUR HONESTY BASE CAMP!! Glad you referenced the Goose lake trip. Been commenting on that with you. I always believed that someone like yourself who spends most of their life in the backwoods, must have an " unusual experience " or two. Thanks for being real. Live vicariously thru alot of your adventures and value the equipment reviews! Keep hiking my friend!
Love hearing these story recounts! When I was a teenager we heard an unexplainable vocalization while camping in a remote campground. The campground was in Tiadaghton state forest in PA everyone in the campground heard it for at least 15 minutes around 3/4 am. The next morning everyone tried to give an explanation of what animal they thought it was, it was extremely loud gibberish and guttural sounding. I knew what it was even back then😳
My only encounters have been with bears, usually black bears but a grizzly or two as well over the years. Probably the most hair-raising for me was my first. I'm from Western Kentucky. The most dangerous animals in our woods, other than venomous snakes, are coyotes & coydogs (coyote/dog hybrids that are typically larger and more aggressive than the normal coyotes). Generally, if I'm not naked I have a gun on, and even when I am naked I have a gun within reach (sure as shootin' those damn zombies will attack when you're in the shower!), so other than keeping food out of their reach I don't pay much mind to the local wild canine population when I'm in the backcountry. When they're in large packs they do occasionally attack people, but usually firing a shot is enough to scare them off. Hiking in Northwest Wyoming for the first time, however, was an altogether new experience. Fortunately, there were no grizzlies in the area where we were backpacking, but we were into bear sign within a mile of leaving the lodge. I was there with my best friend & his family, and we were backpacking with a local Explorer Post (Co-ed division of the Boy Scouts of America). The group was pretty strung out along the trail, and Eric & I were in the very front when we found a tree that had huge claw marks in the bark at least seven feet up, and there were brown hairs stuck in the bark where a bear had rubbed itself. We felt obligated to stop and wait for the next group coming up behind us so that we could point it out and warn them to be careful, keep their eyes open, and be sure to make enough noise to be certain they didn't surprise one. The next group turned out to be a few teenage girls who became very excited & scared when we pointed out the claw marks, and they stayed to warn the next group while we set off again. The next group to come along was some of the older boys in the Explorer Post, and they told the girls that those weren't claw marks, there were no bears around, and we were full of shit and just trying to scare them. We weren't. When we all made it to our campsite at Big Sandy Lake we hadn't even gotten the first tent set up before three black bears -- 2 big ones and a smaller one -- walked right through the middle of camp like they didn't have a care in the world, and they certainly weren't bothered by the 17 Explorer Scouts busy trying to set up camp. Later, right after dinner, we were hanging our rather heavy bear bags (there were 17 of us on a week-long hike, that's a lot of food) when one of the bears peaked out of behind a large tree no more than ten feet from where we tying off the ropes. It was just sitting there waiting for us to leave so that it could try to tear down our bear bags and steal our food. These bears weren't at all shy! The two most hair-raising experiences I had that night were having one of them sneak up behind me as I was doing my business away from camp. When I turned and saw it the bear was no more than ten or twelve feet away just standing there looking at me. As soon as I saw it it just turned around and walked off. That made for a very long and very nervous walk back to camp! Later that night several of us had the chilling experience of lying awake in our tents watching the silhouettes of bears circling our tents. We were originally planning on staying two nights at that campsite to give ourselves a little more time to acclimate to the much thinner air than we were used to, but the next morning we all agreed that we'd rather just move on and spend two nights at the next campsite instead. We had had our fill of bears that were much, much too habituated to people! The next campsite was prettier anyway. I heard later that within a couple of weeks of us being there those three bears had to be trapped and relocated as they were becoming aggressive and dangerous. I've spent a great deal more time in bear country in the years since, and I've had encounters with both black bears and grizzlies, but that was the only time I've actually felt threatened by them. It was also the only time I was ever completely unarmed in bear country. I didn't have a choice then. I was only 16, but these days I do not go into bear country without both bear spray and a firearm capable of dealing with a bear, ever.
I've just started listening to Chris, I'm impressed he's a good story teller and he's very brave solo camping knowing there's all sorts of cryptids in the woods..be Safe!
Excellent story Chris! Your sound effects and music are AWESOME 👏 I heard a really terrifying Bigfoot story from a guy in Oregon that was hiking. Let me see if I can find the video and I will share with you. 👍
Hi Chris. Great story, I went bush on the the 24 th April in the Yarra Ranges in Victoria, Australia in a place called Noojee. My son and I decided to walk a over grown vehicle track, the sun light wasn't penetrating through the trees. So it was fairly dark, we had just started walking the track about 20 metres in when I heard what I could only describe as heavy foot stomps. Just as that happened my son said his sixth sense was kicking in. I asked him did he hear that stomp or impact and he said no. We left straight away. Cheers Chris.
Thank you Chris. I grew up in the 70s and family would go tent camping every year in northern ca and on the Mendocino coast. I never heard or saw anything but the family would tell stories of weirdness in the woods. Love to listen to the stories of other's experience. All things unexplained and some explained. Keep hiking and telling stories.
hey chris you have a tremendous knack of telling stories....in fact, your stories literally take us on a real ride into those mysterious encounters....as you are narrating this story, I almost felt I was in your tent and dramatised every moment....your actions, gestures, background music, howl or grunt simulations add great thrill to the stories....
You never fail to scare the heck outa me! This one particularly got to me even tho I was watching on a beautiful sunny afternoon on the SF peninsula! The sound effects increase my anxiety ten-fold! Thank you for another wonderful scary story! Keep them coming! (Why do I always crave a cold beer when watching you?!)
I live up in Northern California and have hunted and camped in Shasta, Trinity and Lassen Counties and I always have at least a 357 with me when spending any time in the deep woods. At one time, we had at least four mountain lions hanging around Shasta dam. One of these lions, according to our staff, was in excess of 225 lbs. Bears and Mountain lions present enough of a possible threat without worrying about squatches.
I'd be wanting something more than a "headlight" in my hand, and I'm pretty sure that tent wouldn't be much help in keeping that thing from wrecking you. Good gosh! Spooky!
Just want to say thank you and I appreciate the work you're putting in your videos. I've been into the MISSING 411 and SASQUATCH CHRONICLES for a few years and I really like your presentation, you do it very different and you're good at the storytelling. I wish you the best with your channel 🍺🍻🍺
I absolutely love this guy's attitude and sense of humor his laugh and smile automatically make me laugh I feel like he would be just a great friend to talk to I feel like he can cheer you up when you're having a bad day. God bless you Chris and for what it's worth I'm glad that bear or hairy man left you alone with just a minor scare.
Good job keeping it together and not losing your cool out there. A lot of people in that situation would panic and lose control of their emotions and find themselves in deeper water. Thanks for sharing your story.
I’ve have only backpacked in the Sierra’s as I live in Sacramento, Tahoe/Yosemite/Lassen are close. I often go alone. Bigfoot is always on my mind while up in the mountains. My one and only encounter took place in early October last year, I was van camping just outside the north entrance to Yosemite. I parked in a open flat spot with trees surrounding 50 feet away. I was making dinner with the van doors open when my girlfriend told me to turn off the music. She said she thought she heard walking. Of course we didn’t hear anything once the music stopped, so I carried on cooking. 15 minutes later, same situation, gf hears something, I don’t. I kept the music off after the second time when I did finally hear heavy footsteps circling our position. It was dark at this point. I have several high powered flashlights and did a 360 scan, didn’t see anything. I pulled out my night vision, not a damn thing. The footsteps and circling continued for an additional 20 mins or so when a tree very close by fell. That was enough to send us packing. Never saw anything, no smell, just heavy footsteps for 30-45 mins slowly going around the van camp spot.
WOW, thank you for getting out of there when you guys did, Bigfoot was sending you a very strong message, if you hadn't of left when you guys did, something really bad could have happened to you! WOW! Oh yes, I too would have left!!
great encounter story. thanks for sharing. They are out there. thousands of encounters just like yours but people are just to afraid of the ridicule that comes with telling a story like this. that's why its important to share when you do have a encounter. these things arent like other animals. They know how to hide from us. thanks again. great encounter
Very entertaining, and quite spooky as well. My wife has a "hominid" story that I'd love to send in to your email address, so I'll try and do that in the next few days. Nothing better than listening to scary stories by the campfire...even if you're not the one by the campfire 😆!
Yay! I was soooo EXCITED to see you uploaded!! Thank you!!! 😃😃😃 Holy Crap!! You have pics of Bigfoot tracks!! So AWESOME!!!!!! I think you also had one visiting you that night!! Great story!! Can't wait to hear more!! You have such an incredible way of telling your stories!! Creepy and fun!!
I found your channel recently and really like your channel and stories. I love your sense of humor and how you tell ur stories. This is such a refreshing channel.
Chris!--I had a "BF" try to reach in & grab me out of my tent as a kid (maybe 9) while camping with my cousin's (6,12) & older brother (12) in a field on my aunt's farm in Indiana Pa. back in the 70's...It didn't "get" one of us, but a few wks-later in the same area an elderly-couple were walking their dog, which was chased away by a "large ape-like creature"...Police were called out & to their astonishment found large footprints 👣 which were later made into casts by a local anthropologist whom held it up during a local tv-news broadcast...My parent's & I were watching said broadcast that night...my mother's jaw dropped & all my father had to say was, "you boy's aren't allowed to go camping in that field again" (they formerly thought we made it all up!) / I recently made friend's with some BF researchers in NJ whom just a few week's-ago found "baby"-prints like you did on the atv-trails in what's known as the "Pine Barrens" (home of the New Jersey Devil 😈!)---Maybe that's he?...Anyway, as they say, "keep on squatching" my friend! / PS: maybe I'll send U an email with more details about that & other "encounter's" I've had since, if interested...
I stumbled on your channel while looking for solo camping videos. Love those of course. But your storytelling videos are pretty awesome. Thanks and keep em coming. Lol
I’m in kalispell Montana, my neighbor told me a story of a big foot like beast in the mountains on the north side of me, he went hiking there and this loud/huge scream was heard that made the hair stand up on his neck and back. He knew it was a big foot creature and it started to throw rocks in his direction that were almost the size of footballs. My neighbor was about mid 60’s in age when this happened. He took off running back to his truck hoping not to get hit by the huge rocks being thrown in his direction. He returned with his daughter months later and this creature had stated throwing rocks again as they were hiking. This area was just north of Columbia falls, on north fork road about 5 miles.
I've never had a Bigfoot encounter, that would be crazy. But the alien thing that happened to me 20 years ago is still pretty fresh in my mind and will never go away.
I saw a UFO once. I live in East Texas and was sitting on the Porch. I looked up at the Sky and there was one lone kinda small Cloud in the whole Sky. I was thinking that’s kinda weird, and then a Shiny Disc lowered down and turned sideways. It just Vanished it was gone so quick. No blur, or slow take off. It was just gone that quick. I went running out in the Yard looking everywhere in the Sky for it. It was just gone. The whole seeing it lower and turn sideways was about 5 Seconds. It was so instant that I knew it had to be Alien. I served in a Mobil Combat Unit in the Air Force and have seen just about Everything that Flys. There is nothing any Country has that can do that. I can still Picture it clear as Day.
@@joeybobbie1 Dude, that's cray, a couple of years ago I had the same kind of thing. I was out on a smoke break watching a plane fly over at high altitude. I was contemplating the whole com trail/chem trail thing. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw it. It was a small craft flying right out of a cloud. It was out of the cloud only for a brief time, and it started phase shifting, then gone? It was a craft of some kind, not a plane. when it phase shifted and vanished, I was looking right at it. I kept looking for another ten minutes trying to figure what the hell I just saw. The next day, my sister randomly sends me a video that someone took that night of a craft dropping orbs in a field a couple hundred miles away. The craft in the video did the same phase shift vanishing act. I know there is something beyond our comprehension going on. This is a mild encounter compared to others I've had.
Same here. I've seen an alien craft of some kind up close, following my parents car 1 night. Only I saw it as my parents wouldn't even look back they just shushed me. Craft was about 30m altitude following the car on the back left. It was square shaped and didn't have any lights however it was made out of a dull grey metal, very unremarkable except the metal was self illuminating. It was pitch black out so I shouldn't have been able to see it but like i said it had a glow to it and I could see it. Dimensions would be a 10mx10m square craft maybe 1.5m-2m height..... Haven't seen a Yowie (Aussie word for Sasquatch) though I believe in them.
I love sitting around campfire with family or friends telling spooky stories , your stories remind me of that , so cool and you inspired me to get out on the trail’s again.❤️
Hi Chris…. I just stumbled onto your channel a few nights ago and I’ve been watching your videos ever since. I like when people tell the stories of these encounters with as much enthusiasm as you do. Keep doing what you are doing. Love the channel!!!
AWESOME video! Scariest one yet! My kitty woke up from his nap when you imitated Bigfoot's howls! He is black, and his name is Boo! How appropriate!! Boo and I appreciate you very much; you are a super talented storyteller and seem like a very kind and gentle person. I know it sounds crazy, but I love Bigfoot because I am an animal lover; no matter "what" or "who" he is, I still love the animal aspect of him. In one of your videos, a man named Mike (I think), had an encounter with Bigfoot and called him "beautiful", and I cried, both because Mike has such a way with words and because I was so happy to hear something positive about this elusive giant. Love you so much, and I pray for God's finest blessings in your life.❤
Oh what a pleasant surprise to know you have worked in the games industry. My first job in games was in the casino space too. Was a Unity developer, so creative programmer implemented gameplay, animations, etc. Not often do I see game devs in contexts that are completely unrelated. Nice!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us - I dont have a bigfoot story of my own but my brother did see one in the interior of BC while elk hunting - I wish he had told me the details but he seems hesitant to talk about it. He is a very intelligent person and I think it kind of shook him up a bit.
So so glad I stumbled upon your channel, I love listening to you telling stories. Love how you keep it light and laugh while telling them, so enjoyable and puts a smile on my face as I watch without even realizing.
2014 I had something similar. I was filming some documentary material in the Australian bush. I was in a beautiful area. As soon as I arrived , i pitcHed my tent, prepped food and get ready to settle down for the night. Not an ounce of fear or anxiety at all as I was in a frame of mind thinking about the job and getting footage. At about 2am I could hear something walking around my tent. I freaked out to a degree and recall having my earphones connected to phone next to me. What was I to do, I put my earphones in and started a podcast on technology and let it put me to sleep. I figured if what it was wanted to harm me tHen some tent and sleeping bag was of no protection. It was probably an emu, kangaroo or wild goat…..whatever it was, it gave me the chills. Next morning, completely forgot about it, woke up and filmed the day. Cheers from Australia.
Me and my gf had a similar experience at devil's hole campground, Barrington Tops in NSW. We were the only people camping there and probably the only people in that part of the national park. We were in the tent getting ready for bed and as soon as we switched the lamp off the bush seemed to come alive next to us with heavy footsteps, rustling etc for a long time. Unsure what it could have been as unfamiliar with local wildlife but it sounded too big for wallaby or possum and not sure if the bush wallabies are nocturnal!
We often hear stories from people but when you tell it Chris as one of your encounters it seems to hit home more and certainly be more believable. I've no doubt thst there's some things out there but yet to encounter anything more than a coupke of drunks stagering into my tent in thecearly hours. Awesome channel mate keep on hiking and telling. Bushyboy Oz.
just found your channel, love it! You are a great storyteller! That is a very difficult art form and you have mastered it!. Reno was on the top of my list to move to, I am now living on an island in southeast Alaska. The wilderness, the 4 seasons in the Reno area are outstanding.
LOL! I do live in Reno, most of my life. Did lots of backpacking in my younger days (Desolation Valley, Lake Tahoe and up past Bishop, CA area). Now I mostly head out to the Plumas area for fishing (trout). Lake & stream. This area just rocks! Only scary moment was hearing what I thought was a mountain lion growl and a brush cracking or two while backpacking but at my set up site at night. Nothing more, thank goodness. And I'm glad I NEVER read stuff like this back then!!! Lol! That was in my late 20s & 30s. Over 60 now. 🎣
In 1997 I was backpacking with a small group in the Desolation Wilderness with Deer Crossings summer camp. Right before twilight we heard a couple really high pitch yells like an elk bugling off in the distance. Never heard anything like it before. The spooky part was it went completely silent after that, no birds chirping for a good amount of time.
That was a Bigfoot that made those vocals, because I heard the same ones , the only difference is the Bigfoot was looking in my bedroom window when he did it I was laying in my bed looking at him so I know it wasn’t a bear.
@@Felix-yk4ln he looked just like a cave man, but his skin color was a light brown, he had black hair from his cheeks all the way down and a huge mouth, to look in my bedroom window the way he did he had to be over 8 foot tall.
@@mojoelite your turn is coming 🤣🤣 but dont expect anybody to believe you! That will be a demon only you live with, if you for what ever purpose find yourself going in the woods ( NOT ) is only a matter of time, unless you're one of those people that doesn't have a sense of any kind
Wow, your story really gave me the heebie jeebies. I believe they exist but I never want to encounter them ever. I enjoy being able to kick back in the comfort of my living room and listen to other peoples stories about them.
I had a similiar experience in a nature camping ground in Ursel, Germany. I am female, with a child, around 7yrs, at that time, sleeping in a small tent near a cornfield. A little away was another tent with a wooden commode outside. I woke in the morning cause I heard repeated thumps having phantasie as if somebody would bang a scull on the wooden commode. I was scared and then I heard a sniffing noise around the tent and the most unbearable smell going with it coming through the tent walls. Child was sleeping. It was together with the bangs the most horrible experience cause I imagined 3 possibilities> A nutter in the tent trying to get rid of us or a wild boar or something ghostly. The sniffing disappeared, the bangs stopped and I woke the child, we spent 2 hours in the nearby toilets until sunrise, packed and left. Since then, no thank u to natural camping grounds and never ever near a cornfield again.
Where i live, East Anglia, UK, our 'mysterious creatures' are the Fen Tiger - potentially a big cat escapee, and Black Shuck - a big old Dog from the 'other side'. 😀 Enjoying your spooky tales from the big wilderness.
We want more Bigfoot stories. Chris put an ask out to your viewers . then, you retell their stories using your ability to share the stories with us. Give the sharer credit and the sharer gets their story out. Win win please!
I don’t know why I’m starting to watch all these horror camping stories just before my camping trip in few weeks ….. Pray that I’ll survive my camping trip without passing out from my own imagination! 😱🙏😬
Horror? It's fun and yet startling to experience such things.
Don't let your feet stick out of your tent lol
@@abbysapples2547 geez….do you think sticking my feet out with socks would help? 😬
Just let them know that you are only here to visit, you mean no harm, and that you will be leaving soon. If you show respect, “they” will respect you in return. Have a wonderful trip!
Stay away from 411 then lol
I used to teach my son’s boy scout troop night navigation. I got really adjusted to it and did a lot of night hikes on trails in south Texas. One night in 2013 I was on a 7-mile circle hike in the Sam Houston State forest. I stopped to check my map and folded it up and sat it on a large rock near the trail and had a drink of water. I had to pee and out of habit I walked about 20 feet off the trail. While I had my back turned I heard something like a person tripping over a root. Then I heard a grunt that came from further down the trail. I thought it was a bear or raccoon so I kind of yelled to scare it off. I started at 30 degrees back to the trail when I realized I’d left my map on the rock. I walked back to the rock and reached up for my map and there sitting right on top of my map was a small pair of rusty pliers as if someone had left their map and weighed it down from the wind. But it was my map and I hadn’t brought any pliers and wouldn’t have needed them anyway. I could feel my heart beating in my ears. I sat there stone frozen for about five minutes waving my light around. Nothing. And then I hiked the last two miles with nothing else happening.
Hi
I live next to the Sam Houston National Forest in Coldspring Texas. There’s not any Bears in the National Forest.
that's crazy scary
Very Interesting. 🤔
That is freakin creepy as heck! There was obviously a person watching you & looking out for you
That's spooky!
Encounters like yours are no joke. I was on a backpacking trip with one of my adult sons when we had a similar situation happen to us. We were at a lake in Oregon we had hiked into….but we had TWO of these very heavy beings to deal with. They walked into our camp and sent and received a signal from each other. The creepiest part of the whole thing was they left in complete and utter stillness. Not a brush or a rustle of any of the undergrowth that was thick all around the camp. My son and I are long time backpackers. These creatures are out there…..we found that out for ourselves that night. There was no one else at the lake. We didn’t see any other human out there that whole trip. Some folks want to make these encounters a big joke. Well it ain’t funny when you are the ones sitting in a small backpacking tent in the dark and your car is several miles away.
I want to hear more details of this story.
Bigfoot are clearly real. There's too many stories like this
Yeah, it’s freaky as hell. It happened to me
Why can’t all of these encounters simply be bears of different sizes/breeds and with varying Heath conditions? Look up hairless bears, they look terrifying...They also live in the woods, are very quiet when they want to be, and can be bipedal as well.
Wouldn’t we have found some bones or a corpse of one of these creatures at some point?
@@bkb04g that’s the big question isn’t it? Why no evidence: no bones, no good footage, no reliable Dna, nothing. Yet I’ve talked to a lot of people (I interview them in my channel), upstanding members of the community who have no doubt about what they saw. Listen to the late Kerry Arnold’s story, a hunter, and tell me that guy is making it up.
My husband and three of his buddies had an encounter in the Oregon forest at his parents’ cabin. It was winter and he and his friends went up to ride snowmobiles and spend a couple nights in the woods. They still talk about it when they see each other and my husband says that anytime they do the hair on his arms still stands up. The experience they had was with an aggressive creature. I hear other stories where they talk about how they were docile, but that was not their experience.
I had an experience in Canada while I was running a 200 mile relay race from Jasper to Banaff. I was running leg 10 I believe( this was way back in 99 or 2000) So all the teams were pretty spread out by then. So my team was in a van about half mile ahead of me and I was all alone I could not see a runner ahead of me of behind me. Oh did I mention it was also at 12 midnight!!! So I was passing A large lake on my right and a heavily forested steep incline on my left. The moon was pretty full and no clouds.
As I was about in the middle of the lake up ahead I saw a HUGE FIGURE down by the water. I thought it was a bear at first because cause it was crouched over like drinking water. I remember feeling so terrified.. My heart started beating faster and it was already fast cause I was running fast!! I just wanted to get past it without it seeing me, no chance. I was fairly close when I saw this "bear" stand up on 2 feet!! WTF!!! Cause it then right in front of me jumped the guard rail ,stop for a second , stare at me, and it took 1 bounding step across the 2 lane hwy. The smell in the air was horrendous and the feeling I had was terrified then I have ever been I my whole life!
For the longest time I never told anyone because when I was. 10 yrs old me and friend had another experience while riding our ponies.
Then a couple years ago I found Steve over at How to Hunt and I told my experiences on there!! First time ever! Man I already had felt a HUGE WEIGHT Íift offf me!! So many people have experienced these things and are afraid to talk
Wow - quite an experience Melanie. Had to be frightening...thank you for sharing that. Steve does a good job of telling as many stories as possible of peoples encounters.
wow!
I've always thought those sorts of night races sounded dangerous because of possible bears or mountain lions, but what happened to you is even more terrifying. I think I would have completely freaked out if it happened to me. I'm glad you lived to tell the tale.
@@gardyloo3093 awe thank you so much and ya know I was pretty young back then( just got out of college) do I didn't even think about it! But now I would !!!
This is why I always do my camping and outdoor adventures online!😉
LOL. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!! 😱 Doesn't ANYONE carry?? I WOULD and I DO...The woods ain't NO place to be ALONE ...w/o. PROTECTION....
Wow Chris you are pretty brave considering you share so many other's creepy experiences. For me, its a no brainer, these creatures DO exist, but they are very elusive. I love your story telling and how you incorporate the history of each location. And describe the geographicals together with awesome photos. This channel is a gem. Thanks so very much.
Wow, thank you
They probably come from other dimensions etc and can come and go as they please
@@Gavin-my6jb yes that is one of the theories! And their ability to do thar is also why they walk so gracefully and not leave footprints if they dont want to. And that also contributes to their eyesight and how and why they avoid trail cameras! That infra red light is like blinding sun to them. Their vision is incredible because of how they see between dimensions.,,.
@@hubes96 yeah thanks I thought so it's just too much for most people's brains to comprehend or understand so they just dismiss them as been not real
There is NO way I would pitch a tent and camp with all those footprints around!! Especially because of the little footprints cuz Mom and Dad will be wanting to protect those little footprints!!! So no way!
Chris , have been an avid hunter for over 30 years , hunted big game and upland birds in my province of Manitoba Canada. Cottaged east of Lac du Bonnet in what’s called Nopiming Park . Have been reports for years of employees of a mine near my home seeing a creature that was described as Sasquatch crossing the highway which is cut through mature boreal forest with many lakes and rivers . Anyway , in the 1990s my hunting partner and I where crossing a freshly cultivated small parcel of land to access a snowmobile trail to go for upland game birds . We came upon a set of human like tracks in the mud . They were unmistakable in appearance. Not rained on and fresh in soft clay . No camera in phones at that time and don’t think we even had phones with us either. We both looked at each other and were shocked ! It was like we knew no one would be out walking in bare feet in October through fresh cultivated field . We were both size 9 boot and our tracks looked like a child’s print beside these tracks . And they headed toward the snowmobile trail we were accessing to hunt birds . Ground cover on the trail prevented us from following any further . To this day don’t think we have discussed what we found but one time . We have hunted together for years , even on fly in moose hunts in remote lakes where it was just the two of us , 1 hour north of where we found those prints and never saw anything like it again . Firm believer that they do exist . S.L
I am also a firm believer of Bigfoot!
The fact is once you are aware of these creatures then you start noticing things, and when that happens they notice that your more observant than a typical human, and you will start having encounters with them.
this is a really interesting concept. do you know where i could learn more about this?
@@Felix-yk4ln do you listen to sas chron?
Set up traps then. Like Home Alone. They've never seen it so it should work 🤣
Agreed. Most people walk around looking down at their phones but are the most skeptical about the things going on around them.
Well, I sure wouldn't want that!
I had a strange experience when I went camping last October. Was about 30 miles in on a forest service road in the Appalachians doing some car camping. Coyotes were starting to come out, so I decided to get into bed in the back of my car to relax at around 8:30pm. About 30 minutes later, the forest went dead silent, no bugs, no frogs, nothing, it was that really eerie silence that makes you unnerved. A few seconds after that, I heard something walking down the road, and when it passed, the forest came back to life. Now I don't know what it was walking down that road, but I do know 2 things: it sounded large with its slow, heavy, lumbering footsteps, and it was bipedal. I even looked up videos of large animals walking on gravel to see if it sounded similar. Nope, sounded just like something large taking slow, lumbering, footsteps on 2 legs. I'm still a big freaked out camping in that area.
I do Van Camping in remote areas, and I've had terrifying experiences while camping in my Toyota alone. I even have claw damage to my van that I have on video.
@@EKEACRES , you should Sent the story to Chris so he can share with us..
how did you not see it though?? Weren't you in your car fully awake per your story?
@@benhikingoutdoors1632 it was around 9pm at night and pitch black outside. Wasn't about to shine my light on something harmlessly walking by camp that sounded quite large and made the surrounding forest go dead silent lol
Wow now that is spooky! That sounds like something the whole forest knew to be evil!
What someone needs is a drone with thermal imaging camera to fly around even miles from base camp and collect data on a large grid and see if these things show up on thermal imaging
WHOA! What if they did show up, what then?
What would you do? Would you really want to know about them and really want to see them?
I wouldn't! ! Js.
That “deep chest” breathing sound you made have me chills. I had an experience in Northern Utah while camping, it was the same noise. Great videos, love hearing these stories.
I'm an Indonesian hiker, so I was doing hiking in a mountain in Indonesia that named Lawu mountain. It's my second time hiking. This mountain is so familiar with it's haunted things. The moment is when I was to go descent from the mountain, I was walk with 2 strangers because it feel so terrified to walk alone at the sunset. At the dark time, me and one of the stranger heard a laughs of "woman" that little bit far from the track, the voice is heard from the woods side. It's so scary because there's no one who passed for hiking or descent from the mountain. And when arrived at the basecamp, someone tell me near in that area (the place I heard a voice of woman) there's cemetery that claimed to be sacred. I don't know whose cemetery it is. Yeah remembered that moment always got me chills 😬
That's it, thanks to read it and sorry for my bad English 😅
scary
When I was in high-school me and a group of friends were walking through our school ground at around midnight. We were joking and laughing when suddenly I heard a little girl laugh loudly and playfully like she was laughing with us. I could tell where it came from and we just walked by that area, there was nobody there at all. It spooked me and I asked my friends if anybody else heard it. Only the one friend who was right next to me heard it too..
WOW! ! I do believe in ghosts too, I've seen plenty, even though I never wanted to!
Interesting, I live in Sierra, w plenty of bear & their sign, but when I was 10 yrs old I was fishing far off trail and found a clear detailed "hominid" footprint in the creek silt, nothing like our bear, about 10" very similar as yours. I've never seen anything like it since. We've had nice UFO events, scary tree shakes, and paralyzing Sierra sounds too. Anyway love your channel much, great job, thanks !
Oh wow! interesting....Do Love the Sierra.
When my cat and I had just moved to the countryside, one night we heard this almighty scream right outside the front door. We were standing up in bed with shock! We knew it couldn't be a burglar so we thought a ghost had come. Next day, we asked around if anyone knew what it could be. Well, folks said foxes and all that, vixens (female foxes) can scream like banshees.
Maybe it was a vixen - but I've encountered a lot of foxes meanwhile, cat fights and all sorts (lived in the countryside for over 20 years now) and never heard such a scream again. I don't know what it was but that sure was scary!
@@LittleKitty22 mountain lion?
@@Tom_McMurtry No, not here, I'm in the UK. No mountain lions here. No racoons or skunks either. Just deer - in the forests, not where I live - and foxes, and a few microbats. Cats too, but only the domestic kitties that all have a home and occasionally wander around outside. None of all these animals would make such an almighty scream, not even foxes or the cats. It was really an almighty scream, never heard anything like it again since then.
@@LittleKitty22 Panthers can scream like a woman and very loudly.
I would have had a heart attack! How you can still go out camping alone after that incident is beyond me! Omg 😮
Love how you laugh with joy at life. 🌞like beer 🍺 foaming. ✨love your stories.
Thanks Teresa!
Seem to have good taste in beer 🍺
I do too. You can hear the joy with life in your laugh, and see it when you look around you at the landscape, Chris. Keep hiking.
I live very far away from the places you describe, and would perhaps never be able to visit them, in spite of the fact that I would very much love too. Your stories, along with the ambience of the dark misty forest behind you, really make my day. I am listening to your stories right now, as I study for my upcoming examinations. Thank you for your stories and please keep on telling them... we really need more storytellers like you
@@jscheffer9421 Yes. I live in Asia
Anyone that wants to go camping after hearing this is crazy. 😳
Not me!!
No you are certainly not sir.
I sold my tent ⛺ 🔥
@@outdooradventures1361 I did too..
Bought a tiny Cabin on a huge park with lots of people instead.. 😕👀
I'll go, IF I can bring a squad of armed Marines with me!
Chris you've earned my Sub and the bell ring for this one... Because you are the Only other person relaying an encounter story with that description of 'stomping'. When I was a kid camping around the base of Mt. Lassen next to a creek, me and my uncle and brothers all heard that same stomping around and between our tents that night. When you mimicked it your cadence got my attention! THAT'S what we heard! Scared the crap outta us kids!
Hi Chris! Found your link for this story in "Frightening Encounter for Father & Son on the Arkansas river" Wow! I was on the edge of my seat and my chips were gone within the first 5 minutes of your story!😩 A true inspiration seeing you take photos of what you encounter- we all need to remember to do the same. Spooky stuff and you still run around at night out in the woods alone😳 You are a great story teller indeed Chris🤙 You keep hiking, I'll watch😁👍
Thank you so much Lisa! C🐵
Buckets, that's terrifying! I do not have a story like that to tell and I am quite frankly relieved I don't. I only remember feeling like I was being watched or hunted once, but that lasted for only a few minutes, felt like hours. Foot prints, noises, all you were missing was the hair! Great sound effects, really brought the story home. Just stay safe out there, bring that bear mace and cheers!
Thank you Ben!
Nah it's the gun that you need to bring
Lake Tahoe is shaped like a Big Foot imprint ! A funny poem on big 🦶🏻“I’m big in the belly , I’m wide in the seat . I’m really unclear why, I’m known for my feet” 🦧
Please do more hiking and camping trips 😎
Keep on smiling you light up the woods 😂
Chris, you are one brave man!! My heart raced hearing this story! I am not sure if I could have stayed after hearing that third howl! My camp pack up would have been one of the fastest on record! Omg what a great story!! 😳😬😲
I appreciate that. Thanks Carla! K.H.!
Hi Chris - FINALLY I got the juice about a first hand experience with your camping adventures!! Wow man, that took nerve to go back to sleep if you ask me. lol I am preparing an email to you right now to share an adventure I had in the early 90s that was "out of this world". Thank you for sharing, you would be a fun person to go camping with!
Excited to hear it Todd! Hope he shares it in a new episode
@@made-line7627 Cool, it was a memorable experience for sure. I emailed him. :)
I had something walking around my tent at 3 on the morning in the kiamichi mountains in the middle of nowhere. I’m definite it was on 2 legs. We heard wood knocks and woops the same night. It was terrifying
I’m fascinated with the subject of Sasquatch. Those a great prints btw and I’ve also heard they leave a trackway like walking on a tightrope. I’ve never seen one, but I’m convinced they exist.
Thank Tracy...hard to imagine but I believe so too.
Thanks for sharing this with us ! Really injoy your storytelling ! Keep on camping and more Adventures from your beautiful area you call home. 👍👍😎🌲
Thank you! Will do!!
Pretty creepy story! You would not catch me camping anymore! I've traveled most of Nevada, California, Washington, Oregon and for sure some strange feelings driving on those roads. Tell us more!
This story is crazy! Thanks for sharing with the world!
I’ve never been more on the edge of my seat in my whole life. You are the best story teller.
Wow. That is so scary. I'm watching this with my granddaughters next time they come over. We're in the woods and they are always wanting stories. 😄😄
Scariest thing that happened to me in the woods was I was walking thru the bush in the evening down a trail. Then something wet and squishy hit me in the cheek with enough force to take my hat off. I started looking all around didn't hear anything really. I was like wtf and I noticed just beyond my hat maybe 5 feet away was a big dill pickle. Someone or something hit me with a pickle.
It was the Vlasic stork!😂
Okay, so now I want a beer, pretzels and a big ol' crisp dill pickle, the kind you buy at a deli, they keep in a really huge jar-- plus pastrami and good rye bread-- I know what I'm shopping for tomorrow :-)
What in the world?! Hell, it doesn't matter what hit him, fact is he had his hat knocked off from the force of it and that's scary.
holy shit 😂😂
Maybe bigfoot stole some pickles off another camper so they can use them as weapons.
I can not stress how happy I am that I stumbled across your channel!! I love hearing your stories
Welcome!! Thanks
Chris, I've listened to about a dozen or so of your stories (not in sequence) and after listening to this. I now know how you segued into becoming Base Camp Chris with not one, not two, but three anomalous personal encounters. Once again, as an experiencer myself I find these stories sort of self affirming.
Thanks Dan...yes - that is where it started. If your interested I'd like to hear your experience....basecampchris2@gmail.com
@@basecampchris Sure thing Chris. I have your email.
I started watching these while camping with my son. We had a lot fun. Afterwards, he slept like a baby. As for me all I could imagine was a bunch of hephelumps and woozles crunching the leaves outside the tent lol no sleep for me that night lol!
I have a doosy story I’ll be sending off to you! Chris this series/video format is just amazing! Thanks
Thank you!
THANKS FOR YOUR HONESTY BASE CAMP!! Glad you referenced the Goose lake trip. Been commenting on that with you. I always believed that someone like yourself who spends most of their life in the backwoods, must have an " unusual experience " or two. Thanks for being real. Live vicariously thru alot of your adventures and value the equipment reviews! Keep hiking my friend!
You were right, spooky and exciting. Really good story and with the sound effects.
Thanks so much!
LOVED this story! I got chill bumps and I'm in the house. Thanks for another great story!
You never disappoint, once again I’ve got goose bumps 😳 Another great spooky story 👻 thank you 😊
Love hearing these story recounts!
When I was a teenager we heard an unexplainable vocalization while camping in a remote campground. The campground was in Tiadaghton state forest in PA everyone in the campground heard it for at least 15 minutes around 3/4 am. The next morning everyone tried to give an explanation of what animal they thought it was, it was extremely loud gibberish and guttural sounding. I knew what it was even back then😳
My only encounters have been with bears, usually black bears but a grizzly or two as well over the years. Probably the most hair-raising for me was my first. I'm from Western Kentucky. The most dangerous animals in our woods, other than venomous snakes, are coyotes & coydogs (coyote/dog hybrids that are typically larger and more aggressive than the normal coyotes). Generally, if I'm not naked I have a gun on, and even when I am naked I have a gun within reach (sure as shootin' those damn zombies will attack when you're in the shower!), so other than keeping food out of their reach I don't pay much mind to the local wild canine population when I'm in the backcountry. When they're in large packs they do occasionally attack people, but usually firing a shot is enough to scare them off. Hiking in Northwest Wyoming for the first time, however, was an altogether new experience.
Fortunately, there were no grizzlies in the area where we were backpacking, but we were into bear sign within a mile of leaving the lodge. I was there with my best friend & his family, and we were backpacking with a local Explorer Post (Co-ed division of the Boy Scouts of America). The group was pretty strung out along the trail, and Eric & I were in the very front when we found a tree that had huge claw marks in the bark at least seven feet up, and there were brown hairs stuck in the bark where a bear had rubbed itself. We felt obligated to stop and wait for the next group coming up behind us so that we could point it out and warn them to be careful, keep their eyes open, and be sure to make enough noise to be certain they didn't surprise one. The next group turned out to be a few teenage girls who became very excited & scared when we pointed out the claw marks, and they stayed to warn the next group while we set off again. The next group to come along was some of the older boys in the Explorer Post, and they told the girls that those weren't claw marks, there were no bears around, and we were full of shit and just trying to scare them. We weren't.
When we all made it to our campsite at Big Sandy Lake we hadn't even gotten the first tent set up before three black bears -- 2 big ones and a smaller one -- walked right through the middle of camp like they didn't have a care in the world, and they certainly weren't bothered by the 17 Explorer Scouts busy trying to set up camp. Later, right after dinner, we were hanging our rather heavy bear bags (there were 17 of us on a week-long hike, that's a lot of food) when one of the bears peaked out of behind a large tree no more than ten feet from where we tying off the ropes. It was just sitting there waiting for us to leave so that it could try to tear down our bear bags and steal our food. These bears weren't at all shy!
The two most hair-raising experiences I had that night were having one of them sneak up behind me as I was doing my business away from camp. When I turned and saw it the bear was no more than ten or twelve feet away just standing there looking at me. As soon as I saw it it just turned around and walked off. That made for a very long and very nervous walk back to camp! Later that night several of us had the chilling experience of lying awake in our tents watching the silhouettes of bears circling our tents. We were originally planning on staying two nights at that campsite to give ourselves a little more time to acclimate to the much thinner air than we were used to, but the next morning we all agreed that we'd rather just move on and spend two nights at the next campsite instead. We had had our fill of bears that were much, much too habituated to people! The next campsite was prettier anyway.
I heard later that within a couple of weeks of us being there those three bears had to be trapped and relocated as they were becoming aggressive and dangerous. I've spent a great deal more time in bear country in the years since, and I've had encounters with both black bears and grizzlies, but that was the only time I've actually felt threatened by them. It was also the only time I was ever completely unarmed in bear country. I didn't have a choice then. I was only 16, but these days I do not go into bear country without both bear spray and a firearm capable of dealing with a bear, ever.
I've just started listening to Chris, I'm impressed he's a good story teller and he's very brave solo camping knowing there's all sorts of cryptids in the woods..be Safe!
Thank you Paul - Appreciate it!
Excellent story Chris! Your sound effects and music are AWESOME 👏 I heard a really terrifying Bigfoot story from a guy in Oregon that was hiking. Let me see if I can find the video and I will share with you. 👍
Hi Chris,
Hope you are doing good. Good to see you and hear your story. Love your stories. Much love Chris.
Thank you Susan!
@@basecampchris
You're welcome😊
Hi Chris. Great story, I went bush on the the 24 th April in the Yarra Ranges in Victoria, Australia in a place called Noojee. My son and I decided to walk a over grown vehicle track, the sun light wasn't penetrating through the trees. So it was fairly dark, we had just started walking the track about 20 metres in when I heard what I could only describe as heavy foot stomps. Just as that happened my son said his sixth sense was kicking in. I asked him did he hear that stomp or impact and he said no. We left straight away. Cheers Chris.
Yowie?
I wonder why your son didn't hear the heavy stomping?
Good thing that you and your son left immediately!
Thank you Chris. I grew up in the 70s and family would go tent camping every year in northern ca and on the Mendocino coast. I never heard or saw anything but the family would tell stories of weirdness in the woods. Love to listen to the stories of other's experience. All things unexplained and some explained. Keep hiking and telling stories.
hey chris you have a tremendous knack of telling stories....in fact, your stories literally take us on a real ride into those mysterious encounters....as you are narrating this story, I almost felt I was in your tent and dramatised every moment....your actions, gestures, background music, howl or grunt simulations add great thrill to the stories....
You never fail to scare the heck outa me! This one particularly got to me even tho I was watching on a beautiful sunny afternoon on the SF peninsula! The sound effects increase my anxiety ten-fold! Thank you for another wonderful scary story! Keep them coming! (Why do I always crave a cold beer when watching you?!)
Lol. I'm a once a month drinker at best. I got drunk binge watching the videos 2 weeks ago.
Thank you...I will! I'm having fun!
I live up in Northern California and have hunted and camped in Shasta, Trinity and Lassen Counties and I always have at least a 357 with me when spending any time in the deep woods. At one time, we had at least four mountain lions hanging around Shasta dam. One of these lions, according to our staff, was in excess of 225 lbs. Bears and Mountain lions present enough of a possible threat without worrying about squatches.
Chris my man! You’re a great storyteller! Definitely earned another subscriber. Keep the great content coming. Really appreciate your style!
This is the greatest channel on youtube. I love how the host catches a huge buzz before he tells these stories.
I'd be wanting something more than a "headlight" in my hand, and I'm pretty sure that tent wouldn't be much help in keeping that thing from wrecking you. Good gosh! Spooky!
45.70 your friend in the wilderness and 10mm back up
Love the Encounter stories. Hope a lot of viewers send their own for you to tell!
Just want to say thank you and I appreciate the work you're putting in your videos. I've been into the MISSING 411 and SASQUATCH CHRONICLES for a few years and I really like your presentation, you do it very different and you're good at the storytelling. I wish you the best with your channel 🍺🍻🍺
2 different times I have had something follow me. Last time it was so close I felt the 'bass' of the growl and I ran so fast back to my cabin.
Wow, thanks for sharing Coby! not easy.
I absolutely love this guy's attitude and sense of humor his laugh and smile automatically make me laugh I feel like he would be just a great friend to talk to I feel like he can cheer you up when you're having a bad day. God bless you Chris and for what it's worth I'm glad that bear or hairy man left you alone with just a minor scare.
Thanks Daniel!
Good job keeping it together and not losing your cool out there. A lot of people in that situation would panic and lose control of their emotions and find themselves in deeper water. Thanks for sharing your story.
I’ve have only backpacked in the Sierra’s as I live in Sacramento, Tahoe/Yosemite/Lassen are close. I often go alone. Bigfoot is always on my mind while up in the mountains.
My one and only encounter took place in early October last year, I was van camping just outside the north entrance to Yosemite. I parked in a open flat spot with trees surrounding 50 feet away. I was making dinner with the van doors open when my girlfriend told me to turn off the music. She said she thought she heard walking. Of course we didn’t hear anything once the music stopped, so I carried on cooking. 15 minutes later, same situation, gf hears something, I don’t. I kept the music off after the second time when I did finally hear heavy footsteps circling our position. It was dark at this point. I have several high powered flashlights and did a 360 scan, didn’t see anything. I pulled out my night vision, not a damn thing. The footsteps and circling continued for an additional 20 mins or so when a tree very close by fell. That was enough to send us packing. Never saw anything, no smell, just heavy footsteps for 30-45 mins slowly going around the van camp spot.
Maybe they have the gift of making themselves invisible at will!
WOW, thank you for getting out of there when you guys did, Bigfoot was sending you a very strong message, if you hadn't of left when you guys did, something really bad could have happened to you! WOW! Oh yes, I too would have left!!
@@Nwladylaura369 Yes, I have heard that they can, I don't know how they do it, just that they can!
great encounter story. thanks for sharing. They are out there. thousands of encounters just like yours but people are just to afraid of the ridicule that comes with telling a story like this. that's why its important to share when you do have a encounter. these things arent like other animals. They know how to hide from us. thanks again. great encounter
Very entertaining, and quite spooky as well. My wife has a "hominid" story that I'd love to send in to your email address, so I'll try and do that in the next few days. Nothing better than listening to scary stories by the campfire...even if you're not the one by the campfire 😆!
I would love to hear your wife's story! Hopefully he will tell it. I'll be watching for it!
Did you ever send it???
I read that as "My wife was a hominid" lol🤦♀️
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Yay! I was soooo EXCITED to see you uploaded!! Thank you!!! 😃😃😃
Holy Crap!! You have pics of Bigfoot tracks!! So AWESOME!!!!!!
I think you also had one visiting you that night!!
Great story!! Can't wait to hear more!!
You have such an incredible way of telling your stories!!
Creepy and fun!!
You are so welcome!
@@basecampchris 😃😃😃😃
I found your channel recently and really like your channel and stories. I love your sense of humor and how you tell ur stories. This is such a refreshing channel.
Thank you so much!
Wow, very interesting history !
I do believe the big foot exist .
Stay safe !!
Yes, thanks Vanessa.
Chris!--I had a "BF" try to reach in & grab me out of my tent as a kid (maybe 9) while camping with my cousin's (6,12) & older brother (12) in a field on my aunt's farm in Indiana Pa. back in the 70's...It didn't "get" one of us, but a few wks-later in the same area an elderly-couple were walking their dog, which was chased away by a "large ape-like creature"...Police were called out & to their astonishment found large footprints 👣 which were later made into casts by a local anthropologist whom held it up during a local tv-news broadcast...My parent's & I were watching said broadcast that night...my mother's jaw dropped & all my father had to say was, "you boy's aren't allowed to go camping in that field again" (they formerly thought we made it all up!) / I recently made friend's with some BF researchers in NJ whom just a few week's-ago found "baby"-prints like you did on the atv-trails in what's known as the "Pine Barrens" (home of the New Jersey Devil 😈!)---Maybe that's he?...Anyway, as they say, "keep on squatching" my friend! / PS: maybe I'll send U an email with more details about that & other "encounter's" I've had since, if interested...
I stumbled on your channel while looking for solo camping videos. Love those of course. But your storytelling videos are pretty awesome. Thanks and keep em coming. Lol
Awesome, thank you!
A chilling spooky story! 😎😎👍👍
I’m in kalispell Montana, my neighbor told me a story of a big foot like beast in the mountains on the north side of me, he went hiking there and this loud/huge scream was heard that made the hair stand up on his neck and back. He knew it was a big foot creature and it started to throw rocks in his direction that were almost the size of footballs. My neighbor was about mid 60’s in age when this happened. He took off running back to his truck hoping not to get hit by the huge rocks being thrown in his direction. He returned with his daughter months later and this creature had stated throwing rocks again as they were hiking. This area was just north of Columbia falls, on north fork road about 5 miles.
I've never had a Bigfoot encounter, that would be crazy. But the alien thing that happened to me 20 years ago is still pretty fresh in my mind and will never go away.
@Frfggg Ffgcdkkd yea alien sounds crazier
I saw a UFO once. I live in East Texas and was sitting on the Porch. I looked up at the Sky and there was one lone kinda small Cloud in the whole Sky. I was thinking that’s kinda weird, and then a Shiny Disc lowered down and turned sideways. It just Vanished it was gone so quick. No blur, or slow take off. It was just gone that quick. I went running out in the Yard looking everywhere in the Sky for it. It was just gone. The whole seeing it lower and turn sideways was about 5 Seconds. It was so instant that I knew it had to be Alien. I served in a Mobil Combat Unit in the Air Force and have seen just about Everything that Flys. There is nothing any Country has that can do that. I can still Picture it clear as Day.
@@joeybobbie1 Dude, that's cray, a couple of years ago I had the same kind of thing. I was out on a smoke break watching a plane fly over at high altitude. I was contemplating the whole com trail/chem trail thing. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw it. It was a small craft flying right out of a cloud. It was out of the cloud only for a brief time, and it started phase shifting, then gone? It was a craft of some kind, not a plane. when it phase shifted and vanished, I was looking right at it. I kept looking for another ten minutes trying to figure what the hell I just saw. The next day, my sister randomly sends me a video that someone took that night of a craft dropping orbs in a field a couple hundred miles away. The craft in the video did the same phase shift vanishing act. I know there is something beyond our comprehension going on. This is a mild encounter compared to others I've had.
Can you share the experience?
Same here. I've seen an alien craft of some kind up close, following my parents car 1 night. Only I saw it as my parents wouldn't even look back they just shushed me. Craft was about 30m altitude following the car on the back left. It was square shaped and didn't have any lights however it was made out of a dull grey metal, very unremarkable except the metal was self illuminating. It was pitch black out so I shouldn't have been able to see it but like i said it had a glow to it and I could see it. Dimensions would be a 10mx10m square craft maybe 1.5m-2m height..... Haven't seen a Yowie (Aussie word for Sasquatch) though I believe in them.
I believe in your story Chris. Have for years followed Yeti sightings. I’m sure that’s what your heard. Keep hiking and keep ‘em coming!
Thank you, I will
That had to be terrifying. Good thing you were able to get some pictures of the footprints. Stay safe out there Chris.
Thank you!! C
I love sitting around campfire with family or friends telling spooky stories , your stories remind me of that , so cool and you inspired me to get out on the trail’s again.❤️
Hi Chris…. I just stumbled onto your channel a few nights ago and I’ve been watching your videos ever since. I like when people tell the stories of these encounters with as much enthusiasm as you do. Keep doing what you are doing. Love the channel!!!
Awesome, thank you!
Really appreciate you too! Love your programming! So informative and fun! Also love your storytelling!
AWESOME video! Scariest one yet! My kitty woke up from his nap when you imitated Bigfoot's howls! He is black, and his name is Boo! How appropriate!! Boo and I appreciate you very much; you are a super talented storyteller and seem like a very kind and gentle person. I know it sounds crazy, but I love Bigfoot because I am an animal lover; no matter "what" or "who" he is, I still love the animal aspect of him. In one of your videos, a man named Mike (I think), had an encounter with Bigfoot and called him "beautiful", and I cried, both because Mike has such a way with words and because I was so happy to hear something positive about this elusive giant. Love you so much, and I pray for God's finest blessings in your life.❤
Oh what a pleasant surprise to know you have worked in the games industry.
My first job in games was in the casino space too. Was a Unity developer, so creative programmer implemented gameplay, animations, etc.
Not often do I see game devs in contexts that are completely unrelated. Nice!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us - I dont have a bigfoot story of my own but my brother did see one in the interior of BC while elk hunting - I wish he had told me the details but he seems hesitant to talk about it. He is a very intelligent person and I think it kind of shook him up a bit.
Oh WOW, it would surely shake me up a whole bunch!
So so glad I stumbled upon your channel, I love listening to you telling stories. Love how you keep it light and laugh while telling them, so enjoyable and puts a smile on my face as I watch without even realizing.
GREAT. STORY.
That’s a spooky story !! Loving this channel brother ! Thanks for what you do !
2014 I had something similar. I was filming some documentary material in the Australian bush. I was in a beautiful area. As soon as I arrived , i pitcHed my tent, prepped food and get ready to settle down for the night. Not an ounce of fear or anxiety at all as I was in a frame of mind thinking about the job and getting footage. At about 2am I could hear something walking around my tent. I freaked out to a degree and recall having my earphones connected to phone next to me. What was I to do, I put my earphones in and started a podcast on technology and let it put me to sleep. I figured if what it was wanted to harm me tHen some tent and sleeping bag was of no protection. It was probably an emu, kangaroo or wild goat…..whatever it was, it gave me the chills. Next morning, completely forgot about it, woke up and filmed the day. Cheers from Australia.
Me and my gf had a similar experience at devil's hole campground, Barrington Tops in NSW. We were the only people camping there and probably the only people in that part of the national park. We were in the tent getting ready for bed and as soon as we switched the lamp off the bush seemed to come alive next to us with heavy footsteps, rustling etc for a long time. Unsure what it could have been as unfamiliar with local wildlife but it sounded too big for wallaby or possum and not sure if the bush wallabies are nocturnal!
Oh my, WOW walking man video!
We often hear stories from people but when you tell it Chris as one of your encounters it seems to hit home more and certainly be more believable. I've no doubt thst there's some things out there but yet to encounter anything more than a coupke of drunks stagering into my tent in thecearly hours. Awesome channel mate keep on hiking and telling. Bushyboy Oz.
Excellent series by base Camp Chris. He is the real thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best wishes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Dr. David.
Awesome story Chris!
just found your channel, love it! You are a great storyteller! That is a very difficult art form and you have mastered it!. Reno was on the top of my list to move to, I am now living on an island in southeast Alaska. The wilderness, the 4 seasons in the Reno area are outstanding.
Thank you so much! SE Alaska sounds like an adventure! Enjoy.
LOL! I do live in Reno, most of my life. Did lots of backpacking in my younger days (Desolation Valley, Lake Tahoe and up past Bishop, CA area). Now I mostly head out to the Plumas area for fishing (trout). Lake & stream. This area just rocks! Only scary moment was hearing what I thought was a mountain lion growl and a brush cracking or two while backpacking but at my set up site at night. Nothing more, thank goodness. And I'm glad I NEVER read stuff like this back then!!! Lol! That was in my late 20s & 30s. Over 60 now. 🎣
I liked that you started out in the light and it got darker and darker as the story got more and more spooky. Very good story telling. Sue madre
Thank you Sue Madre! Appreciate your comment....talk soon.
Just started watching this morning and these stories are really pretty interesting to me
The way he surrounds the nature while saying the stories is best❤
In 1997 I was backpacking with a small group in the Desolation Wilderness with Deer Crossings summer camp. Right before twilight we heard a couple really high pitch yells like an elk bugling off in the distance. Never heard anything like it before. The spooky part was it went completely silent after that, no birds chirping for a good amount of time.
WOW, that's so cool, but, scary Michael!
Maybe it was an elk.
Maybe it was Bigfoot !
That was a Bigfoot that made those vocals, because I heard the same ones , the only difference is the Bigfoot was looking in my bedroom window when he did it I was laying in my bed looking at him so I know it wasn’t a bear.
Wow. What did it look like?
That’s terrifying
@@Felix-yk4ln he looked just like a cave man, but his skin color was a light brown, he had black hair from his cheeks all the way down and a huge mouth, to look in my bedroom window the way he did he had to be over 8 foot tall.
Sure. 😆
@@mojoelite your turn is coming 🤣🤣 but dont expect anybody to believe you! That will be a demon only you live with, if you for what ever purpose find yourself going in the woods ( NOT ) is only a matter of time, unless you're one of those people that doesn't have a sense of any kind
Wow, your story really gave me the heebie jeebies. I believe they exist but I never want to encounter them ever. I enjoy being able to kick back in the comfort of my living room and listen to other peoples stories about them.
That was a scary experience Chris! Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
I had a similiar experience in a nature camping ground in Ursel, Germany. I am female, with a child, around 7yrs, at that time, sleeping in a small tent near a cornfield. A little away was another tent with a wooden commode outside. I woke in the morning cause I heard repeated thumps having phantasie as if somebody would bang a scull on the wooden commode. I was scared and then I heard a sniffing noise around the tent and the most unbearable smell going with it coming through the tent walls. Child was sleeping. It was together with the bangs the most horrible experience cause I imagined 3 possibilities> A nutter in the tent trying to get rid of us or a wild boar or something ghostly. The sniffing disappeared, the bangs stopped and I woke the child, we spent 2 hours in the nearby toilets until sunrise, packed and left. Since then, no thank u to natural camping grounds and never ever near a cornfield again.
Where i live, East Anglia, UK, our 'mysterious creatures' are the Fen Tiger - potentially a big cat escapee, and Black Shuck - a big old Dog from the 'other side'. 😀 Enjoying your spooky tales from the big wilderness.
Creepy story . Thank you for sharing 😊
Great stories ... love the sound effects!
Those footprint pics are great. Hopefully you can cast some at some point. I am enjoying your stories and the sound effects too! Stay safe out there!
We want more Bigfoot stories. Chris put an ask out to your viewers . then, you retell their stories using your ability to share the stories with us. Give the sharer credit and the sharer gets their story out. Win win please!
Good Story, Chris. Thank you for sharing. Take Care and Stay Safe. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow! The more you do this the better chance you have of a real encounter.
Thanks for sharing 👍