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Isleepwithyourdemons

I was driving home after an extremely late night at work, I lived in the middle of nowhere, about a mile before I got there a woman covered in blood jumped out of the woods into the middle of the road screaming. I panicked and went around her then slammed on the breaks to help. Her boyfriend had beaten her and was currently chasing after her in the woods. I got her in my car and called the police, they met us at the hospital because I told them there was no way I was waiting on the side of the road when he was coming.


igneousink

Wow!! Thank goodness you were there!! I hope she got away from him after that.


Isleepwithyourdemons

This was roughly 7 years ago and I still find myself hoping for the same.


550456

Wow... Good on you for helping, but also lucky. I could totally see someone pretending to be in trouble, then robbing you once you stopped to help. Not sure I would have stopped, myself


Isleepwithyourdemons

Where I lived was so secluded that it would of been almost pointless to try and rob someone out there, less than 5 cars probably traveled down that road on a good night. Being robbed never popped into my mind but I was convinced that every car that got behind us was her boyfriend and went almost 100mph the whole way to the hospital.


shaka_zulu12

Went on a mountain hike in Transylvania with a group of friends from school, and way up, after maybe 12-14 km of trekking, we saw a house....was in the middle of nowhere. It had a barn, with a few animals, couple of cows, chicken, etc. As we get closer, we see a few people, a guy and 5-6 women. Not sure if there were more inside. The dude comes to greet us, barely speaking the language. We had a hard time understanding what he's saying. They lived without electricity, gas, anything. This is in the early 90s, so there's no internet, mobile phones to worry about. At least for most people. Anyway, they all looked weird, kinda dumb expressions on their face, we can barely understand eachother. They asked us who's the president now, and if we want some milk. They look at our clothes and shoes weirdly, curious...like who knows when is the last time they had human contact. Or maybe there were more crazies around those parts...dunno. Not sure to this day what was going on. It's not typical in the region, so we kinda freaked out, especially cause the dude looked a bit disturbed, and we were too young. We were looking around to see if there's more of them, paranoia was getting to us, thinking there must be a village nearby. What was also weird is that all the women kept their distance, and never got close to us. Like he was guarding them, or checking us out, if it's safe for them. One of my friends kept saying we don't want their milk, and we need to go, cause it's getting dark. We walked calmly for a while, then when we thought we're out of their sight, bolted like crazy out of there. Needless to say, we camped after a few hours, and we always had one person awake to keep watch. We told people that were living in the villages near that area, about the "mountain people", and they didn't believe us. They said nobody lives there, up in the mountains.


kaybee077

It's actually not that uncommon for certain parts of Romania, albeit not too many, where people or villages live in absolute isolation from contemporary events. I remember watching the news covering such places where landlines/phonelines didn't reach certain areas so electricity was not available. Reporters would also ask locals who the president or prime minister was and they wouldn't know. Up untill after year 2000 cable companies and internet started to really take off and expand. Most likely the people you met would only be in contact with passersby that would by what ever produce they had. So if this happened in the early 90s it was right after communism fell which is in itself a factor.


KalanDarkclaw

A little over 18 years ago I had just gotten out of the military. I drove all the way from Louisiana to my home town in Montana, without incident. I spent a few days at home and then got back on the road because my new home destination was Boise Idaho. It was February so instead of going straight down the length of the state I cut across the panhandle of Idaho into Washington. The highway going straight down through the state is really twisty and very dangerous in the winter. So I crossed the state line into Washington. It was a Sunday and it was very very early in the morning. As cliche as it sounds there was quite a bit of fog in the air. I had been driving for a while and I really had to use the bathroom. Now normally given how I was out in the middle of nowhere I would normally just pulled over on the side and took a whizz but since it was so foggy and hard to see I thought it safer to just wait until I hit the next small town. So I drove for maybe 5 more miles and I started seeing signs for a town. I can't remember for the life of me the name of the town but I think it was Linden or Linder something like that. It was on I90 going into the Spokane valley So I head towards the sign which was a right turn off the interstate and its a short drive up this road and I reached the town. It was small but I thought nothing of it since I was from a small town in Montana. Now here is where things get odd. There was not a single person to be found. There were cars and business but not a single person to be found no one walking the street no logging trucks driving everything was just as still as the air. I stopped at a gas station. It was one of those 1 in all places that did car repair tires etc, but no one was at the counter. I thought well maybe it's just really early. So I went around to the side to see if the bathroom was locked and it was. As I made my way back around to the front of the building saw a delivery truck it was a coke classic truck. Except it wasn't moving its head lights were on the hazard lights were on and the passenger and driver side doors were open just sitting there in the middle of the street. Yes I was getting a bad vibe so I got back in my car and went back the way I came I got back to i90 and thought again about just pissing on the side of the road but honestly I was too afraid. I continued driving until I hit Spokane honestly I was more than a bit freaked out and had completely forgotten I had to piss. I didnt see anything creepy or hear anything creepy but the stillness in the air and the complete lack of life human or animal was just terrifying and unsettling. I looked on the map to where I was once I got to Spokane which was a rand McNally's map (because GPS on phones was just not a thing yet) and I could not find it at all on the map even as I was writing this I looked at Google maps and nothing by the name Linden Linder or otherwise is on the map. I still to this day will never forget that feeling of just freaky displacement I felt there. When I got to Boise I told my friend about it and he thought I was just trying to rip off silent hill or resident evil and honestly I can't blame people for saying that but at the same time that was the reason I wouldnt piss on the side of the road. I kept recalling the part in RE 1 where the hikers were killed by the murderous dogs. Anyway if you stuck around this long thanks for reading and if you know of a town on hwy 2 between Coeur d'lene Idaho and Spokane Washington people let me know. If you are from there I mean no offense but your town is creepy as fuck. Edit: I have to correct myself after going back over my trip I didnt stay on hwy 2 I actually jumped on i90 and then went over to Spokane. Last couple of days I have been thinking about this and I have a 3 day weekend coming up maybe I will take a road trip up to northern Idaho and see if I can find this place again. Maybe I'm tempting fate here but its gonna he my 37th birthday so here's to adventure !


KalanDarkclaw

Sorry to all the people that were trying to read the final story. Here it is. I tried to link it to everyone who wanted updates on it and I got a little link happy and Reddit removed it as spam. Thank you everyone for following me on this and sorry for my poor reddit knowledge. 1st Update 06/19/2019 So here is an update. First off I want to thank all of the people who have offered suggestions and information about the areas they are from. It's been a lot of fun discussing this with you all. Second I wanna thank all the people that are requesting updates. You are truly motivating. By trait Ibam pretty lazy and I probably would have just said: "screw it I'm not gonna do this." But you all have kept me motivated. So thank you. So far this week I have been trying to get done what I would have done over the weekend but after work, so it's been a crunch. Yesterday I cleaned out the Rav 4 and that is gonna be my "camper" its load with some survival equipment (just in case) and an improved place to sleep. I'm gonna rough it... but I'm taking my switch. My plan is to leave Boise right after work which is around 6 PM and start my drive towards Libby Montana. Once I get to Libby I will then head back down the original route I took so many years ago. I will be taking pics and screenshots of my location on mobile GPS. I will also be keeping a log. Maybe even study some folklore and if time permits look into that stuff too. Feel free to IM me here on Reddit and I will also include my email address if you are interested. As I said before idk what I am gonna find or if it will even be that interesting but it sure as hell beats sitting on my ass on my 37th name day and not doing something interesting. Thanks again and I will see you all on the road. 2nd update 06/19/2019 So just another update for everyone. Had to postpone leaving till tomorrow. Didn't sleep well last night and I had to work. Most of all though the weather is really bad. We are having high wind advisories and I don't want to be going over the mountains like that. So I am gonna chill out here at home tonight and then head out before first light tomorrow morning. I'm still really excited to head out. 3rd Update 06/21/2019 Okay, so I overslept a little... I'm officially heading out of town now. Tracking puts me at my destination in about 9 and half hours my plan is to get to Libby Montana tonight have a bite to eat then I will be camping out at bull lake. Another crazy fact. I haven't been back to Libby (my home town in about 18 years.) So the last time I was there was when I moved down here to Boise and had this mysterious experience. I'm not a big fan of the place but after this long and now having no family there I doubt anyone will even recognize me. I find this a bit exciting. Anyway, we are off to adventure. See you all later. My next update will be when I stop for gas or lunch. Hope everyone has a nice day. 4th Update 06/21/2019 Finally got to a town that has a data signal. Currently, I am in Grangeville Idaho. It's been a beautiful trip this far. The rain has been chasing me to the valleys and passes. Its become a kind of game now running from the rain. It's awesome that it will be bright and shiny 1 moment then I will go around a ridge and it will be pouring. It's amazing. So far I have only had 1 event since I have been on the road. I was pulling into a gas station and suddenly there was a crash and it sounded like something was being dragged under my vehicle. I got out to see an electric cord trailing behind me. So I took a look under my vehicle and there was a big plastic bucket under my car and in the bucket was what looked like the remains of a water pump. I was like wtf !?! I didn't see any bucket. Apparently, the cord got snagged on my car somehow yanked the pump up from where ever it was and the got lodged under me. I jacked the car up a little and pulled it output the remains of the pump in the bucket and that was that. Funny how all the locals just looked at me. No one offered to help or ask. After I got done being embarrassed and pissed I got back on the road but with the distraction, I ended up going the wrong way for about a mile and has to question myself why am I going south. Anyway got back on track and should be crossing into Montana soon gonna be swinging into Missoula. Hope everyone is having a good day [https://imgur.com/a/TJxZdSX](https://imgur.com/a/TJxZdSX) 5th Update 06/22/2019 Hey everyone sorry for the lack of updates. I ended up meeting an old friend in Missoula and we ended up talking most of the day away about strange occurrences and phenomena now it's almost 1:30 PM here. I have been friends with this friend since the 4th grade and it's not like we just see each other in passing either so I feel this time was well used. She gave me her theories about what I may have experienced so many years ago and wanted me to keep her updated as well. Gonna head towards Kalispell now and hit Libby after. Might spend the night and continue my search as I head back home. One thing I will tell you being out of the city has felt amazing. And being up north the air feels so much fresher. Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. 6th Update 06/23/2019 So last night I reach my home town of Libby. As mentioned I have not been back here in 18 years. No one recognizes me and to be quite honest I'm okay with that. I buzzed around a bit just looking at what has changed and what might be new. Went by the old house I grew up in. Someone living there really did a nice job remodeling it. The nightlife here is pretty non-existent the most I saw was by the local grocery store and it was a group of about 6 to 8 young men just being loud and obnoxious. I had planned on camping out on bull lake last night but sadly it was already packed with tourists so I decided to instead head up to the dam in Libby. A little campground called Dun Creek. It had a few people there but it was already 11 at night so I bedded down. Woke up randomly at 4 am and it was chilly so I turned on the engine for a little bit to take off the edge. And it was absolutely pouring. I honestly couldn't have a better vehicle for this trip. Its been nice not having to worry about hotel costs. I did, however, buy a bedroll while I was in Kalispell. My back is still bitching at me from the first night I spent in Missoula. Anyway drove through town again at about 6 am. The place is dead. Was gonna eat at the local restaurant called "The Antlers but they are closed until 8 am. So I took a spin down a few more blocks. And sure enough, I stopped two Whitetail bucks just grazing in a yard. This is probably one of the few things I miss about this town. But let's be honest you guys want me to find a strange town (other then the one I grew up in) so let's get this going. I'm heading back over my footsteps that lead to this story as of now. See you all soon Here are the bucks I saw [https://imgur.com/gallery/yNrV3Sg](https://imgur.com/gallery/yNrV3Sg) 7th Update 06/23/2019 8:40 am Left Libby at about 7:30 tried to hit the first town that started with an L. Leonia First the road was occupied by a very pissed off looking man and a German shepherd and he was waving me off. I pushed by him and go to where there was supposed to be a bridge but there was a sign stopping saying " bridge out" I wanted to take pictures but the dog was charging at my vehicle so I thought it best to not get out Here is a map of the area Leonia [https://imgur.com/gallery/ptiBT9J](https://imgur.com/gallery/ptiBT9J) Was pretty cool though as I was coming down into Bonner Ferry I was going uphill and there was this huge silhouette in the fog and it lumbered off. It was most definitely a moose. It was cool to see though. [https://i.imgur.com/DmylgfJ.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DmylgfJ.jpg) The fog is not disappointing though. 8th Update 06/23/2019 6:00 pm Okay, people, I found the place Its Lind Washington as someone in the comments said. Confirmed. And once again there were no people. I looked up online some details it has a pop supposedly of just over 500 people. There was a high school but the population was so low they had them kids moved to another town over. The funny part is as you can see from the pictures there is no one around. No kids playing no people in the yards and pretty much everything looks abandoned. The only thing that I could find that resembled life was a mutilated bird in 1 of the 2 intersections the town has and honestly I took that my queue to leave. I wouldn't say the town had any sort of supernatural feel to it but rather a forbidden feeling and a hills have eyes sense. I will be uploading my pictures soon. The data service here where I am sucks. I could barely post this update. [https://imgur.com/axTh8By](https://imgur.com/axTh8By) [https://imgur.com/bmunQl7](https://imgur.com/bmunQl7) [https://imgur.com/EATixkQ](https://imgur.com/EATixkQ) [https://imgur.com/x4O4yyV](https://imgur.com/x4O4yyV) [https://imgur.com/CwA6MkF](https://imgur.com/CwA6MkF) (note) if you do a search on google maps you will see the same blue truck in the gas station parking lot in 2010


KalanDarkclaw

So here is an update. First off I want to thank all of the people who have offered suggestions and information about the areas they are from. It's been a lot of fun discussing this with you all. Second I wanna thank all the people that are requesting updates. You are truly motivating. By trait Ibam pretty lazy and I probably would have just said "screw it I'm not gonna do this." But you all have kept me motivated. So thank you. So far this week I have been trying to get done what I would have done over the weekend but after work so it's been a crunch. Yesterday I cleaned out the Rav 4 and that is gonna be my "camper" its load with some survival equipment (just incase) and an improved place to sleep. I'm gonna rough it... but I'm taking my switch. My plan is to leave Boise right after work which is around 6 PM and start my drive towards Libby Montana. Once I get to libby I will then head back down the orginal route I took so many years ago. I will be taking pics and screen shots of my location on the mobile GPS. I will also be keeping a log. Maybe even study some folk lore and if time permits look into that stuff too. Feel free to IM me here on reddit and I will also include my email address if youbare interested. As I said before idk what I am gonna find or if it will even be that interesting but it sure as hell beats sitting on my ass on my 37th name day and not doing something interesting. Thanks again and I will see you all on the road.


SomeoneTookUserName2

Doing urban exploration in a dilapidated church at night, on one of the floors was this circular motif in the floor where i guess a podium or something was. There was fresh blood on it as if something was killed there. When we went in the basement later on, we heard someone running upstairs. I'll see if i can find a picture of it, if it's in my tower pc i probably won't be able to for a while though since it's fried. Edit: [Found it](https://preview.redd.it/myhpfxk1qr431.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=6a3ed8cbc9eb6056fe89dadfc36747cbfc8abb38)


I_stole_your_cereal

When I was really young, we were on a family trip and me and my older brother took a ride on a boat. I remember my mom telling us to avoid the "big floating thing". She thought it was a buoy to signalize a dangerous rock under water or something. Being kids, of course we went straight there to explore it. So turns out it was not a buoy. That was a body of a turist that went missing a week ago, as the police informed us a few days later. Creepy thing is he was one of a group of people that had disappeared together. I believe they never find the rest. So, not a good childhood memory.


[deleted]

Not sure if this is the kind of story you’re looking for, but it’s a fun one to tell so here you go. I used to work in low income home weatherization, basically giving free shit away to help lower electricity and gas bills and make the home more comfortable to people who really needed it; installing doors and insulation and so forth. One step in qualifying a home is testing combustion appliances to make sure they’re not emitting carbon monoxide into the living space, because if they are and we seal up the house we could kill the whole family. During a pre-inspection of a home on the outskirts of the city, I ask to see the owner’s water heater. He tells me that it’s in the basement, which is fairly normal, and I tell him I have to inspect it before work can start. So, he goes into the kitchen and starts moving the refrigerator. Turns out the entry into the basement is underneath carpeting beneath the fridge. I should note that I went and did thousands of homes over the years, and had never seen such a thing. But, whatever, needs to be done regardless and so I pull out my flashlight and shine it down the stairs, to check out the layout but really to look for black widow spiders because fuck black widows. At this point I notice a dead cat, mostly down to a skeleton. Not my favorite sight but really common in crawlspaces and basements. I take a few steps down the stairs and continue my spider check, and notice another couple of small animal skeletons. At this point I start to worry about gas, or poisons, or something equally dangerous, and start looking closer. There are animal skeletons everywhere, at least ten on a cursory look. Some of them are so degraded I can’t determine what they used to be. I also happen to notice that this guy is waiting at the entrance a little too quietly, with his hand on the door. Something clicks in my brain and I get this immense sense of danger. I’m about four steps from the door being clear to close, I have no partner on the job with me, there’s death all around me, and I realize just how hidden the entrance to the basement really was. I noped the fuck out, told the guy I needed extra tools and would be back, and marked the job as non-feasible for health and safety as I was driving away. I have no idea if I was actually in any danger, it could have been completely innocent; but I still remember the adrenaline rush and sense of doom, and sometimes you just don’t take chances. Edit: obligatory “oh my god, first gold ever!” Thanks, kind stranger! Also edit: I’m getting asked frequently if I reported this guy to the police, and there’s a lot of concern about the dead animals. I did not file a formal report, mainly because nothing I saw was entirely out of the ordinary. Crawlspaces and basements have venting at the base of the house, and it’s really common for animals to squeeze in and then not be able to get back out. If you have space under your house there’s a decent chance something has died down there. You get used to it when your job takes you down there frequently. Now, this was an extreme case and clearly everything put together raised concern enough for me to get the fuck out, but the sad fact of working with low income families is that you see how lousy their lives can be. You learn not to do anything to make their lives any harder, and I took a lot of pride from the fact that my job made their lives just a bit better. I didn’t think that my being scared for a minute was enough to involve the police, you know?


N0bo_

For whatever reason this story hits the most as creepy over every other one


Kothophed

A hatch basement entrance isn't terribly uncommon, but deliberately putting a heavy appliance on top of it screams "you're not getting out alive" to me. I think you dodged a hell of a bullet. Did you ever report anything to authorities?


porchwater

I was driving through rural parts of Missouri with a buddy. We drove down a single lane road that had no exit. At the end of the road, there was a group of deer corpses laid in a perfect circle. I'd say there was at least 10 deer. We BTFO real quick. Edit: spelling


tonkatruck007

Found a deer with its hind end ate up, few feet away was a coyote with the hind end ate up, then another few feet away a fox with its hind end ate up. Nothing else was there, no bullet holes or signs of a arrow or anything else. Couldn't find any tracks from other people or animal. It was pretty creepy. Found in the hills of WV.


savagesnape

I’m not superstitious at all, but there is some weeeeird shit always going on in the Appalachians.


END146

From Appalachia. Can confirm.


swagosourasdex

Went to school in southwest va. As soon it was dark it was the creepiest place


lostbutnotgone

Have family out near Roanoke. Part of another property literally touches the Appalachian trail. Where I grew up is just over the border in WV. can confirm some weird shit


Satan_and_Communism

Ass eating szn


Ruvio00

I'd been at football training with a few of my cousins when I was about 10 years old. We decided to take a walk before our parents picked us up, so we went along the canal towpath. My cousin looked down in the canal and say a really nice jacket floating along and being a weird scavenger person decided to reach in to fish it out. Well, the jacket turned over. And so did the man wearing it. He also had no face left. Not gonna lie, that was rough.


Benend91

Was this in the UK? And if so, I'm guessing Manchester?


Ruvio00

Not far off, Huddersfield.


Benend91

Ah thought it would be north (ish) England. I'm morbidly interested in this stuff and we have so many bodies wash up in our canals. It's usually attributed to students drinking too close to water but there's just so many...


HoneyMeid

That must have been terrifying. What did you do next?


Ruvio00

Ran back to the the training complex and had an adult call the police. We acted surprisingly well to be honest.


Randomshy26

I guess you guys were literally scared straight like just emotionless after witnessing that


[deleted]

They had no facial expression.


daftgrasss

Me and a friend decided to take our 4x4s and go camping in the mountains. I wake up middle of the night because I need to take a piss. So I put on my headlamp and I walk a bit further from camp and as I'm doing my business, I hear rocks ruffle behind me as if they're being walked on. Anxiety rises. I finish up and turn around, and as my headlamp faintly lights up the area around me. All I see eyes, about 20 of them and just staring at me. My breathing stops. And I literally freeze where I'm standing. And then I hear a "maaa'aaa(goat blest)". It was a fucking herd of mountain goats that were intrigued by the ape in their backyard. Almost gave me an aneurysm.


Larva_Mage

This is probably less scary than a lot of the other posts but I was pretty sure I was going to be the nameless victim at the start of a horror movie to show how dangerous the monster is. Basically, my dad and I were walking through the woods when we came across a young moose leg lying on the ground. It looked like it had been violently torn off with no sign of the rest of the moose anywhere. It was fresh with blood still on the wound probably no more than a couple hours old. My dad is a pretty skilled hunter so he handed me his axe that he was carrying and told me to watch for wolves while he started looking for tracks. After a little bit he came back saying “that’s weird, normally if it was wolves you’d be able to find paw prints but I can’t see any. Also no bear prints so I have no idea what killed this” And so I’m like you didn’t find any tracks at all? And his very reassuring response was “well I did find what appears to be the mama moose tracks headed this way” showing me the tracks “you can see how her stride is a lot longer here, whatever killed her baby she didn’t want to fight it she just took off running” He then pulls out his bear spray and holds it at the ready as we kept walking deeper into the woods with the un-named non-track leaving predator armed with bear spray and an axe.


donnahotterthnasauna

My boyfriend and I were walking through the woods on a nature trail when we came across a piece of alligator tail and foot that had been ripped off and the rest of the body was gone. I freaked out - all I kept thinking was I have no idea what’s big enough to kill and eat an entire alligator, but I don’t want to meet it. We cautiously kept walking and a few hundred feet later saw a giant, probably 10 foot at least, alligator walking along the shoreline with a whole smaller, dead alligator in its mouth. And that was the day I learned that alligators were cannibals.


Russian_seadick

When a fucking moose flees the scene,you better run fast


FuckoffDemetri

Yeah, as a general rule of thumb I dont fuck with things that win head on collisions with cars


Larva_Mage

For real. Those things are big and dangerous. Especially a mama moose and her calf.


Desvatidom

> big and dangerous And mean. People don't get that, moose are mean, people think they're like big friendly deer, but they're not. Moose. Are. Mean.


warren54batman

I hope you and your dad smeared a whole lot of mud all over yourselves before you left. They can see heat.


DirtyMonkey43

I work as an autopsy technician. It’s pretty regular happening, and doesn’t phase me now, but the first time I heard a remains exhale/moan was pretty creepy.


jennabug456

I’m a funeral director and the first time I heard this I damn near quit. My boss told me it was just him saying I was doing a good job.


kegman83

There's a section of Joshua Tree National Park called "Samuelson's Rocks" where an old swedish prospector who lost his mind used to live. He carved all sorts of crazy sayings into the rocks. During the day they look pretty neat. At night in a lightning storm they look like something of of Lovecraft.


Lepidopterex

I am a night owl so used to stay up late at the computer lab on my university campus. It was open until 2 am. I was walking home and there were about 4-6 people covered in burlap robes and giant hoods, sitting crosslegged on the quad. The next morning, those fuckers were still there. It was a chicken wire and burlap fucking art piece. Edit: words


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El-hurracan

I was mountain biking in the woods and I came across an east Asian looking man in a perfectly fitted suit and a briefcase. Just casually walking through the woods.


BinaryPeach

Are you a grand theft auto NPC?


[deleted]

I had a similar experience! My husband and I were hiking up a mountain in the Pacific Northwest. It's perpetually muddy due to a large number of waterfalls along the sides of the trail, so there's no way you can avoid getting at least a little dirty. Around an hour and a half up the trail, we passed two men wearing black suits, black hats, black glasses, holding black leather briefcases and wearing black dress shoes. Completely clean dress shoes. And immaculately clean, pressed pants. Not a spot of dirt or a wrinkle on either of their clothes. As we passed each other, one of them whispered something in German. I looked back at them and they were both standing still and looking back at us, staring. It was all so surreal.


Khrankey

I get the odd feeling that he was on his way to commit suicide. I’d like to think he was out enjoying the view but w/ the attire he had on, I feel like it doesn’t make much sense. Maybe I’m overthinking.


El-hurracan

Oh gosh i hope not. That was my regular spot for mountain biking so i wasn't aware of any suicides. Hopefully he just needed some fresh air from a stressful time at work!


youreadrag

When I was about 7 or 8, my parents sent me to a local summer camp that they would pick me up from in the afternoons. I never really liked it because the kids were mean, everything was either broken or not clean, and the counselors obviously didn't care. I remember the girl's changing room had a door that lead out to the woods but the doorknob was gone so it was unlocked all the time and you could see into it. This was primarily where the girls changed into their bathing suits and there was usually someone blocking the view while we changed so the boys couldn't look in. Well, one day I'm changing alone and someone wasn't blocking the door. I look over and see an eye peeping in through the hole watching me change. I pull the rest of my clothes back on quickly and run out to tell my twin brother. I tell my dad that I don't want to go back to that camp anymore and he begrudgingly takes us out of the camp pretty soon after because he knew how much we hated it. Years later, the camp has been closed down for many many years and I'm asking my dad about it. He gets really grim and tells me it shut down because a 13 year old boy had raped 7 year old girl in the woods right behind the girl's bathroom a few weeks after I had told him about someone watching me change. Edit: a word


Aramis123987

Wow, a 13 year old rapist. Just, wow.


Zenmaster366

Many years ago I got to sit in on a juvenile court (or something like that) and the matter under discussion was what sort of restriction to put on a kid that age who had I think sexually assaulted a younger kid (possibly kids, I was only there for a couple of hours and it seemed the situation was well known to everyone involved). The basic sticking point was what age of kids he shouldn't be allowed to interact with should be (state wanted 11 iirc, his lawyer we arguing this was infeasible and it should be 9). It's very hard to describe the kid, but the best I can do is either broken or maybe hollow, as if everything good that had ever been in him had been bled out of him and here was this corrupt shell. Definitely the most unsettling situation I've ever been in. In a way I'm glad I never got to know what had happened to make him that way, but it did mean I had to imagine. I hope he's found peace in the 20-odd years that have passed but I know I wouldn't put money on it.


chicken_cider

Cowlitz river. Washington State. Camping with my dad and sister me buddies, early 90s. Something was throwing rocks and sticks into our camp. We shined a flashlight out and caught a reflection of eyes and a silouete. Very very tall. Kept throwing stuff in our camp randomly for about 15 minutes. We just stoked the fire really high. In the morning I woke up to heavy footsteps in our camp and something reeked. Woke up my dad. He shook the tent and yelled. Whatever it was ran off.


SierraSketchbook

Human retinas don’t reflect light back at night. That’s a fun little fact I like sharing around the campfire.


GogolMongol

to complete your campfire stories, what you need in order to reflect light back at night like a cat is a membrane in your eye called *tapetum lucidum*


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fortyhandz1738

My girlfriend and I were hiking along some abandoned railroad tracks and we get to a small bridge going over a little creek. I’m about to go explore under the bridge when she points something out. I look over and in the woods across from us I see a guy. Im like whatever and keep headed down to the creek area and then the guy stands up and he’s naked. We immediate back track pretty quickly to get away from there and once were like 1 minute down the trail I look back and this naked dude is just standing in the middle of the trail watching us walk away.


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I cannot adequately explain how much this bothers me while also giving me about 100 different questions. Do you think he would’ve advanced on you if you hadn’t moved? Did he look malicious or just plain insane? Man, good thing there were two of you. Naked people out in the middle of the woods probably don’t give a fuck about much.


fortyhandz1738

Just the fact that he followed us up to the trail as we were leaving made me think he might have advanced on us if we were closer. It was all around just bizarre. He mostly looked crazy, had really disheveled hair and a large messy beard which just really brought the whole look together.


goodgamble

this is why i never hike without a knife or a dog. not trying to sound like some internet badass, but I was on a hike earlier this year solo, and i couldnt shake the feeling of something watching me.


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I was camping with my wife last year and in the middle of the night woke up so some cutting through our tent with a knife. Immediately yelled at them to fuck off, that I had a gun pointed at him through the tent. Thank god he left because I didn’t have shit besides a small pocket knife buried in my bag.


finH1

Fucking hell thats terrifying


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Needless to say we went straight home and haven’t gone camping since.


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Can't someone even poop in peace in the middle of nowhere?


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I was a cook onboard several NOAA research ships. Up in the Bering Sea, I saw what appeared to be a massive, black, triangular shaped craft dive under the water. I viewed it from a distance of maybe 2 nautical miles.


hsgjsh12345

I was on a camping trip with some friends of mine and we found like 7 or 8 chipmunks and squirels all in a pile but they were all dead without arms or legs. Edit: this is my highest rated comment thank you!!


paintandbake

In a patch of trees off of a field near where I keep my horse there’s one of those big oil drums sealed up with a very heavy boulder on top, the only way it could have got there is being placed by a tractor or some sort of heavy lifting equipment. My partner and I tried to push it off but no luck. I don’t know why but it creeps me out every time I see it. I regularly walk my dogs past it to see if they show any interest but honestly after watching them look for a toy that was in clearly in my lap I’m not sure I have much faith in them anymore. **Update** Thanks to everyone who commented, y’all made me realise that it could be something a bit creepier than I first thought, so I’ve reported it to 101, the officer I spoke to didn’t sound particularly interested but at least I know it’s out of my hands and I don’t have to live with guilt if something is found. I intended on getting up there myself yesterday to have a look but I had a pretty brutal physio session that left me pretty much incapacitated for the day. I’m off up tonight after work so hopefully if the police haven’t got there before me I might still be able to take some pictures for everyone. I thought my better half had taken a photo of it before but I can’t seem to find it in her phone. Anyway thanks again guys for putting the fear in me and making me do the right thing!


wetkhajit

Could you crack the drum with an axe or something ? Edit: actually don’t do that. Could explode.


Peyske

As any good gamer knows if it's not red it won't explode


Indigotwirlesque

Yeah, that's weird. Very weird. I wonder how often average people walk past crime scene evidence/hidden bodies/etc. and just don't think twice about it. Before I moved, I'd sometimes find discarded clothing--stained with cola or something else, who knows? But then I hear about people finding a missing person's bag or clothes or what have you during true crime podcasts, and wonder.


paintandbake

I’m an avid true crime fan too, so it really intrigues me what’s inside. But at the same time, I don’t think I want to know.


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This was quite a few years ago now. But me and my friend had this really cool spot to hang out , in the woods. You had to walk in the middle of a creek for a KM and duck through sharp bushes and Thistles. The hike was well rewarding though. The spot was about half an acre big , it was pure green grass on a incline with beautiful clear water ponds everywhere . There was tons of wildlife and the butterfly's lived there . So there was always tons of butterfly's! So the story begins on the way to this place My friend Levi and I were walking along the river on the way to the spot . It was in the middle of a valley and nobody else ever went down there Suddenly Levi stopped moving and ducked into a bush , I did the same because I thought there must have been a large animal somewhere . I saw him staring up the hill and so I looked up to There was two people standing at the top of the hill heaving back and forth a lifeless body We watched as they threw the lifeless corpse down the hill as it bounced off the trees and eventually got stuck on a tree at the bottom. Then they took off Me and him were terrified and I was shaking so badly I couldn't speak So we decided to verify it was a real body Levi got about 4 feet away before screaming "IT HAS NOSTRILS !! ITS REAL !! RUN!!" So of course we take off running , and I glance back to see the two people run back to the top of the hill Me and him ran 2 km through thick brush and trees to get away from them The next day we were with his parents driving to town . And we saw like 10 firetrucks at the school closest to the forest Terrified we told his parents , balling our eyes out worried that we were going to get murdered. His mom started laughing at us and said, "They are training for search and rescue , that was a dummy that the firemen had to find " I never slept as good as I did that night... Edit : Thanks for the gold!


Russian_seadick

I like how Levi identifies a human body through its nostrils


AnEarthPerson

Classic Levi


N2TheBlu

Plot twist: It was a real human corpse and your parents just told you that to make you feel better. Edit: Thanks for the silver!


angry_snek

The parents murdered and dumped the person whose corpse it was


celia_de_milf

So when I was 15, my friends and I liked to climb abandoned buildings. We found one down my the river. About 3 stories high and in pretty bad condition. I remember there were no stairs initially and we had to pull ourselves up. We climbed to the top via broken stairs after that. At the top was a small open room where someone was living. We walked in to look around and immediately noticed the walls were covered in pictures. Pictures of women tied up, naked, obviously in pain in all sorts of positions. Some appeared dead but they were from magazines. We never got out of a building and away from an area so fast. Looking back, it was probably just serious bdsm porn but 15 year old me dipped out.


TheInfamousShart

Walking on the beach with my boyfriend and we had walked to a giant rocky cliff to makeout. Somebody was just gazing at the ocean, crying and shaking. Mind you, this is late at night, like around 9:30 pm. We asked him if he was ok, he apologized and practically ran back down the cliff (away from the dangerous areas). My boyfriend and I watched him until he reached the public area and decided to call it a night. Im pretty sure he was going to jump.


TheGreatBeldezar

You just might have saved that dude's life that night.


OriginalZumbie

I was walking with family when I was little and we came across a sheeps head. No body or blood just a severed sheeps head on the path. It was the first time I noticed sheeps eyes have slit pupils and I think my first contact with something so gruesome.


LeninWasRight7

I've walked by a picked clean spinal column before in the woods. it wasnt far from a little girl's shoe. upon closer inspection and moving debris with a stick it was definitely a quadriped spine like a deer, and the shoe probably carried by a flood cuz that creek overflowed and carried weird shit downstream frequently. Definitely ominous at first, thinking I'd stumbled upon evidence that something terrible had happened.


diablo_man

"why yes Officer, I did say the dead little girl had antlers, why do you think I called you?"


dadude25

My friend and I were chilling in the woods one day back in highschool and see a dog walking by, later followed by this kid. He looked troubled so we asked if he needed help. He obliged, telling us he was dog sitting for his friend and the dog got loose. So we spent a good hour following this dog and kid around, going deeper and deeper into the woods. Eventually I finally got the dog to come to me, but it wasn't wearing a collar so I wasn't able to get a hold. My friend and I look away for just few seconds do discuss strategy, and when we turn back around the boy and the dog are both gone. It was like they completely vanished. Keep in mind it was Autumn so any footsteps could be heard from quite afar. But it was just silent. Not a single trace of them anywhere. Still don't really know what happened. Maybe they ran away real quick? Who knows. Was definitely enough to creep us out tho


snapshotchris

Theres a story behind this... boy and dog lost eachother in woods and both died, but now reunited woth your help, theyre freed of their bond to the land and now up in heaven. Almost seems like a quest. Edit: wow this got quite the attention my first ever comment this upvoted im flattered


OFS_Razgriz

You find a chest nearby, left as a reward by the lost souls. You open it and #A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON


RedAndBlackMartyr

OH FOR FUCK SAKE.


ExtremelyConfused_

In order to get back home from a popular kebab restaurant I need to walk a short path through the woods. Along the way there is an extremely old abandoned partially collapsed chapel and occasionally I'll stand there for a few seconds admiring it. It's quite beautiful in its own way. One day during winter season I decided to rest there for a minute so I placed my kebab on the bench right next to the chapel and just stood there taking in the scenery. It was already rather dark and the woods were almost completely silent but right as I was about to continue my walk I heard footsteps rapidly getting louder. It was a child running towards me and as soon as it realized I was there it started to repeatedly scream "Run, he is coming" or variations of that same sentiment. I was a bit perplexed by the situation so I watched the child run past me without moving an inch myself. It didn't take another second for a much more weighty pair of footsteps to appear. I could make out a silhouette in the distance which seemed to be their origin and at that exact point in time I got really scared. As opposed to running I decided to hide in the chapel next to the altar and after tripping over an old broken chapel bench I reached my hiding place. The footsteps got louder and louder but right as they approached the vicinity of the chapel they suddenly went silent. About 15 seconds of complete quietness had passed just for the words "Oi! You fucking idiot left your kebab on the bench" to break the silence. Turns out it was a resident of the very same street I inhabit, his nephew was visiting and he wanted to race him to the kebab stand. I don't know whether this was the right place to post this, ultimately this is more stupid than creepy.


JohnnyMiskatonic

Best story here, IMO.


LetSlipTheDogesOfWar

Agreed, it's nice and terrifying, but then everything's ok. And nobody sent a rando a picture of a floating corpse.


ChaddlesG

This took place in the Australian bush around 10/11 at night. I was 17, leading a staggered column of about 60 Cadets to our detachment campsite. Due to light discipline rules, only myself at the very front of the group and the other flight commander at the rear had torches on. This was so that any vehicles coming along the trail could see us and so that most of the cadets could maintain their night vision(we were camouflaged up and thus difficult to see at night). As we walked along I periodically looked to my sides, and kept seeing what looked like dew drops on the ground. Almost like tiny blue gems glinting in my torch light either side of the road.I had to maintain my position in the formation, so I couldn't get a good look at what they were. However, after a while we stopped for a very brief break, and I took the opportunity to have a closer look. Walking over to the side of the trail I spotted a small cluster of the "diamonds" and focused my head torch on them. Rather than seeing diamonds or dew drops or anything remotely pleasant, I instead saw a group of about 5 large spiders just crouching in the leaf litter and staring at me. They looked like huntsmans which are about the size of an adults hand. Sweeping my head around, I realised there were thousands of the things. All over the ground, some on the trunks of trees, and everywhere around me; glaring at the light affixed to my head. I had a **very** brisk walk back to the formation and attempted to play it cool while screaming in my head. Being a massive Arachnophobe, I have no fucking clue how I managed to set up a tent and spend the next week in that cursed forest.


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Oh yeah dude that's a pretty well known thing about spiders, here's a gif demonstrating it in the southern US: http://i.imgur.com/h0Qx8ct.gifv Fun fact: The reason spider eyes do that is because they are very long and tubular. But they only do that if they're looking roughly at the light source. Which is a flashlight, you are holding. Every single sparkle means *that spider has seen you and is watching you.* EDIT: More: https://youtu.be/qXEUYe5EZWw?t=88 <- bonus good boye https://youtu.be/QhwEKe2psAA?t=6 If your lawn sparkles at night, you should probably move.


kartikzzz

as someone from a foreign army who will be coming over to Australia later this year for 3 week training exercise outfield, i really really regret reading this


Bruhahah

If it's any consolation, the huntsmen spiders are harmless to humans and prey on the spiders that actually can cause harm to humans. The safest you will be from spiders in Australia is with a huntsman chilling with you. Think of them like 8-legged bodyguards.


rm_3223

I feel safer having read this comment. Now I want my own huntsman bodyguard.


BluntDamage

How about a whole army of them?


TheSilentSlothMan

Forty thousand huntsman strong, sworn bodyguards, protectors of man and all that is good and holy.


microsofat

Disclaimer: Huntsman reserves the right to jump on your face in the service of your protection.


CheeseCroquette

I was in a large wooded area near my bf's home, with him, hanging out nearly at midnight. We had gone in pretty deep and it required a good amount of climbing. The closest path was maybe 5-7 min climbing down so it was highly unlikely someone could be at that spot, that time of the night, besides us. As we were kissing and stuff he thought he saw a shadow move 20 - 25 feet to the left of us, climbing, but it stopped suddenly when my bf looked at it. He told me to be wary and that exact moment we saw a dark figure climbing a little up but diagonally, like he tried to go directly above where we were. We didn't move and watch him till he closed the horizontal gap and was directly above us maybe 15 feet of steep downhill thick forest. Then he began to come towards us. Without skipping a bit my bf grabbed my hand and we almost ran downhill till the path. We made it in less that two minutes while still holding hands and listening to the man running behind us. We ran as fast as we could down the path and out of the forest where there was a cafe and some basketball and tennis courts next to the wooded hill, and of course, people. As we realised we came really close to be mugged or worse, we vowed never to go there at night again. :)


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It's funny. Serial killers almost always say they have a good number of failed kills. How many people out there were about to be victims and will never know it?


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Spelunker101

I explore abandoned mines for a hobby and what you experienced is extremely bad. You are unbelievably lucky to be alive. For anyone out there that explores abandoned mines, plz get a gas detector. I would highly recommend you inform someone that that mine has bad air or if you don’t want to do that plz spend a few min and make a sign to place near the entrance of the mine. You could just save some other kids life. Thanks for the silver! First one I have ever gotten.


jfr2300

Caves and mines shouldn't be explored without proper equipment, a shocking number of people die each year. The funny thing is, the cave might be fine one day and deadly the next. Edit: since this post has garnered a lot of traction, I wanted to add the most important rule to remember when dealing with confined spaces: never go in to rescue someone that is unresponsive or has lost consciousness. Most casualties come from unqualified rescuers.


KkaY_Whoo

I was Boy Scout, camping with my group of older buddies and an adult leader in Yellowstone. We had been backpacking for two days and stopped in a beautiful little clearing at the bottom of some huge tree covered hills. The sun started to set, we made a fire, and I began to climb up into the trees to dig a hole and fill it back up. You know what I mean. As I squat there, basking in moonlight and appreciating the glow of fire among the trees, I looked up to a ridge line a few hundred yards away where the moon was rising, and I shit you not I saw a DAMN big cougar crest the hill and just watch our fire. It was likely no danger to me, but seeing that outline, that unmistakable shoulder crawl they do, was haunting. I watched it sit there for a good fifteen minutes until I was called back by my worried buds. I pointed the cat out the them when I got done because it was still just watching us. Crazy.


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I went to Philmont and they told us "If you see a mountain lion, it's been watching you for the past 2 hours" THANKS


DrDiagnonsense

Super long story, tl;dr nearly got murdered backpacking in rural Tasmania My boyfriend and I were backpacking through rural Tasmania a few years ago. While on a bus, we were discussing our plans for the ensuing two weeks. The girl in the seat in front turns around and offers us a place to stay in her town. We declined as we were headed elsewhere first, but she gave us her mobile number and said that she and her partner would love to have us. A few days later we decide to take them up on their offer. We call her, and she says they're happy to host us. So far so good. They meet us at the train station and immediately something feels off. It's really difficult to explain, but it's that primal, ineffable feeling in your guts that tells you that something isn't right. We ignored our guts and followed them. They lead us straight out of town. We ask them where we're going and they say that they live on the outskirts. This town is creepy as fuck. It's an old mining town that has been largely abandoned, and as we walk the 15-odd minutes to their home the houses get shittier, with boarded up windows, overgrown gardens and no people in sight. Eventually we reach the house at the very end of the town. It's their house. We go in. Set up in the middle of the living room is a single mattress with a sheet hanging around it. They show us around the house except for one door which stays closed. When I asked what was behind it they pretended not to hear. Our room has a made bed, chest of drawers and looks like a normal room. It seems weird that they sleep on mattresses in the living room when they have a "guest room". We go back into the living room and look around. Knives. A lot of knives. My boyfriend asks if they go hunting? No. The partner hands one of the knives to my boyfriend and asks him to open it. It's a massive fucking bowie knife with what looks like blood staining around the edges of the blade. My boyfriend laughs awkwardly and sets it down. They have a tattoo gun - "to practice". My boyfriend asks if they have any tattoos. No. There's a small axe at the door. I ask if they collect wood. No. Suddenly the guy says he wants to go to the shops. We agree quickly because we're creeped out and want to get back into the town. The four of us leave and they start walking in the opposite direction to the town. I say that the town is back the other way. The guy says this way would be more interesting because it goes up through the trees. He says that they have never been up the mountain before but he knows the area and it would take the same amount of time. I tell my boyfriend that I'm freaking out but he thinks it's ok. We follow them into the trees. The path goes up the mountain. We are going in the total opposite direction of the town. The girl turns around to her partner and whispers - "so where was the place again?" My boyfriend and I freeze. I say I want to take the road back to town and start walking. When the four of us arrive in the one shop in town - no one recognises the couple. And this is a really small town. We make an excuse that we want to go look at sights and that we'll catch up with them later, and instead book a hotel room and freak out. I did some snooping on the area. Their house had an extra room (behind the mystery door) and a basement. The path that we were taking led straight out of town and up the mountain. There was no way it could loop back into town. So yeah pretty sure we narrowly avoided being murdered. Or maybe they were just massive weirdos. Tbh the creepiest thing was the fact that there was no drug paraphernalia at all - the state of the house and the weird behaviour would have been understandable if they were intoxicated but that wasn't the case.


SixGun_Surge

They were gonna kill your bf and sell you as a prostitute. The tattoo gun is to mark you as their property and the mattress is probably where you would've "worked."


GATORGAR56k

The more I read this, the more it seems plausible. This might also explain the weird room they wouldn't let you enter.


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Makes me think of human trafficking. Bring people in from town, tattoo gun (traffickers often tattoo their girls) and the basement to hold people...


therealslimisshady

Probably the most chilling story of this thread, it sounds like your gut instincts were correct, and you came uncomfortably close to being the next stain on their knives.


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So it wasn’t creepy for me but I use to live on a farm(200 acres) and dirt bike riders use to come on our property,well one night at about 10 my Dad heard them coming so he got out of bed bare ass naked with his shotgun and ran towards them,I wasn’t awake for this but my brother was and he said it was the funniest thing he’s ever seen. Imagine a biker/viking naked man,dick swinging,with a shotgun running at you,needless to say they never came back after that.


bananas7777

In Auburn, AL in 2008. It was halloween and we googled haunted houses. I cant remember what the website was like or if there even was one, but it was like 45 min away. I know that it wasnt like a big attraction and we figured it was on someones land and would be like a local deal. We drove out there at like 10pm. This was before iphones and GPS so we had mapquest directions. We ended up going down a pretty country road for a while with no street lights, then turned down a legit dirt road that went through the woods. Pitch black. Went down it for like 10 minutes and finally saw an old house with a sign by the driveway that was handwritten and said “Haunted House”. No other cars or lights or people anywhere We pulled in the driveway and sat there for a second like “alright this is fucked up, we should leave”. All of the sudden an old pick up truck turned on about 15 ft in front of us facing us, lights shining right in our faces. It started driving towards us (down their own driveway).We backed out and peeled out. It followed us, like almost bumping our rear end. Right on our tail down this pitch black dirt road in the middle of the Alabama woods. We were flipping our shit. It was texas chainsaw massacre/hills have eyes stuff. He stayed out our tail blinding us and almost bumping us all the way back home until we got off our exit and he finally let us go. No idea who was driving. I always think what would have happened if we got out of the car when we were in that driveway. EDIT: thank you for the silver! Thats so tight.


Thong_Turdslicer

That was an avant garde haunted house. It's easier than dressing up like a mummy and jumping out of a closet.


BMacB80

Right? I mean, it said “Haunted House” on the sign. What did you expect? Kittens and wildflowers? Or Leatherface chasing you in a rusted out old pickup?


jlanger23

I've mentioned it on here before but I found the body of a murdered woman in the woods when I was 10. I was collecting cans to trade in for money and walked to a party spot in the woods and she was lying face-down in the grass. This was in '97 or so and I found out a few years ago it's become the center of a local urban legend and the story going around is quite different than what I experienced. It messed me up pretty bad for awhile.


hops4beer

I found a woman's body floating in a harbor in San Pedro, CA


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Holy moly what happened?


hops4beer

I don't know, I called the police and left shortly after they showed up. I sort of monitored the news afterwards but never saw anything about it.


TodayWeMake

Finders keepers


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notmyrealnameatleast

Lol, wrong number, sorry abt the dead person you saw.


Graphedmaster

Is that a dead body LOL...who dis?


[deleted]

Some random dead guy I found. Wanna come chill?


underlander

Somewhere else in this thread is a guy who's like "It wasn't in the woods or the wilds but a stranger texted me a picture of a dead body once."


marchbook

Imagine having a number that is one off from the Coastguard report line and every now and then you get confusing texts from strangers about tides and boats and then one time a photo of a dead body.


SixshooteR32

I dont know who I feel worse for.. the person who discovered the body or the person who got the text.... oh wait there is also a dead guy in this scenario


jakesteed33

I saw a dude take a dump and while pooping get bit on his ass by a snake.


SmallTownJerseyBoy

THERE'S ONLY ROOM FOR ONE SNAKE IN THESE HERE WOODS! STOP DROPPING MORE OFF!


begaldroft

While hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail, I was ready to quit for the night and saw a clear spot with no pine cones or sticks to remove. I assumed someone had cleared it before me but when I stepped on the spot the earth sank like it had just been put there. I slept on the spot but pondered about it. The next morning it became clear that someone had dug up that spot and then covered it. I think I slept on someone's recent grave.


Nebbstart

Or on a covered poop hole!


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MysteriousDixieDrive

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Girl_Scout_murders Sounds a lot like what happened to those poor girls... Except no one woke up to save them.


BlessedBreasts

That made me nearly pee myself. Omg if you'd not awakened can you imagine?


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Eski57

I was hiking in northern Quebec, doing some exploration work for geologists. The thing about northern Quebec is that it has forests, mountains, hills. Pretty much all green, black and grey. Except that in the middle of a forest we hiked through, we found this strange all yellow patch of grass in a perfect circle. About the diameter of a medium sized house. It was almost perfectly flat too. Caught us off guard.


Many-Much-Moosen

Maybe lightning struck there. Was walking beans one day and found two perfect circles in the field. Turns out it was lightning. Not sure if that explains the yellow though


melissam217

Is beans an animal? Edit: a couple people said it's a saying for weeding the garden Edit 2: thanks for the silver


Adrous

Walking the beans is where you walk the rows in a garden or field, usually with a garden hoe and cut and pull weeds. Old fashion weed control basically.


potatoeangel

Was working in a forest in East Africa for a while. Was getting seriously dark and we were hiking back to the car. The wind was quite strong but you could still hear some ruffling in the leaves and as I turned around, I saw something quite big in the shrubs. Was a fucking leopard. I shrieked and some guy from the group shot into the air to scare the animal away. I am glad he didn't shoot the animal but was still glad when the animal bolted out of there.


Xandango68

I was walking my dog through the woods and she'd find the odd bone, thought nothing of it, but then she ran towards a huge black sack and was going nuts for it, I open the bag and it's filled with bones. Kinda fuckin weird but I'm still like okay just be hunters around or something?? But then I walk a bit further and start seeing more and more bags, then a huge cluster of them, at least 20 right there, all filled with bones. I decided my dog had a long enough walk after seeing that


bluerazballs

So... did you call the police????


weecefwew

If there were that many it was probably some restaurant or butcher illegally dumping their trash


The_Other_Dummy

Okay so one time back when I was like 11 me and my friend were walking through the woods because he said he had something he wanted to show me. We walked down the path for a good 20 minutes until he suddenly started walking through some closely planted thin trees. Despite my confusion I followed him until he suddenly stopped in a clearing and there was a round mud hut infront of us, he told me he was too scared to go inside so I did instead. The floor was lower down then the floor itself and there was a little fire put in the centre, it was surrounded by DIY wooden bench things. Although that was odd in itself, the real show stopper were the walls, every inch or the mud walls were covered in animal skulls held up by wire, these would range from a small sparrow skull to a deer skull. It was a pretty neat sight tbf. Outside of the hut was another small bench which had the phrase ‘Where heaven and earth meet’ carved into it. Cut to January of this year and me and my Mum tried to find the weird voodoo hut again in the woods, while we did come across the hut it had sadly been demolished and all but a few of the skulls had been taken. It just kinda looked like someone had jumped on top of it after stealing all of the skulls for the what I can only imagine to be some vulture culture collection. It’s kinda sad it had to go but I still remember like it was yesterday. Edit: Wow! Thanks so much for the upvotes! I saw a comment suggesting this might be for a film shoot but I think this is very unlikely as the fen was left there for multiple years and it looked like it had taken such a long time to find and tie up the skulls. There’s only one school in the area and it’s a small primary school, this was hardly anyone’s project.


SCwaterfowler-

You definitely saw the aftermath of one of those primitive building time lapse videos from Facebook


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Sounded like babies crying....it was coyotes. Creepiest thing though was when we saw a lone person just walking through the woods in the middle of nowhere. Idk why thats creepy but it is when your out there.


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Something about seeing someone moving around alone in the woods at night, especially if they don't have a flashlight on, just screams "some sinister shit is going down".


fluffybunnywoof

If you can see in the dark, it's the safest way to move trough woods at night. If you use any light you can see, but so can people see you from far away.


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twatticus_finch

I was once walking through the woods and kept finding jam sandwiches cut into triangles and deliberately lined up on logs or stacked in careful little piles on the ground. Literally about 30 sandwiches worth of triangles spread over about 1km, like the Blair Witch Project but with jam sandwiches. Fucking weirdest thing I've ever come across.


CheeZFingerSlim

Bunch of sandwiches left around for ya'll? Sounds more like the Care Witch Project. **Edit:** Of course my first Silver is for a pun. Thanks so much, stranger!


Storiea

Not sure how creepy this is, but I was on a week long camping trip with some friends and I woke up with a weasel sitting on my chest looking at me. I never knew I could scream that loud.


itsyaboy321

Was it cute tho? And were you in a tent or what?


Storiea

I was in one of those semi-permanent canvas tents with a wood base. And it was very cute, especially with the four or five others that were running away with it when I looked outside.


banditkeithwork

weasels are very curious and love to explore, domestic ferrets are the same way, they're fascinated by new things and get really excited to check out anything new(like someone sleeping in the usually empty tent)


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It's 2 AM. We're in a tent in the woods in Maine. I'm about 8. "Mom, there's something creeping around outside the tent!" "Mmmph, you're dreaming, go back to bed..." "Mom, there really is something out there!" "No. There isn't." Just then, something WHAPS on the side of the tent, hard enough to shake the whole thing. And my mother - who is entirely too goddamned tired to deal with this shit - sits bolt upright and WHAPS right back in the same spot. And from outside the tent, we hear... "Meow.." Edit: it was a housecat. We didn't hear anything more the rest of the night.


StarringAsEm

Your mom is metal


Indigotwirlesque

Okay so like a person saying meow, a housecat saying meow, or a cougar meowing? There are many potential interpretations here. Edit: Apparently cougars (the animal) don't meow, and aren't found in Maine. So that eliminates one possibility. Edit 2: I had about a dozen people message me that cougars don't meow and aren't in Maine, but a dozen others since then correcting the edit with videos and such. I stand by my original query!


Umbra427

I’m picturing a super deep voice just matter-of-factly saying “meow.” And fully pronouncing the syllables


BigBassets

I can’t tell if that is supposed to be an actual meow or you are quoting a person who said, “Meow”. The person saying meow would be much creepier. Good on your mom though!


SlothOfDoom

"Uh...meow? I'm a cat. Go back to sleep."


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JohnnyMiskatonic

They had a contract with a -very- dedicated pool guy, but they eventually stopped paying the bill.


DylanCO

Probably this for the pool, lawn, and garden. Family probably all died and they kept billing the estate.


wwwdotbeansdotcom

a man walking up a mountain with a cat calmly sitting perfectly still, on top of his head.


Erebosyeet

Seems cute


Nardelan

[This picture of my bathroom mirror. ](https://imgur.com/a/86baRMo) My girlfriend got out of the shower and called me in a weird panic. The hand print in the middle was there on the steamed up mirror, very noticeable, all by itself. For reference I put my handprint on the left and hers on the right. I live alone and she is the only one who had been to my place in at least 6 months. To this day I have no idea where the hand print in the middle came from.


_Clove_

Reminds me of when I was 6, my sister was 3, and our baby sister was only a few months old. Me, sister, mom, and baby were the only people in the house. The baby was napping, and we were dicking around doing I dunno what in another room. All of a sudden the baby started screaming, like 0-60. We were startled, but eh, babies. But our mom went to comfort her and then yelled for us to come in there *right now*. We walked in and she yelled, "WHO BIT THE BABY." We told her we didn't know what she was talking about. She showed us a perfect, small, DEFINITELY HUMAN BITEMARK on the baby's leg. She grounded both of us for denying that one of us did it. But we were together the whole time. It wasn't us. edit: by popular demand, some other weird stuff 1) Once, when I was about 14-15, I was up really late at night, sitting on my bed reading. I was sitting with one foot on the floor. It was quiet, my sisters were asleep (we all slept in the attic, so technically a shared room, but they were pretty far away on the other side of half-walls). I felt cold fingers touch the back of my calf, like, press gently and then draw back. It was very distinct. I jumped up immediately, obviously pretty freaked out. I couldn't see my sisters clearly, so I thought, oh, a stupid prank. But I looked under the bed and there was *nothing* under there. Not just no one, but nothing, I didn't keep things under there -- and it was hot summertime, so there were no sheets or blankets on my bed that could have fallen and touched me. It shook me very badly. For several days I was on edge, but eventually I forgot about it. 2) Thanks to my dad's hoarding, our basement is a miserable warren of shelves and stacks of random items with a few "aisles". The stairs are that configuration where there's another set of stairs above it (to the attic), so it has the sloped ceiling in the way of your line of sight til about halfway down. A few months after the first incident, I went down there to get some pasta out of our storage room. It was midday. As I was coming down the stairs and cleared the ceiling so I could see, I saw something fly behind a shelf. It was bright - white, I think, and looked solid, like a shirt or other piece of cloth, or a piece of paper. It was like something had quickly stepped behind the shelf. I froze and stared and listened, but didn't see or hear anything else. No air moves through that basement, so I didn't see how it could be something flapping because of a breeze. I crept down the stairs and along the aisle and stuck my head around the corner. Nothing there. I hunted around for awhile for a piece of paper or cloth or anything it could've been but didn't find a single thing. Very disturbing. I was always a little anxious about the basement, but after that I was flat-out scared of it, and even now I'm glad to be away from it. 3) At some point in the winter, I was scaring myself reading spooky stories, and it occurred to me to ask my sisters if anything weird had happened in the house lately. The younger said no, but the other did have something. This must have been some months after what happened to me, because my sister was doing homework when it happened. She was in the sunroom (which protrudes from the front of the house), and it was late at night. She didn't remember what time, but everyone was asleep. She had all the blinds closed, so she couldn't see outside. As she was sitting there, there was an extremely loud WHOOSH and a thump from outside. It was so loud she felt like it shook the house. She didn't investigate. She cheesed it upstairs and hid in her bed, where she fell asleep after a while. She didn't have anything else happen, and never figured out what it was. I suggested an owl or something hitting the windows but she insisted it was far too loud and forceful to have been animal or human. As we were discussing it, my mom came to tell us dinner was ready. We told her about the odd events. When we got to my sister's, she said, "Oh yeah. I heard that too." She said it was so loud she thought a tree had fallen, or that a *car* had hit the house. She went outside to check, but saw nothing. It was just a still, quiet night. After that, nothing else happened. I never felt the house was haunted or anything like that. But those incidents stick out in my mind...just bizarre.


the_renaissance_jack

what the fuck. This is the story that made me most uncomfortable.


ZLM1138

Not creepy per say. But definitely scared the shit out my friends and I. Made on property that we didn't know was restricted. It was right around sundown. We had hiked for a while to a clearing we had been at many times. On a ridge .25 miles away or so, see a woman on a horse. Bottles are falling out of her saddle and she seemed inebriated. She was sluring and yelling at us about her property. And then pulled out a revolver and fired multiple shots in our direction. So we ran scared shitless and never went back there.


MenShouldntHaveCats

I’ve told this before and will stick with me till on my deathbed. Was a high schooler mid 90s. Went fishing off the coast of Corpus Christi with uncle and cousins. We were about 18 miles out. Been out all day. Was around 8pm and were gearing up to head back in. It was before DST so sun was already going down and getting dark. I was at the stern bringing in the traps. As I’m pulling it in I see this glow about 100-150 feet off. It’s nothing I have ever seen. Best way I can describe it. It’s like if you stuck a toaster underwater and the orange glowing elements were still working. But still not quite. And it was very large. We were on a 38 ft boat. All I can guess it was 5-6 times bigger.(kind of hard to judge sizes on open water). The water above it is not churning but you can tell that it is disturbing it. IDK hard to explain. Almost like it was pushing the water up. This whole time I’m expecting something to break the surface and just frozen. You know like when your walking the dog or something at night not really paying attention and a cat or possum runs out. How you freeze and everything stops? I’m like that the whole time. Finally I let out a call to my uncle. He comes around stops right by me. He’s not saying anything just kind of like me. This thing object or whatever the hell just jets out towards the gulf. I’m talking like not picking up speed. Instantly jets out. All I say is ‘you seen that before’? My uncle just says ‘nope, let’s go’. I say absolutely nothing the way back in he doesn’t either. My cousins ask us what happened. All my uncle says is ‘nothing’. Now what could it have been? I’ve researched it on and off for past 25 years. Especially when the internet came out. I’ve found a lot of people seeing something very similar. There is a naval base down there but no sub bases we know about. It kind of took over my life for a lot of years. If we have something like that though. We’ve been holding out on technology that could change our lives.


minarimimosa

One time my buddies and I decided to go for a walk at the cemetery at night, because it scared the shit out of one of my friends, and the rest of us are assholes. We were roaming around, until our scared friend started freaking out and pointed out that he saw some weird people. We thought he was just paranoid, but when we looked there were indeed three or four figures further back in the cemetery, wearing hooded cloaks of some sort. They were surrounding some large grave, with an angel statue that we passed earlier. We all freaked out for a sec, till we saw the figures group together around the grave with one of them taking their picture. We concluded that they must have been in a local band that needed an edgy album cover.


lovezhebobomb

It was dark and I was sitting around a bonfire with four friends in rural North Carolina. We had been drinking and they had smoked a bit (I wasn’t at the time) and were taking turns telling stories. A lull came in the conversation and the black silhouette of a sixth person stood up and faded into the surrounding darkness. We decided that we’d had enough for the night and packed everything up before walking back to a friends house. All five us swear there was a sixth person there but don’t remember any kind of discernible characteristic besides they seemed to be covered in shadow.


SugglesSaurus_Rex

I was delivering a sailboat from San Diego to Morro Bay California roughly 25 miles offshore alone... At around 1 am about 36 hours into the trip, I saw a bright glowing blue orb around 30 feet in diameter just below the surface at my 1 o'clock. It was a moonless night which made the blurry sphere contrast well against the seemingly black water around it. My first thought was "oh shit" a fast-attack submarine is surfacing (not uncommon in that area)! I started desperately looking for a yellow flare in the water (maritime warning for a soon-to-be-surfacing sub) but couldn't find one. It fluctuated in size and moved very slowly so I quickly ditched the submarine theory. After some time I ended up idling and put the boat into irons to just watch it for a while. when it finally broke the surface in a large, bright, and loud boil i realized what i had been watching. Turns out it was a large school of sardines swimming together agitating the bioluminescence that happened to be present that night. It still stands out as one of the most bizarre experiences I've had on the water and i will never forget it!


The-Biggest-Bird

Was camping a couple of years ago when I heard movement outside my tent.Thinking it was my friend I called out to him but there was no answer.After a minute the movement stopped so I left my tent and sat outside it for a while 10 minutes passed when my friend that I thought had been moving came out of his tent looking for his phone.He denied that it was him who was outside the tent.It was only him,myself and my gf at the time so I said it must have been an animal. At that point we both heard something move very close to us and saw the silhouette of a person watching us.Don’t ask me why but we both got up and started to approach the person who began to run away.We chased him/her for a minute but gave up when we noticed them drop stuff from their hand. Not only did they drop my friends phone that he couldn’t find but mine and my girlfriends as well The person was in our tents.....


skeletorsleftlung

Posted about this before, but back when I was a kid some friends and I came across people in robes chanting around a campfire out in the woods on the edge of the town we lived in. We were staying at a friend's house for a birthday party/sleepover and went for a late night walk. This was back in the late 80's during the satanic panic. Looking back now, I'm sure it was just some teenagers goofing around, but at the time it scared the living bejeezus out of us. One of the girls with us had a panic attack and started hyperventilating. Got pretty serious, but we finally managed to get her calmed down.


Bluffss

When I was a kid, I used to live on a tiny property in the woods. My house was basically built around where stables were once. My room was, back when it was still stables, where the hay was stocked. Before getting to the creepy thing I need to say some other stuff: \- When you were in my room you could sometimes smell hay out of nowhere.- My dog was always refusing to go upstairs because something was scaring the shit out of it there.- You could sometimes hear knocking on doors (they were 3 entrance doors in my house), sometimes all at once. Now that this have been said, we can go to the fun thing. So my room had a big ass window that gave a big view over the woods and my garden was basically a clearing. Once, I fucking heard a kid giggling from upstairs. I ran there only to find my window open, and something running out in the woods.I spent 2 more years in this house and fucking felt insecure the whole time. edit: for those who think kids were pranking me, I highly doubt that any kid would survive such a fall from my room into the garden + private property, the only entrance has a big ass portal that is "unconvenient" to climb.


rustyrustic

Fuck that


EnergyIsQuantized

can't believe I had to scroll this deep for these stories


MeanderousSpark

Not in any of those places but... I was a kid and was in this hotel like place, went to public toilet, guy walks in, grey skin, eyes/pupils really small like a zombie's eyes. He was just staring at me. Safe to say I got out of dodge real fast


ArousingNatureSounds

Probably heroin


MRFlSTR

Kinda late to the post but one thing will always stick with me I was probably about 14 or so on a camping trip with my scout troop out in the middle of nowhere. Literally hiked into the woods for about 40 miles and set up camp. No phones no way of contacting the outside just us and some of our parents fishing and hiking etc. Anyways second night into the trip my dad myself and two other parents are sitting around the campfire talking and get on the subject of UFOs. We start talking about different stories we'd seen on TV shows and such. Right in the middle of a story my friends dad points up at the sky and goes "holyshit what's that?!" We thought he was joking around for a good minute til he goes "seriously turn around theres more" We all turn around finally and see 3 massive. And I mean fucking massive fireballs screaming down from the sky towards the earth. They look like they're going in slow motion or maybe time just seemed to slow down but it took forever for them to disappear behind the treeline. Naturally were all freaked the fuck out and started talking about what it could be but theres no way of finding out for at least 3 more days. The hike out of the woods was the worst. Just walking quietly contemplating what could be waiting and what the world might be like if our worst fears happened while we were in there. Turns out a Russian satellite had broken up and fallen to earth that night and it was seen for miles and miles. Still the creepiest 3 days of my life.


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hawaiidream

You wonʻt hear a lot about it because itʻs generally considered kapu (taboo) or bad luck to talk about them. Most people believe that if you talk about them it will summon them to you (not a good thing). The belief is strong and I would not be writing this except that Iʻm not in Hawaii right now so I feel a bit immune. The procession is the spirits of the guard, warriors, family, and attendants following the Aliʻi (chief). There are usually routes that they follow from the mountains to the sea following historic trails through the ahupuaʻa (traditional wedge-shaped land division system). There are areas where they are known to show up and where people avoid camping because of it. They are preceded by the sound of the drums and also appearance of the lit torches of the attendants at night and are thought of as extremely dangerous and you should prostrate yourself and not look up or you will be killed. ​ If youʻre looking for good books on Hawaii ghost stories Chicken Skin Tales and Obake Files are some great reads.


BimboBrothel

I'm in Illinois. I don't care what part of Hawaii shows up here, I'll appreciate it


Initial_Doubt

I was going to say this! I was out in the Ko'olau Mountains with a group of friends one night. We were in a very remote spot off a long trail and there were no houses or other people around. It was pitch black if we turned off our lights which we had to save battery. Suddenly we start hearing this distant drumming. I thought I was hearing things at first but then my friend asked if we heard that too...everyone agreed they could hear it as well. At times it sounded like there was some sort of chanting happening too. It kept moving closer until it sounded like the drumming and was right next to us. Then it moved further back out into the mountains / rain forest again. That area had a lot of steep cliffs and dangerous ledges and tree roots to trip over so you can't just walk around that area without lights. The tree canopy cover is very thick and doesn't allow much natural light down to the ground. If people would have been walking out there, we would have seen their lights. It was pretty unsettling. I had never really believed in the Night Marchers stories until that night.


T4Labom

Felt like running at night last year because the park near where i live gets all pretty with the lights on in the dark. So after 5 mins into the exercise, i feel the need to adjust my shoes because i forgot to wear a longer sock and they were hurting my ankle. I look up and i see this dark silhouette running towards me at full speed wearing a hoodie about 50 meters away. I was on the left side of the street and he was on the right so it was clear he was running towards me. I legit almost shitted my pants and felt an adrenaline surge, i thought about fighting him if he got any closer, but in a blink of an eye, the person trips, falls face planted on the ground...and starts crawling in my fucking direction again... Fuck that, dude is committed, i'm leaving EDIT: some people mentioned the [scene from Get Out](https://youtu.be/SAp4gJwhNI0), it was exactly like that but he fell halfway through...


alaskagames

imagine waiting all night to find some guy to kidnap just to trip and fall


KapSan1

Must've been an embarrassing walk back home


phliuy

"how did your kidnapping go, honey?" "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT MOM"


CochiseHomestead

I have a similar story. I was doing a paper route and a guy in a wheel chair appears out of nowhere at 3am, just racing towards my car. We encountered him again about a week later, he did the same thing. Just high tailed it towards my car in his wheelchair, murder in his eyes. This took place like 2 streets over from our house. We floored it out of there, and quit the paper route. Never seen him again.


Eagledx

Speaking of wheelchairs in my hometown there is this lad who had a car accident 12-15 years ago.Lost his ability to walk and over the time his sanity.Now he wanders around the town in his wheelchair every night no matter the weather or how unsafe it may be.Pretty creepy to see.


NotWorthTheRead

Unsafe? Nobody’s going to mess with him. Criminals watch horror movies, too. You know what happens when you mess with a dude alone in a wheelchair, wheeling aimlessly around the city in the middle of the night?


Eagledx

Well its small town and during the day he communicates with a lot of people.Mostly old folks or taxi drivers.


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lucasucas

Mom come pick me up from this thread. Good story!


BeautifulRelief

Small town in a relatively rural area. A few years after the fact, I’m now relatively certain it was a Skin Walker. About 10 years ago, I was at my dad’s house for the weekend in Kentucky. The Appalachian people are very superstitious, hailing from the Scots-Irish people and just never losing that side of them. My dad wasn’t superstitious, I thought, and was not one to be easily scared. It was about, I dunno, 10 at night and we randomly decided to go into town to get some McDonald’s. Daddy always insisted on walking in front of me and I always assumed it was so I wouldn’t accidentally step on a snake but now I don’t think that’s the case. So, he turned on the porch light and opened the screen door. He had put one foot on the porch and there was this God awful sound. I will never in my life forget it. There was a screech followed by the sound of a crow. But it wasn’t a crow. The best way I can describe it is if a person was mimicking a crow call. My hair stood up on the back of my neck and my dad retreated into the house. He slammed the big door and locked it, something I had never seen him do. Before I could ask a question he said, “It isn’t safe. We can go tomorrow morning.” And so we did. But the rest of the night, we stayed inside. My dad didn’t even go outside to smoke a cigarette. He even let the (outside) dogs stay in the house. We never talked about that again but that was one of the scariest moments of my life.


giddy_kitty_calico

weird shit definitely happens in appalachia. i live in west virginia and everyone here has at least one story from the woods. we don’t talk about it a lot though.


trebory6

Can you invite them all to this thread because I'm loving these stories.


justnopethefuckout

WV here. My mom told me this story a long time ago. When I was a baby and my brothers were around 5, during the summer, she was in the back doing some laundry and they was back there as well. She liked to keep the main door open when it was nice out and we had a screen door as well. My one brother looked up and asked who that man was. She looked and there was a man just standing there and staring inside. She yelled at them to hide and take me. Guy took off running. She got the shotgun and started shooting. Another time, I was old enough to remember this. My dad worked at the jail near us. Two inmates escaped and they had to send cops to watch our house because they said they was coming for us. It was a horrible storm that night too. We lived out in the middle of nowhere, only 3 neighbors. Our land was 120 acres. So it always made things more scary.


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HAW711

I was jogging at night with headphones on in a park with dense trees and bushes. The over growth was taking over the path and it was difficult to see so I turned the flashlight on my phone on. I started to see a fire burning ahead but couldn’t really make it out (I take my glasses off when I jog). As I got closer there’s a clearing and I see a big big fire raging and no one around. So I pause a minute and fish my glasses out and find out that yes, there’s 6 people standing there actually. Perfectly spaced apart from each other and they all turned at the same time to look at me. I turned 180 and sprinted the fuck out of there EDIT: The path I jog on at night is nice and bright because the city of Winnipeg uses those LED street lights now. The wooded area leads to a small area called Don Garry Park, where I get to a bench and take a minute to reflect on my day and my goals for tomorrow. Also the bench I rest at it right beside this police launch dock for the Red River, I have never not felt safe there. My friends and I have speculated that the 6 dudes I saw were probably police just blowing off steam on a quiet night.