Terrifying Tales from the Wilderness: Camping Experiences That Defy Explanation
Like 30 sec later, he starts screaming “HELLO?” at the top of his lungs. And that goes on for a while. Just standing in the middle of the campsite screaming. At this point we’re all awake and watching him like w*f. Then he turns toward the woods, screams “HELLO,” and points his f*****g pistol into the nothingness (luckily away from us.)
Now, up to this point I didn’t even know he brought his g*n. So, I went ahead and got mine out too bcuz I was thinking like “s**t, he is going to sleep shoot us.” But he doesn’t. Instead he put his g*n down, went into his tent, and went immediately back to sleep.
Next morning I asked him what the f*** he was doing. Turned out he waz not asleep and he thought he had heard coyotes, so his first thought was to wander off by himself into the night instead of waking any of us up. I never camped with him again.
A few years later, he made the news for scaring the s**t out of an entire campsite one night because he was running through the woods and firing his g*n erratically because he, “saw Bigfoot and was trying to track him down.” Really weird guy.
When I was 7 in Florida we went camping near a spring we swam at quite often. I woke up one morning and went down to the spring to wash up and there was a HUGE gater on the bank that hissed at me. It had to be 15-20 feet long, easily 5x my height. I stopped, and noped right out.
My dad and grandpa like to fish and hunt a lot. One night they decided to spend the night on the river in the Appalachian mountains. It was really late and they said they heard these awful screams coming from the woods on the opposite side of the river. He said it was inhuman and definitely not a mountain lion or anything like that. ( he would know) My dad is a pretty big guy and doesn’t scare very easily. But in that moment he was frozen with fear and just held his breath until the screams finally stopped. He felt like whatever it was knew that they were there,and wasn’t happy about it. It gives him goosebumps just thinking about it. Needless to say, they won’t fish there at night anymore.
This happened on a trip a few years ago one night mid-week, when the park is usually quieter. I woke up having to use the bathroom around 2am, so I left the trailer to go to the comfort stations. The site was one of those corner sites, so there’s a really short trail in the back of the site through the woods before you get to the lights where the washroom is. You can technically go around the front, but I figured I would just cut through there like I usually do to save time because I was tired. As I’m passing the middle of the trail, I hear a light noise that sounds like it’s right beside my ear. It sounded like giggling? So I picked up the pace a little bit and started looking for a raccoon or porcupine or something (they make weird noises) but I couldn’t see anything or hear any twigs cracking which I thought was weird. No sign of a person out there either. As soon as the last thought crossed my mind I swear to this day that I heard something deeper in the woods in a female voice say “Hello?”. To say I jumped was an understatement. I sprinted full throttle to the lights, tripped on a log and ripped my pant leg and shin. I made it to the bathrooms alive feeling painful and kind of stupid.
Once I was at the comfort station I did my business, and talked myself out of it being anything unnatural like the good biologist that I am. I figured I must have just misheard a raccoon or something.. I didn’t really believe in the paranormal, so worse case it was an actual person. I didn’t feel like getting jumped by some weirdo while I’m out at night by myself, so I made the decision to take the longer way back in the open road and skip the shortcut. As I passed by the entrance way for the woods (giving it a WIDE berth if we’re being honest), again, I can only tell you what I heard, but I swear as clear as day I heard a whisper that said “come back”.
I think that’s the fastest I’ve ever run in my life. I’m a little embarrassed to say I don’t do camp bathrooms at night by myself anymore, but I can’t explain what happened. Luckily my family got a new trailer the following season with an indoor bathroom so it hasn’t been an issue since.
Not necessarily “creepy”, but scary [very]. Was camping, staring at the stars, when a meteorite flew overhead and towards mountain we were camping near, when it exploded. It was probably a couple of miles away when it popped, but sounded like dynamite going off & lit the sky up to almost daytime levels.
My friend and I were in the car ready to leave for a music festival when we got notice it was cancelled. We were all ready to go, so we decided to just drive and find somewhere to camp for the weekend instead.
We ended up in a sort of summer resort area upstate. It was the end of season, so the place was completely empty. But it was pretty, nice lake and scenery, so we figured we’d stay. There were no pesky families with kids to interfere with the partying we intended to do.
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