Terrifying Tales from the Wilderness: Camping Experiences That Defy Explanation
The semi-creepy, but friendly attendant assigned us a site, so we drove down to it. We quickly noticed they’d put us in the site that was furthest away from everything. Literally on the edge of the woods, surrounded by empty sites, completely isolated. We thought it was weird, but still, it was what we wanted, to just drink and smoke in the woods in peace.
So we set up camp, then f****d around until it got dark. As soon as we settled down in the tent and put out the lantern, we heard an unmistakable sound – off to the left of us, where there was nothing but empty campsites, maybe 100 yards away – someone was slowly and deliberately sharpening an axe or a knife against stone. Long, slow, metallic strokes. Over and over and over.
My friend was terrified, but I was laughing, thinking this attendant guy was obviously f*****g with us city slickers. She insisted we would have heard him coming, and decided to call the check-in booth. He was there. It was almost half a mile away, there’s no way he could’ve gotten there in time, and we could still hear the sharpening sound. And the attendant guy confirmed there was no one in the place except us.
We ended the night locked in the car, holding a can of bear mace. My friend fell asleep, but I watched and listened all night. Shortly before sunrise, the noise stopped. The sun came up, and there was nobody around anywhere. Still can’t explain it.
I had a moose run through my campsite in the middle of the night. I could feel the vibrations from the ground and it sounded like a car crashing through the woods. Wee!
My girlfriend at the time and I went camping 5 hours away from home for her birthday/our anniversary. We made the trip the day after a big storm passed through. We left town early and got there in the early afternoon.
The guy at the entrance to the camp grounds mentioned there was NO ONE else staying there that weekend. We were like, “Oh, this is gonna be sick!!”
First, we drove down these long pathways to our designated area. As you got closer to it, the road narrowed. So basically, you had to back out to get out. We unloaded the car, got the tent set up, and decided to go walk around the woods. It was d**d silent. But it was still bright out, so we just took in all the nature we could and walked a few miles away. We reached this point in the woods where there were some…. weird looking white cabins. They were very uniform, all built the exact same way. Like, I guess they were a part of the camping grounds but they seemed WAY out of the way, and there was no sign of life. It felt eerie to be at, like we shouldn’t be there.
So we turned around and walked back. We took a breather in the tent, then tried to start a fire in the fire pit. Unfortuntely, neither of us had ever been camping before, and had no idea how to start a fire. We had bought some of those self-lighting logs from Walmart and some lighter fluid. But… everything else around us was soaked to the bone from the rain that had passed through the day before. We knew we needed kindling of some sort, but any dry sticks or leaves was far and few between.
Eventually, we got a small fire going and ate hot dogs and marshmallows and spent some time look at the stars. Then we noticed just how DARK it was out there. My girlfriend was easily spooked and was like, “can we get into the tent now?”
So we put the fire out and crawled into the tent. We were talking to each other but I could tell she was tense. Suddenly, she put her hand over my mouth and was like, “Shhh! Do you hear that?”
Before I could respond, we heard footsteps. Like… heavy footsteps. It sounded like a group of people walking. I whispered to her, “It’s probably just animals or something.”
Then we heard mumbling. Like, low mumbling. We couldn’t make out words, but it didnt sound like a sound an animal could make. It sounded like words but hushed and non-elaborted.
We sat in silence staring at each other in the dark for what felt like FOREVER. The mumbling got louder, as did the footsteps, until it sounded like it was right outside of our tent. We both froze. I don’t think either of us were breathing.
And then…. silence. We waited and waited and waited. I’m still not sure how much time passed. Eventually, my girlfriend said, “We have to get to your car.”
The adrenaline was pumping, so I peeked out of the tent into the darkness and told her to stay behind me, then we RAN to the car. I locked the doors and she was like, “WHAT THE f*** WAS THAT?? WE CAN’T STAY HERE. NO ONE IS OUT HERE BUT US. WHAT WAS THAT??”
I kept looking around for any signs of life, but we were seemingly alone. I looked at her and was like “okay…. I’m gonna grab our stuff, you stay in the car.” We only had our ice chest and our tent out. I hopped out and ran, grabbed our ice chest, tossed it into the backseat. As I turned around to go get the tent, I started hearing footsteps closing in again.
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