Terrifying Tales from the Wilderness: Camping Experiences That Defy Explanation
I jumped up and ran to my car and turned on the lights. The car lights lit up our campsite but there was no sign of anything out of the ordinary. I told my GF to wake the kids because we were leaving. She was the braver one and convinced me to stay. We eventually calmed down and turned in for the night. I laid down by the tent opening with a large butcher knife and did not sleep until the sun came up. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before or since but I swear I saw something that was not a man or an animal. I haven’t been back camping since.
Went camping with my family when I was little. I remember one night there were bears (probably 2) that came to our camp site in the middle of the night. They came to our tent and I remember seeing their noses pressed up against the tent. My dad stayed up all night with his rifle in his hand. Luckily nothing happened and they just left.
Avid backpacker, trekker and mountaineer… April 2015 I was on a 100 mi adventure in Grand Escalate in Southern Utah. I was camped out about 5mi from Coyote Gulch and in the middle of the night there was this ear piercing screech unlike anything I’ve ever heard before. I’ve heard most game noises, but this sounded almost artificial and it felt like it was over head. I was nervous because of the W*F moment but I popped out of my tent and just saw this colorful swirl in the sky like a Van Gogh paint stroke and just stood there jaw dropped and went right back into my tent, took an a*s load of melatonin and knocked the f*** out. I didn’t really question it for a long time. I honestly try to forget it because it just feels weird even thinking about it.
Girlfriend and I were tent camping and there were maybe only 5 other campers in the campground, all spread apart.
Well in the middle of the night we both awaken because we hear footsteps maybe 20 feet from our tent. We both just lay there d**d quiet listening to the footsteps. They were very slow, and not moving around much. No other breathing sounds and it didn’t sound particularly heavy. We both thought it was a person.
Weirdest part is that after about 30 seconds of that the footsteps just stopped. Like, no trailing off into the distance, nothing. Like they just stopped and that was that. Still don’t know how or what that was about.
I needed to s**t so I went out into the woods at night away from the camp site and I had this strange feeling something was stalking me. I hurried back and come to find out there was a f*****g mountain lion not even 10 feet from me. I found out because the people camping next to us had spotted it a couple hours before sundown.
Was camping at some old horse corrals. Behind us was a creepy old outhouse in the middle of really thick timber. Completely dark, no sunlight touched it at all, and we heard weird noises coming from it during night. A few days after we left, a wildfire (The Snake River Complex wildfire in Idaho this summer) tore through there and burned the entire forest to the ground. When the fire was contained we traveled back to the camp grounds and saw everything burned, all except for that patch of timber with the creepy outhouse.
Camping in Greece, we were the only people on the site run by a delightful if slightly crazy lady with no teeth. After we set up our tents we went exploring a bit we found a caravan tent that still had food on the plates outside it and we even spied a wheelchair at the back of it, add to that the rolls of fly covered fly paper and the creepy vibe was pretty d**n intense. We continue on and fi d another tent, well what was left of it. It looked like a bear had torn it to pieces it was in shreds and there was stuff all over. Creepy meter was off the charts at this point so ofc we took some pics and decided to name the place camp d***h (backpacking round Greece involved alot of ouzo).
After we’d got some more supplies (beer, ouzo and beans) from the local shop we were cooking dinner and some dude in sodding biker leathers turns up and just slowly drags the shredded tent away like it’s no big deal….
We stayed for 2 nights and even got [angry] with the owner lady and her bazillion stray dogs on one night, we had a great time.
Back when I was in high school, a buddy and I dated a couple girls from a nearby town. One of the girl’s family had a cabin out in the country near a creek that we would hang out at on Friday and Saturday nights. On one of those nights we were hanging out being innocent smart decision making teenagers and started hearing weird noises out in the forest. Like crashing through bushes and stuff. We figured it was deer and went back to what we were doing. Then we heard what sounded like something being scraped along the side of the cabin at about the same time a fog started setting in. We were freaked the eff out. We waited about 30 minutes or so after the sounds stopped and hauled a*s out of there. As we got down the road we saw a guy with a thousand yard stare just slowly walking down the road all Michael Myers like. Nothing ever happened but definitely the creepiest thing I’ve ever experienced.
My daughter and I do a girl’s camping trip in Moab, Utah every year for her birthday. This year when, it was cold and rainy and even snowed one night – which meant that there were not a lot of other campers. We camped by ourselves off a remote dirt rode in the shadow of a giant bluff. We didn’t get much hiking in the first night because it was so cold and wet. Once it warmed up the next morning, we set off to explore our surroundings. In the dirt road that went past our camp – there were GIANT foot steps. It looked as though some giant man ran past our camp barefoot in the night – or a wendigo. We were convinced it was the latter. Why on earth would someone go running through the red clay in the cold of the night past a remote campsite?
Went on a camping trip with school. Slept in massive tents that held like 7 people per tent. Woke up in the middle of the night, not sure what time but it was late. I knew this because the campfire wasn’t lit, and after we all went into our tents the teachers would stay out. So I wake up confused as s**t because at the time I was a dumb kid. Suddenly I hear the most demonic screech I’ve ever heard. I laid back down as still as possible. Turns out other kids also heard it and the next morning we ask the teachers what the noise was. They said it was a f*****g deer.
When i was in middle school, my whole class went on a 5 day camping trip. On the first night we set up our tents and went to bed. At about 2 or 3 am i and the others in my tent woke up because some sort of large animal was poking at our tent. We also heard the sounds of wolves and heard the screaming of some kind of animal. Everyone was scared for the rest of the camping trip and we all got little to no sleep.
Drifter on the Trail.
Right after graduating high-school, me an three friends decided to hike the Appalachian Trail from central-west Pennsylvania to New Jersey.
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