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Then they would drive along the fence, and drop a guy off every 1000 meters or so. [–]MagicMistoffelees 149 points150 points151 points 3 years ago* (16 children). So you are someone's creepiest experience. My dad and his buddies used to go on long and very cool kayaking and hiking trips every summer. Before I can snap around and haul ass, He asked, in German, where I was going.. The sweatshirt was smeared with fresh blood. They got maybe 100 yards away when I heard a blaring siren and saw emergency lights flashing through the woods. I was:drunk, stoned, tired and my glasses were back in the tent when I was pissing In the river. (The closest store is an hour walk). A while later, one of us realizes he doesn't know where his phone is. I asked him not to do that because I thought they might never let me go camp again. We took his dog with us, it was early spring, the weather was great, everything was awesome. [–]katmarie676 72 points73 points74 points 3 years ago (24 children). Several minutes later, the dog let out this low, long growl that lasted for a couple of minutes, with a few barks thrown in for good measure. We tried to make another lake quite some distance away but it was getting dark and we already had kayaked over 20 miles with all our gear. It ran right past me, and I hightailed it to my truck. I thought about it later and figured these dudes were cooking some drugs in that tent and did not expect anyone to show up there. It freaks us out because were the light is coming from a place that is impossible to get to unless you go past our campsite. Luckily for everyone involved, they ran into a party of geologists that were on a prospecting trip. Holy crap, these are terrifying!! We hiked from the house for about four hours through very dense bush, where we found a clearing and decided to set up our camp. It was following you, they do that quite a lot actually. My friend's bf is driving. [–]lostatwork314 302 points303 points304 points 3 years ago (14 children). And he says: “just so you know, there’s a tornado warning, you should probably find shelter!”. Yeah, he had a few screws loose for sure. My other friend brandished his gun and yelled to the guy "Hey man, don't we don't want any trouble. In fact, here are 12 real-life stories from real-life people that will shake you to your core. This is a list article of the top 10 most creepy multiple person disappearances. EDIT: [–]psubrew 25 points26 points27 points 3 years ago (0 children). Also of note was that he is a Green Beret and had recently (3 or 4 months prior to this trip) completed the Army Special Forces Qualification Course (Robin Sage and all that), and by then was an active duty SF Engineer Sergeant. Definitely not someone you'd want to fuck around with. Your thoughts/responses to the question can go in the comments section. I just need somewhere to sleep. Even though they were relatively polite (my brother called them "good ole boys") I got a seriously creepy vibe from them-dirty clothes, greasy hair, scraggly facial hair, etc. [–]jellyfishdenovo 65 points66 points67 points 3 years ago (1 child). They mixed it with water for consumption (usually). Share your story here! Then we started hearing whispering outside, as well as some low mumbling. Sooner or later that shit is going to catch up with you. I knew this, and my brother knew this. Unfilter. [–]mr_biggus_dickus 60 points61 points62 points 3 years ago (1 child), [–]sarahkrollstone 191 points192 points193 points 3 years ago (26 children). "Come and Find Me" Photo Credit: Andrew Malone / Flickr (CC) 19. [–]Hamean 8040Answer Link803 points804 points805 points 3 years ago* (51 children). I definitely won't be going into the wilderness alone any time soon! It’s always veird when you’re sitting by the fire doing something and then your dog gets up and starts barking into the darkness... [–]AnotherGangsta33 310 points311 points312 points 3 years ago (20 children), Whip the machete out and yell "fuck you i'm from Florida" into the darkness, works every time, [–]captwafflepants 55 points56 points57 points 3 years ago (1 child). [–][deleted] 20 points21 points22 points 3 years ago (2 children). I lean down to pick up some rocks, look back up, and the eyes are gone. Two, the baaing sounds too perfect. Loch Ness is so big that we stopped about half way to camp. They looked like total fucking bad asses) who were using these small towns off base to do some training.. AND their maybe 10% bigger than grizzly's. While we felt bad for him (he was seemingly homeless), we were not about to just chill with some random dude outside our tent in the dark (our guy friends weren't staying). A live one. And to be honest, after these staying up way to late reading these creepy camping stories from Reddit, I'm not sure I ever want to. While setting up he asked me "did you hear that? Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. Did that deter you from camping for a while? ", "Yea, but it's long gone now...", "Oh alright, say do you know where the (name of whatever road he was looking for) is?" One of us had to take a piss so he went to the nearest tree and started unzipping. While I was packing the tent, I looked up, and saw a man with a machete approaching. I'd have put a trail cam facing it, but you couldn't have paid me to sleep in it. Back in highschool, my friend lived in a place at the base of a mountain. The cobra was probably thinking the same. Do you have any pictures of the tree house ? Too many idiots with weapons out there. He keeps rolling and acting bizarre so she finally agrees to leave. They were deep in the Sequoia national forest so I assumed they were just some Yokels, looked them up on google earth and found out they were just some friendly illegal pot growers. My family is originally from the USSR. Walked a little faster after that. The dog was looking at a bush that was not that far away from us. I don't think that would have stopped Freddy Kruger... [–]noogai131 177 points178 points179 points 3 years ago (3 children). The spot was solid and we did the usual camping stuff and put anything that could have smelled or attracted any animals far away from our site. About a month after I was hired, one of the guys at the dam told me that most security guards out there quit after a few days because they got so creeped out being alone at the dam at night, and he was glad I was sticking it out. Well, you'd be wrong. One time when I turned my head lamp on, I saw a pair of eyes just about fifteen feet away in the bushes staring at me. [–]flannel_protest 32 points33 points34 points 3 years ago (2 children). Not asking any questions I did what he said and as soon as we were out of the tent he told me to get on his back (this was a breeze for him after rucking with God knows how much weight in the Army). My Dad had brought some friends in on the prank AND convinced them to walk four hours through dense scrub in the middle of the night just to shine a torch on our tent? I was by myself, working on a railroad track in a swamp in Georgia in the middle of the night. My brother and I had gone to sleep and were nestled in our tent when I woke to the sound of multiple dogs barking. "I was camping just me and my dog. He was checking for people fishing without a licence or something’, [–]bjackline 216 points217 points218 points 3 years ago* (3 children). (Bear in mind that we were 17/18 at the time). 30 to 150 seconds of almost complete darkness. Are we talking a campground where it's a tent-width? creepy stories from reddit. We had backpacks with us, plenty of water, a whistle, and one weapon. They stayed lost for about a week. Not so much creepy but definitely nerve racking and embarrassing. That morning we got up and went to a new lake. This could be some Cold Case stuff so check it out and maybe a gumshoe detective or local police will stumble on this and dig deeper. I was hiking a section of the NCT in Pennsylvania. I got half way through the woods and ran into a man walking his dog towards the lake. He probably made a poor shot, the broadhead detaches from the arrow shaft and falls on the ground. Not even sandals. I was about to ask if he was hearing the same shit I was and then we started hearing fucking footsteps walking towards us. I might be overthinking this... And you're welcome. And then, without anything else happening it just walked away. So we were stumbling around with these lights that lit up a very small amount powerfully, rather than sending a broad beam. [–]UndecidedWatermelon 20 points21 points22 points 3 years ago (0 children). Creepy rednecks in the woods, lets not meet again, you might get shot next time. You'd have to be to want to basically live with grizzlies half the year. Me being not able to sleep in a storm was wide awake. ), [–]Rounder007 22 points23 points24 points 3 years ago (0 children). You can easily go from nothing to giant treehouse in 1-2 months. He kept going and eventually I lost sight of him. We laid there for awhile longer when out of nowhere they started screaming "WHERE YALL AT?!?!" Call her back, put the leash on, move to the side to let this guy pass. I did not stop anywhere near there that night. It was up a hill so we had a pretty good elevated view of our campsite. Fast forward what was probably another 3 hours, around 2am. No answer. He asked us if we were armed, and when we said yes, he looked annoyed. ... of a favorite place and began skiing up the old mining road which wound and rolled its way gently uphill into a remote wilderness area. It's basically the "free version" of the Inca Trail. I knew I could make it back because he had taught me 'land nav' pretty well. [–]diegof09 52 points53 points54 points 3 years ago (2 children). To this day we have no idea who this guy was, what he wanted or why he was hiding in the bushes? serious replies only. I think the distinction between grizzlies and polars is more of a grizzlies won't actively hunt you, but if they come across you will totally eat you just bc of the opportunity. Pulled into a remote hiking parking area in the Loess hills of Iowa and there was one other car parked there. At that point, we thought ‘fuck this’. It’s when you’re hiking and suddenly there’s nothing. So, on this Volga trip, they met some local kids who were poaching Beluga Sturgeon for caviar. Strangely, I never heard any vehicles and my friend stayed asleep the entire time. If its called this, then there are gonna be fucking rapists. We where camping like half a miles from a old abandoned mine shaft quite cool. We came up with a few more theories for the sake of scaring each other then built our fire (even burning a couple of the wood-like bones just to see what would happen) and settled in. Had Freddy Kruger been in my van they would have saved me indeed. Doesn’t say anything. And sometimes polar bears mate with grizzly's (Kodiak Bears are their most common (non polar) mate from what I've heard), [–]299152595 55 points56 points57 points 3 years ago (42 children). Glad the dog was able to keep her safe. Lived in Germany for many years while my father was stationed there ( U. S. Army). We grew up doing the same and were very familiar with the woods. At this point, I’m about to piss my pants because I may be a big guy, but I hate scary shit. Polar bears actively hunt humans as a meal. He refused and basically replied like, "Oh, c'mon! At this point I was so scared I almost started crying, but at the same time had a rush of adrenaline and what I think now was confidence that he thought I could handle myself. Actually, he seemed pretty intrigued/excited that tourists had made it that far off the beaten path. All of them laughing like hell as I nearly shit myself. That’s exactly what I was thinking. Now as one usually does after a few beers and greasy junk food I had to go poop. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. My friend with the gun decided it wasn't worth the risk and told us to leave quickly. They all looked relatively young but two had either rifles or shotguns and the dogs were going crazy, obviously having smelled our scent. Can't be much longer, right? Follow up: We never got any definitive information on what happened to the rednecks we encountered. The footsteps got so close that It looked as if it was right outside our tents. "Excellent" I thought. All of a sudden there was this incredibly bad smell, turns out someone skinned a deer there and tossed all the intestines in a ditch and hung them from treebranches. However, if it's fall or spring and they're trying to prepare for hibernation or just coming out of it (and thus very hungry), they won't hesitate to eat your ass. I’m sending it to my friends now and will update once I get there responses. [–]PrisBatty 40 points41 points42 points 3 years ago (1 child). However it is truly a "wilderness" area and law enforcement response (if you can even reach them) would be slow. He didn't kill us and nothing else happened, but I felt really freaking vulnerable out there in the middle of nowhere with no one but my delusional friend and this creepy internet stranger. We never found out who or what it was but I was scared out of my mind. That night we were all laying in the tent and it started to rain quite hard. Finally after what seems like an eternity the guy from the bushes turns around and starts walking slowly the opposite direction of us. [–]Lostsonofpluto 237 points238 points239 points 3 years ago (6 children), Or they were smart enough to put the body of the guy they murdered in a metal box so the police dogs couldn't find it, [–]XLEli 140 points141 points142 points 3 years ago (4 children), I instantly thought of the game Jumanji being buried, [–][deleted] 4410Answer Link440 points441 points442 points 3 years ago (20 children). Edit: u/brereddit had a good idea to highlight a particular submission. 18. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7kpud2/whats_the_first_sign_that_a_relationship_wont_last/, [–]throwawayxexyz123 199 points200 points201 points 3 years ago (13 children). but in the middle of the eerie darkness, and the wind- he stopped abruptly and started yelling at me. It’s creepy. 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