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What is your creepiest wilderness experience? 5
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So, out of my many times deep in back country or the wilderness I have experienced many strange things. I'm talking about heeby jeeby hair raising weirdness. I'd have to say, to the average, what I like to call "Citidiot" the woods and wilderness can be pretty scary, especially at night. But, Night is actually one of my favorite times to be in the woods, I can account for many of hundreds of hours out there, alone and with very small groups of people, fuck flashlights. I've grown fearless of it and often tell people to relax, it's just like day time except life acts differently. "Sshh, Less noise" I'm often quoted saying. But sometimes, regardless of the position of the sun and the level of light upon my part of the planet, strange shit happens.
There was this time My brother, my close friend and I had gone deep into the forest just for the sake of wandering. We reached a large meadow about the time a huge spring thunderstorm had decided to manifest itself. We wandered though this meadow and along a tree line, finding an almost perfectly intact set of deer bones, resting in the position in which it had lain to die, little spots of lichen bloomed on dirty milk colored bones, this was at the base of an ancient moss covered cottonwood. The aura of the air began to darken and grew cold as this storm moved in. My brother had a weird feeling before we entered the meadow and was very hesitant, but me being the adventurer I am trudged on and said, "As long as we respect the place I'm sure this feeling won't turn hostile." Very foreboding feeling...
As the air changed the feeling indeed grew hostile, whatever was there, whatever was watching had began to give me the rushes down the spine and the standing hair. We at this point decided to leave. As we hit a small hillock in about the center of this large meadow were a few small ash trees had made an inviting little grove, a couple of shadow figures surrealisticly and inhumanly walked out and dispersed like unreal smoke. About 30 seconds later, which at the time seemed like an eternity, In a cliche manner, there was a bright flash and thunder rumbled in our chest cavities and it slowly began to pour. My buddy, grabbing onto my arm, kept repeatedly asking if they were demons. I mean, how the fuck am I supposed to answer that? Only thing I knew was that I wasn't going to panic, and respectfully and calmly walk my ass out of there.
For the next five miles back, I had never been so disorientated in my life. I of course was no longer scared, but was a bit uneasy. But, it felt as if the forest was playing tricks on me and that something unfriendly was trailing behind. I was somehow lost in a piece of wilderness which I knew better than the streets of my town. My brother, whose orienteering skills are better than mine and was just as familiar with this stretch of land threw in the towel as well.
Luckily we found our way back to the trail by time the orange glow of the sunset was illuminating the leaves which danced as passively happy and uncaring of my woes as ever. We avowed to respectfully stay clear of that eerie place and to never return.... There are few times I can say I was actually that happy to be out of the woods.
Anyone got any eerie and uncomforting experiences they would like to share? I'm really interested.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14234713 - 04/04/11 03:36 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I love such stories 
I have quite a few!
15 years ago, had a patch of land aboiut30 miles out of town in the middle of great forest, there were few gardnes and wood cabins in teh villlage but at night nobody was there...
One time, me an my old man, decided to spend the night there, we had a hand build wooden house on our land...
Around 9 pm it was stil lit, we were getting ready to sleep, door was locked, when we HEARD somebody was outside!
We heard weird noices and steps!
Somebody was on the porch... thro little window we saw shadows sobody moving.
Atmosphere was .... electric
Doors and windows were locked. We decided it would be stupid idea to open the door and have a look. Instead we stayed silent and still.
At night noices stopped, everything was cool until around 3am when my old man woke me up. There was a light source somewhere near by for we could see it glimmer on out window, that sacred the shit out of us!
We still decided to stay indoor and sat there until morning.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14240266 - 04/05/11 05:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Faaaawk that, haha. I can only imagine, that feeling is so intense, while being silent and still and each moment is creeping by like an eternity, waiting to hear or see something, half expecting something to come bursting through the door....
Reminds me of this a little bit...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14240502 - 04/05/11 07:11 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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indeed, it can get quite intense
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14265933 - 04/10/11 08:11 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's seriously creepy. Was your buddy ok after that?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: kaste]
#14267414 - 04/10/11 02:40 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Eh, my buddy is actually schizophrenic and It did shake him up for awhile given it wasn't like the hallucinations he's used to seeing. Often he'll say he's seeing demons, but it hardly phases him, but when shit like this happens it shakes him up pretty bad, given the obvious contrast in experience.
He's doing much better now than he was back then though, so, it's all good.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14272861 - 04/11/11 02:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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This might not relate but it was creepy for me.
My boyfriend and I were camping up north in the middle of state land. Not a campground...but deep in a Forrest. Anyways, it was the third night we were there and we were expecting company. A friend of ours was going to join us for the last day. Our friend got out of work around midnight and had to drive 3 hours to get to where we were. Our phones had little to no service. You had to wait about 5 minutes, at the top of a hill, with your fingers crossed to even send a text message.
Anyways, our buddy contacted us and let us know that he was almost there but he didn't know how to navigate through the woods to where we were (despite our detailed directions from a few days prior). So, he ended up being lost and decided to just sit in his car with the lights on and wait for one of us to go find him. My boyfriend decided that he couldn't be more than a mile away, so he decided to head out to go find him while i kept an eye on the fire.
He was gone for about an hour before I started to worry. I had kept myself busy cutting wood and feeding the fire but I kept getting this eerie feeling that I was being watched. I tried to text my boyfriend but ended up hearing the chime of his phone on a rock nearby. He forgot his phone.
So, I decided to call out his name. Nothing. I figured that he could hear me even from a mile away if I was yelling...but I got no response. I tried to text our friend and he said that he had not seen any signs of my boyfriend since he parked where he was.
I got worried. My boyfriend is what I would consider a survivalist and very experienced with the outdoors but I still worried. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched. I was so creeped out that I decided to take a flashlight and go down the trail that I assumed that he took. I kept calling his name but still received no answer.
All of the sudden, I heard foot steps. I paused, my heart racing a million beats a minute. I listened. I looked. I held my breath.
To my left, maybe 30 feet away, I saw a black bear looking at me. I ran. (probably not the smartest thing I've ever done)
I ran all the way back to camp and jumped in our truck. All I kept thinking was that the bear must have attacked my boyfriend. Or that it would attack him on his way back to camp and I had no way to warn him. I texted our friend and told him about what had happened. He was worried as well.
About a half hour later, my boyfriend came back to camp, much to my relief. I don't think I've ever hugged him so hard. Our friend found his way to camp about a half hour later. Nobody else saw the bear that night.
It was creepy for me. I love the wilderness and animals. I normally wouldn't be afraid, but that night was just creepy all around. I never felt so alone.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: EmeraldEyes] 2
#14279526 - 04/12/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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these are some good stories. makes me feel like i'm sitting around the campfire gettin' all creeped out
i've got one to share.
This story's from a few years back. I was spending the summer living on a small island off the coast of Washington State working a construction job. I would hitch out to this great national park on one side of the island and just do day hikes up to the top of the mountain. After a month or so of day hikes I decided it was time to camp out.
I loaded my pack, hitched a ride to the park and proceeded to make my way down the trail. There were all the “official” camping spots located near the head of the trail but I wasn’t feeling the whole “human” vibe. So I trekked about 3 miles back to these beautiful mountain lakes and set up camp in the woods behind them.
The sun was still up so I decided to hike up to the top of the mountain to watch it set. I took a trail that goes up the backside of the mountain, a trail that I rarely see anyone on since there is a road that goes right to the top of the viewing area.
I trekked through huge fir and cedar stands, it was really quite beautiful. Got to the top of the mountain in time to see an epic sunset with Mt. Baker way off in the distance catching the last rays of sunlight on its snowy slopes.
I quickly made my way back down the mountain in an effort to reach my campsite before dark (no flashlight, doh). On the way down the mountain I started to get this eerie feeling, like something in the woods was following/watching me. The area I was hiking in had some Native American significance. I knew that at one point this island had been inhabited by Native peoples and I was starting to get a very unwelcome vibe.
I tried to shake it, tried to reason with myself that it was just in my head. I was completely alone on this side of the mountain. All the tourists were camping miles away and no one knew I was out here because it wasn’t a designated camping area.
The feeling grew stronger as the daylight dimmed. Suddenly this sunny, benevolent forest wasn’t so sparkly. I consider myself a fairly spiritual person and as a result was not able to “reason” my way out of what I was feeling. Perhaps I wasn’t welcome here. Perhaps I needed to leave.
I was about a half mile from camp when the fear became nearly debilitating. I was officially sketched out. I knew, KNEW, that I was not welcome there. The forest had spoken and I was not to stay the night.
I hurriedly traversed the last half mile to my camp. It was now dark.
I found the one small light I had back at camp, clicked it on and took down the tent in record time. A wind picked up and the trees swayed back and forth in the breeze. It couldn’t have been a creepier setting. I couldn’t have been more freaked out.
At one point while I was packing up the tent I heard some very loud crashing in the woods. Something was out there and I couldn’t see what it was with the small beam my flashlight put out. The tent was packed and I was on my feet, basically running up the hill, around the shore of the closest lake and back on to the trail that led to civilization. I was getting the fuck out of there.
My hike back seemed almost like a homecoming. I was never happier to be in close proximity of other humans. I pitched a tent at an empty campsite and slept fitfully.
To this day I've never felt fear like the fear I felt in those woods that night.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
#14281087 - 04/12/11 10:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow. That must have been so creepy.
I am not going to lie.. Sometimes, what you can't see and/or can't explain with logic is a million times scarier than a known enemy/predator.
That's one reason that I still get creeped out while camping. Especially when I'm alone. I hate not knowing what is out there.
... At the same time, I love it too.
Wonder what was out there? Where were you, again?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: EmeraldEyes]
#14287654 - 04/13/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know what your talking about... Even with my tons of experience, I still get like that sometimes... And it's a damn good thing you did not get chased by that bear... Might not be here to write about it...
GerryJarcia, I've had shit like that happen a few times... Most of the places I wind up have some significance to the pacific northwest natives... There were so many different peoples in this region, that it is difficult to avoid sometimes... A place real close to me, I never knew before, but it was sacred to the natives here and there is a camp that was buried and they put their dead along the cliffs... I have always gotten the overwhelming feeling of being watched there, which sometimes grows in intensity and you can feel it literally ousting you, hair standing on end, fear you cannot reason away, (Which I have gotten very good at doing...) The worst was the time I made a crazy primal mud painting on the cliff wall... Whoops. It only made sense when I later learned what the place was... people always tell me the kind of stories of getting spooked/watched/followed/chased out of there, too. and I just sort of laugh to myself... Spooky ancestral Juju.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis] 1
#14287765 - 04/14/11 12:16 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Raven Gnosis said: So, out of my many times deep in back country or the wilderness I have experienced many strange things. I'm talking about heeby jeeby hair raising weirdness. I'd have to say, to the average, what I like to call "Citidiot" the woods and wilderness can be pretty scary, especially at night. But, Night is actually one of my favorite times to be in the woods, I can account for many of hundreds of hours out there, alone and with very small groups of people, fuck flashlights. I've grown fearless of it and often tell people to relax, it's just like day time except life acts differently. "Sshh, Less noise" I'm often quoted saying. But sometimes, regardless of the position of the sun and the level of light upon my part of the planet, strange shit happens.
There was this time My brother, my close friend and I had gone deep into the forest just for the sake of wandering. We reached a large meadow about the time a huge spring thunderstorm had decided to manifest itself. We wandered though this meadow and along a tree line, finding an almost perfectly intact set of deer bones, resting in the position in which it had lain to die, little spots of lichen bloomed on dirty milk colored bones, this was at the base of an ancient moss covered cottonwood. The aura of the air began to darken and grew cold as this storm moved in. My brother had a weird feeling before we entered the meadow and was very hesitant, but me being the adventurer I am trudged on and said, "As long as we respect the place I'm sure this feeling won't turn hostile." Very foreboding feeling...
As the air changed the feeling indeed grew hostile, whatever was there, whatever was watching had began to give me the rushes down the spine and the standing hair. We at this point decided to leave. As we hit a small hillock in about the center of this large meadow were a few small ash trees had made an inviting little grove, a couple of shadow figures surrealisticly and inhumanly walked out and dispersed like unreal smoke. About 30 seconds later, which at the time seemed like an eternity, In a cliche manner, there was a bright flash and thunder rumbled in our chest cavities and it slowly began to pour. My buddy, grabbing onto my arm, kept repeatedly asking if they were demons. I mean, how the fuck am I supposed to answer that? Only thing I knew was that I wasn't going to panic, and respectfully and calmly walk my ass out of there.
For the next five miles back, I had never been so disorientated in my life. I of course was no longer scared, but was a bit uneasy. But, it felt as if the forest was playing tricks on me and that something unfriendly was trailing behind. I was somehow lost in a piece of wilderness which I knew better than the streets of my town. My brother, whose orienteering skills are better than mine and was just as familiar with this stretch of land threw in the towel as well.
Luckily we found our way back to the trail by time the orange glow of the sunset was illuminating the leaves which danced as passively happy and uncaring of my woes as ever. We avowed to respectfully stay clear of that eerie place and to never return.... There are few times I can say I was actually that happy to be out of the woods.
Anyone got any eerie and uncomforting experiences they would like to share? I'm really interested. 
got chills reading this. awesome post man. thanks for sharing.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14294554 - 04/15/11 08:41 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Raven Gnosis said: GerryJarcia, I've had shit like that happen a few times... Most of the places I wind up have some significance to the pacific northwest natives... There were so many different peoples in this region, that it is difficult to avoid sometimes... A place real close to me, I never knew before, but it was sacred to the natives here and there is a camp that was buried and they put their dead along the cliffs... I have always gotten the overwhelming feeling of being watched there, which sometimes grows in intensity and you can feel it literally ousting you, hair standing on end, fear you cannot reason away, (Which I have gotten very good at doing...) The worst was the time I made a crazy primal mud painting on the cliff wall... Whoops. It only made sense when I later learned what the place was... people always tell me the kind of stories of getting spooked/watched/followed/chased out of there, too. and I just sort of laugh to myself... Spooky ancestral Juju.
the major drawback to talking about "weird spiritual vibes" in a culture that is thoroughly modernized, "rational" and scientific is peoples inherent bias to just chalk the whole experience up as "a manifestation of the mind".
i've had a number of strange spiritual experiences in the course of my lifetime and it's something i rarely bring up with others. kind of a bummer that we can't have a more mystical, magical and mythical outlook on the seen and unseen world around us.
@Emeraldeyes: I was on a small island off the coast of Washington State (Orcas Island).
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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Raven Gnosis said: GerryJarcia, I've had shit like that happen a few times... Most of the places I wind up have some significance to the pacific northwest natives... There were so many different peoples in this region, that it is difficult to avoid sometimes... A place real close to me, I never knew before, but it was sacred to the natives here and there is a camp that was buried and they put their dead along the cliffs... I have always gotten the overwhelming feeling of being watched there, which sometimes grows in intensity and you can feel it literally ousting you, hair standing on end, fear you cannot reason away, (Which I have gotten very good at doing...) The worst was the time I made a crazy primal mud painting on the cliff wall... Whoops. It only made sense when I later learned what the place was... people always tell me the kind of stories of getting spooked/watched/followed/chased out of there, too. and I just sort of laugh to myself... Spooky ancestral Juju.
the major drawback to talking about "weird spiritual vibes" in a culture that is thoroughly modernized, "rational" and scientific is peoples inherent bias to just chalk the whole experience up as "a manifestation of the mind".
i've had a number of strange spiritual experiences in the course of my lifetime and it's something i rarely bring up with others. kind of a bummer that we can't have a more mystical, magical and mythical outlook on the seen and unseen world around us.
Definitely...It's pretty difficult to brand such an experience with that sort of rationality when it's happening and especially where there is a group of people experiencing it... What I like to do, is take people to the places where I've known these sorts of things to happen without telling them and expose them to it, can't argue with direct experience... It's always easy to rationalize something away without being face to face with it.
Most of the time, from my experience, it changes their perspective and generates respect. As it did in myself.
Experiencing things of this nature forced me to take into account a whole world I never knew previously existed. I hear ghost stories, but their nothing in comparison to these strange forces which dwell in the natural world whom the native inhabitants feared and revered. My story about that meadow I wandered into reminds me of reading about the natives here having places in the forest they just don't go, places the natives here called "Tahmáhnawis"
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14297577 - 04/15/11 07:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I just made a thread like this. DOH
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
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Raven Gnosis said: Experiencing things of this nature forced me to take into account a whole world I never knew previously existed. I hear ghost stories, but their nothing in comparison to these strange forces which dwell in the natural world whom the native inhabitants feared and revered. My story about that meadow I wandered into reminds me of reading about the natives here having places in the forest they just don't go, places the natives here called "Tahmáhnawis"
damn, i could talk about this topic for days. it's interesting to see the path Western culture has chosen in reference to beliefs regarding animism, nature worship and the spirit world in general.
my family is from Ireland and the more i learn about my irish heritage the more i'm convinced that my descendants were involved in some form of pagan worship.
i remember traveling around Thailand a few years back and seeing what looked like beautiful, elaborate bird houses mounted on wooden poles in front of homes in the villages we traveled through. I asked someone about the "bird houses" and they told me that those were spirit houses; places for their dead ancestors to dwell and find peace.
blew my mind, to say the least.
the more time i spend in nature the more i realize that "the spirit world" is no sham. I don't claim to understand it, but i have enough reverence and awe to respect it (and to leave it alone when need be).
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis] 2
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I've seen willowthewisps or orbs / ghosts. Basically balls of light that hover across the ground. The folklore is that they lure travelers to their doom, some people call them earth lights others think they are ghosts or balls of plasma like lightening. Quite frightening if you see them close up.
We've seen massive silent circular flying machines with weird lights all around them (UFOs) landing in fields near us as well.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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Ive got one. Ill post when i get to a computer
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: floydisgod]
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With an bowl in my hand I found an us marshal tried up, cut him free.The look on his face, when I pulled out my kife was unforgetbe..Know him form school..Found another one an year or two later knock out around the same spot...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Brainiac]
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Brainiac said: With an bowl in my hand I found an us marshal tried up, cut him free.The look on his face, when I pulled out my kife was unforgetbe..Know him form school..Found another one an year or two later knock out around the same spot...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
#14324949 - 04/20/11 08:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alright, so a coupla years ago me and a friend were growing weed in some woods near my house. These woods are right next to an old church/commune/whatever, dating back to the 1800s, we didn't know this at the time. anyways...
So one night at around 1:30 my buddy calls me up seeing if i want to smoke a pipe. So we meet up and decide to walk down to where the plant is and smoke. So we finish smoking and chillin and decide to head out. Well we're about a half mile in the woods, off the street, and stoned at probably 2 in the morning so this took a little while lol.
When we're about 50 feet from the road we stop and see if we see any car lights are approaching. We didn't see anyone coming, or hear anything, and just as we're about to start walking again we hear something heavy land on the ground a little off the trail. We both freeze, fear crippled us. We both look at each other and shrug, thinking a branch must have fallen out of a tree or something. So we go to start walking again, and right as we're going to take our first step, something lands right at my fuckin feet. I don't know what the fuck it was, or where the fuck it came from, but we got the hell out of those woods real quick.
The next day I meet up with my buddy and he tells me that he saw something that looked like a person in the woods the night before. But when he looked again it was gone. I don't know if i believe him or not, but we looked up the area in the town hall and found out that the guy that built the place back in the day thought he was a reincarnation of christ or some shit and tortured and raped a bunch of his followers. Fucked up shit.
But every time I've been back in those woods at night I've heard a bunch of noises, like shit walking around and almost growl like noises.
Could be coyotes, could be nothing, but the vibe of the place is definitely eerie
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: floydisgod]
#14325088 - 04/20/11 09:17 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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floydisgod can your friend describe the person any better? What state do you live in?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: floydisgod] 2
#14326261 - 04/21/11 03:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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floydisgod said: Alright, so a coupla years ago me and a friend were growing weed in some woods near my house. These woods are right next to an old church/commune/whatever, dating back to the 1800s, we didn't know this at the time. anyways...
So one night at around 1:30 my buddy calls me up seeing if i want to smoke a pipe. So we meet up and decide to walk down to where the plant is and smoke. So we finish smoking and chillin and decide to head out. Well we're about a half mile in the woods, off the street, and stoned at probably 2 in the morning so this took a little while lol.
When we're about 50 feet from the road we stop and see if we see any car lights are approaching. We didn't see anyone coming, or hear anything, and just as we're about to start walking again we hear something heavy land on the ground a little off the trail. We both freeze, fear crippled us. We both look at each other and shrug, thinking a branch must have fallen out of a tree or something. So we go to start walking again, and right as we're going to take our first step, something lands right at my fuckin feet. I don't know what the fuck it was, or where the fuck it came from, but we got the hell out of those woods real quick.
The next day I meet up with my buddy and he tells me that he saw something that looked like a person in the woods the night before. But when he looked again it was gone. I don't know if i believe him or not, but we looked up the area in the town hall and found out that the guy that built the place back in the day thought he was a reincarnation of christ or some shit and tortured and raped a bunch of his followers. Fucked up shit.
But every time I've been back in those woods at night I've heard a bunch of noises, like shit walking around and almost growl like noises.
Could be coyotes, could be nothing, but the vibe of the place is definitely eerie
Waw awesome story dude
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14334694 - 04/22/11 06:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was hiking in to the Daniel Boon National Forest late at night -- about a half-mile in I hear and feel what sounds like a fingernail scraping against my backpack. I fuckin stop -- look off to my side and a little behind me and there is this guy standing off the trail and he says, "So sorry dude, I thought you were my friend."
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gremlin moon]
#14334828 - 04/22/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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gremlin moon said: I was hiking in to the Daniel Boon National Forest late at night -- about a half-mile in I hear and feel what sounds like a fingernail scraping against my backpack. I fuckin stop -- look off to my side and a little behind me and there is this guy standing off the trail and he says, "So sorry dude, I thought you were my friend."
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: vjp]
#14335426 - 04/22/11 09:07 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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damn, we need some more legit stories. the last one was a little trollish.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
#14336243 - 04/22/11 11:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Okay.
I moved to Oregon with my soon to be wife and her 1/2 pit 1/4 Aussie Shepperd 1/4 Dingo. We moved in with my brother in law. Hos Pitbull hated and wanted to kill our dog. Well at least the feeling was mutual.
RIP
So we kept them apart for some many weeks. Well one day they locked up and when they went for each other it was dead silent, meaning... shit is serious.
Well, we all managed to get them separated. Later that day the wife and I said lets go camping, decompress and have fun at the river.
All was fine until about 10pm. We think there must have been some dried blood on our boy still since we started getting circled by mountain lion.
Well we didn't realize it until ma lady went of a few feet to pee, at which point she said, "baby, something is wrong.... no something is out here!"
So we husdled up near the fire and watched our dog track in a 360 degree circle over and over something that made nary a sound except for the very occasional snap.
Now I must say, my wife and her dog grew up in the woods. This dog treed a mountain lion. They are both very aware of the outdoors due to life experience living in the mountains of the Sierra Nevadas and the surrounding Foothills.
In any case this thing did not leave us. Well after an hour we said fuck it. We broke camp in minutes. Forever lost a pipe 
Then we tried to drive this peice of crap ford escort out and it could not get up and over the loose dirt and shit. I had to get out with a fucking Vietnam War shovel and pick at the ground to get out.
In hind sight I probably was a lot safer than I thought I was picking at the ground, but sitting around the camp fire was freaky as shit as it did not leave us alone. Circling like a fucking shark smelling blood.
We had one near the coast do the same but it didn't stay ling. Still Mountain lions are fucking creepy. They are all over around here.
Where my wife and her brother where riding there horses last summer they found bear strength pepper spray with teeth marks in it. I tried to save it to get pics but bro in law trashed it.
My wife and her brother have some crazy ass stories.... Shit that most peeps won't beleive but it aint no joke. Thin spots kind of things. I think around moody ridge in the Sierra Nevadas. They also found some crazy ass ghost town in Washington, that also includes mom. Just weird shit.
Had another time we got stuck up in the Sierra Nevadas for a night. It had to be big wild animals that made our dog growl for most of the night. Sure was some creepy hours. Could never see anything but that dog sure was warning something to stay the fuck away.
Nowadays I like to camp with a pistol and a shotgun. Pots and pan are good to.
Oh, and BTW our boy died of a tumor in his spine some years back
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
#14336652 - 04/23/11 01:18 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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that was an awesome read. thanks for sharing. i'm sorry about your dog. seemed like quite the pal.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: JesusGoneRogue]
#14336777 - 04/23/11 01:51 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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JesusGoneRogue said: i'm sorry about your dog. seemed like quite the pal.
Thanks, He was, had his issues, mostly protective(would have killed to protect my wife). Either living near the tracks homeless, or out in the middle of no where in the woods for most of his life. Never really acclimated back to city living which made it a bit tough but you could not ask for a better camping dog. Still can't talk about him and not tear up. My wife had him since he fit in her palm.
Our new dog just kind of alerts and wants to go to sleep in the tent after 9 oclock . Half the time I think it is just a chipmunk. Oh well would rather have an alert dog than a gonna chase it down dog.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: vjp]
#14345168 - 04/24/11 07:55 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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don't have many stories from the woods...but one time at the art museum I saw two obese people making out and dry humping the shit out of each other on a couch in the lobby
how's that for wilderness?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Cherk]
#14353869 - 04/26/11 07:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote: gremlin moon said: I was hiking in to the Daniel Boon National Forest late at night -- about a half-mile in I hear and feel what sounds like a fingernail scraping against my backpack. I fuckin stop -- look off to my side and a little behind me and there is this guy standing off the trail and he says, "So sorry dude, I thought you were my friend."
wtf - bs
This is a true story -- anyone who lives in southern Ohio Cincy-area or N KY can tell you that the Daniel Boone National Forest is packed on the weekend with everyone arriving at Friday night after work. It was a guy who had gone ahead on the trail from the parking lot to spook his friends. Sorry if you got the impression it was an axe murderer. Nonetheless, hearing that scraping sound is the [creepiest woods experience I have had.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gremlin moon]
#14353882 - 04/26/11 07:27 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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gremlin moon said:
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Quote: gremlin moon said: I was hiking in to the Daniel Boon National Forest late at night -- about a half-mile in I hear and feel what sounds like a fingernail scraping against my backpack. I fuckin stop -- look off to my side and a little behind me and there is this guy standing off the trail and he says, "So sorry dude, I thought you were my friend."
wtf - bs
This is a true story -- anyone who lives in southern Ohio Cincy-area or N KY can tell you that the Daniel Boone National Forest is packed on the weekend with everyone arriving at Friday night after work. It was a guy who had gone ahead on the trail from the parking lot to spook his friends. Sorry if you got the impression it was an axe murderer. Nonetheless, hearing that scraping sound is the [creepiest woods experience I have had.
right on. just seemed a little contrived at first. i would have been super sketched out and turned around ready to rumble.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia] 2
#14361984 - 04/27/11 04:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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well this experience was not exactly in the woods but rather in the country...
So I went to look for magic mushrooms in this little town I know... it was early in the season and I know were to look for p. mexicana... wich is the first magic mushroom to start fruiting in the meadows.... so I started munching on the mushies as I found them... soon I was tripping.
the day was sunny... so I decided to lie down on a shadow of a tree, I remained there for like 2 or 3 hours, feeling the mushrooms... then all of a sudden i hear a rumble only to open my eyes and find out that I have a visitor watching me... it was a horse that was getting curious... so I stood and the horse ran...
and all of a sudden a big thunder roars and lightning sparks the area... the sun had dissapeared and looked like a storm was coming, I was still tripping so I didnt cared about the rain soon to come and walked up a meadow i havent visited before.... then I find one big big mushroom and picked it, just as i was going to pick the mush, another great thunder is heard, and i look backwards to see a big cross buried in the ground as if they had buried someone there.... there was also this creepy looking dried up tree full with vultures staring at me to the other side of the cross
I considered it was time to leave... I left the big mushroom were it was... probably it was a bad omen if I took it... who knows what kind of spirits might have dwelled in that mush should i have ate it....
I know that the psilocybin factor was present but i got kinda scared hehe
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: AIRDOG]
#14365279 - 04/28/11 05:37 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Walked 10 miles into back wilderness yesterday and found this huge spider web wish I had my camera cuz it was very creepy to see this massive web.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
#14366630 - 04/28/11 12:10 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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A bear totally whistled at my butt while I was walking down this trail, so creepy!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: pfxtc]
#14366724 - 04/28/11 12:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: A bear totally whistled at my butt while I was walking down this trail, so creepy!
did he look like this?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14370941 - 04/29/11 01:45 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Me and my g/f were visiting a friend in Crescent City and on the last night decided to spend the evening at a secluded campsite in the redwoods and take the acid we were saving. We settled on a neat little bush hideaway called Panther Flat. Arrived there late in the afternoon a few hours before sunset and sorted out the tent and what little firewood we had. Despite the signs warning about black bears, we weren't too worried since it was mid winter. Munched our tabs and took a little stroll down to the river before darkness set in. When we got back we were starting to come up, while the place was slowly getting darker. As it got darker, the wind seemed to pick up a little bit and along with this creepy semi consistant groaning and howling/whine that would wrap around us. At first we thought it was the cars on the highway since the road winding through the forest wraps around the park, but it was actually the noise of the wind blowing through the red woods. Thankfully we're both able to deal with fairly fucked up things on trips, so nothing got too hairy, but that noise was surreal and extremely loud. Still gives me the shivers thinking back.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Sheepish]
#14371272 - 04/29/11 05:34 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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True story.
I used to work in wilderness therapy. We used to listen to the "Nightwalkers" pace laps around the tent/tipi at night. Regular, human paced footsteps, walking round, and round the shelter all night. No tracks to confirm it, just the sound. Really regular reports. All in eastern oregon. We found out later that there was a Shoshone burial ground close by.
I have extensive experience, living and teaching in the backcountry of eastern Oregon, and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
#14371367 - 04/29/11 06:41 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Definately. Sacred sites, burial grounds etc you can expect a bit of activity - just hope they don't pay attention to you. I've seen even the most skeptical people shit themselves when they get a finger scratch all down their tent and they jump up and nobody is there.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
#14372132 - 04/29/11 11:11 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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wildernessjunkie said:and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
and Eastern Oregon was next on the travel/explore list.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
#14372796 - 04/29/11 02:09 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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wildernessjunkie said:and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
and Eastern Oregon was next on the travel/explore list.
Dont sweat it. Those areas are pretty small and very localized. For eastern OR, dont miss Glass Butte, or the hot springs at Alkali Lake. Both are
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
#14373893 - 04/29/11 05:42 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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wildernessjunkie said: True story.
I used to work in wilderness therapy. We used to listen to the "Nightwalkers" pace laps around the tent/tipi at night. Regular, human paced footsteps, walking round, and round the shelter all night. No tracks to confirm it, just the sound. Really regular reports. All in eastern oregon. We found out later that there was a Shoshone burial ground close by.
I have extensive experience, living and teaching in the backcountry of eastern Oregon, and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
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wildernessjunkie said: True story.
I used to work in wilderness therapy. We used to listen to the "Nightwalkers" pace laps around the tent/tipi at night. Regular, human paced footsteps, walking round, and round the shelter all night. No tracks to confirm it, just the sound. Really regular reports. All in eastern oregon. We found out later that there was a Shoshone burial ground close by.
I have extensive experience, living and teaching in the backcountry of eastern Oregon, and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
see, this kind of shit is extremely creepy too me. and when you bring it up with most people, they just look at you like you're fuckin' nuts.
that said, i distinctly remember recounting my wilderness scare with friends the day after it happened and i could tell they believed me just by the look on their faces.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: vjp]
#14374399 - 04/29/11 07:49 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is great! I'm so glad somebody started this thread, I've always liked sitting around campfires and listening to scary stories, but have never been able to contribute my own until recently.
So,
I've been in school for a while now. Too long. I had spring break a couple months ago, and my life-long friend suggested I go back home to do some backpacking in the Los Padres National Forest (Santa Barbara backcountry). I agreed to go on this trip with my friend, because it had been a long time since we had been backpacking together. Life had effectively put us on separate paths and it would be a great experience to unite us again.
This was the first trip we had ever done without a tent. We just carried a tarp and sleeping bags.
The first day we got dropped off at the trail head, then hiked beyond the day hike range and ended up at a hotspring (about a 6 mile hike). We saw a few people along the way, all heading the other direction. Eventually we came upon a very wide, riparian wash full of cottonwoods. We had had a very wet winter back home, so this entire area had become a swamp, and we had to slog through some ankle deep, muddy water, through which clouds of mosquitoes would rise into the air with each step. We had hiked this same area a few years earlier, and it was not nearly as moist.
After a quarter mile of slogging, we completely lost any sign of a trail, but knew instinctively where to go. So, we ended up walking up-stream in the shin-deep, flowing river. We finally made it to the hot spring only about a half hour before it got dark. We ate some snacks, jumped in the hotspring, then we laid out the tarp and went to bed. It was the first night I had ever camped outside without a tent, so I was a bit paranoid about being “in the open.” We had been talking about bears all day and night before going to bed. Even during our hike that day we saw one large bear print in the sandy riparian zone. There was only one print….no sign of any others. It took me forever to fall asleep, because each time something rustled in the bushes my hair would stand up. Finally, I fell asleep then got woken up by the cold mist of some fog coming from over the mountains. We got up did our business, cooked breakfast, rested in the hotspring again, then headed out for day two.
My boots got very wet since we had about 823908 creek crossings that second day. We got to the second campsite and gathered lots of firewood and started a fire. While collecting firewood we saw many wood rat nests. These creatures are very mystical. They create little mounds of sticks in the underbrush of oak woodlands. I was breaking branches off of a fallen, somewhat rotten oak trunk when I cracked one branch off and there were thousands of little termites festering around on the rotten end. I cracked another large branch off with the help of my friend and a couple rats came scampering out of the trunk, saw me, and immediately went back inside. We gathered enough wood to last the night and the next morning.
I needed to dry my boots, but they took forever to dry. I ended up melting them, since I stuck them too close, which created a serrated edge around the ankle:
Day Three: We set out, and immediately lost track of the trail. We found it again, but made little progress throughout the entire day because we kept having to stop and relocate the trail. We were following these pink ribbons that were tied to branches of trees. In the afternoon we got to a point where we found the last pink ribbon, past which there was absolutely no sign of a trail anywhere. The ribbon just dead-ended into shrubbery. My friend and I were pissed about this lack of trail maintenance throughout the whole trip, so we argued about what to do for a while. I wanted to hike up the side of the mountain, straight up since we knew we had to go west. Also, I wanted to get up somewhere high to get a good vantage point, and to look for a forest service road that we knew was nearby. My friend thought this idea was stupid, so we compromised and did another stupid thing at his request before doing my stupid thing. We simply hiked up the middle of this one creek for two or three miles. At one point we saw a large bear print in the sand. It was the only one. There were no signs of other bear prints anywhere.
The creek kept getting narrower and narrower, and the riparian vegetation kept getting thicker and thicker, so we decided to get out of the creek and head west up the side of the steep canyon, following the falling sun. Luckily the area had been burnt a couple years prior to this hike, so there wasn’t much vegetation to impede our movement. After going up about 1000-2000 feet towards the top of a ridge, we were forced to stop because there was an unburned area of chaparral. We basically had to crawl through the thick vegetation and climb up trunks of some of the chaparral trees. It took us about 30 minutes to go 100 yards. At one point I tripped, fell forward, and my neck came within inches of the spiky stump of a half-burned tree trunk. I kept seeing all sorts of deer mice running into their burrows and the entire hike I was half-expecting a rattlesnake to strike at me. We finally made it to the top of the ridge and realized that we had to go through another valley and up an entire other mountain to make it to what we thought was the trail.
My friend and I were out of water at this point, the sun had set and it was getting dark. We quickly set up camp in a small clearing amidst some small Manzanita shrubs. We were extremely exhausted, my feet were aching after spending two days hiking in soggy boots that now were cutting up my ankles. We were scared. It was a full moon, so you could see much of the scenery, minus the details. The full moon casted eerie shadows, and we heard rustling in the nearby bushes all night. My friend and I were talking about how weird it would be to find a group of lost Chumash natives out here that had somehow managed to completely avoid contact with civilization. Then a large owl flew overhead in the moonlight turning ever so silently across the valley. “The owl is traditionally a symbol of death." I told my friend. “Don’t say that!” he responded. We talked about how most animals are active and hunt during full moons because of the increased visibility.
I didn’t want to sleep with our food and bags so close to us. I kept hearing rustles in the adjacent shrubs. These often grew in intensity. I brought my hunting knife into my sleeping bag and gripped it tightly. At one point I could swear there was something not ten feet away from where I was sleeping, hiding in the bushes, smelling us. The hairs were standing up on the back of my neck, and chills were running down my spine. I did not want to get up. Finally, my friend rested our bags on some nearby shrubs. The rustling continued, and of course my friend fell asleep first, so I no longer had his company. Since we were sleeping on top of a ridge, frost descended overnight, and I woke up the following morning having found my damp socks and wet boots had frozen solid. Because of the cold and fear, I barely got any sleep the entire night.
We still had a long way to go. The final morning, we woke up and descended down to the adjacent valley from this ridge. We got some water, then followed what we thought was the trail. This led us astray once again. I climbed a thousand feet up this steep mountainside to get a vantage point, and I saw a trail on the ridge from the other side of the valley. We ended up climbing up the other side of the ridge with our back packs up a 50-60 degree slope on our hands and knees through some semi-burnt chaparral. We finally made it to a trail and to a road, where we walked (or in my case, limped) to the top of one of the mountains. We were out of water after another day of being lost and climbing up steep mountainsides through chaparral. A flooding storm was moving into the area that very night, so we used what little cell reception we had to call 911. We ended up getting airlifted out in a helicopter as the rains were beginning.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: insipidtoast]
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insipidtoast said: This is great! I'm so glad somebody started this thread, I've always liked sitting around campfires and listening to scary stories, but have never been able to contribute my own until recently.
So,
I've been in school for a while now. Too long. I had spring break a couple months ago, and my life-long friend suggested I go back home to do some backpacking in the Los Padres National Forest (Santa Barbara backcountry). I agreed to go on this trip with my friend, because it had been a long time since we had been backpacking together. Life had effectively put us on separate paths and it would be a great experience to unite us again.
This was the first trip we had ever done without a tent. We just carried a tarp and sleeping bags.
The first day we got dropped off at the trail head, then hiked beyond the day hike range and ended up at a hotspring (about a 6 mile hike). We saw a few people along the way, all heading the other direction. Eventually we came upon a very wide, riparian wash full of cottonwoods. We had had a very wet winter back home, so this entire area had become a swamp, and we had to slog through some ankle deep, muddy water, through which clouds of mosquitoes would rise into the air with each step. We had hiked this same area a few years earlier, and it was not nearly as moist.
After a quarter mile of slogging, we completely lost any sign of a trail, but knew instinctively where to go. So, we ended up walking up-stream in the shin-deep, flowing river. We finally made it to the hot spring only about a half hour before it got dark. We ate some snacks, jumped in the hotspring, then we laid out the tarp and went to bed. It was the first night I had ever camped outside without a tent, so I was a bit paranoid about being “in the open.” We had been talking about bears all day and night before going to bed. Even during our hike that day we saw one large bear print in the sandy riparian zone. There was only one print….no sign of any others. It took me forever to fall asleep, because each time something rustled in the bushes my hair would stand up. Finally, I fell asleep then got woken up by the cold mist of some fog coming from over the mountains. We got up did our business, cooked breakfast, rested in the hotspring again, then headed out for day two.
My boots got very wet since we had about 823908 creek crossings that second day. We got to the second campsite and gathered lots of firewood and started a fire. While collecting firewood we saw many wood rat nests. These creatures are very mystical. They create little mounds of sticks in the underbrush of oak woodlands. I was breaking branches off of a fallen, somewhat rotten oak trunk when I cracked one branch off and there were thousands of little termites festering around on the rotten end. I cracked another large branch off with the help of my friend and a couple rats came scampering out of the trunk, saw me, and immediately went back inside. We gathered enough wood to last the night and the next morning.
I needed to dry my boots, but they took forever to dry. I ended up melting them, since I stuck them too close, which created a serrated edge around the ankle:
Day Three: We set out, and immediately lost track of the trail. We found it again, but made little progress throughout the entire day because we kept having to stop and relocate the trail. We were following these pink ribbons that were tied to branches of trees. In the afternoon we got to a point where we found the last pink ribbon, past which there was absolutely no sign of a trail anywhere. The ribbon just dead-ended into shrubbery. My friend and I were pissed about this lack of trail maintenance throughout the whole trip, so we argued about what to do for a while. I wanted to hike up the side of the mountain, straight up since we knew we had to go west. Also, I wanted to get up somewhere high to get a good vantage point, and to look for a forest service road that we knew was nearby. My friend thought this idea was stupid, so we compromised and did another stupid thing at his request before doing my stupid thing. We simply hiked up the middle of this one creek for two or three miles. At one point we saw a large bear print in the sand. It was the only one. There were no signs of other bear prints anywhere.
The creek kept getting narrower and narrower, and the riparian vegetation kept getting thicker and thicker, so we decided to get out of the creek and head west up the side of the steep canyon, following the falling sun. Luckily the area had been burnt a couple years prior to this hike, so there wasn’t much vegetation to impede our movement. After going up about 1000-2000 feet towards the top of a ridge, we were forced to stop because there was an unburned area of chaparral. We basically had to crawl through the thick vegetation and climb up trunks of some of the chaparral trees. It took us about 30 minutes to go 100 yards. At one point I tripped, fell forward, and my neck came within inches of the spiky stump of a half-burned tree trunk. I kept seeing all sorts of deer mice running into their burrows and the entire hike I was half-expecting a rattlesnake to strike at me. We finally made it to the top of the ridge and realized that we had to go through another valley and up an entire other mountain to make it to what we thought was the trail.
My friend and I were out of water at this point, the sun had set and it was getting dark. We quickly set up camp in a small clearing amidst some small Manzanita shrubs. We were extremely exhausted, my feet were aching after spending two days hiking in soggy boots that now were cutting up my ankles. We were scared. It was a full moon, so you could see much of the scenery, minus the details. The full moon casted eerie shadows, and we heard rustling in the nearby bushes all night. My friend and I were talking about how weird it would be to find a group of lost Chumash natives out here that had somehow managed to completely avoid contact with civilization. Then a large owl flew overhead in the moonlight turning ever so silently across the valley. “The owl is traditionally a symbol of death." I told my friend. “Don’t say that!” he responded.
I didn’t want to sleep with our food and bags so close to us. I kept hurrying little rustles in the adjacent shrubs. These often grew in intensity. I brought my hunting knife into my sleeping bag and gripped it tightly. At one point I could swear there was something not ten feet away from where I was sleeping, hiding in the bushes, smelling us. The hairs were standing up on the back of my neck, and chills were running down my spine. I did not want to get up. Finally, my friend rested our bags on some nearby shrubs. The rustling continued, and of course my friend fell asleep first, so I no longer had his company. Since we were sleeping on top of a ridge, frost descended overnight, and I woke up the following morning having found my damp socks and wet boots had frozen solid. Because of the cold and fear, I barely got any sleep the entire night.
We still had a long way to go. The final morning, we woke up and descended down to the adjacent valley from this ridge. We got some water, then followed what we thought was the trail. This led us astray once again. I climbed a thousand feet up this steep mountainside to get a vantage point, and I saw a trail on the ridge from the other side of the valley. We ended up climbing up the other side of the ridge with our back packs up a 50-60 degree slope on our hands and knees through some semi-burnt chaparral. We finally made it to a trail and to a road, where we walked (or in my case, limped) to the top of one of the mountains. We were out of water after another day of being lost and climbing up steep mountainsides through chaparral. A flooding storm was moving into the area that very night, so we used what little cell reception we had to call 911. We ended up getting airlifted out in a helicopter.
did they charge you for the airlift (great story by the way)?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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No...so if you ever want a free helicopter ride...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: insipidtoast]
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We used to get that wierd flash of light in the night sky every once in awhile too. We talked about that in another thread recently. I always thought that was kinda creepy too.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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wildernessjunkie said: True story.
I used to work in wilderness therapy. We used to listen to the "Nightwalkers" pace laps around the tent/tipi at night. Regular, human paced footsteps, walking round, and round the shelter all night. No tracks to confirm it, just the sound. Really regular reports. All in eastern oregon. We found out later that there was a Shoshone burial ground close by.
I have extensive experience, living and teaching in the backcountry of eastern Oregon, and there are places out there that I WILL NOT camp out in.
see, this kind of shit is extremely creepy too me. and when you bring it up with most people, they just look at you like you're fuckin' nuts.
that said, i distinctly remember recounting my wilderness scare with friends the day after it happened and i could tell they believed me just by the look on their faces.
Seriously...
I'm loving all these stories guys, keep em coming.
Insipid, that sounds like so many of, what me and my bro call "misery trips"... Minus the helicopter ride, that would have been awesome. Exhausted and scared.... I feel amazing just reflecting on the relief of exiting the places after such experiences...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
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I have a good ghost story. It happened to me around seven years ago, so the details are a little fuzzy. I should also note that I will tell events how I perceived them, which means I will let you decide what I imagined because of fear and what really happened.
My brother, my best friend, and I lived way out in the woods. There wasn't anybody else to hang out with or anything to do but play in the woods. So we were always out exploring the woods looking for a way to have fun.
One day we went out a direction we hadn't been before. We went up over this large hill and down the other side. On the other side there was a valley with a creek that we went down to.
We started to explore around this creek. It was pretty neat, it was clear and had rocks on the bottom, unlike most of the creeks around that were muddy.
Eventually we came upon this strange place. The ground was all burnt in a large circle and when we stepped into the circle everything got really quiet. The kind of quiet the woods never get unless something (usually bad) is happening.
We all caught on to this immediately. Looking at eachother, we didn't really know what to do. My brother was kind of uneasy, but was trying to reason away the fear. My friend and I just wanted to bail.
It was just one of those creepy vibes that you get in the woods sometimes. We started to head back and realized that it was just starting to get dark out. Also, unluckily for us it seemed some clouds were moving in and making it darked by the minute.
We were moving fairly quickly as we headed home. The entire way we could all feel something following us and watching. A couple of times we were sure we saw a shadowy something (for lack of a better word). It seemed to be like any old shadow in the woods, except it would move, flowing along the ground after us.
By this time we were all paranoid out of our minds. It got dark and we were in the woods with whatever this thing following us was. The woods still remained completely quiet.
To pile on our fear, as we neared home, fog began to roll in. It was neck deep and not too noticeable at first. Whisps that just sent a chill down your spine without really registering in your conscious mind.
The fog continued to get thicker as we swiftly hiked back. We got to this big field that goes from the edge of the woods to my house. It was covered in neck deep fog that couldn't be seen through.
We decided to make a break for it. We sprinted the final 200 yards or so. At one point I looked back and saw a menacing looking shadow try to leave the forest, but it was unable.
Of course no one believed us. They all said we had over active imaginations and were just being kids. It's hard to describe, but that fear was caused by something. To this day, I have never gone back to that spot. I don't plan on it either.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Aser]
#14388910 - 05/02/11 02:24 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Aser said: I have a good ghost story. It happened to me around seven years ago, so the details are a little fuzzy. I should also note that I will tell events how I perceived them, which means I will let you decide what I imagined because of fear and what really happened.
My brother, my best friend, and I lived way out in the woods. There wasn't anybody else to hang out with or anything to do but play in the woods. So we were always out exploring the woods looking for a way to have fun.
One day we went out a direction we hadn't been before. We went up over this large hill and down the other side. On the other side there was a valley with a creek that we went down to.
We started to explore around this creek. It was pretty neat, it was clear and had rocks on the bottom, unlike most of the creeks around that were muddy.
Eventually we came upon this strange place. The ground was all burnt in a large circle and when we stepped into the circle everything got really quiet. The kind of quiet the woods never get unless something (usually bad) is happening.
We all caught on to this immediately. Looking at eachother, we didn't really know what to do. My brother was kind of uneasy, but was trying to reason away the fear. My friend and I just wanted to bail.
It was just one of those creepy vibes that you get in the woods sometimes. We started to head back and realized that it was just starting to get dark out. Also, unluckily for us it seemed some clouds were moving in and making it darked by the minute.
We were moving fairly quickly as we headed home. The entire way we could all feel something following us and watching. A couple of times we were sure we saw a shadowy something (for lack of a better word). It seemed to be like any old shadow in the woods, except it would move, flowing along the ground after us.
By this time we were all paranoid out of our minds. It got dark and we were in the woods with whatever this thing following us was. The woods still remained completely quiet.
To pile on our fear, as we neared home, fog began to roll in. It was neck deep and not too noticeable at first. Whisps that just sent a chill down your spine without really registering in your conscious mind.
The fog continued to get thicker as we swiftly hiked back. We got to this big field that goes from the edge of the woods to my house. It was covered in neck deep fog that couldn't be seen through.
We decided to make a break for it. We sprinted the final 200 yards or so. At one point I looked back and saw a menacing looking shadow try to leave the forest, but it was unable.
Of course no one believed us. They all said we had over active imaginations and were just being kids. It's hard to describe, but that fear was caused by something. To this day, I have never gone back to that spot. I don't plan on it either.
I personally find this really strange...
Shadows and Wisps...
In my experience, they are actually the most common of the things I witness with my eyes when such things are happening in the forest. It's almost as if they have the ability to directly induce terror... A fear exterior to the internal fear you are already experiencing... There was a time me my brother and his girlfriend were sitting down in the dark along a river shore in the forest and suddenly it literally felt like something tugged on my consciousness, I Instantly asked if everyone else felt that and of course they did. And as strange and far fetched as it sounds, we could see some surrealistic skeletal like figure made of shadows darker than the already dark night dancing toward us, it was not literally dancing of course, this is just the only word capable of describing it's un-earthly way of moving. I had never seen people go as fast from directly sitting to sprinting as we did... We made it out of the trees, my bro and his girl were way too afraid to look back, I saw the shadow lingering back there but saw a wisp moving around, once we out of there and onto a street, I looked back and saw it, the only way I can describe how it looked is like mist or smoke that had that stretched, sharp, unmixed with air look, frozen in time. It made my body so cold, intense surges down the spine, hair standing all over my body... At one point it felt like it was trying to understand what I am, whilst warning me. I nick named it "The Visitor"
I have other experiences with menacing shadows and the like following myself and others through the forest, causing similar phenomenon, but it's the same old story and feelings manifesting in a different way at a different time... To be honest, it's more real than I myself would really like to acknowledge...
After going down to that spot a few more times, we decided that it was just one of those special places... and that we would not go back. I almost did a couple times but my brother 100% refuses. It's honestly not something I'd like to experience again. But given my closeness, love and work in nature, experiencing such things is unavoidable at times.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
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Raven Gnosis said: I have other experiences with menacing shadows and the like following myself and others through the forest, causing similar phenomenon, but it's the same old story and feelings manifesting in a different way at a different time... To be honest, it's more real than I myself would really like to acknowledge...
After going down to that spot a few more times, we decided that it was just one of those special places... and that we would not go back. I almost did a couple times but my brother 100% refuses. It's honestly not something I'd like to experience again. But given my closeness, love and work in nature, experiencing such things is unavoidable at times.
i wonder, do you think that these "spirits" or whatever they are are attracted to certain persons? i mean, many people spend countless hours in the woods and nature in general and would have serious doubts about the stories me, you and others here are recounting.
is it that the spirits are always there and only some can see them? any thoughts on this?
also, how have you come to a place of "peace" with being in nature and knowing that there is a very real possibility of coming across a potentially malevolent "spirit"? do you think that perhaps this is partly why native americans had such a deep reverence and respect for their surroundings?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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Raven Gnosis said: I have other experiences with menacing shadows and the like following myself and others through the forest, causing similar phenomenon, but it's the same old story and feelings manifesting in a different way at a different time... To be honest, it's more real than I myself would really like to acknowledge...
After going down to that spot a few more times, we decided that it was just one of those special places... and that we would not go back. I almost did a couple times but my brother 100% refuses. It's honestly not something I'd like to experience again. But given my closeness, love and work in nature, experiencing such things is unavoidable at times.
i wonder, do you think that these "spirits" or whatever they are are attracted to certain persons? i mean, many people spend countless hours in the woods and nature in general and would have serious doubts about the stories me, you and others here are recounting.
is it that the spirits are always there and only some can see them? any thoughts on this?
also, how have you come to a place of "peace" with being in nature and knowing that there is a very real possibility of coming across a potentially malevolent "spirit"? do you think that perhaps this is partly why native americans had such a deep reverence and respect for their surroundings?
Talking from my experience, I'd say it's safe to assume that they are attracted to other individuals more than others, or more violently roused by their presence rather. I know many people who hadn't experienced anything of that nature until they were around me, but I'm used to it and it happens to me often enough, so, it's the norm for me.
I think they are perceivable by anyone. perhaps it takes the right kind of person to catch their attention, maybe someone more connected to that place or maybe it takes walking into the right place at the right time, or some sort of cosmic opening for a lack of better words, or a combination of all of these. I'm not even going to pretend to understand, because I really don't. It's implications are haunting and humbling to me, has deepened my life, no doubt, even though much of it is dark and terrifying. I think most people prefer the other end of the spectrum of experiences....
I've come to a place of peace with it just by openness, acceptance and respect, not to mention nothing is 'gunna keep me away from nature, too much a part of myself. I don't even see the dark things as evil anymore, perhaps some of them are, but, regardless they are obviously much older than I and demand my respect. Who am I to be so arrogant as to act like I am something beyond or more and have the right to walk into a place like I own it. I've actually had several encounters when I could feel it and spoke respectfully to it and left with nothing but hair standing on end, not being followed or having that terrifying feeling as if it is lunging at me or chasing me.
I get chills thinking about this one spot... It's like the thing always runs up behind me, I hear it and feel it... Your damned sure something is there and then there is nothing... Which makes it worse in my opinion... It can be the most beautiful relaxed sunny day, lah dee dah, birds singing, prancing down the trail with flowers in your hand and a smile on your face and it will still happen.... Hair on end, finding yourself suddenly about face ready to fight for your life.... Nothing... Stillness... The eeriest fucking feeling ever... I sincerely hate it, you can't help but shuffle or run as fast as you can out of that grove...
I have no doubt in my mind that the natives had reverence for these things... I can find direct evidence in it while looking at their histories and cultures... Some of the falls here they did not visit and were strictly forbidden by anyone but shamen on rare occasions, because they were such powerful places of spirit. I didn't learn this until looking it up after having a frightening experience at one of the falls at night with a few of my compadres. It was almost as if it was magnified because of the falls... Which made sense to me after reading the history.
It can be pretty overwhelming at times. So, I often don't speak about it until after something happens, I feel I often do a good job with making people more o.k. with it, especially when I tell them they have no reason to be scared unless I am, never know what people are subjectively experiencing though.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
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Raven Gnosis said: I have other experiences with menacing shadows and the like following myself and others through the forest, causing similar phenomenon, but it's the same old story and feelings manifesting in a different way at a different time... To be honest, it's more real than I myself would really like to acknowledge...
After going down to that spot a few more times, we decided that it was just one of those special places... and that we would not go back. I almost did a couple times but my brother 100% refuses. It's honestly not something I'd like to experience again. But given my closeness, love and work in nature, experiencing such things is unavoidable at times.
i wonder, do you think that these "spirits" or whatever they are are attracted to certain persons? i mean, many people spend countless hours in the woods and nature in general and would have serious doubts about the stories me, you and others here are recounting.
is it that the spirits are always there and only some can see them? any thoughts on this?
also, how have you come to a place of "peace" with being in nature and knowing that there is a very real possibility of coming across a potentially malevolent "spirit"? do you think that perhaps this is partly why native americans had such a deep reverence and respect for their surroundings?
Talking from my experience, I'd say it's safe to assume that they are attracted to other individuals more than others, or more violently roused by their presence rather. I know many people who hadn't experienced anything of that nature until they were around me, but I'm used to it and it happens to me often enough, so, it's the norm for me.
I think they are perceivable by anyone. perhaps it takes the right kind of person to catch their attention, maybe someone more connected to that place or maybe it takes walking into the right place at the right time, or some sort of cosmic opening for a lack of better words, or a combination of all of these. I'm not even going to pretend to understand, because I really don't. It's implications are haunting and humbling to me, has deepened my life, no doubt, even though much of it is dark and terrifying. I think most people prefer the other end of the spectrum of experiences....
I've come to a place of peace with it just by openness, acceptance and respect, not to mention nothing is 'gunna keep me away from nature, too much a part of myself. I don't even see the dark things as evil anymore, perhaps some of them are, but, regardless they are obviously much older than I and demand my respect. Who am I to be so arrogant as to act like I am something beyond or more and have the right to walk into a place like I own it. I've actually had several encounters when I could feel it and spoke respectfully to it and left with nothing but hair standing on end, not being followed or having that terrifying feeling as if it is lunging at me or chasing me.
I get chills thinking about this one spot... It's like the thing always runs up behind me, I hear it and feel it... Your damned sure something is there and then there is nothing... Which makes it worse in my opinion... It can be the most beautiful relaxed sunny day, lah dee dah, birds singing, prancing down the trail with flowers in your hand and a smile on your face and it will still happen.... Hair on end, finding yourself suddenly about face ready to fight for your life.... Nothing... Stillness... The eeriest fucking feeling ever... I sincerely hate it, you can't help but shuffle or run as fast as you can out of that grove...
I have no doubt in my mind that the natives had reverence for these things... I can find direct evidence in it while looking at their histories and cultures... Some of the falls here they did not visit and were strictly forbidden by anyone but shamen on rare occasions, because they were such powerful places of spirit. I didn't learn this until looking it up after having a frightening experience at one of the falls at night with a few of my compadres. It was almost as if it was magnified because of the falls... Which made sense to me after reading the history.
It can be pretty overwhelming at times. So, I often don't speak about it until after something happens, I feel I often do a good job with making people more o.k. with it, especially when I tell them they have no reason to be scared unless I am, never know what people are subjectively experiencing though.
great response 
i suppose for those of us who are more "aware" of the spirit world around us it would be a good idea to come to a place of humble acceptance of that which is far, far beyond our control. perhaps these experiences are a part of involuntarily (or voluntarily for some) recognizing your limited reach of power over any given situation.
to be honest, i'm still trying to come to terms with my own personal "fears" of camping alone in the woods. i have a vivid imagination and being alone in the woods at night is a surefire way to stoke the primitive imagination far beyond the realm of reason and sanity.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
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This thread is really great, folks! Keep it up. I actually feel chills down my spine when I read some of these stories. It's refreshing to see that some people on the internet actually know how to write
Raven Gnosis, I really like what your location says. What an interesting way to think of the earth. After reading your posts, I'd love to take a walk through your woods sometime. I've never experienced anything like what you've described. I figure I'd be the person who wouldn't perceive anything while you are freaking out and saying, "we shouldn't be here."
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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Raven Gnosis said: I have other experiences with menacing shadows and the like following myself and others through the forest, causing similar phenomenon, but it's the same old story and feelings manifesting in a different way at a different time... To be honest, it's more real than I myself would really like to acknowledge...
After going down to that spot a few more times, we decided that it was just one of those special places... and that we would not go back. I almost did a couple times but my brother 100% refuses. It's honestly not something I'd like to experience again. But given my closeness, love and work in nature, experiencing such things is unavoidable at times.
i wonder, do you think that these "spirits" or whatever they are are attracted to certain persons? i mean, many people spend countless hours in the woods and nature in general and would have serious doubts about the stories me, you and others here are recounting.
is it that the spirits are always there and only some can see them? any thoughts on this?
also, how have you come to a place of "peace" with being in nature and knowing that there is a very real possibility of coming across a potentially malevolent "spirit"? do you think that perhaps this is partly why native americans had such a deep reverence and respect for their surroundings?
I don't think it's mere correlation that human society is more and more plagued with violence, discord and general alienation at the same rate that nature is destroyed.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: insipidtoast]
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OK so I was camping out on the banks of the Murray River about 2 weeks ago on my own,clearing my head from a very intense trip I had about a week earlier.I hadn't taken any psychedelics since I tripped balls the last time so I am certain that I wasn't seeing shit..Anyway,It was a magic day,filled with fishing,bush walking and a shit load of JWH-018. After I had made myself dinner and drank a few beers I decided it was time to catch a few Z's.So i retire to my tent,smoke a few more cones of J and proceed to have one of the most amazing sleeps of my life,until I was woken buy a faint stratching noise.I open my tent to find a water rat having a good old munch of a packet of Mi Goreng noodles I had left outside.I let him eat..I tried to fall back to sleep to no avail,so I loaded up another big ass cone full of J and proceeded to choof it like there was no tomorrow.As I'm laying there,feeling the wave of J rush thru me I hear a very loud,and close,rustling noise in the close by scrub.I thought it could be a waterfowl but that shit was too loud to be waterfowl.By this stage the J has completely taken hold of my mind.That mixed with these spooky noises was enough to get me up and out of my tent to inspect.As I was getting ready to unzip my tent this big fuck off shadow ran right past me,not 5 feet from where I was!.All I saw was a silhouette that looked to be that of a person run off into the distance and fade away into the night. As the sun rose I went outside to look for footprints,or anything that could explain what this shadow was.NOTHING! I could not see footprints or claw marks of waterfowl..Scared the living shit out of me!..Keep in mind that where I live there are no bears,mountain lions or any freaky shit like that.just kangaroos,pig,snakes and rabbits and the odd fox.Be fucked if I know what it was but I would like to know..I plan on camping out in the same spot in a few more weeks with a good mate and video cameras
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: spacecaked]
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cool story caked
Summer is here in the UK and i am going camping in a week, im in the south, if anyone wants to go camping just
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: spacecaked]
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Never camp again 
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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nice vid nice1 
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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I gotta admit last time I camped solo in the wilderness, I remembered watching that and I felt a wee bit scared but then just felt like fuck it, it would be kinda cool. 
I mean scary things can be good like theme park rides and in the words of Bil Hicks - life is just a ride If I got a chance I'd jab an alien in the face. It would be funny They probably just suck my sperms out and make weird alien babies tho.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
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Mt Lions creep me out too. They just sit and watch and wait and plot your demise. They measure you up and weigh the options. Deciding on what one of us would be tastier.
One time just over the CA/OR border in the southern part of Oregon. We where camped out at the bottom of a hill at a friends cabin. Trails and mines all up on the hill behind us. The late night crew consisted of three of us. We were the ones that slept outside and stayed up late. The first night I slept just up on the hill in my hammock overlooking the cabin. Just off one of the trails. The second night, we were at the fire pit, just sitting around the fire chatting. The fire reflected on the leaves on the hill and made the place glow. I look up towards where my hammock was and debated going up to sleep. As I looked up I saw these two lime green fire lit eyes staring back at me, it was big its eyes at least 5 or 6 inches apart. It let out this noise I never heard before and I could only assume it was a mountain lion. like RRRRYEEEEEEEEEEEEEOWrrrrrr.
we wigged out
There is also an abandoned train tunnel by my house that is flooded and the falling apart. when I'm down in or around it I get a very weird feeling sometimes. Sometimes I think its just that cold air from the tunnel but I get a feeling like I'm being watched. Nothing crazy just weird.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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nice1 said: If I got a chance I'd jab an alien in the face.

i have a friend who claims he shot a grey type alien while camping at a cabin in Canada
But yea you gotta watch out for these fuckers, if you see one dont fool around and put it down for good
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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hahaha yeah its an inside joke for me. One of my friends asked me if aliens were real and I said "yeah most likely" and he was like "if I see one I'll jab it in the face"
I was just thinking well yeah good luck. If its got the brains to get here unlikely u can jab it.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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wow great thread, I dont really have any crazy outdoor stories but I have one from when I passed out at my best buddies house and he swore up and down that it was haunted. He had stories of stuff flying across the room off of the mantle in front of a dozen people, all the kitchen drawers opening all at once...
So anyways everybody had either passed out downstairs or left, actually only me and him there (he was downstairs passed out on the couch). So his dog was cool for most of the night but later on in the evening the guy kept hanging out right beside me, never paid too much attention to it though. So after a couple hours of watching spike on the tv I was ready to pass out, but for at least a hour or so someone had been pacing back and forth upstairs, (3:30am) sounded like they kept going to the bathroom, toilet never flushed though.
Anyways they had been making enough noise that I had to go see what was going on before I went to pass out since the noise was going to keep me up (light sleeper, its terrible), I thought it was his sister since she was around but ended up heading home with her boyfriend before I went to lie down. So I walk down the hallway to go up the stairs and the dog jumps up and is hugging up against my right leg the whole way, then at the landing he takes a good look up the stairs and lets out this serious growl, and this thing was a nice mellow dog, first time ive heard him make a fuss. Anways I walk up the stairs and turn the light on, buster freaking out the whole way, glued to the side of my leg, although me being slightly drunk im still feeling fearless so not too sketched out. Get upstairs and check all the rooms, NOBODY up there, and there is NO FUCKING WAY I WAS IMAGINING SOMEONE BEING UP THERE!
After that I had no choice but to seriously believe in ghosts, I entertained the idea before but that is my moment of belief right there. I was way too lucid to chalk that one off, and the dog tripping just seals the deal imo.
Actually would almost like to be psychically attacked by something off of our density though, just to see what it feels like. After the last couple years of meditation I have gotten my energy body sensitive to some pretty minuscule stuff, and If somebody I dont like standing in my comfort zone is like nails on a chalkboard x100 then a astral entity that has enough of a presence that most people can pick up on it must be incredible to feel. And trying to shield the group would be a trip, if you could pull it off wouldnt that be something!
Anyways I love to hear when people have enough faith in their own senses that they will admit that it's not just anxiousness they're feeling, there is so much more out there than we understand, and ghost stories are the beginning step that we need to understanding all this
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Spiralout112]
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Spiralout112 said: Anyways I love to hear when people have enough faith in their own senses that they will admit that it's not just anxiousness they're feeling, there is so much more out there than we understand, and ghost stories are the beginning step that we need to understanding all this 
Great story  
You make a good point there... Notice how the dog doesn't need to question its logical mind He knows theres some freaky shit there and is on fight or flight!
I've seen an orb / appirition in a graveyard before. (cliche i know) Me and my friends used to do a lot of ghost hunting but we never saw anything. We would go into graveyeards late at night and ask them to show theirselves but never saw anything.
One night loads of us and some girls went to this one graveyard to smoke a spliff and this thing, made of glowing light just appeared right in front of everyone and floated along. The girls all got up and ran - I stayed to the end and watched it - trying to figure out what it could possibly be, like how anyone could of tricked us. Then I left straight away as well when it disappeared and I ran back to the group.
I could find no logical explaination. If it was a trick it would have to off been a person but how they could possibly appear in front of us, glowing without lighting up the ground underneath it I have to say it was something unexplained. Maybe a ghost or some form of plasma I certainly had no regular explaination.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1]
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nice1 said: The girls all got up and ran - I stayed to the end and watched it
yea thats the way dude
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this thread sucks, I keep looking behind me every 15 seconds
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: duster]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Another story. Just remembered another freaky ass experience.
I was fresh out of High School. Working for a hunting outfitter. I ended up packing out 2 Elk by horseback in the dark. I was on the trail by moonlight, mostly sleeping in the saddle. It was me, the horse, and 4 mules with elk quarters on them.
It was a full moon, with the moon shining through a partly overcast sky. Very light snow falling. Reached the base camp at about 2:30 in the morning. Camped out then headed back up the mountain in the morning.
Thats when I found the EXTREMELY large mountain lion tracks directly over and on top of the tracks of my pack string. Scared the shit out of me.
Most people dont realize how big these animals are. I gained a new respect that night. I never knew a 150+lb cat was stalking me down the mountain until the next day. It was completely silent, and never had any intention of letting me know it was there.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
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wildernessjunkie said: Another story. Just remembered another freaky ass experience.
I was fresh out of High School. Working for a hunting outfitter. I ended up packing out 2 Elk by horseback in the dark. I was on the trail by moonlight, mostly sleeping in the saddle. It was me, the horse, and 4 mules with elk quarters on them.
It was a full moon, with the moon shining through a partly overcast sky. Very light snow falling. Reached the base camp at about 2:30 in the morning. Camped out then headed back up the mountain in the morning.
Thats when I found the EXTREMELY large mountain lion tracks directly over and on top of the tracks of my pack string. Scared the shit out of me.
Most people dont realize how big these animals are. I gained a new respect that night. I never knew a 150+lb cat was stalking me down the mountain until the next day. It was completely silent, and never had any intention of letting me know it was there.
all i can say is "damn"
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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wildernessjunkie said: Another story. Just remembered another freaky ass experience.
I was fresh out of High School. Working for a hunting outfitter. I ended up packing out 2 Elk by horseback in the dark. I was on the trail by moonlight, mostly sleeping in the saddle. It was me, the horse, and 4 mules with elk quarters on them.
It was a full moon, with the moon shining through a partly overcast sky. Very light snow falling. Reached the base camp at about 2:30 in the morning. Camped out then headed back up the mountain in the morning.
Thats when I found the EXTREMELY large mountain lion tracks directly over and on top of the tracks of my pack string. Scared the shit out of me.
Most people dont realize how big these animals are. I gained a new respect that night. I never knew a 150+lb cat was stalking me down the mountain until the next day. It was completely silent, and never had any intention of letting me know it was there.
all i can say is "damn" 
Jesus! That's pretty much my nightmare.
Down in a lot of the southern California wilderness, there's no bears (except where idiots have transplanted them )... The coyotes are small... But there are some crazy mountain lions, and most of them don't seem too scared of humans.
I hike alone too. You don't need to tell me who would win: the skinny 150lb human or the buff 150lb mountain lion. 
I'm always looking over my shoulder out there and paying super close attention. Those things are sneaky as shit. I wouldn't let one within 40 feet of me if I could help it.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: ifoundwaldo]
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I wouldn't call it a creepy experience but theres a bunch of weird stuff i see and can not explain in the woods.
I was walking down the side of a mountain and heard 3-4 "knocks on wood" 3-4 minutes apart and coming from the same distance in front of me even though i was moving down the mountain. It did not sound at all like a bear pushing a tree over or trees falling in general. It sounded like someone taking a wooden baseball bat and hitting the side of a tree as hard as they could.
I also find things i cant explain. All over the mountains where i live i find trees/sticks in positions that do not seem natural. For example, 6-10 sticks will be vertical and stuck in between trees. Sometimes long 40 foot trees that are a foot wide will be completely horizontal wedged between different trees. They are in nearly every place i hike in the mountains but when i go to urban woods they are very rare. I also find trees bent into arches all over the forest, which, sometimes are wedged between trees. I know snow and ice can make some of the small trees top heavy and cause them to bend, but, this does not explain a lot of the trees being wedged.
Here is a example of what im talking about. Here is 6 different tree limbs being wedged in one tree.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: vjp]
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^^ thats a cool forest, i wish we had something like that here
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Come on guys we need more stories!
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I use to meet my buddy half way between our houses growing up. We lived about 3 miles from each other and most of it was woods and fields. We knew there were coyotes because we could hear them at night howling/yipping all the time, so we always were armed with big knifes and staffs.
One night in the winter we got permission to have a sleep over so we agreed to meet half way like we always did. It was snowing pretty hard, so I bundled up and put a trench coat on over everything. I grabbed my staff and my hunting knife, then started making my way through the woods and fields.
About half way to our meeting spot was a wide open field. The snow was pretty deep, but I forged my way through it determined to meet up with my buddy. We were going to smoke a bowl before we turned around and I was pretty excited because we just found out how awesome weed was and we had some. So needless to say, I was thinking about how much fun the sleep over was going to be while I made my way across a open field.
I was half way across the field when I got an immediate impending doom feeling. I mean creeped out hardcore. I dropped to the ground and moved the snow out of the way in one motion. I held my staff at the ready and peered around slowly trying to find what had me so on edge all of the sudden. I focused on the direction I came from and saw 8 shapes moving towards me at a decent pace.
The hairs on my body all stood on edge. I felt an energy in me almost giving my hyper awareness to my surroundings. Everything felt clear even tho I felt impending doom. It didn't take 10 seconds for me to rip my hoodie string out of my hood and pull my knife out. I tied it to my staff as fast as I could. My hear was racing. I looked up every other second to judge the shapes coming closer. I got it tied tight and ducked down with my spear angled right at the shapes. I just watched them running right towards me like they were hunting me. About 50 foot way I still couldn't see what they were through the falling snow. I stood up and a primal rage came screaming from my soul. I was wide eyed and ready for anything.
The shapes in front of me made it about 30 feet before they stopped. They reared and almost fell over. It was a small herd of deer! lol
They didn't even know I was there. They didn't see me hunker down or smell me because of the wind direction. I wasn't safe even tho they were deer. There were 8 of them about 30 feet away and they were scared to death. There was a buck and it was aiming it's antlers right at me. I screamed a primal roar again and raised my spear. They all took off in the other direction like the devil was chasing them.
It didn't end up being some awesome story of me trying to fight off hungry coyotes or anything, but the intensity of the deer meeting me in a open field with falling snow all around us was energetic. It was crazy that we met in the same spot in a snowstorm and just scared the shit out of each other. I was proud that I didn't freak out and freeze. I was ready. Even tho I was scared I didn't act like a coward, I protected myself and was ready for anything.
It's funny as hell now, but then it made me feel proud of myself. I didn't freak out like some little kid would, I was going to face whatever was coming and I was going to face it alone. I was ready to take care of myself.
I know coyotes are scared of humans normally, but sometimes in the winter they would get a bit braver to catch their next meal. I was only 15 at the time and didn't know how dangerous they could be in the situation I was in. I remembered my mom telling me stories of coyotes chasing her home from school when she was a kid. She had to climb a tree and couldn't come down until someone came to scare them off with a shotgun. It was a hard winter at the time and they were hungry enough to attack a human. I figured that those shapes were hungry coyotes coming for me.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Kada]
#14731492 - 07/07/11 02:29 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's a great story Kada. It's more than ok to feel proud of yourself coming out of a situation like that. I know I would.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: nice1] 2
#14732433 - 07/07/11 05:42 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Kada said: Without getting into to much detail.
My friends and i use to hike through the woods and just camp where ever we felt like when i was a kid. One night we hiked into what we called "The Deep Woods". We never went there because we would watch strange lights above and in the woods there all the time. We camped in a smaller set of woods about a mile away all the time, so we were use to noticing across the field whenever the lights would show up. Anyways, the night we camped there was really freaky.
We set up camp and went on a hike to check things out further in the woods. We loved roaming around and exploring. On our way back to the campsite we saw a light above the tree tops so we ran like hell back to the camp site and ran into the tent to hide like scared little kids. We remember all huddled up in a pile scared to death. The lights got super close to the tent and we heard things in the woods right by the tent. All of the sudden we woke up and it was morning.
We got up like normal, not even remembering the night before at all. We packed up our things and started hiking back out of the woods. We got around the corner where a small opening in the woods were and we saw a big burn mark in the grass. It was really big and the ground was scorched in a weird pattern. All of the sudden we remembered the night before. We ran 5 miles home at a dead run screaming like idiots. We left some of our gear behind so we could run faster. It was like instant panic. Of course our parents didn't believe us. I don't know if i would believe anyone telling me that story.
Another time i was camping with one friend by a field behind his house and we felt/heard a low humming noise. We got out of the tent and noticed that worms and bugs were coming up from the ground and acting weird. The humming intensified and i looked up to see a huge ship moving about 50 meters above the tree tops and moving out across the field. It was about as big as a city block. I remember looking at it and just thinking that there was no fucking way that was any kind of airplane anyone had ever seen. It was like something out of star wars. We ran into his house screaming at the top of our lungs and my friends mom freaked out on us for waking her up. she wouldn't hear a damn thing we had to say and just sent me home. I ran all the way there looking at the sky the whole time.
I have had nightmares about aliens coming to get me ever since all this happened. So that's why i am really freaked out when i see movies with aliens in it. I'm talking i get terrified. I'm not presuming anything about the stuff i saw when i was younger, i just remember plain as day what i saw and it still scares me. I don't know why it scares me as much as it does, but it is paralyzing fear.
Yes i know you think I'm bat shit crazy now. But you asked.
Those were not the only odd things in the sky we would see out in the fields and woods, but those are the ones i remember the most.
Camping + UFO = WTF
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Kada]
#14735718 - 07/08/11 11:03 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was just looking at some other horror stories on the net and i was shocked - most of them involve some kind of fatality or something very tragic.
And in 4 pages in this thread there wasnt anything nasty happen to any of us.
I must say we hippies are strong bunch, theyre fucking with the wrong ones!
ps. if anyone hasnt read another story of mine it is in this forum http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/14524940/fpart/1
not exactly wilderness but in on the outskirts of town
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14739568 - 07/09/11 03:37 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ive got a good one:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread522771/pg1
Guys how do you go about reinforcing your door?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14739654 - 07/09/11 05:12 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Abandon PA turnpike Breezewood PA Im a driver and i normally do some walking everyday. Walked up on this abandon highway one day after following a bike trail and it turned out to be an abandon highway. Really cool place but i wouldn't recommend trying the 1 mile long tunnel without a flashlight. I turned back the first time cause i was too skeeeered. And most likely the creepiest place ive ever been on a hike.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#14739855 - 07/09/11 07:20 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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preschooler said: Abandon PA turnpike Breezewood PA Im a driver and i normally do some walking everyday. Walked up on this abandon highway one day after following a bike trail and it turned out to be an abandon highway. Really cool place but i wouldn't recommend trying the 1 mile long tunnel without a flashlight. I turned back the first time cause i was too skeeeered. And most likely the creepiest place ive ever been on a hike.

The kind of place that does it for me.......
All "Abandoned World" Style. Reminds me of that "Life after people" show.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Caine]
#14740693 - 07/09/11 12:01 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Caine said: On that note ^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
That would make a great movie
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
#14740841 - 07/09/11 12:41 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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preschooler said: Abandon PA turnpike Breezewood PA Im a driver and i normally do some walking everyday. Walked up on this abandon highway one day after following a bike trail and it turned out to be an abandon highway. Really cool place but i wouldn't recommend trying the 1 mile long tunnel without a flashlight. I turned back the first time cause i was too skeeeered. And most likely the creepiest place ive ever been on a hike.

The kind of place that does it for me.......
All "Abandoned World" Style. Reminds me of that "Life after people" show.
Abandoned World?
How about untapped nature, where are virtually no humans,only animal and mystical beasts!  
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14741029 - 07/09/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would have throw a rave in that tunnel. glow paint all over the walls... would have been badass..
so i was once hiking. 5 mile trip to a camping spot with some friends. A long trip cuz we were stupid and carried 2 ice chests in. took us 10 hours. So at one point in the trail where it was a straight drop off cliff. (at night) we shined the light up on the hill. My friend saw 2 eyes. I did it 5 mins later down the trail, and i saw 2 eyes. This was up on the hill.
Imagine a mountain side, so the trail is cut into it. You know what im saying. Whatever it was, it was fucking stalking us for about 30 mins. (that we know of)
This was in AZ (desert area), so mountain lion or bobcat. idk. but it was fucking weird. And this was 9 hours in. We were so tired, we could barely walk any further.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: dshow]
#14743927 - 07/10/11 03:41 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Guys, i will take the cake, with the best wilderness story.
Note although it is mostly dreams, it is there alright in real life too.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/10199746#10199746
few nights ago i saw another dream like that. I was heading towards the place i was talking about, it was calling me... but then i encountered some obstraction which i cant explain that well, basically i got stuck mid way.
But i got closer than ever before.
I really want to go there in real life. I hear that similar "telluric anomalies" exist in UK too but its much smaller.
I dont know what this is all about but if to take a wild guess it has something to do with "The Net" which was placed by anunaki on our planet.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14744065 - 07/10/11 05:40 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Can you say, wilderness beast?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread717432/pg1
Poor bastard, Shanty town kids stoned it.
They could have befriended it, who knows what would happen, maybe get a prize or something.
Have you guys noticed how so many mystical creature sightings been recorded in south america?
And look at this thread when you alone in the country at night :
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread726459/pg1
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
#14744451 - 07/10/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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The kind of place that does it for me.......
All "Abandoned World" Style. Reminds me of that "Life after people" show.
That smiley completely defines my expression when i walked up on this place.
To the comment about the rave...i couldnt imagine what it would be like to have music going in there and lots of people. You can hear water drops in that that thing from hundreds of feet away
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#14745033 - 07/10/11 11:38 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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i've enjoyed reading such stroies.may i return at a more sobrer momnt nd ad to this...triple vsion fo life..*insert some kind of relevan crazy emoicon huuur*
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: spacecaked]
#14745429 - 07/10/11 01:01 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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That tunnel is awesome, we have some around here that run under the old psych ward property but they are much narrower and have no discernable exit point
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis] 4
#14752218 - 07/11/11 04:11 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm always surprised that everybody doesn't have more of these stories. I mostly attribute it to the intentional & sub-intentional withering of 'wilderness' or 'wildness' from the human paradigm.
I mostly live in the wilderness, on my very rural homestead, as well as working, hunting, fishing even further out on an almost daily basis. Considering the sights that I have seen, it comes as no surprise that people who retain more of the connection to nature, wildness, awe of this mysterious world, tend to be more superstitious than the more modernized counterparts. Perhaps all of these experiences are completely natural, but until a person finds undeniable evidence of phenomena, they are relegated to the realm of magic.
Story: Perhaps the creepiest of my experiences was when I was 10, in the swampy woods behind my parents house in Maryland. The older kids were always telling my siblings, friends & I various stories to scare us, usually relating to various spots in the nearby forests. The worst was the tale of 'old man mad man' who lived in a shack that was visible from the rocky hill where we built forts. Apparently, this man was very violent, and the more mischievous of the story tellers would always claim to have peered into the shack, only to discover that the walls were covered in children's penises, which old man mad man had apparently amputated.
So I never really believed anything they told me, even at a young age, especially since I was always in those woods & had never heard or seen anybody around that shack for as long as I could remember. One day my older sister, myself & our two friends decided to go and investigate around that shack. Firstly, we noticed several gutted, rusting vehicles sprawled into the yard, including and old-fashioned ice cream truck. Additionally, there was a pile of beer cans which was many times my size as a ten year old, seemed like a mountain. The shack was dilapidated, seemed like it could have been thete for a century, just having boards & beams replaced as the older ones rotted away.
Just as I was getting closer to the shack (the windows were boarded up & I really wanted to see what was inside), we all heard a motor coming towards us down the long dirt driveway/road. What we saw was a massive man, wearing filthy blue coveralls, riding towards us on a small dirtbike (the common little red ones that kids ride), he was easily 4 times the size of the bike. But it took us a minute to realise what was happening, that this WAS old man mad man, & that he was now only a hundred yards or so away!
He dropped the bike & started to run us down, full speed. At some point he had picked up a large sheet or blade of metal from the debris strewn ground, and was cursing us and challenging us to come back as we tore away down the hill. Fortunately, these woods are very dense with thorny underbrush, and as young children we were far more maneuverable, and managed to escape, leaving him shouting at an increasing distance.
So after a couple of days of 'holy shit', & trying to tell the story to a favored adult (who didn't really believe us), there came a local news story. The man that chased us had slit his girlfriends throat, in the very shack that we were chased from. He left her to die, but she managed to escape to his parents house, which was apparently located down the dirt road some ways (never seen it). Then, a two day search/chase ensued, as the man had caught wind & run off. He was found, by a helicopter, hiding in our fort which we had built on that rocky hillside overlooking his shack.
Although very un-paranormal, that is surely the creepiest.
I'm the fifth generation of my family to live in the house where I currently reside, in Kentucky, the 9th generation on this land, generations longer in this area, and we have portraits of 6 generations in the house. There are plenty of phenomena here.
Another feature that I see a lot of, as mentioned by others here, are various lights shining into the night. I've seen plenty of "swamp gas", including a large smoky/illuminated pink sphere that rose out of the swamp, forming a perfect question mark to linger in the sky for a few seconds. That one was seen by 4 of us, sober.
I've seen lots of bioluminescent organisms, insects, mold, mushrooms, algae, bacteria, but there is a certain 'unnatural fire' which I have seen on two separate occasions. It's a solid orb approximately 6-12 inches in diameter, as if somebody dropped a perfectly round, brightly lit light bulb onto the ground. The light was Orange both times, and I watched the first one for at least an hour, left, came back hours later & it was still emitting bright light. The second one I watched only 10 seconds or so. The first was seen way back in the backcountry, 7 miles or so from any trails, maybe 20 miles from a road. The other was seen about a half mile from the road, through thick underbrush. To tell the truth, I had no desire to go any closer to these objects. Perhaps they were emitting some form of potentially dangerous radiation, but I for one had no interest to find out. Still don't.
Yet another group of incidents would be the UFO's.
Somebody mentioned eastern Oregon earlier in the thread, such a lovely region. Glass butte was named in particular, a spot where I've mined a dozen times or so, & for those who are unfamiliar, this part of Oregon is extremely low population density, desert-like, high dry country. The most intense UFO sighting I've made was within view of the glass buttes, above a cinnabar/opalite mine that I frequented when I lived out west. There were perhaps 5 or 6 lights, alternating in color, intensity, & also with an occasional strobe effect. These flying crafts were ascending slowly from the ground, high into the sky, and then shooting across the horizon along downward angles, changing directions or even stopping completely from full speed to sudden change. The only audible sound was a mild cracking sound when the velocity increased quickly. To be fair, most of my UFO sightings are clearly attributed to military activity. There's a large military base in the area where I made this sighting. That still doesn't change the fact that it was a UFO to me...
What made that incident interesting on another level, I was out there with two friends & their daughter. I had walked up the mountain for cell service, & they were cooking on a fire by the vehicle, with a completely clear view of the horizon where I had been looking. When I came back down after the lights stopped (it was happening for at least 15 minutes), I started asking them about what they had seen, all three were confused about what I was saying & 'didn't remember' seeing anything.
Phew, that's gotta be my longest post ever, don't make many but I really like this thread & just gotta sit out the afternoon heat every now and then...
Edit: Still too hot out there, another story about the Boone national forest in KY (saw someone else mention that too). I was out late at night after working, driving around in the dark looking for a good spot to camp. I pulled off and found a nice little spot with a fire ring & all, stayed the night, had a torrential downpour, & my dog disappeared into the woods for a while the next morning, but came back & we left without much other strangeness. A few months later, I was driving in a completely different area of the Boone forest (same region but several mountains over from the first spot), I took a small dirt road I had never noticed before, was unfamiliar with, went a few miles & found a decent spot to pull over & camp. In the morning, I awoke & discovered that I was somehow in the same fuckin' spot as that first time (I guess there's two ways to get there?). At this point, something shifted & I could perceive some strange/unusual smells in the air, also, I noticed that my dog was gone again, but I could hear his tags rattling some ways off through the brush. As I made my way to him (dog), I noticed a mound rising from the forest floor, about two feet high or so, with a partial ring of stones around it. Closer yet, with the smell fully pungent now (like animal oil & burnt hair), I realized that there was a large skull partially buried in the center, and the top of the 12 foot wide mound was covered in a shiny brown carpet of animal fur. Closer, and it was clearly the remains of a massive horse with shaggy fur.
I was tempted to take the large, beautiful skull (strangely, the only bone to be seen), but thought better of it and didn't disturb the site.
Edit 2: those glowing orange orbs could be lights fallen from some aircraft, but
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: lIXII]
#14772569 - 07/15/11 12:45 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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There's not much to it except my overactive imagination. So one day while snowboarding (I can't remember for the life of me what resort it was) my family and I cut into the trees like we always do. As usual we get split up but eventually meet up at the lift.
So I'm flying through this powder and all of a sudden I come upon hundreds of those creepy ass blair witch looking twig dolls. The second I saw those I wrecked into a tree well.

With the snow refusing to let go of my board, sucking me in deeper each time I tried to wiggle free, I was freaking out. I started screaming at the tree and the creepy dolls, which I figured only pissed off mother nature and whatever sick twisted fuck decided to hang those there in the first place.
I finally got my board loose after undoing my back binding, rode about a hundred feet without my right leg strapped, and finally mustered up the courage to stop, redo my binding and proceeded to get the hell out of there.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: astroblack]
#14849668 - 07/30/11 09:50 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wish I had some stories to throw in here, but not really. If, like me, you want to get your creepy wilderness experience fix, here is a dandy thread: http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#14850107 - 07/31/11 01:34 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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shivas.wisdom said: I wish I had some stories to throw in here, but not really. If, like me, you want to get your creepy wilderness experience fix, here is a dandy thread: http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236
There are some good stories in there, thank you.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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shivas.wisdom said: I wish I had some stories to throw in here, but not really. If, like me, you want to get your creepy wilderness experience fix, here is a dandy thread: http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236
Ahhhhhhhh that site not working for me! not even googles cashe
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#14850291 - 07/31/11 03:28 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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wow, some of these experiences are freakin creepy 
I camp *alot* but have never had anything bad-creepy happen guess im lucky
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Locky] 2
#14850340 - 07/31/11 04:10 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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That link is a treasure trove..... this story....
This may be very disturbing to some of you. I could never tell this story in person, but it's easier to type it for some reason.
When I and my wife were quite a bit younger, we decided that we would spend the bicentennial outdoors. Yes, July of '76......we're old. We lived in Pueblo at the time, and decided to go hiking, fishing and camp along Lime Creek between Durango and Silverton. There wasn't anything other than brookies in the creek, but they were plentiful and fun to catch.
We left our car by the side of the road along Old Lime Creek Road about 5 miles in from the highway and packed in upstream along the creek with our shepherd, Rebel. It only took us about an hour to get to where we wanted to camp, a nice meadow beside the creek just before a slot canyon that required you to swim to get any further upstream. Either that or take a several mile detour.
We camped uneventfully that night, the third of July, enjoying the sounds of the rippling creek and nature all around us. It was such a nice night that we just slept out under the stars, didn't bother to pitch our little backpacking tent. A little cool, but we had the fire going and our lightweight 30 degree bags, so we were very comfortable.
The next day we had breakfast, packed up and we all swam our way up the creek to the next wide spot with a bit of bank in the canyon, only about 150 yards or so. Now Rebel was never one to turn down a chance to get wet, but we had to do quite a bit of coaxing to get him to follow us up the creek. We fished and splashed upstream a bit, and before we knew it it was lunchtime. We thought we'd fry up some of those brookies but we were in this slot canyon that terminated in a fairly deep pool with about a ten foot rocky waterfall at the end of it.
We decided that I would scale the waterfall and pull the dog and the packs up and then I'd help Maggie get up. It was fairly difficult, even with the help of an old cable left over from a mining operation that was hanging down the side wall of the canyon. It took a LOT of effort and though we finally made it, we looked back down that waterfall and wondered what the heck we were thinking. Rebel was none too happy about it either, and seemed to get more irritable by the minute. We found enough driftwood at the rocky top of the falls to get a fire started and get the fish fried up, but that was about it.
You know the uneasy feeling that several others have mentioned? It was like a switch turned on and we all of a sudden became aware of our surroundings. It grew like a cancer and I actually watched the hair on the back of Rebel's neck stand up. Maggie felt it too and we both noticed that it was getting dark FAST down in this canyon. First thought in my head was a cat, and I actually felt a bit better about that because I figured the cat would leave us be, between the fire and the dog. I told Maggie what I thought and she seemed to feel a bit better, too.
I did not want to get caught in the dark in the canyon, for a bunch of reasons, flash floods etc. I spied what looked like a mine shaft about 2 hundred feet above us, a heck of a steep climb, but it looked like our best bet. We pulled out our flashlights and by the time we reached it it was PITCH black. The dog was a mess by this point, whipping around in circles, whining, yelping and generally being a real pain in the ass. Maggie and I were drenched with sweat and immediately began to freeze. July in the mountains is a weird thing, I have seen blizzard conditions before, but this was like someone turned on the deep freeze.
We were at what looked like the start of a mine, it only went back about ten feet, but there was evidence of fires at the mouth, and they curiously looked fresh. I was too tired to think more about it, I knew we had to get out of our wet clothes, pitch the tent, and climb in our bags before we got serious hypothermia. That was NO fun, let me tell you, having to do all of that by the light of our rapidly dying flashlight. And there was NO firewood anywhere close.
I cursed myself several times for letting things get this far out of control. We finally got the tent pitched right there in the back of this little cave , buck naked as we had no dry clothes left. The sleeping bags were slightly damp too, even though we had stuffed them in plastic garbage bags before our swimming expedition up the canyon. WE FROZE!! It was miserable.
About 1 in the morning I called Rebel into the tent for a little heat. The dog seemed to have calmed down greatly, and with the added heat we drifted off. Sometime during the night I heard something that just about woke me, I was still in a haze, so I fell asleep again immediately. I woke up one other time, because I thought I heard Rebel yip a little bit, but again I was in and out. I put my hand out to pet his head and he licked my hand. I fell asleep again. Maggie later said she fell asleep the same time as I did but never woke up at all during the night.
I woke to the most horrible noise I have ever heard come out of a hundred pound woman. Just the most God-awful shrieks that I have ever heard. I never want to hear that again.
I opened my eyes just in time to see a man at the mouth of the shaft, silhouetted against the morning daylight, looking back at us with the most twisted evil grin I have ever seen on the face of another human. I scrambled to get free of my tightly zipped bag and the little tent while he just crouched there and grinned. When I was just about free, he disappeared. Now, we were granola crunchin' tree huggin' anti-gun nature freaks at the time, so the only thing I had of any consequence as a weapon was my camp knife. I found it after what seemed like hours of searching, but really was probably under a minute. I very cautiously made my way to the entrance, millimeters at a time. The guy was gone.
About that time Maggie started screaming and whimpering again so I rushed back to the back of the shaft. She had struggled out of the tent and was pointing at what used to be Rebel. His head was nearly severed, and the tent and the bags were ruined with the blood all over everything. She had blood all over her, so the first thing I did was make sure she was not injured. Then I checked myself. We were ok,it was all Rebel's blood.
We put on our still damp cold clothes from the night before and then we noticed that our boots were gone. We were in trouble. I had some paracord, so we tied some shirts and towels around our feet and climbed back down towards the creek. We left everything in the mine, except for the knife and some stuff that we shoved in our pockets. It took us 8 hours to get back down to the car, and we were like hamburger. Hands, feet, arms and legs scraped raw, bruised and bleeding. We jumped in, the car started right up thankfully and we left a dust cloud that blanketed the valley as we sped down the rough trail toward Durango.
We limped into the Sheriff's office and we looked like hell. We got our story out, my wife through tears and me talking waaay too fast. but finally got it all out. The deputy said that they would go out first thing in the morning and asked us to stay in town. We had no money for a hotel, so he let us stay in a cell after we showered and changed into prison jumpsuits.
We were there at the jail waiting when the "expedition" returned with the convoy of three trucks. I noticed that all the officers, who were quite wet and filthy, gave us dirty looks as they passed us, and the Deputy that we had talked to the day before herded us back to his office. Then came the interrogation. Turns out that some animal had spread the dog's remains all down the slide to the creek, and he said that there was nothing else there. No tent, no backpacks, nothing. He asked us if we had any drugs. I did not want to admit to him that we had some herb, so I denied it.
It was clear that we were fighting a losing battle. They had come to the conclusion that we were wandering out in the woods high on LSD while a mountain lion had gotten our dog. The bastard even made us change back into our filthy clothes and give back the jumpsuits right then. He told us that he had better never see us again. We left. Maggie was sobbing. I never have been back to Durango.
The thing that I still have nightmares about years later, and I have never mentioned this to Maggie, is....... the second time I woke up when I heard Rebel yelp, was that when his throat was cut?.......and if it was, was it the dog who licked my hand before I fell back asleep?
I still go out in the wilderness, never overnight, out well before dark, only with other people, and always with a big gun. I respect animals, but I fear people.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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shivas.wisdom said: I wish I had some stories to throw in here, but not really. If, like me, you want to get your creepy wilderness experience fix, here is a dandy thread: http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236
Ahhhhhhhh that site not working for me! not even googles cashe
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Mushroom 420 that was fked up bro
"we were granola crunchin' tree huggin' anti-gun nature freaks at the time"
I was just like that when i first discovered spirituality back in 23003, for 3 years i was a tree huggin softie and was taken advantage off because i lost my guard

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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: McMushrooms420]
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holy shit, that is one messed up story (and you told it well)! i sort of fall into the "granola crunching hippie" category but reading some of these stories is making me consider carrying a gun (i only carry a knife at this point) whilst trekking in the forest alone.
thanks for sharing.
also, this thread that shiva linked has some creepy ass stories in it. great find!
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shivas.wisdom said: I wish I had some stories to throw in here, but not really. If, like me, you want to get your creepy wilderness experience fix, here is a dandy thread: http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: McMushrooms420]
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Holy shit. I didn't think it would be that intense but it was. Holy shit. What a crazy, scary story McMushrooms420. I am so sorry you had to go through that. That sounds absolutely terrible. Wow. Wow.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Probably running into a big cat/mountain lion before entering my woods. i was about to go in and i saw a huge fucking thing walking through there, lucky it didn't seem to notice me and i gtfo out of there.
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That is one of the most fucked up stories I've ever heard McMushrooms. I'm glad you and your wife were alright. What the fuck is wrong with people? Was that guy some crazy mountain man or a local who likes to go into the woods and fuck with people?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: astroblack]
#14884301 - 08/07/11 06:22 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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That site that was posted got some really good stories!
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The Dyatlov Pass incident January 28, 1959, ten students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Solikamsk, Russia, set out on an expedition into the Ural Mountains—specifically, Otorten Mountain. Igor Dyatlov, the expedition’s leader, promised to return by February 12, 1959. One of the teams members, Yury Yudin, fell ill near Vizhaj, the last city before the base of the mountain. The other nine went on, never to return alive.
Yurdin awaited word from his friends. Dyatlov confided that they may take longer than the estimated time, so when no word came from the group on the 12th, no one worried. When no word had come by February 20th, however, the families of the missing expeditionists demanded a search. On February 26, 1959, the report came back. The tent had been found with two gaping holes in the side, big enough for people to crawl through. It had been cut from the inside. Evidence in the snow and tent indicated that the party had left in a great hurry, and were either barefoot or in socks. All of them had been dressed in just their sleepwear. All of them had run in the direction of the woods.
Three of the bodies were found closer to the camp—as if they were trying to return. They were identified and determined to have died of hypothermia. Two more were discovered at the edge of the woods, also dead of hypothermia. One of the five had evidence of a skull fracture, but it was determined to be non-fatal. All of the bodies were noted as having an unnatural orange tan and all the hair being turned gray.
Four remained unfound. The search continued for two months. Finally, in May, the other four were found under 4 meters of snow, which is about 12 feet. The autopsy determined that one of these four died of hypothermia. The other three, however, had some rather traumatic internal injuries. One had a crushed skull, the other two had crushed ribs, and one of those, still, was missing her tongue. Much more to read just search The Dyatlov Pass incident.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Well 
Last night i did some energy work, and zoomed in on the incident and its vibe, i asked spirit helpers to show me around... turns out it was a giant scorpion type thing that atacked those people
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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HOLY SHIT
I just came back from the cinema, watched Super 8, great movie what can i say, the thing that freaked me out - the monster look pretty much identical to the one from my vision above!!!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Also, if you like creepy stories, do watch that film
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Just thought id add another one
it was 2003 and i was hyped up on spirituality and with no regard for my physical well being, thought the spirits would protect me anywhere i go etc...
I was drawn to this area which i found on the map, it was in the middle of some national park in northenr western NSW.
To get there i had to hitch from near by town like 50 miles away... and then dropped off and head into a side road for another 20 miles.
When i got there there wasn't much to be found, the water stream on the map that i so wanted to camp near by has dried up... there werent really any houses or anything but some land was devided with fences...
I was many miles from anyone and i was unarmed and alone, i first pitched the tent on a mountain slope cos it had great view of the surrounding lands but then changed my mind and camped down on the ground next to the hill.
I was in a tent and i now recall how it happened that i wasnt even remotely scared! Woke up at 7am or so and the night went pretty calm!!
I woudnt do this again now, after what ive seen a
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Oh dude your aussie?
gonna watch Super 8 now
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Locky]
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Make sure u watch DVD or cinema quality
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant] 1
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Sorry to bump an oldish thread, but I gotta share what happened to me and my boyfriend the other day when we went hiking. It was around 5:00pm or so I want to say, when we went into the woods on a 2 mile hiking trail. Sun was supposed to set around 7:00 so we figured we'd have just enough time to get in and out right as it started to set.
So we hiked until we got to a point where the trail forked into two separate trails. We continued on with our trial, thinking surely it had to end soon since we had already passed the mile marker over 30 minutes prior. Darkness was falling fast and my boyfriend decided we needed to stop and turn around. We began heading back, and stopped to rest for a few minutes by the river and to watch the sun set.
When we started moving again, it wasn't long before I noticed a rustling sound in the leaves back behind us to the left. I didn't think much of it, figuring it was just some rodent animal scurrying around in the leaves. We continued on for a few more minutes until my boyfriend suddenly said STOP. We stopped and listened, and I heard it again, this time a lot closer. I asked him if he heard the noise, and he said no (he had his hood on at the time so I think that's why I was the only one that heard it).
So we kept walking a few more minutes and same thing. We stopped, and heard it a LOT closer this time. And this time he heard it as well. That was when we got out our Droid phones so that we could use the LED flashlight App, and thank god we had those or we would have been fucked. We had no flashlights, nothing. Just the phones.
We kept walking, trying to reassure ourselves that it was just a small animal, but deep down we both knew that whatever it was, was bigger, and it was following us. I said a silent prayer to please not let anything happen to us that night, my heart about to explode out of my chest as we continued walking. Then the animal got right up on us, so we turned around, huddled together, and shined our flashlights at it. It was running full speed through the brush coming at us, and stopped about 5 feet from us, right at the edge of the woods. We were frozen solid, just shining our lights at it and suddenly it just ran off back into the woods for about 20 feet, then stopped.
We walked as quickly as we could without running to make it back to the car as fast as possible. But the weird part is that we never did see what kind of animal it was. We had our lights pointed right at it and still couldn't see it. We didn't even see any eyes. After we got home, we started researching what it could have been and are 99% sure that it was a bobcat or worse, a mountain lion. Either way we were lucky as fuck to get out of the woods, and if we hadn't had our lights with us, I fear the thing would've kept running and mauled one of us. 
One more thing I also want to add, I had my camera with me taking pictures on the trail. When we stopped by the river to watch the sunset, I had taken a few pictures and had to use night mode on my camera because it was dark. When we got home, I went to edit the pictures and noticed lots of orbs in the pictures I took using night mode. I'm still a noob with cameras so I'm not sure if the orbs were just artifacts or something else because it was dark when I took them. Either way, orbs in my pictures was creepy.
Pics coming soon
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Ballerium]
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i enjoy yr story
never a problem bumping when u deliver
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Ballerium]
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Yikes, sounds like something was about to make you dinner.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
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Thanks 
And yeah, I have to say the only time I've ever even came close to being that scared before that was when a tornado hit my house while I was taking a shower. It is a scary fucking feeling knowing that something is hunting you and wants to eat you.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
#15545956 - 12/20/11 03:43 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Some wild stories in here! I have many of my own.
One takes place in Pisgah National Forest. I was with my roommate camping near a waterfall that we had recently found. The first day we set camp and started down the trail. The first time we went we bushwhacked down a mountainside. This time we took the trail. Turns out we missed a very well hidden side trail and ended up about 5 miles off course at a different waterfall that we had been to before. The sun began to set and we started re-tracing out steps. We finally got back on track and were within a mile of the campsite when we heard something in the still of the dusk. It was something big and it was creating a hell of a ruckus trudging through creek and snapping limbs all along the way. We were hiking along a ridge and could barely make out a large dark figure below in the valley. It was standing upright and from the sound of it's walking pattern in the creek it was walking on two limbs. We only listened for about 10 seconds before peeling the fuck out. I know it was just a black bear, but at the time I was sure it was a fucking bigfoot
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: GuruBushHippie]
#15546203 - 12/20/11 04:25 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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That would have scared me shitless. It's a good thing you were above it and not down in the valley where it could have came after you more easily.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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The Dyatlov Pass incident
Much more to read just search The Dyatlov Pass incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
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Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths.
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clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive
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To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny stated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged".
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Another group of hikers (about 50 kilometers south of the incident) reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the night sky to the north (likely in the direction of Kholat Syakhl) on the night of the incident
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#15584142 - 12/28/11 06:02 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Me and my pals had a day off work on a trail crew in Eastern OR. We couldn't hike out of the Backcountry or anything So we Hiked a few miles away and Slept on top of a 15 ft boulder(highest point on the ridge), on the highest ridge of the Mt. Jefferson wilderness area. Long story short a cougar starts pacing the base of the boulder an hour before dark purrrring and did so periodically all night. The first time we heard it my friend thought it as a helicopter, haha. Me and me buds slept in shifts drinking coffee with a axe after trying to scare it off for 3 hours. If you sat up and shined the flash light at almost any point in the night there were a pair of glowing green eyes (green is feline) 20 yards away behind a log. It trailed us 40-50 yards (just out of sight) 3 miles back to camp. We ended up dealing with it following us to and from work for two weeks while we worked that trail.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: ehtdaedlufetarg]
#15584427 - 12/28/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Last time my friends & I tripped in my woods, it was nighttime and we had just packed everything up to leave. I have horses, but it sounded like a fucking manic chimpanzee in the brush - I shined my light in the direction, but we didnt see anything, just heard movement through the leaves come towards us then pass on by.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
#15721084 - 01/26/12 02:56 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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I got a couple creepy/weird stories only one of them is really wilderness but the other is pretty short and really trippy so I'll share it if you guys want to hear it.
A couple years back me any my buddies were going on a lot of camping trips to these woods near us. We had found a really good spot for a tent and campfire that was basically a clearing smack in the middle of this big patch of forest. Another forest was right across from the edge of this one separated by a large field. It was a pretty private spot.
I won't go into the details of what we were doing but some of us decided to stretch our legs and go for a walk. As we were walking around we heard some weird growling noises and saw eyes in the bushes but passed it off as some wild animal as Deer,Mountain lions and other things are pretty common here on Vancouver Island. We in the field for a smoke and a big fog started rolling in and we saw dark shadows moving around just inside the forest. It was a really spooky atmosphere and all of us started to get pretty tripped out. As we were walking back to the camp something came out of the bushes super fast and ran right in front of us. I had a momentary view of a dark shape on the ground that looked almost humanoid before it disappeared.
We got pretty sketched and hurried back to the camp pretty fast. We were still hearing noises and it sounded like something was following us through the bush although it often stopped and then we heard the sounds again from a completely different direction. Once we got back to the camp the other people there laughed at us for sketching out and we proceeded to sit around the fire smoking a few joints and relaxing. As we told what happened we once more heard noises in the bush around us but couldn't what or where exactly it was. We started telling ghost and Sasquatch stories and we all agreed that whatever had ran past in the bush looked almost too humanoid to be an animal. It was really tripping us out.
As we talked more about this we suddenly heard an guttural howling which was extremely loud and coming from deep in the forest. I've heard wolves before and it was nothing like that. It sounded like those alleged bigfoot recording you can find on the internet. I haven't heard anything like it since.
It might not sound like much but it was all pretty weird and seemed like a too much to be a coincidence. I should also mention that my buddy wandered off and got lost in these same woods for like 2 hours while he was high by himself and came back saying he had seen a whole bunch of scary shit and that he thought it was a Sasquatch or some kind of weird creature.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Riz]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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desant said: thanx for input dudes
lets keep the fire burning: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread544351/pg1
Woah dude I've heard of some weird things up in siberia but never that. Defintely a mystery. Funny how things like that never seem to get any media coverage...
I guess I'll tell my second story it wasn't really in the wilderness but it was pretty crazy probably more so than my last story because we all could have just been tripping out to some animal in that forest but this seemed more real and unexplainable.
Me and my buddy were walking through this big field not too far from where I live and go to college. On three of it's sides it is bordered by brush that eventually leads to properties but on the fourth side it is bordered by a sizeable forest that basically cuts off one section of residences from another way further up the hill.
As we were walking through this field a thick fog came up. I'm talking like you could only see somebody if they were right beside you. It was pea soup. We were slightly tripped because both of us had eaten a few grams of shrooms and the fog made the field seem way bigger. It felt like we were walking through it forever.
After awhile I happened to look towards the forest and noticed that while it was pea soup in every other direction I could see the forest clearly and it was throwing out a huge shadow that almost came toward us. I can't really describe fully how weird it looked with fog on every side and then a clear view of the forest throwing out a misty shadow. It almost looked as if on one side there was a lake of shadows encroaching on us and me and my buddy both started tripping pretty good on this.
All of a sudden my buddy started calling out from behind me saying he felt like he was in a cube or something. Mystified I asked him what he was talking about.
"It's like when I step in this shadow there's a little Sensation and everything around me seems to get all distant and far away" in his exact words. Of course I thought he was just tripping and stepped toward him to see what he was on about. To my disbelief as I stepped into the shadow I felt a slight humming sensation and everything around me except for my friend seemed and sounded distant and far away. It was like I was underwater or the shadow formed some kind of barrier of sorts. Everything outside of it the fog and the field seemed to grow out of focus and forgettable. I started to sketch out and stepped out of the shadow. Immediately I felt the same sensation except this time in reverse as my hearing and perception returned to normal.
I suppose there is a possibility it was a shared trip but the boomers were not very strong and it seemed extremely real. I have not had any experience like it since.
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That's like the cattle mutilations from the southern U.S.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 4runner]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#15814662 - 02/15/12 05:44 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow,wow,wow! McMushrooms420, that blew my mind on so many levels. Thanks for sharing.
Check this out too which is a must see for all of you who enjoyed this thread. Goes into more on the "The Dyatlov Pass incident," and other interesting places.
Ancient Aliens and Evil Places: http://youtu.be/cA_gBW1FZSw
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Tomandjerry58] 1
#15901509 - 03/04/12 10:38 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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preschooler said: Abandon PA turnpike Breezewood PA Im a driver and i normally do some walking everyday. Walked up on this abandon highway one day after following a bike trail and it turned out to be an abandon highway. Really cool place but i wouldn't recommend trying the 1 mile long tunnel without a flashlight. I turned back the first time cause i was too skeeeered. And most likely the creepiest place ive ever been on a hike.

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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Niffla] 1
#15902889 - 03/05/12 09:26 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Looks like an excellent place for a party.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Kada]
#15938623 - 03/12/12 05:00 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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awesome tunnel! someone could be living in there haha. My creepiest was when a dear almost hit me... well... terrifying I guess not creepy.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: LambsEar] 1
#16009477 - 03/28/12 03:35 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well I suppose I'll tell mine.
Turner falls is one of my favorite places nearby to go camping. It's filled with trails, natural bodies of water, and a beautiful 70 ft waterfall. In the years past I have had some interesting experiences at a certain campsite high up in the Arbuckle mountains above the falls. The experience I had at this campsite this past November really took the cake. I took three friends who had never been to the camp, not really informing them of my minor past experiences there because they were relatively insignificant up until that point. a few bipedal footsteps here, a missing pack of tortillas from a closed cooler there. Nothing crazy just weird. I mainly chose the spot because you can see the stars really well and the sunrise over the adjacent ridge and we were going to be low dosing for some enhancement of our star gazing. In the back of my mind though the possibilities of what weird shit had, and could go on was there.
We built a fire and settled in for the night chatting for a while and then after a few hours ate a gram and a half each of Cubensis. Earlier in the night there was a roving band of drunk country boys singing and laughing loudly down below in the creek valley. A neighboring campsite was being drunkenly loud as well and then after about midnight things quieted down significantly. Several times the fire started to go out. I went to get wood from inside the forest and I heard movement ahead of me that sounded like a large animal possibly human. I called out and got no response. I threw fist sized rocks in its direction hitting trees, but whatever it was didn't scurry and seemed to be coming closer. I started to recall similar events like this from the past trips I had in the area, and gathered what little sticks I could to stoke the flames and hurry back. At one point the fire was really dying down at about 3-4 am to mere embers. The light it provided no longer extended more than a few feet from the circle. Our deep bemushroomed conversations were abruptly interrupted when we heard encroaching rustling in the woods. Things got so quiet save for the rustling footsteps. This time there was a bad feeling with it. I had butterflies in my stomach but in a more intuitive "bad vibe" sense than mere nervousness. Then we heard the movement go from the woods to the gravel trail that the car was parked on in front of the campsite and this made us all realize how close the encroaching visitor was. We all stood up out of our camping chairs and the persons closest to the direction of the footsteps came to my side of the fire. My friend's younger sister starting clutching my arm fiercely and this caused my hair to stand on end. I felt the need to take control of the situation so I called out in a pussified voice: "h..he.hello?" and grabbed the lantern and the hunting knife. The lantern did jack shit for visibility as it wasn't a flashlight. I could only see 6 feet around me with it and I fumbled to shut it off to see in the night better. Moving closer to the paved trail I called out again and this time I hadn't even noticed but something had been crouched behind the tree next to the car. As I shouted this "thing" ran from behind the tree and hauled ass up the paved trail and into the woods. In the moonlight I caught a glimpse of a dark brown creature maybe 4 feet tall, covered in hair that was running on two legs and not like a bear either. I did not see it's face because it was turned away fleeing. It had a trash bag in one hand that must have been half full of garbage and was rustling loudly as it dipped out of sight. It looked like a juvenile bigfoot or sasquatch creature. That's the only way I know how to describe what I saw that night.
The others drilled me about it and I told them I had no Idea what it was and described it as best I could. We were stuck in one of those "no way" moments and the mood turned from fear to curiosity. We excitedly debated what we encountered until the sun rose. After doing some research I find that the area is apparently famous for it's own unique group of reported large bipedal hairy creatures. I couldn't help but laugh when I stumbled across this one tripadvisor report: "Within minutes a drunk and scary man came walking down to our site making crazy sounds, hiding in the bushes and throwing rocks at us" I guess they just like to mess with campers and eat their food/garbage I will be returning again in the future to make friends and offer some munchables to the little bigfoots.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: ShroomDoom]
#16010188 - 03/28/12 06:36 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Last night I was at a buddy's place way up in the mountains (the photo in my sig shows the view from his roof). We were sitting on the roof smoking a blunt at around 8:30 as it started to get dark and we witnessed what is known locally as the Brown Mountain Lights. You don't have to be at the Brown Mountain overlook to see the phenomenon, but we were close to BM. A storm was coming in from one side and I believe what we saw was the rare ball lightning. A bolt of lightning struck a nearby peak and a few miles below where it struck we saw a beach ball sized object (probably five miles from us) generate out of thin air. It bounced, ducked, and turned erratically on a dime for about 2 minutes and 15 seconds before vanishing. It was super cool, but it was kinda freaky too.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: GuruBushHippie]
#16010981 - 03/28/12 09:11 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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I saw a big bird (either an owl or eagle.. I dont remember it was when I was a kid) tear apart a cat, it was brutal. It eat off all it's limbs before digging into its stomach. fun days fun days
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: McMushrooms420]
#16150123 - 04/28/12 03:43 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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McMushrooms420 said: That link is a treasure trove..... this story....
This may be very disturbing to some of you. I could never tell this story in person, but it's easier to type it for some reason.
When I and my wife were quite a bit younger, we decided that we would spend the bicentennial outdoors. Yes, July of '76......we're old. We lived in Pueblo at the time, and decided to go hiking, fishing and camp along Lime Creek between Durango and Silverton. There wasn't anything other than brookies in the creek, but they were plentiful and fun to catch.
We left our car by the side of the road along Old Lime Creek Road about 5 miles in from the highway and packed in upstream along the creek with our shepherd, Rebel. It only took us about an hour to get to where we wanted to camp, a nice meadow beside the creek just before a slot canyon that required you to swim to get any further upstream. Either that or take a several mile detour.
We camped uneventfully that night, the third of July, enjoying the sounds of the rippling creek and nature all around us. It was such a nice night that we just slept out under the stars, didn't bother to pitch our little backpacking tent. A little cool, but we had the fire going and our lightweight 30 degree bags, so we were very comfortable.
The next day we had breakfast, packed up and we all swam our way up the creek to the next wide spot with a bit of bank in the canyon, only about 150 yards or so. Now Rebel was never one to turn down a chance to get wet, but we had to do quite a bit of coaxing to get him to follow us up the creek. We fished and splashed upstream a bit, and before we knew it it was lunchtime. We thought we'd fry up some of those brookies but we were in this slot canyon that terminated in a fairly deep pool with about a ten foot rocky waterfall at the end of it.
We decided that I would scale the waterfall and pull the dog and the packs up and then I'd help Maggie get up. It was fairly difficult, even with the help of an old cable left over from a mining operation that was hanging down the side wall of the canyon. It took a LOT of effort and though we finally made it, we looked back down that waterfall and wondered what the heck we were thinking. Rebel was none too happy about it either, and seemed to get more irritable by the minute. We found enough driftwood at the rocky top of the falls to get a fire started and get the fish fried up, but that was about it.
You know the uneasy feeling that several others have mentioned? It was like a switch turned on and we all of a sudden became aware of our surroundings. It grew like a cancer and I actually watched the hair on the back of Rebel's neck stand up. Maggie felt it too and we both noticed that it was getting dark FAST down in this canyon. First thought in my head was a cat, and I actually felt a bit better about that because I figured the cat would leave us be, between the fire and the dog. I told Maggie what I thought and she seemed to feel a bit better, too.
I did not want to get caught in the dark in the canyon, for a bunch of reasons, flash floods etc. I spied what looked like a mine shaft about 2 hundred feet above us, a heck of a steep climb, but it looked like our best bet. We pulled out our flashlights and by the time we reached it it was PITCH black. The dog was a mess by this point, whipping around in circles, whining, yelping and generally being a real pain in the ass. Maggie and I were drenched with sweat and immediately began to freeze. July in the mountains is a weird thing, I have seen blizzard conditions before, but this was like someone turned on the deep freeze.
We were at what looked like the start of a mine, it only went back about ten feet, but there was evidence of fires at the mouth, and they curiously looked fresh. I was too tired to think more about it, I knew we had to get out of our wet clothes, pitch the tent, and climb in our bags before we got serious hypothermia. That was NO fun, let me tell you, having to do all of that by the light of our rapidly dying flashlight. And there was NO firewood anywhere close.
I cursed myself several times for letting things get this far out of control. We finally got the tent pitched right there in the back of this little cave , buck naked as we had no dry clothes left. The sleeping bags were slightly damp too, even though we had stuffed them in plastic garbage bags before our swimming expedition up the canyon. WE FROZE!! It was miserable.
About 1 in the morning I called Rebel into the tent for a little heat. The dog seemed to have calmed down greatly, and with the added heat we drifted off. Sometime during the night I heard something that just about woke me, I was still in a haze, so I fell asleep again immediately. I woke up one other time, because I thought I heard Rebel yip a little bit, but again I was in and out. I put my hand out to pet his head and he licked my hand. I fell asleep again. Maggie later said she fell asleep the same time as I did but never woke up at all during the night.
I woke to the most horrible noise I have ever heard come out of a hundred pound woman. Just the most God-awful shrieks that I have ever heard. I never want to hear that again.
I opened my eyes just in time to see a man at the mouth of the shaft, silhouetted against the morning daylight, looking back at us with the most twisted evil grin I have ever seen on the face of another human. I scrambled to get free of my tightly zipped bag and the little tent while he just crouched there and grinned. When I was just about free, he disappeared. Now, we were granola crunchin' tree huggin' anti-gun nature freaks at the time, so the only thing I had of any consequence as a weapon was my camp knife. I found it after what seemed like hours of searching, but really was probably under a minute. I very cautiously made my way to the entrance, millimeters at a time. The guy was gone.
About that time Maggie started screaming and whimpering again so I rushed back to the back of the shaft. She had struggled out of the tent and was pointing at what used to be Rebel. His head was nearly severed, and the tent and the bags were ruined with the blood all over everything. She had blood all over her, so the first thing I did was make sure she was not injured. Then I checked myself. We were ok,it was all Rebel's blood.
We put on our still damp cold clothes from the night before and then we noticed that our boots were gone. We were in trouble. I had some paracord, so we tied some shirts and towels around our feet and climbed back down towards the creek. We left everything in the mine, except for the knife and some stuff that we shoved in our pockets. It took us 8 hours to get back down to the car, and we were like hamburger. Hands, feet, arms and legs scraped raw, bruised and bleeding. We jumped in, the car started right up thankfully and we left a dust cloud that blanketed the valley as we sped down the rough trail toward Durango.
We limped into the Sheriff's office and we looked like hell. We got our story out, my wife through tears and me talking waaay too fast. but finally got it all out. The deputy said that they would go out first thing in the morning and asked us to stay in town. We had no money for a hotel, so he let us stay in a cell after we showered and changed into prison jumpsuits.
We were there at the jail waiting when the "expedition" returned with the convoy of three trucks. I noticed that all the officers, who were quite wet and filthy, gave us dirty looks as they passed us, and the Deputy that we had talked to the day before herded us back to his office. Then came the interrogation. Turns out that some animal had spread the dog's remains all down the slide to the creek, and he said that there was nothing else there. No tent, no backpacks, nothing. He asked us if we had any drugs. I did not want to admit to him that we had some herb, so I denied it.
It was clear that we were fighting a losing battle. They had come to the conclusion that we were wandering out in the woods high on LSD while a mountain lion had gotten our dog. The bastard even made us change back into our filthy clothes and give back the jumpsuits right then. He told us that he had better never see us again. We left. Maggie was sobbing. I never have been back to Durango.
The thing that I still have nightmares about years later, and I have never mentioned this to Maggie, is....... the second time I woke up when I heard Rebel yelp, was that when his throat was cut?.......and if it was, was it the dog who licked my hand before I fell back asleep?
I still go out in the wilderness, never overnight, out well before dark, only with other people, and always with a big gun. I respect animals, but I fear people.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: psilocybeMAN]
#16213216 - 05/11/12 01:08 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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psilocybeMAN said:
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McMushrooms420 said: That link is a treasure trove..... this story....
This may be very disturbing to some of you. I could never tell this story in person, but it's easier to type it for some reason.
When I and my wife were quite a bit younger, we decided that we would spend the bicentennial outdoors. Yes, July of '76......we're old. We lived in Pueblo at the time, and decided to go hiking, fishing and camp along Lime Creek between Durango and Silverton. There wasn't anything other than brookies in the creek, but they were plentiful and fun to catch.
We left our car by the side of the road along Old Lime Creek Road about 5 miles in from the highway and packed in upstream along the creek with our shepherd, Rebel. It only took us about an hour to get to where we wanted to camp, a nice meadow beside the creek just before a slot canyon that required you to swim to get any further upstream. Either that or take a several mile detour.
We camped uneventfully that night, the third of July, enjoying the sounds of the rippling creek and nature all around us. It was such a nice night that we just slept out under the stars, didn't bother to pitch our little backpacking tent. A little cool, but we had the fire going and our lightweight 30 degree bags, so we were very comfortable.
The next day we had breakfast, packed up and we all swam our way up the creek to the next wide spot with a bit of bank in the canyon, only about 150 yards or so. Now Rebel was never one to turn down a chance to get wet, but we had to do quite a bit of coaxing to get him to follow us up the creek. We fished and splashed upstream a bit, and before we knew it it was lunchtime. We thought we'd fry up some of those brookies but we were in this slot canyon that terminated in a fairly deep pool with about a ten foot rocky waterfall at the end of it.
We decided that I would scale the waterfall and pull the dog and the packs up and then I'd help Maggie get up. It was fairly difficult, even with the help of an old cable left over from a mining operation that was hanging down the side wall of the canyon. It took a LOT of effort and though we finally made it, we looked back down that waterfall and wondered what the heck we were thinking. Rebel was none too happy about it either, and seemed to get more irritable by the minute. We found enough driftwood at the rocky top of the falls to get a fire started and get the fish fried up, but that was about it.
You know the uneasy feeling that several others have mentioned? It was like a switch turned on and we all of a sudden became aware of our surroundings. It grew like a cancer and I actually watched the hair on the back of Rebel's neck stand up. Maggie felt it too and we both noticed that it was getting dark FAST down in this canyon. First thought in my head was a cat, and I actually felt a bit better about that because I figured the cat would leave us be, between the fire and the dog. I told Maggie what I thought and she seemed to feel a bit better, too.
I did not want to get caught in the dark in the canyon, for a bunch of reasons, flash floods etc. I spied what looked like a mine shaft about 2 hundred feet above us, a heck of a steep climb, but it looked like our best bet. We pulled out our flashlights and by the time we reached it it was PITCH black. The dog was a mess by this point, whipping around in circles, whining, yelping and generally being a real pain in the ass. Maggie and I were drenched with sweat and immediately began to freeze. July in the mountains is a weird thing, I have seen blizzard conditions before, but this was like someone turned on the deep freeze.
We were at what looked like the start of a mine, it only went back about ten feet, but there was evidence of fires at the mouth, and they curiously looked fresh. I was too tired to think more about it, I knew we had to get out of our wet clothes, pitch the tent, and climb in our bags before we got serious hypothermia. That was NO fun, let me tell you, having to do all of that by the light of our rapidly dying flashlight. And there was NO firewood anywhere close.
I cursed myself several times for letting things get this far out of control. We finally got the tent pitched right there in the back of this little cave , buck naked as we had no dry clothes left. The sleeping bags were slightly damp too, even though we had stuffed them in plastic garbage bags before our swimming expedition up the canyon. WE FROZE!! It was miserable.
About 1 in the morning I called Rebel into the tent for a little heat. The dog seemed to have calmed down greatly, and with the added heat we drifted off. Sometime during the night I heard something that just about woke me, I was still in a haze, so I fell asleep again immediately. I woke up one other time, because I thought I heard Rebel yip a little bit, but again I was in and out. I put my hand out to pet his head and he licked my hand. I fell asleep again. Maggie later said she fell asleep the same time as I did but never woke up at all during the night.
I woke to the most horrible noise I have ever heard come out of a hundred pound woman. Just the most God-awful shrieks that I have ever heard. I never want to hear that again.
I opened my eyes just in time to see a man at the mouth of the shaft, silhouetted against the morning daylight, looking back at us with the most twisted evil grin I have ever seen on the face of another human. I scrambled to get free of my tightly zipped bag and the little tent while he just crouched there and grinned. When I was just about free, he disappeared. Now, we were granola crunchin' tree huggin' anti-gun nature freaks at the time, so the only thing I had of any consequence as a weapon was my camp knife. I found it after what seemed like hours of searching, but really was probably under a minute. I very cautiously made my way to the entrance, millimeters at a time. The guy was gone.
About that time Maggie started screaming and whimpering again so I rushed back to the back of the shaft. She had struggled out of the tent and was pointing at what used to be Rebel. His head was nearly severed, and the tent and the bags were ruined with the blood all over everything. She had blood all over her, so the first thing I did was make sure she was not injured. Then I checked myself. We were ok,it was all Rebel's blood.
We put on our still damp cold clothes from the night before and then we noticed that our boots were gone. We were in trouble. I had some paracord, so we tied some shirts and towels around our feet and climbed back down towards the creek. We left everything in the mine, except for the knife and some stuff that we shoved in our pockets. It took us 8 hours to get back down to the car, and we were like hamburger. Hands, feet, arms and legs scraped raw, bruised and bleeding. We jumped in, the car started right up thankfully and we left a dust cloud that blanketed the valley as we sped down the rough trail toward Durango.
We limped into the Sheriff's office and we looked like hell. We got our story out, my wife through tears and me talking waaay too fast. but finally got it all out. The deputy said that they would go out first thing in the morning and asked us to stay in town. We had no money for a hotel, so he let us stay in a cell after we showered and changed into prison jumpsuits.
We were there at the jail waiting when the "expedition" returned with the convoy of three trucks. I noticed that all the officers, who were quite wet and filthy, gave us dirty looks as they passed us, and the Deputy that we had talked to the day before herded us back to his office. Then came the interrogation. Turns out that some animal had spread the dog's remains all down the slide to the creek, and he said that there was nothing else there. No tent, no backpacks, nothing. He asked us if we had any drugs. I did not want to admit to him that we had some herb, so I denied it.
It was clear that we were fighting a losing battle. They had come to the conclusion that we were wandering out in the woods high on LSD while a mountain lion had gotten our dog. The bastard even made us change back into our filthy clothes and give back the jumpsuits right then. He told us that he had better never see us again. We left. Maggie was sobbing. I never have been back to Durango.
The thing that I still have nightmares about years later, and I have never mentioned this to Maggie, is....... the second time I woke up when I heard Rebel yelp, was that when his throat was cut?.......and if it was, was it the dog who licked my hand before I fell back asleep?
I still go out in the wilderness, never overnight, out well before dark, only with other people, and always with a big gun. I respect animals, but I fear people.
easily creepiest post.
Seriously... I sent this to my brother too...
If anyone has seen the movie 'Ravenous"- This story makes me think of that movie for more than one reason.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: McMushrooms420] 1
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I understand this story wasn't written by you, since you implied you copied and pasted from the "link"; so I am in no way criticizing you with what I have to say. :]
This story is very well written, detailed and relate-able, seemingly traceable with all the location names; however, it clearly is a plotted "creepy" story at the most.
Firstly, there's no way could that "person" sneak in the middle of a tent, and start making cuts to a dog without giving off any attentions. If you've owned a real dog, you'd know even when you try to cup your hand around its mouth to mute it, it would do its best to resist;let alone when someone's actually hurting it, I would imagine it kicking around like no tomorrow. It's not logical when the man woke up by its "slight yelp" but could not feel the dog's kicking struggles. Beside the dog probably would've been alerted and barked when something got close. ( Since in the story, the man said he called in the dog for extra heat, so I assume the dog would be lying down between the man and the woman.)
Secondly, it's not a real story since the author already left trace to tell the readers that it's just a plotted story. Focus on the suspense of "what if it was the murderer licking the man's hand instead of the dog's", clearly written for shock value. And how the man thought "he never wanted to listen to his wife's snoring ever again", yet they were married and most likely shared the same bed even before and after the story. So he mostly likely wouldn't give off such a big deal over his wife's snoring; or could it possibly be the first time they ever share a close space to sleep together? I'd say, impossible.
My conclusion is that the author might really had this hiking/camping trip, though the bloody part was added purely for entertainment.
Now, I am not trying to piss on the party where everyone's having fun. I enjoyed reading all these pages of stories, and believed most of the "encounters" are real first hand experience. But after reading people are really buying into this story, I just couldn't help it to point out my opinions.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Choporis]
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Choporis said: I understand this story wasn't written by you, since you implied you copied and pasted from the "link"; so I am in no way criticizing you with what I have to say. :]
This story is very well written, detailed and relate-able, seemingly traceable with all the location names; however, it clearly is a plotted "creepy" story at the most.
Firstly, there's no way could that "person" sneak in the middle of a tent, and start making cuts to a dog without giving off any attentions. If you've owned a real dog, you'd know even when you try to cup your hand around its mouth to mute it, it would do its best to resist;let alone when someone's actually hurting it, I would imagine it kicking around like no tomorrow. It's not logical when the man woke up by its "slight yelp" but could not feel the dog's kicking struggles. Beside the dog probably would've been alerted and barked when something got close. ( Since in the story, the man said he called in the dog for extra heat, so I assume the dog would be lying down between the man and the woman.)
Secondly, it's not a real story since the author already left trace to tell the readers that it's just a plotted story. Focus on the suspense of "what if it was the murderer licking the man's hand instead of the dog's", clearly written for shock value. And how the man thought "he never wanted to listen to his wife's snoring ever again", yet they were married and most likely shared the same bed even before and after the story. So he mostly likely wouldn't give off such a big deal over his wife's snoring; or could it possibly be the first time they ever share a close space to sleep together? I'd say, impossible.
My conclusion is that the author might really had this hiking/camping trip, though the bloody part was added purely for entertainment.
Now, I am not trying to piss on the party where everyone's having fun. I enjoyed reading all these pages of stories, and believed most of the "encounters" are real first hand experience. But after reading people are really buying into this story, I just couldn't help it to point out my opinions.
Not a bad first post my friend, welcome aboard. I'm sure no one will take offense seeing as it isn't their story if I'm correct. You bring up some valid points, I always suspected that one of being bogus, still gave me the chills first time reading it though
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
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i've seen an adaptation of this story on TV years ago. It was some girl who was home alone for the night and the dog slept under her bed and licked her hand etc. etc. She reached down and as the dog is licking her hand she looks at her mirror and sees a dude under the bed licking her hand or whatever.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Choporis]
#16249633 - 05/18/12 11:12 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yea, I also thought of how hard it would of been killing a dog in a tent with a sleeping couple, all while not waking them. I figured he wrote that part wrong or something. You made me feel better about camping again though.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: psilocybeMAN]
#16358642 - 06/09/12 10:19 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've had a lot of weird things happen to me in the woods. I've done a lot of camping since I was a kid and had a very adventurous group of friends in high school. Three short stories stick out in my mind and each fall under independent categories of scarey animal/thing, spiritually scarey and scarey people.
Scarey animal/thing-
When I was a teenager I had many friends that lived in the mountains, not necessarily extremely rural, but the wilderness was their backyard. We decided to walk to the store that was a couple miles away in the early evening. The walk back was in complete darkness. About halfway home a few of us started to smell this horrible smell. It smelled like a mix of rotting flesh, old sweat and musty coldness. We started to talk about it and heard a rustle in the bushes that sounded like it was five to ten feet off the road. Depending on our night sight and the road we didn't bring a flashlight. The smell and the rustling followed us for almost a mile and a half. If we stopped, it stopped and when we moved it quickly followed beside us. We were totally horrified and defenseless. Bears are common in that area, but I have never had one stalk me or smell so horrid.
Spiritually scarey-
One of my favorite swimming holes is about a three quarter of a mile walk from a rural road. Friends and I would often go there and spend the whole day skinny dipping. This time we decided to walk out there and take a night dip. This area was a pretty hopping place when the pioneers first settled in the area. Big dances were held just down river and there was a picnic train that would take visitors down to a big pavilion. Almost all remnants of that time were gone, minus some old railroad cement supports, random fireplaces from long gone houses and other miscellaneous debris.
We reached the beach and many of us stripped down ready to cool off in the river. As soon as we were waist deep the entire group went silent at the same time. This is a big deal because there was eight of us. I felt horrid. I had immediate goosebumps everywhere and my throat fell into my stomach. I looked around and noticed I wasn't the only one. Without speaking a word to each other we all left the water and went on shore. I felt this weight on my shoulders that was intimidating, like a very large man was pushing me into the ground. I explained this to my friends and many of them were feeling some sort of dark presence.
We decided to leave and we all headed back to the trail. The walk back was just as terrible. All of the sudden the atmosphere was thick and full of panic. We shuffled back as quickly as we could in the dark. Then a few of us were all of the sudden rushed at by a huge dark shadow, it seemed to loom about and we saw it multiple times at different distances. Then all of the sudden one of my friends just started bolting for the road where the cars were. Once we caught up to him he said that the dark figure rushed to him with enough force to physically push him forward. Horrified, he just kept running. He was hyperventilating and obviously crying when we caught up with him.
Scarey People-
I guess this is more evidence of scarey people, but it still shook me pretty hard. Two years ago my boyfriend and I decided to take a new rural road home from camping at the coast. It was lined with a few official camp sites and paved until a point where it was only gravel and there were no more camp sites or outhouses. I have been much further out than this, but the area still didn't seem extremely well traveled.
As we drove down the road we saw something up ahead and were trying to figure out what it was, something pink and odd. Once close enough to see, we discovered that it was a pink child's scooter with a styrofoam bear head where the handles should have been. It was pretty odd, and being as curious as we are we pulled the car over for a look. Once we got out we saw the remains of a somewhat modern camper that had been half singed. The fire looked new, like it had only happened within the last couple months. Investigating the inside of it we saw a lot of broken and burnt glassware and plastic tubing. We assumed it was a meth lab explosion or something equally as odd.
We kept on having the feeling like someone was watching us, but we stayed and looked around a bit. There were all kinds of oddly organized artifacts that seemed like the work of a drug induced need to keep busy. There was a chair that had been chopped out of a log. Attached to where one would rest their arm was a bicycle bell with worn out paint on the lever. On the ground beside the seat was a pile of cigarette butts at least eight inches tall at it's peak. As I investigated it I realized that there was still a burning butt sitting right there. I showed my boyfriend and we left immediately.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: thedirtymac]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#16407658 - 06/20/12 05:44 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I often wonder what life would be like 200 or more years ago
No internet, no planes or cars, no mc donalds.............. but countless unexplored bits of nature. I would sure be an explorer.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: octopus]
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Let's keep this going!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: mycoscopy]
#16501960 - 07/09/12 12:10 AM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow I am definitely a fan of this thread. I can actually contribute a nice little story for you guys. It actually ranks as some of the freakiest shit that's ever happened to me, not just in the woods, but ever.
When I was a kid, probably around 5 or 6 years old, my aunt went crazy. When I say crazy I mean batshit, screaming religious nonsense, schizophrenic crazy. I studied psychology in school and I'm pretty sure she actually developed schizophrenia around that time. It's mostly genetic and usually manifests itself in early/late 20's if it decides to. It was either that or an acid trip gone extremely wrong, leading to some kind of crazy chronic amphetamine psychosis.
So anyways, my grandparents own a pretty respectably sized piece of land in Pennsylvania which as many know, has some completely desolate areas where the nearest Walmart is no less than 50 miles away. Truly a place that would be considered "in the middle of fucking nowhere".
My insane aunt had recently made this land and its trailer her new home and my family was staying there for a few days due to it being Memorial day weekend. At this point in time we all knew she was a little nuts but I guess we all kind of underestimated it. We all sat by the fire most of the day. In between burgers, bocce games, and hikes we would catch glimpses of her as she went about her day away from the rest of us. My family knew to keep their distance and to not talk about it because my grandparents were still shaken up by the whole thing.
Around 2am i was asleep in a hammock out by the fire while everyone else got drunk and lit off fireworks. What woke me up was the sound of a 20 or so inch tv being thrown out a window and my grandma and aunt screaming at each other. My dad ran inside to check things out, and of course I followed far behind to take a look inside. My dad had pinned my aunt down in the bathtub because it was the closest place he could easily restrain her where she couldn't reach anything breakable. I stepped into the bathroom where I saw her convulsing and making noises that I can only describe as being right out of the Exorcist. Her eyes kept rolling back in her head and she kept telling my dad the Devil would take him and that God would punish us all. Scary shit for a 5 year old, laughable for anyone with common sense.
My grandparents called the police and my mom took me somewhere away from all her screaming. For some reason my dad and grandparents decided to let my aunt free. Probably from the false sense of safety that people get after the police are called. She ended up taking a (very large) knife from the kitchen and set off on her own in the woods dressed like an Amish person (she always dressed that way for some reason). After about an hour and no police, we all decided to go looking for her and set out in different cars to drive around on the dirt roads that surround the property and wind every which way into the forest. I wanted to stay there but after everyone else got into their cars I guess my parents decided they didn't want to be there alone.
I ended up riding with my grandparents because they seemed the most level headed and calm, which comforted me. The car rocked back and forth with every turn and rolled over the unpaved roads with that familiar gravel crunching sound. Everything was silent except for that noise. We eventually ended up in a part of the woods, on a road I had never seen before. We were far from where we started. The car began to creep as the road was coming to an end. My grandpa stopped and turned the car around. We drove yet again into the pitch black darkness. Headlights were surprisingly ineffective at cutting through the dense foliage that surrounded us. We slowed and made a turn onto another nameless road right as my aunt stepped out from the trees with that enormous knife in her hand. She gave us the coldest most emotionless look I have ever seen. She just stood there, in the middle of this road, in the middle of the woods, that was in turn in the middle of nowhere. Somehow she looked like she belonged there. The way she was standing gave me the impression that she was absolutely unafraid of the darkness and completely against one of us taking her along, back home. That image, her pale face, the silence, still sticks with me. As far as I know she is still out there. No one has heard from her for about 7 years and my grandparents considered her a lost cause. It's sad but I guess people cope with things in their own peculiar ways.
And to this day I get an icy feeling in my gut when I hear the sound of a car on a gravel road. Fuckin' A.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: 2unl2]
#16506012 - 07/09/12 08:28 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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hahahahahaha damn man that's some crazy shit! I'd have still shat brix witnessing the bath tub scene to this day, and I am 20.
Today I realized something creepy, not normally creepy, but creepy to me nonetheless and that is that whenever I hike, no matter if I am 10 miles into the woods, the second I step off the trail to piss, out of nowhere (and I mean no where - no sounds, nothing) a fucking person will come barreling through the woods and catch me mid piss. It's really odd and fucking annoying. Almost as odd and annoying as the brief exchange of words are afterward.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16586441 - 07/25/12 01:50 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have had a couple creepy experiences.
One that sticks out in my mind...was camping with my nephew years ago along an off road trail. I know the area very well, it is in my local mountains. There was no one else on in the area.
Anyway so we had turned in for the night, and I was drifting off to sleep when I hear this beeping noise. I could hear the sound moving, and it was a couple hundred feet away. It sounded like it was moving back and forth, and getting closer so I jumped out of the tent with just boxers on and a flashlight in my hand and the noise stopped. My nephew stayed in his tent, not that worried about it.
So I went back to bed and the beeping noise started up again, and it was getting closer. This time we both got up with our flashlights started to get freaked out. I was worried some weirdo was in the forest messing with us. The noise again ceased when we got up. So after a while of no noises we went in his tent to smoke a bowl. A minute or two after getting into his tent the beeping started again, only it started buzzing by the tent. The noise was flying within ten feet of the tent, and the beeping was getting faster the closer it got to us, like it was a missile with a homing device.
We got dressed, packed up our stuff and left in a hurry. That thing was flying fast! And close! EDIT-I dont know how I forgot this part! On the way home...we had to drive to the top of the mountain to hit the main highway instead of going back the way we came. I saw the strangest, reddest moon that looked like it was hovering just above the ground in the towns below, and actually looked like it went into a lake. We were looking down on it. Was it even the moon? Was it a space craft?!
Another weird happening was just a few weeks ago. I was hiking solo in the Sierra Nevada. I hit the trail in the evening, and made it about 5 miles to some off trail lakes below University Peak. I set up camp, and was ready for bed, but decided to fill my big water resivoir to have water for breakfast.
It was night when I went down to the inlet stream to the lake to collect water. It was almost a full moon, I was above treeline, so my headlamp was off. When I turned away from the stream to head back to camp, this huge glowing white thing flew about 10 feet in front of my face with a "whooooosh" sound. Too big to be a bird. If it was an animal it was either a mountain lion or a deer, but it was right at face level. Anyway so I was petrified for a second, I looked down in front of me and there was a large dinner table sized flat rock. I suddenly had the feeling a native indian had died there at some time.
The only other time in my life I had the thought "someone died here" is when I was visiting a friends new house. I just suddenly looked down and thought someone died there. Turned out someone was murdered in that house.
That morning when I continued on, I found very fresh very large cougar tracks in the sand by a tarn just a 1/4 mile up from where I was camped. It looked nothing like an animal but who knows. It would have had to jump in front of my face.....doubt it.
Another time I was solo, and hiking along the Kings river on 4th of July. It was a high snow year and the water was absolutely RAGING. I have never seen water as powerful as that. Anyway I needed water and had spotted a calm spot to collect. I had to bushwhack a bit and stumbled and almost fell into the raging water. I was so close to dying. Suddenly my dead sisters voice entered my head and said "Be careful (name)!!!" That thought didn't come from my inner dialog, and actually didn't sound like my sister at all, but I knew it was her.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
#16587375 - 07/25/12 04:55 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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I just remembered another couple wierd/scary moments on the same trip.
I was solo and hiked out of forks of the kern trailhead in the southern sierra nevada. It was in October, so I pretty much had the place to myself after a few miles. I was hiking up river on day two, in the kern river canyon, with canyon walls rising 1,000 feet above on either side. Perfectly peacefully quiet morning, and I was completely relaxed and content.
Suddenly without warning I hear a mind shattering explosion. Fucking loud and right on top of me. In the next couple of seconds my mind went through a few scenarios. The first thing I thought was that the canyon had exploded and was collapsing around me, and I was about to be buried under rock. I looked up to see the canyon intact, so the next couple thoughts was "nuclear blast" or "aliens".
I just happened to look down canyon and catch sight of a fucking JET flying IN the canyon...below the rim, and this thing must have sonic boomed above me. Ok now a mile or so from where I was at, the canyon makes a sudden 90 degree turn left, then another 1/4 up canyon at most another sudden 90 degree turn right forming an abrupt s curve. I saw that plane take that 90 degree turn at what had to have been the speed of sound.
If you have a map of the Golden Trout Wilderness, you will see that up river of where the little kern meets the kern is this S curve. I think it had sonic boomed because there was no approaching noise. It was simply a sudden explosion overhead.
A few days later I met up with an older forest ranger on his "back country patrol". He lived in the area and knew it well. He was headed to a spot with good fishing, swimming, a rustic cabin, and some hot springs, and I went along. Really bitchin' spot. Anyway we were swimming when I suddenly just felt a weird feeling like we were being watched. When I looked over at him I could tell he had the same feeling too. We both just listened motionless and quiet for some time. I thought I could hear something in the bushes, but with the sound of the water it was hard to tell. I crept out of the water and right as I stood up on the bank I thought I heard something take off, but again with the creek right there it is hard to say for sure.
We got out and saw his clothes were yard saled, while mine lay undisturbed. We went over to the cabin, I still felt like something was watching us. About 10 feet from where we put down our packs was a small deer leg that wasn't there before, and the dirt was disturbed like something had just been messing around, but there wasn't any discernible tracks there, blood, nothin. We did find lots of deer tracks and smaller animal tracks close by, but no foot prints, bear, or mountain lion tracks.
The ranger told me stuff like that happens to him all the time. He also told a story of a campsite that IS haunted east of where we were. He said he has heard the sounds of approaching horses in that area, and has heard of other people experiencing that same thing and other freaky things in that camp.
Probably the wind blew away his clothes, and a mountain lion dropped a deer leg, but it was still very unsettling. The thought of a human out there hiding playing pranks worries me more than a cat against 2 adults.
When we parted ways, and I was alone again, I was a little on edge the rest of the trip.
I know I have another scary story or two....
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
#16587512 - 07/25/12 05:15 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Years ago, I was hiking with a friend in our local mountains. We had been hiking through the night and set up camp and went strait to bed at around midnight. He was in his tent listening to Radiohead in his headphones, but since it was super quiet I could hear the music too, just barely.
Mind you I fall asleep usually really fast, and sleep very soundly while backpacking, especially when tired. I am the asshole that instantly starts to snores like crazy keeping the whole camp up.
Anyway so I got in my comfort zone and was kind of straining to hear Radiohead. I remember I couldn't really make it out, and I suddenly realized it sounds like "psychedelic noise"-The sounds you hear on a powerful psychedelic dose. I was kind of tripping out on it for a minute when I realized I could hear a conversation from the next camp over. Maybe two or three minutes had gone by since I settled in.
Its a father and son speaking really softly to one another. I don't remember word for word at all. It seemed like the boy was a little afraid. I was surprised to figure out the father wasn't sympathetic, and in fact was rude and mocking. Then his tone started to turn really sour and mean, then turned dark and down right demonic. The kid became really afraid, and my heart just dropped out of my chest. This kid was being abused it sounded like, and I was going to get up and find out what the fuck was going on.
My eyes are open at this point.
My heart dropped then suddenly turned to absolute fear and horror when I sensed there were three glowing squares that were demons hovering above their tent and were mentally attacking this kid. His psyche was being ravaged.
When my mind had sensed....and reached the glowing squares, they followed my awareness back to me. They were instantly above my tent. My eyes were open, I couldn't speak, and I couldnt move. A large boulder the size of a cooler dropped on the ground inches from my tent.
This sound shook me out of the trance and I was able to sit up and called out the name of my buddy. He was asleep. There was no boulder right outside my tent. I had an episode of sleep paralysis.
That wasn't the last time I had sleep paralysis while backpacking.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
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That wasn't the last time I had sleep paralysis while backpacking.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16588597 - 07/25/12 07:47 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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The other episode I had was I think a week or two after, I awoke to a deer laying on my tent, and me! I was stuck, couldn't speak or move, until I could fight it off and I suddenly realized there was no deer!
Just a weird thing....I hit this off trail pass. It was absolutely beautiful, and had a great view of the upper lakes/headwaters of the cliff creek drainage in the southern sierra. Directly below, was a lake with this beautiful 800 foot wall of granite with a peak. Actually I have a picture of it
See that black dot in the snowbank by the lake? I thought it was a lightning strike until I got right up to it. It was a 6 or 8 foot tall hole that had me scratching my head... Not sure, there was a debris field around it, it looked scorched, with mud and sand and little rocks, but could have been something digging into the dirt under the snow? This snow was thick, probably 6-10 feet thick. Also this is at 11,000ft where large animals probably wouldnt go. Humans wouldnt have dug into the earth, and cannot explain the scorched marks
I thought it was small until I finally got up to it....I could have walked right into it easy, it was big. I was for sure it was lightning or a meteor and was going to check it out when I realized a bear or mountain lion might have dug it.

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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
#16589127 - 07/25/12 09:05 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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meteorite perhaps?!!! go back to the spot with a metal detector and you could be wealthy, before i get to that spot. you did make it pretty easy to find.
actually fuck that place. i don't want any deer sleeping on my warm ass. it's all yours.
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passifloracaerulea said: meteorite perhaps?!!! go back to the spot with a metal detector and you could be wealthy, before i get to that spot. you did make it pretty easy to find.
actually fuck that place. i don't want any deer sleeping on my warm ass. it's all yours.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
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xsparkyx said: The other episode I had was I think a week or two after, I awoke to a deer laying on my tent, and me! I was stuck, couldn't speak or move, until I could fight it off and I suddenly realized there was no deer!
This is a classic case of sleep paralysis. I've experienced it my whole life and it is never a fun way to wake up.
That hole is intriguing, you should get some crampons and check it out. Indeed meteorites are worth too much to pass up. Thanks for the stories
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: pseudotsuga]
#16598326 - 07/27/12 08:23 AM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was camping with girlfriend in the not too far from my house.We crash out around 12:00 A.M..We woke up by hearing foot steps near are campsite
I yelled out stop and who are you.They kept walking to are campsite
they stop about 25 feet from are camp. Yelled who are and are doing here
this is are campsite.The next day came around we look all around to find
clues on what was there last night the only we found was a pile of shit that my girlfriend fell in to.(only thing I was thinking it was a Wendigo)I was so scared man.Now as I think back about it I think it was Black Russian boar.(Near the I was camping there was a place for hunting exotic game.He when bankrupt and he dumped all animals in the woods near the his lodge.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: coorslight]
#16598926 - 07/27/12 10:47 AM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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coorslight said: I was camping with girlfriend in the not too far from my house.We crash out around 12:00 A.M..We woke up by hearing foot steps near are campsite
I yelled out stop and who are you.They kept walking to are campsite
they stop about 25 feet from are camp. Yelled who are and are doing here
this is are campsite.The next day came around we look all around to find
clues on what was there last night the only we found was a pile of shit that my girlfriend fell in to.(only thing I was thinking it was a Wendigo)I was so scared man.Now as I think back about it I think it was Black Russian boar.(Near the I was camping there was a place for hunting exotic game.He when bankrupt and he dumped all animals in the woods near the his lodge.
In eastern Oregon we used to get these all the time. Damn footsteps walking laps around the tent all night long. Making crunching noises in the snow, but come morning there were no footprints to be found. We used to call them the "Night Walkers", they were pretty common too.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: wildernessjunkie]
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coorslight said: I was camping with girlfriend in the not too far from my house.We crash out around 12:00 A.M..We woke up by hearing foot steps near are campsite
I yelled out stop and who are you.They kept walking to are campsite
they stop about 25 feet from are camp. Yelled who are and are doing here
this is are campsite.The next day came around we look all around to find
clues on what was there last night the only we found was a pile of shit that my girlfriend fell in to.(only thing I was thinking it was a Wendigo)I was so scared man.Now as I think back about it I think it was Black Russian boar.(Near the I was camping there was a place for hunting exotic game.He when bankrupt and he dumped all animals in the woods near the his lodge.
In eastern Oregon we used to get these all the time. Damn footsteps walking laps around the tent all night long. Making crunching noises in the snow, but come morning there were no footprints to be found. We used to call them the "Night Walkers", they were pretty common too.
That's fucking spooky, I wouldn't like that one bit.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16674298 - 08/09/12 11:27 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Camping on cow mountain in Ukiah , CA. Me and my girlfriend went as far out as we could. At night we heard loud cat screams in the bushes around us. The next morning with saw large cat tracks all around our camp.
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Similar thing happened to me about a month ago.
Was camping on a small island (Denman island) off the coast of Vancouver island--which has the highest concentration of cougars in N.America. I was hitching my way around, and by the time I got to the island it was getting late and I was tired, so I hiked into the centre of a large temperate rainforest and set up camp.
Flash forward to about 3am, when I am woken up by a cougar screaming in the not very distant distance. To make it worse, my last ride before getting to this island had been by a guy who, upon hearing that I was simply camping in the bush as I wandered, asked if I had been having any problem with wildlife--when I said 'no' he proceeded to warn me that they had been having a relatively high amount of cougar attacks in the area recently, and gave me the advice that they are hunting most actively around dawn and dusk, and to be aware.
Somehow, I feel back asleep--but you can be sure that, come first light, camp was broken down and I made like a banana.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#16679194 - 08/10/12 09:03 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Should not have read this thread the night before going out for a week in middle-of-no-where-big-foot-country.
Definitely bookmarking.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: terracorvida]
#16685362 - 08/12/12 12:20 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey sparky does your username have anything to do with we're you live?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: northernlight]
#16686744 - 08/12/12 10:03 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Last night at around 5 me and my old man went kayaking. It was an 8 mile stream through a forest. We kept going all day but the sun started going down and we were still stuck out there. The bats started coming out, and were more annoying then anything. So we are out in the middle of the woods trying to find our way out when we get separated.
I just keep going because i figure i can come find him later. But i come to a tree in the river that is impassible. So i had to get out for the 10th time that day and push my kayak over. It's pitch black so i can't see shit. Finally he catches up to me and by then we made it to the highway. It's to dark to continue so we take the kayaks out.
Now we have to walk to find out truck. We hide the kayaks and he says we have to go for a mile walk. Well, i was pissed because i lost one of my shoes out on the river. So i hop that mile with him and he tells me we went the wrong way. So now we walked back to the kayaks and continue on another mile. On the last mile we say the meteors though.
I'm fucking sore as hell, i just woke up from last night.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: northernlight]
#16687234 - 08/12/12 12:18 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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northernlight said: Hey sparky does your username have anything to do with we're you live?
No, not from Sparks
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: xsparkyx]
#16688730 - 08/12/12 05:43 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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This was a while ago, so some of the details may be a little rough. There's a big ass forest a few hours away from where I lived at the time (I don't recall it's name) that is well known for weird, scary shit that goes on. Being the young, stupid teenagers we were, a few friends and I decided to camp out there for the night. We arrived as the sun was going down, and right off the bat I started getting weird vibes. Everybody else seemed fine so I just ignored it. We were strolling along a trail exploring and my friend X had white ribbon he was tying to trees so we could find our way back if we got lost. We found our way into a clearing and saw an abandoned shed. It was creepy as fuck and I didn't want to go in but everybody else did, so I had no choice. There was a broken lock in the shed which made it even creepier. Inside the shed there was this jar filled with this black, goop? It smelled so disgusting in there, we all decided to leave. It got dark by the time we were walking back, and our flashlight was incredibly dim. I noticed I didn't see anymore of X's ribbons. I brought it to every body's attention, we were lost. We turned around trying to find our way back to the shed, I heard something smack my friend A in the face. We shined the flash light on it and a raw piece of bloody meat was hanging from a rope tied to a tree. I'm not sure if a hunter put it there perhaps, but it was still creepy as fuck.
We finally made it back to the campsite, after a few hours of hearing rustling in the bushes and countless footsteps, and not to mention this horrid screeching (I'm sure it was a screech owl), we packed our shit and left. Never again.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: goodVibes]
#16689306 - 08/12/12 07:30 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Last year I was out hunting mushrooms a couple miles out in some deep woods,and I smelled a strong odor of paint.I thought why am I smelling paint all the way out in the middle of the woods,and then I cam upon a few cans of freshly used spray paint,and I got a overwhelmingly creepy feeling.I looked around,and picked up a can to examine it,and then I looked over in the distance about 20 feet from me,and there was a shirtless Charles Manson guy staring at me,with paint all over his mouth,and beard.I had never been so scared in my life,and thought he was going to try and kill me.He then started advancing towards me,and he saw my walking stick,and turned around and stumbled back into the bushes.To this day,I haven't went back to that area,because who knows what goes through the minds of sick people that inhale paint!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16689726 - 08/12/12 08:27 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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goodVibes said: This was a while ago, so some of the details may be a little rough. There's a big ass forest a few hours away from where I lived at the time (I don't recall it's name) that is well known for weird, scary shit that goes on. Being the young, stupid teenagers we were, a few friends and I decided to camp out there for the night. We arrived as the sun was going down, and right off the bat I started getting weird vibes. Everybody else seemed fine so I just ignored it. We were strolling along a trail exploring and my friend X had white ribbon he was tying to trees so we could find our way back if we got lost. We found our way into a clearing and saw an abandoned shed. It was creepy as fuck and I didn't want to go in but everybody else did, so I had no choice. There was a broken lock in the shed which made it even creepier. Inside the shed there was this jar filled with this black, goop? It smelled so disgusting in there, we all decided to leave. It got dark by the time we were walking back, and our flashlight was incredibly dim. I noticed I didn't see anymore of X's ribbons. I brought it to every body's attention, we were lost. We turned around trying to find our way back to the shed, I heard something smack my friend A in the face. We shined the flash light on it and a raw piece of bloody meat was hanging from a rope tied to a tree. I'm not sure if a hunter put it there perhaps, but it was still creepy as fuck.
We finally made it back to the campsite, after a few hours of hearing rustling in the bushes and countless footsteps, and not to mention this horrid screeching (I'm sure it was a screech owl), we packed our shit and left. Never again.
Nature was offering you a snack and you declined it?
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Funki Porcini said: Last year I was out hunting mushrooms a couple miles out in some deep woods,and I smelled a strong odor of paint.I thought why am I smelling paint all the way out in the middle of the woods,and then I cam upon a few cans of freshly used spray paint,and I got a overwhelmingly creepy feeling.I looked around,and picked up a can to examine it,and then I looked over in the distance about 20 feet from me,and there was a shirtless Charles Manson guy staring at me,with paint all over his mouth,and beard.I had never been so scared in my life,and thought he was going to try and kill me.He then started advancing towards me,and he saw my walking stick,and turned around and stumbled back into the bushes.To this day,I haven't went back to that area,because who knows what goes through the minds of sick people that inhale paint!
WTF that is so weird if that happened to me I woulda sprayed whatever was left in those cans directly into his eyes and hightailed it out of there
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16689745 - 08/12/12 08:30 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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It was one of most scariest experiences in life,that's for damn sure!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16694295 - 08/13/12 04:28 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Absolutely man. I'd be heavily creeped out after that. At the time, I'd be terrified, confused, and in killer instinct mode. Because that's just weird, that dude wasn't comin up to say what's up and ask what you're having for dinner.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16694492 - 08/13/12 05:00 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Trust name,when he advanced towards me,I saw my life flash before my eyes.Who knows what his intentions were ya know?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Riz]
#16694584 - 08/13/12 05:14 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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spooky kooky
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: GoodOlDave]
#16695598 - 08/13/12 08:13 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Absolutely. Wouldn't trust that for a second. I'd like to think he was just the friendly neighborhood paint sniffer but we all know that ain't true.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16695621 - 08/13/12 08:20 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Absent Minded said: Absolutely. Wouldn't trust that for a second. I'd like to think he was just the friendly neighborhood paint sniffer but we all know that ain't true.
Wonder why he would go that far out in the woods just to sniff paint,unless he was living out there?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16696895 - 08/14/12 01:19 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Probably burying the last person that asked him that!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#16696944 - 08/14/12 01:41 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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shivas.wisdom said: Similar thing happened to me about a month ago.
Was camping on a small island (Denman island) off the coast of Vancouver island--which has the highest concentration of cougars in N.America. I was hitching my way around, and by the time I got to the island it was getting late and I was tired, so I hiked into the centre of a large temperate rainforest and set up camp.
Flash forward to about 3am, when I am woken up by a cougar screaming in the not very distant distance. To make it worse, my last ride before getting to this island had been by a guy who, upon hearing that I was simply camping in the bush as I wandered, asked if I had been having any problem with wildlife--when I said 'no' he proceeded to warn me that they had been having a relatively high amount of cougar attacks in the area recently, and gave me the advice that they are hunting most actively around dawn and dusk, and to be aware.
Somehow, I feel back asleep--but you can be sure that, come first light, camp was broken down and I made like a banana.
believe it or not, you were more prone to being attacked while moving. getting in a tent is a full proof way to avoid a cougar. they need the chase mechanism to set them on a chase. bears will just stumble into your camp and eat your food, possibly you depending on the individual bear and it's past experiences with humans.
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Interesting advice--cougars do not live where I grew up, so I am fairly unfamiliar with them, but I shall remember this.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: northernlight]
#16698966 - 08/14/12 01:31 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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northernlight said: Probably burying the last person that asked him that!
HAHA,I actually went back out there today,while hunting mushrooms.there was no sign of him,but there were more used up spray paint cans laying all over the area that you could buy at walmart.I can't believe someone littering up my woods like that!I should have taken a pic.I'll do that next time.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#16699118 - 08/14/12 02:05 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I took a solo evening Catskill hike toward the Kaaterskill high peak via the southern entry trail that splits with Huckleberry Point. At the fork [--> to huckleberry pt, <-- to high peak] I downed most of my bottle of P cubensis tea & began my incline trek. My destination was this old Mohawk Indian Camp that is marked by a Cairn at about 3000' and is a totally unmarked trail that meets up with a snowmobile trail. Totally sketchy trip to take alone but it was early in the season so not much bushwacking.
I get to the cairn and I am REALLY feeling the come-up...meaning, I'm tripping balls. When the trail leveled off it began with a patch of beautiful pines, and descended gently toward the most ethereal Birch trees I have ever been accompanied by. I knew it was a special place, looked to my left and saw the unmarked trail toward the camp. I set some stuff down and decided to break my fast, when all of the sudden "Love You Dub" by Scientist began to play from my iPod in my backpack. I haven't told anybody this because of how special the moment is to me.
I let the iPod play on shuffle the whole way through the experience, with the most relative songs comin up I knew I had some friends with me. As I came through the old camp I met the snowmobile trail and saw a cool plane wreck, was guided by mathematical lichens toward the high peak south-entry trail but knew I should turn around as the sun would set soon.
Nearing where I came to the snowmobile path, I came to a complete state of insanity. I began speaking in tongues that were coming through me that I couldn't recite in my head even. I was watching the sky chanting on the arrival of Nibiru without knowing it at all. I was in a total Aum state. In my peripherals I could see large native men approaching, testing my comfortability and seeing how "down" I was. I apparently got approval to stay [was not spooked but warmly adjusted] and soon after fell to a squat, and with my hands out, pants & shoes off chanted & om'ed the Earth on. I approached a state of being covered in my own mucous [fasting, chanting, & a deep theta trance with psilocybin tea will bring physical crud right up and out for me.]
I now entered a realm of thought process that I find extremely hard to express without feeling like a mental patient. I first must say that I saw a great wheel passing trough the sky prior to my squat-position, which I screamed vigorously to claiming my potency as an honest, giving, caring spirit. This wheel, upon my squatting, was to me the arrival of the new life on Earth. Everything sped up so quickly, and I recalled how fast life has been going, and how shameful I have felt for not being in this state sooner. I became so complacent with my own state and the idea of this planet ending that I believed I had been sped up to a frequency high enough to have me move on right there & be reincarnated into a tree. I thought that all of the human race had been wiped out and I was invited to live right there in the Catskills with nothing but time, sun, nature beings, and soil to dig into.
The feeling of being dead terrified me at first, but the acceptance I felt from the trees as I became one of them was beautiful and noble to me.
This lasted realistically, probably forty minutes...maybe fifteen even, I don't know, it felt like 100 years to me. I grew with them. I was them. I communicated with them and gave thanks to the soil & animals & water that fed us. It was a state of pure complacency & openness, yet the fear of not being able to move or see my family again hardly lingered as a dewdrop on my meristem.
As I snapped out of it, I became ecstatic about being alive and having felt such an immense connection to Gaia and the Tree spirits. I thanked the land and proceeded to realize, holy shnikees, it's dark out!!!! The Mohawk trail was un-marked so I had no clue of how to get back in the dark & had to follow the snowmobile trail, I had no compass with me and was horrifyingly trustworthy in the Native spirits to guide me home safely. [The trail is a part of the Long Path, and leads to several other lookout points & peaks...I could have ended up stranded for the night with nothing but my backpack to sleep on.]
My sense of direction guided me safely back to the car, and my mind has not been the same since.
I plan to go back this fall to take pictures of things I physically saw up there, VERY amazing place. More fucked up than creepy, but I figured this story would feel right at home in this thread.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16700937 - 08/14/12 07:31 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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northernlight said: Probably burying the last person that asked him that!
HAHA,I actually went back out there today,while hunting mushrooms.there was no sign of him,but there were more used up spray paint cans laying all over the area that you could buy at walmart.I can't believe someone littering up my woods like that!I should have taken a pic.I'll do that next time.
dude that's just fuckin weird, maybe this guy just really digs huffing paint, imagine what his fucking lungs look like... you ever spray painted something and noticed that sticky film on the ground below where you painted? That's ALL gotta be in his fucking lungs. Offer him some herb next time for the love of god, save that man. Either that or tell him to quit being a fucking creep and get out of the woods.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16702633 - 08/15/12 02:00 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Funki Porcini said: Last year I was out hunting mushrooms a couple miles out in some deep woods,and I smelled a strong odor of paint.I thought why am I smelling paint all the way out in the middle of the woods,and then I cam upon a few cans of freshly used spray paint,and I got a overwhelmingly creepy feeling.I looked around,and picked up a can to examine it,and then I looked over in the distance about 20 feet from me,and there was a shirtless Charles Manson guy staring at me,with paint all over his mouth,and beard.I had never been so scared in my life,and thought he was going to try and kill me.He then started advancing towards me,and he saw my walking stick,and turned around and stumbled back into the bushes.To this day,I haven't went back to that area,because who knows what goes through the minds of sick people that inhale paint!
Ahh man... Paint huffers...
But really... It's sad dude...
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#16704366 - 08/15/12 12:19 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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wtf? Does this man not have access to better drugs? Granted I've never huffed fucking paint.... I just can't imagine it being anything to write home about, let alone do for 14 years. And is this dude huffing it in front of fuckin city hall? How do you get caught that many times?
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16704575 - 08/15/12 01:07 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't think that was worded right,I meant there were more spray paint cans out there,than there probably is in all of walmart!They were old,so I'm thinking they were from last year when I saw him out there.I watched that whole video,and that was beyond sad.That guy looks almost identical to the guy I saw too,especially the ones with the paint all over the face,and beard!I can't imagine what that shit does to the lungs,and brain,and it seems like buying a dime of weed would be cheaper than buying bunches of cans of paint!I gotta wonder what kind of high that it brings for people to get addicted to it!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Funki Porcini]
#16707543 - 08/16/12 12:06 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Only if he would smoke pot then huffing paint man.He would been a lot better off.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: desant]
#16764759 - 08/31/12 09:29 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just had to bump this old thread, as it has been one of my favorite since coming to the Shroomery.
Check out this session of Coast to Coast on odd disappearances that I found on YouTube. Enjoy!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: macrogreen]
#16766947 - 08/31/12 04:52 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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A lot happened during my time in the Boundary Waters and wow do I have some creepy wilderness tales to share now! The following stories happened on within the same 10 day trip on the south arm and main body of Knife Lake in northern MN. It's a very long section of water for people traveling by canoe (7 miles or so total I would estimate.)
1) On night 5 of the trip we reached the south arm from the lake to the southeast and settled into a campsite near Eddy falls. I was nestled into my hammock for the night with a tarp pulled over me like a blanket in case it were to rain. I was in a deep sleep and it must have been 2 or 3 am since it was still dark and the sun comes up at like 4:30 there. I awoke to the sound of sobbing. It sounded like a woman and it was growing ever closer. then I heard the footsteps coming through the brush and trees toward our campsite. The noise entered the campsite on the side I was sleeping on and before long I could sense that whatever it was was standing right next to my hammock. I flung the tarp off half expecting a scared scout but instead my hand struck a rather solid body that then sprinted off into the dense forest. Startled, I awoke my crew and did a head count only to find that everyone was in their tents asleep. I waved it off as a bear encounter and went back to sleep.
2) The next day we moved to a campsite another 3 miles southwest down the lake and settled in once again. I was out gathering some firewood while the scouts cooked dinner. As I worked through the forest I heard a really strange primal sounding scream that made my muscles tense up and my hair stand on end. I involuntarily produced a strange whooping bark-like vocalization that I've never ever heard come out of my own body. This happened once more immediately after the first one. I was pretty shaken at this point, but stayed strong and calm when I got back to camp as any good guide would do.
3) The following day we decided to do something unconventional and go for a night paddle. We sat around camp all day and relaxed then at around 10:00 pm we left camp and kept heading southwest toward base camp. At about 1:00 am we came to the pinch of land separating Newfound Lake from Moose Lake. Here we had to cross through a relatively narrow passage of shallow water. At it's narrowest it's probably 25 yards from bank to bank. We were exactly at this point when out of the darkness of the right bank comes a flying rock. And I mean a fucking ROCK! This thing was very large to have made it the 15 yards from the bank to right in front of the fucking canoe. Either a world strongman threw that rock or something really big living in the woods did The rock landed on a flat shoal next to us; a piece of flat-topped granite about a foot under water. The rock was so large it still had a foot sticking out of the water and was too heavy to pick up from the canoe.
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: GuruBushHippie]
#16767275 - 08/31/12 05:54 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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GuruBushHippie said: A lot happened during my time in the Boundary Waters and wow do I have some creepy wilderness tales to share now! The following stories happened on within the same 10 day trip on the south arm and main body of Knife Lake in northern MN. It's a very long section of water for people traveling by canoe (7 miles or so total I would estimate.)
1) On night 5 of the trip we reached the south arm from the lake to the southeast and settled into a campsite near Eddy falls. I was nestled into my hammock for the night with a tarp pulled over me like a blanket in case it were to rain. I was in a deep sleep and it must have been 2 or 3 am since it was still dark and the sun comes up at like 4:30 there. I awoke to the sound of sobbing. It sounded like a woman and it was growing ever closer. then I heard the footsteps coming through the brush and trees toward our campsite. The noise entered the campsite on the side I was sleeping on and before long I could sense that whatever it was was standing right next to my hammock. I flung the tarp off half expecting a scared scout but instead my hand struck a rather solid body that then sprinted off into the dense forest. Startled, I awoke my crew and did a head count only to find that everyone was in their tents asleep. I waved it off as a bear encounter and went back to sleep.
2) The next day we moved to a campsite another 3 miles southwest down the lake and settled in once again. I was out gathering some firewood while the scouts cooked dinner. As I worked through the forest I heard a really strange primal sounding scream that made my muscles tense up and my hair stand on end. I involuntarily produced a strange whooping bark-like vocalization that I've never ever heard come out of my own body. This happened once more immediately after the first one. I was pretty shaken at this point, but stayed strong and calm when I got back to camp as any good guide would do.
3) The following day we decided to do something unconventional and go for a night paddle. We sat around camp all day and relaxed then at around 10:00 pm we left camp and kept heading southwest toward base camp. At about 1:00 am we came to the pinch of land separating Newfound Lake from Moose Lake. Here we had to cross through a relatively narrow passage of shallow water. At it's narrowest it's probably 25 yards from bank to bank. We were exactly at this point when out of the darkness of the right bank comes a flying rock. And I mean a fucking ROCK! This thing was very large to have made it the 15 yards from the bank to right in front of the fucking canoe. Either a world strongman threw that rock or something really big living in the woods did The rock landed on a flat shoal next to us; a piece of flat-topped granite about a foot under water. The rock was so large it still had a foot sticking out of the water and was too heavy to pick up from the canoe.
shit, all of those are spooky. As much as I feel I'd love sleeping in a hammock like that, it's instances like that where I'd be totally messed up and not able to go back asleep. I'd just feel "exposed." Call me a baby, and I know it's not true, but that tent gives me some feeling of security, no matter how non existent it is!
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Re: What is your creepiest wilderness experience? [Re: Absent Minded]
#16767483 - 08/31/12 06:32 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I usually feel safer in the hammock, but I guess either way you're pretty exposed. I just feel like the the hammock is harder to spot because it's so small and you can set it up in the surrounding brush which keeps you from being in the open space of the campsite itself.
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