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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: SARAtonin]
#26334478 - 11/20/19 09:09 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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SARAtonin said: A wendingo.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: SARAtonin] 1
#26334481 - 11/20/19 09:11 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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SARAtonin said: A wendingo.

This? Does it really carry a spine with a a skull of spikes at the end of it in its natural habitat?
And what's with the antlers?
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Niffla] 1
#26334485 - 11/20/19 09:13 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ah fuck it's my mother in law...
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Niffla]
#26334487 - 11/20/19 09:14 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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a bear if we are talking land. a great white shark if we are talking water.
also a bull moose during mating season, a rhino or a tiger would be up there too.
Edited by BANANA.MAN (11/20/19 09:35 PM)
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#26334492 - 11/20/19 09:17 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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They aren’t skeletal traditionally.
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The wendigo (/ˈwɛndɪɡoʊ/) or windigo (also wetiko) is a mythological man-eating creature or evil spirit from the folklore of the Native American Algonquian tribes based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada, and Great Lakes Region of Canada. The wendigo is described as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. Its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed, cannibalism and the cultural taboos against such behaviors.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
I’d imagine more like this.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: BANANA.MAN]
#26334496 - 11/20/19 09:20 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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a salt water crocodiles bite is unmatched in the animal kingdom. It would be comparable to trying to lift a truck off your body.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: SARAtonin]
#26334500 - 11/20/19 09:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Aren't Wendigos only native to Newark?
You're like 1,500 miles away. You're safe.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Niffla] 1
#26334515 - 11/20/19 09:33 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Polar bear. They don't kill you before they eat you, and they will totally eat humans given the chance.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: nooneman] 2
#26334540 - 11/20/19 09:55 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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A group of Gang Members, A hippo, Any large cat, Sharks and Jellyfish.
Where I live now my biggest concern is a mountain lion, which actually isn't much of a concern because I've never seen one and I know they have seen me. Bears don't scare me too much. I have had the most problems with angry cattle.
When I was in Florida we would eat shrooms at night and then go tubing down the river at Ginnie Springs which is beautiful at night because they light up the springs, but not the river. In the river all you can hear on both sides of the banks while you're floating down is large alligators croaking. That is some terrifying shit to know you could float into one and next thing you know is you're being death rolled and eaten alive. We always got too scared and bailed out before the very end. Almost made it all the way a couple times. That really makes you feel ALIVE!
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Lophosaurus] 2
#26334542 - 11/20/19 09:56 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Great white shark.
If you see it you're probably ok.
My father and I have always had a hunting knife strapped to our legs when diving. He used to say if happened he would use the knife to stab himself in the heart and get it over with. I reckon I'd put up a fight.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: SARAtonin]
#26334624 - 11/20/19 10:59 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, if we're talking supernatural creatures then then the Skinwalker would be my pick. Those giant supernatural wolves scare the fuck outta me!
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: alaskappalachian] 1
#26334656 - 11/20/19 11:24 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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psi said: I had a group of 3 wolves walk past me pretty close one time. But they didn't really seem to acknowledge me and kept going. This was by a tree planting camp in a game preserve. They had been right in the middle of camp earlier.
I bet that was fantastic. I got to see one wolf in my life. We used ot have an older white wolf that roamed around Far North Bicentennial Park near Anchorage that I got to see out by the Beaver Ponds one day with a group of people I took out from out of town. We were all very stoked. Seeing three would be friggin killer... Jealous.
This was in the Chapleau game preserve in Ontario. Camped at this gravel pit there once or twice for tree planting and another time as part of a 4 man crew doing forest surveying. With the wolves I was kind of robbed of the mystique because I had seen them right in the middle of camp not long before I saw them in a natural setting. They were hanging out near the kitchen bus when we got back to camp at the end of the day but scattered off when we got in. The cooks were getting concerned before we got back though.
A bit later on I was not really thinking about that any more and I went for a walk out to this spot where I had a fire before, in these low rolling hills with a lot of exposed rock. They passed maybe 20 or 30 feet away but were in view for a pretty short time, so my thought process didn't get too far beyond "well, I guess those are the wolves that were in camp before" by the time they were gone.
I had another experience when I was there with the smaller camp that felt a lot more spiritual so to speak. I was near the edge of this large flat area with a small pond in the middle and this animal came to the water to get a drink. Couldn't figure out what it was at first but from the way it moved I realized it was some kind of cat. It had black on the tips of its ears and tail. I guess probably a lynx though I thought it seemed like a larger animal. But I'm not sure there are any mountain lions there. Like with the wolves I was totally dumbfounded in the moment, but more so because I wasn't sure what I was even seeing.
For the main question I would say a Siberian tiger encountered somewhere it isn't native so you wouldn't even remotely expect it.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: psi]
#26334662 - 11/20/19 11:30 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: cannabinated]
#26334702 - 11/20/19 11:51 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm just glad we live in the era we're in, where we don't have to deal with 12 foot long scorpions that hang out in the bottom of creeks, or birds big enough to kill horses, or giant carnivorous hogs the size of a bull with jaws that can bite you in half.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Eminence] 2
#26334715 - 11/21/19 12:12 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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sometimes i worry about OD'ing in my tent when i'm in Hawaii, then getting eaten by wild boars.
i ain't afraid of no stinkin bears cause i got moves, son
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: crackbaby] 1
#26334774 - 11/21/19 01:15 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've ran into a few bears and moose in my day running around the woods in Alaska.
Most terrifying would definitely have to be some kind of large cat like a cougar. A machine designed specifically for killing.
I was actually thinking today about how terrifying being in the woods and stumbling across certain animals could be a death sentence. You could literally be pushed into a kill or be killed scenario and you don't have a choice.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Niffla]
#26334797 - 11/21/19 01:33 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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JonnyBtreed said: I'm a hunter, and it's a pretty creepy feeling walking into the middle of the woods in the pitch black at 4:30 am. Every single little noise just creeps you the fuck out. A fisher scared the shit out of me one time with it's cry right when I got into my stand.
Crazy to imagine being in other places and knowing there's things out there potentially hunting me on that walk. Sketchy shit.
See this is why I don't know if it would be possible to camp solo in an area that has large, top tier predators.
I did camp in the Yellowstone a region a few times, which is grizzly/wolf/cougar country, but that was with friends. Even though the scenario in reality is just as dangerous, having someone with you distracts you from that thought. By myself though out there?
Don't think I have the bravery required for that
I think it's always just a good idea to take a companion or 2. Most of the horror stories are people who went alone. Which really there is no need to not use the buddy system when fucking with the great outdoors.
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: crackbaby] 1
#26334802 - 11/21/19 01:37 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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crackbaby said: sometimes i worry about OD'ing in my tent when i'm in Hawaii, then getting eaten by wild boars.
i ain't afraid of no stinkin bears cause i got moves, son
I head they get fairly large there. I used to run into boar here and there when hunting in NC and you just haven't lived until you're higher than a giraffe's ass walking through a thick strand of longleaf pine when suddenly a crazy screeching noise starts and a whole sounder rumbles through the understory...
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#26334803 - 11/21/19 01:38 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Any/all Yeti! 
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Re: What would be the most terrifying animal to encounter in the wild by yourself? [Re: Loaded Shaman]
#26334832 - 11/21/19 02:24 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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My 11 year old daughter reckons bogans.

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