Creepy SAR/Wilderness stories If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. * These stories were provided by the Reddit users listed below. Porcupines sound like little kids speaking gibberish. A moment later two men with crossbows descended from the trees directly above us. Suddenly there were about 10 or 12 guys stood around me. Walking through a very dense forest in the UK, it was late summer (August I think), its just getting dark and I am heading back to the camp after a long day of hiking. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. They just stand there.. Then there's one behind me. [–]MinneSKOLTAN 150 points151 points152 points 3 years ago (50 children), [–]SkeletonJakk 72 points73 points74 points 3 years ago (11 children). [Serious] Hikers, campers, and outdoors people of reddit, what is the scariest/creepiest/most unnerving encounter you have had with another person in the wilderness? [–]nerdassmathfuck 73 points74 points75 points 3 years ago (7 children), We reported it to the forest service and they said they checked it out and it was a guillotine designed to kill wolves automatically that some random person set up. Back in highschool, my friend lived in a place at the base of a mountain. I'm sure the family of any of the 200+ unsolved disappearances would be grateful for closure. I was out camping in the boundary waters canoe area on what seemed to be a peaceful night. Multiple Person Disappearances surely are the most chilling type. Dec 2, 2020 - Explore Susan Olivier's board "Creepy Stories", followed by 412 people on Pinterest. You never know. [–]MitziToo 48 points49 points50 points 3 years ago (4 children). I quickly became really good friends with some local boys whose parents owned the towns dairy farm. Or if they had fallen off, been repositioned/tended. I've always been a heavy sleeper and they sounded like they were only about 100 yards away. Maybe they were burying a robot bro who expired. On Reddit, plenty of people who live in rural areas share their scary stories for the rest of us to freak out over. He started to panic when he realized someone was in fact following him. We get ready and set out on the trail, and he starts following us. But what is more creepy is when more than one person disappears at once. Turns out my brother had called the Forest Service Office on a satellite phone my family has for emergencies while I was asleep and they had sent out Forest Service officers and game wardens to our area of the wilderness. We agreed not to talk about the topic of him anymore since we could not see eye to eye on the issue. He said you might meet up with the guy in the next area if you both happen to be walking toward each other at the time. For those of you who are backpackers/campers, nobody who comes up on a random camp in the middle of the night with dogs and guns and has good intentions. Night vision goggles, packs, bags, weapons, there was even a dog. It explains why he was out of breath (tracking the deer), the deer running (running from the hunter, possibly injured), and the arrow without a broadhead (hunter leaves this to mark where he started tracking the deer in case he loses the trail). Thank for this link. We hiked from the house for about four hours through very dense bush, where we found a clearing and decided to set up our camp. In fact, here are 12 real-life stories from real-life people that will shake you to your core. The whole encounter was fairly cordial to be honest, I spotted him before he spotted me but there was no time to do anything about it. We went on some short hikes, about an hour and a half or so and we decided to do one last one that afternoon. He appeared to be in his 50's, small stature, wearing flat canvas beach shoes and a red hat, and carried no gear at all. 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