re: What is the creepiest thing you’ve experienced while in the woods?

A buddy of mine grew up on a property that bordered a state park in northern Minnesota - one carved by glaciers with deep ravines and plenty of slate rock formations to climb. As kids, we would spend hours during the summer going off the beaten path to explore every nook and cranny of that dam park.

Anyway, myself and another friend were sleeping over at his parents place on a particularly rainy night. The next day the three of us (I was 10 at the time, the other two were 11) did our usual exploring of the park. Eventually, we came across a natural water slide down one of the slate rock formations courtesy of the rain the night before. We spent a good few hours sliding and swimming until it was time to head back to my buddies place for dinner. Now, our route out to the natural water slide coursed through the parks official trails and some thicket; however, the slide itself was a quarter mile from a desolate road that would eventually lead us back to his house. Since we were already late for dinner, we opted to walk back on the road since it would be quicker.

Shortly after reaching the road, an old beat up car comes flying down the road in our direction (remember, it’s desolate). It shoots past us and then suddenly slams on the breaks. The car then reverses towards us and the driver (a guy in his early 30’s I’d guess) frantically rolls down his window and tells us he needs help. As he’s reversing towards us, he shouts that his girlfriends brother went hiking in the woods in the area and hadn’t been heard from for a couple days. He asked if we would help them find him. When the car got parallel to us, the presumed girlfriend was now within view in the passenger seat. The “girlfriend” was clearly much younger than he was. She despondently looked straight ahead, made no eye contact, and her face and arms were covered in bruises. When we saw this, the 3 of us told the guy that our parents were expecting us for dinner and that we couldn’t help. As we proceeded to walk away, the guy makes a quick u-turn in the car and chased us. The three of us obviously got off the road and ran into the forest; however, he got out of his car and chased us on foot too. Luckily, his baggy pants were not suitable for the dense underbrush and we were able to get away.

When we got back to my buddies parents house, we told them what happened. His dad then called the police. They admitted that there probably wasn’t much they could do given the lack of information, but they did mention that there were no recent missing person reports in the area.

Tl/dr: I was probably nearly kidnapped.

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found the remains of a Corvette

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I wonder if we’ve seen the same one

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Was this the Judson Baptist Retreat in Jackson, La?

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Nah, Camp Istrouma in Greenwill Springs. Must've been the furthest a Christian camp could go probably not allowed to go full blown serial killer.

Nothing too creepy for me. However I do understand the feeling of being unsettled in the dark woods. Was camping in the backwoods with lady Mufassa. It was a new moon so was pitch black out. I left her in the tent late at night to walk down the hill to the lake to check on a catfish line and was very careful to note landmarks on the way down as there was no path. After checking the line I picked my angle back up the hill and was very certain I was walking the right direction. It was so dark I felt like I was looking straight into a blanket. When I crested the hill I was so certain the tent was 10ft in front of me but just too dark to see. I called out and I could hear my SO faintly calling back probably 100 yards to my 4o’clock. Hard to believe I misjudged the direction that badly, but it definitely sent a chill down my spine being positive you’re looking towards somebody and then hearing them so far away.

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..and then it stops and I hear the feet walk off.

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Just the feet?

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Nothing too creepy for me. However I do understand the feeling of being unsettled in the dark woods. Was camping in the backwoods with lady Mufassa. It was a new moon so was pitch black out. I left her in the tent late at night to walk down the hill to the lake to check on a catfish line and was very careful to note landmarks on the way down as there was no path. After checking the line I picked my angle back up the hill and was very certain I was walking the right direction. It was so dark I felt like I was looking straight into a blanket. When I crested the hill I was so certain the tent was 10ft in front of me but just too dark to see. I called out and I could hear my SO faintly calling back probably 100 yards to my 4o’clock. Hard to believe I misjudged the direction that badly, but it definitely sent a chill down my spine being positive you’re looking towards somebody and then hearing them so far away.

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It's funny how you can get turned around. I was deer hunting once in a stand and my truck was tucked away maybe about a half mile or a little more across a corn field. The edge of the corn field was the long side of a triangle of woods with arms of a small lake bordering the two short sides of the woods. relatively small patch of woods.

As it was getting dark I saw a few deer walk out close to where my truck was parked. I decided to get down and walk back inside the tree line to the truck and see about those deer. It was crazy dark in there and I had gone in to the woods a little more to get around some downed trees.

I got completely turned around in there. It was ridiculous. Finally just made myself pick a direction and walk. If I hit water I'd turn right. If I hit corn I'd turn left.

When I finally got back to the truck all I could think was "how in the hell did I get turned around like that in such a small patch of woods."

A couple of friends and myself were camping and had a pretty good fire going, it was a cold night. Along about 11PM a cat I assume started screaming not very far away and it kept moving towards us.

We never could get a light on it but it kept moving closer and screaming all the while. I was surprised about that since we were making a lot of noise and we had a good sized fire going.

Finally we had enough and let a couple of 12 gauge blasts fly in the air, it was getting close and we never could see eyes or hear anything but screams we had good lights, and the screamfest was over. Whatever it was got the message we sent.

Next AM we looked around and saw no sign. but that scream would make the hair stand up on your neck for sure.

Around 1991 or early '92. I was about 15 hanging out at a friend's house and we went to fish a creek next to his neighborhood. We saw a few small fish and a garter snake but caught nothing.

Anyway, bored and nothing going on we decided to leave the fishing gear and walk in the woods. We walked up this small wooded hill that led us toward the entrance of the neighborhood. We ended up only a fairly short distance from the first two houses, left side of the entrance. The terrain got very rough and soft like in this one area with thick pine straw. We were in a densely wooded spot when I discovered I was standing on an old grave plot. We looked around and found several tombstones. Most were so old and dirty you couldn't hardly read anything on them. Some graves were outlined by the eroded earth when we moved the pine straw.
From the info we could make out most had been there 90 to 100 years. The deaths were late 1800s to about mid-1910s. It must have been an old family burial, possibly slaves or a resident farm family.

It was eerie but also sad and it's most likely still there today. Unknown to people.

We have friends who have a place in the woods close to Bon Secour, AL. We were staying there one weekend and came upon a couple of guys in the dark, scouring the woods close to the place.

One of the guys asked us if we had seen a naked man around, that there was one loose in the woods.

After a few questions he told us there were two couples staying in a place down the road and one of the men got really drunk and left the house with no clothes on. When it got dark, his wife and friends got worried and called the Sheriff. Turned out, the guy we encountered was a deputy. He gave us his cell number and asked if we would call him if we saw the guy.

Strangest thing, the wife did not pass a window that night or the next day without checking out the woods.

We followed up on it the next day. They did eventually find him the next morning. He had sobered up and was walking down one of the roads close by, still naked and, according to the Sheriff, evidently not all that concerned about it. Evidently, they took him back to his wife.

The Sheriff said the guy had about a thousand mosquito bites and was pretty scratched up from walking around the woods in the dark.

Alabama People ... What are you supposed to do with them?

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What is the creepiest thing you’ve experienced while in the woods?

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Nobody has mentioned "being told to squeal like a pig before taking a dick up the arse"?