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

Some of you guys may remember this incident. Back in 1990 or 91, 3 kids that had just graduated drowned in the Amite River in Bluff Creek. I was 10 and out there that day.
I had been staying at my friends house who lived right there where it happened. We would go ride our bikes down the road to get to the river and play around out there. That day, his uncle told us some high school kids were going to be out there and to leave them alone and to stay out of the water. As we were riding around we saw them but kept our distance and went on about our business. As we were riding our bikes and turned back in the sand, I saw the strangest thing. There was a chain sticking up out of the sand and made a perfect arch back into the sand.
I yelled at my friend who was in front of me to stop because I wanted to get a closer look. I turned around to show him and it was gone and there was no trace of anything like what I described. We both looked back down the river and didn't see anything or the kids we had just seen 5 minutes prior. We both got a very creepy feeling and hauled arse back to the house and didn't go back out.

Later that night we started seeing cops showing up. We were told to stay inside and no one would tell us what was going on. At one point I recall my friends Uncle and a cop come in the house and asked us if we saw the kids out there. We told them we saw the truck and saw them down the beach but that was it.
It wasn't until years later I put everything together and we were the last people to ever see them. When we saw them they were just stepping into the river. When we turned back around and looked where they were, the current had swept them away.
When the bodies were found, the 3 of them had tied a rope around their waist and were trying to cross the river. That day will always stick out to me and I can recall almost every little detail.