re: Scariest thing that happened to you in the woods

Subtle I am an expert at critters and you're not.

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Got charged by a 1000 pound moose backpacking in the grand tetons. Had to dive behind a tree to keep from getting run-over. Walked up on him while trying to refill water supplies for our hike back down the mountain and he was angry. I think it was the rut there. The rangers warned us about them and to keep our distance.

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Was fishing in the Boulder river and locked in a place where I knew there were some trout. The river was pretty small there, and shallow. There was an island and I was right below the island. My friend was about 50 yards downstream. I hear him yelling, but I can't make out what he is saying. I notice that he is pointing at something and turn around. There was a huge bull moose munching grass and watching me, maybe 10 yards away.

I wasn't really scared, and it was an awesome sight. Those suckers are big. I slowly retreated downstream. He watched me for a while, then turned, crossed the river and disappeared into the woods.

I was walking in the woods outside a cow pasture in Mississippi and ate a purple top mushroom. 30 minute later all sorts of good and evils spirits appeared in the woods … then God himself desended. After a few hours they went away

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Never been *really* scared, but hearing hogs grunting nearby in the dark will challenge your confidence.

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Was walking down a dried up river in St. Francisville...woods on both sides. Saw a bunch of tracks in the sand. Some maybe deer, some who knows. Then heard what sounded like a hog in the woods. Not a good feeling! Felt like a soldier about to get ambushed.

Was walking the pasture fence one spring day, making sure it was ok before I moved cattle into that pasture. Fence was the property line, a 30 foot wide swath bulldozed through the woods. Out of the blue, a voice says “Good Morning!” My fricking heart about jumped out of my chest. “Over here” the voice said and a hand waved up out of the brush about 15 feet ahead of me. Was a turkey hunter. He was hidden good, if he would’ve kept quiet, I’m 99% sure I would’ve walked right past him, oblivious.

My heart was still pounding an hour later.

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Got charged by a 1000 pound moose backpacking in the grand tetons

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Must've not been too scared if you took the time to weigh it.

Someone posted a story here a few years back (I think it was on here, like 99% sure) and I've looked for it but can't find it again, kind of like the guy's story

If anybody knows WTF I'm talking about, link it for me. But basically the guy said he was walking through some woods that he was extremely familiar with, like had spent years and years in these woods, I think it was family owned land and I want to say the guy was somewhere in north Louisiana. He says he stumbled upon a cemetery that he had never in his life seen before in an area that he had been through hundreds of times in his life, and went back and told everyone what he had found, but when he came back the next day he couldn't find it and it freaked him out/perplexed him.

If anybody knows what I'm talking about, I'd love to read it again.

ne of my buddies had a beagle named Sparky who snuck up behind me and licked me on my bare arse, you talk about freak the F out. I jumped up running with my pants down and a turd half the way out screaming and hollering bloody murder.

True Story "

I'm laughing like hell.....

my wife and i had just purchased about 50 acres in St Tamm to build our 'final' house on. i was by myself and decided to walk the land a little to settle on a site to build said house. well, about 20 mins in i found myself in thicket so thick i couldnt pass. about 20 more mins of trying to go around thicket i lost my bearing. it's a square platted property with a highway on one side, tchefuncte river in the back, so all i had to do was walk in a straight line to hit a marker i recognized. the feeling you get when youre straight up lost is not a good one. i didnt panic and eventually after a couple hours found my way out but not a good feeling.

another one...i am walking around our property down by the tchefuncte river and have my little girl with me. off to our left is about a 300' by 300' swim hole that is boggy and constantly hold river water and heavily treed. i hear my daughter say, Dad, what's that? i look over where she is gazing and a handful of coyotes were poking there head up above a berm. she'a half way between me and coyotes and my side by side with my AR is equal distance. you would be shocked at how quickly your mind can process life altering decisions and scenarios. we're talking nano seconds.

of course, coyotes are scared shitless of us and they all turned and ran, but you never know. in that split second of life, i was scared.