Middle of Nowhere Horror Stories Compilation | Black Screen | Rain Sounds | Scary Stories for Sleep

when I went home for 3 weeks about a month and a half ago my Dad decided that we should do a bit of night fishing I'm not a huge fan of night fishing any sort of fishing really or my dad for that matter our personalities are way too similar and if you leave us together for more than an hour there may be blood left over by the time he and I are done playing several dozen rounds of fisticuffs between the stubborn arguing and shouting anyways my Dad decided to take me to this River up by

our new house that they had just finished building my mom and brother stayed behind as we traced through the dark woods now my family lives in Oregon and the river was about a mile and a half in front of my family's property over massive Fallen trees in stumps that I easily tripped on not knowing the lay of the land my dad merely scoffed at me and reminded me that City living makes you soft he didn't say it just like that but something along those lines like some stereotypical Cowboy out of an old Wild West film

I blamed the fact that I didn't know the area as well as he did and it just spiraled downhill from there and arguing broke out between us making the peaceful night loud and chaotic we didn't stop arguing the entire way down to the river my father critiquing my less than Christian Life lifestyle while I criticized his manner of parenting my 20-year-old autistic brother when we got to the river we finally settled into an awkward tense silence as we got our gear out I knew that this fight was far from over as I sat down on

a fallen tree Stone and shivered my ass off I had lived in a warm climate for over a year and honestly coming out here was probably him punishing me for even leaving the Pacific Northwest we refused to talk to one another as our lights danced across the water when my dad suddenly stood up his light landing on the other side of the river there on the other bank stood a man looking right at us he wore a bright orange T-shirt and a pair of scraggly jeans but for the most part looking pretty average if you

counted the machete hanging from his belt my dad snapped at me to start packing all our stuff up and so I followed his command as my dad started shouting at the man across the river their conversation was mostly lost to the Roar of the white-capped water but I could see the man making agitated sweeps with his hands every time I dared to Peak their voices grew and my fear grew with it my father has never been one to carry protection in the woods hence why I was born this man was armed and possibly dangerous with

that machete and while we had the river between us it was shallow and had plenty of places to cross and even if it was no runoff I had no doubts this man could be behind us in mere minutes had we wandered onto his property by mistake and just not have known it dropped the gear and let's go my dad snarled at me as I took one last look up to see the man starting to walk into the river his hand flitting against his weapon my dad put a firm hand on my shoulder and led me

back into the woods towards our house my dad is an Ultram marathoner he runs like it's going out of style and my mostly out of shape self probably wouldn't have been able to keep up if I hadn't been so terrified I couldn't hear if the man was coming after us my heartbeat being so loud in my ears but I'd follow with my dad so closely I almost ran into him several times finally we found our road and made a break for my parents house as soon as we were through the front door my dad had

locked the doors and was keeping a Vigilant watch out the windows making sure no crazy men with machetes were creeping up on our house finally when he figured there was no guy wearing an orange T-shirt we sat down and began to talk about her experience with my mom we avoided the part where we had been arguing but told her everything else we went to bed without apologizing and I honestly felt horrible the next day with the only gun he owned my father and I walked back out into the woods after calling the police they said

that there was a guy who did enjoy scaring people off of the forest land in the area and that we shouldn't be too concerned feeling a bit sheepish we went back to the place where we had left our gear both of us apologizing for our lackluster Behavior the night before when we returned to what we believed to be the spot we saw that our fishing poles had been bent and all the line had been draped from tree to tree and The Tackle Box was gone however my dad and I didn't fight again for the rest

of my trip home so thanks for bringing a temporary truce between my dad and I crazy man but let's never meet by the river again this is left me feeling extremely Shook and I'd love some opinions especially from someone with experience experience last year I had a very strange experience in a national forest out in California I was by myself on a road trip with my dog I was driving pretty far into the medino national forest I like to camp in national parks and forests because it's isolated so my dog can Roam and they're free

of charge a trade-off for sketchy and rough drives into the park sometimes and lack of service and assistance anyway I was driving up this dirt road kind of curling up a mountain around maybe 5:00 p.m. it was very nice out sunny and warm with a slight breeze nothing serious happened but I felt extremely uncomfortable driving into the area and that feeling did not let up driving up the mountain I felt like I shouldn't stay there and I even texted my boyfriend about it for as long as I could before my phone completely lost service I

was looking for a sign of another person having been around the area lately but I didn't see anything I pulled over and got out of my car with my dog to look over the edge and I noticed a dead squirrel and some broken glass mixed in with a dirt and gravel road Yuka my dog starts to growl slightly she is vocal but I've almost only ever seen or heard her growl at or with other dogs I did see her growl at a posum one so it could be something she smelled maybe this place continued to

make me feel quite on edge but I pride myself in being an independent traveler and Backpacker so I decided to continue at least a bit further with my grumbling pup to see if I could find a good place to Camp I continue to notice more dead animals keep in mind no one is going to be going more than 5 to 10 mph up this thing and that's if there's anyone even there I hear men's voices they sound close and I think I should call out to them so I stopped my car but then kind of

freeze up and feel like I shouldn't I can't really make out what they're saying I don't see any sign of people anywhere I get back in my car and continue to slowly drive forward and cautiously look for where the voices could be coming from I've never run into other people in a National Park or Forest when I've gone this deep in the unsettling feeling grows about the voices which have sort of come and gone a few times and I give up and begin to turn my car around I honestly don't remember how Yuka was acting

on the way down I was scared and focused on getting out of there I just distinctly remember being surprised at her grumbling when we were standing outside of my car kind of dangerously quickly I went back down the mountain not seeing any sign of anyone I decided to spring for a luxury and get a hotel for the night I figured I was just fine huge and open spaces can be intimidating I told myself and the voices could have been echoing from somewhere far off and they just sounded close animals die glass gets broken nothing happened

cool but I remember this place it sticks with me whenever I'm watching scary movies if I'm walking my dogs in the Woods at night nothing compares to the feeling I had driving up that mountain and it's honestly kind of interesting to me as well as frightening I recently happened AC cross some information as well as some Native American lore that made me feel extremely uneasy fast forward a year I've mentioned this place to a few people and The Haunting Vibes it gave me but nothing much more I've Googled the national park once and I didn't

see anything but to be fair I didn't look much I like scary movies and things of that nature hence my Fascination in this little event so my boyfriend and I were coming up on finishing our road trip just yesterday we were in Wyoming for a wedding there were only 2 to 3 hours left and the sun had set so we decided to listen to some scary podcasts and YouTube videos we went from the No Sleep podcast to the X Files and ended up on a true stories video dealing with Native American lore I'm half paying

attention petting my dog playing Pokémon on an emulator and I hear the narrator mention wendigos very briefly he says what they are and casually mentions that they can mimic voices I mean it when I say the most horrible chills I have ever had in my life crawl down my spine and I stare at my boyfriend and ask him if he remembers that National Forest I was freaked out about last year he says he does and he reminds me that he texted me that I was probably close to a wendigo I remember him saying that but

I didn't know much about their lore and I thought he was just being funny like yeah Bigfoot is probably stalking you or some other dad joke and he was like no I mean I was mostly joking but I said it specifically because you said you were hearing voices that you could not find a trace of I feel strange as and I start googling wendigos and whatever else they are allegedly able to mimic human voices and they would live in that sort of area it all matched up obviously there's a ton of questionable info out there

but I try to find more reputable websites and authentic experiences I then specifically looked up missing persons in the area and the first headline that catches my eye is another family goes missing in mesino and I went through different websites and news articles of people going missing but they are all a little hidden underneath National Park websites and pictures of trees I remembered looking up the forest about a year ago and didn't see anything and realized these stories didn't seem to be talked about much which also piqued my intuition it was stated that well over

100 people in the past 8 years have gone missing and not been found on top of many which are found dead it just has my intuition super spiked remembering how unsafe I felt and how much I wanted to get out of there terrifies me and I felt so uneasy about what I was hearing and still do to this day my dog and I are very close she was a stray that started following me one day and I ended up bringing her home from Costa Rica so her little grows along the way makes me feel like

there was something wrong even though it was just a storytelling video those stories originate from somewhere I have done a lot of solo traveling both in and out of the country and I have never had such a bad feeling on top of seeing an unnecessary amount of dead animals in a national forest which just seemed strange I don't think I'll be doing more solo travel unless it's around civilization does anyone know about authentic Native American lore or has anyone else had a kind of inexplicable experience like this extra points if you've had bad vibes in

mesino National Forest from a wendigo this is a story that's really been bothering me lately for absolutely no reason whatsoever a few months back I just had this dream that brought back this memory I tried to suppress growing up but as of recently it's been weighing on my mind growing up in 2005 on the edge of the suburbs there was a large Grove of trees and Hills by some railroad tracks that lead to a big Forest about half a mile from my house when I was 9 years old my neighborhood friend and I would ride

our bikes to the railroad tracks and walk to the forest to go explore the random pieces of furniture and junk in this peculiar Forest we'd play card games do homework and hang with friends out there for about an hour or two but we never sat out there too long there were small abandoned houses here and there in this Forest that we stayed away from as one neighborhood friend Michael told me there was a homeless man who lived in one of them and if you saw him run so right off the bat after hearing this going

near this house in the woods was scary as could be one chilly November afternoon after school I came home and dropped off my backpack at my house and immediately went to the woods my bike was broken so I walked Michael had told me at school that day to meet him in this open area of the forest to play Pokémon with him this was something we'd frequently do growing up just to pass the time until our parents got home at 400 p.m. so it was nothing unusual as I crossed the railroad tracks into the forest I

instantly felt a weird Sensation that feeling you feel when someone is watching you I looked all around and couldn't see anyone so I thought I was just getting spooked as the rather overcast day was very eerie anyway trekking through the Autumn Leaves scattered across this large wooded area I Came Upon the big open area where I was supposed to meet Michael near the area where we normally met was his notebook open on the page was written hey I had to go back home and grab some batteries for my Game Boy wait for me here I'll

be back soon Michael I waited being alone especially feeling like someone was watching me made this particular moment very uncomfortable however I convinced myself I was just being a wuss and decided to wait for Michael I sat down and began playing my game boy it wasn't too long until that sensation of being watched grew into utter paranoia I kept frantically looking up from my Game Boy and checking my watch to see how long I'd been waiting I'd been sitting there for 30 minutes it was beginning to get dark then I heard some leaves crunch I

looked in the direction of the sound and briefly saw a dark hooded figure peeking from behind a few trees then hide back behind them my skin crawled and I immediately jumped up from where I was sitting and I froze in my tracks staring I screamed hello to see if anyone was there I was quickly reminded I wasn't alone when I saw this tall dirty looking hooded man Peak back around from the trees he called back hey buddy I picked up Michael's notebook and ran for my life I ran so fast I barely had time to

look behind me however I heard leaves crunching not too too far behind me it was the man running after me he was screaming for me to come back and I just wanted to talk to you I'm sorry I began crying as I was running thinking this was exactly how those missing kids disappear I ran and ran and ran until I literally tripped over the railroad tracks and cut up my knees Michael was just getting to the railroad tracks he saw me dirty and bloody and crying hysterically and I screamed at him to run without question

we ran all the way home the hooded man was nowhere to be seen once we left the railroad tracks I last saw him standing in the woods defeated that he couldn't catch me or something I don't know I told Michael everything and we never went back to the woods ever again years later in 2016 they bulldozed the woods and built a neighborhood there we later found out from fellow neighborhood friends who were in the area the same thing happened to them growing up to this day this is probably one of my scariest stories growing up

it was a random day my family and I had a trip planned out to go somewhere far from home just to go to a place in the Philippines called the helian badan park while on the way we used a GPS tracker to reach our destination none of us were aware that the GPS may not be accurate we followed the route my uncle was driving the car it was a forun car big enough to fit many people inside we were going up a hill surrounded by tall trees and it was sunset I fell asleep for a

while because I was exhausted from the long journey I soon woke up to my mother's voice saying be careful we're going to fall off I looked out the car window we were on top of a hill the sides of the road were so thin and tight one wrong turn and we would all come Crashing Down my cousins and I were at the back of the car we stayed quiet because we knew not to panic in situations like this my mom was the only one panicking as we went further my uncle drove slowly and thankfully we

didn't fall off and my uncle managed to find an area to make a uturn it was still on top of the hill but this area was wide enough after making it back to the main road safely we were all shaken scared hours of driving later it was nighttime there was nothing in sight all there was was a void of nothingness my family didn't follow the GPS this time they relied on memory because they've been on that road before we were going uphill again I have no idea where we were but all I saw were trees

around the car and the quiet sound of the car wheels driving over the gravel then at some point point we stopped I was confused but it appeared that the road ended everyone in the car was quiet my mother asked my uncle to check outside when he opened the car door it was so cold the wind was strong and I heard the trees rustling it was really spooky and it sent a chill down my spine my uncle closed the car door and as he turned on the car lights there was a line of people many of

them I have no idea what they were doing in the woods at night it was so weird after that I fell asleep from exhaustion I hadn't had anything to eat all day because we were stranded in the woods the next thing I woke up and we were already on the main road and we stopped by a 7-Eleven shop and my mom and Uncle bought hot dogs for my cousins and I to eat all of us were starving and had no energy I'm glad my family and I were safe just a reminder if you want to

go somewhere you can't always trust the GPS or the maps because some Roots might be outdated this was a situation a couple weeks back that left a bad taste in my mouth per se for context it might be a bit long but hopefully it will give a bit of background to what made this encounter so creepy for me this encounter happened about around the time lockdown was in its prime here in Australia I'm a 23-year-old female living near Byron Bay about a 20-minute driveaway in the surrounding Hinterlands I was born and raised in the city

though so I like to think my judgment of character is a bit finer developed than country folk for those not familiar Byron is a major tourist attraction in Northern New South Wales really close to the Queenland border it's a Beachside Town known for its laid-back lifestyle because of this we get a lot of passerbys even a bit further out because of the nice views in Rich Bushland those kind of reasons and it's not unusual to meet a few odd people here and there there's also your dose of strange activity I.E Backpacker theoh ha's disappearance not

long ago lots of people up here have theories on this ranging from Cults to just straight up coldblooded murder in my suburb it's still quite rural on our street there's about five houses in total covering a good couple of hundred acres and at the end of the street there's a path to a bush to a lovely waterfall the Journey from my property to the beginning of the track is about 5 minutes and the path leads to two destinations the first destination is about 5 minutes into the track at the top of the waterfall it has

a little wooden platform you can stand on to look out over the waterfall and the stream leading into it the second is about another 5 minutes down the track which is the waterfall itself most people keep to the left of the waterfall and will sit under it in the cave as the almost nonexistent clearing to the right of it is quite inconvenient and tricky to get to if you aren't planning on getting really wet this is important for later I used to go there quite often to write in my journal and clear my head and

my favorite place is just next to the top of the waterfall I climb through the fence next to the wooden platform and sit next to the stream on the Rocky Face that covers either side of the stream The View was the nicest here and I also like to sit facing the wooden platform so I could keep better tabs on my environment this particular day I went down and coming up to the track I noticed a camper van parked with lots of tools and rope attached to the roof I couldn't see anyone in there but just

had a bit of an inkling there was so I gave the car a pretty white birth social distancing but also my everpresent paranoia thanks to this and other True Crime subs and as I passed it I noticed the site Door was opened which quickly slid shut straight up I thought it was pretty weird it's illegal to set up camp there and also we're in a period of essential travel only so I wasn't really expecting to see anyone down there except for a neighbor going for a stroll however I passed it off as a trade wanting

to get out of the house into nature for a bit after work or something and I kept on I went to my usual riding place but as we'd had a bout of pretty heavy rain in the few days prior the stream was full and I wasn't up to Crossing it so I sat on the same side as the wooden platform about 10 to 15 M away I wasn't there for long maybe 5 minutes of riding with my headphones in when I heard something it sounded like a bird over my music so I just went back

to doing what I was doing but then a few seconds later I saw someone out at the corner of my my eye coming onto the path I ignored them and tried to go back to what I was doing partly because I was in a pretty foul mood and wanted to be left alone but also because it's not really common for anyone to talk to each other out in the bush apart from the occasional how you going passing someone on the track so I thought maybe they were on the phone no he yelled out to me

again which I ignored and then again I I got the feeling he wasn't going to let up so I faint surprise along the lines of oh sorry I didn't see you and I couldn't hear you over my music he was in his late 30s to early 40s just a pretty normal looking guy the rest of the conversation is hard to recall for btim but essentially it went like this are you going to jump off the waterfall he asked no I replied why not he proceeded because I don't know how deep the water is I replied

good answer he said it seemed pretty harmless and I assumed he was just visiting the falls for the first time so I tried to cut off the conversation by going back to my writing he didn't let up however and this is where it started to get a bit weird I was already feeling quite unsettled by his presence as he wasn't very focused on the surroundings and more more on me which was pretty strange considering the entire world is in a state of encouraging no communication at the moment what are you one of those nature people

who likes to come out here by thems he asked no I told him what are you doing out here then he asks trying to clear my head and right it's nice and quiet out here I replied am I bothering you he asked yeah but it's whatever ever I replied to him honorable mention to my ADHD for making me always susceptible to saying the wrong thing and pretty much incapable of lying there was just a bit of lull here both of us just kind of sizing each other up I guess me just really wanting him to

off but also not being too worried if he did try anything as I had a large stick with me it was still pretty warm out so I always carry it with me because of snakes how did you get here he asked I just climbed down off the path through the fence I told him no I mean how did you get here to this place he pushed I walked I replied pretty long walk to be out here by yourself he commented not really I just live up the road I countered something about that response changed something

in his behavior but as we were pretty far apart it was a bit hard to figure out what regardless I wasn't vibing the situation at all and I was also kicking myself for making it glaringly obvious to some random guy that I was out here alone and also for not having told my family where I was going huh well I guess I'll leave you to your writing this calmed me a lot and once again just passed him off as a passer by I then tell him The View's a lot nicer under the waterfall if you

follow the path down oh I don't know if I could go alone there could be some people down there waiting to mug me you'd have to come with me he says who says like this especially to someone you've just met in the middle of nowhere no probably just having a picnic or a swim I returned he stood there for a bit longer than I would have liked looking at me and then finally left me Al alone with him all right see you later as he headed back up The Path toward the parking lot and I

assumed he was going home I still felt a bit uneasy so I turned off my music completely and tried to go back to writing some time passed but I was struggling to concentrate but it wasn't my usual restlessness I just felt so uncomfortable almost exposed so I took a break to enjoy the scenery and I look down at the bottom of the waterfall and this guy is standing to the right of it and that's exactly what he was doing just standing there staring at me I thought I was just overthinking it but no I could

literally feel his eyes on me I kned the out of there even if he was just a creepy guy with Innocent enough intentions I wasn't going to wait around to find out and I'd have a 5minute head start if he did tried to follow me so I ran back home and what was left of my journal entry for that day was essentially just about that weird ass guy I waited to hear his car go by as well but it didn't I thought that was weird I assumed he must have set up camp there or whatever

or just left later that night either way it sufficiently creeped me out and ruined that spot for me I haven't been back since thanks for listening and stay safe out there everyone hello everyone a series of events unfolded in my life causing me to move out and live out of my car ever since a month ago it's nothing new for me however as I've lived out of my car for 5 years prior in the past and I've never had any encounters until yesterday that is something happened which shook me there's this small Beach on the

coastline which has been my go-to sleeping spot on the southbound part of the road there a whole lineup of cars and RVs many other homeless but also people coming to hang out because it offers a nice view of the bay I usually sleep on this side the people who come here like to bring their beer ears play their music and gather outside but it's really chill and everyone keeps to themselves lately I've been having trouble sleeping and tend to knock out around 2: a.m. is and not waking up until noon the problem is on this

southbound side the sun will bear down at 8:00 a.m. turning my car into a sauna in the morning about 100 yd down on the Northbound side there's this tiny hiking trail area in a vast lot just off the road and there's a few trees there which offers me shade well into the afternoon there's also a park right across the street it's a much more secluded area but I've been sleeping there since last week or so no issues at all typically only a couple other cars park around this area yesterday I pulled up to my spot

around 12:30 a.m. and found this large 4x4 pickup truck parked there there there's another car parked across the road and a third one on the other end of the lot as well I think no biggie there's a second tree just in front of the pickup which works so I'll pull up there but it's only a 20t distance between us and I'm in their direct line of vision I realize now in hindsight it was a stupid move but oh well there's two people in the front seat playing their ranera mariachi music and there's also a dog

left outside on a leash possibly others in the back seat but I couldn't confirm due to the windows being tinted I never make eye contact and keep my head down the entire time I first go take a leak in the forest come back to grab my pillows and blanket from the trunk and I hop into the back seat I'd assumed that would throw off any paranoia they may be having as they'd see that I'm just coming to sleep in in for the night within 5 minutes they take off and drive up the road for a

short distance before suddenly making a U-turn and returning back into the lot they do some weird random driving in front of me then pull back slowly and very close to my side I roll down my window the passenger has his window all the way down he's asking me something in Spanish and his English is nil he is clearly drunk coked up bloodshot eyes pupils dilated and he's talking in a slight slur he's also visibly angry expressing intimidation via body language I respond to him in English so he asks if I'm polica and I'm like what

the no man I'm just sleeping here and I show him the pillow and blanket but he keeps pressing me no no police come here so I say to him no man police no come here never don't worry I took my hand under my head as per the universal sign language of sleeping again reiterating that I'm here to sleep but he's getting frustrated and asks where I'm coming from I'm trying my best to deescalate the situation and talk calmly and nicely and I'm even apologizing if I happen to bother them I directly ask him do you

think I'm police and he responds in the negative shaking his head I point up to the tree and explain shade shade par morning shade par my car just so he knows why I decided to park in this spot but he's pretending to not understand me and says policia come here again I tell him no man police don't come here I sleep here every night it's okay the guy is piss pissed though and starts halfway flashing something in his hand from behind the car door it was a very subtle gesture I can't say for sure that

it was a weapon but he was definitely suggesting something he then says after today no more sleeping here and he repeats it twice and then says okay okay all whilst he's pumping his chest and piercing his gaze in a menacing fashion the driver floors the gas pedal taking off in a frenzy as they're taking off the passenger that I've been talking to hangs out the window looking back and mugging the living out of me before they get back on the road hitting the accelerator at high speeds I sat there for a good 10 minutes just

so I don't run into them a second time I then went to sleep near a Walmart instead I didn't get their license plate but since they likely also have my plate and know what I look like it would probably turn sour for me if I reported them anyway I spent the whole day dwelling on what happened yesterday and I have a bit of a clue as to what made them trip out like this my only plausible theory is that they didn't like me parking proximately to them and they took it as disrespect anyhoo there goes

a perfect part parking spot so I'm a 26-year-old male and I've been planning on a camping trip with my wife and dad for a whole year I wanted everything to be perfect as we don't get away from town and dive deep into the woods as much as I'd like this takes place in the very tree Den Dave Crockett National Forest in East Texas earlier that day my Dad decided to go a little early and pick out a good spot for us to Camp to give a layout of where we camped there were two dirt roads

on either side of us and an Overlook to the north of us we camped in the middle between the two roads my wife and I met my dad down there at around 11:00 a.m. we set up camp and proceeded to enjoy the day until around dinner time with we started to cook our meal for the evening right as we got done with dinner we see this truck circling around our campsite he went around us several times and finally pulled right up in our camp and got out of his truck he then proceeded to tell us

that this was his family's campsite and how the firewood that was laying around was his now in this particular Forest campsites are first come first serve and my dad had been there since 9:00 a.m. am he then asked if he could camp next to us and of course being friendly we said yes we didn't know that when he said next to us he meant directly on top of us he backed his camper in so close to our tents and vehicles that he blocked my truck in we weren't sure why he was doing this being that

there were so many other campsites available but we just trued it off and tried to have a good time anyway not too long after that we noticed a white Dodge dualie circling around us we had an off feeling from this truck because it went around several times but we dismissed it because the area we were at was popular due to the Overlook after a long night of drinking and goofing off we decided to go to bed I was in a dead sleep when Out of the Woods I wake up to a blood curdling scream I

jolt up and asked my wife what the was that about 30 seconds later we hear another scream off in the distance at this point I grabbed my gun and unzip the tent so we could see out my dad had left a lantern burning so we could see a little ways into our campsite at that moment we see the white Dodge Dy tearing down the road behind us they continued down the road until they were out of sight we heard them stop and get out of their truck slamming the door and screaming they then proceeded to

get back into their truck and drive very slowly down the other road that was in front of our campsite at this point we were terrified thinking they were coming to Rob us but they kept driving until they were out of sight then we heard them shooting after the gunshots ended they sped off at this point we thought that maybe they were just drunk and acting stupid so we didn't call the cops not that we had signal anyway we just tried to go back to sleep the next day we had to make a beer run for

my dad when we made it out of the camping area and hit the main highway there were police everywhere they had stopped two young boys we assumed they were the ones who were being troublemakers the night before and continued on into town when we got back to our campsite the cops were leaving after talking to my dad they told my dad that the guys in the white doly had gone into the younger guys Camp while they were hunting and were robbing them the boys walked up on their Camp being robbed and the duy guys pulled

guns on the young boys proceeding to rob the young boys at gunpoint we think if it hadn't been for the people that camped right on top of us as strange as it was they would have robbed us instead they made our campsite look bigger than it actually was the people in the white duy were never caught so so people in the white Dodge Dually let's not meet because you might end up with a bullet so to preface I would like to state that this story is probably going to reap like the plot of a campy

1980s horror movie and is going to be very long however this entire story is true if not for being 5 miles from cell reception and the way the story ends there would be a police report for verification a buddy of mine and I try to Camp twice a month now that I have a vehicle that can be trusted to get me to some of the more remote areas of our state we planned on a camping trip for the past weekend we chose a fairly remote location that we'd been to the previous weekend the previous weekend

we were the only people we'd seen within 1 mile of our camp spot Friday night we got there and set up this story takes place Saturday night it's about 9:00 p.m. so the sun is long gone and the moon hasn't quite risen yet it's pitch black out other than what our fire lights up Suddenly we hear a man screaming we listen intently silently sharing an anxious look at first we were hoping it was someone drunk and having a little too much fun but it quickly becomes obvious this isn't fun party screaming it isn't even like

he's hurt it sounds full of Despair anger and anguish I'm going to take a moment to remind you that this is 9:00 p.m. pitch black night in the middle of nowhere Woods 5 miles from the nearest cell phone signal we hadn't seen anyone in hours the screaming continues for what felt like hours but was probably about 5 solid minutes we had no idea what to make of it and started feeling extremely paranoid we gathered up anything remotely close to a weapon and tried to come up with explanations of the screaming while keeping our eyes on

the forest around us after about 1510 Minutes of Fear induced paranoia I nearly fell out of my seat as I watched a flashlight and Lantern slowly enter our camp I greeted The Stranger with a basic and how's it going before he was even lit up by the fire he responded quickly but flatly by asking if we could do him a favor that depends on the favor my buddy and I said in unison obviously tense holding our weapons close to us the stranger proceeded to ask if he could hang out for a second by the fire

given the two of us and one of him plus our Myriad of weapons gathered from around the camp to within our Arms Reach we did decided to agree and let him hang out after a short second of awkward silence I asked him what the hell's going on he proceeds to tell my buddy and I that he was camping down the trail with his buddy and that his buddy had snapped and tried to kill him wait what I said before the thought even finished processing in my head is that the screaming we heard earlier the man

slowly nods staring blankly into the fire and begins his story we were just hanging out man we came up earlier today and and my buddy just freaked out he started screaming and screaming and just wouldn't stop then he attacked me he lunged at me and I told him to just back off and chill you know well he kept coming after me and it started getting pretty violent and I'm pretty sure he was going to kill me so I grabbed my car keys the light and I ran I don't know what to do do man he

chased me when I ran and I don't know what to do we don't have firearms or anything but we do have a hatchet my buddy and I looked at each other for a second completely astonished then something horrible dawned on me wait he chased you like he's on his way here right now the man just slowly nods in reply and right on Q like some terrible horror movie come to life we hear scream scaming from maybe 30 to 40t from our camp down on the main trail I just want your balance Gary I want your

balance Gary Gary where are you where Gary is what we heard screamed I'd never in my life heard a man scream like this I've never heard anything like it it was a brutal guttural scream that was shrill to the ears yet deep in Pitch the sound of someone gone completely mad and the way he said the stranger's name would switch radically from long and sing songy to short guttural punches of sound we killed our lights became silent and listened by some miracle the madman did not notice our camp and continued walking down the trail screaming

the whole way we had ended up chatting with this Gary for hours listening to the screaming getting further and further away we come to find out they'd taken 4.5 to 5 G of magic mushrooms each and Gary's buddy Tai was a coworker of his and was fine for 3 and 1/2 hours he then suddenly snapped it seemed as though Ty thought he could kill Gary and steal his good trip we hear the screamings getting further and further for over 2 hours by this time it's 11:00 p.m. the Moon is starting to come out and it's

below 30° F Tai had no jacket or flashlight according to Gary my buddy and I are way too drunk to drive out of Camp to get cell service as it was snowy and icy and required 2 to 3 miles of highway driving after getting off the trail and Gary was still lightly feeling the effects of weed and mushrooms so he couldn't drive back either we had to make the decision to let the guy wonderer hope he sobered up and could find his way back and he did oh he did right into our camp we hear

yelling after about an hour of no screams maybe 30 to 50 ft from Camp again hey help please help me I'm lost and we can tell the man's walking from the woods into our camp we tell Gary to hide just in case and we greet the man with me carrying my 12 gate shotgun and my 40 caliber pistol holstered my buddy carrying his AK-47 style rifle and his two 9mm Glocks holstered and also with our flashlights on their brightest settings in his face he was about 6'2 to 6' 3 and approximately 300 lb we talked

to him decided he was calm enough to talk with and walked him back to his Camp he seemed really remorseful said he blacked out and didn't remember anything that he had a falling out with his buddy we escorted him back to his Camp down the trail returned and told Gary that Tai seemed cool and if anything else happens to scream and come running we would come out and help him out it ended up being a happy ending we made friends with Gary and I got his phone number to make sure the next day that he

got back into town safely back to his wife and kid and we're actually planning on a camping trip with him soon but Tai who wandered screaming like a deranged Maniac in the forest potentially wielding a hatchet to murder your friend to steal his good trip or whatever it is your psychosis filed mind was thinking for the love of God let's not meet again this was in early 2014 I'm a merchant Mariner and at the time was working on an American flagged car carrier in the engineering department as an Oiler my whole life growing up I

had some rather strange things happen seen some things felt some things that kind of thing but this is the first time I've had it happen on a ship I was working on I was on the midnight to noon watch with the third engineer when I was in the middle of my readings one evening I happened to notice an orange blur in my peripheral vision on the deck below which was the lowest deck in the ER I turned my head and caught just the glimpse of orange coveralls walking down the shaft this wasn't the engineer or

anyone else in engineering as we didn't wear cover Ralls our work outfit consisted of Fargo / mechanic pants and whatever shirt you owned the deck guys however did wear orange so I finish up my reading and walk down to the lower level to find him I thought maybe it could have been the ab on night watch but they don't make rounds in engineering spaces but whatever so I go down there and no one's there whatever I was probably just tired and I finished my rounds and after finishing up I turned in the sheet to the

third in the control room then stepped back out to go start on a project when I saw the door to the tool room/ machine shop flap closed again I thought probably a decky down here to steal a tool or something so of course I go to the shop and as I entered the shop the door to the storage room was just closing I continued to follow but there's no one in the the storage room and the only other way out would be through steering and up onto the main cargo deck I continued into steering gave

a quick glance around and again I found nothing on my way back out I glanced into the Hydraulics room when I finally saw him he was facing away from me looking at a panel and I almost just walked past I caught myself mid step and shouted over the s of the steering pumps to get his attention the man jumped and was turning around when the ship lost power losing power was nothing new this ship has had a faulty shaft generator for a while it was pretty standard I didn't think anything of it until I got

my flashlight out of my pocket and the man was gone it was like he was never there I looked around but nothing I was starting to get a bit nervous and jumpy at that point but right before Panic could set in the diesel generators kicked in and lights were restored I returned to the control room to ask the third if AI had left the engine room through there he said no cut to a few days later I was talking with the boat Wayne's mate in the deck Locker when I noticed a picture hanging almost as

if it were a memorial I asked him about it the BOS said it had been there for a while the ship used to be Swedish flagged and they had a death abort back then before it became us flagged I sort of went quiet then told him what I saw a few days ago and he just says oh yeah we catch glimpses of him roaming the cargo decks sometimes too I didn't have anything else happened that trip and we even got the shaft generator fixed in the next port but still it was sort of wild having

that happen in the last place I'd ever expect a few years back my girlfriend and I were bored hanging around the house and we spontaneously decided to go out for a hike we don't go hiking often but the idea appealed to both of us and even though there was only about an hour left of light we figured we had enough time to go enjoy a hike before it got too dark we quickly fill up our water bottles and put on the best walking shoes we had and we were out the door driving up into the

mountains around my area there are many hiking trails with the variety of trails increasing as you go up to the mountains we tended to stay around the base of the mountains in the occasional case of us hiking where where most people would still be walking but we wanted to change things up and progressed further up the Mountain Road to a trail a friend of mine had mentioned we kept in mind our time and figured that we could hike for a bit and simply enjoy the new environment for us and finish up before it was too

late we arrived at the trail head and see there were no cars left along the road where the trail commences but we didn't think much of it due to the time we still had a good 45 minutes until dark dark so we continued on we start walking down a fairly Steep Hill that then recoups the elevation at the bottom with an equally Steep Hill that you have to ascend we reached the top and then it's smooth sailing from there we see a lone coyote off the trail a ways off and some rabbits I made a

quip about how those rabbits might need to be careful with that coyote lurking around my girlfriend playfully hit me for that one approximately less than a mile into the trail we see a large fallen tree that made a bridge over a dried riverbed and we decided to take a rest climb around on it and take some pictures we were there for about 10 minutes and then we resume hiking we continue on the trail for a short distance until she hears a rustle in the trees behind us we stop mildly spooked due to the assumed signs

of whatever made that rustling but we continue on briefly before my girlfriend decide she's done and says that we need to head back it's Twilight now so I agree with her and we turn around to head back to the car when we made it back to the fallen tree my shoe had come untied so I used the trunk to fix my loose laces I look behind us for the first time on that hike it's uncharacteristic of me but hey I was having fun why be paranoid I see a person dressed entirely in black with their

hood on that was a significant distance behind us walking at a slow even Pace it wasn't something out of the ordinary so what if they're wearing black with their hood on I wear black most of the time and it's cold out I shouldn't make assumptions this does trigger me to be more alert however and I inform my girlfriend of this person's presence it's now dusk we continue on at an intentionally faster pace and go through a winding section of the trail I lose sight of the person when we come around the final Bend of the

section I figure they're far behind us and that there's nothing to worry about sooner than later the person is behind us again but much closer probably 50 ft in comparison to 100 ft before and we had increased our speed so this alarmed us we briskly walk around another band and as soon as we come around it we book it it seemed to be a natural reaction on both our parts as we just started running without a single word said to initiate it we're nearing the trail head now with only the hills to deal with we

catch our breaths for a moment and I turn around again I see the person seemingly halt a Sprint upon noticing me looking back as if they were trying to uphold the illusion of Simply walking at this point I shout and we Sprint down the hill what little light was left struggled to make its way through the dense trees surrounding us and the Steep Hill proved challenging to run down without a clear path to be seen we both stumbled down the hill almost falling multiple times and slamming our feet onto rocks and loose brush but we

didn't fall and we didn't look behind us we make it to the bottom but we must continue up the initial Hill and then we will have made it out we persevere up the incline and make it back to our car I briefly breathe in relief as I start my car heart pounding and adrenaline racing as I reverse onto the road the person emerges at the trail head apparently Breathing heavily we finally get a glimpse of him his hood had fallen off of his head exposing his pale complexion and dead eyes that were were only illuminated

by a single Lantern at the start of the trail he was holding something in his hand but it was too dark to see and I was not interested in sticking around to make out the object I shift into to drive and accelerate as fast as my car could muster leaving him behind in the dust of the empty side of the road so Night Trail stalker dude let's not meet eight back around 2004 to 2005 I was leaving a buddy's house headed home he lived on Lake Ariel in Wayne County I was a good 15 miles

away so I decided to take back roads to save time and avoid cops as I Crest this Mountain Road I see a van off the side doors open lights on it's well after midnight and no one is on the road I slowed my car a 1989 BW ragtop down to first gear looking for a person or persons that may be hurt not a soul is around and the woods are quiet the van off the road is not running but all the lights are on and the driver's door is open I remember thinking I don't have

cell phone service until the top of the mountain I got to call the cops so I proceeded to go towards where I knew I had cell service maybe going 30 mph tops I knew this situation was but then it got worse no more than 3 or so Miles Away the brush thinned on the roadside so you had a better view of what's in the woods I see movement so I let off the gas thinking I don't want to paste a deer as I let off this man soaking in fresh blood comes from the tree line

and into the road he's so covered in Gore I couldn't tell that it was a man at first he stumbled out in front of the car and waved me down I was in my rack top top down of course he was yelling and grabbing at my door I dropped into first and took off another mile or so I had cell service and called the car CS the guy was obviously hurt and his grab from my door scared me there was a wide space on the mountain where I agreed to wait for the cops they were

there in under 10 minutes while I waited I put the top up then locked the doors an officer took my statement and he looked over my car with a torch the guy from the woods left a bloody smear down my door another officer found the van but couldn't locate the guy who came out of the w Woods the cops let me go home and said they'd call if they needed anything further within a few days I get a call saying the van was located and they asked if I could describe the man they never found

him that night and as far as I know they never did apparently the van was stolen and the cops surmised this guy banged himself up and took off in a panic as far as I know they never did track him down to this day I keep a lookout for a bloody man running out of the woods this experience has stuck with me and is 100% true a few years ago I lived at a party house and one night A friend brought home some guy off the Appalachian Trail he called himself Chef John Wayne he was

honestly really really sweet and we let him stay with us for a couple of months he helped cook and clean slept in the corner of the living room and really didn't make any trouble well one weekend I went out of town for a couple of nights but I had to come back the next day to work when I got to the house I realized my laptop was missing and Chef's stuff was gone everyone else who who lived with me had gone to the event I'd just been at except one guy Greg and Chef I went

to Greg and explained that I couldn't find my laptop and his face was just shocked he said you don't know they didn't call you I explained that I'd been out of cell service for 2 days so no he then went on to tell me that the police had come to the house the previous night looking for me specifically he went on to tell me that the police had found Chef downtown but naked with my laptop in two halves doing snow angels in a mud puddle why he was doing this I never found out drugs probably

but who knows the reason the police had come looking for me however was that while he was doing set snow angels He was apparently screaming my name out and saying that he hurt me over and over they'd come to the house looking for my dead body but the poor guy was probably talking about the laptop the whole time regardless when I wasn't home I'm sure it looked very suspicious anyway I decided that the easiest thing to do was go to the station the next day and talk with them I was questioned a bit and told

them I thought Chef was a good guy and that I'd never seen him do anything like that before and that I wasn't interested in pressing charges the weird part of the story is actually what happened after this I was very upset about losing the laptop because I'd been using one from the school I attended and needed to return it or prove that it had been damaged and I'd not sold it I explained this to my roommates but not to the police I worked it out with the school I moved out of the house a few

months later because I decided it was too crazy but a few weeks after I moved out I went over to visit lo and behold the two halves of my laptop were hanging on the wall like Fine Art apparently someone had dropped it off in a brown paper bag in the dead of night and they wanted to commemorate chef and his Antics I was thrilled and let them keep it I never found out who dropped it off Chef contacted me after he got out of psychiatric holding and he said that he was moving on I didn't

respond but I wish I did in retrospect I hope he is doing well a bit of background I was about 8 and my mother my little sister and I were taking a road trip across Wyoming this wasn't unusual as we had family living across across the state and my mom loved piling Us in the car in driving my memory of this event is patchy and I remember it more for the way my mom reacted than for the event itself I don't remember exactly where this was or where we were headed but anyone who has ever

driven through Wyoming knows that the roads are mostly deserted we had been driving several hours behind an old green and white truck we were approaching a gas station and I remember my little sister being so excited because she wanted to get those little bottles made of wax that had juice in them the green and white truck pulls into the gas station and we follow we use the restroom get some snacks my mom fills up with gas and we get back into the car and back onto the road a little time passes and my mom asks

is that truck behind us the same one that we followed into the gas station I turn in my seat and confirm that it is the same truck I sit back down and continue gorging myself on snacks but I sense that my mom is uneasy she keeps looking in her rearview mirror and watching the truck it was a long drive to the next gas station and along the way the truck behind us would speed up and get dangerously close to us and then back away a bit after a stretch of several miles we were nearing another

gas station my mom adjusts her mirror so she can see us in in the back seat she says I'm going to pull into this gas station and open my door like I'm getting out I don't want you two to open your doors don't get out just sit tight and hang on my little sister and I look at each other like okay I thought it was strange but the look in her eyes scared me a bit my mom is a calm person but she has this presence about her that makes you aware that she isn't one

to be messed with all my friends throughout the years have been a little scared of her which is odd considering she's just over 5T tall and about 100 lb anyway we pull into the station and up to a pump my mom adjusts her mirror to see behind us and opens her door with the car still running the green and white truck pulls in and Parks just to the side of the Turnin the driver pops his hood gets out comes around to the front of his truck and props his hood up he starts messing around under

the hood with his back to us from what I remember of him he was a really big guy but who isn't to an 8-year-old girl my mom slams her door and peels out of the gas station I turn in my seat to watch the man he turns around like he was startled looks right at us quickly closes his hood even though he's only been looking in there for a few seconds at this point my mom is driving so fast that I lose sight of him I was terrified and I knew it must be serious for

my mom to drive like this up ahead the road bent sharply to the left and there was a small road to the right with a few buildings just before the bend my mom Slams on the brakes pulls the steering wheel all the way to the right and as if it were straight out of an action movie slides around the corner she speeds through the small parking lot of one of the buildings in parks behind it from our vantage point we were hidden from traffic behind us but we could see anyone passing a short time later

we watched the green and white trucks speed right past us and around the bend in the road obviously my sister and I were very shaken up my mom asks if we needed to use the restroom and I said yes she said she did too but we would wait here for a bit then make our way to the next G gas station I'll never forget what she said next because it was so out of character for her she said I'd rather piss my pants in this car than be murdered on the side of this road a

little time passes and we got back on the road and we continued our trip we never saw that truck again this is the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced this happened 4 years ago when my boyfriend and I were still sort of fresh into the relationship my sister had recommended me a snorkeling trip for a fun thing to do with him it was this Quarry surrounded by a campground that's filled in with water and it's known for its crystal clear water and its diving there's apparently a hel opter and a school bus that people dive

down to see my boyfriend and I decided to go camping for the night while we were checking in we separately both got a bad feeling about the place but we kept that to ourselves until after we left so at first it was a really good time we snorkel in the shallo area of the Quarry and although the depth of the water was a bit uncanny I was still enjoying myself the water is 65 ft deep so once he'd swam out of the shallow area it immediately dropped off and it was Pitch Black this is actually

where I realized that I'm terrified of water besides the dark deep water while you were swimming there's something very scary about a lake that's perfectly still I assume because it's a quarry the water doesn't have a current my boyfriend and I are winding down our night and we're back at the campsite we're camping in a grassy patch down a hill from the road Road our tent is pitched in a wooded area that our campsite is extended to and just across the green is a campsite that looks well lived in but our neighbors were out we're

making hot dogs over the fire when our neighbors get back it's nighttime now and they immediately go to sleep I'd say 20 to 30 minutes after they get back is when things started to become spooky my boyfriend and I were chatting when we noticed the dark figure watching ing us from up the hill because of the shadow of the fire we couldn't actually make out the characteristics of the figure but we knew that they were staring directly at us almost hiding behind our neighbor's truck this person had watched us for what felt like forever until

they started walking down the road again we both watched them in dead silence watching him walk behind trees the same ones that connected to our campsite but that also went in between us and him I anticipated each time I'd see him walk forward out from behind a tree it was a good four or five he came out from it wasn't until after this that I noticed he'd stopped walking that he was possibly hiding behind a tree I was totally freaked out where did he go I watched my boyfriend looking at what happened and he was

thinking the same thing he Shrugged it off and I naively did too we actually ended up forgetting about it and went to the Quarry late night it was beautiful seeing the Stars reflected against the water but the Deep now all black water was terrifying to say the least we walked back to our campsite laid in our tent and smoked a joint I soon began to feel an uneasy feeling which I was trying to ignore telling myself it's because I was high after some silence between us my boyfriend says to me do you feel like we're

being watched I said why would you say that half joking but full serious that I was scared my boyfriend wanted to get out of the tent so we were standing by my car I got this stupid idea that being in the middle of the field that's in the middle of a campground is the safest place for us my logic being if someone was going to come up at us we'd at least be able to see them so we're in the middle of this field when we see a similar looking shadow figure staring at us this

person must have been about 20 yards away we both notice him while walking and he's walking in the same direction as us we change directions and so does the figure we tell one another if we change directions again and so does the figure that we're going to book it to my car when we change the figure follows and we decide to run run back to the car I watch him from my seat as he slowly walked back into the darkness while still staring in our Direction my boyfriend at this point says to me let's get

out of here I agree but all of our camping gear is outside we quietly get our things together not trying to freak the other one out the weirdest part of the story in my opinion is the next part my headlights weren't working and there was a weird fog from my windshield that didn't go away no matter what we did we had to drive out of the woods with only low beams and a strange fog over the window we could barely see but we got out of there weirdly enough the fog went away as soon as

we got to the gas station we got home at around 1: in the morning I told my father the story the next day and he said he's glad we got out of there or else we could could have been murdered two people had died at this Campground while snorkeling which I found out later after I got back my boyfriend and I think it was either a person trying to kill us or a wendigo we've kind of settled on the wendo because what happened was so unexplainable to us thank you for listening I have always been

an avid Mountain person when people say they go to the beach for vacation I respect it but I prefer the mountains 100% something about these old giants has always fascinated me as if I just cannot avoid but to be drawn towards them and be in awe when hiking on them over my short life a 21-year-old student I consider that I've seen a fair amount ount of mountain ranges in Europe from the Alps in Switzerland to the Pyrenees in Spain and from the Italian dolomites to the Czech staway mountains I have always hiked and camped Outdoors

a lot with family and friends but also by myself now I went to the United States for college and I have always been tempted to do a part of the Appalachian Trail from the pictures I saw on the internet I always wanted to see them in person and I'm not going to lie I must say that the great amount of scary stories of these mountains always attracted me a little as well I'm definitely not a person who likes scary movies or anything but I enjoy reading fellow Mountaineer experiences and to be honest I mostly just

read stories about the Appalachian Trail to know how to prep myself for when I was going to do it the scary stories just got my attention every now and then that being said I decided to go this year and do a small part of the Appalachian Trail I went to do a small part between the borders of Tennessee and North Carolina with klingman's Dome being the icing on the cake I was a little bit hesitant to go by myself since I'm not very familiar with both the geography as well as the wildlife in this part

of the states I wanted to go with a friend or my girlfriend who's from North Carolina herself but both my friend and my girlfriend declined because they had to go to work this was during spring break so I decided I just had to go by myself since I'm graduating this year and will return to Europe I started at this place called Bryson City and walked along the tusi river until I reached the Nolan Creek Trail Head from there on I just followed the trail until I would reach kingman's Dome and from kingman's Dome I would

follow the Appalachian Trail for about a week I had prepared well for this trip I carried Bears spray and pepper spray I read some freaky stories about people in the Appalachian Trail and I also brought this hunting knife and an axe for wood I had some canned food and lots of water plus a water filter and for the rest just my tent and sleeping bag so when I started walking from Bryson City and I saw the beautiful Aura this mountain range had I couldn't be happier I had been wanting to do this since I had

arrived here in the US and I was finally doing it I encountered some people on the Nolan Creek Trail Head who were friendly but I'd made up my mind I would be better off alone than with strangers I reached klingman's Dome the same day and went a little further before I would set up camp it was beautiful at night I slept a bit off the trail with a small campfire while I had dinner and which I put out before I went to sleep the first night went really well as I was so exhausted from the

hike to klingman's dome the next two days were just as beautiful and I saw lots of breathtaking views the people on the Appalachian Trail I encountered were really polite as well then on the third night I feel like everything took a strange turn I'd set up my Camp just as usual around 160 ft from the trail no one was camping close to me or at least not that I was aware of while getting dinner I just had this really weird gut feeling that I was not alone there I felt as if someone was looking at

me from behind a tree or something I tried to convince myself that I was having an amazing time that I was safe and that it was just my mind playing tricks on me I went to sleep and put the fire out as usual then before it was Daylight again I woke up I woke up with this same gut feeling that even though I was in my tent that someone was watching my tent from a distance I did not hear a single bird which was weird because right before daylight is when they start chirping again I

only heard the wind and the leaves it made me feel uncomfortable a bit scared even I didn't fall asleep again and the first thing in the morning after having breakfast in my tent I broke up camp and decided to continue my hike during my hike I encountered a few people and again they were very nice but I stick to myself while walking on this part of the trail by myself alone I felt as if I was being watched again I even had the feeling as if someone or something was following me so every now and

then I would stop dead in my tracks in order to hear if it was real now obviously my mind could be playing tricks but I would swear that I would hear the steps stop a second after I'd stopped so according to me at that moment someone was following me I looked around the whole time and I never saw anyone or anything which made it even more weird after the long day of hiking I made camp this time closer to the trail than usual but for some reason I thought it would be more safe I again

had this gut feeling of being watched while having dinner outside my tent so I decided to finished my food in my tent and went to the bathroom in a bottle because I did not want to go outside now I tried to sleep by closing my eyes but my mind focused on hearing the whole time and that is when I heard it for the first time a knock as if a branch was hitting a tree or a small rock was getting thrown at a tree silence followed for what seemed like an eternity but was probably more

like 10 minutes then it happened again this time more clear I was scared now and I had no idea where to go since it was dark already I put on my flashlight in the tent and made myself look as big as I could so that my shadow outside the tent would look bigger because of the light I don't know why this was my reasoning at the time I just thought of bears I held my hunting night in my hand silence followed the second knock but now I shouted to pierce the silence in the dark first

I shouted that whoever was joking around I was armed and I was not wanting to be pranked I thought this would scare them off it did not it was almost as if this person found it even more funny knowing I was pissed at them I heard another knock and immediately after a knock on what I assumed to be the opposite side of my tent so now I was guessing it was two people instead of one and that they liked to pull a prank on an innocent passer by I tried to stay up as long as

I could but around 4:00 a.m. my eyes just gave up and I drifted off I woke up at around 8:00 a.m. again with the light of the sun being my savior I first tried to hear if whoever was pranking me was still knocking I didn't hear anything I shouted again stating that I was now going to exit my tent with my knife in my hand and that whoever had been joking around should make themselves known I walked out of my tent and I didn't see anyone I looked for tracks around my camp but I could

not immediately make something out of it I decided to get the hell out of there the next part of my week basically continued being the same at night I'd hear some knocks from different directions and occasionally I heard what I would guess was a little bit of humming as if a person was just humming a tune now I never saw anyone except from the occasional hikers on the Appalachian Trail so I cannot say I saw something weird but I could never get rid of this weird gut feeling that I was being watched and followed during

the rest of my hike on the Appalachian Trail I'm now back and I told this to my girlfriend she said it was probably just my mind playing tricks on me and I am inclined to believe her because I never saw anything thing but I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night thinking that I'm in that tent in the middle of nowhere and someone is watching me and knocking on a tree and every time I wake up like this the thought alone scares me this happened August 2013 I was camping in Far North

Queensland Australia in a place called Baron Falls which is Northwest of K's I a 21-year-old girl was camping with two male friends who were backpacking from Estonia Theo and Charlie where we set up camp was not an official campsite rather we walked along the tourist path climbed over a railing followed a train track for a few kilometers and eventually veered off into to the dense forest downhill to the river it certainly wasn't easy to get to this area and there wasn't any mobile phone service but Theo knew about it from friends who had shown him

previously this site was beautiful we were surrounded by a tropical forest and were only a short walk Upstream from the waterfall after setting up camp we walked to the waterfall where both Theo and Charlie plunged from the cliff into the water below I decided not to follow I was and still am scared of heights and the possibility of hurting myself I sat and watched them for a while before eventually deciding to return to camp and read my book I was totally relaxed enjoying the serenity taking in the beauty around me what had been an exciting

adventurous day was then interrupted by a deep Sinister laughter after coming from the forest surrounding our campsite instantly alerted I felt chills run through my body as I scanned the forest trying to detect where the laughter had come from there was nothing I tried to forget about it convincing myself that my mind was playing tricks on me Theo and Charlie returned and told me that they'd forgotten fire lighters for the campfire they said that they'd need to travel to the nearest store to buy some and that I should wait at Camp I told them that

I didn't feel comfortable staying at camp but I didn't mention the laughter I'd heard before I didn't want them to think I was stupid and for context at the time I had quite a large crush on Charley stupidly I wanted him to think I was cool they told me it will be fine that they would be back before dark reluctantly I agreed and let them go it was about 4 4 p.m. and I continued reading my book I began to think about it and I realized that the walk back to the car was about 20

to 30 minutes so they would be gone for well over an hour at this time of year dusk would be at 5:30 p.m. or so and I would therefore likely be alone in this remote area in the dark I distracted myself with my book but as dusk began to settle I struggled to read the pages and fear began to set in after about an hour I started to hear Footsteps in the forest my first thought was that Theo and Charlie had returned and I was instantly relieved that I was no longer alone I listened for

their voices but heard nothing my heart dropped it dawned on me that it may not be them and I started to panic the same deep s Sinister laughter I'd heard before only this time it seemed much closer I sprung to my feet and surveyed the forest then I saw him he was standing on the other side of a stream which was connected to the river standing on a log what I saw was absolutely bizarre he was wearing an Immaculate tuxedo with a top hat and allll I remember being puzzled as to how he was able

to get get to this area in such clean formal clothes and I at first thought he may be an apparition or that I was hallucinating I did a double take and I was not I then studied the man's face it's hard to describe but he appeared to have suffered from severe burns and had deep scaring covering his face his hair was shoulder length very wiry and unkempt he laughed that same laugh I'd heard from the Forest it came from him we stared at each other for what felt like minutes I had planned to Sprint into

the forest if he charged at me and observed that the small Creek between us would at least slow him down he then asked what are you doing here all alone with an unsettling smile on his face luckily I was able to remain calm and told him that I was camping with my male friend and that they went to get some supplies but we'll be back soon the man laughed again he asked me how long we would be there for I lied and said we were leaving the next day it seemed as if this man wanted

to provoke a reaction out of me that he wanted me to panic and run and that he wanted to chase me I remained calm and acted as if we were having a standard conversation I think this can confused him miraculously I heard Theo and Charlie's voices approaching the man seemed alarmed and said that he saw somebody else camping upstream and that he's going to check on them he left and minutes later Theo and Charlie returned I immediately told them what happened and they left and thought I was making it up that it was a lame

attempt to scare them tears began to gather in my eyes and Charlie realized that I was serious Theo didn't seem phased he was a very stereotypical Backpacker it had the Carefree nature Travelers tend to have Charlie however assured me that I would be okay and had me sleep between him and Theo for the next two nights I barely slept at all for those nights I kept listening for the laughter but fortunately never heard it again for years after I searched online for any reports of similar encounters I never found anything but I have always contemplated

what would have happened if Theo and Charlie hadn't returned at that moment I shudder at the thought I would love to hear what you guys think this man's intentions were and if I was right to be terrified I haven't been camping since all right so I'll try to keep the backstory as short as possible a couple years ago my living situation evaporated faster than IID expected it to and I had to pack all my possessions into my car and leave where I was living there was going to be a short stretch of time where I

had next to no money certainly not enough for a week or two of $80 a night motel fees I had a little over $100 all in so I bought a cheap tent and other similarly shitty camping equipment and some ramen and decided I would crash in the woods that way I could leave my car full of my stuff and still have a place to sleep I lived in a fairly forested area at the time and since I grew up in the area and partied out in the woods a lot in high school I knew a

decent amount of trails and discreet hiding places not far from said Trails so I brought my gear out to a very small mountain and since it was going to rain that night I hunted around for a nice place to set up being a mountain I couldn't just find high ground but I did find this nice little Plateau that projected a few hundred ft from the nearest slope before falling off and by my best judgment it seemed a safer place as any well it turns out my judgment sucks Not only was the place right in the

path of the rain but all of the water from above had sosed into an impromptu stream whose course ran right through my tent I woke up at maybe 2:00 a.m. to find my sleeping bag half immersed in water and all of my possessions soaked through both my phone and flashlight were ruined so I had no source of light despite the lack of Illumination I knew knew I had to get back to my car because I was freezing cold since my clothes were literally soaked through I decided to leave them and embarked wearing nothing but my

boxers my wallet was ruined too so I didn't bring it I quickly realized that I was not going to be able to find the trail so I went back and took my machete so I could hack through the brush now most of you can probably see where things are going but but I would remind you that you are sitting someplace warm and reasonably safe if you want to put yourself into my frame of mind think of those cold winter days when you go outside and your stream of Consciousness transforms from normal thoughts into an endless

stream of oh and add a bunch of your possessions being ruined into the mix so I faced the general direction of my car and just started walking angrily chopping at anything that happened to block my my path eventually after much effort I see an end to the tree line ahead of me I walk out and realize that I'm in somebody's backyard worse however is the fact that said backyard has a screened in porch with a small table lamp and standing on that porch is a woman smoking a cigarette now really picture this scene in your

head imagine a man walking into your backyard half naked and enraged swinging a machete around like a madman the porch lights went off and I immediately went into I'm definitely going to get arrested mode I hustled out to the street and ran towards my car and I spent the next hour huddled in a ball on the seat just waiting for the flashing blue lights to come up behind me they never did however I have no idea what that woman thought when she saw me but it can't have been good I almost want to go over

there and apologize for scaring her but I'm guessing she doesn't want to meet