6 Most Disturbing Camping Encounters Caught on Camera

since 2017 a YouTuber named Phil has been uploading videos of his hiking trips to his channel hik slam where he gives his viewers a glimpse into everything he does to prepare for a long hike Camp alone in the middle of the woods choose the right hiking gear and pretty much everything related to the outdoors on the night before Thanksgiving 2021 Phil went on an overnight hike to camp on the appalachin trail near his house in Virginia for the first half hour of his hike things kick off pretty normally but after a while he finds some

odd looking trash lying on the side of the trail strangely there appears to be some writing on some of the containers he finds which appear to be song lyrics though it's hard to imagine why anyone would go through the trouble of writing out entire songs or poems on a plastic container only to later throw it on the side of the trail as he crosses the boundary Into the Wilderness things continue to get stranger and stranger and as he nears the campsite Phil finds another series of disturbing notes the weirdness continues what the and there's a

dead duck here some of the notes appear to contain cryptic poems others seem to talk about pretty in-depth conspiracy theories and undercover federal agents or something and the rest appear to be biographical with whoever wrote them telling parts of their story it's tough to confirm if the person who wrote the notes was the same person who killed the duck but honestly it would be too much of a coincidence for the dead duck to be lying right there next to the series of creepy notes which were obviously placed there recently considering they're in good condition and

not wet after taking in the Eerie scene Phil notices a tarp and a fire next to a campsite about 20 yards away from the notes and the dead duck staying as far away as possible from the campsite he continues making his way up to a shelter although this next part wasn't caught on camera Phil then reported that he saw two women coming down the trail with their dog asking him if he had seen the guy who was leaving the creepy notes and dead animals on the side of the trail when Phil mentioned he saw a

campsite and a fire a few yards away from the notes the woman got scared and asked him to walk back to their car with them thinking it was probably a good idea to move as far away as possible from the campsite anyway Phil went back with them and then started hiking in the other direction to find a safer place to spend the night fortunately the rest of his hike to the new shelter was a lot more uneventful for Phil and once he got there he was able to set up a camp for the night light

a fire and enjoy his dinner miles away from the disturbing notes he found a few minutes later once it got dark Phil decided to go into the shelter and check out the camp log and see some of the notes and stories other hikers had left behind and that's when things get extremely creepy again I'm going to check out the shelter log here I hang out by the fire almost every shelter on the Appalachian Trail has a shelter log where people write in their Trail names and what's going on they can write whatever they want in

there so it's kind of cool tradition here so let's see what this one says Little Engine back section hiking again finally it's nice and little Trail Magic ah some comics and writing and stuff all right let's see what's happened recently holy crap wait a second I'm adjust the camera here this writing looks almost exactly like the writing that was on that garbage a couple of miles from here even though the shelter where Phil's currently staying at is more than 2 miles away and on the other side of the road from the previous one the handwriting

in the camp log is exactly the same as the handwriting that was on the notes and garbage on the other side of the road this is pretty disturbing in itself but it gets even more so when Phil starts to actually read some of the content in the log book in 2018 while I was incarcerated at the Okaloosa County Jail what the heck in solitary confinement I figured the following out refer to Isaiah 28:15 through 9 this is the same ramblings from the guy that was on the other side of the river that's kind of scary

um kind of weird those those women down there said they were going to call the police on the guy wow this is weird it's just like it goes in One Direction then immediately goes in a completely different direction and there's just so much of it like like this line up here think grave robbery in an attempt to obscure the reality of little Mrs wolf content come up with some more of those wicked schemes JB and Company so I can show some more of your true character the fact that there's a convicted felon walking around the

woods leaving dark and weird notes all over the place is extremely concerning and based on the kinds of stuff the guy is writing he's probably not in his right mind this could obviously be dangerous for Phil especially since it's already pretty dark and he doesn't appear to have anything to defend himself with as he gets ready to go to sleep in his T Phil walks back to the shelter once more where he finds half a gatorade bottle hanging from a string on the ceiling with a note in the same guy's handwriting that reads watch out

for Yeet Mouse the dead do walk and talk understandably creeped out by yet another disturbing note Phil tries to fall asleep in his T obviously a little on edge from everything that happened that day the last thing you'd want to happen if you were in Phil's position would probably be to start hearing strange noises near the shelter in the middle of the night and that's exactly what happened while he was falling asleep he heard something moving near the shelter and as he poked his head out of the tent he saw a single guy with a

headlamp walking around the shelter not wanting to find out if it was the same guy who had been leaving notes he quietly made his way back to the truck in the middle of the night checking over his shoulder the entire way to make sure he wasn't being followed luckily he made it back home safely and as of 2024 he hasn't uploaded another video about the strange notes he found on the appalachin trail it's pretty likely that dozens of other hikers after him came across the disturbing notes and the dead duck but we'll probably never know

who exactly the guy who wrote them was or what he would have done if he ran into any unsuspecting campers Grizzly Gaz is a camping Channel on YouTube consisting of dozens of videos featuring Gaz the uploader going on hiking and camping trips in the UK with his French bulldog named fendy in a lot of his videos he goes camping in some pretty extreme conditions and he often shows footage of his unexpected encounters with big animals in the middle of the woods in April 2023 Gaz uploaded a video of a c camping trip he made somewhere

in the woods in the UK the first part of the camping trip goes pretty much according to plan with the footage showing G setting up his tent and chopping wood to make a fire while his dog fendy keeps him company as the sun begins to set this next part wasn't shown in the footage but as G started to prepare a steak dinner over the fire a random man in jeans and a coat approached his campsite and asked him for a beer and some food all right we got steaks on go now bit of ribeye pot

boiling for some mash and I've got a visitor creeped up behind me asking me if I had a light me [Laughter] pants this is Martin anyway I don't know him but he's stopping for a steak so some just some random cre wondering about you want round ear in a poncho a couple of months [Laughter] ago although the encounter with the man itself was pretty tame it's still pretty creepy to be camping in the woods in the middle of nowhere and suddenly be approached by a random guy asking for things if you listen closely to what

he's saying some of the guy's sentences are a little incoherent and he appears to ramble a bit when he talks almost like he's kind of out of it later in the footage Gaz reveals that Martin was homeless and that as they shared their dinner he told gaz's story about how he had ruined his life with the drugs and how he had ended up walking alone in the woods that day disturbingly Gaz also mentioned that while they were were having dinner he turned around for a few seconds to chop some more wood to keep the fire

going and when he turned back around Martin had left the campsite unannounced without even thanking Gaz for the food after the strange encounter the uploader decided to leave the campsite and head home out of fear that the man would possibly tell his friends about meeting some guy camping out in the middle of the woods with expensive filming equipment lying around and suggest robbing him or possibly worse to see if Martin would come back in the middle of the night with possibly ill intentions Gaz actually left a trail camera on the Tre at the campsite to

capture everything that happened that night based on his behavior it's pretty hard to gauge Martin's intentions and know whether he was just confused and possibly Under the Influence or if he had something more Sinister planned that evening either way it's probably a good thing that Gaz left the campsite and didn't go back until the next morning especially since when he did go back his trail camera that he had left was completely gone creepy Outdoors is a channel where the uploader frequently shows footage of his nighttime visits to sketchy outdoor locations during all four seasons in

October 2022 creepy Outdoors uploaded a video of a camping trip he took to an unnamed forest in the middle of nowhere recording everything he saw as he explored some of the surrounding Woods in the darkness for the first few minutes all you can hear is the guy's breathing and you can't help but be kind of amazed at how Brave it is to visit a dark forest in the middle of nowhere all alone not knowing if you're going to run into potentially hostile animals or something else as the video progresses the the uploader makes a few

comments and observations on his surroundings and throughout the footage there doesn't appear to be anyone else in the forest with him around 13 minutes in though an extremely disturbing sound takes the footage in a pretty dark Direction oh hi what I need to get out of here oh boy okay that was creepy I need to get out of here in the distance probably a couple of hundred ft away from the uploader a voice yells I see you it's possible that the disturbing sound was made by a coyote or a fox but because it sounded so

much like I see you it could have also been another camper trying to mess with the uploader and scare him because the YouTuber had been talking and making noise almost the whole time he might have inadvertently alerted someone else who may have wanted to play a prank on him just for the fun of it still it's hard to imagine why anyone else would be wandering in the same secluded part of the woods as the uploader what's most disturbing is that the person or animal or whatever it was that made the noise appeared to yell out

right after the guy turned off his lamp almost as if they were waiting for that to happen to yell out something disturbing luckily the uploader was able to make it back to his campsite safely and has continued uploading outdoor footage to this day Sam is a YouTuber from Cleveland Ohio who's been uploading videos of his stealth camping trips to his channel the northwest wind since 2016 for those of you who don't know stealth camping just means parking your camper van pretty much anywhere without paying for parking and people do it anywhere from residential neighborhoods to

the middle of nowhere in January 2024 Sam uploaded footage of his stealth camping trip to the woods in Cleveland leaving his camper van at a local dog park a few hundred yards away on his way into the woods he finds a camping tent that's been shredded to Pieces which is honestly a little creepy but he keeps going anyway after setting up his tent in the woods he starts cooking dinner on a camping stove as the Sun starts to set he sees a couple of people walking by the campsite and this is when he mentions that

he's getting a bad Vibe and feels like he's possibly in danger from them most experienced campers would probably tell you that if your gun is telling you something's wrong you should probably call it a day and leave but Sam decided to stick it out for the night and kept on recording as soon as he settles down in his tent to get some sleep things start to get very creepy there's somebody hang on I don't know if they could see it or not through the tent I don't think so I'm leaning right up against the light

but somebody's walking around out there very close to the tent as the seconds pass by the footsteps outside seem to get louder and louder at one point Sam calls out to whoever's out there but at first he doesn't get a response it's only after he calls out for about the fifth time that every Camper's worst nightmare starts to become a reality for Sam they're walking around outside in circles hello hello all right I don't like this hello hello they're touching my tank stop hello hello I'm getting out of here hello hello I don't know what

this is but we're getting out of here hang on hello okay they're walking away now what do you want what do you want I have a knife where's my knife with me with me here holy crap get away what do you want Hello I can't see you hello all right I'm getting out of here we're getting out of here one thing that a lot of people in the comments of Sam's video have pointed out is that if you're being stalked or attacked by a stranger in the middle of the woods it's probably not a good

idea to show weakness by saying things like I can't see you I'm spooked and I don't like this after this the attackers apparently leave the campsite but as soon as he steps out of the and Sam sees them standing eerily in the woods just a few feet away from him they collapsed my tent on me I don't know which way they went I think they went this way I see you get away all right I'm spooked I don't like this get my headlamp on getting out of here right now they're just standing there they're just

standing there what do you want leave me alone completely freaking out after the disturbing encounter he obviously decides to call it a night and head back to his van in the park but things only continue to get worse for Sam all right they're moving again I don't know I'm getting out of here we're going I'll come back for this some other time all right let's get out of here I'm leaving don't follow me I don't know where to go I don't know which way to get out of here I smell your cigarette I can hear

you I hear you as he's making his way back to the park he looks back at the campsite and sees the attackers stealing his things but he decides to leave his stuff behind terrified for his life as he's running through the woods now he turns back and sees his attackers chasing him this has got to lead back to the main trail I don't know where they are I think I it's all foggy up here I got water in my headlamp I need to I don't know where go I don't see or hear anybody anymore I

hear them coming I can can't see the shadow here's a path okay get me the I'm recording all of this I'm calling a police all right I'm back on a path back on the path okay okay get away from me after making it back to his van safely he drove home and gave his viewers a recap of everything that happened as you can imagine a lot of people in the comments accused the uploader of staging the video mentioning that nobody in their right mind would continue to record as they Sprint through the woods in the

dark but his reaction seems pretty genuine to me different people act different ways in situations of stress as for who the two guys who stocked and attacked him were and what they wanted that's really anyone's guess if what they did to Sam was some kind of joke that's a pretty messed up joke to play on someone but because the uploader confirmed that they didn't end up stealing his stuff when he went back the following morning it's also clear that looting the campsite wasn't really their main focus we can't really know what they would have done

to him if he hadn't run from the campsite but at any rate it's probably a good thing he did love Sundays is a camping Channel on YouTube run by a guy named Shan who uploads some pretty cool footage of his solo camping trips everywhere in the UK in February 2024 he uploaded a video where he left his van on the side of the road next to the woods and then went to do some exploring jumping over a fence to walk through the woods after that Shawn makes his way back to his van to make dinner

where he then heads out once again for an evening stroll through the woods upon his return to the van he goes to bed at about 9:00 p.m. but at 3: in the morning things start to get a little disturbing all being well I'll see you in the morning good night a car's just pulled up and it sounds like they're walking around the van as soon as Shawn pulls back the curtains the people who were walking around the van get back in their car when he put his head out the window to see what was going

on the car drove away leaving him alone for the rest of the night it wasn't until the next morning that Shawn realized what the visitors had done to his van all right well I think we should at least go outside and see how miserable the WEA is my door's stuck the actual you see that so here's there's obviously just people wanted to about and just be funny I guess but how dangerous is that locking someone in their van let me check the back door well there's nothing on this one because they wouldn't been able to

tie it to anything would they there's no way they could have done that door anyway why someone would want to lock a stranger in their van is anyone's guess and the only reasonable explanation I can think of is that maybe they were trying to steal the diesel from the van and put the zip ties on the door in case Shawn realized what was happening and attempted to get out to stop them it could have also been a local who didn't want anyone parking the their camping van in that area but we'll likely never know luckily

after he cut the zip ties off he made it back home unharmed and has continued uploading videos of his camping adventures in the UK the facts by how to hunt.com is a channel dedicated to sharing knowledge about the outdoors and encouraging people to explore the Wilderness in January 2022 a pretty terrifying video was uploaded to the channel in which a group of teenagers can be seen reacting to some strange sounds coming from somewhere in the woods hear that get Trevor Austin get the [Music] light hey that was not an elk [Music] get keys get ready

everybody get in my truck when you're out in the woods in the middle of the night it can be easy to mistake C certain animal noises with human screams foxes coyotes and bobcats are all known to make sounds that can sometimes be hard to tell apart from Human yelling but in this case I don't know of any animal that can make that kind of noise especially when you consider how loud the banging on the trees was elk are known to rub their antlers against trees but it obviously doesn't sound that loud or menacing a lot

of people in the comments of the video have mentioned that the sounds aren't too different from Human screams and it could have just been a man screaming in the woods in the middle of the night although that's also pretty messed up in itself even though some viewers have claimed the video is staged the upload reactions seem pretty genuine in this case and the only thing we can say for sure is that it's probably a good thing that the guys didn't run into whoever or whatever was making those noises