SwiftShot
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If I am found dead in the woods. It will be from a freaking Grouse.
Was scouting for elk a couple of summers ago. Going through some fairly thick stuff and stopped for a breather. Couldn't shake the weird feeling that something was watching me. Looked over to my right and sure enough.......
I guess maybe not creepy, but funny, or strange, or something.....
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Do you mind sharing where?In the interest of keeping the best thread on Rokslide going, here are some stories from my time living in a creepy old miner's house in the Colorado Mountains.
Let me preface by saying that the house, located at 9,000 ft in Colorado, was built in the 1870's according to information from the historical society. It was built up against the side of a mountain and the entrance to an old mineshaft is directly behind the kitchen wall. It's also not far from several old cemeteries.
Within the first month that I lived there I woke up at 4am one morning to very intense pain in my foot. There was a little bit of light that came into the room from one of the street lamps outside so it wasn't completely pitch black. As I opened my eyes to look down toward my foot I saw the silhouette of a very short man at the end of the bed by my feet. It was only for a second but the details that are forever seared into my memory is that he was short, maybe only 5 ft tall, was wearing a top hat with a brim, and had a white or grey beard. The pain in my foot was very strange too, my foot was very hot and felt like it was being crushed or squeezed in a vice. I haven't felt a similar pain to that either before or after that night. The shadowy man fit the description of an old miner pretty well as far as I could tell.
Another night later that year I was watching a movie when my peripheral vision saw something cross the hallway from a room into the hall closet. By this time, I had lived there for awhile and was pretty freaked out by all this stuff so I literally just got up and left the house with the movie still playing and some of the lights still on. After clearing my head for about 20 minutes and feeling ridiculous for being so freaked out I returned home. When I went back inside I got even more freaked out because the tv had been turned off and the kitchen lights had been messed with. The kitchen lights were track lights and were all now pointed toward the back wall of the kitchen where the mine shaft entrance was. That event made me reconsider living there.
Several times I could just feel something "there" and the hair on my scalp would just tingle. That's a bad feeling if you've never had it.
Most of the weird stuff that happened was in the first year or so that I lived there and I got used to it eventually. I also got a dog and that helped a lot. The last several years I lived there were uneventful. I kinda want to contact the new owners and ask them what they've experienced. If you ever get the chance to live alone in a old miner's cabin for awhile, it'll definitely spice up some of your evenings.
Quail!Those grouse will give you a heart attack for sure.
I have been scrolling backwards reading any post that got more than ten likes to catch up to where I left off before. There were some pretty good ones, but this was the only one that made my hair stand up.This is not my story, and it did not happen while hunting, but it is without a doubt the creepiest thing I’ve ever heard of happening in the backcountry. And even though it isn’t my story, I fully believe the person who told it to me.
My friend’s mom is a big backpacker. In the 80’s she hiked a pretty large portion of the Pacific Crest Trail. On some of her trips she would go solo. This was one of those trips. She was out there for a little over a week, just hiking and taking pictures and camping along the trail. Anyway, trip goes off without a hitch and she had a great time.
Now mind you, this was back before digital cameras, so after she got back from her trip she went to get her film developed. She got her pictures back and was looking through them when suddenly her heart dropped. Amongst the pictures she took of all the great landscapes were multiple pictures taken at night of her sleeping. Remember, she was solo on the trip. Some one had seen her on the trail, snuck into her camp at night and took pictures of her while she slept. For some reason I want to say there were pics from multiple places she stayed, like the dude had been following her, but I might be making that part up.
She never went solo again.
Central City, CODo you mind sharing where?
Bought this nasty little tiny fold up .300 blackout rifle. It’s my pack gun. For reasons just like this, 2 legged danger everywhere. Times are getting crazier.I have been scrolling backwards reading any post that got more than ten likes to catch up to where I left off before. There were some pretty good ones, but this was the only one that made my hair stand up.
Right? that is what I was thinking. Someone yelling for help and you just thought let the yotes have them?You heard someone yelling help and you sat there for over an hour without going to give them aid?
So you packed up and headed home? No way my wife would have spent the night after that.....We (wife and I) take expeditions to backcountry Vt fly fishing in the spring and usually do really well on brookies. We hike downstream, camp and fish back. We generally will put on 10-15 lies and long weekend. Anyway, so this spring we were doing our usual hitting nice pools and catching natives. One afternoon we were hiking back to camp on the bank, we came over a rise and about 40 yards away was a barefoot man, grey breeches, long untucked white shirt standing on the river edge below us. I froze, he was staring straight ahead across the river and then his head jerked at our direction. The whole person was a strange color, like a foggy scene almost. I was fixed on him, maybe 4-6 seconds and looked back at my wife. The look on her face told me she had already seen it too. I looked right back, and the "person" was gone. No way a living human could have fled without us seeing. We chatted bewildered for a few and then I had to go to check for tracks. Nope. Not any sign. Yeah, that was interesting.
Nope, spent another night. Let's just say the fire that night was way bigger than normal lol.So you packed up and headed home? No way my wife would have spent the night after that.....
I was standing on a river bank watching the trout rise one evening, trying to decide where to cast my #18 Adams and enjoying the solitude when a creepy couple came crashing down the trail that paralleled the creek. Figured my serenity was gone and the once rising trout went down, so I left.We (wife and I) take expeditions to backcountry Vt fly fishing in the spring and usually do really well on brookies. We hike downstream, camp and fish back. We generally will put on 10-15 lies and long weekend. Anyway, so this spring we were doing our usual hitting nice pools and catching natives. One afternoon we were hiking back to camp on the bank, we came over a rise and about 40 yards away was a barefoot man, grey breeches, long untucked white shirt standing on the river edge below us. I froze, he was staring straight ahead across the river and then his head jerked at our direction. The whole person was a strange color, like a foggy scene almost. I was fixed on him, maybe 4-6 seconds and looked back at my wife. The look on her face told me she had already seen it too. I looked right back, and the "person" was gone. No way a living human could have fled without us seeing. We chatted bewildered for a few and then I had to go to check for tracks. Nope. Not any sign. Yeah, that was interesting.
An Admas on a Vt stream? Now that would be paranormal.I was standing on a river bank watching the trout rise one evening, trying to decide where to cast my #18 Adams and enjoying the solitude when a creepy couple came crashing down the trail that paralleled the creek. Figured my serenity was gone and the once rising trout went down, so I left.