Creepy experiences in the backcountry

Here's one that my buddy had happen at my deer camp. We were in the process of building it, but sleeping in a camper a few yards away. Had a few beers and I hit the rack, my buddy stayed up to have another one or two sitting in the shack relaxing. About an hour after I crash out, my buddy comes busting into the camper practically yelling at me to wake up and listen to what just happened. He was sitting in a chair against the wall and "something" knocked against the wall from the outside a few times. He explained it sounded like when you knock on someone's door with the back of your knuckles, but hard and loud. Right behind his head. My buddy isn't much of a bullshitter and has like zero imagination so I'm thinking WTH??! He said it had happened about 20 minutes before, but he was afraid to go outside and come get me (no cell service at the time there) until he remembered the scattergun in the loft. Freaked me out and he was visibly shaken.

We had a look the next morning around the property and no tracks, etc in the patchy snow. To be quite honest, I'm not a bigfoot guy, but this was intriguing and I was kinda hoping, ya know? I thought maybe an owl or something had flown into the wall, but he said it was deliberate sounding, not like something flying into the wall.

Not sure what he heard, but I have another weird story I'm not sure I can explain without pic support to show the scene I was looking at. I was alone this time and there was less beer involved, but still a couple or three .Next time I'm up there I'll try to remember to snap a couple and post up.
 
i have been the creep a couple times while out metal detecting for gold nuggets. The blm i hunted was also a popular biking trail. I was rummaging around in the bushes when two young ladies rode up and stopped for a break ten yards from me. I stayed silent for about five minutes, got to hear some interesting conversation, then i spoke up to make myself be known. they made tracks in a hurry.
 
i was kayaking in the ocean on a rough day. the fishing sucked, and after three hours without a bump and starting to get sea sick i was just deciding to call it when i saw the perfect silhouette of a white shark passing under me about at the limit of sight. I didnt panic, i just made slow progress to get going the other way. I passed by the only other kayaker out on the water, he was a few hundred yards away. I asked if he had any luck, he said "No, but i saw something in the water". I said I saw it too, im going in.
 
I think I was the creepy experience in the Backcountry last week. Did a 7 mile loop along a creek that has a bunch of beaver ponds, checking it out for fishing and possibly beaver trapping next winter, one side of the creek is fairly open the otherside is mostly timber and brush. Walked the open side down the mountain and marked spots, crossed the creek and started back up to my truck on the opposite side. In and out of thick patches following a hiking/game trail and I came over a hill and these 2 love birds made a little natural shelter right next to the hiking/game trail on the downhill side out of branches up against a downfall. I was right there and so where they, I just looked straight forward and kept walking, the girl says, hi. I couldn't respond, straight forward and kept walking.
 
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go_deep said:
I think I was the creepy experience in the Backcountry last week. Did a 7 mile loop along a creek that has a bunch of beaver ponds, checking it out for fishing and possibly beaver trapping next winter, one side of the creek is fairly open the otherwise is mostly timber and brush. Walked the open side down the mountain and marked spots, crossed the creek and started back up to my truck on the opposite side. In and out of thick patches following a hiking/game trail and I came over a hill and these 2 love birds made a little natural shelter right next to the hiking/game trail on the downhill side out of branches up against a downfall. I was right there and so where they, I just looked straight forward and kept walking, the girl says, hi. I couldn't respond, straight forward and kept walking.
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I used to take a short cut to work through a creek bed to get to the road instead of driving around, saved a lot of time when it was passable. It's also popular with dirt bikers cuz of the steep banks. I liked to gun it up the bank. One very early morning ( still dark)I made a quick hop up the bank and when my truck landed at the top there was a tent to my left about ten feet away. I scared the crap out of the guy in the tent.
 
go_deep said:
I think I was the creepy experience in the Backcountry last week. Did a 7 mile loop along a creek that has a bunch of beaver ponds, checking it out for fishing and possibly beaver trapping next winter, one side of the creek is fairly open the otherside is mostly timber and brush. Walked the open side down the mountain and marked spots, crossed the creek and started back up to my truck on the opposite side. In and out of thick patches following a hiking/game trail and I came over a hill and these 2 love birds made a little natural shelter right next to the hiking/game trail on the downhill side out of branches up against a downfall. I was right there and so where they, I just looked straight forward and kept walking, the girl says, hi. I couldn't respond, straight forward and kept walking.
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You should've said hi. You might have been asked to join.

I get what you mean. I was driving along a gravel road and realized this place where about 15 cars were parked was a hot spring in a side channel of the river. I stopped and looked down, checking it out when my eyes focused on a fully nude girl about 25. She was definitely worth staring at. But I was so shocked I just put my eyes forward and started driving.
 
2ski said:
You should've said hi. You might have been asked to join.

...I stopped and looked down, checking it out when my eyes focused on a fully nude girl about 25. She was definitely worth staring at. But I was so shocked I just put my eyes forward and started driving.
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Haha and that was I thought when I first read this post. :devilish: Demented minds thing alike.

And regarding the above average scenery, that's exactly why I always have my NL 12x42's with me at all times. 😇


Eddie
 
2ski said:
You should've said hi. You might have been asked to join.

I get what you mean. I was driving along a gravel road and realized this place where about 15 cars were parked was a hot spring in a side channel of the river. I stopped and looked down, checking it out when my eyes focused on a fully nude girl about 25. She was definitely worth staring at. But I was so shocked I just put my eyes forward and started driving.
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I had concerns of an invitation when she said hi. While what I could see of her seemed attractive, she also didn't look much older than my kids and I like being married.
 
Saw an unexplainable light above our camp elk hunting one time. Couldn't figure out what it was so we left.
 
Maybe not a creepy experience but a very close call with death. I was about 13 years old fishing Herring Creek just below the reservoir
( Stanislaus county, ca) I was hopping from Boulder to Boulder fishing holes along the way. I jumped onto a flat top boulder about the size of a dining table, it immediately teetered straight up, I slipped off and was standing in three feet of water with the boulder standing vertical, the top of it was above my head. I didn't even have time for a prayer before it flopped back to its original position. Other than a retarded pastor that almost killed me with a pistol, that's the closest I've come to dieing so far.
 
go_deep said:
The only beaver I was interested in that day was the big brown ones that make huge mud and stick hutches in the water.
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Can you provide GPS coordinates of the location. I feel this situation justifies further...research. yes research.
 
Wiley coyote said:
Maybe not a creepy experience but a very close call with death. I was about 13 years old fishing Herring Creek just below the reservoir
( Stanislaus county, ca) I was hopping from Boulder to Boulder fishing holes along the way. I jumped onto a flat top boulder about the size of a dining table, it immediately teetered straight up, I slipped off and was standing in three feet of water with the boulder standing vertical, the top of it was above my head. I didn't even have time for a prayer before it flopped back to its original position. Other than a retarded pastor that almost killed me with a pistol, that's the closest I've come to dieing so far.
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Well, I want to hear the pastor story now.
 
Warmsy said:
Well, I want to hear the pastor story now.
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Dec 31st 2012 I was finishing a floor, putting in the transition strip when the home owner brought out his carry pistol to show it to me. I never asked to see it. We had been talking guns, one upping each other in a way. " I have my ccw"... "I got my hunting license when I was 8 yrs old". Well fast forward a couple weeks and here I am the last few minutes of the job, and dude brings out a little black plastic pistol. In my stupidity I assumed he was safe with firearms. When he racked the slide I could hear it was loaded. I thought oh God please don't,, bang! It was pointed perpendicular to me about 16" away from my body. It ricocheted off the flat side of a stud at the end of the wall where I was standing in the opening. It scuffed dudes boot and went into the floor. If it had blown out sideways I'd have likely been killed. I took the gun from him as he told me " it's clear now". It was stove piped with 2 live rounds. After I cleared it I threw the gun at him and screamed at him for at least an hour. I wanted to break his nose, but I really needed my job.
 
Wiley coyote said:
Dec 31st 2012 I was finishing a floor, putting in the transition strip when the home owner brought out his carry pistol to show it to me. I never asked to see it. We had been talking guns, one upping each other in a way. " I have my ccw"... "I got my hunting license when I was 8 yrs old". Well fast forward a couple weeks and here I am the last few minutes of the job, and dude brings out a little black plastic pistol. In my stupidity I assumed he was safe with firearms. When he racked the slide I could hear it was loaded. I thought oh God please don't,, bang! It was pointed perpendicular to me about 16" away from my body. It ricocheted off the flat side of a stud at the end of the wall where I was standing in the opening. It scuffed dudes boot and went into the floor. If it had blown out sideways I'd have likely been killed. I took the gun from him as he told me " it's clear now". It was stove piped with 2 live rounds. After I cleared it I threw the gun at him and screamed at him for at least an hour. I wanted to break his nose, but I really needed my job.
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Thanks for sharing. Geez!
 
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