Creepy experiences in the backcountry

[Snowwolfe]

My weird encounter was in a hotel. Exwife and I had a small apartment in a local hotel when we were first married. Someone was playing games with us by knocking at the door then no one would be there when I answered.
I sat inside beside the door waiting for someone to knock. Someone knocked loud and I immediately opened the door (within 2 seconds) and no one was there. And the hallway outside was maybe 40 yards long.
The knocks never happened again.

 

[bigunit]

This one was scary at the time but funny later.

I was moose hunting Oct 2023. After a long and unsuccessful day, I was on my way back to camp near dark on my atv. It was cold and quite rainy. I saw a dark shadow on my left in the intersection of a trail and realized it was a bear about 20 yards away. It looked like a decent boar and I had a tag so I quickly grabbed and loaded my rifle.

Right as I was loading my rifle, the bear started walking straight towards me. I found that quite strange especially since I was still at the atv and it was running with the lights on. I shot the bear head on and he quickly spun and ran away from me.

I wasn't too keen on looking for a bear after dark when I was still quite a ways from camp and getting pretty cold. My dad and father in law would also already be back at camp and I didn't want to worry them so I decided to leave the bear and head to camp and retrieve it in the am.

The next day I still wanted to moose hunt so I thought I'd find the bear well before first light, gut it and be on my way for the morning hunt. We'll that's exactly what happened. I found the bear a few yards of the trail about 50 yards from where I shot. It was about a 200lb boar. I prepped all my stuff to start gutting, but some nitrile gloves on and got to work.

Remember this is still well before daylight and I'm in thick bush and can't really see anything out of the beam of my headlamp, so I'm a bit on edge but not too bad. As soon as kneeled down and was about to start the first incision, I heard the loudest scariest thing I have to date.

There must have been an owl directly above me the whole time and as soon I was about to touch that bear he let a huge hoot out. I damn near shat and must have jumped back at least 4 feet. That was the creepiest thing to happen to me in the bush so far. I'm so glad it wasn't on film.

 

[Snowwolfe]

This is my “raise the hair on the back of your neck” story.
Took my son with me to hunt moose up on the Huslia River which flows into the Koyukuk. We were trying to call in a bull and he was tossing the bushes working towards us. He was about 30 yards away and making plenty of noise but was still hidden.
All of a sudden we heard a pack of wolves howling as they circled the bull. Some had to be within 15 yards of us. Then something alerted the bull or the wolves and they all took off. The bull disappeared but we seen some of the wolves lay down in a field 150-200 yards away.

 

[omicron1792]

My weird encounter was in a hotel. Exwife and I had a small apartment in a local hotel when we were first married. Someone was playing games with us by knocking at the door then no one would be there when I answered.
I sat inside beside the door waiting for someone to knock. Someone knocked loud and I immediately opened the door (within 2 seconds) and no one was there. And the hallway outside was maybe 40 yards long.
The knocks never happened again.

That’s some freaky stuff.