I think I saw that movie.
Creepy experiences in the backcountry
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My favorite kind of story. I have one similar to it that I posted a while back where I found a ghost camp! Thanks for sharing.
Pharmseller
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When the Bad Things come out at night they know they have to return by dawn, so they have a lot more time to do evil.
Conversely, in the morning they know they must seek shelter by sunup, so they’re less focused on you.
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Conversely, in the morning they know they must seek shelter by sunup, so they’re less focused on you.
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Maybe not necessarily 'creepy', but certainly beyond anything I can explain.
Watched this black cigar-shaped object for half a minute or so over Utah back in 2010 (?). Thought it was a piece of dirt on the window until I moved my head back and forth a few times and realized it was keeping up with us. Managed to take a few pictures, kept looking at it and all of a sudden it just shot off, split second and it was gone. Very surreal experience.
The sensor on my DSLR was quite dirty at the time (old 5D had a knack for pulling in dust), that accounts for all the dots and smudges you see around the edges of the image.
Wish I'd had my 200mm lens on me at the time but of course I had left it in my checked luggage.
Watched this black cigar-shaped object for half a minute or so over Utah back in 2010 (?). Thought it was a piece of dirt on the window until I moved my head back and forth a few times and realized it was keeping up with us. Managed to take a few pictures, kept looking at it and all of a sudden it just shot off, split second and it was gone. Very surreal experience.
The sensor on my DSLR was quite dirty at the time (old 5D had a knack for pulling in dust), that accounts for all the dots and smudges you see around the edges of the image.
Wish I'd had my 200mm lens on me at the time but of course I had left it in my checked luggage.
DiabeticKripple
WKR
not really a crazy story, but elk hunting we came into a meadow where we had tons of elk and feral horse sign scouted out. We cow called the whole way in on the trail to sound like a small harem of cows going to feed, hoping to pull a bull in from somewhere. we got to the meadow and nothing, sat with the wind in our faces for about 30 mins and still nothing so we pulled out lunch out of our packs. I had just started eating when my buddy elbowed my ribs and nodded up. I looked up and there was 3 wolves within 10-15yds of us just staring. There was a giant black one about 50yds behind them too. They kept checking us out while I tried to knock an arrow, but when i turned a bit to draw back they ran off. My buddy picked a bad day to leave the shotgun at camp (he was just calling for me) and since its Canuckistan we cannot carry pistols.
It was crazy how silent the wolves came in and left. Literally no sound around and didnt hear them once.
It was crazy how silent the wolves came in and left. Literally no sound around and didnt hear them once.
That UFO photo up there reminds me of another picture I took back in 2003 or so. Unfortunately it's been lost to a few hard drive crashes over the years which pains me greatly.
My uncle has a cabin in the woods in Eastern Europe and I ended up staying at it for a week back when I was 17 or 18. It was just me and my buddy there and we spent most of our time drinking and playing Starcraft and walking around in the woods. I was already fairly passionate about photography so I always had my camera on me. A few days in we ended up befriending a younger, local kid. He was excited to meet some new people and took us to an abandoned house deep in the woods.
I loved this stuff and started taking pictures as soon as we got there - the first one I took was of the exterior of the house as we stood in front of the porch. We ended up going inside through the window as the door was boarded shut, and the atmosphere was pretty grim from the get go. The place had obviously been empty for a long time, yet we found a bucket full of still-liquid blood in the kitchen. A bit creepy but explainable I guess, maybe someone came back and slaughtered some chickens here.
We moved through the house, checked out the attic, came back down into the kitchen and opened the door into the living room. The entire room was empty except for an old white wedding dress hanging in the middle of the room. I nearly had a heart attack and we were thoroughly creeped out at this point. We started exiting the place through that same window and I was the last person to leave - I'll never forget the feeling of dread I experienced during those 5 seconds that I was the only one still in the house. There were tons of nettle bushes right outside the window and I remember thinking that if I see or hear anything right now I'm launching myself out of that window and into those nettles in 0.2 seconds flat, I was absolutely shitting myself.
We went back to the cabin later that afternoon and I downloaded the pictures from my camera onto my laptop. As I browsed them with my buddy we took a closer look at the first photo I took that day, of the exterior of the house. There was a woman's face behind the porch window - hard to see any detail but a face nonetheless. There wasn't anyone to be seen within two miles of that place, we combed the whole thing.
I still think about that photo every now and then, and wonder if maybe somewhere, somehow, there's still an old hard drive in my mom's house that I've forgotten about that holds it.
My uncle has a cabin in the woods in Eastern Europe and I ended up staying at it for a week back when I was 17 or 18. It was just me and my buddy there and we spent most of our time drinking and playing Starcraft and walking around in the woods. I was already fairly passionate about photography so I always had my camera on me. A few days in we ended up befriending a younger, local kid. He was excited to meet some new people and took us to an abandoned house deep in the woods.
I loved this stuff and started taking pictures as soon as we got there - the first one I took was of the exterior of the house as we stood in front of the porch. We ended up going inside through the window as the door was boarded shut, and the atmosphere was pretty grim from the get go. The place had obviously been empty for a long time, yet we found a bucket full of still-liquid blood in the kitchen. A bit creepy but explainable I guess, maybe someone came back and slaughtered some chickens here.
We moved through the house, checked out the attic, came back down into the kitchen and opened the door into the living room. The entire room was empty except for an old white wedding dress hanging in the middle of the room. I nearly had a heart attack and we were thoroughly creeped out at this point. We started exiting the place through that same window and I was the last person to leave - I'll never forget the feeling of dread I experienced during those 5 seconds that I was the only one still in the house. There were tons of nettle bushes right outside the window and I remember thinking that if I see or hear anything right now I'm launching myself out of that window and into those nettles in 0.2 seconds flat, I was absolutely shitting myself.
We went back to the cabin later that afternoon and I downloaded the pictures from my camera onto my laptop. As I browsed them with my buddy we took a closer look at the first photo I took that day, of the exterior of the house. There was a woman's face behind the porch window - hard to see any detail but a face nonetheless. There wasn't anyone to be seen within two miles of that place, we combed the whole thing.
I still think about that photo every now and then, and wonder if maybe somewhere, somehow, there's still an old hard drive in my mom's house that I've forgotten about that holds it.
Clinicus22
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Not a hunt but my buddy and I got to a sign where it said no trespassers so we turned around and then this guy followed us in his truck for like 15 minutes until we figured we should just stop to talk. Thankfully nothing weird happened in fact the guy said people had robbed him before so he was paranoid
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Not my story but I found it fascinating so I'll share.
Friends of a friend of a friend went camping deep in the Sinai desert in Egypt with a local guide. Towards the end of the day they noticed a soldier with a rifle pop up from behind a dune in the distance. He would take aim at something, get shot, fall down behind the dune. Pop up, take aim, get shot. Pop up... this went on. They said to the guide, jesus man do you see that?
He goes oh yeah, he's here all the time, he's stuck.
Lot of fighting back in the day in that area, apparently.
Friends of a friend of a friend went camping deep in the Sinai desert in Egypt with a local guide. Towards the end of the day they noticed a soldier with a rifle pop up from behind a dune in the distance. He would take aim at something, get shot, fall down behind the dune. Pop up, take aim, get shot. Pop up... this went on. They said to the guide, jesus man do you see that?
He goes oh yeah, he's here all the time, he's stuck.
Lot of fighting back in the day in that area, apparently.
I wonder if the old man that own the property knew that the wild dogs were there and that is why he said no.
Should have asked again, after you fixed the wild dog problem
dan33
Lil-Rokslider
I was on a high country deer hunt labor day weekend so of course I saw a couple lights in the woods which were obviously headlamps/fires/lanterns. The next morning I saw a light easily 8 miles away from my glassing point. Not dull either. Clear as a laser pointer. A couple days later I was hunting a fresh burn and I can't even explain it good but I got the feeling of not supposed to be here. When the wind blew it sounded like women and children screaming. After shooting light it just got worse. Honestly half expected to walk into a destroyed Indian village like in the revenant. The next morning I was set up on some beds I bumped deer from the day before and dead calm at sunrise then I hear a flute like sound and was thinking oh god I'm gonna get scalped then from the same place the worst excuse of an elk calling sequence i have ever heard erupted from the same are.
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gobblinglawyer
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Whoa now…I’m a lot of things but a dumbass ain’t one. I thought this thread was for “Creepy experiences in the back country” and not a place to opine about property rights? Maybe I missed the memo.
griebel303
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I've got two encounters that happened during Archery season in Colorado on separate years. They are less creepy and more get the adrenaline pumping and keep you on edge for the day.
The first was hunting archery black bear. I had found a wallow that was the only water source on top of a mountain, without dropping down into some steep canyons. I hung up a trail camera on it during the Spring and checked it late summer. It was the bear's cool down spot. Almost daily a different bear was hitting that wallow from midmorning to midday. There were a couple of big boars and sows, including a sow with twin cubs that seemed to frequent it. Come archery season I went up solo and sat the wallow most of the day. After not seeing anything, I decided to loop up the mountain through some super dense lodge poles and see if I could get to a good glassing spot to see some other drainages. I've made it probably a 1/2 mile in the lodgepoles when I see the silhouette of a big bear walking parallel to me. I knock an arrow and start closing the distance to try and find a shooting lane. At about 30 yds or so I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough it's the twin cubs I had seen on the camera and I am now in between the sow and the cubs. Fortunately for me I had good wind, and the sow and cubs had no idea I was there. I slowly started backing up and putting some distance between us without turning my back. I still had to get out of the lodgepoles and it seemed every little ridge I crested there was a dark burnt out log resembling a bear shadow on the other side. After that I decided I didn't need to stick around with the sow and cubs out and about.
The next encounter was 2 years later, the last day of archery Elk. I was hiking in solo at first light to a meadow I had some good encounters a few days before. I had just started making my way up a game trail when not 50 yards away there are 4 mountain lions sitting, looking over the small hillside. About the same time it registered in my head what they were they saw me and scattered up the mountain. The only sound they made as they took off were chirps. They were all decent sized so my guess is it was a mother with some yearling kittens. They took off the direction of the meadow I planned to hunt so I didn't expect the elk were going to be hanging around with 4 of them running around. I hunted an adjacent ridge instead that day and every bird chirp had me thinking the 4 of them were coming back to stalk me. I didn't encounter them the rest of the day, but it definitely screwed with my focus. A few days later I caught them on a trail camera a few drainages away.
The first was hunting archery black bear. I had found a wallow that was the only water source on top of a mountain, without dropping down into some steep canyons. I hung up a trail camera on it during the Spring and checked it late summer. It was the bear's cool down spot. Almost daily a different bear was hitting that wallow from midmorning to midday. There were a couple of big boars and sows, including a sow with twin cubs that seemed to frequent it. Come archery season I went up solo and sat the wallow most of the day. After not seeing anything, I decided to loop up the mountain through some super dense lodge poles and see if I could get to a good glassing spot to see some other drainages. I've made it probably a 1/2 mile in the lodgepoles when I see the silhouette of a big bear walking parallel to me. I knock an arrow and start closing the distance to try and find a shooting lane. At about 30 yds or so I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough it's the twin cubs I had seen on the camera and I am now in between the sow and the cubs. Fortunately for me I had good wind, and the sow and cubs had no idea I was there. I slowly started backing up and putting some distance between us without turning my back. I still had to get out of the lodgepoles and it seemed every little ridge I crested there was a dark burnt out log resembling a bear shadow on the other side. After that I decided I didn't need to stick around with the sow and cubs out and about.
The next encounter was 2 years later, the last day of archery Elk. I was hiking in solo at first light to a meadow I had some good encounters a few days before. I had just started making my way up a game trail when not 50 yards away there are 4 mountain lions sitting, looking over the small hillside. About the same time it registered in my head what they were they saw me and scattered up the mountain. The only sound they made as they took off were chirps. They were all decent sized so my guess is it was a mother with some yearling kittens. They took off the direction of the meadow I planned to hunt so I didn't expect the elk were going to be hanging around with 4 of them running around. I hunted an adjacent ridge instead that day and every bird chirp had me thinking the 4 of them were coming back to stalk me. I didn't encounter them the rest of the day, but it definitely screwed with my focus. A few days later I caught them on a trail camera a few drainages away.
Not trying to steal your story @griebel303 but your text is lightened so much it's hard to read so I copied to a text editor. Here's your text that should be easier to read for viers of this awesome thread.
Good stories btw and certainly each has some pucker factor IMHO.
Eddie
"The first was hunting archery black bear. I had found a wallow that was the only water source on top of a mountain, without dropping down into some steep canyons. I hung up a trail camera on it during the Spring and checked it late summer. It was the bear's cool down spot. Almost daily a different bear was hitting that wallow from midmorning to midday. There were a couple of big boars and sows, including a sow with twin cubs that seemed to frequent it. Come archery season I went up solo and sat the wallow most of the day. After not seeing anything, I decided to loop up the mountain through some super dense lodge poles and see if I could get to a good glassing spot to see some other drainages. I've made it probably a 1/2 mile in the lodgepoles when I see the silhouette of a big bear walking parallel to me. I knock an arrow and start closing the distance to try and find a shooting lane. At about 30 yds or so I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough it's the twin cubs I had seen on the camera and I am now in between the sow and the cubs. Fortunately for me I had good wind, and the sow and cubs had no idea I was there. I slowly started backing up and putting some distance between us without turning my back. I still had to get out of the lodgepoles and it seemed every little ridge I crested there was a dark burnt out log resembling a bear shadow on the other side. After that I decided I didn't need to stick around with the sow and cubs out and about.
The next encounter was 2 years later, the last day of archery Elk. I was hiking in solo at first light to a meadow I had some good encounters a few days before. I had just started making my way up a game trail when not 50 yards away there are 4 mountain lions sitting, looking over the small hillside. About the same time it registered in my head what they were they saw me and scattered up the mountain. The only sound they made as they took off were chirps. They were all decent sized so my guess is it was a mother with some yearling kittens. They took off the direction of the meadow I planned to hunt so I didn't expect the elk were going to be hanging around with 4 of them running around. I hunted an adjacent ridge instead that day and every bird chirp had me thinking the 4 of them were coming back to stalk me. I didn't encounter them the rest of the day, but it definitely screwed with my focus. A few days later I caught them on a trail camera a few drainages away."
Good stories btw and certainly each has some pucker factor IMHO.
Eddie
"The first was hunting archery black bear. I had found a wallow that was the only water source on top of a mountain, without dropping down into some steep canyons. I hung up a trail camera on it during the Spring and checked it late summer. It was the bear's cool down spot. Almost daily a different bear was hitting that wallow from midmorning to midday. There were a couple of big boars and sows, including a sow with twin cubs that seemed to frequent it. Come archery season I went up solo and sat the wallow most of the day. After not seeing anything, I decided to loop up the mountain through some super dense lodge poles and see if I could get to a good glassing spot to see some other drainages. I've made it probably a 1/2 mile in the lodgepoles when I see the silhouette of a big bear walking parallel to me. I knock an arrow and start closing the distance to try and find a shooting lane. At about 30 yds or so I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough it's the twin cubs I had seen on the camera and I am now in between the sow and the cubs. Fortunately for me I had good wind, and the sow and cubs had no idea I was there. I slowly started backing up and putting some distance between us without turning my back. I still had to get out of the lodgepoles and it seemed every little ridge I crested there was a dark burnt out log resembling a bear shadow on the other side. After that I decided I didn't need to stick around with the sow and cubs out and about.
The next encounter was 2 years later, the last day of archery Elk. I was hiking in solo at first light to a meadow I had some good encounters a few days before. I had just started making my way up a game trail when not 50 yards away there are 4 mountain lions sitting, looking over the small hillside. About the same time it registered in my head what they were they saw me and scattered up the mountain. The only sound they made as they took off were chirps. They were all decent sized so my guess is it was a mother with some yearling kittens. They took off the direction of the meadow I planned to hunt so I didn't expect the elk were going to be hanging around with 4 of them running around. I hunted an adjacent ridge instead that day and every bird chirp had me thinking the 4 of them were coming back to stalk me. I didn't encounter them the rest of the day, but it definitely screwed with my focus. A few days later I caught them on a trail camera a few drainages away."
More of a confusing story than spooky
My family has owned a small farm in rural PA for 30 years. Being from NJ/NY my dad and I have gone almost every other weekend since I was born to do some hunting and fishing. I'm very comfortable there and have never had a weird experience except for this one time during covid, when we were there a lot-much more than normal since school/work was shutdown. There's two houses on the property - one built in the 1970s and one in the mid-late 1800s. The 1970s house is more modern so that's where we spend most of the time and use the 1800s house as a guest house. The 1800s house has been remodeled several times and is not really old or spooky - it just has had a lot of additions and changes so it's not very open and there's a lot of turns/hallways and smaller rooms which can give you an uneasy feeling if you're not used to staying in a house like that out in the country. I got Covid in 2021 so I was staying in the 1800s house to isolate. I got groceries for the 2 weeks I'd be staying there and got a dozen eggs with my groceries - obviously checking to see if any were damaged in the store. I filled up the empty fridge with my groceries and the next day when going to make breakfast 6 of the twelve eggs were gone from the right half of the carton. I would've felt the weight difference if I hadn't even checked them at the store, which I did. There was nobody else was staying in the house and I talked with my family members and none had been in the house. There were no eggshells in the trash either and no sign of them anywhere.
I just hope the ghost of the previous owners of the house enjoyed their eggs.
My family has owned a small farm in rural PA for 30 years. Being from NJ/NY my dad and I have gone almost every other weekend since I was born to do some hunting and fishing. I'm very comfortable there and have never had a weird experience except for this one time during covid, when we were there a lot-much more than normal since school/work was shutdown. There's two houses on the property - one built in the 1970s and one in the mid-late 1800s. The 1970s house is more modern so that's where we spend most of the time and use the 1800s house as a guest house. The 1800s house has been remodeled several times and is not really old or spooky - it just has had a lot of additions and changes so it's not very open and there's a lot of turns/hallways and smaller rooms which can give you an uneasy feeling if you're not used to staying in a house like that out in the country. I got Covid in 2021 so I was staying in the 1800s house to isolate. I got groceries for the 2 weeks I'd be staying there and got a dozen eggs with my groceries - obviously checking to see if any were damaged in the store. I filled up the empty fridge with my groceries and the next day when going to make breakfast 6 of the twelve eggs were gone from the right half of the carton. I would've felt the weight difference if I hadn't even checked them at the store, which I did. There was nobody else was staying in the house and I talked with my family members and none had been in the house. There were no eggshells in the trash either and no sign of them anywhere.
I just hope the ghost of the previous owners of the house enjoyed their eggs.
Even in a delirium induced Wu Flu sate, me thinks there is little chance you'd not miss 6 of 12 eggs so something, apparition or otherwise, was hungry.
Eddie
Turkeytider
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Qualified for spooky in my book.
griebel303
FNG
Thanks Eddie! It looked normal on my end so I had no idea is was showing light for others.
Valumpessa
WKR
Same here... not seeing a difference aside from the pics being removed.
MThuntrrr
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Great thread. The one that sticks out was from over 20 years ago. It was mid September while archery elk hunting in SW Montana. At last light, I was bugling trying to locate bulls just before last light without response. I was hiking out solo in the dark through a bunch of deadfall back to the truck and had a couple miles to get there. I kept hearing intermittent trees crashing down behind me for about a 30 minute period during the hike back. It was dead calm and the trees/steps stayed the same distance away from me the entire hike back to the truck, guessing between 1-200 yards behind me. I was sure glad it was a day hunt instead of a backcountry camp. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
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