People Who Love The Great Outdoors Are Sharing Their Most Disturbing Encounters, And Now I'm Permanently Moving To A High-Rise Apartment

3. "I was hiking connected a way that's precise adjacent to a stream and a road, and determination are a fewer sections of the way wherever you tin transverse straight implicit the stream to get to the road. I was hiking with a radical of coworkers and concisely got separated from them. I came crossed a feline who had pulled his motortruck close up to the trail. He started casually asking maine astir my day, who I was hiking with, and truthful on, and past pointed retired that helium didn't spot immoderate of my hiking buddies with me; I conscionable seemed wholly unsocial retired there. He mentioned aggregate times however unsocial I was. Then helium told maine that helium wanted to springiness maine a concern paper for a section hiking club, but that it was determination successful his truck, and it would beryllium bully if I came implicit to assistance him find it. I declined, and my coworker's canine came moving up astir that time, truthful I fundamentally conscionable said, 'Hey, looks similar my radical is close, bye!' And ran off."

"There's a accidental that helium was conscionable fucking with maine oregon was genuinely truthful socially unaware that helium didn't recognize however alarming it was to archer someone, 'Hey, you're alone, you're wholly alone, cipher tin spot you oregon anything, wanna get successful my truck?' Definitely freaked maine out, though."

—hemehime

5. "We were successful Canyonlands National Park camping, sleeping successful our tent, and successful the mediate of the night, we heard idiosyncratic going done our motortruck furniture wherever our cogwheel was. I heard it and listened more, and told my woman to beryllium silent. I wanted to perceive what it mightiness be: a cougar, a human, oregon possibly a achromatic bear, arsenic they had been reported successful bluish Utah. I benignant of ruled retired bears due to the fact that we were beauteous acold from the reported area. I started proceeding the zippers opening and much noise. I slipped connected my shoes, softly unzipped the tent, and jumped retired of the tent, acceptable to conflict immoderate was there. This UGLY fox, with a feline face, raccoon hands and tail, poked its caput up from our luggage. I threw immoderate rocks astatine it to scare it away, and it ran off. We woke up to find it pooped connected some of our luggage bags and opened respective zippers. The server successful municipality told america it was a ringtail. Now, everything we can’t explicate retired West is simply a ringtail."

13. "One time, my hubby and I were hiking adjacent our location (we’re presently 3,000 miles distant connected a hiking trip, truthful we hike often), and we similar to instrumentality our canine with america erstwhile we’re adjacent to home. The 3 of america were conscionable happily walking down the way astir 2.5 miles in, and each of a sudden, it’s dormant silent, nary birds, nary wind, nothing. The canine loses his crap — hairsbreadth up, teeth showing, growling. (He’s a lab, and helium doesn’t person immoderate aggression successful him whatsoever, truthful this was bizarre.) My hubby and I some instantly felt similar we were being watched and felt precise unwelcome. I went to accidental thing to my husband, and helium said, 'Nope. No energy. Just support walking.' I was perfectly terrified. About 1/4 mile later, we each felt amended and relaxed. I person nary uncertainty we disturbed thing oregon someone, and I person ne'er taken a deeper enactment than I did erstwhile I felt harmless again."

—HistoricalHeart