These Hunters Revealed The Creepiest Things They've Ever Found In The Woods

Recently, u/Frosty-Associate-987 asked r/AskReddit, "Hunters, what's the astir unsettling happening you've seen oregon encountered retired successful the woods?" And due to the fact that it is the play for spooky stories, we thought we'd stock immoderate of the apical responses.

1. “When I was 14, I was successful my basal astir dusk, situated successful a small cove of conifer trees, with my firearm resting outward connected a crossbeam."

"A small region away, I saw an owl flying towards me. Then it got person and closer, and it started to springiness maine the content that it was going to roost successful the histrion with me. Then its talons opened up, on with its wings dispersed widely, arsenic it started to travel successful and seemingly onshore connected my firearm tube that was jutting out. I flinched, and the owl started to back-pedal with its wings, hovering supra maine portion shouting astatine maine with excited ‘hoos’. It spent the adjacent half-hour flying astir successful circles by me, checking maine retired each instant it could.

It was beauteous frightening successful the moment, but 1 of my fondest memories/encounters from being successful the woods crossed 40+ years.”

–brounchman

2. "Finding random encampments which were intelligibly precocious inhabited portion unsocial successful the woods is ever a small uneasy."

–MickeyCrisco

3. “Solo camping and proceeding a mates of coyotes tearing isolated a snowshoe hare not excessively acold from my structure was a small unsettling."

"What frightened maine much than anything, though, was 1 time erstwhile I was going successful to cheque a way cam astatine a carnivore hunting tract successful the dark. On my mode in, I could perceive that I had spooked a carnivore and heard it instrumentality disconnected done the woods. As I stopped and stood unsocial successful the dark, silently trying hard to perceive to spot wherever it was moving disconnected to, a fucking toad the size of my fist jumped onto my boot.

I was truthful concentrated connected listening, and past to consciousness thing interaction maine successful the acheronian was the worst leap scare of my life. I damn adjacent crap myself.”

–checkpointGnarly

4. “When I was a kid, we were retired cervid hunting and stumbled upon the hides/skins of 5–6 antithetic animals. Think rabbit, snake, coyote, etc., each placed successful a neat ellipse successful the mediate of a clearing, miles distant from the closest ungraded roadworthy oregon operation of immoderate kind. It freaked maine retired beauteous badly. We instantly near and ne'er returned to that spot again.”

–GroundbreakingRich96

5. “A buddy and I were connected a beauteous overgrown way that had a ditch connected either side. We noticed determination was a camper van a spot disconnected the way and had nary thought however it got there."

"But erstwhile we looked down into the ditch adjacent the camper, determination was a brace of overalls that looked similar they were covered successful dried blood. We boogied the hellhole retired of there. We called the cops, and apparently, they checked it retired and recovered nary grounds of foul play. But bully gosh darn! That was freaky!”

–CH_Punch_Dickins

6. "Big aged plops of applesauce! I took pictures of it to amusement to the oldest, wisest feline backmost astatine cervid campy and inquire if idiosyncratic was hunting implicit bait. He looked astatine that and laughed and laughed, and told maine no, that’s not bait — that’s carnivore vomit. They devour the fermented apples disconnected the ground, get drunk, propulsion up, walk out, and bash it each again. So I was unsocial successful the woods with an chartless fig of drunk and/or hungover bears."

–shiggyhardlust

7. "I was erstwhile hiking mode disconnected the road. Probably 5-6 miles successful I recovered a cupful of java sitting connected a stump that was inactive steaming. I ne'er saw anyone."

–jkh7088

8. “If you’ve ever heard a cougar shriek astatine you, you'll understand."

"I was walking to a wood with a 300-foot drop, truly a spread successful the ground, hunting turkey erstwhile a cougar screamed astatine maine for a bully 2 minutes, straight successful beforehand of wherever I was walking.

I conscionable turned astir and left. Never saw her. Grateful she fto maine spell with a warning.”

–09wilkm

9. “One time, up successful the woods successful Maine, I heard immoderate benignant of mockingbird mimicking a babe crying. Hearing thing that sounds similar a babe but intelligibly isn’t coming from up successful a histrion is immediately, profoundly unsettling successful a mode I can’t adjacent describe. Also successful Maine, I heard thing from the woods (I was successful the house): a fox screaming. Basically, it sounded similar a pistillate being attacked and murdered determination successful the transportation dark.”

–RamblinWreckGT

10. “I’m not a hunter, but I bash similar hiking, backpacking and being successful the woods."

"Probably a elephantine stone that came flying towards my uncle and me. It was a big, dense stone that was bigger than our heads. I uncertainty the mean idiosyncratic could person chucked it that precocious and far. It besides wasn’t rolling disconnected a mountainside oregon anything, arsenic we were successful a level area. This happened successful the Pacific Northwest.”

–DatTF2

11. “Once, I came crossed a tiny gravesite with an aged achromatic obstruction astir it. It was the sedate of a tiny kid who was six years old. If I retrieve rightly, the twelvemonth of decease was 1926 oregon 1928. There were nary different sedate markers astir it, which made it adjacent creepier.”

–bellyfuzz

12. “Probably the ‘Piss Witch Camp’."

"I’d conscionable got support to hunt connected a ample conifer tract conscionable extracurricular an municipality country successful South Carolina. I went to scout it retired earlier cervid play started. There was a small hardwood drain successful the centre of the spot that I was funny in, truthful I was making my mode towards it erstwhile I burst done immoderate heavy shrubs and into a tiny cleared area.

I conjecture an unhoused idiosyncratic had built a small shack from scrap wood and had rigged up a tiny obstruction from sticks. There were a clump of Mason jars filled with what looked similar piss, and immoderate Blair Witch-looking instrumentality figures sitting connected the obstruction and hanging from trees. Someone had been determination somewhat precocious due to the fact that determination was inactive fume coming from an aged rim-turned-fire pit.

I bushed my mode backmost to the motortruck and told the landowner I was nary longer interested.”

–eighthotdogbuns

13. “I was acceptable up connected a caller clear-cut with a heavy creek bottommost down me."

"Several large cervid came retired into the clear-cut close astatine dark. The clear-cut had a batch of airy connected it, but the heavy creek bottommost was pitch-black. I was positioning my weapon to get a bully look astatine the cervid erstwhile thing started a deep, voluminous growl down me. 

The sheer measurement of the growl was thing I’d ne'er heard successful the woods. If you’ve been astatine a zoo and been adjacent a lion erstwhile it roars, it was that benignant of volume. It built and built into a screech. I past heard it ascent down a histrion and locomotion down the creek. Had to beryllium a upland lion.”

–The-JudgeHolden

14. “4 a.m., freshly settled into a tree. Before I got a crushed blind, it was virtually maine sitting wholly exposed, with my backmost to a tree, staring into implicit blackness. Heavy thumping abruptly reverberated done my spine, followed by a horrendous shriek and the dependable of squelching and breaking bones nary much than 5 feet from my back. I don’t deliberation I blinked until the prima rose."

"It turned retired a carnivore had tally down a fox and had its repast close down me. This was my 2nd clip hunting and my archetypal solo sit. Once the prima came up, I ran for the car. The adrenaline clang did springiness maine a bully five-hour nap, though.”

–Miklay83

15. “Not a hunter, but once, erstwhile I was a kid, I was fucking astir successful the woods with friends and saw a structure acceptable up successful a adust creek bed."

"For immoderate reason, we decided to spot if determination was a idiosyncratic wrong it. There wasn’t, but determination were a clump of cages with home rabbits, doves, a chicken, a chinchilla, etc. We precise rapidly decided to leave.

It was truthful weird, and to this day, I don’t cognize wherefore they were there.”

–mothwhimsy

16. "When I was astir 7-8yrs old, I was hunting with my dad, uncle and brother. We came retired of the woods to the borderline of a farmers field."

"The husbandman came implicit and asked america to travel him to his barn. We walked into the dimly lit barn and determination was a large brownish horse, down connected each fours and its Head was snapped backwards. I retrieve reasoning however unusual it was that each its bones were jutting retired astatine unusual angles nether its skin. 

The husbandman told america an aggravated grizzly roams the country and we should get the hellhole retired of determination close away. The barn had ample logs arsenic the enactment beams and posts and the husbandman pointed retired however the grizzly near a monolithic slash people successful 1 of the posts. We near the barn and astir ran to the truck. When I recounted that communicative a fewer years back, my dada said, 'Holy shit, you inactive retrieve that?' How could I hide a equine with its caput snapped backwards and bones jutting up?"

–krushgruuv

What's the creepiest happening you recovered successful the woods? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

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