Pic related. When I was a kid I was walking with my mom along the road just down the street by a treeline and tied to one of the trees by it’s neck was a baby doll.
Very unnerving.
We never found who did it or why.
Years later I was out with my mom again in another part of the woods and she swore she saw something that looked humanoid and albino, like all white. It scared her enough that she wanted to leave right then.
Still think about both of these from time to time.
I’ve had some close encounters with a moose, a mountain lion, and a lot of bears but they’re not really “unnerving”. The scariest thing to find in the middle of nowhere is definitely signs of human activity when you think you’re all alone. Crude shelters, weird little effigies, anything that makes me feel like I’m trespassing into someone’s space. Makes me very paranoid about if I’m being observed and how well they’re going to take it
I was playing tag or something in the woods behind my neighborhood at night. Someone flashed a huge spotlight on us, started yelling they were the cops and they were going to set a dog on us. We figured it was some hoa-brained neighbor and left because we didn’t want trouble. Nope. It was a cop. Fucker rolled up on us and told a bunch of children if he caught us playing outdoors at night again he’d set an attack dog on us.
Upper middile income white neighborhood. White kids. Even with white privilege you’re never really safe. The monster was going to set a fucking dog on us for playing outside.
Fucker rolled up on us and told a bunch of children if he caught us playing outdoors at night again he’d set an attack dog on us.
wow why don’t kids play outside anymore???
buddy of mine was doing ding dong ditch as a kid and a homeowner chased him down the street back to his house. my friend could see a flashlight bobbing as the guy was following him and just assumed it was a regular flashlight but when he got to his door and turned around he saw it was a flashlight attachment on the guy’s pistol. that dude was a cop too.
Years later I was out with my mom again in another part of the woods and she swore she saw something that looked humanoid and albino, like all white.
Please don’t doxx me like this
Down near my family’s old farm in Puerto Rico, there’s a pretty deep thicket of bamboo
Back when I was eleven, I was staring into the thicket because It was the style at the time
I remember my dad walked up and asked me what I was doing and i said “I think I saw something moving around in there” and he just flatly says “Don’t let them see you’re looking” and walks away
He meant there were probably some people fuckin in there, but my brain at the time convinced me there was some horror that my family knew about and kept as some sort of terrible family secret
Like at some point, my dad would be like “Now son, it’s time I told you about El Cucuy and how he lives on our farm” or something
I don’t think I ever experienced such existential horror up until that point or ever since
“Don’t let them see you’re looking”
[Dad years later]
Oh those people were fucking in the bushes.
El Cucuy
Really like how Latin American folklore is either cute creatures that defend the forest and nature, or evil demons that will kill you and devour your family. And sometimes the evil ones might do something good to you.
10 minutes after my ex proposed to me we found a deer spine sticking out of a river like some kind of meat sail.
That’s pretty sad and also severe foreshadowing.
shrugs severely We sold the spine on Etsy for 200$, then bought 200$ of acid and flipped that. It was def “gud times”
I usually hate happy endings but I want to see that movie.
We sold the spine on Etsy for 200$,
The spinoff movie is about that guy.
Dog we were 2 hella traumatized drug dealers/addicts who put our heads together to move srs weight. That relationship was def failed from the start. But was it fun? Yes
Based and I pray you continue to beat the eyes of the fuzz
God damn lol
i found a developed camp someone made in forest service land a couple years ago. they’d brought out a couple couches, built some stairs and a rail into the slope, had a loft in a tree. two old boats that had clearly been worth something at some point were just abandoned out there. there were also a couple dolls heads hanging around, and a rolled up carpet that i was relieved to find was empty. i was working at the time and my crew and i poked around a little bit but didn’t want to run into whoever made it so we left quickly.
another time, i found a beaver skull in a long stretch of protected sand dunes along the coast, far away from creeks or streams or anything that id picture in my mind as beaver habitat. no clue how it got there, but i found tons of bones out in those dunes, without much vegetation it’s pretty easy to find that stuff, but the beaver was the most wtf for sure
also i heard a mountain lion in heat screaming at night one time while a friend and i were about to get high. mustve been within 100 yards, probably closer. thank god we hadn’t started already because if youve never heard a mountain lion scream it sounds just like a person. second we heard it we just took off running, didnt even say anything to each other, pure instinct. that was scary as hell in the moment but pretty cool to have experienced once it was over
I hope I have some good ones.
On a run once I found a bunch of wooden sculptures of animals covering half a mile of trail. It wasn’t too far out of town but it was kind of a foggy fall day so it was spooky.
On another run I came upon an electric corridor. There was a camper in it with smashed in windows and blood stains around the windows.
I met a hermit once when I was hunting as a kid. We were in an unincorporated area with about sixty residents so it was genuinely the middle of nowhere. I got lost in the woods and so I just went straight in one direction until I hit a road. Ran into the hermit on the road and he told me not to shoot his cats. He had no cats.
The scariest was one night I was going camping on a trail I had been on dozens of times. I found a good spot to go off trail and set up and a little ways in I found a plywood shack just filled with garbage that had writing all over the walls.
The trail out behind my parents house wasn’t really /x/ material but the mixture of fields, woods, and raised levees meant that you could see just about everything from some spots. It’s really eerie looking out into a clear winter night and seeing the bobbing of flashlights a mile away, only for them to turn off all at once. I liked to take late night walks out there when I was a kid, preferring to do away with a flashlight to enjoy the glow of the moon. One night a group of men in a pair of trucks drove up the old dirt road by the trail where they got out and talked or argued with each other. I couldn’t make out what they were saying but I remember them leaving very quickly. I think they might have seen me and bolted. I ran home after they left. Didn’t like that one bit.
Animal Death
Not that long ago on a crisp November evening I found a neat little pile of guts (with a heart stacked on top) next to another neat little pile of guts (without a heart stacked on top). It took a minute to register what I was even looking at, then I freaked out a little, then I remembered it was deer season and someone must have done a field dressing. You’re not supposed to hunt in that place so it was kinda neat to see evidence of poaching.
Used to find weird wooden sculptures like some shit out of Blaire Witch in the woods around my dad’s house where I spent a lot of time roaming around as a kid.
One time also saw a Great Horned owl sitting up in a gnarled old oak tree at night and it just sat there staring at my friend and I ominously, not moving not hooting like you usually expect an owl to or flying off like a startled animal typically would. Also those things are fucking HUGE, it was one of the most unnerving things I ever experienced out there.
I grew up deep in the mountains so the woods typically don’t scare me even at night even without lights, in fact hiking at night I prefer a no lights policy with my cousins as we know the area extremely well but that owl sticks with me.
c/w dead animals
Probably foxes or a fox and something else in a fight did it, but just coming across a rabbit ripped up and apart about a clearing on an otherwise bright and sunny day was weird. Didn’t seem to have eaten much of it, just left stewn all over. Relatively fresh. Turkey vultures found it by the time I was heading back that way so it was mostly cleaned up.
Other one was when I was camping in a state park with friends. We took mushrooms and two of us went to get more firewood from a guy selling it in his yard down the road. Part of the road ran along a rocky ledge, ~10ft higher than the road, and there was a car with its hazards on and nobody around when we called as we approached, and then as we get closer we see there’s just a deer embedded in the roof of the car, like it jumped off the ledge and just landed on the car. No resolution to that one, was still there on the way back and gone by morning.
Part of the road ran along a rocky ledge, ~10ft higher than the road, and there was a car with its hazards on and nobody around when we called as we approached, and then as we get closer we see there’s just a deer embedded in the roof of the car, like it jumped off the ledge and just landed on the car. No resolution to that one, was still there on the way back and gone by morning.
The deer was lodged into the roof or standing on the roof?
On my night jogs I used to go on I’ve heard kids chanting off in the woods and of course the occasional dog charging me straight out of the darkness. Oh, and the more severe horror of stalkers in shitty vans.
