i never experienced anything truly significant in the woods, but i have spent lots of time in them, me and my family go camping in the deep woods of
the PNW at least once a year usualy more, we try to make the trips last 2 weeks more if possible but often a week is all we can manage away from work
and the like, almost everytime i take the chance to leave my campsite on foot at 2 or 3 am or so, and walk the woods in the pitch black, sure i bring
a flash light but only turn it on if rly needed, usualy i try to let my eyes adjust and strain to see without the light, full moons make it easy,
occasionaly id hear things nearby twigs break or the like, or id see movement only to find nothing when id turn the flashlight on and shine at it.
once i had walked down to a nearby creek, fairly large one and was sitting by it staring at the stars when i heard a sudden and loud crashing in the
water, scarred outta my wits i hit the flashlight on it, it was on the other side of the river from me, a VERY large buck, an elk, 4 pointer if i
recall right, it was very large clearly well matured, and was crossing right toward me, well till i hit the flashlight on it, then it saw me and
veered to my side, and just kept on walking into the woods behind me,
that was realy the only startling experience ive had in the woods, but my family has better stories they could tell
my aunt and her husband were camping once deep in the woods i think somewhere in western canada, not at an official campsight but somewhere miles from
any people, they had a large RV somewhat like this one
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as they went to sleep they were near dosing off when they heard russling outside like something had knocked over their cooler (sodas and beer on ice)
they got out and sure enough it was on its side, they looked all around and saw no wildlife or anything so back to bed, an hr or so later they were
awoken by a very loud BANG on the side of their RV, my uncle says it could not have simply been a bear wacking the side cause it was just too loud and
caused the entire RV to shake, they immediatly drove off without so much as peeking outside, abandoning all their camp gear that was outside never to
turn back,
there was of course a huge dent in the side of the RV
another story this time about my dad,
even when young he would often go hunting with his dad in the forests of california, one night he had been off hunting alone while his dad remained
back at camp, he was walking a clearly discernable foot trail / deer trail when he realised he had walked to far and it would be dark before he got
back, so he turns and heads back but before long he realizes he is being followed, he can hear twigs and sticks breaking behind him but doesnt see
anything when he turns and looks, at this point its getting dark fast and feeling followed he begins to pick up his pace, as he moves faster so must
whatever is following him as each sound it makes only gets closer, he eventualy is in a full out run when BAM he trips over something that was in the
path, something large that couldnt have been there when he walked it in, he looks and its a dead cow slaughtered with guts hanging out so of course
having tripped over it he is now covered in its blood. needless to say he ran his fastest then, he did make it back to camp where his dad could
clearly tell he'd been running, to proud to admit to fear he wouldnt admit to feeling followed but does tell of the dead cow,
all night as they sat by the fire they'd hear an occasional twig snap just beyond the darkness in the woods, that night they slept in the open flat
bed of a pickup truck staring at the stars, in the morning they found bear tracks surrounding the truck, as the bear had clearly circled the truck
many many times, the tracks were only a foot from the truck, easily within reaching distance
there was another story about an uncle of mine who arrived many hours late to meet us to begin a camping trip, we expected him to arrive around noon
at the campsite, he didnt arrive until near midnight, and he told us he had lost time, it was an abduction story, much like one many of us have heard
before,
he was driving along the rural roads out into the woods when he saw a light in the sky that seemed to be keeping pace with him, last thing he
remembers was his truck died as if all the power had gone out of it and then suddenly he awoke many hours later in his truck parked on the side of the
road, he has no memory of what happened in between
he has always been a skeptic of ufos and aliens and still is, while he has no explanation for what happened he doesnt want to believe it was a ufo or
that it had anything to do with the oddity of his truck dying and him waking up with it parked on the side of the road hours later with no memory of
any of it.
to some people. pre concieved notions or ardent beliefs, are more important then the truth and worth defending.