My Creepiest Night Hiking Experience
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Date: 2020-08-18
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Dog
YEP, Sure do have a MOON story, but in reverse. One night out on a 40-foot powerboat and about 8 to 12 miles offshore with some friends. OH YES, it was also very foggy and the location was East Coast of Florida. Further offshore was an Orange color coming through the fog. Thinking this was an Orange Lift Raft, I powered up and doing about 40 to 50-Miles per hour. I did not point the boat directly at the ORANGE RAFT but a little to the left or PORT so as not to run into the ORANGE LIFT RAFT. We all kept thinking we have to be getting closer and don't they hear us coming? We kept moving in the direction of the ORANGE RAFT and then someone calls my name and says, that is not a raft in distress, its the MOON. I powered down completely. For just a moment and we all broke out laughing. It had been a long day out on the water as I slowly powered back up and turn the bowl towards HOME PORT. Every few moments someone would break out into laughter. None of us every brought the story up in conversations again. But in my own mind, I was happy thinking no one was drifting in the Atlantic up the Gulf stream. You always learn something new out on the water. Like all the Seaweed floating in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, all come's from the Sargasso sea a patch near Africa. Thanks, Dixie, enjoyed your story and many other trail stories. Stay safe enjoy the adventure of the trails and God Bless and keep you safe always. Just me POCKET
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YEP, Sure do have a MOON story, but in reverse. One night out on a 40-foot powerboat and about 8 to 12 miles offshore with some friends. OH YES, it was also very foggy and the location was East Coast of Florida. Further offshore was an Orange color coming through the fog. Thinking this was an Orange Lift Raft, I powered up and doing about 40 to 50-Miles per hour. I did not point the boat directly at the ORANGE RAFT but a little to the left or PORT so as not to run into the ORANGE LIFT RAFT. We all kept thinking we have to be getting closer and don't they hear us coming? We kept moving in the direction of the ORANGE RAFT and then someone calls my name and says, that is not a raft in distress, its the MOON. I powered down completely. For just a moment and we all broke out laughing. It had been a long day out on the water as I slowly powered back up and turn the bowl towards HOME PORT. Every few moments someone would break out into laughter. None of us every brought the story up in conversations again. But in my own mind, I was happy thinking no one was drifting in the Atlantic up the Gulf stream. You always learn something new out on the water. Like all the Seaweed floating in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, all come's from the Sargasso sea a patch near Africa. Thanks, Dixie, enjoyed your story and many other trail stories. Stay safe enjoy the adventure of the trails and God Bless and keep you safe always. Just me POCKET
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funkyjones
Good one. Here's my scary night time travel story. It was in the summer of '89 and late at night with no moon. I was driving my VW Bus through the Arizona high country from LA to Albuquerque and was about half way there when I became so tired, it wasn't safe to continue. I had a bed in the back of the van and started looking for a place to pull over and get some sleep. I took a road off I-40 and found a trail head with a few parking spaces. I pulled in, turned off the motor and lights and it was pitch black. I was surrounded by a thick pine forest that blocked out most of the starlight. The space didn't feel comfortable and I was pretty creeped out but decided to crawl in the back of the van and go to sleep anyway. A few hours later I woke up, still in complete darkness. I moved my left hand from my belly where it was laying up to my shoulder and was horrified when I felt another hand wrapped around the back of my neck! I gasped and thought, This is it. Someone got inside my van and they're gonna kill me! I jumped up in consternation and lo and behold there was no one there! The hand I felt was MY right hand! I had fallen asleep with it behind my neck and so had my right hand from sleeping on my wrist! There was no feeling in it so when I touched it, it felt like someone else's hand! I've never felt so much utter terror but after I realized what happened, I also never felt so much relief.
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Good one. Here's my scary night time travel story. It was in the summer of '89 and late at night with no moon. I was driving my VW Bus through the Arizona high country from LA to Albuquerque and was about half way there when I became so tired, it wasn't safe to continue. I had a bed in the back of the van and started looking for a place to pull over and get some sleep. I took a road off I-40 and found a trail head with a few parking spaces. I pulled in, turned off the motor and lights and it was pitch black. I was surrounded by a thick pine forest that blocked out most of the starlight. The space didn't feel comfortable and I was pretty creeped out but decided to crawl in the back of the van and go to sleep anyway. A few hours later I woke up, still in complete darkness. I moved my left hand from my belly where it was laying up to my shoulder and was horrified when I felt another hand wrapped around the back of my neck! I gasped and thought, This is it. Someone got inside my van and they're gonna kill me! I jumped up in consternation and lo and behold there was no one there! The hand I felt was MY right hand! I had fallen asleep with it behind my neck and so had my right hand from sleeping on my wrist! There was no feeling in it so when I touched it, it felt like someone else's hand! I've never felt so much utter terror but after I realized what happened, I also never felt so much relief.
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Joseph
I had a terrible hike in the night I was walking and going to the gadding dam in todmorden and I was walking off the trail because I love going off the trail and I was about 20 minutes away and the ground got a bit wet under foot and I started to head back to the trail and I fell into a waist deep in what I thought was water and mud and then I got out and looked at my legs I was wearing short and my legs looked like they was covered in blood and smelt like blood and I checked all my legs to see if I cut myself and I was fine then I went off to set up camp and switched my tent light on and it was a deep red and was absolutely gross it and a thick ish consistency and I cleaned up and at sun rise I went back to where I fell and I found a dead cow with all its guts and all that and it was gross and I ended up throwing up
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I had a terrible hike in the night I was walking and going to the gadding dam in todmorden and I was walking off the trail because I love going off the trail and I was about 20 minutes away and the ground got a bit wet under foot and I started to head back to the trail and I fell into a waist deep in what I thought was water and mud and then I got out and looked at my legs I was wearing short and my legs looked like they was covered in blood and smelt like blood and I checked all my legs to see if I cut myself and I was fine then I went off to set up camp and switched my tent light on and it was a deep red and was absolutely gross it and a thick ish consistency and I cleaned up and at sun rise I went back to where I fell and I found a dead cow with all its guts and all that and it was gross and I ended up throwing up
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Grant
Haha, I was hiking in Upper Peninsula Michigan at night and the trail I was on went through an old ghost town and down one side of a cemetery. Day or night, cemeteries don't bother me but on this night it was a clear night and the moon was full. As I hiked by the entrance of the cemetery two cats decided to have a full blown scrap, it was the most horrendous noise I have ever heard. Pretty sure I covered the next three miles in under a minute and a half. I got to my campsite and started setting up and thought to myself what a chickenshi and started laughing my ass off. Heres this guy that spent twenty-five years in the military, and stomped around the middle east where everyone wanted to kill you and you let a couple of cats getting it on scare the hell out of you.
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Haha, I was hiking in Upper Peninsula Michigan at night and the trail I was on went through an old ghost town and down one side of a cemetery. Day or night, cemeteries don't bother me but on this night it was a clear night and the moon was full. As I hiked by the entrance of the cemetery two cats decided to have a full blown scrap, it was the most horrendous noise I have ever heard. Pretty sure I covered the next three miles in under a minute and a half. I got to my campsite and started setting up and thought to myself what a chickenshi and started laughing my ass off. Heres this guy that spent twenty-five years in the military, and stomped around the middle east where everyone wanted to kill you and you let a couple of cats getting it on scare the hell out of you.
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Frosty
Smoking weed walking in the woods at night is not a good idea specially if you are by yourself walking a really dark path the only light I had was the moon but it wasn't very bright in a short distance I hear a large crash and some footsteps I assumed it was a bear I picked up my pass I hear a few more crashes I suddenly get goosebumps all over my body my imagination decides to play along paranoia from the smoking enhances because of my environment plus little light the go on and the sounds, my mind suddenly mimic's the Jason Voorhees song from Friday the 13th the goosebumps I was already feeling got worse and my heart started pounding in my chest I was gone Jason ain't getting me I spoke out loud, I haven't smoked weed in the dark backwoods sense.
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Smoking weed walking in the woods at night is not a good idea specially if you are by yourself walking a really dark path the only light I had was the moon but it wasn't very bright in a short distance I hear a large crash and some footsteps I assumed it was a bear I picked up my pass I hear a few more crashes I suddenly get goosebumps all over my body my imagination decides to play along paranoia from the smoking enhances because of my environment plus little light the go on and the sounds, my mind suddenly mimic's the Jason Voorhees song from Friday the 13th the goosebumps I was already feeling got worse and my heart started pounding in my chest I was gone Jason ain't getting me I spoke out loud, I haven't smoked weed in the dark backwoods sense.
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Gustaw
I was jogging in the woods near my house in the winter early gloom. The street lanterns in a distance kept my eyes form adjusting to darkens and there was some evening mist in the air so my sight was a little of. I went form a clearing around the lake into the woods when I saw a man coming from opposite. He head a old stroller. At first I foot it is a father on a late walk with a child, but it was a little late for that. So I foot it's a pauper with a cart fool of some trash, he carried with him. But when I approached him he actually got a child out of the stroller and hug it. And then I saw that it was a doll wit one eye out.
I broke my live record on 1 km that day by far.
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I was jogging in the woods near my house in the winter early gloom. The street lanterns in a distance kept my eyes form adjusting to darkens and there was some evening mist in the air so my sight was a little of. I went form a clearing around the lake into the woods when I saw a man coming from opposite. He head a old stroller. At first I foot it is a father on a late walk with a child, but it was a little late for that. So I foot it's a pauper with a cart fool of some trash, he carried with him. But when I approached him he actually got a child out of the stroller and hug it. And then I saw that it was a doll wit one eye out.
I broke my live record on 1 km that day by far.
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william
LOL I can understand that. As a child camping I got up to pee, and when I turned to go back to my sleeping bag there were these 2 green eyes staring right at me. I froze. The eyes still remained watching me and they seemed to move. It was my standing frozen that was really moving. In a time I managed the courage to run past these eyes and hid in y sleeping bag,
Next morning I went back to that place and saw 2 green limbs and while I didn't understand phosphorescence that's what it was.
As an adult in the White Mts of NH what gets me most is hearing female voices at a distance. This is a little breeze moving trees enough to rub one another, but it gets to me anyway.
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LOL I can understand that. As a child camping I got up to pee, and when I turned to go back to my sleeping bag there were these 2 green eyes staring right at me. I froze. The eyes still remained watching me and they seemed to move. It was my standing frozen that was really moving. In a time I managed the courage to run past these eyes and hid in y sleeping bag,
Next morning I went back to that place and saw 2 green limbs and while I didn't understand phosphorescence that's what it was.
As an adult in the White Mts of NH what gets me most is hearing female voices at a distance. This is a little breeze moving trees enough to rub one another, but it gets to me anyway.
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David
Oh man. I had a similar experience while I was out on a walk on a trail at night last year. I had been hiking for about a mile, listening to an audiobook. I had a headlamp on to see the trail. I slowed down and turned off my headlamp so I could see the night sky, and looked behind me to see back down the trail.
I saw something dark coming right up towards me, and I spun around and turned my lamp back on. It turned out, it was my own shadow in the moonlight, and my eyes had perceived movement as they were getting used to the headlamp being off. I was totally laughing at myself, even as the adrenaline was still rushing.
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Oh man. I had a similar experience while I was out on a walk on a trail at night last year. I had been hiking for about a mile, listening to an audiobook. I had a headlamp on to see the trail. I slowed down and turned off my headlamp so I could see the night sky, and looked behind me to see back down the trail.
I saw something dark coming right up towards me, and I spun around and turned my lamp back on. It turned out, it was my own shadow in the moonlight, and my eyes had perceived movement as they were getting used to the headlamp being off. I was totally laughing at myself, even as the adrenaline was still rushing.
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Appalachian
As a young man, a buddy and I were hiking down a mountain at night by moonlight. We came to a small clearing, and the clouds immediately covered the moon. I heard my friend yell stop, so I did. He flicked his lighter, and I saw he had walked off into treetops and fell about 20 ft down the mountain. I was standing on the cliff when he stopped me. Although he came out good with very little scratches and bruises, it did take us about an hour of flicking our lighters to get back to one another. We made our way to the car in total darkness. Once we got to the car. The moon came back out. Great video!
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As a young man, a buddy and I were hiking down a mountain at night by moonlight. We came to a small clearing, and the clouds immediately covered the moon. I heard my friend yell stop, so I did. He flicked his lighter, and I saw he had walked off into treetops and fell about 20 ft down the mountain. I was standing on the cliff when he stopped me. Although he came out good with very little scratches and bruises, it did take us about an hour of flicking our lighters to get back to one another. We made our way to the car in total darkness. Once we got to the car. The moon came back out. Great video!
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