Eeriest Things People Have Seen On Hikes

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May 1, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

There's something innately humbling about being out alone in the wilderness. You're forced to confront the elements and other facets of wildlife in such a way that you're always kind of on your toes. Sometimes, when you're out on those hikes you even end up encountering something that escapes all logic as you know it. These people certainly had some wild run-ins. 

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    Font - mostlygray · 7d The walking things that follow you. Almost every day, my friend and I used to walk in the woods by his place. When walking, we'd hear the sound of footsteps along side us, behind us, ahead of us, all around. It sounded like people walking in the woods. If we stopped walking, the sound of steps would stop. If one of us walked and the other stood still, there was no sound of footsteps. We had to both walk. This went on for years. We'd stand still and look everywhere and see
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    Font - Moose_on_a_walk • 7d More of a recurring experience; hearing sounds near my tent in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. My experience and knowledge of the area might tell me that it's an animal, but my ears might be 100% convinced that it's the footsteps of another man walking up to my tent. It's like having a bad trip on drugs. Takes some mental gymnastics to get through. Definitely my least favourite part about solo hiking. G Reply 4 411 3
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    Font - zerothepyro · 7d My brother, a friend of ours, and I were hiking in the woods. Quite deep in and about an hour from any roads and even more so from any buildings. Came across a house that looked like a tornado had hit it. Beams and drywall everywhere. Even found a toaster. No roads or trails to this house, but it looked like newer construction. We explored for a but then headed back out. Seemed pretty straight forwards to backtrack to it later on to explore some more, but we have not been
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    Font - JanuslsBlue • 7d Oh boy I have one. Okay so me and my family were hiking along a trail during our camping trip and promptly got lost. In our attempt to get back to the road we stumbled upon a really weird place, with stick walls, a tarp tent, a deer carcass in a fire pit, a large "DO NOT ENTER" sign, and a bunch of other creepy things. We found it odd, but left and went back to the campsite. When we told the family we were staying with, they got really quiet and asked "but he didn't see y
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    Font - xj371 • 7d Fresh, deep claw marks on a tree trunk. It was in Northern California, so we assumed it was a mountain lion. We were about 1.5 hours from the trailhead, heading back. There were three of us (two guys, one girl), so enough to be intimidating, but for me that still didn't erase that gut feeling of knowing I wasn't the predator in the situation. 6 Reply 177 3 ...
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    Font - ratrancid • 7d Was in the desert camping, and took a hike as it was getting dark. Got quite a ways out and turned on my UV light to see if I could find any scorpions. Turns out they found me because, by the time I turned my light on, there had to have been 10 within five meters of me. Noped out of there real fast while almost pissing my pants. 6 Reply 4 265 3 ...
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    Font - Xiaocheng1984 • 7d Weird woods in upstate NY, infamous. No cars in parking lot. Deep in trails, encounter an old man who stops me to chat. No big deal. He asks me if Il'm Celtic, huh? No man I don't think so. He says too bad these woods are watching you and they they'd like you better.. How'd he get out there I was thinking on the drive home? The rest of the hike I was thinking what a weird thing to say. Now I think wtf. G Reply 4 218 3 ...
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    Font - trey_stylez69420 · 7d Oh god, this brings back an interesting one. was on a fun woodland walk with my son (he was about 4 years old at the time) and a close friend of mine. Taking photos, exploring nature, beautiful Summer day. In the middle of the woods my son found a small pile of old photographs -- polaroid style. It was a collection of them, a mix of family, friends, travel, etc. but nearly all had the same man present in them. A few were labeled -- Seattle, 1981. We found these photo
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    Organism - Questionable-Duck4 · 7d I was once camping, and in the middle of the night I had to got to the restroom. While I was going I heard distinctive steps. I was with a big group so I didn't think much about it at first, but I did a full loop around the tent and nobody was there or in eyesight. G Reply 4 39 3
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