I saw a video recently talking about how generally people living in the country ignore weird noises in the woods, and it reminded me of some of the weird noises i’ve heard from the woods near my house.

i want to know your scariest stories about stuff like that because I can’t sleep anyway so I may as well have a reason. it can be real experiences or more urban legend type stories, I just can’t find enough good scary stuff because the internet sucks now.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    On a long hike, pushed the whole ‘stop and set up camp’ thing way too late, so it’s already dark as I’m starting to pitch the tent. Start feeling really uneasy like I’m being watched, so I do a quick sweep of my surroundings with my flashlight - and sure as shit two reflective eyes become visible for half a second before the critter that owns them gets spooked by light and runs off. Couldn’t see the actual animal, just the eyes, but now I’m borderline shitting myself with fear, so I get in the semi-pitched-but-fuck-it tent and lay down listening for footsteps or something.

    Never did hear footsteps, but about 20 mins later that little shit let out an incredibly loud and absolutely blood curdling scream… like, women getting actively murdered whilst screaming into a megaphone, kind of scream… right outside the tent.

    Then nothing for the remainder of the night.

    I get home and start searching the web for what the actual fuck that was: 99% sure I was being stalked by a cougar.