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Scariest Camping Experiences

Title says it all. If you have a camping experience that was scary in any way, shape, or form, post it here. Myself, I have three I would like to share. Zombie [spoiler]I was on an amazon hiking trip I. The mountains, and after and exhausting day, we set up camp. The camp area was relatively popular, since there were designated camp sites an everything. Right before I fell asleep, there was a blood-curdling scream, to which some others responded: 'Was that one of ours?' 'Nope' That night, I woke up because I needed to take a piss. I got out of my tent, but something seemed off. When I climbed back into my sleeping bag, I couldn't sleep, so I listened to the silence of the forest. Only, it wasn't silent. I began hearing noises, growling. I thought it was a bear, and I was terrified as I sat there, thinking it was coming closer. Eventually, it sounded like it was right outside my tent. Then, I heard something that set my hairs on end. A guttural human moan filled my ears, and my mind immediately went back to the scream. In my terror, I logically assumed there was a zombie outside my tent. I sat there, unmoving, for an eternity. Finally, I shifted, and nudged my tent mate awake. I asked him what he thought he heard, and he responded: 'It's just people snoring.' I sat and listened. Surely enough, I could pick out the individual snores of people around me that formed such a horrible sound. I felt pretty ridiculous after that. [/spoiler] It's too damn dark [spoiler]On a different hiking trip, I had one of the most terrifying experiences in a long time. After setting up camp and having a great dinner, we went to sleep under a very cloudy sky. My luck would have it that I would need to go to the bathroom that night. I woke up, and the first thing I noticed was the silence. It was completely quiet, even with my tent mate snoring next to me. The air even hung heavy with silence. Next, I noticed the darkness. I waited for my eyes to adjust, but they never did, and I eventually used my flashlight. It cut trough the darkness like a hot knife through butter. When I got out of the tent, it was worse. I could feel the amount of space around me in the forest, but it was completely silent. Nothing moved. The wind did not blow. The silence was suffocating. Not only that, but I was blind everywhere except where I pointed my light. I then poked my way through the dark, pissed, and got back as quickly as possible.[/spoiler] My Brother Almost Died [spoiler]I wasn't there for it myself, but my brother told me this story after the fact. We were at Havasupi, and we had hiked down to moony falls, and were walking along the river. Needless to say, there was a lot of cool formations cut out by the river, but at one point I was walking , and someone pointed to a little blue spot in the water and said 'don't step there' As it turns out, my brother had been walking along and had stepped in that very spot. He said there was a strong suction, and he was pulled under the water. He didn't know where he was for a second, and he said he hit some stuff underwater. He was running out of breath, but finally he came up from under the falls. Nobody had even noticed that he went under. He could have drowned down there.[/spoiler]

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  • When I was 12, my dad and I went camping by ourselves just a few weeks before the upcoming school year started. We go camping at a place that's about 15 miles away from the coast so its always fresh there. The first night there, my dad and I were sitting by the campfire. All of a sudden we hear this really loud roaring sound coming from somewhere. It wasn't a jet because a jet's sound would go away after a few seconds. This roaring sound kept going on and on. It wasn't an animal because no animal's roar is that loud unless it was Godzilla and this roar sound could easily be heard for miles. We couldn't tell if it was coming from the mountains, the sky, or anywhere else for that matter. We listened to the radio to see if anything bad was happening but there was nothing. Eventually the sound went away and we went to sleep. Late that night like at around 2am or 3am(can't really remember), the sound came back and it sounded even more creepy because there was no other sound coming from outside other than that noise. I couldn't go back to sleep and my dad apparently didn't hear the sound because he was knocked out. I got my PSP, plugged in my earphones, and played that until the sun came up. The years went by and my family has gone back to that campsite multiple times. I haven't heard that roaring sound ever since that time I went camping with my dad. Still never found out what it was.

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