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10-05-2018, 11:52 PM | Topic Starter |
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-- Scared in the wilderness - what are/is your stories/story?
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I just started what appears to be a really good movie called 'Hold the Dark' - It prompted me to ask CP - what situations, observations or any other 'tions - have you experienced away from civilization in which had you scared for you life? Animals, weather, devil worshipers? Primarily what I'm looking for is wild animal encounters. I know we have quite a few in the Pacific NW that post on here. (bears maybe?) Just wondering if anyone has any interesting stories regarding this...? I'd love to hear them... Thanks |
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10-05-2018, 11:58 PM | #2 |
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Hopefully Livesteam will see this and post his big foot camping story.
As for me, most scary nature thing was getting caught in a violent thunderstorm while on a float trip down the Current River, which turned the normally calm and clear river into a raging torrent. I was 11 or 12, and in a canoe with my cousin who is a couple of years younger. We had been farting around and lagged behind the rest of the group, so we were on our own when it hit. At one point we hit a tree that had fallen in the water and the canoe sank. My cousin nearly drowned. That was pretty intense. No animal stories. If I'm out in the woods, I'm armed. |
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10-06-2018, 12:02 AM | #3 | |
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10-06-2018, 07:37 AM | #4 | |
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4 people were life flighted out of there that day |
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10-06-2018, 08:02 AM | #5 |
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Was seeing a girl in high school who one night had me park in a wooded area on her family's farm so we could get down to business in the back seat.
About five minutes into it the back door of my car was yanked open and........ It was her brother who started yelling at her to get her ass home and for me to be on my way. Not exactly what you're looking for but scared the shit out of us. |
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10-06-2018, 12:03 AM | #6 |
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By the way this movie is on Netflix and appears to be a doozy y'all.
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10-06-2018, 12:04 AM | #7 |
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I got lost in the woods of NW Arkansas driving to KC from Louisiana one weekend.
It was really dark, the roads were super twisty and I was operating on about 3 hours sleep. I thought I was going to careen off the roads, hit a tree, have to start walking and get eaten by a bear. I've never been more happy to see a sign for I-71 than I ever have coming out of those woods. |
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10-06-2018, 02:01 PM | #8 | |
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Similar situation for me as well. I didn’t want to pull over and sleep on one of the side roads in that area because I felt like I would be murdered by a truck driver. |
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10-06-2018, 12:22 AM | #9 |
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This wasn't the woods, but definitely a middle of nowhere story. I was driving from Missouri to Norfolk back in my Navy days - back before I-64 went all the way through and, for a time, you had to take US Highway 60 through the mountains east of Charleston, WV. I was headed east on straight, flat stretch of 60 before it got hilly and nasty, about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. As I was driving, I saw a guy lying on the side of the road. Not sprawling or bloody or anything - just lying there like he was asleep. No other cars, no lights from nearby homes, no nothing. It was a moonless, pitch black night. I slowed down as I approached. The guy didn't move. I was alone, unarmed, and this was years before everybody had a cellphone. Part of me wanted to stop and check on him, and had it been light out I probably would have. But the other part said **** THAT, and the **** THAT part won. Maybe he was hurt; or maybe was lying there waiting for some idiot to stop so he could waylay him. Maybe he had some buddies waiting in the brush nearby. Didn't want to end up being the star of some midnight Deliverance scene, so I hit the gas and went on my way.
When I got to a town with an open gas station, I told the attendant what I saw and he called the local police. I continued on my way. I have no idea who the guy was, or what became of him. |
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10-06-2018, 12:41 AM | #10 | |
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That's a gnarly story - I dig it. I have one that happened on Valley View Rd and Woods Chapel in Blue Springs I'll post later on this afternoon as I'm knee deep into this flick right now. |
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10-06-2018, 12:58 AM | #11 |
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Yeah, it really does sound like the opening scene of a horror movie, doesn't it? Except I'm not a moron.
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10-06-2018, 01:16 AM | #12 |
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10-06-2018, 01:18 AM | #13 |
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10-06-2018, 01:32 AM | #14 | |
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10-06-2018, 12:31 AM | #15 |
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I've had a couple of trail races where I wasn't sure if I was lost or not. In one I knew I could just turn around, but in the other one I was all dehydrated and I was 11 or 12 miles in, felt like I was about to drop, and I didn't really know where I was. I was starting to get really bummed out since I was going to die, but eventually I found the finish line.
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