Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Listening Point - General Discussion :: Creepy man creepy.
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Zwater |
WhiteWolf: "Pinetree: "Zwater: "A buddy and I stayed at the northern most campsite on Angleworm about 10 years ago. Can you please tell us more? I am very intrigued!! |
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lindylair |
Anyways we grabbed them and the guy I was with cleaned them up a little and wouldn't you know, they fit him pretty well. So here they are and the story, although still a mystery, had a simple enough ending. But for a minute there when I first spotted those boots buried under the deadfall with toes pointed upwards... |
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Pinetree |
Once or twice camping in the middle of nowhere I jumped up from sleeping and swear I heard voices. My brother said the same. Go outside with flashlight,nothing. Chalk it up to whatever? Were both just hearing weird sounds. BUT THAT IS SPINE CHILLING. SPOOKY. When a person first starts soloing it takes a little time to get use to sleeping alone in the wilderness. But you get use to it fast. Also to me,having the little veil of a tent to crawl in can act as a security blanket. Never liked sleeping in the open. Yes fast forward and decades of soling I got use to it. Almost. I know others talk about footsteps in the night etc.. The night does bring out the imagination or well maybe? |
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minnmike |
They burn each others territory. OMG, this kills me. LOL! OMG. What a great thread. I occasionally get the willies, but its fleeting, as reason and rational thinking return, but not in the Bdub. I have developed pic's taken after dark at camp sites with big eyes lit up in the background. One was at the east sight of big island on SAK. I think it's pretty cool to see that animals are keep an eye on us. Going on my first solo in 3 weeks. Can't wait to think of this thread when I do. I did go to the BW a few times with a group of friends and one of them refused to use the crapper or go into the woods after dark without someone going with him. He carried a huge knife with him all the time after dark. He had a very active imagination I guess. Nothing to fear but fear itself |
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HikingStick |
quote Amok: "quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" If I saw that, I'd start looking around for Les Stroud. |
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BWPaddler |
quote greenydd: "i think we are watched by animals a LOT more than we think...." Yep. We're usually oblivious. |
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BWPaddler |
quote PWAXON: "I think this may be my earliest memory, scared the crap out of me. I must have been 5 or 6 and my brother was 5 years older. We where staying at some cabin with our family north of Duluth. My brother and I where out goofing off down the road on my brothers bike. About a half-mile or so down the We run into this old guy holding a shotgun with a couple dogs barking like mad. He stops us to tell us that we need to get back home right away because last night he had shot a bear that was going after his dogs and that he had only wounded it and it kept coming after his dogs all that night and he was sure it was still out there. He then explained how dangerous a wounded bear was. Now take in account I am 5 and have never really been out of Minneapolis and some crazy looking guy with a gun that looks straight out of a Scooby Doo episode tells us to run, we run!. Did you ever get even with your brother for leaving you? |
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WhiteWolf |
Pinetree: "Zwater: "A buddy and I stayed at the northern most campsite on Angleworm about 10 years ago. +2. I have done some "minor" research on this topic of "Creepy" in the BWCAW. Many agree on the Home Lake area giving them the creeps as is Big Moose, island site on Tuscarora, but the later two not as frequent. The Fishdance deal on the cliffs with pictos is also a common occurrence for the "creeps" that many report. Are people mad- more crazy/ spooked in these areas compared to areas nearly the same all over the BWCA>? Are they just false claims? I tend to side with the former and have my reasons for them but likely a little too "off topics" for this thread and this site... |
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HikingStick |
quote Mort: "Feels to me like there is a foreboding presence in the area around the Fishdance pictographs. Palpable." I would not say "creepy", but definately a place where you can experience the awe of the ages, or that sense of the otherworldly that C.S. Lewise referred to as "numinous". The place makes you feel small, and then, as you realize how long ago those pictographs were made, you get the sense that your own life is like a fleeting vapor that dissipates as the sub rises. I both love and fear places like that. |
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Savage Voyageur |
One was Rat Lake, tiny lake on the border. As we paddled it felt like we were not making any headway. Like the lake was holding us back, or an anchor was dragging. Then in camp it felt like someone was watching us. We found an old bear skull in the woods and placed it on a tree in camp. This added to the spookiness. The other was Ashgon Lake. During a thunderstorm in the middle of the night something rubbed my hammock. I was up about two feet above the ground. So it wasn’t a Moose because of the tarp. So it was a bear, lynx or other critter. But no tracks were found in the morning, very strange. Could have been that little hairy guy I’ve heard of. :) |
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Pinetree |
WhiteWolf: "Pinetree: "Zwater: "A buddy and I stayed at the northern most campsite on Angleworm about 10 years ago. Numerous people have said Fishdance-Adams lake area is like there is something is in the air or watching you as you paddle. |
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Jeriatric |
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greenydd |
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Amok |
But outside? nope. I don't feel like animals are watching me --should I? |
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Boatin |
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Clone |
quote Boatin: "Was staying at a island cabin on Lake Vermillion a few years ago where they had an outdoor shower. When using the shower, I noticed the two wolf/dog hybrids from the neighbors were standing there watching me (buck naked) about 10 feet away. These animals look exactly like wolves and acted almost as wild. Anyway, does anyone remember the old cartoons where the subject's image changed to look like butcher's cuts? Ham, flank, roast, ribs etc. You got it. I felt like they were sizing me up for dinner. Needless to say, I had a very quick shower." They sure is funny lookin within their skins off.... |
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Unas10 |
quote greenydd: "so..............do you think animals are watching us and thats what we are sensing???" Be afraid, be very afraid. |
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1bogfrog |
Emerging onto Long Island, the spell was broken, the wind returned and we made it to camp in time to set up by head lamp. My husband really wants to go back to poke around Lower George again sometime, I...less so. |
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Portage99 |
greenydd: "so..............do you think animals are watching us and thats what we are sensing???" I think this makes the most sense. I have only experienced it a few times. One time, it kind of came out of nowhere and was so *powerful* I had to immediately turn around to see who was there (no one of course). I was alone in the forest, working on my mountain bike chain. I was totally into it, and not even thinking of anything scary. All of a sudden I had a sensation that something was coming closer to me and moving in. That is probably the weirdest sensation I have had. I am assuming that feeling was because some animal was watching me-maybe not even a big one, but something watching me. For about a year, I had the creeps in those woods. I kept forcing myself to walk alone there, and eventually it went away. Took awhile though!! I still run past that spot. Ha ha. Such a loser, me. I have to admit, I have wondered if something bad happened in that spot or a ghost or something, but probably just an animal. I just thought of another one! ha. My BFF and I were hiking at Starved Rock. We were walking to a canyon, laughing, etc. At the same time, we both got totally spooked and started running back to the car. We can't explain it. We both just felt a sense of impending doom! Weird. |
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cowdoc |
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WhiteWolf |
Zwater: "WhiteWolf: "Pinetree: "Zwater: "A buddy and I stayed at the northern most campsite on Angleworm about 10 years ago. Limited time right now but do a search on "Haunted Places in the BWCA" on the above search engine -- or just click on this link. |
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Pinetree |
There is a few camp sites when soloing I just won't camp at. It seems like someone is lurking in that their woods. |
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mjmkjun |
Site 1004 on Perent Lake. Creepy. The kind of campsite where you'd be talking to a buddy--look into the fire for a moment--and when you look back your buddy is gone. Vanished. Snatched by Bigfoot? Undergrowth is up close and gives a 'closed-in' feel. I was almost finished setting up camp when that creepy feeling struck me. Took me all of 3 minutes to repack and move on to another site. No spookiness followed me to the other site or since that one incident in 2008. I tell ya, it wasn't a wimpy figment of my imagination. |
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AndySG |
quote greenydd: "so..............do you think animals are watching us and thats what we are sensing???" When in the woods I'm always thinking the animals are watching me. Its not a spooky feeling. I often stand still and listen a few minutes for any sound hoping to spot them. |
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Pinetree |
mjmkjun: "wow. this old post resurfaces. some of the posters are gone (RIP). kinda weird in a nostalgic kind of way. I know, its weird,it is like something is lurking in some sites,your body just gets a funny feeling. |
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Unas10 |
My wife also had an incident when she was on a trip to Haiti. She felt that "chill" as her group was passing a nondescript house in a residential area. She asked her guide/interpreter about it and he said that was the house of the local voodoo Houngan(male priest). |
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BWPaddler |
quote Ho Ho: "It's probably some reaction deep in the reptilian part of the brain." Agree, and I bet there's a reason for it. quote Ho Ho: "Then there was the Lapp hut, very desolate but obviously still in some use, on our backpacking trip across the tundra in northern Sweden, where we did not see another soul for six days (but did see a lot of reindeer that probably belonged to that crazy Lapplander who owned the hut) . . . ." Reminded me of finding a blood trail and a dead sheep near a deserted shed high in the Norwegian mountains. Not a soul in the area, and if it was killed by another animal, wouldn't it have eaten it? Very odd and spooky. |
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nojobro |
One college summer I had to get up really early to drive into work (4am), and I parked at the end of a dead end street in small-town Iowa facing a corn field. It gave me the willies every morning when I'd have to turn on my headlights. Always afraid what would be there, waiting for me just inside the corn. Dang, I'm getting the willies just thinking about it. ;-) Never saw anything, of course....other than the corn. |
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Unas10 |
quote nojobro: "Never saw anything, of course....other than the corn." ...other than the corn? |
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ozarkpaddler |
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Minnesotian |
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gutmon |
quote Mort: "Feels to me like there is a foreboding presence in the area around the Fishdance pictographs. Palpable." I agree. |
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RT |
Except one time. After I got out of the USCG I decided to go on a week long hike of the Superior Trail starting at Tettegouche State Park. I made it over Mt. Trudee and stopped at the first site to the South (about 5 miles from my car) to camp for the night. I woke up the next morning, kind of late, about 9am or just before and noticed it was quiet; too quiet. There were no birds chirping, no airplanes flying overhead... it was really really eerie. After a quick breakfast I decided that something was very wrong and I proceded back to my car; cutting short my 7 day trip by 6 days. I got back to the Tettegouche park office just before 1030, just in time for me to watch Tower 2 of the WTC collapse. I remember being uber creeped out. While I do not believe in "premonitions" this even has been burned into my mind. Of course, I am sure it is the same for those who were alive when JFK and MLK Jr were shot. It is just one of those tragidies that burns into your memory. |
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wetcanoedog |
what may be a creepy moss filled Cedar stand to you could be a happy woodland wonder to the next person.he maintains that this other self is real and in the Western world it's thought of as a guardian angel,in China they call it the sympathy between heaven and human. so in short,don't worry it's just you--- |
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Boppa |
Thanks for a great explanation. Boppa |
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Amok |
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missmolly |
Now, here's the creepy part. I read an account of a guy who paddled the river and a storm forced him to camp at Devil's Island and the next morning, a man and a boy waved at him too. I wouldn't have remembered a man and a boy who waved at me, but something was off about them and it was the same for the other paddler. |
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gutmon |
just like I am yours. |
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greenydd |
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PINETREE |
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oldgentleman |
I can see pretty well but can't hear worth a nickel, so when it gets DARK and I can't see I have to imagine the sounds I can't hear. That's scary. I think WCDs got the answer. |
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PWAXON |
Now my brother has the only bike and instead of waiting for me to get back on the back he takes off down the road leaving me to get eaten. I go chasing after him trying to catch up crying for him to wait up. I think I ran the fastest I ever had that morning because some how I did keep up. So we make it back to warn our parents of the crazy bear in the woods in they barely acknowledge us and tell us to go play. I think they thought we mad it up. We did not go back down the road the rest of the weekend and never saw the guy again. To this day we wonder if there was really a bear of if that old guy was just training his dogs and though it would be funny to mess with some kids. |
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Savage Voyageur |
quote PWAXON: "I think this may be my earliest memory, scared the crap out of me. I must have been 5 or 6 and my brother was 5 years older. We where staying at some cabin with our family north of Duluth. My brother and I where out goofing off down the road on my brothers bike. About a half-mile or so down the We run into this old guy holding a shotgun with a couple dogs barking like mad. He stops us to tell us that we need to get back home right away because last night he had shot a bear that was going after his dogs and that he had only wounded it and it kept coming after his dogs all that night and he was sure it was still out there. He then explained how dangerous a wounded bear was. Now take in account I am 5 and have never really been out of Minneapolis and some crazy looking guy with a gun that looks straight out of a Scooby Doo episode tells us to run, we run!. That was so funny. Reminds me of the saying if a bear is chasing you you don't need to outrun a bear, just outrun your brother. |
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The Great Outdoors |
quote HikingStick: "quote Amok: "quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" If this "structure" was about 3-4 feet tall, or so, it may have been an old trapping set for a Fisher. It's a weather proof set, snow or rain doesn't bother it. The trapper will hang a beaver carcass in it, then put several traps on the ground and block the entrance with a few balsam boughs. The Fisher smells the scent of the bait, and bails in through the side and gets caught. |
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Kevlar |
I have been a bit creeped out walking to my deer stand alone in the dark, but nothing like that campsite. I also had that "watched" feeling on a portage going north from Bald Eagle...I could even point to where I felt the watcher was. The kids said they had heard a wolf howl. I do believe in 6th sense type things. I can't tell you how many times deer hunting I have had a voice in my head say "Look behind" and there was a deer. I hadn't consciously heard anything. |
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The Great Outdoors |
It is possible for one to be that large. It may have been an emergency shelter, but judging by it's crude construction, I'm still leaning towards an old Fisher set. |
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Amok |
quote The Great Outdoors: "quote HikingStick: "quote Amok: "quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" It was as tall or taller than I am (5'6" --let the short jokes begin) so I doubt it was a trap of some sort... the opening was about 3' tall ... unless something was trying to lure me in .... |
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Chlorin8ed |
Couple years later, on Kawishiwi River: We were around the camp fire and out of no where this loud and blood curdling scream came from across the small bay from us. It went on for several minutes. Took us while to get to sleep that nigth. We often wondered what it was, but I think I figured it out from previous post on here. It must have been a Lynx! Sounded very much like this: But WAY louder in dead silence ;-) Lynx talking |
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Pinetree |
cowdoc: "NW Bay of Fauquier. There is a campsite there, but it hadn't been used in years. We had to drag a dead tree out of camp. It's a creepy little site with thick woods tucked up tight behind it....i hate those. Good part was the wind was blowing in and you caught a bass on every cast." Been to that lake once and the whole lake give me the creeps. It would rank right up there. The shoreline etc. was just so, and no way on one of my first solo's was I going to camp there. It looked like something was lurking in those their woods. From the swampy portage in there etc. Went back to Louise lake. Lot more friendly looking. |
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Jeriatric |
I was with 3 other kids which included my brother. We were headed to Philip's Meadow where we would spend the night in a crowded pup tent. We had walked from our homes in Lewiston, California with the intent of shooting a new (actually, very used because it was of British WWII vintage) rifle that belonged to one of the other kids. We ran out of light at about the halfway point and pitched the tent right on the caterpillar trail we were following. We built no fire, just laid in the tent and tried to sleep. We were awakened at about 2:30 am by the sound of a loud crashing noise. The crashing was continuous and was rapidly approaching the tent. We spilled out of the tent with the one flashlight we had just in time to see a basketball-sized rock roll to a stop about one step from the entrance to the tent. The crashing noise had come from the rock bouncing through that thick layer of dry sticks and branches. One of us was older, 17 or 18. He fired the .303 jungle carbine up the slope from which the rock had come. My brother, to whom I hadn't spoken to about the matter until last year, tells me we contributed a few rounds from our .22, something I hadn't remembered. We did not sleep the rest of the night. The next morning, we hiked up the hill to investigate. There were no rocks up above the tent, all the way to the ridge. No rocks and no hole to indicate where one might have been pried. I cannot remember if we kids had continued on the Philip's meadow after our scare. Most likely, we retreated home. So, 57 years ago, a creepy event occurred in a spooky place. The state of uneasiness that I had previously experienced when in the area must have been my primal self trying to tell me something. Coincidentally, the event that resulted in the name "Bigfoot" being assigned to an upright creature had occurred just two years earlier, not far away. The notorious Patterson film was still six years in the future. I never visited that spot again. My mother developed leukemia and we kids gave up hunting and fishing while she was dying. Shortly after her death we moved away from Lewiston. My experience leaves me agnostic on the subject of "Bigfoot." Without the experience, I would be a skeptic. When the hair on the back of your neck stands up, pay attention. |
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Phil/TX |
I turned and there was a Wolf about 20 feet away looking at me blocking the trail back to the portage. He did not want to move. I had to take a different trail to the portage out of there. So perhaps many times there is something looking at you/ watching you . |
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Arkansas Man |
Although I will say there are places where I have had the premonition that something was watching me, not in the BWCA, but rather hunting in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Wife and I were visiting a cave one time and by accident rather than taking a picture of part of the cave, I took video with my phone. When I got home and looked at it... I was utterly dumbfounded by the unexplainable audio that was on the video... while there we heard no sounds, but there was some crazy noise on the video. Bruce |
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Minnesotian |
The first site I ever encountered on the Superior Hiking Trail was a small, spruce wooded area. The clearing was only about 20 feet in diameter and then the ring of deeply shadowed, light-sucking trees hugged the clearing. It would have gotten dark quickly at that site. I passed it by, hoping that all the sites weren't like that. |
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Pinetree |
Sometimes small river spruce setting campsites do that to me. Areas you canoe thru like something funny or a strange feeling in the air? Eyes a watching you? |
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missmolly |
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awbrown |
quote Rob Johnson: "The only site I've moved on from due to a "creepy" feeling was somewhere in the Man Chain. Can't remember where exactly but there was a site that had some man-made wooden structures that didn't seem quite right. " Old silver mining camp. |
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AndySG |
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RetiredDave |
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Grandma L |
quote AndySG: "Only those accessible by motor boats full of drunken Creeps shooting guns and threatening to rape and/or kill campers. +1 |
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Pinetree |
Very interesting,did the light go away before you went back into the tent. It is something you will always wonder about? |
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OneMatch |
quote Mort: "Feels to me like there is a foreboding presence in the area around the Fishdance pictographs. Palpable." me, too. Except I don't feel the presence is "foreboding". Almost as if someone is watching over the pictos as a protector but when they are observed with respect, no problem. |
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mc2mens |
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Pinetree |
quote OneMatch: "quote Mort: "Feels to me like there is a foreboding presence in the area around the Fishdance pictographs. Palpable." Heard that many times from others. |
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Pinetree |
quote AndySG: "Its all in your head. If you ever have proof of someone harmed by a Spook, please let us know. The unfounded fears of some people ain't worth talking about. Maybe time on the couch is needed." Yes, probably but human nature throughout times people have gotten uneasy feelings about there surroundings and also lighten up a little the whole topic was brought forward to have a little fun amusing talk. Some people including myself like to talk about this subject on a half serious and half light hearted talk and fun conversation. Yes there is many things in nature I don't understand. If I was afraid I wouldn't solo camp in the BWCA or Grizzly country. But the unknown of campsites in griz country can be very spooky and I won't camp anywhere. |
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LindenTree3 |
I look a lot of sites over now and pass them up because they do not have good sight lines, or look just too much like Grizzly Country. However one time my wife and were camping in the Prior Mtn's of Montana. I got out of my tent to take a Pee and saw a suspended light dancing around the tent around 3-4 feet high. I looked at it for quite some time (Probably a couple minutes) then went back to the tent. I did not mention it to my wife since I figured she would think I was nuts. A couple days later while continuing on our camping trip the subject got mentioned. It turns out that she saw the same lights that night on one of her pee breaks, and didn't mention it to me because she thought I would think she was crazy. I knew the story of the Little People of the Prior Mtn's and how the Crow tribe would not camp in those mountains because of the spiritual amazingly strong dwarfs. It was and is still really weird. Little People of the Prior Mountians |
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1bogfrog |
I learned several years later that my brother had stayed at that sight when he had soloed out for a couple of nights when he was guiding for an outfitter up there and felt essentially the same thing. He said that since he was the only one on the lake (as we had been), he spent most of his first night sitting up playing his harmonica (which would be enough to drive off anything). The second night, he recalled that I had once told him about leaving an offering for the maymaygwayshi. Said he put out some trail mix for them at the edge of camp and slept soundly all night. In my rational moments, I attribute the strangeness of this site to the fact that it is on a seldom traveled lake on a dead end route. The site lines through the camp were unusual and a little disconcerting, and the wind was high. In my less rational moments, I too am not above leaving a little offering for the resident spirits if it buys me some rest. |
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LindenTree3 |
quote Pinetree: " LindenTree3 The light was still dancing around when I went to bed, always about 25 feet away from me. We had just lost our Yellow Lab that day in doggie day care, so we were drinking that evening and I attributed my sighting to booze. Until my wife said she saw the same thing. I used to work for the BLM Firefighting in that area, previous to our camping trip, on that same district. We firefighters sometimes shared stories about the little people in the Prior Mtn,s and the natives spiritual reference. |
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LindenTree3 |
quote Pinetree: " LindenTree3 The light was still dancing around when I went to bed, always about 25 feet away from me. We had just lost our Yellow Lab that day in doggie day care, so we were drinking that evening and I attributed my sighting to booze. Until my wife said she saw the same thing. I used to work for the BLM Firefighting in that area, previous to our camping trip, on that same district. We firefighters sometimes shared stories about the little people in the Prior Mtn,s and the natives spiritual reference. |
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missmolly |
quote LindenTree3: "quote Pinetree: " LindenTree3 Spend enough time away from the insulation of walls and routine and you'll see things you can't explain. |
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missmolly |
quote mastertangler: "On my last trip I had a super vicious mega storm go through. One side of my vestibule was left open and eventually all the lightening got the best of me and I started half expecting to see a big bear face illuminated by the flashes staring in at me. Nasty storm which got under my skin I must admit. " I'm afraid that nasty storms are the new normal. I just got off the phone with a woman in India and she said they're experiencing unprecedented storms too. |
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Grouseguy1 |
They burn each others territory. |
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Grouseguy1 |
quote mc2mens: "Four years ago we camped on Seagull Lake on a part of the lake that had been burned in the Ham Lake fire. All we saw was a dead landscape all around the lake, with the exception of our campsite, which had a small grouping of trees that were not burned. Each night, I saw a pair of eyes shining back at me from the dark, dead woods, a couple hundred feet away from our camp. The eyes were set apart enough for me to feel that this was not a small animal. " Bush Ape. |
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mastertangler |
quote Grouseguy1: "There's been quite a bit of bush ape activity up there recently. Most people don't realize it, or choose not to believe it, but many of the fires are started by bush apes (also called big foots) having territory battles with other groups. Alrighty then........i'm not sure wether to laugh or raise an eyebrow. Surely you jest? Do you mean the Slim Jim commercials are for real? Who knew? And that Bic lighter that disappeared at camp during the night! Aha! Mystery solved. I must admit to looking a bit rough around the edges as I came off my last trip ;-) |
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arctic |
I probably would not camp there, but would be humble and deeply respectful if I did... |
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AndySG |
Of course, you know to what event I refer. That story always gives me the willeys. |
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inspector13 |
No particular locations, just areas with lots of wind throw, and White Cedar swamps. Perfect monster breeding habitats. : ) ...To be honest for me I think it has to do with not being able to easily keep orientation because of confusing landmarks. That and maybe no clear easy way to get out in a hurry. |
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Trix |
Also my first solo trip out of Sawbill I did the Kelso loop & for some odd reason Kelso gave me the creeps. Again, don't know why, it just did. |
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Mort |
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Stumpy |
Nothing to fear...nobody's watching you...heh heh heh... |
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Amok |
quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" LOL! this is creepy if you ask me: it's on the east side of Heritage, quite a ways up the steep hills which are on that side. |
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The Great Outdoors |
I cannot recall the lake or the camp site?? Sleep well on your next trip! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! :) |
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kanoes |
quote The Great Outdoors: "Only the site where the BWCA axe murderer lurks." everyone knows that site is a bait shop in ely. |
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The Great Outdoors |
Do you feel lucky....? Bwahahahahahahahahaha |
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PINETREE |
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greenydd |
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kanoes |
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Rob Johnson |
quote greenydd: "i was in wisconsin quite a few years ago in a place called (i think) the porcupine wilderness. id been on this trail 4 or 5 times before and never had a problem but the last time i was there, i had the strangest feeling....like i was being watched or something...cant explain it. i didnt go in far...turned around as soon as i felt what i felt and have never been back again. not a feeling i liked i can tell you that. " Thanks for that...Porcupine Wilderness was on the list for winter camping this year...I guess I will have to remember to pack the Ghostbusters Proton Pack and those things are really kinda heavy. |
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quote Amok: "quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" Saw a site similar to this on the north side of Wench. But it looked like the remains of a teepee or sweat lodge, and a bunch of old pots and pans scattered around. Didn't really creep me out because it looked like whoever was there was long gone, but I still wonder who did it? Going back to the first question: maybe a little on Kelso - but it was my first solo, so I chalk it up to that. |
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It's happened to me more often in other regions. We were hiking for just a couple hours in a forest of huge trees in the middle of the Copper River delta near Cordoba, AK, some years ago, and it was self-evident that orcs and trolls were hiding behind all of the trees (and there were a lot of trees for them to hide behind). I was genuinely surprised when the the car was still there when we got back to where we parked. Then there was the Lapp hut, very desolate but obviously still in some use, on our backpacking trip across the tundra in northern Sweden, where we did not see another soul for six days (but did see a lot of reindeer that probably belonged to that crazy Lapplander who owned the hut) . . . . |
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quote mooseplums: "My wife was always freaked out by a certain campsite on Lake Three. She was not comfortable both times we were there. She said she felt something was just off. Whatever that means." Pack in some Beano next trip :) |
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quote greenydd: "i was in wisconsin quite a few years ago in a place called (i think) the porcupine wilderness. id been on this trail 4 or 5 times before and never had a problem but the last time i was there, i had the strangest feeling....like i was being watched or something...cant explain it. i didnt go in far...turned around as soon as i felt what i felt and have never been back again. not a feeling i liked i can tell you that. " I did get freaked out hiking a trail in Pictured Rocks on south shore of Lake Superior. Kept my car keys in my hand at all times and only quit sweating when I was back inside the car with doors locked. Never did see anything too odd, but seeing another solo hiker just gave me the creeps and I kept imagining crazy reasons HE was out in the woods on a weekday. |
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quote Trix: "When I went through Baker Lake up to the Temperence Lakes, going through Wierd Lake kind of gave me the creeps. I don't know why, but it just did. Could be the name. Went that way with my brother last September on a dark, rainy day. Neither of us got weirded out by weird lake though. I actually thought the campsite looked inviting. |
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quote missmolly: "A fall storm forced me to camp on an island on the Mississippi River. The island was Devil's Island and I normally would have avoided it because of its name, but I had nowhere to go. I had to drag my boat across a half mile of mud flat and the island was a tangle of massive, exposed tree roots. If you slithered, there was a tent site and that's where I camped, with the lighting flashing and the trees creaking. The next morning, pulling away, I saw a man and a boy who waved to me. I didn't pull ashore. That's interesting Missmolly. Where did you read the account of the guy who saw a man and a boy waving at him too? |
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quote greenydd: "so..............do you think animals are watching us and thats what we are sensing???" A friend and his dad both felt very uncomfortable, like they were being watched, as they were paddling on the Des Moines River two summers ago. As they round a bend, they see a mountain lion crouched at the edge of the river getting a drink. Said it gave them a good case of the willies – especially when it bounded into the woods and just vanished. |
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quote LoneWolf: "quote Amok: "quote BWPaddler: "No, and now I'm not sure I want to read this thread when others start posting... gonna MAKE me have the willies!" In the Navy I saw something that looked like this on the South side of a wench..... but that's a whole different story. I was creeped out though! |
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I always get creeped out walking to and from the tree stand while hunting. It is always in the dark and through the woods. Even with a weapon in hand (usually a bow), I still feel like I am being watched. The last couple of times I've been out at night some animal (probably just a feral cat) has made a hideous screech about 10 minutes before I was to climb down. |
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Chief lone Watie: " Were you smoking something?" |
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I reached the 176 rod portage to the parking lot at 9pm, just as the sun was setting and the skies were clear. I had to make three trips to the parking lot because this was my first solo trip and I was carrying way too much stuff. On the first trip I took the canoe because it was the lightest load. That went fine, though the portage was very sloppy from the rain earlier in the day. I headed back for my 30Liter pack that I should have taken first because it had the key to my truck in it. The skies were getting darker each trip I took and on this one the dog kept look off to one side of the portage like he saw something, but I did not. We got to the parking lot again and this time I was able to get my truck and move it to the staging area. I put the dog in the front seat to save him from having to take the final trip to retrieve the last pack. I emptied the 30liter pack into the back of the truck so I could transfer some of the weight out of the bigger pack back at the landing. I was getting a little dehydrated by this time so I took a little time to drink some water and recover. By the time I got going for the last pack the skies were pretty dark. I grabbed a small flashlight from the truck but wanted to keep my night eyes so I only used it sparingly. When I got to the landing I thought I saw something in the water and shined my light in that direction. It was a crappy light and the beam diffused quickly, so I couldn’t make out details of anything in the distance. I assumed I saw nothing. I moved my pack to the boulders next to boardwalk at the landing to start transferring some of the extra weight. I was looking for the bag that had my headlamp in it, but could not easily find it, so I finished up the transfer and closed everything up. I strapped the big pack on my back picked up the smaller pack to carry in front. As I stepped up on the boulder to get to the boardwalk I heard a “kerplunk” in the water next to me. Thinking that something fell out of my pack, I shined my light down to see what I dropped, but there was no water where something falling out of my pack would have landed. The closest water was two or three feet away. I kept shining my light down in the general area where I was, puzzled by what might have happen. All of a sudden I heard a bigger “kerplunk” in the water maybe 10 feet farther away. Of course I pointed my light in that direction, but saw nothing. I soon realized that something was throwing rocks at me. I wasn’t really afraid, but I had a very strong feeling that I had to get out of there. I headed down the trail and little way, turned around, saw nothing and kept going. |
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Very creepy. We ventured out back of the campsite one afternoon and there were old bed frames, pots, cans, and other metal objects we didn't know what they were. We both heard weird sounds at night. Angleworm-Home area is kinda creepy. And I don't get easily creeped out:) |
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Pinetree |
Zwater: "A buddy and I stayed at the northern most campsite on Angleworm about 10 years ago. Others have said the same thing. |
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Anyway.........beautiful place especially during an Indian summer when the leaves were in full color. Very nice. |
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JWilder |
I have never experienced "panic attacks" before, and am not sure if i was on the verge of one. I'm estimating this lasted around 20-30 minutes. As I mentally processed what I was experiencing, I eventually told myself; "not much you can do about it at this point." I rolled over and went back to sleep. Woke up in the morning and went about my day. I did not stay there a second night as I was not basecamping. So I didn't have the "opportunity " to have this happen again. With that said, I wouldn't hesitate to stay the night there again. To this day I do not understand what the heck was happening that night. There is my "creepy" campsite story. J |