The noises kept getting louder and louder, shaking the bushes and snapping branches. While on a camping trip with her then-boyfriend on the shore of Italy’s Lake Garda, Sarah Harvey, the couple was cooking sausages on a gas stove by torchlight when a frantic rustling began in the bushes nearby. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, outdoor experiences end up being more sweet than spooky. Animal Adventures At night, in the middle of the woods, noises from even the tiniest of creatures can seem terrifying. No motor, no other sound.” The next morning, after she told her friend what had happened, they looked outside and found large boot prints surrounding the tent-but, still, no evidence of anyone walking or driving up to the site. “I lay there sweating and scared to move as the footsteps circled our tent. Yanagihara will never know, since she was understandably “too terrified to open my eyes or give any indication I was awake, because we could be seen through the mesh windows,” she said. They were out in the middle of nowhere, after all, and they hadn’t heard a vehicle approach. Yanagihara’s friend slept through it, but she remained wide awake-and very afraid. That night, mysterious footsteps crunched outside their tent. As they set up camp, the pair opted not to use a tent fly so they could better enjoy the breeze in the warm temperatures. Wendy Yanagihara, who lives in southern California, had an equally disturbing experience during a camping trip outside Moab, Utah, with a friend. “But when my hair raises as I think back on those moments, I know that he’s still around.” “I’m glad the guy left the car, and that we were both safe,” Silver said. The shaken couple left the man standing next to the car, hands in his pockets and looking scared, as they drove away. ‘Sir, you do not belong here!’ I screamed, unsure where the politeness came from. Terrified, “we turned around and started screaming,” Silver says. They hopped in the car as fast as they could, and then the unthinkable happened: As soon as the couple was inside the vehicle, but before they’d had a chance to lock the doors, the man somehow made his way inside, even sitting down in the back seat. Instead, the man continued to stalk them: to the bathrooms, through the parking lot, and eventually to their car at the very end of the lot. But the bizarre encounter wasn’t over at the bottom of the ladder. They raised their voices, discussing how they needed to use the ladder, and finally the man turned and went down. But, inexplicably, the man remained there, standing with his back to the ladder, staring at the couple. They trailed behind him until reaching a large boulder that had a ladder affixed to it they’d climbed up it before and now needed to go back down.
The couple encountered few people along the way-until they approached the end of the route, when they caught up to a man walking slowly. Years ago, Kate Silver, of Chicago, was in Los Alamos, New Mexico, hiking Tsankawi, an ancestral pueblo village, with her now-husband, Neil. “It was so eerie.” Scary Strangers The ladder is where the trouble started for one couple on a hike through an ancestral pueblo village. “I can still hear the woman’s moans to this day,” Lisa says. The guide replied that, indeed, a lot of spirits are believed to reside in the area. But when they ran over to help, no one was there.īack at Red Mountain Resort, where Lisa and her friend were staying, they told a guide about the weird incident. The voice seemed to come from behind a nearby boulder. Lisa, who lives in New York City (and didn’t want to use her last name), was once hiking in southern Utah with a friend when they heard a woman’s voice, loud and clear, moaning in pain. These seven spine-tingling tales, from spooky sounds at the campsite to sinister strangers on the trail (with a few laughs in the mix to lighten things up) are sure to raise the hair on the back of your neck-and make for a surefire winner around your next campfire.
They ratchet up the fear factor even more when they’re true-reminding us, not so subtly, that the inherent risks of being outside can go from minor and manageable to downright terrifying. Telling ghost stories around the fire is a beloved tradition of most camping trips.
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