I was about 25. A young mother. I was On horseback in the woods, my horse was amazing to trail ride with....she suddenly refused to go into a slight clearing in the woods. I tried to urge her in , a couple times. She was really being stubborn. So, I turned her around . She almost hi tailed it home. As we pulled up to our property, prison guards were at the bottom of our driveway. They said Several violent prison escapees were being searched for. I told them my experience as I was un saddling my horse. I locked her in for the night. They were guarding all the driveways of my neighbors. The guards sent some men out in the direction I pointed out. There were cigarette butts in the clearing and a couple candy bar wrappers. The guards reported that I was likely walking into their hiding spot and my horse saved my life. Thank God for my horses intuition.
@@silvaneandrade3476 His horse was aware there were dangerous men ahead and wouldn't go further, causing the owner to turn around and leave. It saved his life and he didn't know it until the guards told him of the dangerous escapees.
My wife divorced me after 20 yr marriage. I came across your channel and I'm drawn to this episode . So I live by myself , and every couple months I put this episode on as I'm going to bed. And just take it in , how you describe things , sound of the fire cracking. The calm atmosphere with quiet pauses of reading. Nice background music. Listen to some of your stories. I don't feel so alone , as I get comfy in my bed. It's a great episode , so thank you , and have a goodnight .
Hi nosey Wales. I read that your wife divorced you after 20 years of marriage. I am the same, my man walked out for another after 18 years of living together , so in know what its like to be on your own. I have to admit I quite like it now if I am honest! Anyway, I love watching
“My wife divorced me after 20 yr marriage”...”I don’t feel so alone.” Wow...I’m so sad for you to not have someone to call yours. I wish you every happiness.
Love your show. I do have a story from my mum. I'm in Australia and this happened during the depression when my mum was a little girl. My grandpa was travelling by car around through rural Queensland (a northern state of Australia). One late afternoon my grandpa, grandma, mum, her sister my aunt and her brother, my uncle decided to camp instead of staying in a hotel. It was a beautiful evening and they stopped close to a river. They had seen other travellers who were camping close by. They felt safety in numbers so it would be fine. Grandma started making preparations for dinner and grandpa put up camp beds and made a fire for the night. Then as the light started to fade they both realized that the noises in the bush had stopped and the other campers were gone. They hadn't seen them leave either. Grandma said to grandpa we have to leave now, immediately. Mum recalls grandpa throwing water on the fire, the camp beds and food stores along with the children into the car and drove off as fast as they could. Mum recalled lying on top of something really uncomfortable because suit case was on top of her and one of her siblings legs or elbows jammed into her side. They didn't stop until reaching the next town where they stopped at the local pub. The owner came out to see them and enquired if they were staying, of course they were staying. The owner said dinner was cooking so took them to some rooms to settle in. Over dinner grandpa and grandma retold what had happened by the river. The owner and his wife were very disturbed because there had been a number of people murdered where they had just been camping. Police had not caught whoever was attacking travellers. Mum said it was terrifying. Hope you get to read this. 🤗
Yiks. Do you wonder if the camping neaghbors where killed and that's why you did not see them go?? And nomads say if you don't feel right don't stay move on.
I really enjoy your channel. I too had a very creepy experience. It was about 1973. My Grandfather had a cabin up in Lake Arrowhead, CA. Grandpa would take all of us kids up to the mountains. We were the only cabin up there for about 10 miles. My sister and I along with my two cousins loved to go exploring. We were never afraid. One summer, late morning we headed out after our breakfast. We were hiking for a couple of hours when we came across an old dilapidated very tiny cabin. The roof had fallen in and the front door was open. We peaked in to see what was inside. There was very old cooking equipment, along with what looked like large pans that were for panning gold. This cabin was very close to a stream. My cousin was curious if there were someones remains so he was digging through the debre. We all felt a very creepy vibe so we headed out. We always followed the stream back to our cabin. After we left walking along the stream there was a loud man's voice that said HEY so loudly. It felt like someone screaming directly into our ears, it hurt. We froze. We were looking around thinking there was a man maybe hiding behind a tree or something. There was no one. We were so frightened we could hardly say anything. Then we started running. We looked back and there was still no one. Keeping in mind this was a very remote area. When we were close to our cabin we decided to stop and talk about it. My sister said it felt like someone was about an inch away from her ear screaming. We all had the same feeling. Our eardrums were still ringing. We decided not to tell our Grandparent's anything. After this we never went hiking in that direction again. This is the first time I have ever spoken of this in 49 years.
@@thelittlelenora It was the scariest thing we all had experienced. It felt like someone screaming in all of our ears at the same time. You could feel the energy so close.
This reminds me of the time on an extremely hot afternoon I was out on our second floor deck with a book. All of the sudden I heard a deep voice say HEY right in my ear. I jumped up and looked around. None of the neighbors were out and from 12 ft off the ground I could see all of the neighborhood. I know sound carries but this wasn't that. Till this day I can't explain it.
finally someone enjoying a night in the bush and not going through the whole show about how wonderful there gear is and showing us everything they own. thank you
@@therealgirlinthewoods you're a woman after my own ♥️! My Favorite camping, case iron fry pan I bought at goodwill for 35 cents, when I was 16.... still use it, and I'm 60.makes a perfect egg every time. You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to save it from being stolen. Lol
What you sounded was like a deer grunting . Not a deer snorting . Two different sounds all together . That's probably what the other people were talking about . The tingling of the arrows sounded like . Tingling of antlers of two bucks fighting . And you called a bigger buck in and he was grunting . Great story thanks
i was out on a several day hike. i would take a ice fishing pole hiking so i could catch some fish. it was getting dark and i had a little ways to go before bedding down for the night. i had to go though some low branches. as i went thew them i heard something russel in the leaves behind me. i looked back and didn't see anything. i started walking again and i heard it again. i stopped and the noise stopped. i started walking again and there is was. about this time i thinking bears, big foot, or even aliens. something was following me. i started to hurry along and it sped up also. at this point i was scared shitless. i started to run and felt something pull on my backpack then let go, almost making me fall forward. the noise stopped. this was my chance to getaway. a ran to the shelter i was going to sleep at. taking off my pack i hit something sharp. it was a fishing hook and a few feet of line on it. then i realized it was my fishing pole had fallen out of my pack and was dragging on the ground back behind me and finally it got caught on something and the line broke. i kinda felt stupid running from my fishing pole.
Now I can picture that kind of thing happening just this way with me ....hahahahahaha then the relief of I get to live and calm down. Lol. Ty for sharing that.
Adventures with Jerry 😃..good one! Goes to show how the imagination can work on us! That would have been me! 😃 But to avoid that...I don"t go in the woods alone! Problem solved! ☺ I'm still laughing! Not at you but with you!
My scariest was when I was living out of my tear drop camper I built while I was building my first off grid place. It was just me and my dog, Pugi, 8 miles off the main road down an old jeep trail. No one around. Middle of the night woke up to coyotes laughing and kackling like they do when they are on the hunt. Then all of a sudden there was the loudest growl, howl, screaming sound I ever heard. Didn't sound far away at all. Maybe 30 yards. No idea what kind of animal would make that kind of sound. The area has elk, maybe bears, free range cattle, bob cats, but I can't imagine any of them making this extremely loud, horrific sound. Imagine a low pitch growl like a bear mixed with a high pitch scream. I was convinced it was sasquach. Scared the crap out of me. So glad I was in a hard shell camper with a lockable door and not a tent.
There is a video of two lynx fighting on a dirt road and it is THE scariest sound I have ever heard. You should watch that video to see if that is what you heard. They make that sound when they are threatened.
Scott carpenters book “truth denied”. And “the Nephilim among us.” The Sasquatch are out there and they have multiplied. People need to be aware that hike and hunt in the forests. Also Steve isdahl’s channel. How to hunt. He reads emails of hundreds of thousands of people’s experiences who wrote in because their friends laughed at them. And now they know they are not alone.
Well said, my friend. Some people say that angels are actually angles of light it somewhat makes sense to me. The son of god brings the angels or the sun of god brings the angles.
@@truemordecai2996 very true I suffer from anxiety and depression I kept hearing my name being called I was really going through it so the sun started to shine very bright through my window I swear it made a cross symbol and in my living room I have a picture that says GOD is love the light was shinning through on to the picture so random I started crying I believe it was a sign telling me everything will be alright 💜
BiggestFoot Nonsense. Your lack of an experience with God does not prove that He doesn’t exist. The amount of arrogance it must take to make such a statement as you did must be gigantic.
You bring back memories of me in my teens to my 50s. I spent months traversing, canoeing, x-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and camping in the Adirondack mountains in upstate New York. Summer, fall, winter and spring. I love it! One year, with friends we made camp at Mt Marcy, NY, and while sitting around the fire a pack of wolves surrounded our camp site. Alpha came near up, circling and sniffing, more curious than aggressive. Glowing eyes all around. They left after about 20 minutes. It was frightening and awesome.
You are so brave! There is no way I could spend the night alone in the woods without real shelter, like a cabin. I have spent up to a month alone in a cabin, in Oregon's wildnerness, but I had the 4 walls- big difference!! I was cabin sitting my friend's cabin & one night I was hearing all kinds of strange sounds, when all of a sudden, a raccoon came falling through an high on the wall, open window! (Meant for their cat) It literally took my breath away, it scared me so badly!
That's my point there is no protection in tents and Van especially in jungle alone there must be atleat strong built safe and secure cabin to do such adventures after all safety first all other things are beyond
Such a wonderful dog! She is a beautiful, beautiful treasure. I love, love,love dogs. They are such a tremendous blessing! I truly thank Jesus so much for dogs.
Dogs are good company and can warn you if anything or anyone is NEAR that's it dogs are NO match against bears..mountain lions or even Bigfoot best carry your guns/rifles shoot them instead for protection.
@@Randy58-zn4ez wow, what a nasty comment!!! The sad thing you took the time to write it. Why would you care what someone else believes unless you have no life of your own! Lackey got 139 thumbs up, you got 0!
Unfortunately, the lie you believe name god, well, he created the world in three days and he did it just 5000 years ago. Dog bones have been found from 15,000 years back so I'm afraid dogs pre-date God.
You're an easy one to love. Love your fur baby, Maysie. My scariest woods encounter was at dusk just wrapping up my hunting day, walking back to my car about 2 miles away. Didn't see ANY deer. about a half mile or so into my walk back, there was a turn in the road. At the turn was a tree that had been struck by lightning. I knew it had been struck by lightning because if any of you have ever seen one, you know that it is as white as possible because when a tree gets struck by lightning, it instantly cooks all the resin in the tree, and kills it instantly, leaving in with a ghost white appearance. ANYWAYS...so the tree caught my attention due to its nature, so i looked at the tree and followed it up. The tree was broken off some 15 or so feet up, and right where the tree had broke, was a cougar, or mountain lion just staring at me. It growled that low in the back of its throat type of growl while looking at me. So that was my "In the moment" scared sh*tless...moment. I started to swing my 30 -06 off of my shoulder, and primed the chamber. As soon as i pulled the bolt back, it turned around, and jumped off the back side of the tree, and took off into the woods. That was the LONGEST 1 1/2 mile hike back to my car, always looking back and to the sides of the road making sure that it wasn't sneaking up on me. I mean ,can you imagine, if i hadnt looked up that tree and saw that thing? I would have walked right underneath it and gave it my back. I would have been dead.
As one who winter camps in a tent in remote northern Wisconsin alone…with my dog I understand. I don’t know what is more terrifying, the wind howling all night long at a deafening volume or absolute silence where you can hear every critter on the forest floor. I will say hearing coyotes yipping as they get closer and closer is a bit unnerving. And as that sun comes up in and the day begins it always reminds me why I do it. Solo camping like you share in the video is the best but not for everyone. Great video.
I ❤👍 that fur hat-- what is it & where did u get it-- alaska???😁 I'm getting some of ur older videos , very coo👍😊 that is one pretty collie- lassie,,, dog🐕🤗 be safe👏💕
There's a RUclipsr backpacker who told a story about hiking at night trying to catch up with her camp. In doing so she crossed through another camp and saw someone following her with a flashlight after she passed through. Her fear continued to grow as she realized the 'person' was still following her to the point she started running to then trip and fall. Finally she realized it was the rising moon, so ya, your mind can play tricks on ya.
I've heard sounds like that when I used to install comm. equipment for the DOT - which were always located in remote sites, far away from people, and usually high up on hilltops. I've experienced "sighing" noises and "moans" but there were no animals anywhere, yet it was right next to me, and coming out of the ground - so it seemed. The experts claimed it was a bobcat or "murcat" but I say NO these were human voices and I have perfect hearing. An old timer told me that he's heard them too up in the woods and described how there's old Native American burial grounds all over the place, especially near big hills - many are so old there's very little signs that anything was ever there, being overgrown over the years. But the worst sound I've heard, occurred at 3 am, as I was rerouting power cables (all of this work is typically done at night when air traffic is low) was the pig snorting sound (not the typical deer snort). It sounded like it was next to me, but a check of entire area turned up no signs of any animals or tracks, no wild boars nothing. Spooky stuff...
I went bow hunting on my property right after I bought it yrs ago, i had to walk way back 1600 ft from the road to the woods, I got about 30 ft into the woods and heard a growling kind of snort noise so close behind me I could feel the hot air on my neck ! this was a hr before daylight as I like getting to a stand early n settle in, I had by backpack with my deer stand on, i thought my options a couple seconds with fear, i had no gun! I know running would be pointless n turning around might be my worst nightmare encounter, so then I decided to just walk slowing to my stand stoping every 15 yards n listen, after a few seconds go again, so my sounds blended with forest creatures, except for what ever breathed on my neck that caught up to me when i said it snorted/growled on my neck! everyone asks me why i didnt look behind me, any creature that bold could have easily killed me if it wanted, it warned e not to walk thru that section in the dark i thought so i obeyed my land didnt matter to it, neither did me living much yr or two later i was walking my dog a norwegian elkkhound thru that section for the first time, all the sudden he took off running i glanced back just in time to see a large tree coming down, i jumped over to the side just in time it landed where i was when the dog took off, the tree still had green leaves n wasnt even a windy day, did something push it over?? my guess it did, and i stayed since out of the front corner of the woods, i hear loud tree knocks, n horrible creams at times from there, i learned my boundarys 2 decades ago and live in peace n respect of it for not killing me although it did try the second time i feel, i just was lucky to miss being squashed ! what was it ? guessing a bigfoot that some people see but not sure !
I am watching you at 2:00 in the morning. It is July 11and was HOT today, here in North Carolina……watching you in the snow actually made me feel chilly. I try so hard not to complain about the heat, the cold, the rain, or the lack of it, and try to enjoy every season, & every day. I don’t, but I’m honest, so I’ll say I try. I admire you for the way you endure those winter camp outs, and that you ENJOY them, your surroundings, and just life in general. I have only camped out once and it freaked me out so, I never did it again. I pray you can live like this until God calls you home. You are an amazing woman and I wish you were my friend. God bless you and keep you safe.
i once ended up setting up my tent when it was dark with out much light. i feel asleep and was awoken when something had run into my guide lines. i was in a tent that was all mesh and when i shined a flash light all the light was reflecting off the mesh however i could perceive eyes in every direction. the next day i realized i had set my tent right over a dear trail. i hadn't got much sleep because those animals were running into my tent and lines all night. it was a small one man bivy bag and a few times i actually felt them from the out side kick me as they walked around. at the time it was scary but when i figured out what i had done i had a good laugh. lesson learned.
Ok. I got a minute now to share a camp story from about 35 years ago. When I was a young teen growing up in the country in S.E. Oklahoma, me and my friends would hike into the woods and camp every chance we got. One of our favorite activities was to go deeper into the woods after dark and see what animals we might find. On one of these excursions we heard a low moan like you described hearing. I turned my flashlight in its direction and saw glowing eyes staring back at us from the trees. We all ran as fast as we could back to camp and built up the fire convinced that we had narrowly escaped the clutches of a monster. The next morning our courage restored by daylight we went to where we saw the glowing eyes of the moaning monster and saw that what had scared us the night before was a cow.
Really crazy story ! Gave me Goosebumps too.... I thought you were going to say that your boyfriend was the one making the noise to mess with you!😹😹😜😜😜
probably 20 years ago now I once heard the words "hello there" in a clearing in the middle of the woods nobody around for miles...I was working on a dear stand at the time. Freaked me out...female voice, non threatening. Ive been back there with my Dad hunting many times and it never happened again. I have no clue to this day, very strange indeed.
I was camping recently and heard a female voice outside my tent say, “hello” and it was non threatening and my husband didn’t hear it! There was nobody there. Wondered who she was.
I have heard too many stories like this to dismiss. Seems to happen a lot in national parks and remote camping areas. I probably would have passes out lol.
When I was 10 yr's old I would get off the school bus at my friends house to play, which was a mile and a half from my home. The problem is there are no houses between us only what we call long-swamp. It's was the scariest place on the plant to me. I always hated the walk home during the day so I always made sure I left before dark. During winter months it gets dark earlier and while playing inside I lost track of the time. By chance I looked at the slightly opened curtain and felt frantic rush over me to see it was dusk outside. The cruel tricks of winter! I jumped up and said I have to go but my friend begged at me to stay a little longer, no, I said, I've got to get home or I'll be in big trouble. So I said good-by and headed out the door. As I exited their driveway I begin to run knowing the swamp area is much darker from tree cover. Half mile into the swamp there is a corner then another half mile of swamp. Half way in I was so exhausted I had to slow to a walk to catch my breath. From my friends house to the swamp was a quarter mile, so now I'm wishing I hadn't panicked and ran that quarter mile, or I could've had enough energy to run the whole swamp. As I approached the end of the swamp I had this eerie feeling I was being watched though I didn't want to look back. There was one more corner ahead then a down hill stretch to my driveway. As I begin to round that last corner at the end of the swamp, the feeling to look back was overpowering me but I fought it off until I was just about to put the long-swamp behind me. I looked back and there was a cougar coming out onto the road from the swamp. The panic I felt when I left my friends house now pales to the load beating in my chest and head. The beating of my heart was so load I thought my ear drums were going to burst. My breathing was out of control, I felt I couldn't get enough oxygen. I remembered what my dad thought me, never run but that's all I wanted to do! The cougar was about two hundred yards back. I quickly thought up a plan that the cougar has just been watching me walk the last half mile and I'm about to round the corner still walking, so once out of sight he'll think that I'm still walking when I'll be running the fastest I have ever ran and if the cougar just walks I can gain some distance from him. So once out of sight, I pored it on for my driveway not knowing if the cat is gaining on me. I was so thankful for the down hill slope of this stretch, it felt like I was really moving. I didn't want to waste a second to look back, I just pushed for the driveway which was also long and up hill---damn-it! As I righted off the road to my driveway I look back. The cougar was just rounding the corner, I had doubled the distance between us. I swear I could see a surprised look on his face as he noticed I'd gained some distance from him. The cougar then went into a full run and I was praying for my legs not to give out on me now on this last little hill. As I look back at the top of my driveway I could tell the cougar had slowed but was still gaining on me. Looking at the house I could see the door was open a jar to let the heat out so I bolted for the door---no, I dove for the door, slamming it into the wall stopper. Sprawled out on the floor I quickly kicked the door shut! My mom comes out of the kitchen to see what the commotions is. I told her I was chased by a cougar but she just laughed and said the dark will do that to ya and off to the kitchen laughing she went. Moments latter headlight shine on the ceiling of my dad returning home from work . I watch out the living room window as he unusually turn the car around with the headlights facing the driveway. With the headlights on he jumps out of the car and runs to the door. Barging in the door he yells there's a cougar in the yard and yells at me to stay in the house. He runs to the bedroom and comes out with the 30.06 and says don't anyone go outside as he heads out the front door. I run to the window but can't see my dad nor the cat. My mom's now in a panic and crying for him not to go out there. I'm shoooing my mom to be quite, I want to hear what's going on! But she wont shut up! BANG!------BANG! I run to the door and hold it open, my excuse will be encase you needed to get in, in a hurry. Like I know that one! I hear my dad yell, I GOT HIM! I latter tell my dad my story and my mom confirms it. This cougar was 10 feet from nose to tail, my dad says it's the biggest cougar he's ever seen. He strapped it across the hood of the car and drove it to work the next day. It was so big the head hung down to the wheel and the tail had to be tied to the antenna. It was the thing they did in those days, parade around town with your trophy hung on your car or truck to all the bars LOL! I was really proud of my dad! I no longer had to walk or run the long-swamp as my dad demanded I call him at work and he'll pick me up from then on. My dad is gone now but I still proudly have that cat hanging on my wall. Sorry this is so long!
Thanks for your story,,,you had me going there for a sec,,,I'm glad you made it safe into the house...your instincts were pretty intact as far as sensing there was danger right close to you,,good thing your dad did what he had to do to protect his family,,,,thank you,,was very intetesting...😊☺
@@therealgirlinthewoods I'd be more afraid of the humans then the animals sister you have B's a woman in the woods alone never works join a group The Champs separately but together
I like being outdoors but I'm barely able to walk and get around so I stay in and that's nothing exciting. There was a time in my life I had a pretty good paying job and a brand new car and I would just take off and go somewhere for the weekend always by myself before cell phones 📵
My most frightening moment in my remote cabin off the grid experience involved my tree walker coonhound, Luke. It was close to midnight and my Luke was off chasing deer and having a blast, barking up a storm. Then all of a sudden I heard and felt pounding on the thin walls of my cabin, heard my Luke yowl. I was 56 at that time.. I grabbed a 3 foot 2x4, and my sledge hammer,, mustered up all the courage I had inside me and threw open the door not knowing what I'd find. (my mind is thinking bear, bad man, or wild dogs) My baby boy came running in all torn up and whimpering. I examined him and he had some deep wounds which I cleaned, shaved and duct-taped butterfly stitches. My heart was pounding. I didn't know what did this to him but I'm guessing it was a raccoon. He laid off chasing deer for a bit but soon was back to normal. But I also wanted to add always trust your gut. I had a very close call in the Adirondacks when I was a kid going through the woods. My hair stood on end and I wouldn't go into a certain trail I did all the time. My friend was with me and I started crying and shivering so we went back to the road instead. Winds up there was an escaped convict in that exact area. Since then I've always trusted my gut. Anyway thanks again for sharing your life with us Brook. You're so much fun and remind me of me!!
That's so scary for you, awww, your poor pup! Not sure what your beliefs are but that sounds more like a Bigfoot aggravated by a barking dog which is known to happen. Thin walls or not, raccoons don't bang on walls, certainly not hard enough to, "feel," lol.
My spooky story. I've been mountain biking in the Black Hills of South Dakota for over 25 years, and even though we have elk, coyote, mountain lion and the occasional bear, the only time I was afraid in the forest was when I rode Old Baldy Mountain near Spearfish alone. It happens every time I go there, which is only about once every 5 years. The trail is a 6 mile loop and no matter which direction you take, it drops down a large hill before it begins to crest the hill/mountain called Old Baldy. The first time I explored it, I was at the intersection where both ends of the trail meet on the other side, and there is a spur that goes up to the top of the hill at that point. The hill itself has a great view which makes lunching there worth all the work it's going to take to come back to the trailhead. HOWEVER, the beginning of the spur is an entirely different story. Every time I ride or hike that section, the words from Wizard of Oz go through my head (lions and tigers and bears oh my) and just as the hill begins, it never fails - I hear the sound of someone carrying metal rushing up behind me and every time, I hop off the bike to face whatever is trying to scare me.... and nothing. There's no animals, there's no people, even the sound is gone. I stand there for a few minutes waiting for my heart rate to go back no normal and finish the ride/hike. You couldn't pay me to camp out there overnight.
I was at Girl Scout camp somewhere in the forest in So Cal, it was the middle of the night, me and about 15 other girls were asleep on our cots in a big canvas tent. Something woke me up and it was so quiet but I had this creepy feeling. There was some kind of animal in the tent walking around the rows of cots. I could hear it breathing as it walked up and down the rows of cots. I was paralyzed with fear. It hurts not breathe hard when your heart is pounding! I kept wondering if anyone else was awake. It was pitch black. I heard it move closer then, it BUMPED my cot! I held my breath. But then it moved away and its animal type breathing faded away. I was so exhausted trying not to die, I fell asleep hard. What’s so strange is that no one else said they heard anything! I’ll never know what that creature was. I can only imagine😧
Could have been a raccoon or badger or some other nocturnal animal like a opossum that came in searching for food. It might of even been someone`s dog wandering around in the tent. There`s alway`s a logical explanation.
@@stevesheartone2998 It's not as reasonable to assume such a small animal if the area was dead-silent, she awoke in a fear state, it bumped her cot, & she could hear it breathing & walking. Such small animals usually have fairly shallow, light breaths, unless they're sniffing around in someone's pack & I doubt you'd hear much beyond a barely-there pitter-patter unless they're digging around in your stuff, which would indicate a small critter. Unless she was just legitimately scared of these small types of critters due to lack of familiarity or knowing what to do, I think it'd likely have at least been an animal that was at least the same size or larger than a small "big" cat species (such as lynx or bobcat). By the way, you sound like a highly skeptical individual, which leads me to assume that you probably don't entertain the possibility of the Forestfolk or Sasquatch existing. However, once one takes the time to actually look deeply enough into the subject, they may find that it actually is just another logical, perfectly natural explanation for some of the things that can be experienced while out in nature & our own hubris generally closes our minds to considering it in seriousness.
Once I slept out in the open with a group of other campers. In the middle of the night, I heard repeated grunting and thought a bear was nearby. I was so terrified that it felt like my heart was jumping out of my chest. After what seemed an eternity, I finally got the courage to grab my flashlight and look around to see where the bear was. The bear was actually another camper snoring! Boy, was I so relieved!
Me either, and I am a guy!! I'd need more than a golden retriever,..he'll protect you alright, from the next county. I'd need a handgun and a better breed of dog.
I’m new to your channel Brooke. I’ve been binge watching your videos. You are such a brave, hard working soul. I love your adventures with your beautiful dog. I could never do what you do. I admire you. Stay safe!
Wow, Brooke. I think you're so brave. I would never go hiking by myself without my gun, let alone sleep out there by myself. I mean, as much as I love nature, it's people mostly that I'm afraid of. I wish I could be more like you and conquer my fears by just doing it. Maysie's the best! ❤❤❤
My scariest moment eva in the woods was when I went to Yosemite all alone. And after a days hike, I was forced to eat my own cooking. Now that was scary!! True story.
I've heard this same noise a few times in the woods a night and I still don't know what it was either! At least I didn't know for a while in my case. I had done a sweat lodge by myself years back in the woods. I went in early evening and got out a few times for more hot stones, not having a fire keeper. I was having a very spiritual experience when all the sudden I heard the leaves crackling and something was walking around and around the lodge circle. Of course by this time it was pitch dark, the rocks were cooling off and the hair was standing up on the back of my neck! It had been a warm fall day, that time of year when it gets cold as the sun goes down and I was getting colder by the minuet! But whatever was circling the lodge circle, which is about 40 feet and started making the noise you described! Finally getting colder, shivering, sweaty and scared, I had to gather up my stuff and go the 2-300 yards back to the house through the woods in the dark and wondering if I'd have to outrun whatever was out there pacing around! It felt like forever waiting to gain the courage to move out! I knew the land well but running in the dark? The sacred fire was just a few coals as I peered outside! I had to make a plan, grab my stuff or not? Remembering where roots and rocks are running in bare feet! Finally, after freezing in a spooky mind filled imagination of skin walkers, daemons and nasty ETs, I crawled out of the lodge like a sprinter at the starting line and went for it! Ouch Ouch Ouch! Briars, roots, stones and moving faster than I thought possible, I saw the lights of the house, which seemed like forever going those few hundred yards! Nothing was following me! What was that? I warmed up and stoked the wood stove thinking how I'll get my stuff in the morning. I went out to the lodge,coffee in hand and everything was as I'd left it. No tracks in the leaves in spite of the lengthy time I'd heard it! Nothing a muss! What the hell was out there I thought?! It was a scared mystery. Sometime after this I was telling my Native Elder friend about my experience and he just chuckled but in a kind knowing way. He said it was my fears pacing around the lodge, a negative spirit that was doing its best to take my very wonderful spiritual experience from me. But it didn't happen until after I was walking on air from my amazing time in the sweat lodge. It kept me in the lodge for at least an hour from my fear. I finally built the courage to face whatever was out there no matter what. Had it been after me it surely had all the advantages to overcome me. Instead I overcame it, my own fear! It was a good and life long lesson about creating our own needless fears! It was the icing on the cake of that sacred night when I was the fire keeper, water pourer and a very blessed person that fall night! Kind Thanks! DaveyJO in Pa. Woods
Just recently found your channel. I live alone and travel alone. Love to be in the great outdoors. While I am fairly well experienced, I have to admit, I feel fear, of course I do. A healthy dose of fear reminds me that I am alive. You go for it girl! Feel the fear and do it anyway. Thank you for all the tips and tricks. You are a wonderful inspiration. Something mes, I worry that I am so far removed from, “the traditional 2020’s woman” I feel like a freak! You are so much younger than I am. A fresh perspective and even confirmation that sometimes what we dare to do, leads us to an opportunity to feel something that might be a little bit uncomfortable but the incredibly rewarding. Thank you “Girl in the Woods” you are awesome! 👏
Scary? I was winter camping one time. Simple tarp shelter, a fire going, middle of the night, when all of a sudden I hear something running full tilt straight towards me in the crunchy snow. It was moving pretty good. A wolf ran right by my shelter, just a few feet away, and just kept on going. Never heard it again. It was kind of hard to sleep after that! It's great being out there!
Vagabond Burke seriously, you ought to make some video content about your way of surviving. Would love to learn about how you live and do things. I think it would be interesting.
Me to homeless I sleep In the river bottoms never had a problem with animals did have beaver that would come watch the sun go down but one night my tent buckled and some crack head tryed brain me with a huge rock it suck trying to get out of the tent to defend my self he ran when I got out but I could not camp there any more I could not sleep
Many years ago and it was our first time hiking in the woods as a young family (there were no hiking trails). We thought we go exploring and thought it would be a great adventure too. It became dark + cold out, we got lost, and then we couldn't find our way back. I believe we kept walking further deep into the woods. Eventually and finally, we happened to find a roadway out leading back to the park and our car. We were so happy to be out of there and so relieved to be back home. We vowed to never let this happen again.
One of the toughest moments in my life was when I was camping in my grandmothers backyard, I got a paper cut and couldn’t continue so I went back inside the house and slept on the bed.
Got out of my tent around 6am and the first thing I see is two black bear cubs sniffing around about 30 yards out in front of me. Then my dog starts barking wildly but looking behind me. I turn and what do I see just across the small creek I was camped next to? You got it. Mamma Bear was standing there behind some bushes and a tree watching the cubs, me and my dog. I had the dog's leash in one hand and my camera in the other. I didn't know what else to do so I took some photos of the cubs when suddenly they began running straight at me. I froze and kept an eye on Mamma Bear. She just looked at me with a look like, "You better not move"... I didn't. The cubs ran by while I got one more shot off. I also got a shot of Mamma Bear. The cubs ran across the creek to join Mamma and they all went off into the woods and left me alone. Needless to say I packed up camp and went somewhere else.
I try to stay out of their way. Usually black bears are not really a threat if you are not stupid and do things to piss them off. Finding yourself between Mama and the cubs is not a good place to be. This can look like a threat and Mama may decide to remove the threat. I like to sleep at night without worrying who or what I am pissing off.
Great story! In my scary story, about 20 years ago my buddy & I took his Nissan 4x4 way back some logging trails to camp for the night. I slept in my tent, and my friend stayed in the bed of his truck; he had a fiberglass cap on it. At about 2am, what I think was a screech owl started calling (or at 2am, awakened out of a deep sleep, you could say it was making more of a blood-curdling shriek). It was probably only 20 feet from my tent. Scared the heck out of me. The next morning, I asked my buddy if he heard it, and he said “Yeah...I figured whatever it was would get you in the tent first, so I wasn’t too concerned!”
Chris Con hahaha what an awesome friend there.. I was camping and heard what I thought was an owl but mixed with a scream or groan.. I never heard it before. Sounds like you might have heard something similar
A screech owl is a pretty weird sound. A buddy and wife and kids heard what they think was a mtn lion one night. They slept in the van after abandoning the tent. One night I saw a freaky glowing red eye in the bushes fifty yrds away. I got the flashlight and discovered a cow just standing half asleep. I used to cross country ski alot as a kid. About dusk the snow drifts kind of started to look like trolls and who knows what crouched under the branches of trees. I knew I was making things up but I would be about 7 out of 10 freaked out. @ApplePie 2018
I swear I commented on this video but I must not have clicked the button! Good overnighter! Always love camping with the furry companions. My scariest moment in the woods wasn't all that spooky but still scared me good. I was camping with Funk in a wilderness area and dark clouds were off in the distance. I was trying to start a fire before it began raining and when I last looked at the sky it was a completely black line of clouds moving closer and closer. All of a sudden when I am bent over trying to start the fire, BAM! Lightning strikes within 100 feet of us and instant downpour! I fall over and feel this rush of energy like I have never felt before. We both sprinted inland to a low spot since we were on a smaller hill near the water. Our dog at the time was definitely sketched out and it led to my 2nd scariest experience out in the woods. The next day we were heading to a different campsite and our Alaskan Malamute named Hachi was done with this adventure after the lightning (he hated loud noises). So on our way across the lake, he swam in front of us and got to land and kinda just wandered off a little, which he did a lot, but we couldn't find him. We went down all sorts of portage trails and back and forth to campsites and lakes he had been to before and we still couldn't find him. After 2 hours of searching we decided to hike to the car as one last chance that maybe he could find his way out and low and behold, Hachi was sitting next to the car waiting for us and completely ready to go home.
Wow! Yeah that would be horrifying! Storms in the woods- been through two that stick in my mind... scary! But never had lightning strike like that. If you read the comment section many people have mentioned lightning! And the dogs always know when it's time to go home right? LOL Thanks for stopping by Matthew! Cheers
Matthew Posa Maybe the wisdom was getting you to safety. My dog very tender but over 130 lbs. When I'm pushing and really need to rest she will not take no for an were bit axe handle and not let go. God's gift to share this dog. Laughing I'm guy and she loves to lay next to me and cover up, best of joy! Great video!!!
I'm not a hunter, but I've going on solo mountain bike trips overnight in the woods, mostly unarmed other than my U-lock or whatever else I could use as a club. I always stay close to the trail when I camp and take a bright backup flashlight and not to disturbed wildlife, I usually use low level settings. I'd never get to much sleep, mostly listening to the sounds of things moving around me. I'll be in pretty remote areas at times, and won't see anybody for hours on end. Nobody at night. But that being said, I've also experienced unexplainable happenings such as 'floating orbs' in the trees and heard strange human like vocal sounds, almost like deep grunted Native American. Also the usual barred owl or coyote that would change pitch to more human-like. Since I've experienced that alone and also saw something big, ( human male sized or bigger ) that was reddish orange in color, hiding and watching me from behind the woodpile while I was playing Native American flute, I just accept what's out there and try not to be afraid.
@@freedomrider266 Too many go and mysteriously disappeared.. Really into no where never to be found..no remains..clothing..shoes I had just viewed a program on 100 of them..strange ..only God Knows what happened ..no one is missing in His sight
The "Missing 411" from Dave Paulides woke me up several years ago. Tons of the missing and people found dead do not make sense at all. So whenever I got into the woods, I'm heavily armed, and have a tracker beacon on me. Be careful out there. I just subbed so I'm new to your channel.
@@therealgirlinthewoods Fear is nature's way of keeping you safe....forewarned is forearmed...there's a difference between letting fear DICTATE your life and not taking foolish chances....that being said...absolutely LOVE YER CHANNEL!....I'm a satisfied subscriber....stay fulfilled and happy.
@@therealgirlinthewoods Love your content, however you remaining ignorant to the dangers doesn't make you brave, just ignorant. Learn. Be well!!! Continued success out there!! And yes, live your life!! :) Domari Nolo PA III
As a father to a daughter, grandfather to five granddaughters, and one great granddaughter you could say I am over protective of my girls even though I want them to be adventurous and self-reliant. I don't want them to be afraid ever in their life. This is why if they ever decide to get a conceal carry license I will help them accomplish that goal. I know you have your dog and I am sure you take precautions like not letting out where you do your camping, but really I would carry a firearm with you just to be on the safe side be it four or two legged critters. PS: I tell their boyfriends - "If you hurt my granddaughter - I got no problem going back to prison" - of course I never have been to prison but they don't know that. Disabled Vietnam Vet - class of 72'
I had my own story that happened to me at age eight in the Sierra Nevadas at the West Branch of the Feather River not too far from a town called Sterling City. My parents brought us out fishing for trout on a tributary stream to the Feather River and it was early fall with the river low and we all fanned out to fish our section of stream. It was not unusual for we kids to end up a mile or more away from the the base day camp and I was out about one and a half miles from my father who stayed at the camp and was reading a book and napping. I was alone and casting out on a nice fishing hole while standing partly in the water when I went to cast and felt a hit on my left wrist and I pulled up my arm to see a rattlesnake literally stuck to my wrist. I pulled it off so fast, I left a single tooth in my wrist. I ended up tossing the snake into the river and I had that clear moment of realization of just how far I was from help. I knew I had about an hour or so before things were going to get bad. I did get venom from the snake and I used my elastic belt and stretched it somewhat tight on my arm and knew I had to walk, not run, back to camp. It took me a good 30 to 45 minutes to get back to camp and I remember the panic to get me to the hospital and the last thing I remember was before going unconscious was the turn just before we got to Sterling City. I do not remember anything for two days and I was given anti-venom - the old type - and it really packed a wallop. It took me a week to feel up to getting around and I had to have my wrist skin cut a number of times because the skin died around it, but there is barely a scar now. I am not scared of the woods, but have had other experiences of being followed by mountain lions, an unknown large creature that paralleled me all the way out of a stream for over a mile once in 1974 (and I am not saying Bigfoot but am not sure what it was! All I know is that it literally ran me out of my favorite fishing spot) and black bear on occasion, but NOTHING compares to the terror of seeing a rattlesnake ON YOUR WRIST! ;>) I really watch where I step now but my love of the Sierras has never diminished... Things like this are part of life and being scared is good for campfires, but most of the time, the mountains are just a beautiful place to be and I love being part of them when I go. That's my story Brooke ;>)
If you want some truly interesting reading, research the use of a low voltage stun gun for venomous spider & snake bites. Then make your own decision if you want to use it..
WOW! What brave mountain gals you are!! I live in a mountain town in Mt. Shasta, CA., would never camp out in the wilderness--black bears are very common here and are known to come into town during Winter looking for food. They love berries. Also, several young women have disappeared & were never found ( not to scare anyone) but beware!
You mentioned the cremation story of someone, a book. Well I was a funeral director and embalmer, was my profession. During my training I worked as a funeral assistant, often with setting up for visitations, closing up the funeral home after a visitation, closing of a grave etc.. . I don't have any scary stories about embalming but what I do have are real stories about things, smells, drastic temperature changes, breezes, doors slamming, mirrors dropping off walls, music playing, other noises and other various things that had no reasonable explanations for.. also some good cemetery stories..spooky even for me, ones I wouldn't believe if someone else had told them to me..but they did happen to me, so I've got to believe them. Why do these type of things usually happen when your by yourself? I did have another funeral assistant that I worked with and she was there during several of these, plus she had her own experiences herself...
I was a cemetery groundsperson for a little bit; part of that duty entailed beehive removal. The first time I removed a beehive at night, I thought to myself, “gosh I hope I don’t see a ghost or something.” Well, I never did see a ghost, but I’m pretty positive that many people thought I was a ghost, walking around in my hoodie with no light haha
One night years ago (70s) in the hills above Eielson AFB near Fairbanks my father (in the Air Force) and my brother and I , tweenagers were hunting. We heard all kinds of terrible noises outside our tent during the night but stayed inside expecting the worse (bear,wolf). In the morning we found the entire area littered with rabbit dropping’s. It had been Waskally Snow Shoe Rabbits!
This makes me think of what it must have been for early Humans when they befriended wolves, and the wolves befriended Humans - the wolves caught the vermin, protected us, and in turn we protected them, gave them shelter, and fed them. How beautiful that they've evolved into doggies, our awesome companions!
I have a mating pair of coywolves that are friends and never fed them, they have eaten and hunted and mated in front of me, also a mating pair of great horned owls who have done the same above, I have videos on my channel of them and you can hear us holding and hooting :-) Peace and Blessings
When I go to Yellowstone, a pack of wolves always comes to me, by the Mammoth Hot Springs area. I think they are the same pack each time. I give them a milk bone, pet them and then they go away after 15 minutes.
Sonny Daiz film it cause I wont believe it till I see it and what a film that would be, they stick with me sometimes for an hour, it has taken almost 3 years to gain her trust enough to pet her, which will be soon I hope and he has lay down and showed me his belly and whimpers and plays a lot with her when I'm near, he gets so excited he mates with her, they have hunted and eaten in front of me too and just sat 20 feet from each other for 30 mins or more. I hope she can remain calm enough when we do touch so I don't get hurt, I cut and bleed easily and have a funky genetic condition called Ehlers Danlos syndrome, but it would be worth a bite or two if she trusts me enough to pet and play with her. Much Love and God Bless
Glad you have your beautiful pooch with you in the woods. She seems to enjoy being outside as much as you do. She also gives you peace of mind, I'm sure, being out in the woods alone...I know it would, for me. Now that I'm older, I know the mishaps & dangers & I'd never go into the woods alone... not even with your dog,!!!
Loved the video, the fire, the wind, flakes of snow, and your presence you are full of energy and your beautiful companion. Again thank you for taking the time spent with us behind the lense.
I live and have lived on a back slough of a river. Woods, Swamps, coyote, cougar, Bear, Sasquatch all of them do not scare me as much as the big city full of lunatics.
When I was seven, my grandmother and I were lost in the mountains for 3 days with no food and no shelter. It was July, which many people ask "oh, why didn't you eat berries?" Well, if you have ever been above 9400 feet elevation, then you know there are no berries to be found in early July. There was snow in most spots we were walking through. We had canteens and Granny was a smoker so she had a lighter but when you are dressed in light weight clothes for an "afternoon trek", even a fire will barely keep the Wyoming cold at bay, especially when you are a kid and frightened out of your mind. By the third day, I was so hungry that I couldn't move without dry heaving. Search and Rescue found us because they heard my screams the days before. We also used our metal canteens to help the helicopters locate us. If they hadn't found us when they did, my granny would have died on me within a day. It was many years later that I found that out. I'm now 45 and still love the outdoors, but trust me when my family goes camping, I'm always sure we are overstocked with food. My family understands, especially my "bare bones camping" hubby who lovingly sighs at the four totes/coolers of food for five days. OH, and yes, to this day I ALWAYS have a lighter.
You're living my dream. I never went camping until I met my ex-husband. I loved it! But, I haven't gone camping in a couple of decades, but I would love to go camping with someone like you for the first time if I ever did it again. I think Maysie is such a cool dog too. I came across your channel a few days ago and love watching.
Loved the video Brooke. Imagine this. Wilderness canoe trip. You hear a thud against your canoe and your bear bell rings. Something steps on a corner of your ground sheet sticking out from under your tent and right next to the tent wall by your head, heavy breathing. Oh boy. Thank goodness for a full moon that night. Outlined against the tent roof and wall, by the light of the moon, was the shape of a momma moose and her calf. I'd pitched the tent right on a moose trail. :o)
Myn6211 (lolol). I'm laughing cuz of nerves. My hubby and I were canoe camping in Algonquin Provincial Park and our last evening of trip,we were both woken up by something walking heavy around our canoe ... It was a male moose (Rutting season too),so i'm soooooo glad we didn't make a noise or turn on flashlight cuz pretty sure that would've set him off. We were 35 kms away from civilization and our only transportation was our 16 ft Wilderness Canoe ,now sitting precariously vulnerable under a potential rampaging moose 😨😨😨. Fortunately,nothing happened. The bull moose grew either tired or bored and hightailed it into the woods without incident and we could fall back asleep again...
First instinct was to shine a flashlight out the tent door when I heard the thud but you know that gut feeling that kind of kicks in when your senses are razor sharp Brooke? Well that's what happened and all turned out well. They just sniffed and walked on. Unfortunately the person I was with was not amused and we ended up coming out of the interior as soon as morning light permitted.
Oh wow, rutting season is a very dangerous time to be anywhere near a male moose for sure. My incident also took place in Algonquin. We were only in one portage in on our trip. The person I was with was not amused and as soon as grey light hit I was packing up camp and headed back to civilization. The next year I soloed. :p
That's a great video and Maysie the wonderdog is amazing ! I was 21 yrs old and living in Bayside ny . I had been taking a nightly bike ride along the LIE ( long island expressway ) service road out to Jericho Trnpk and back . It was late Sept and a really thick fog was on the road . I was on the return part of the trip headed for home when I heard this host of otherworldly noises that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up . The fight or flight mechanism kicked in and I was hammering for home with a jet assist from a massive spike of adrenaline ! I came back a couple of nights later and went offroad for a bit and found a large pond with dozens of bull frogs !
Scariest experience I've had camping was a tornado followed by a flash flood. At night. I was maybe seven. My father thru me over his shoulder and picked one of my sister's up at the same time. I remember watching a tent floating away and trees coming down. Although water got inside the truck we got out of harms way. We were blessed that night. The second scariest was when a pack of coyote paid us a visit. I was getting out of the tent to use the bathroom and they were there....looking at me. Quietly I rezipped the tent. They left as if I wasn't there.
I would like camping alone but there's something about being in the woods I do not like day or night you are a very brave and smart woman and I admire you for not letting fear keep you from doing what you love to do keep yourself and your beautiful dog safe
I suspect in years, many years ago it was safer, but now too many crazy or just those that want to harm whatever they happened upon these days & even way deep in the woods.
Haven't had my scariest time in the woods camping, but I grew up in the woods... literally. When I was a child there was a news report of a black panther sighting in the area. One summer evening we were having dinner on our big screened-in porch at dusk, and we ALL heard it in the woods nearby. The panther's cry sounded just like a woman's scream. It was eerie! The other truly scary time was when a wild boar was running loose in our woods. He made such a racket! I recall it was a particularly pitch black night... couldn't see a thing, but it was so loud. I was very scared because they are known to be vicious.
Awesome video... I love your calm, down to earth demeanor. You have great outdoor skills and I really appreciate a girl who enjoys the outdoors and doesn’t have a problem leaving behind all the creature comforts for a while to nuzzle up to nature and deepen that bond. It’s so refreshing....
When I was a young teenager, my dad, his best friend and I were wade fishing along our favorite Smallmouth Bass creek. The only thing out of the ordinary on this trip was that the day before, 4 violent criminals had escaped from a local prison and had not been apprehended. Dad and his friend told me to keep my eyes open, my head on a swivel, and be aware of my surroundings. You can bet that my eyes were paying extra attention to those dark shadows in the woods along the banks of the creek. I was making my way along a rather rocky part of the bank, getting close to a large bush of some sort...when suddenly....about a dozen Grouse exploded from that bush. My heart knew for sure that I was about to get grabbed by an escaped murderer and it did its best to take flight through the roof of my skull. That was the scariest moment I have ever experienced in my life....and I just turned 51 5 days ago.
Lol, I would've had a heart attack to hear that!! I just went out to solo tarp camp for my first time and I swear the night before, my thoughts went through everything from bears, cougars and bigfoot! lol. When I actually got there, I was actually grateful for the light of the full moon and the wind to drown out all the scary noises for my first time!! I plan to do another one in the coming weeks and I hope I don't remember your story! lol. fyi, I loved your strength and tenacity on Alone. Very inspiring to fellow lady bushcrafters!!
I hike alone on remote trails. When I come across fresh scat I begin singing. Bears can be 20 feet off the trail and if a lot of bush, you won't know. I figure my singing will frighten anything away. :).
I just came across this video and loved it. The pace and your attention to the viewer is so inviting. I enjoy camping, but I have never camped alone before. I live alone in a cabin with woods surrounding me though. I have thought many times about maybe building a shelter on my property away from the house just to practice. Up here in Vermont, there are plenty of bear, moose, porcupine and fisher cats so it would sure be a test of courage for a night. Thanks for the great content and inspiration. Sweet collie. Enjoy the wilderness.
Just in my teens and was out shooting in a forest. Nothing doing, so walking back along forest road to meet up with my father. It was just getting dark when I heard faint sound of movement in the trees someway behind me, thought it was my imagination at first but no, definitely something there. Every time I stopped sounds stopped a fraction of a second later but getting closer. As soon as I started walking, so did "it". Looked back couldn't see anything. Trying to think what it could be (Britain, so no bears etc)...obviously too big to be a rabbit/ hare, fox? No, a dear maybe but unlikely to follow a human. Then thoughts turned to sightings of big cats (stories of pumas/ panthers released into wild years back then)....nah, so what the hell was it??? Finally got to a clearing and stopped on the opposite side to see if anything showed. Slowly the "follower" appeared from the gloom. A bloody sheep!!!!! I nearly shot the damned thing!!! (luckily for the sheep I was taught never to fired if not 100% sure of target). Turns out some of them had moved from the hills to living wild in the woods and the forestry workers had been feeding them sandwiches etc. It was just hoping for tasty cheese sandwich for it's supper :-).
Awww a sweet sheep, trusting in a human. I'm glad you didn't shoot it. Thank goodness you were taught to identify your target before firing. Basic gun safety rules are priceless and save many lives.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH A....A...GUN IN BRITAIN?!?! I advice you to surrender yourself,along with your fire arm,and any butter knives that you may have,to the police station that is closest to you.😜😄
V M LOL.....was funny! Hope the guy knows I was laughing with him and not at him! ☺ Not as funny as story about a guy who went fishing and had backpack on and his fishing pole on it somehow....he began to here a noise behind him + when he stopped , it stopped. It was getting close to dark so he went on a little faster and he said, something pulled on his backpack + it of course tugged him back slightly. Anyway he finaly looked behind him again and realized his fishing pole somehow had slipped and the fishing line came loose and the lure was dragging on the ground and thats what got caught and that was what pulled him back. He just knew something was about to get hold of him. 😃 That one really crack me up! Funny....how our imaginations can get the best of us sometimes. 😃 I know at the time it wasn't funny, but later when you realize what it really was...you got to feel pretty stupid. Just sayin. ☺
A friend of mine and I were camping in the Canadian Rockies a number of years back. There you can find into wolves, coyote, black and grizzly bears, lynx and cougar among many other non carnivorous species. The focus around safety in the area is predominantly around the grizzly's. Carry a bear bell/spray, be vocal, never turn your back on a bear, you know, all the usual suggestions. We were a 20 km hike into our camping spot and each day spent a few hours hiking and exploring the area, rarely seeing anyone at all. On this particular day we both kept saying, "it feel like someone or something is watching us". Bear bells ringing, "hey bear" shouting, we continued on. We shortly there after stopped for a rest and a drink of water and as we were sitting there, all of a sudden a black wolf came running out of the woods from behind us. We both stood up with hands in air shouting and at the last second it veered to it's left and down a hill and away from us. This sequence last no more than 5 seconds and it was all over. It came withing 5 feet of us and there is no doubt in my mind it had been stalking us and planned on a meal that day. Scariest moment of my life, bar none right there! After it was all over, we chatted about just how big this animal was and still to this day, wonder if there were more of them in the woods watching. We never stuck around to find out, I can assure you...lol
Great video just hanging around a structure. You keep everything interesting by just showing interesting things you have found and finding interesting equipment you actually use on the cheap. I loved the scariest story of just take off running. I have been in the same situation hunting in central Arkansas. Ended up being my buddy sneaking up on my stand and waiting for me to get down to make strange noise as I was walking out after dark. Lucky he didn't get shot. We still sit around the campfire and tell that story. Keep up the great videos.
LOVE the deer startle! When my late wife and I honeymooned in a national park, I went for a walk by the lake and walked up within ten feet of a deer without seeing it! A sudden snort and the pounding of the hooves as it rushed away, scared the heck out of me, then I saw her and laughed at myself! It was a great morning.
First I have seen your show, love it! I have those boots! But your coat is super! Where did you find it? I used to be like you then marriage and children came along.now retired, trying to get back to who I was
Hi Brooke, I had a similar experience about 25 years ago, I was walking through the woods to a friends house, just so happens to be along a foot path with chain link fences on each side, this path is bordered like this for about a quarter of a mile, you can see houses in the distance, but its pitch black all around, I was about halfway, when I heard a soft Cha Cha Cha Cha (no joke)"not the music" sounded primeval, I carried on walking, about after 20 seconds it happens again, but louder, this time, I can feel the hairs standing up on the back of my neck, after about 10 seconds, it happend again, even louder, and then again almost like shouting, Cha Cha Cha Cha, I have to be honest I was rooted to the spot, I had a small mini-maglight, with me and held it out in from to try to see what it was, when all of a sudden, the fencing in front and to the right of me lifted up and a Spinning Brown thing came out from under the fence about the size of a large dog, screaming Cha Cha Cha Cha, I have to say" I Screamed" I was crapping it, then the Thing split in two and two Foxes run off into the Dark. I was as white as a ghost when I got to my friends house.
Many years ago, when I sold firewood, I was at my wood supply deep in the woods at the end of a long, narrow, hilly, winding logging road. I had driven my 1949 GMC dump truck in, and was backed up to a pile of wood (tree tops and smaller stuff) that the loggers didn't want. I was all by myself just as I'd been many times before. It was a bright sunny fall morning and I'd just finished filling my saw with gas and oil. I gave a pull on the cord to start the saw and it almost started when, suddenly, I felt that I was being watched. Huh? I looked around and couldn't see anything and I shrugged it off and pulled again on the cord and the saw fired up. Layed it into a log and started cutting when out of the corner of my eye I caught a movement which was in the woods adjacent to the clearing. I killed the saw and stared in the direction of the movement but could see nothing. So I walked toward the trees where I'd seen movement and that's when it moved again but it was probably 30 feet from where I thought it was. It was on 2 feet and it blended perfectly with the color of the trees which made it hard to distinguish. Is that a person? I think it is? But I just couldn't make out any color or distinguishing features that you would associate with a human being. I shouted... and again I shouted but I couldn't hear anything or see it. I remember thinking, damn gun in truck and it's way over there. Looking back again into to trees it moved again and seemd closer than before but still unrecognizable. I was spooked. Almost frozen in place and just barely able to move my legs to start moving back toward the truck when, it let out with a sound that was so loud and high pitched that it stopped me dead still. Completely scared and feeling powerless I had all I could do to turn and look in its direction. Trembling with fear I looked in every direction. Nothing? .... Regaining a little control of my body I started half stepping toward my truck when again, that horrible piercing sound and there it stood on two feet. Dark, big, with arms holding trees both right and left. Somehow, I broke into a dead run for the truck and felt it was right behind me. Once in the truck I struggled to get my gun out and I was sure it was right outside but as I looked all around and thru my mirrors I saw nothing. I got the truck started and left my saw and gas can behind and drove a little distance away but still in view of the clearing and looked and saw nothing but felt like it was right next to me.... following and waiting to pounce. I drove back out that bumpy, narrow, winding log road as fast as I could and didn't relax until I was back onto and far down the main road. I still get goose bumps when I think about it. I went back to see if my saw was still there a couple of days later when I got the nerve and knew the loggers were there. I just waved and grabbed my saw, and no, I didn't tell them the story. I'm sure the would have laughed. And to edit this post, I liked the video and the different approach you take in making videos. It is different and fresh. The great outdoors is something that can be appreciated at a modest expense and without practicing things that require survival expertise. Camping with your dog (as in your case) or your family is a richly rewarding experience if you want it to be. Newbies should try to do it modestly and comfortably to start. Then, if they are inclined, they might enjoy learning survival techniques and the art of buschcraft. But until then, there is plenty of affordable gear to make camping pretty comfortable, and getting a fire started with the help of a good fire starter should help to make the camping experience enjoyable and relatively easy. Of coarse, best you leave the scary stories at home for the first couple of nights in the deep dark woods. Thank you for this video.
wow what a true and scary sighting ! I wonder if it was pissed at you thinking you torn down its stomping grounds, i bet the loggers have many tales to if you could get them to open up, so what if they think your crazy at least they would be warned n maybe then share their stories if any they have, thats a scary event, Glad you made it out of there safe, you was rightfully scared for sure to leave back your chainsaw your main tool for your lively hood
Seriously you have guts. When me and my 2 male friends went on a road trip in Oman, they'd sleep in a tent at night and always locked myself up in a car and slept there, with the windows up of course and a tiny opening for fresh air. And this is one of the safest countries in the world. I could NEVER stay in a cabin in the woods ALONE. Love your videos though
I hunt the West alone quite a bit and am often in bear, wolf, lion country. These are the predators that can give you problems. Several times, while sleeping soundly in my tent, I've been awakened by loud sniffing sounds just outside my tent! The animal will often circle the tent, sniffing as he goes and they always, so far, eventually leave. I would probably say these encounters are probably coyotes' or possibly black bears. Once, while elk hunting solo in Idaho, I had been seeing a lot of wolf sign while hunting. I was using my ATV to get around to various hunting area's for each days hunt. One day, while dismounting my ATV, as I swung my leg off the saddle, I looked behind me and there was a medium sized black wolf starring at me! It was maybe 30 feet away. Very unusual. Later during that same hunt, while sleeping at about 0230 in the morning, I was jolted awake by an entire pack of wolves who evidently had come to visit my campsite. They started howling, one at first, but then another joined in, then another, etc., until the entire pack of 6-8 wolves were howling their heads off maybe 100-150 feet from my tent. Think they were trying to tell me something? I grabbed my pistol and as soon as I opened the tent, they instantly stopped! Pretty amazing encounter.
I would be really careful with that. Sleeping on a tent with bears and cougars around, it may end up badly one day. If you are a good/experienced tracker, you may recognize the markings that predators leave in order to understand if you are camping inside core areas of their territories. Also by the sounds that the animals produce. Even cougars can be very noisy, during certain times of the year. Because if you camp next to their lair or their «playground» then you are at big risk. Bears and cougars, can be very territorial. And even if you aren´t next to them, but you know that they are around occasionally, they may see you not as a competitor but as a prey. Even if people keep food outside, animals would get the human scent. Sooner or later, people would need to go outside, and that´s when things can end up badly. There are reported cases of bears attacking and killing people inside the tent, but it usually happens when people go out or just simply stay outside. But people do as they wish. I´m just sharing my opinion. Regarding this video that we are commenting not sure what to think… The girl seems to fear the strange things that may lurk the forest at night, yet do this kind of raw camping. If there are black bears or cougars around, then that´s not really smart, to be so exposed. I wouldn´t feel that safe, even if there were only coyotes there, because coyotes may get interested on the dog and the dog may go out after them and that´s what coyotes want. Once the fire is gone (it may happen when she´s sleeping), so is her and her dog safety in risk. Doesn´t seem that cool to be honest.
Geog M. I wouldn’t worry about her, she knows what she’s doing, clearly, and doesn’t want to just live her life limited to safe living in a rocking chair. I’ve run into dozens of bears, many of them really close up ( not my choice) and have yet to have a negative experience, although a few of them got my heart racing. Yes, being out in the woods is riskier than staying at home, but if you want to live your life, that’s the risk you take and it’s really worth it, for all the other benefits you can gain from the experiences. I really want to try camping on my own for two nights, without my husband, to see what I’m made of, but I don’t think I’m brave enough. Maybe if I had a big dog, I would.
Wolves are given such a bad reputations in books and movies. I was surprised that there are actually no reported incidences of wolves attacking people.
Scariest moment ever in the woods was when I was riding my horse through a swamp bottom, making our way carefully around some cypress knees. All of a sudden he stops in his tracks with ears forward, listening, and eyes wide open, blowing heavy through his nostrils. Then I smell it. A gosh awful stench. I thought it must be a wild hog maybe. Then I hear a deep grunt sound. Well all I had to do was lean the reins to the side like I was going to ease and turn around, and my horse was like, heck yeah, we gone. He took off up the hill so fast I was having to duck to not be taken out by tree limbs. When we got out to the edge of woods leading into the field he finally settled down. Still not sure what that was. My brother jokingly said it must have been Bigfoot.
There was a story like that on RUclips, a couple on there horses did the exact same thing as your horse did, also smelt the smell, apparently they did see Bigfoot in the end and they also had there horses run out as fast as possible
Was the deep grunt like an oink cause a wild boar still sounds like a pig, wild or not. I too believe Sabi (Bigfoot) judging by the area, sound, smell and horse's reaction. I had a weird one similar to that on mine one night and I also didn't question her decision.
i love how at home you are outdoors and alone (except for the company of your beautiful dog) even in cold weather. i sometimes just get spooked at home alone overnight because i let my imagination go. i've never camped alone at night but i've had good spooks hiking alone in the woods before mostly because of animal noises. there was one night, however, i was camping with a friend in newfoundland. we weren't anywhere special, just staying at the kind of campground that's basically an alternative to a hotel room. lots of people around, very friendly. i think it was on our second morning that my friend and i noticed a bunch of bones had been laid out on our picnic table that had definitely not been there when we went to bed, which was concerning. the bones were from some medium sized animal and not like chicken bones someone had left after eating wings or something. it was like someone had found a skeleton in the woods, picked up all the bones and arranged them on our table. i mean, it could have been some animal but the way the bones were arranged was very orderly. we stayed a few more nights, nothing else ever happened but we still don't get why those bones were there.
I love food cooked on an open fire, especially beef stew! Your such a woodsy girl. I don't think I could stay out there all night. I love your video's!
I need to live like that . I’m so alone . Amd mistreated by my sister . Love your video . Your so happy amd have a beautiful dog and a beautiful spirit . Bless x
Seek Jesus Christ with all of your heart and you will find him and you will never feel alone, and he will teach you how to love people even if they do you wrong. Please repent from your SINS and ask Jesus to give you your salvation from YOUR SINS and save your SOUL from HELL.
I was about 25. A young mother. I was On horseback in the woods, my horse was amazing to trail ride with....she suddenly refused to go into a slight clearing in the woods. I tried to urge her in , a couple times. She was really being stubborn. So, I turned her around . She almost hi tailed it home. As we pulled up to our property, prison guards were at the bottom of our driveway. They said Several violent prison escapees were being searched for. I told them my experience as I was un saddling my horse. I locked her in for the night. They were guarding all the driveways of my neighbors. The guards sent some men out in the direction I pointed out. There were cigarette butts in the clearing and a couple candy bar wrappers. The guards reported that I was likely walking into their hiding spot and my horse saved my life. Thank God for my horses intuition.
Wow, yes, thank God for your horse's senses. And it's good you didn't force your horse.
Isso seria o que ela está falando?
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@@silvaneandrade3476 His horse was aware there were dangerous men ahead and wouldn't go further, causing the owner to turn around and leave. It saved his life and he didn't know it until the guards told him of the dangerous escapees.
Aaaaaaaaand this is why I surround myself with animals (livestock and pets). Never-fail best alarm system ever.
My wife divorced me after 20 yr marriage. I came across your channel and I'm drawn to this episode . So I live by myself , and every couple months I put this episode on as I'm going to bed. And just take it in , how you describe things , sound of the fire cracking. The calm atmosphere with quiet pauses of reading. Nice background music. Listen to some of your stories. I don't feel so alone , as I get comfy in my bed. It's a great episode , so thank you , and have a goodnight .
glad you enjoy it! thanks and sorry bout your situation
Take care
Hi nosey Wales. I read that your wife divorced you after 20 years of marriage. I am the same, my man walked out for another after 18 years of living together , so in know what its like to be on your own. I have to admit I quite like it now if I am honest! Anyway, I love watching
Sorry, I ment hello j osey Wales and my keyboard typed nosey, I do apologise.
“My wife divorced me after 20 yr marriage”...”I don’t feel so alone.” Wow...I’m so sad for you to not have someone to call yours. I wish you every happiness.
Love your show. I do have a story from my mum. I'm in Australia and this happened during the depression when my mum was a little girl. My grandpa was travelling by car around through rural Queensland (a northern state of Australia). One late afternoon my grandpa, grandma, mum, her sister my aunt and her brother, my uncle decided to camp instead of staying in a hotel. It was a beautiful evening and they stopped close to a river. They had seen other travellers who were camping close by. They felt safety in numbers so it would be fine. Grandma started making preparations for dinner and grandpa put up camp beds and made a fire for the night. Then as the light started to fade they both realized that the noises in the bush had stopped and the other campers were gone. They hadn't seen them leave either. Grandma said to grandpa we have to leave now, immediately. Mum recalls grandpa throwing water on the fire, the camp beds and food stores along with the children into the car and drove off as fast as they could. Mum recalled lying on top of something really uncomfortable because suit case was on top of her and one of her siblings legs or elbows jammed into her side. They didn't stop until reaching the next town where they stopped at the local pub. The owner came out to see them and enquired if they were staying, of course they were staying. The owner said dinner was cooking so took them to some rooms to settle in. Over dinner grandpa and grandma retold what had happened by the river. The owner and his wife were very disturbed because there had been a number of people murdered where they had just been camping. Police had not caught whoever was attacking travellers. Mum said it was terrifying. Hope you get to read this. 🤗
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Thanks to grandma probably saved your life (a wise lady)
Yiks. Do you wonder if the camping neaghbors where killed and that's why you did not see them go??
And nomads say if you don't feel right don't stay move on.
So glad your family was safe
I have shivers running through my body! 💯 % Grandma saved everyone and grandpa listened to his wife. Thats terrifying.
I really enjoy your channel. I too had a very creepy experience.
It was about 1973. My Grandfather had a cabin up in Lake Arrowhead, CA. Grandpa would take all of us kids up to the mountains. We were the only cabin up there for about 10 miles. My sister and I along with my two cousins loved to go exploring. We were never afraid. One summer, late morning we headed out after our breakfast. We were hiking for a couple of hours when we came across an old dilapidated very tiny cabin. The roof had fallen in and the front door was open. We peaked in to see what was inside. There was very old cooking equipment, along with what looked like large pans that were for panning gold. This cabin was very close to a stream. My cousin was curious if there were someones remains so he was digging through the debre. We all felt a very creepy vibe so we headed out. We always followed the stream back to our cabin. After we left walking along the stream there was a loud man's voice that said HEY so loudly. It felt like someone screaming directly into our ears, it hurt. We froze. We were looking around thinking there was a man maybe hiding behind a tree or something. There was no one. We were so frightened we could hardly say anything. Then we started running. We looked back and there was still no one. Keeping in mind this was a very remote area. When we were close to our cabin we decided to stop and talk about it. My sister said it felt like someone was about an inch away from her ear screaming. We all had the same feeling. Our eardrums were still ringing. We decided not to tell our Grandparent's anything.
After this we never went hiking in that direction again. This is the first time I have ever spoken of this in 49 years.
Sounds like some kind of paranormal activity 😮
Wow, I've never heard anyone speak of a disembodied voice being anything close to that loud before!
@@thelittlelenora It was the scariest thing we all had experienced. It felt like someone screaming in all of our ears at the same time. You could feel the energy so close.
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This reminds me of the time on an extremely hot afternoon I was out on our second floor deck with a book. All of the sudden I heard a deep voice say HEY right in my ear. I jumped up and looked around. None of the neighbors were out and from 12 ft off the ground I could see all of the neighborhood. I know sound carries but this wasn't that. Till this day I can't explain it.
Not only is the video lovely, the comments, and reading everyone's scary stories is a special treat.
i knowwwww! the stories.....
@@therealgirlinthewoods from the description you gave it sounds like it was a cow or a farm animal, esp since you were next to a field
finally someone enjoying a night in the bush and not going through the whole show about how wonderful there gear is and showing us everything they own. thank you
All my wonderful gear is from garage sales, thrift stores, flea markets and the dump! LOL
Amen!
@@therealgirlinthewoods you're a woman after my own ♥️! My Favorite camping, case iron fry pan I bought at goodwill for 35 cents, when I was 16.... still use it, and I'm 60.makes a perfect egg every time. You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to save it from being stolen. Lol
What you sounded was like a deer grunting . Not a deer snorting . Two different sounds all together . That's probably what the other people were talking about . The tingling of the arrows sounded like . Tingling of antlers of two bucks fighting . And you called a bigger buck in and he was grunting .
Great story thanks
@@therealgirlinthewoods❤
i was out on a several day hike. i would take a ice fishing pole hiking so i could catch some fish. it was getting dark and i had a little ways to go before bedding down for the night. i had to go though some low branches. as i went thew them i heard something russel in the leaves behind me. i looked back and didn't see anything. i started walking again and i heard it again. i stopped and the noise stopped. i started walking again and there is was. about this time i thinking bears, big foot, or even aliens. something was following me. i started to hurry along and it sped up also. at this point i was scared shitless. i started to run and felt something pull on my backpack then let go, almost making me fall forward. the noise stopped. this was my chance to getaway. a ran to the shelter i was going to sleep at. taking off my pack i hit something sharp. it was a fishing hook and a few feet of line on it. then i realized it was my fishing pole had fallen out of my pack and was dragging on the ground back behind me and finally it got caught on something and the line broke. i kinda felt stupid running from my fishing pole.
oh my gosh thank you for the great laugh tonight!
LoL
Too funny !thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh tonight !
Now I can picture that kind of thing happening just this way with me ....hahahahahaha then the relief of I get to live and calm down. Lol. Ty for sharing that.
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😃..good one!
Goes to show how the imagination can work on us!
That would have been me! 😃
But to avoid that...I don"t go in the woods alone! Problem solved! ☺
I'm still laughing! Not at you but with you!
My scariest was when I was living out of my tear drop camper I built while I was building my first off grid place. It was just me and my dog, Pugi, 8 miles off the main road down an old jeep trail. No one around. Middle of the night woke up to coyotes laughing and kackling like they do when they are on the hunt. Then all of a sudden there was the loudest growl, howl, screaming sound I ever heard. Didn't sound far away at all. Maybe 30 yards. No idea what kind of animal would make that kind of sound. The area has elk, maybe bears, free range cattle, bob cats, but I can't imagine any of them making this extremely loud, horrific sound. Imagine a low pitch growl like a bear mixed with a high pitch scream. I was convinced it was sasquach. Scared the crap out of me. So glad I was in a hard shell camper with a lockable door and not a tent.
yep night sounds..... !
Its not a sasquatch haha its a mountain lion they can make screaming sounds and baby sounds
There is a video of two lynx fighting on a dirt road and it is THE scariest sound I have ever heard. You should watch that video to see if that is what you heard. They make that sound when they are threatened.
Mountain lions sound like that .Them and bobcats sound like a woman screaming.I grew up with noise like that..
Scott carpenters book “truth denied”. And “the Nephilim among us.” The Sasquatch are out there and they have multiplied. People need to be aware that hike and hunt in the forests. Also Steve isdahl’s channel. How to hunt. He reads emails of hundreds of thousands of people’s experiences who wrote in because their friends laughed at them. And now they know they are not alone.
when you sleep out in the woods the light of the morning is like angels coming to visit
yessss
Well said, my friend. Some people say that angels are actually angles of light it somewhat makes sense to me. The son of god brings the angels or the sun of god brings the angles.
@@truemordecai2996 very true I suffer from anxiety and depression I kept hearing my name being called I was really going through it so the sun started to shine very bright through my window I swear it made a cross symbol and in my living room I have a picture that says GOD is love the light was shinning through on to the picture so random I started crying I believe it was a sign telling me everything will be alright 💜
BiggestFoot Nonsense. Your lack of an experience with God does not prove that He doesn’t exist. The amount of arrogance it must take to make such a statement as you did must be gigantic.
@De Lacey this made me smile thank you so much your story is beautiful it was definitely a good sign from your mom 🙏🏾💜🥰
I am not ever going to be sleeping in the woods alone. I just watch you do it!!!
Let's go
Lol! Same!
You bring back memories of me in my teens to my 50s. I spent months traversing, canoeing, x-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and camping in the Adirondack mountains in upstate New York. Summer, fall, winter and spring. I love it! One year, with friends we made camp at Mt Marcy, NY, and while sitting around the fire a pack of wolves surrounded our camp site. Alpha came near up, circling and sniffing, more curious than aggressive. Glowing eyes all around. They left after about 20 minutes. It was frightening and awesome.
You are so brave! There is no way I could spend the night alone in the woods without real shelter, like a cabin. I have spent up to a month alone in a cabin, in Oregon's wildnerness, but I had the 4 walls- big difference!! I was cabin sitting my friend's cabin & one night I was hearing all kinds of strange sounds, when all of a sudden, a raccoon came falling through an high on the wall, open window! (Meant for their cat) It literally took my breath away, it scared me so badly!
Oh wow!
I'm with you, no way would spend a night out in the woods all by myself.
I'm too scared !!!! 😳
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That's my point there is no protection in tents and Van especially in jungle alone there must be atleat strong built safe and secure cabin to do such adventures after all safety first all other things are beyond
Having a dog with you makes everything better. Good dog!
Such a wonderful dog! She is a beautiful, beautiful treasure. I love, love,love dogs. They are such a tremendous blessing! I truly thank Jesus so much for dogs.
Dogs are good company and can warn you if anything or anyone is NEAR that's it dogs are NO match against bears..mountain lions or even Bigfoot best carry your guns/rifles shoot them instead for protection.
People with dogs go missing more then people who don't have dogs. The woods are not as safe as you think .
Yeah but I still be scared alone even if you bring a dog with you I still be scared tho.
Robby Wright having a gun helps more.
God did good work the day he made dogs. You make kind, gentle, real, no drama videos. Good job. I'm enjoying them. Thank you.
Humans made dogs from wolves tho, right?
m lackey God ha ha your hilarious, you don’t believe that ignorant primitive superstition do you?
@@Randy58-zn4ez wow, what a nasty comment!!! The sad thing you took the time to write it. Why would you care what someone else believes unless you have no life of your own! Lackey got 139 thumbs up, you got 0!
Unfortunately, the lie you believe name god, well, he created the world in three days and he did it just 5000 years ago.
Dog bones have been found from 15,000 years back so I'm afraid dogs pre-date God.
You're an easy one to love. Love your fur baby, Maysie. My scariest woods encounter was at dusk just wrapping up my hunting day, walking back to my car about 2 miles away. Didn't see ANY deer. about a half mile or so into my walk back, there was a turn in the road. At the turn was a tree that had been struck by lightning. I knew it had been struck by lightning because if any of you have ever seen one, you know that it is as white as possible because when a tree gets struck by lightning, it instantly cooks all the resin in the tree, and kills it instantly, leaving in with a ghost white appearance. ANYWAYS...so the tree caught my attention due to its nature, so i looked at the tree and followed it up. The tree was broken off some 15 or so feet up, and right where the tree had broke, was a cougar, or mountain lion just staring at me. It growled that low in the back of its throat type of growl while looking at me. So that was my "In the moment" scared sh*tless...moment. I started to swing my 30 -06 off of my shoulder, and primed the chamber. As soon as i pulled the bolt back, it turned around, and jumped off the back side of the tree, and took off into the woods. That was the LONGEST 1 1/2 mile hike back to my car, always looking back and to the sides of the road making sure that it wasn't sneaking up on me. I mean ,can you imagine, if i hadnt looked up that tree and saw that thing? I would have walked right underneath it and gave it my back. I would have been dead.
WOW spooky! You're not the only one in the comments with cougar stories!
Those cougars are sneaky killers, never trust them, u did right by covering your 6 the whole way
As one who winter camps in a tent in remote northern Wisconsin alone…with my dog I understand. I don’t know what is more terrifying, the wind howling all night long at a deafening volume or absolute silence where you can hear every critter on the forest floor. I will say hearing coyotes yipping as they get closer and closer is a bit unnerving. And as that sun comes up in and the day begins it always reminds me why I do it. Solo camping like you share in the video is the best but not for everyone.
Great video.
Reading spooky stories, while camping in the woods on your own.
That's hardcore!
Lol
Me thinks the same, she'z craze.
Then the alarm goes off (the dog).....to extreme for me. This lady has bawlz.
For reals hahaha
I ❤👍 that fur hat-- what is it & where did u get it-- alaska???😁 I'm getting some of ur older videos , very coo👍😊 that is one pretty collie- lassie,,, dog🐕🤗 be safe👏💕
There's a RUclipsr backpacker who told a story about hiking at night trying to catch up with her camp. In doing so she crossed through another camp and saw someone following her with a flashlight after she passed through. Her fear continued to grow as she realized the 'person' was still following her to the point she started running to then trip and fall. Finally she realized it was the rising moon, so ya, your mind can play tricks on ya.
That was Dixie, right? Homemade Wanderlust (name of her channel). That was a great story😂
I read that story...
@@carolbeckett6215 I saw her talk about it on her RUclips channel.
Dixie
Hilarious.
I've heard sounds like that when I used to install comm. equipment for the DOT - which were always located in remote sites, far away from people, and usually high up on hilltops. I've experienced "sighing" noises and "moans" but there were no animals anywhere, yet it was right next to me, and coming out of the ground - so it seemed. The experts claimed it was a bobcat or "murcat" but I say NO these were human voices and I have perfect hearing. An old timer told me that he's heard them too up in the woods and described how there's old Native American burial grounds all over the place, especially near big hills - many are so old there's very little signs that anything was ever there, being overgrown over the years. But the worst sound I've heard, occurred at 3 am, as I was rerouting power cables (all of this work is typically done at night when air traffic is low) was the pig snorting sound (not the typical deer snort). It sounded like it was next to me, but a check of entire area turned up no signs of any animals or tracks, no wild boars nothing. Spooky stuff...
I went bow hunting on my property right after I bought it yrs ago, i had to walk way back 1600 ft from the road to the woods, I got about 30 ft into the woods and heard a growling kind of snort noise so close behind me I could feel the hot air on my neck ! this was a hr before daylight as I like getting to a stand early n settle in, I had by backpack with my deer stand on, i thought my options a couple seconds with fear, i had no gun! I know running would be pointless n turning around might be my worst nightmare encounter, so then I decided to just walk slowing to my stand stoping every 15 yards n listen, after a few seconds go again, so my sounds blended with forest creatures, except for what ever breathed on my neck that caught up to me when i said it snorted/growled on my neck! everyone asks me why i didnt look behind me, any creature that bold could have easily killed me if it wanted, it warned e not to walk thru that section in the dark i thought so i obeyed my land didnt matter to it, neither did me living much yr or two later i was walking my dog a norwegian elkkhound thru that section for the first time, all the sudden he took off running i glanced back just in time to see a large tree coming down, i jumped over to the side just in time it landed where i was when the dog took off, the tree still had green leaves n wasnt even a windy day, did something push it over?? my guess it did, and i stayed since out of the front corner of the woods, i hear loud tree knocks, n horrible creams at times from there, i learned my boundarys 2 decades ago and live in peace n respect of it for not killing me although it did try the second time i feel, i just was lucky to miss being squashed ! what was it ? guessing a bigfoot that some people see but not sure !
Bigfoot
@@AmericanPatriot-cw9xe I have heard this so many times I believe it was a Sasquatch.
@@drawdogg_artcreation
Agreed.
Sabe/Sasquatch/Bigfoot
I am watching you at 2:00 in the morning. It is July 11and was HOT today, here in North Carolina……watching you in the snow actually made me feel chilly. I try so hard not to complain about the heat, the cold, the rain, or the lack of it, and try to enjoy every season, & every day. I don’t, but I’m honest, so I’ll say I try. I admire you for the way you endure those winter camp outs, and that you ENJOY them, your surroundings, and just life in general. I have only camped out once and it freaked me out so, I never did it again. I pray you can live like this until God calls you home. You are an amazing woman and I wish you were my friend. God bless you and keep you safe.
I second this! Wonderful, positive person ❤️
Amen!!! LOVE your PRAYERS!!! m
i once ended up setting up my tent when it was dark with out much light. i feel asleep and was awoken when something had run into my guide lines. i was in a tent that was all mesh and when i shined a flash light all the light was reflecting off the mesh however i could perceive eyes in every direction. the next day i realized i had set my tent right over a dear trail. i hadn't got much sleep because those animals were running into my tent and lines all night. it was a small one man bivy bag and a few times i actually felt them from the out side kick me as they walked around. at the time it was scary but when i figured out what i had done i had a good laugh. lesson learned.
Ok. I got a minute now to share a camp story from about 35 years ago. When I was a young teen growing up in the country in S.E. Oklahoma, me and my friends would hike into the woods and camp every chance we got. One of our favorite activities was to go deeper into the woods after dark and see what animals we might find. On one of these excursions we heard a low moan like you described hearing. I turned my flashlight in its direction and saw glowing eyes staring back at us from the trees. We all ran as fast as we could back to camp and built up the fire convinced that we had narrowly escaped the clutches of a monster. The next morning our courage restored by daylight we went to where we saw the glowing eyes of the moaning monster and saw that what had scared us the night before was a cow.
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Hahaaaa this is hilarious. Can you imagine if you were alone? 😱 Nope LoL.
@@FinnMiaBelle it's very funny now, but at the time it was terrifying. (:
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Bigfoot and More Lynx that are mating or fighting sound really scary! You wouldn’t believe how demonic cat sounds can be. 😳
That dog is such a treasure. She's just wonderful. You are so lucky.
Really crazy story ! Gave me Goosebumps too.... I thought you were going to say that your boyfriend was the one making the noise to mess with you!😹😹😜😜😜
Thank you for including your viewers when you pray at meals..it blessed me...keep the faith
probably 20 years ago now I once heard the words "hello there" in a clearing in the middle of the woods nobody around for miles...I was working on a dear stand at the time. Freaked me out...female voice, non threatening. Ive been back there with my Dad hunting many times and it never happened again. I have no clue to this day, very strange indeed.
Lol,my sister herd the same ,but a man's voice at 1:30am in her new apt ,on the way to the tolite! Lol, we finally had to get a shaman to rid it.
Did it by any chance sound kind of odd in a way that u dont really know how to explain??
I wake up thinking someone knocked on the door. Not afrsid just annoyed. I do it maybe 3 or 4 times a year.
I was camping recently and heard a female voice outside my tent say, “hello” and it was non threatening and my husband didn’t hear it! There was nobody there. Wondered who she was.
I have heard too many stories like this to dismiss. Seems to happen a lot in national parks and remote camping areas. I probably would have passes out lol.
When I was 10 yr's old I would get off the school bus at my friends house to play, which was a mile and a half from my home. The problem is there are no houses between us only what we call long-swamp.
It's was the scariest place on the plant to me. I always hated the walk home during the day so I always made sure I left before dark.
During winter months it gets dark earlier and while playing inside I lost track of the time.
By chance I looked at the slightly opened curtain and felt frantic rush over me to see it was dusk outside. The cruel tricks of winter!
I jumped up and said I have to go but my friend begged at me to stay a little longer, no, I said, I've got to get home or I'll be in big trouble. So I said good-by and headed out the door.
As I exited their driveway I begin to run knowing the swamp area is much darker from tree cover.
Half mile into the swamp there is a corner then another half mile of swamp.
Half way in I was so exhausted I had to slow to a walk to catch my breath.
From my friends house to the swamp was a quarter mile, so now I'm wishing I hadn't panicked and ran that quarter mile, or I could've had enough energy to run the whole swamp.
As I approached the end of the swamp I had this eerie feeling I was being watched though I didn't want to look back. There was one more corner ahead then a down hill stretch to my driveway.
As I begin to round that last corner at the end of the swamp, the feeling to look back was overpowering me but I fought it off until I was just about to put the long-swamp behind me.
I looked back and there was a cougar coming out onto the road from the swamp. The panic I felt when I left my friends house now pales to the load beating in my chest and head.
The beating of my heart was so load I thought my ear drums were going to burst.
My breathing was out of control, I felt I couldn't get enough oxygen.
I remembered what my dad thought me, never run but that's all I wanted to do!
The cougar was about two hundred yards back.
I quickly thought up a plan that the cougar has just been watching me walk the last half mile and I'm about to round the corner still walking, so once out of sight he'll think that I'm still walking when I'll be running the fastest I have ever ran and if the cougar just walks I can gain some distance from him.
So once out of sight, I pored it on for my driveway not knowing if the cat is gaining on me. I was so thankful for the down hill slope of this stretch, it felt like I was really moving. I didn't want to waste a second to look back, I just pushed for the driveway which was also long and up hill---damn-it!
As I righted off the road to my driveway I look back.
The cougar was just rounding the corner, I had doubled the distance between us.
I swear I could see a surprised look on his face as he noticed I'd gained some distance from him.
The cougar then went into a full run and I was praying for my legs not to give out on me now on this last little hill.
As I look back at the top of my driveway I could tell the cougar had slowed but was still gaining on me.
Looking at the house I could see the door was open a jar to let the heat out so I bolted for the door---no, I dove for the door, slamming it into the wall stopper. Sprawled out on the floor I quickly kicked the door shut!
My mom comes out of the kitchen to see what the commotions is.
I told her I was chased by a cougar but she just laughed and said the dark will do that to ya and off to the kitchen laughing she went.
Moments latter headlight shine on the ceiling of my dad returning home from work .
I watch out the living room window as he unusually turn the car around with the headlights facing the driveway.
With the headlights on he jumps out of the car and runs to the door.
Barging in the door he yells there's a cougar in the yard and yells at me to stay in the house.
He runs to the bedroom and comes out with the 30.06 and says don't anyone go outside as he heads out the front door.
I run to the window but can't see my dad nor the cat.
My mom's now in a panic and crying for him not to go out there.
I'm shoooing my mom to be quite, I want to hear what's going on!
But she wont shut up!
BANG!------BANG!
I run to the door and hold it open, my excuse will be encase you needed to get in, in a hurry. Like I know that one!
I hear my dad yell, I GOT HIM!
I latter tell my dad my story and my mom confirms it.
This cougar was 10 feet from nose to tail, my dad says it's the biggest cougar he's ever seen.
He strapped it across the hood of the car and drove it to work the next day.
It was so big the head hung down to the wheel and the tail had to be tied to the antenna.
It was the thing they did in those days, parade around town with your trophy hung on your car or truck to all the bars LOL!
I was really proud of my dad!
I no longer had to walk or run the long-swamp as my dad demanded I call him at work and he'll pick me up from then on.
My dad is gone now but I still proudly have that cat hanging on my wall.
Sorry this is so long!
Wow! What state are you in? Great story!
Rule #1 never panic!
Rule #2 never forget Rule #1!
24 yr retired combat veteran.
Thanks for your story,,,you had me going there for a sec,,,I'm glad you made it safe into the house...your instincts were pretty intact as far as sensing there was danger right close to you,,good thing your dad did what he had to do to protect his family,,,,thank you,,was very intetesting...😊☺
@@therealgirlinthewoods
Washington--this was in 1966.
Yep, I'm getting wiser. lol
@Time Allen
That last leg, run up the driveway was pure adrenaline!
I once spent the night alone booked into a Travelodge. Never again.
Respect, sister.
hilarious
Did you miss your mommy to much ?
What hapoened in the spoky Travelodge!
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@@therealgirlinthewoods I'd be more afraid of the humans then the animals sister you have B's a woman in the woods alone never works join a group The Champs separately but together
I have goosebumps just from reading everyone's stories 🖤 glad I stumbled on this, so far its amazing 👏
I can understand some people don’t like the outdoor life, BUT there is no reason to give you a thumbs down!!👍👍👍
Roy Rice honestly doesn’t matter how wholesome or caring a video is I think it’s algorithm for dislikes to always come
I like being outdoors but I'm barely able to walk and get around so I stay in and that's nothing exciting. There was a time in my life I had a pretty good paying job and a brand new car and I would just take off and go somewhere for the weekend always by myself before cell phones 📵
Maysie is sooo precious! What a sweet furry companion 🥰
Oh she is! Bless her furry heart!
My most frightening moment in my remote cabin off the grid experience involved my tree walker coonhound, Luke. It was close to midnight and my Luke was off chasing deer and having a blast, barking up a storm. Then all of a sudden I heard and felt pounding on the thin walls of my cabin, heard my Luke yowl. I was 56 at that time.. I grabbed a 3 foot 2x4, and my sledge hammer,, mustered up all the courage I had inside me and threw open the door not knowing what I'd find. (my mind is thinking bear, bad man, or wild dogs) My baby boy came running in all torn up and whimpering. I examined him and he had some deep wounds which I cleaned, shaved and duct-taped butterfly stitches. My heart was pounding. I didn't know what did this to him but I'm guessing it was a raccoon. He laid off chasing deer for a bit but soon was back to normal. But I also wanted to add always trust your gut. I had a very close call in the Adirondacks when I was a kid going through the woods. My hair stood on end and I wouldn't go into a certain trail I did all the time. My friend was with me and I started crying and shivering so we went back to the road instead. Winds up there was an escaped convict in that exact area. Since then I've always trusted my gut. Anyway thanks again for sharing your life with us Brook. You're so much fun and remind me of me!!
Always trust your gut instinct its a primal instinct that kept our ancestors alive good call !
That's so scary for you, awww, your poor pup! Not sure what your beliefs are but that sounds more like a Bigfoot aggravated by a barking dog which is known to happen. Thin walls or not, raccoons don't bang on walls, certainly not hard enough to, "feel," lol.
Either its dogman or bigfoot..
@@giterdone9013
Agreed.
My spooky story. I've been mountain biking in the Black Hills of South Dakota for over 25 years, and even though we have elk, coyote, mountain lion and the occasional bear, the only time I was afraid in the forest was when I rode Old Baldy Mountain near Spearfish alone. It happens every time I go there, which is only about once every 5 years. The trail is a 6 mile loop and no matter which direction you take, it drops down a large hill before it begins to crest the hill/mountain called Old Baldy. The first time I explored it, I was at the intersection where both ends of the trail meet on the other side, and there is a spur that goes up to the top of the hill at that point. The hill itself has a great view which makes lunching there worth all the work it's going to take to come back to the trailhead. HOWEVER, the beginning of the spur is an entirely different story. Every time I ride or hike that section, the words from Wizard of Oz go through my head (lions and tigers and bears oh my) and just as the hill begins, it never fails - I hear the sound of someone carrying metal rushing up behind me and every time, I hop off the bike to face whatever is trying to scare me.... and nothing. There's no animals, there's no people, even the sound is gone. I stand there for a few minutes waiting for my heart rate to go back no normal and finish the ride/hike. You couldn't pay me to camp out there overnight.
I was at Girl Scout camp somewhere in the forest in So Cal, it was the middle of the night, me and about 15 other girls were asleep on our cots in a big canvas tent. Something woke me up and it was so quiet but I had this creepy feeling. There was some kind of animal in the tent walking around the rows of cots. I could hear it breathing as it walked up and down the rows of cots. I was paralyzed with fear. It hurts not breathe hard when your heart is pounding! I kept wondering if anyone else was awake. It was pitch black. I heard it move closer then, it BUMPED my cot! I held my breath. But then it moved away and its animal type breathing faded away. I was so exhausted trying not to die, I fell asleep hard. What’s so strange is that no one else said they heard anything! I’ll never know what that creature was. I can only imagine😧
Yikes!
Could have been a raccoon or badger or some other nocturnal animal like a opossum that came in searching for food. It might of even been someone`s dog wandering around in the tent. There`s alway`s a logical explanation.
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It's not as reasonable to assume such a small animal if the area was dead-silent, she awoke in a fear state, it bumped her cot, & she could hear it breathing & walking.
Such small animals usually have fairly shallow, light breaths, unless they're sniffing around in someone's pack & I doubt you'd hear much beyond a barely-there pitter-patter unless they're digging around in your stuff, which would indicate a small critter.
Unless she was just legitimately scared of these small types of critters due to lack of familiarity or knowing what to do, I think it'd likely have at least been an animal that was at least the same size or larger than a small "big" cat species (such as lynx or bobcat).
By the way, you sound like a highly skeptical individual, which leads me to assume that you probably don't entertain the possibility of the Forestfolk or Sasquatch existing.
However, once one takes the time to actually look deeply enough into the subject, they may find that it actually is just another logical, perfectly natural explanation for some of the things that can be experienced while out in nature & our own hubris generally closes our minds to considering it in seriousness.
😂😂😂 "I was so exhausted trying not to die" 😂😂😂
Once I slept out in the open with a group of other campers. In the middle of the night, I heard repeated grunting and thought a bear was nearby. I was so terrified that it felt like my heart was jumping out of my chest. After what seemed an eternity, I finally got the courage to grab my flashlight and look around to see where the bear was. The bear was actually another camper snoring! Boy, was I so relieved!
LOL thank goodness
Hahaha soo funny !
You are brave! I don’t think I could camp in the woods by myself.
Me either. I’m way too scary
Do it often, nothing to be afraid of.
Me either, and I am a guy!! I'd need more than a golden retriever,..he'll protect you alright, from the next county. I'd need a handgun and a better breed of dog.
My thoughts exactly. Especially without window treatments or blinds to close at night. 😳
In the woods I'd be afraid of Bigfoot.
I’m new to your channel Brooke. I’ve been binge watching your videos. You are such a brave, hard working soul. I love your adventures with your beautiful dog. I could never do what you do. I admire you. Stay safe!
Wow, Brooke. I think you're so brave. I would never go hiking by myself without my gun, let alone sleep out there by myself. I mean, as much as I love nature, it's people mostly that I'm afraid of. I wish I could be more like you and conquer my fears by just doing it. Maysie's the best! ❤❤❤
My scariest moment eva in the woods was when I went to Yosemite all alone. And after a days hike, I was forced to eat my own cooking. Now that was scary!! True story.
Wow and you survived! That's one scary story! 👱♀️All kidding aside anyone can learn to cook! Do foil meal's in the campfire!Yum!
Peter P oh you poor thing! Take soup next time. Cans. I avoid eating my own creations that way. Lol
Gotta hand it to you, pal. You're a true survivor!
I had eva on a park bench, but never in the woods. She says the Mosquitoes
bite her butt.
Hahahaha
I've heard this same noise a few times in the woods a night and I still don't know what it was either! At least I didn't know for a while in my case. I had done a sweat lodge by myself years back in the woods. I went in early evening and got out a few times for more hot stones, not having a fire keeper. I was having a very spiritual experience when all the sudden I heard the leaves crackling and something was walking around and around the lodge circle. Of course by this time it was pitch dark, the rocks were cooling off and the hair was standing up on the back of my neck! It had been a warm fall day, that time of year when it gets cold as the sun goes down and I was getting colder by the minuet! But whatever was circling the lodge circle, which is about 40 feet and started making the noise you described! Finally getting colder, shivering, sweaty and scared, I had to gather up my stuff and go the 2-300 yards back to the house through the woods in the dark and wondering if I'd have to outrun whatever was out there pacing around! It felt like forever waiting to gain the courage to move out! I knew the land well but running in the dark? The sacred fire was just a few coals as I peered outside! I had to make a plan, grab my stuff or not? Remembering where roots and rocks are running in bare feet! Finally, after freezing in a spooky mind filled imagination of skin walkers, daemons and nasty ETs, I crawled out of the lodge like a sprinter at the starting line and went for it! Ouch Ouch Ouch! Briars, roots, stones and moving faster than I thought possible, I saw the lights of the house, which seemed like forever going those few hundred yards! Nothing was following me! What was that? I warmed up and stoked the wood stove thinking how I'll get my stuff in the morning. I went out to the lodge,coffee in hand and everything was as I'd left it. No tracks in the leaves in spite of the lengthy time I'd heard it! Nothing a muss! What the hell was out there I thought?! It was a scared mystery. Sometime after this I was telling my Native Elder friend about my experience and he just chuckled but in a kind knowing way. He said it was my fears pacing around the lodge, a negative spirit that was doing its best to take my very wonderful spiritual experience from me. But it didn't happen until after I was walking on air from my amazing time in the sweat lodge. It kept me in the lodge for at least an hour from my fear. I finally built the courage to face whatever was out there no matter what. Had it been after me it surely had all the advantages to overcome me. Instead I overcame it, my own fear! It was a good and life long lesson about creating our own needless fears! It was the icing on the cake of that sacred night when I was the fire keeper, water pourer and a very blessed person that fall night! Kind Thanks! DaveyJO in Pa. Woods
I like how your dog just sits there, watching everything you do.
Just recently found your channel. I live alone and travel alone. Love to be in the great outdoors. While I am fairly well experienced, I have to admit, I feel fear, of course I do. A healthy dose of fear reminds me that I am alive. You go for it girl! Feel the fear and do it anyway. Thank you for all the tips and tricks. You are a wonderful inspiration. Something mes, I worry that I am so far removed from, “the traditional 2020’s woman” I feel like a freak! You are so much younger than I am. A fresh perspective and even confirmation that sometimes what we dare to do, leads us to an opportunity to feel something that might be a little bit uncomfortable but the incredibly rewarding. Thank you “Girl in the Woods” you are awesome! 👏
Scary? I was winter camping one time. Simple tarp shelter, a fire going, middle of the night, when all of a sudden I hear something running full tilt straight towards me in the crunchy snow. It was moving pretty good. A wolf ran right by my shelter, just a few feet away, and just kept on going. Never heard it again. It was kind of hard to sleep after that! It's great being out there!
yeah that will keep you awake!
Wow....the first thing that would go through my mind would be "What has that wolf so spooked he didn't even want to take time to sniff in curiosity?"
@@conniefoxx9813 just my thoughts :D
I'm homeless and sleep in the woods, I'd be more scared sleeping in the city ❤
P.s. love your boots.
Vagabond Burke seriously, you ought to make some video content about your way of surviving. Would love to learn about how you live and do things. I think it would be interesting.
Ray Teerlink certainly would!
When I was homeless I always looked for homes that were being built I cop a squat right there.. Or abandon places or cars....
Me to homeless I sleep In the river bottoms never had a problem with animals did have beaver that would come watch the sun go down but one night my tent buckled and some crack head tryed brain me with a huge rock it suck trying to get out of the tent to defend my self he ran when I got out but I could not camp there any more I could not sleep
I hope the best for you and pray you continue to be safe 💛
Many years ago and it was our first time hiking in the woods as a young family (there were no hiking trails). We thought we go exploring and thought it would be a great adventure too. It became dark + cold out, we got lost, and then we couldn't find our way back. I believe we kept walking further deep into the woods. Eventually and finally, we happened to find a roadway out leading back to the park and our car. We were so happy to be out of there and so relieved to be back home. We vowed to never let this happen again.
so easy to get turned around, carry a compass, will never get lost! learn to use it.
One of the toughest moments in my life was when I was camping in my grandmothers backyard, I got a paper cut and couldn’t continue so I went back inside the house and slept on the bed.
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Al Haymon are you feeling any better yet?!!!🙄😄
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lol
There sure are a lot of funny people on here.
Thx 4 the good laugh!
Got out of my tent around 6am and the first thing I see is two black bear cubs sniffing around about 30 yards out in front of me. Then my dog starts barking wildly but looking behind me. I turn and what do I see just across the small creek I was camped next to? You got it. Mamma Bear was standing there behind some bushes and a tree watching the cubs, me and my dog. I had the dog's leash in one hand and my camera in the other. I didn't know what else to do so I took some photos of the cubs when suddenly they began running straight at me. I froze and kept an eye on Mamma Bear. She just looked at me with a look like, "You better not move"... I didn't. The cubs ran by while I got one more shot off. I also got a shot of Mamma Bear. The cubs ran across the creek to join Mamma and they all went off into the woods and left me alone. Needless to say I packed up camp and went somewhere else.
oh boy!
I don't blame you for moving. We only have Koala and Drop bears here in Australia.
I try to stay out of their way. Usually black bears are not really a threat if you are not stupid and do things to piss them off. Finding yourself between Mama and the cubs is not a good place to be. This can look like a threat and Mama may decide to remove the threat. I like to sleep at night without worrying who or what I am pissing off.
mobiltec yikes! I can't imagine how terrifying that must've been at the time, but what an awesome story to be able to tell! :)
Penny Layne I was more stunned than scared at the time. Afterwards my knees got a little shakey...
Great story! In my scary story, about 20 years ago my buddy & I took his Nissan 4x4 way back some logging trails to camp for the night. I slept in my tent, and my friend stayed in the bed of his truck; he had a fiberglass cap on it. At about 2am, what I think was a screech owl started calling (or at 2am, awakened out of a deep sleep, you could say it was making more of a blood-curdling shriek). It was probably only 20 feet from my tent. Scared the heck out of me. The next morning, I asked my buddy if he heard it, and he said “Yeah...I figured whatever it was would get you in the tent first, so I wasn’t too concerned!”
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Chris Con hahaha what an awesome friend there.. I was camping and heard what I thought was an owl but mixed with a scream or groan.. I never heard it before. Sounds like you might have heard something similar
A screech owl is a pretty weird sound. A buddy and wife and kids heard what they think was a mtn lion one night. They slept in the van after abandoning the tent. One night I saw a freaky glowing red eye in the bushes fifty yrds away. I got the flashlight and discovered a cow just standing half asleep. I used to cross country ski alot as a kid. About dusk the snow drifts kind of started to look like trolls and who knows what crouched under the branches of trees. I knew I was making things up but I would be about 7 out of 10 freaked out. @ApplePie 2018
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What a fearless, brilliant, kind human. You inspire me. Best wishes.❤️
I swear I commented on this video but I must not have clicked the button! Good overnighter! Always love camping with the furry companions. My scariest moment in the woods wasn't all that spooky but still scared me good. I was camping with Funk in a wilderness area and dark clouds were off in the distance. I was trying to start a fire before it began raining and when I last looked at the sky it was a completely black line of clouds moving closer and closer. All of a sudden when I am bent over trying to start the fire, BAM! Lightning strikes within 100 feet of us and instant downpour! I fall over and feel this rush of energy like I have never felt before. We both sprinted inland to a low spot since we were on a smaller hill near the water. Our dog at the time was definitely sketched out and it led to my 2nd scariest experience out in the woods. The next day we were heading to a different campsite and our Alaskan Malamute named Hachi was done with this adventure after the lightning (he hated loud noises). So on our way across the lake, he swam in front of us and got to land and kinda just wandered off a little, which he did a lot, but we couldn't find him. We went down all sorts of portage trails and back and forth to campsites and lakes he had been to before and we still couldn't find him. After 2 hours of searching we decided to hike to the car as one last chance that maybe he could find his way out and low and behold, Hachi was sitting next to the car waiting for us and completely ready to go home.
Wow! Yeah that would be horrifying! Storms in the woods- been through two that stick in my mind... scary! But never had lightning strike like that. If you read the comment section many people have mentioned lightning! And the dogs always know when it's time to go home right? LOL Thanks for stopping by Matthew! Cheers
Matthew Posa Maybe the wisdom was getting you to safety. My dog very tender but over 130 lbs. When I'm pushing and really need to rest she will not take no for an were bit axe handle and not let go. God's gift to share this dog. Laughing I'm guy and she loves to lay next to me and cover up, best of joy! Great video!!!
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I'm not a hunter, but I've going on solo mountain bike trips overnight in the woods, mostly unarmed other than my U-lock or whatever else I could use as a club. I always stay close to the trail when
I camp and take a bright backup flashlight and not to disturbed wildlife,
I usually use low level settings.
I'd never get to much sleep, mostly listening to the sounds of things moving around me. I'll be in pretty remote areas at times, and won't see anybody for hours on end.
Nobody at night.
But that being said,
I've also experienced unexplainable happenings such as 'floating orbs' in the trees and heard strange human like vocal sounds, almost like deep grunted Native American.
Also the usual barred owl or coyote that would change pitch to more human-like.
Since I've experienced that alone and also saw something big, ( human male sized or bigger ) that was reddish orange in color, hiding and watching me from behind the woodpile while I was playing Native American flute, I just accept what's out there and try not to be afraid.
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It looks amazing but I would not go camping at night....no way...I have watched too much of the Missing 411 😂
I have many times, but if I was in bear country, I would think twice, :)
If you've watched a lot of 411 then you should know that MANY missing were just hiking during the day...
Not no, but hell, no...😲
Ya me to 🤣 I don't like camping, no way Jose
@@freedomrider266
Too many go and mysteriously disappeared..
Really into no where never to be found..no remains..clothing..shoes I had just viewed a program on 100 of them..strange ..only God Knows what happened ..no one is missing in His sight
The "Missing 411" from Dave Paulides woke me up several years ago. Tons of the missing and people found dead do not make sense at all. So whenever I got into the woods, I'm heavily armed, and have a tracker beacon on me. Be careful out there. I just subbed so I'm new to your channel.
you can't let fear dictate your life, and I will never watch that stuff for that reason
@@therealgirlinthewoods Fear is nature's way of keeping you safe....forewarned is forearmed...there's a difference between letting fear DICTATE your life and not taking foolish chances....that being said...absolutely LOVE YER CHANNEL!....I'm a satisfied subscriber....stay fulfilled and happy.
@@therealgirlinthewoods Love your content, however you remaining ignorant to the dangers doesn't make you brave, just ignorant.
Learn. Be well!!!
Continued success out there!! And yes, live your life!! :)
Domari Nolo
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@@MyCatFooed She goes in armed. She is not unarmed
@@2bakaphoebe That's good to know.
Thanks @ Lynn!! :)
Domari Nolo
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As a father to a daughter, grandfather to five granddaughters, and one great granddaughter you could say I am over protective of my girls even though I want them to be adventurous and self-reliant. I don't want them to be afraid ever in their life. This is why if they ever decide to get a conceal carry license I will help them accomplish that goal. I know you have your dog and I am sure you take precautions like not letting out where you do your camping, but really I would carry a firearm with you just to be on the safe side be it four or two legged critters. PS: I tell their boyfriends - "If you hurt my granddaughter - I got no problem going back to prison" - of course I never have been to prison but they don't know that. Disabled Vietnam Vet - class of 72'
Sounds like the dad/grandfather we all would want and love.
Now that's the way to do it
Wasc Lit ❤️❤️❤️
One great granddaughter? What about the other four? They aren’t great?
absolutely get a carry permit for the two legged critters i dont worry about the four legged ones near as bad.
I had my own story that happened to me at age eight in the Sierra Nevadas at the West Branch of the Feather River not too far from a town called Sterling City. My parents brought us out fishing for trout on a tributary stream to the Feather River and it was early fall with the river low and we all fanned out to fish our section of stream. It was not unusual for we kids to end up a mile or more away from the the base day camp and I was out about one and a half miles from my father who stayed at the camp and was reading a book and napping. I was alone and casting out on a nice fishing hole while standing partly in the water when I went to cast and felt a hit on my left wrist and I pulled up my arm to see a rattlesnake literally stuck to my wrist. I pulled it off so fast, I left a single tooth in my wrist. I ended up tossing the snake into the river and I had that clear moment of realization of just how far I was from help. I knew I had about an hour or so before things were going to get bad. I did get venom from the snake and I used my elastic belt and stretched it somewhat tight on my arm and knew I had to walk, not run, back to camp. It took me a good 30 to 45 minutes to get back to camp and I remember the panic to get me to the hospital and the last thing I remember was before going unconscious was the turn just before we got to Sterling City. I do not remember anything for two days and I was given anti-venom - the old type - and it really packed a wallop. It took me a week to feel up to getting around and I had to have my wrist skin cut a number of times because the skin died around it, but there is barely a scar now. I am not scared of the woods, but have had other experiences of being followed by mountain lions, an unknown large creature that paralleled me all the way out of a stream for over a mile once in 1974 (and I am not saying Bigfoot but am not sure what it was! All I know is that it literally ran me out of my favorite fishing spot) and black bear on occasion, but NOTHING compares to the terror of seeing a rattlesnake ON YOUR WRIST! ;>) I really watch where I step now but my love of the Sierras has never diminished... Things like this are part of life and being scared is good for campfires, but most of the time, the mountains are just a beautiful place to be and I love being part of them when I go. That's my story Brooke ;>)
Wow that's incredible!!! Wow
Small world....I am originally from Oroville. Do you still live in the area?
Extraordinary story 💗
If you want some truly interesting reading, research the use of a low voltage stun gun for venomous spider & snake bites. Then make your own decision if you want to use it..
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WOW! What brave mountain gals you are!! I live in a mountain town in Mt. Shasta, CA., would never camp out in the wilderness--black bears are very common here and are known to come into town during Winter looking for food. They love berries. Also, several young women have disappeared & were never found ( not to scare anyone) but beware!
You mentioned the cremation story of someone, a book. Well I was a funeral director and embalmer, was my profession. During my training I worked as a funeral assistant, often with setting up for visitations, closing up the funeral home after a visitation, closing of a grave etc.. . I don't have any scary stories about embalming but what I do have are real stories about things, smells, drastic temperature changes, breezes, doors slamming, mirrors dropping off walls, music playing, other noises and other various things that had no reasonable explanations for.. also some good cemetery stories..spooky even for me, ones I wouldn't believe if someone else had told them to me..but they did happen to me, so I've got to believe them. Why do these type of things usually happen when your by yourself? I did have another funeral assistant that I worked with and she was there during several of these, plus she had her own experiences herself...
Omg I would love to hear your stories!
I was a cemetery groundsperson for a little bit; part of that duty entailed beehive removal. The first time I removed a beehive at night, I thought to myself, “gosh I hope I don’t see a ghost or something.” Well, I never did see a ghost, but I’m pretty positive that many people thought I was a ghost, walking around in my hoodie with no light haha
Honest, wholesome person, very pleasant video to watch.
One night years ago (70s) in the hills above Eielson AFB near Fairbanks my father (in the Air Force) and my brother and I , tweenagers were hunting. We heard all kinds of terrible noises outside our tent during the night but stayed inside expecting the worse (bear,wolf). In the morning we found the entire area littered with rabbit dropping’s. It had been Waskally Snow Shoe Rabbits!
LOL that's just how it goes! Everything's a bear!
This makes me think of what it must have been for early Humans when they befriended wolves, and the wolves befriended Humans - the wolves caught the vermin, protected us, and in turn we protected them, gave them shelter, and fed them. How beautiful that they've evolved into doggies, our awesome companions!
I have a mating pair of coywolves that are friends and never fed them, they have eaten and hunted and mated in front of me, also a mating pair of great horned owls who have done the same above, I have videos on my channel of them and you can hear us holding and hooting :-)
Peace and Blessings
When I go to Yellowstone, a pack of wolves always comes to me, by the Mammoth Hot Springs area. I think they are the same pack each time. I give them a milk bone, pet them and then they go away after 15 minutes.
Sonny Daiz film it cause I wont believe it till I see it and what a film that would be, they stick with me sometimes for an hour, it has taken almost 3 years to gain her trust enough to pet her, which will be soon I hope and he has lay down and showed me his belly and whimpers and plays a lot with her when I'm near, he gets so excited he mates with her, they have hunted and eaten in front of me too and just sat 20 feet from each other for 30 mins or more.
I hope she can remain calm enough when we do touch so I don't get hurt, I cut and bleed easily and have a funky genetic condition called Ehlers Danlos syndrome, but it would be worth a bite or two if she trusts me enough to pet and play with her.
Much Love and God Bless
@@crying_hippy that's great. U r well on your way.
Sonny Daiz I Hope so, thanks man
Peace and Blessings
Glad you have your beautiful pooch with you in the woods. She seems to enjoy being outside as much as you do. She also gives you peace of mind, I'm sure, being out in the woods alone...I know it would, for me. Now that I'm older, I know the mishaps & dangers & I'd never go into the woods alone... not even with your dog,!!!
Loved the video, the fire, the wind, flakes of snow, and your presence you are full of energy and your beautiful companion. Again thank you for taking the time spent with us behind the lense.
I think it's safer in the woods than it is on a main street in a big city.
Especially at night.
This Montana woman agrees. I've never felt unsafe in the woods. I have felt unsafe in cities.
Of course
I live and have lived on a back slough of a river. Woods, Swamps, coyote, cougar, Bear, Sasquatch all of them do not scare me as much as the big city full of lunatics.
Review attacks stats in national parks.
Mary Thompson 👍
When I was seven, my grandmother and I were lost in the mountains for 3 days with no food and no shelter. It was July, which many people ask "oh, why didn't you eat berries?" Well, if you have ever been above 9400 feet elevation, then you know there are no berries to be found in early July. There was snow in most spots we were walking through. We had canteens and Granny was a smoker so she had a lighter but when you are dressed in light weight clothes for an "afternoon trek", even a fire will barely keep the Wyoming cold at bay, especially when you are a kid and frightened out of your mind. By the third day, I was so hungry that I couldn't move without dry heaving. Search and Rescue found us because they heard my screams the days before. We also used our metal canteens to help the helicopters locate us. If they hadn't found us when they did, my granny would have died on me within a day. It was many years later that I found that out. I'm now 45 and still love the outdoors, but trust me when my family goes camping, I'm always sure we are overstocked with food. My family understands, especially my "bare bones camping" hubby who lovingly sighs at the four totes/coolers of food for five days. OH, and yes, to this day I ALWAYS have a lighter.
wow!
A satellite Phone is something you can also rent,and take with you and worth every penny!🤠⛺🍕🌲
If you are too dumb to find your car, you aren't going to have much luck finding your campsite with the four totes/coolers full of food.
Girl in the Woods ‘\
You're living my dream. I never went camping until I met my ex-husband. I loved it! But, I haven't gone camping in a couple of decades, but I would love to go camping with someone like you for the first time if I ever did it again. I think Maysie is such a cool dog too. I came across your channel a few days ago and love watching.
Loved the video Brooke. Imagine this. Wilderness canoe trip. You hear a thud against your canoe and your bear bell rings. Something steps on a corner of your ground sheet sticking out from under your tent and right next to the tent wall by your head, heavy breathing. Oh boy. Thank goodness for a full moon that night. Outlined against the tent roof and wall, by the light of the moon, was the shape of a momma moose and her calf. I'd pitched the tent right on a moose trail. :o)
Myn6211 (lolol). I'm laughing cuz of nerves. My hubby and I were canoe camping in Algonquin Provincial Park and our last evening of trip,we were both woken up by something walking heavy around our canoe ... It was a male moose (Rutting season too),so i'm soooooo glad we didn't make a noise or turn on flashlight cuz pretty sure that would've set him off. We were 35 kms away from civilization and our only transportation was our 16 ft Wilderness Canoe ,now sitting precariously vulnerable under a potential rampaging moose 😨😨😨. Fortunately,nothing happened. The bull moose grew either tired or bored and hightailed it into the woods without incident and we could fall back asleep again...
Ah!!! Moose can be so dangerous with calves! Good thing you didn't get out of your tent!
First instinct was to shine a flashlight out the tent door when I heard the thud but you know that gut feeling that kind of kicks in when your senses are razor sharp Brooke? Well that's what happened and all turned out well. They just sniffed and walked on. Unfortunately the person I was with was not amused and we ended up coming out of the interior as soon as morning light permitted.
Oh wow, rutting season is a very dangerous time to be anywhere near a male moose for sure. My incident also took place in Algonquin. We were only in one portage in on our trip. The person I was with was not amused and as soon as grey light hit I was packing up camp and headed back to civilization. The next year I soloed. :p
That's a great video and Maysie the wonderdog is amazing ! I was 21 yrs old and living in Bayside ny . I had been taking a nightly bike ride along the LIE ( long island expressway ) service road out to Jericho Trnpk and back . It was late Sept and a really thick fog was on the road . I was on the return part of the trip headed for home when I heard this host of otherworldly noises that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up . The fight or flight mechanism kicked in and I was hammering for home with a jet assist from a massive spike of adrenaline !
I came back a couple of nights later and went offroad for a bit and found a large pond with dozens of bull frogs !
LOL lov it!
" BUD....Wise......ERRR "
Bill23799 LOL I remember that funny commercial.
Your dog's precious😍 we need more people like you in this world. Your good, salt of the earth people. God bless you and your puppy 😄
Your relationship with your beautiful dog is so lovely...
Scariest experience I've had camping was a tornado followed by a flash flood. At night. I was maybe seven. My father thru me over his shoulder and picked one of my sister's up at the same time. I remember watching a tent floating away and trees coming down. Although water got inside the truck we got out of harms way. We were blessed that night. The second scariest was when a pack of coyote paid us a visit. I was getting out of the tent to use the bathroom and they were there....looking at me. Quietly I rezipped the tent. They left as if I wasn't there.
yikes!
What good friends Collie's are.❤️
I would like camping alone but there's something about being in the woods I do not like day or night you are a very brave and smart woman and I admire you for not letting fear keep you from doing what you love to do keep yourself and your beautiful dog safe
I camp alone often...I get it...I call it “fire therapy.”
Camping alone is very peaceful, although there are times it has gotten a little hairy...
I suspect in years, many years ago it was safer, but now too many crazy or just those that want to harm whatever they happened upon these days & even way deep in the woods.
Haven't had my scariest time in the woods camping, but I grew up in the woods... literally. When I was a child there was a news report of a black panther sighting in the area. One summer evening we were having dinner on our big screened-in porch at dusk, and we ALL heard it in the woods nearby. The panther's cry sounded just like a woman's scream. It was eerie!
The other truly scary time was when a wild boar was running loose in our woods. He made such a racket! I recall it was a particularly pitch black night... couldn't see a thing, but it was so loud. I was very scared because they are known to be vicious.
2:34 "I like old stuff" every old dude watching smiled and said "I'm old stuff.."
Yep! You read my mind! Hahaha
Awesome video... I love your calm, down to earth demeanor. You have great outdoor skills and I really appreciate a girl who enjoys the outdoors and doesn’t have a problem leaving behind all the creature comforts for a while to nuzzle up to nature and deepen that bond. It’s so refreshing....
She's adorable 😍
When I was a young teenager, my dad, his best friend and I were wade fishing along our favorite Smallmouth Bass creek. The only thing out of the ordinary on this trip was that the day before, 4 violent criminals had escaped from a local prison and had not been apprehended. Dad and his friend told me to keep my eyes open, my head on a swivel, and be aware of my surroundings. You can bet that my eyes were paying extra attention to those dark shadows in the woods along the banks of the creek. I was making my way along a rather rocky part of the bank, getting close to a large bush of some sort...when suddenly....about a dozen Grouse exploded from that bush. My heart knew for sure that I was about to get grabbed by an escaped murderer and it did its best to take flight through the roof of my skull. That was the scariest moment I have ever experienced in my life....and I just turned 51 5 days ago.
haha great story :)
Lol, I would've had a heart attack to hear that!! I just went out to solo tarp camp for my first time and I swear the night before, my thoughts went through everything from bears, cougars and bigfoot! lol. When I actually got there, I was actually grateful for the light of the full moon and the wind to drown out all the scary noises for my first time!! I plan to do another one in the coming weeks and I hope I don't remember your story! lol. fyi, I loved your strength and tenacity on Alone. Very inspiring to fellow lady bushcrafters!!
What a lovely lady, and such a lovely doggy xx
Your not alone in the woods, you have man's best friend with you.
I hike alone on remote trails. When I come across fresh scat I begin singing. Bears can be 20 feet off the trail and if a lot of bush, you won't know. I figure my singing will frighten anything away. :).
I sing Allanis Morisette songs when I'm solo hiking lol
I just came across this video and loved it. The pace and your attention to the viewer is so inviting. I enjoy camping, but I have never camped alone before. I live alone in a cabin with woods surrounding me though. I have thought many times about maybe building a shelter on my property away from the house just to practice. Up here in Vermont, there are plenty of bear, moose, porcupine and fisher cats so it would sure be a test of courage for a night. Thanks for the great content and inspiration. Sweet collie. Enjoy the wilderness.
Just in my teens and was out shooting in a forest. Nothing doing, so walking back along forest road to meet up with my father. It was just getting dark when I heard faint sound of movement in the trees someway behind me, thought it was my imagination at first but no, definitely something there. Every time I stopped sounds stopped a fraction of a second later but getting closer. As soon as I started walking, so did "it". Looked back couldn't see anything. Trying to think what it could be (Britain, so no bears etc)...obviously too big to be a rabbit/ hare, fox? No, a dear maybe but unlikely to follow a human. Then thoughts turned to sightings of big cats (stories of pumas/ panthers released into wild years back then)....nah, so what the hell was it??? Finally got to a clearing and stopped on the opposite side to see if anything showed. Slowly the "follower" appeared from the gloom.
A bloody sheep!!!!!
I nearly shot the damned thing!!! (luckily for the sheep I was taught never to fired if not 100% sure of target).
Turns out some of them had moved from the hills to living wild in the woods and the forestry workers had been feeding them sandwiches etc. It was just hoping for tasty cheese sandwich for it's supper :-).
Awww a sweet sheep, trusting in a human. I'm glad you didn't shoot it. Thank goodness you were taught to identify your target before firing. Basic gun safety rules are priceless and save many lives.
nor doal
oh at 1st when you said "a bloody sheep"...I thought OMG.
But you obviously are English. 😃
WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH A....A...GUN IN BRITAIN?!?! I advice you to surrender yourself,along with your fire arm,and any butter knives that you may have,to the police station that is closest to you.😜😄
@@akhamp1943 I laughed really loud at your comment. I could just imagine a bloody sheep like a Halloween prop 😂
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LOL.....was funny!
Hope the guy knows I was laughing with him and not at him! ☺
Not as funny as story about a guy who went fishing and had backpack on and his fishing pole on it somehow....he began to here a noise behind him + when he stopped , it stopped. It was getting close to dark so he went on a little faster and he said,
something pulled on his backpack + it of course tugged him back slightly. Anyway he finaly looked behind him again and realized his fishing pole somehow had slipped and the fishing line came loose and the lure was dragging on the ground and thats what got caught and that was what pulled him back.
He just knew something was about to get hold of him. 😃
That one really crack me up!
Funny....how our imaginations can get the best of us sometimes. 😃
I know at the time it wasn't funny, but later when you realize what it really was...you got to feel pretty stupid.
Just sayin. ☺
Absolutely loving your dog "Maysie", beautiful Collie.
A friend of mine and I were camping in the Canadian Rockies a number of years back. There you can find into wolves, coyote, black and grizzly bears, lynx and cougar among many other non carnivorous species. The focus around safety in the area is predominantly around the grizzly's. Carry a bear bell/spray, be vocal, never turn your back on a bear, you know, all the usual suggestions. We were a 20 km hike into our camping spot and each day spent a few hours hiking and exploring the area, rarely seeing anyone at all. On this particular day we both kept saying, "it feel like someone or something is watching us". Bear bells ringing, "hey bear" shouting, we continued on. We shortly there after stopped for a rest and a drink of water and as we were sitting there, all of a sudden a black wolf came running out of the woods from behind us. We both stood up with hands in air shouting and at the last second it veered to it's left and down a hill and away from us. This sequence last no more than 5 seconds and it was all over. It came withing 5 feet of us and there is no doubt in my mind it had been stalking us and planned on a meal that day. Scariest moment of my life, bar none right there! After it was all over, we chatted about just how big this animal was and still to this day, wonder if there were more of them in the woods watching. We never stuck around to find out, I can assure you...lol
Wow! amazing encounter... i've been close to a couple wolves- but never felt threatened.
Wow, you sensed it stalking you. You guys probably heard micro-sounds from it, but it didn't translate consciously as the sounds were too small.
Great video just hanging around a structure. You keep everything interesting by just showing interesting things you have found and finding interesting equipment you actually use on the cheap. I loved the scariest story of just take off running. I have been in the same situation hunting in central Arkansas. Ended up being my buddy sneaking up on my stand and waiting for me to get down to make strange noise as I was walking out after dark. Lucky he didn't get shot. We still sit around the campfire and tell that story. Keep up the great videos.
I love how you take your collie camping outdoors with you 😍
LOVE the deer startle! When my late wife and I honeymooned in a national park, I went for a walk by the lake and walked up within ten feet of a deer without seeing it! A sudden snort and the pounding of the hooves as it rushed away, scared the heck out of me, then I saw her and laughed at myself! It was a great morning.
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First I have seen your show, love it! I have those boots! But your coat is super! Where did you find it? I used to be like you then marriage and children came along.now retired, trying to get back to who I was
Love the dog. I am a huge dog lover. She is just chillin like “this is what mom and I do” 😂❤️
hahah eyup
I love the comments from the community almost as much as tje video. Everyone is so kind. It is a nice change from most channels.
Hi Brooke, I had a similar experience about 25 years ago,
I was walking through the woods to a friends house, just so happens to be along a foot path with chain link fences on each side, this path is bordered like this for about a quarter of a mile, you can see houses in the distance, but its pitch black all around, I was about halfway, when I heard a soft Cha Cha Cha Cha (no joke)"not the music" sounded primeval, I carried on walking, about after 20 seconds it happens again, but louder, this time, I can feel the hairs standing up on the back of my neck, after about 10 seconds, it happend again, even louder, and then again almost like shouting, Cha Cha Cha Cha, I have to be honest I was rooted to the spot, I had a small mini-maglight, with me and held it out in from to try to see what it was, when all of a sudden, the fencing in front and to the right of me lifted up and a Spinning Brown thing came out from under the fence about the size of a large dog, screaming Cha Cha Cha Cha, I have to say" I Screamed" I was crapping it, then the Thing split in two and two Foxes run off into the Dark.
I was as white as a ghost when I got to my friends house.
yikes!
Meh, just foxes. I was hoping for demons.
😮 omg that is the weirdest and scariest thing I think I've ever heard
You and I are as different as can be, but I am loving your adventures and how much you love the outdoors!
Many years ago, when I sold firewood, I was at my wood supply deep in the woods at the end of a long, narrow, hilly, winding logging road. I had driven my 1949 GMC dump truck in, and was backed up to a pile of wood (tree tops and smaller stuff) that the loggers didn't want. I was all by myself just as I'd been many times before. It was a bright sunny fall morning and I'd just finished filling my saw with gas and oil. I gave a pull on the cord to start the saw and it almost started when, suddenly, I felt that I was being watched. Huh? I looked around and couldn't see anything and I shrugged it off and pulled again on the cord and the saw fired up. Layed it into a log and started cutting when out of the corner of my eye I caught a movement which was in the woods adjacent to the clearing. I killed the saw and stared in the direction of the movement but could see nothing. So I walked toward the trees where I'd seen movement and that's when it moved again but it was probably 30 feet from where I thought it was. It was on 2 feet and it blended perfectly with the color of the trees which made it hard to distinguish. Is that a person? I think it is? But I just couldn't make out any color or distinguishing features that you would associate with a human being. I shouted... and again I shouted but I couldn't hear anything or see it. I remember thinking, damn gun in truck and it's way over there. Looking back again into to trees it moved again and seemd closer than before but still unrecognizable. I was spooked. Almost frozen in place and just barely able to move my legs to start moving back toward the truck when, it let out with a sound that was so loud and high pitched that it stopped me dead still. Completely scared and feeling powerless I had all I could do to turn and look in its direction. Trembling with fear I looked in every direction. Nothing? .... Regaining a little control of my body I started half stepping toward my truck when again, that horrible piercing sound and there it stood on two feet. Dark, big, with arms holding trees both right and left. Somehow, I broke into a dead run for the truck and felt it was right behind me. Once in the truck I struggled to get my gun out and I was sure it was right outside but as I looked all around and thru my mirrors I saw nothing. I got the truck started and left my saw and gas can behind and drove a little distance away but still in view of the clearing and looked and saw nothing but felt like it was right next to me.... following and waiting to pounce. I drove back out that bumpy, narrow, winding log road as fast as I could and didn't relax until I was back onto and far down the main road. I still get goose bumps when I think about it. I went back to see if my saw was still there a couple of days later when I got the nerve and knew the loggers were there. I just waved and grabbed my saw, and no, I didn't tell them the story. I'm sure the would have laughed.
And to edit this post, I liked the video and the different approach you take in making videos. It is different and fresh. The great outdoors is something that can be appreciated at a modest expense and without practicing things that require survival expertise. Camping with your dog (as in your case) or your family is a richly rewarding experience if you want it to be. Newbies should try to do it modestly and comfortably to start. Then, if they are inclined, they might enjoy learning survival techniques and the art of buschcraft. But until then, there is plenty of affordable gear to make camping pretty comfortable, and getting a fire started with the help of a good fire starter should help to make the camping experience enjoyable and relatively easy. Of coarse, best you leave the scary stories at home for the first couple of nights in the deep dark woods.
Thank you for this video.
Chuck Wagon thank you very much for sharing your story! Intense
Sasquatch does exist and the govt covers it up. Your not nuts, you saw what you saw.
wow what a true and scary sighting ! I wonder if it was pissed at you thinking you torn down its stomping grounds, i bet the loggers have many tales to if you could get them to open up, so what if they think your crazy at least they would be warned n maybe then share their stories if any they have, thats a scary event, Glad you made it out of there safe, you was rightfully scared for sure to leave back your chainsaw your main tool for your lively hood
@@AmericanPatriot-cw9xe I met a logger once who told me he was friends with a group of sasquatch.
Seriously you have guts. When me and my 2 male friends went on a road trip in Oman, they'd sleep in a tent at night and always locked myself up in a car and slept there, with the windows up of course and a tiny opening for fresh air. And this is one of the safest countries in the world. I could NEVER stay in a cabin in the woods ALONE. Love your videos though
I hunt the West alone quite a bit and am often in bear, wolf, lion country. These are the predators that can give you problems. Several times, while sleeping soundly in my tent, I've been awakened by loud sniffing sounds just outside my tent! The animal will often circle the tent, sniffing as he goes and they always, so far, eventually leave. I would probably say these encounters are probably coyotes' or possibly black bears. Once, while elk hunting solo in Idaho, I had been seeing a lot of wolf sign while hunting. I was using my ATV to get around to various hunting area's for each days hunt. One day, while dismounting my ATV, as I swung my leg off the saddle, I looked behind me and there was a medium sized black wolf starring at me! It was maybe 30 feet away. Very unusual. Later during that same hunt, while sleeping at about 0230 in the morning, I was jolted awake by an entire pack of wolves who evidently had come to visit my campsite. They started howling, one at first, but then another joined in, then another, etc., until the entire pack of 6-8 wolves were howling their heads off maybe 100-150 feet from my tent. Think they were trying to tell me something? I grabbed my pistol and as soon as I opened the tent, they instantly stopped! Pretty amazing encounter.
I would be really careful with that. Sleeping on a tent with bears and cougars around, it may end up badly one day. If you are a good/experienced tracker, you may recognize the markings that predators leave in order to understand if you are camping inside core areas of their territories. Also by the sounds that the animals produce. Even cougars can be very noisy, during certain times of the year. Because if you camp next to their lair or their «playground» then you are at big risk. Bears and cougars, can be very territorial. And even if you aren´t next to them, but you know that they are around occasionally, they may see you not as a competitor but as a prey.
Even if people keep food outside, animals would get the human scent. Sooner or later, people would need to go outside, and that´s when things can end up badly. There are reported cases of bears attacking and killing people inside the tent, but it usually happens when people go out or just simply stay outside. But people do as they wish. I´m just sharing my opinion.
Regarding this video that we are commenting not sure what to think… The girl seems to fear the strange things that may lurk the forest at night, yet do this kind of raw camping. If there are black bears or cougars around, then that´s not really smart, to be so exposed. I wouldn´t feel that safe, even if there were only coyotes there, because coyotes may get interested on the dog and the dog may go out after them and that´s what coyotes want. Once the fire is gone (it may happen when she´s sleeping), so is her and her dog safety in risk. Doesn´t seem that cool to be honest.
Geog M. I wouldn’t worry about her, she knows what she’s doing, clearly, and doesn’t want to just live her life limited to safe living in a rocking chair.
I’ve run into dozens of bears, many of them really close up ( not my choice) and have yet to have a negative experience, although a few of them got my heart racing. Yes, being out in the woods is riskier than staying at home, but if you want to live your life, that’s the risk you take and it’s really worth it, for all the other benefits you can gain from the experiences. I really want to try camping on my own for two nights, without my husband, to see what I’m made of, but I don’t think I’m brave enough. Maybe if I had a big dog, I would.
Wolves are given such a bad reputations in books and movies. I was surprised that there are actually no reported incidences of wolves attacking people.
Scariest moment ever in the woods was when I was riding my horse through a swamp bottom, making our way carefully around some cypress knees. All of a sudden he stops in his tracks with ears forward, listening, and eyes wide open, blowing heavy through his nostrils. Then I smell it. A gosh awful stench. I thought it must be a wild hog maybe. Then I hear a deep grunt sound. Well all I had to do was lean the reins to the side like I was going to ease and turn around, and my horse was like, heck yeah, we gone. He took off up the hill so fast I was having to duck to not be taken out by tree limbs. When we got out to the edge of woods leading into the field he finally settled down. Still not sure what that was. My brother jokingly said it must have been Bigfoot.
There was a story like that on RUclips, a couple on there horses did the exact same thing as your horse did, also smelt the smell, apparently they did see Bigfoot in the end and they also had there horses run out as fast as possible
Joking or not, I think your brother was right.
Wild boars stink
Wild Boar for sure. Had a run in with one in rural Germany. You did well to run.
Was the deep grunt like an oink cause a wild boar still sounds like a pig, wild or not. I too believe Sabi (Bigfoot) judging by the area, sound, smell and horse's reaction. I had a weird one similar to that on mine one night and I also didn't question her decision.
Oh my goodness. Maysie, is so beautiful ! :)
i love how at home you are outdoors and alone (except for the company of your beautiful dog) even in cold weather. i sometimes just get spooked at home alone overnight because i let my imagination go. i've never camped alone at night but i've had good spooks hiking alone in the woods before mostly because of animal noises.
there was one night, however, i was camping with a friend in newfoundland. we weren't anywhere special, just staying at the kind of campground that's basically an alternative to a hotel room. lots of people around, very friendly. i think it was on our second morning that my friend and i noticed a bunch of bones had been laid out on our picnic table that had definitely not been there when we went to bed, which was concerning. the bones were from some medium sized animal and not like chicken bones someone had left after eating wings or something. it was like someone had found a skeleton in the woods, picked up all the bones and arranged them on our table. i mean, it could have been some animal but the way the bones were arranged was very orderly. we stayed a few more nights, nothing else ever happened but we still don't get why those bones were there.
i seen many survival videos,but she make the videos feel like home,the peace she gives is amazing,what a charming humble lady and her dog is awesome.
not alone !!! I see a dog. thanks for the closed captioning, I'm deaf, you care., wish everyone did.
wm c barker I tried closed captioning on my channel but it was not accurate. Maybe I don’t speak clearly enough.
I love food cooked on an open fire, especially beef stew! Your such a woodsy girl. I don't think I could stay out there all night. I love your video's!
I need to live like that . I’m so alone . Amd mistreated by my sister . Love your video . Your so happy amd have a beautiful dog and a beautiful spirit . Bless x
Seek Jesus Christ with all of your heart and you will find him and you will never feel alone, and he will teach you how to love people even if they do you wrong. Please repent from your SINS and ask Jesus to give you your salvation from YOUR SINS and save your SOUL from HELL.