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4 Freaky TRUE Camping Horror Stories - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: 4. This happened during a Boy Scout campout when I
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  Speaker 1: was 15. My friend who was supposed to share the
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  Speaker 1: tent with me called out from the trip at the
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  Speaker 1: last minute, so that meant I had to pitch the
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  Speaker 1: tent and sleep in it alone. The sun was going
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  Speaker 1: down and after a long day of hiking, we got
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  Speaker 1: back to camp to set up our tents. It was
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  Speaker 1: already dark at that point and I was still trying
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  Speaker 1: to set it up. It wasn't as easy doing it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Someone came over and finally helped me, and then we
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  Speaker 1: ate dinner. After the cliched telling of scary stories around
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  Speaker 1: the campfire, we all went to sleep. I guess I
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  Speaker 1: was a little happy that I had my own tent
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  Speaker 1: at that point, since I had more room. I fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep quickly, but woke up in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night to the sound of somebody stomping around my tent.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately assumed it was another scout going to take
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  Speaker 1: a leak or something. You may be thinking that all
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  Speaker 1: our tents were pitched right next to each other, but
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  Speaker 1: our scoutmasters actually had us pitch our tents far apart,
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  Speaker 1: so I was pretty far from my closest scoutmates. The
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  Speaker 1: stomping around the tent seemed to just be going around
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  Speaker 1: in a circle, so at that point, I was sure
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  Speaker 1: somebody was messing with me. I asked who it was,
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  Speaker 1: and in response to that, they stomped off into the woods.
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  Speaker 1: I almost found myself going out and following them, but
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  Speaker 1: I figured it wasn't worth it, and just tried to
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  Speaker 1: pull back asleep. But after that, it was hard to.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, the stomping came back, and started circling the
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  Speaker 1: tent again. I was pissed off now, so I got
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  Speaker 1: up and unzipped the door to the tent, I was
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  Speaker 1: expecting to see another scout, but when I confronted the
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  Speaker 1: person making the noise, instead I saw a grown man,
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  Speaker 1: probably 6'5, in his mid-30s. My heart was racing and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even gather up the courage to scream. The
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  Speaker 1: man gave me a creepy smile, and then brought his
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  Speaker 1: finger to his lips, signaling for me to be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I did a quick 180 and sprinted to my scoutmaster's tent,
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  Speaker 1: screaming like a baby. He ran out before I even
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  Speaker 1: reached the tent, and I told him about the man
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  Speaker 1: I saw, He and the other scoutmaster ran over to
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  Speaker 1: my tent with one of the hunting rifles, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't find the man. They did however pick up on
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  Speaker 1: the tracks the man left walking around the tent. We
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  Speaker 1: were all told to bring our tents closer together, like
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  Speaker 1: literally right on top of each other. The trip was
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  Speaker 1: cut short the next day and we all went home.
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  Speaker 1: I have never gone camping since and I never will again.
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  Speaker 1: Number 3 So me and a couple of my buddies
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  Speaker 1: went camping last summer alongside the Willamette We actually had
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  Speaker 1: a decent hike into the deep end of woods. We
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  Speaker 1: did some night fishing, listening to music, and basically drank
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  Speaker 1: to the point where everything was funny later in the night.
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  Speaker 1: I would guess we finally called it a night somewhere
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  Speaker 1: past 2am. I shared a tent with one of my
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  Speaker 1: buds while the other two shared another tent. We heard
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  Speaker 1: them laughing about something. At first we laughed at the
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  Speaker 1: sound of their laughing, but it soon got annoying and
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  Speaker 1: we yelled for them to shut up. One of them responded,
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  Speaker 1: it isn't us. I sat up, startled at the response.
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  Speaker 1: I came to realize that it was the sound of
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  Speaker 1: only one person laughing, and it didn't sound like either
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  Speaker 1: one of my friends. Even in my drunk state, I
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  Speaker 1: realized how odd it was for somebody to be out
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  Speaker 1: this far in the woods so late at night. The
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  Speaker 1: laughing gradually got closer and louder to our campout. My
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  Speaker 1: friend shot up and looked at me with a worried
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  Speaker 1: look on his face. I heard my other friends scream
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  Speaker 1: over to us that they were getting freaked out. As
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  Speaker 1: the laughing got even closer, I could make it out
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  Speaker 1: very clearly to be the laugh of a male, probably
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  Speaker 1: in his 30s or 40s. He sounded like he was
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  Speaker 1: as drunk as us, messing around with friends, but we
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  Speaker 1: only heard his laugh, nobody else. There was something indescribably
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  Speaker 1: creepy about his laugh too, as if it was missing
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  Speaker 1: something to it. You had to be there to understand
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. The laughing was now just at the
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  Speaker 1: edge of our campsite, But we couldn't hear any footsteps
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  Speaker 1: at all. Now that may not seem like a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: It was impossible to move through that without making noise.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, all of a sudden, the laughing stopped completely.
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  Speaker 1: We had no idea where whoever that was was standing,
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  Speaker 1: as he hadn't made a single stepping sound. We sat
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  Speaker 1: there in silence looking at each other. My friend was
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  Speaker 1: clearly freaking out, but he was keeping it together the
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  Speaker 1: best he could. Finally, something broke the silence. The sound
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  Speaker 1: of something rubbing against the cottony fabric of the tent.
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  Speaker 1: We saw the outline of a hand through the moonlight,
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  Speaker 1: pressing on the tent. We both screamed at the top
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  Speaker 1: of our lungs before getting out of the tent. We
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  Speaker 1: ran as fast as we could through the woods, our
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  Speaker 1: other friends following us. After about five minutes of running,
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  Speaker 1: we somehow found our car. I actually puked from running
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  Speaker 1: so much before taking the wheel. I don't condone drinking
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  Speaker 1: and driving. but I still believe we were just in
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  Speaker 1: this situation. By far the most horrific experience of my life.
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  Speaker 1: No idea who or what the hell that was, or
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  Speaker 1: what they wanted. After college, I went backpacking in the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian wilderness for a few weeks by myself. To put
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  Speaker 1: this in perspective, I was in the middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: The nearest town was a three hour bus ride away,
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  Speaker 1: and I only saw one other person, who was from
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  Speaker 1: a distance, he was in a canoe, during the entire
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  Speaker 1: seven days. I brought a few disposable cameras with me,
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  Speaker 1: as this was before digital cameras were too widespread. I
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  Speaker 1: took a lot of pictures. When I got home, I
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  Speaker 1: had them developed and took a look at them. The
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  Speaker 1: pictures were standard nature shots, until I got about halfway
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  Speaker 1: through my first camera. There were two pictures of me
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  Speaker 1: asleep in my tent in my sleeping bag. I literally
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  Speaker 1: freaked out when I saw it, and I had a
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  Speaker 1: complete breakdown. To this day, I have no idea how
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  Speaker 1: those pictures got taken. I haven't been camping since, and
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  Speaker 1: I sleep with my door open and my curtains shut,
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  Speaker 1: and I still get the paranoid feeling that whoever took
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  Speaker 1: those pictures is still watching me somehow. My boyfriend and
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  Speaker 1: I decided to go out to the gorge for some
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  Speaker 1: quality time camping. We had always gone with several other people,
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  Speaker 1: but this was the first time it was just us two.
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  Speaker 1: When we got out of our car to prep our
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  Speaker 1: gear for the mile hike back to the camping spot,
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  Speaker 1: two sketchy-looking dudes came out of the trailhead, eyed us,
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  Speaker 1: and went back onto their old-school Volkswagen camper van. I
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  Speaker 1: had a weird feeling, but shrugged it off and proceeded
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  Speaker 1: back to our camping spot. I had previously camped in
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  Speaker 1: the same area a handful of times, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: it pretty well. Once we got back there, I knew
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  Speaker 1: of a handful of different camping spots and proceeded to
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  Speaker 1: check them all out for the one that would be
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  Speaker 1: ideal for us. I noticed what looked like someone camping
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  Speaker 1: further up the hill, so I picked a spot a
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  Speaker 1: little further down where we'd most likely be out of sight.
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  Speaker 1: Not out of earshot, though, as I heard him yelling
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  Speaker 1: with someone else back over on the trail. It was
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  Speaker 1: starting to get dark by the time we got everything
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  Speaker 1: set up, so I figured I'd start looking for firewood. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: this guy appears out of nowhere and asks us if
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  Speaker 1: we'd like any help, and offered to sell us a
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  Speaker 1: bundle of firewood for ten bucks. I laughed because we
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  Speaker 1: were in the woods, thus surrounded by wood. which I
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  Speaker 1: could pick up off the ground for free. He then
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  Speaker 1: said that I wouldn't find much because they'd already cleared
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  Speaker 1: it out over the past few weeks. Few weeks? I
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  Speaker 1: asked him how long he'd been camping up there and
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  Speaker 1: he said almost a month. I already had the creeps
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  Speaker 1: about him and he claimed he was up there by himself.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him why I heard him yelling with someone
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  Speaker 1: then and that he had referred to more people when
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  Speaker 1: he was talking about the wood. He stammered and was like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's some dudes I know camping over there up on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the river. Then he proceeds to
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  Speaker 1: tell us that he's been lonely since he arrived. He
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  Speaker 1: was from Pennsylvania, took a bus to Lexington, and had
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  Speaker 1: been living in the woods back behind where I currently work.
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  Speaker 1: I knew exactly where he was talking about, because I
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  Speaker 1: saw some homeless people, immigrants, and drug addicts coming in
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  Speaker 1: and out of those woods every day. So basically he
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  Speaker 1: was a homeless man who somehow got a ride out
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  Speaker 1: to the gorged and decided he would just live there instead.
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  Speaker 1: He had been living on snakes, bugs, and selling firewood
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  Speaker 1: for money, but he said we were the first people
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  Speaker 1: he'd seen in a few weeks. His stories were all
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and I know he was lying about
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  Speaker 1: a lot of what he told us. He wasn't alone,
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  Speaker 1: even if he claimed to be. He even took us
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  Speaker 1: to his camp where there were tons of stuff for
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  Speaker 1: several guys, not just one. He said he liked camping
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  Speaker 1: up top where he could see everything, and everyone. Then
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  Speaker 1: showed up our campsite. He had a straight shot view.
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  Speaker 1: By now it was dark and he helped us get
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  Speaker 1: a fire going. I was trying to politely get him
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  Speaker 1: on his way back up the hill so I could
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  Speaker 1: have a minute to process all of this. When he left,
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  Speaker 1: I started whispering to my boyfriend that there was no
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  Speaker 1: way in hell I could sleep with that lying, sketchy,
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  Speaker 1: homeless creep right up the hill. We didn't have a gun, knife,
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  Speaker 1: or even a dog to protect ourselves if we needed to.
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  Speaker 1: My boyfriend somehow convinced me to stay a little longer.
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  Speaker 1: so we planned to stay the night. But all throughout
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  Speaker 1: the night, we heard twigs and branches snapping around our
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  Speaker 1: tarp as if somebody was watching us. It was that man.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was. He was standing out there, watching us.
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  Speaker 1: I said let's quietly get our shit together and get
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of there, which we did, only we
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  Speaker 1: left our new tarp set up because they would make
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  Speaker 1: too much noise and he'd know we were leaving. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as I stood up with my pack, ready to
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. He yells, leaving so soon?
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  Speaker 1: We proceeded to get away from there as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: The most disturbing thing, as we were getting away from there,
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  Speaker 1: the man yelled for us to come back. That only
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  Speaker 1: made us go even faster. In my mind, we were
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  Speaker 1: either getting robbed, raped, killed, or something, because he was
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  Speaker 1: not alone. His stories didn't add up, and his background
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  Speaker 1: of where he came from made me believe he was
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  Speaker 1: running from something and was trying to hide by living
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  Speaker 1: off the grid. I called the rangers the next morning
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  Speaker 1: and told them about him Luckily all he got from
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  Speaker 1: us was a set of new tarps.