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So...last night we watched a show about the "Russian Yeti"....dum dum dum, and the 1950's case of 9 hikers being mutilated in a remote mountain location of Russia. They had a very compelling argument that the Yeti does exist. Maybe the thing exists, maybe it doesn't, I have no clue. My wife was saying how just things going bump in the night freak her out, and I told her some stories about when I was growing up camping nearly every free weekend I could in some of god's greatest open country side in Oklahoma, about getting the chit scared out of me more than just a few times. It never stopped me from going back out.

I don't know how many different critters I've had come up to my tent rubbing and sniffing it.

So, who has ever been in the great outdoors and had the hair on the back of your neck stand up from something going bump in the dark? Did you venture out to find out what it was, or did you just stay put and wait for it to pass?
 

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Maybe curiosity kills, but I am always interested in finding what went "bump" sometimes especially camping its amazing what "scary" noises you can hear and find they come from the oddest, smallest, creatures out there. like i said curiosity may kill one day, but i figure if its a bear or mountain lion itd be attacking later anyways and id have more of a fighting chance if im looking for it...

coyotes are fun to listen to while you are out camping, thats for sure.
 

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We were camping in far SE Oklahoma. We heard what sounded like a drunk cow stumbling around our tent. My wife was scared chitless, and I didn't have the testicular fortitude to find out what I was.
 

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Ive heard "stuff" while hunting n camping, that gave me the heeby jeebys. Scariest was steppin into a covey of quail in the dark.

Plus coon huntin, lotta strange weird stuff is seen n heard when ya coon hunt.
 

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Ive heard "stuff" while hunting n camping, that gave me the heeby jeebys. Scariest was steppin into a covey of quail in the dark.

Plus coon huntin, lotta strange weird stuff is seen n heard when ya coon hunt.


Oh damn... 'eff that. Heart attack there! It would be funny as hell afterwards after you realized you were still alive, lol!
 

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Maybe curiosity kills, but I am always interested in finding what went "bump" sometimes especially camping its amazing what "scary" noises you can hear and find they come from the oddest, smallest, creatures out there. like i said curiosity may kill one day, but i figure if its a bear or mountain lion itd be attacking later anyways and id have more of a fighting chance if im looking for it...

coyotes are fun to listen to while you are out camping, thats for sure.

Yeah, it's amazing how much noise a field mouse can make in the middle of a still night isn't it? Armadillo's make some creepy noises as their shell scrapes by tree branches and such, and the small pitter patter of their movements. Heck, I had a good sized bull frog scare hell out of me once, walking along in the dark and it leaped out of a pile of leaves...damn thing. I ended up having him for dinner though :gun2:
 

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I spent hundreds of nights out camping in a tent. Every noise I heard were from normal critters you'd expect. Most of the time unless it's in the kitchen I just roll over and go back to sleep.

I'll probably die from a axe murderer.
 

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I was abruptly woken up while tent camping a few years ago. Something was trying to break through the fabric side of the tent, like sticking a paw on the side trying to claw it's way in.

I almost pooped my pants in terror, and hurriedly fumbled around for the wheel gun I brought, hoping that I was not experiencing a real-life ending of Grizzly Man.

After I found the gun, then brain fog had cleared enough for me to realize it was just my pet dog licking the morning condensation off the side of the rainfly. I almost greased the family pet that night.
 

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Yeah, it's amazing how much noise a field mouse can make in the middle of a still night isn't it? Armadillo's make some creepy noises as their shell scrapes by tree branches and such, and the small pitter patter of their movements. Heck, I had a good sized bull frog scare hell out of me once, walking along in the dark and it leaped out of a pile of leaves...damn thing. I ended up having him for dinner though :gun2:

Ha! aint that the truth, dillos could in fact be Sasquatch in the dead of night!
 

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