People Shared Their Creepiest Experiences While Camping Or Hiking

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“I was hiking on a trail that’s very close to a river and a road, and there are a few sections of the trail where you can cross directly over the river to get to the road. I was hiking with a group of coworkers and briefly got separated from them. I came across a guy who had pulled his truck right up to the trail. He started casually asking me about my day, who I was hiking with, and so on, and then pointed out that he didn’t see any of my hiking buddies with me; I just seemed totally alone out there. He mentioned multiple times how alone I was. Then he told me that he wanted to give me a business card for a local hiking club, but that it was somewhere in his truck, and it would be nice if I came over to help him find it. I declined, and my coworker’s dog came running up around that time, so I basically just said, ‘Hey, looks like my group is close, bye!’ And ran off.”

“There’s a chance that he was just fucking with me or was genuinely so socially unaware that he didn’t realize how alarming it was to tell someone, ‘Hey, you’re alone, you’re totally alone, nobody can see you or anything, wanna get in my truck?’ Definitely freaked me out, though.”

—hemehime