I don't know if it was all the "Creature Features" I watched as a kid, but i just love to get scared. Another reason why i probaly bowhunt in the deep dark woods in the middle of the morning.
Anyway, if you are like me you probaly have plenty of stories to share on getting real icy chills from some of the hunts you have ventured out on.Please share them if you have the time.

One time as i was walking to my stand in central Illinois, and the moon was full and the stars were shining,and i had just finished another Dean Koontz book the night before, i heard in the distance a pack of wild dogs chasing down a deer. Well, i reached in my back pack for my pepper spray and kept pushing ahead to my stand. The howling was pretty loud now and as i neared my stand, i stepped on a deer, who bolted upright and SNORTED right into my face. BEJESUS< i just about had a heart attack, i was so shook up!!
Well,this is one time when the SUN could not come up fast enough for this boy. I wished i'd had a machine gun that is for real!!
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I was hunting on a small island last year. I sat at the edge waiting for my buddy in the boat to pick me up. He shot a deer so it took a little while. I sat there about 1 1/2 hours in the dark with a pack of coyotes about 50 yrds from me. When I would shine my light I could see there eyes. I was pretty freaked out. that boat couldn't get there fast enough.

I once busted a dominant buck who was on his way back to the safety of the unhuntable bean field that he lived in . He apparently thought that I was a subdominant buck since I made the mistake of trying a grunt to calm him down , I forgot that the call was set for "young buck" ! Boy they sure sound 10 feet tall in the dark ! The one thought that kept running through my mind until he left was "Oh sh1T ! I'm gonna be on the news !"

once when i was dragging doe out of teh woods about 1/2 way to the truck i heard a howl about 100-200 yards away behind me and to the right maybe 4 oclock, the a couple seconds later one that sounded closer at about 9 oclock... then a few seconds later at about 7 oclock. at this point it was dark and i was hoofing it back to the truck. that doe coudlnt have weighed more than 120 pounds but i swear she felt all of 300 after that point and then about 100 yards from teh truck i heard thre more howls about 50-60 yards behind me at 5,6, & 7 oclock.. then again closer and closer when i threw the doe in the truck and jumped into the truck i coudl see their eye's watching from the edge of the woods just beyond where the head lights woudl reach.... that was seriously the most scared i have ever been because i counted about 8 pairs of eyes as i left. i woudl have had to pull out the bowie knife! and defend my doe!

Sitting in a swamp bottom one evening and right before dark I saw something moving about 100 yards behind me through the thick buck brush. Having alot of hogs and seeing a black body at first I thought it was a hog. After a minute I relized it was not a hog and really believed it was a panther I had herd story's of panther sightings in the area and was sitting in my tree trying to talk myself out of believing I just saw a panther. Right before dark I herd the most ubelievable scream not more than 100 yards behind my tree. Instantly that feeling you get when your finger pokes through the toilet paper took over my body. I new what I had saw was true. Believe me when dark came I realy thought about spending the night in my tree. If some one had a stop watch when I got down from that tree you would of seen a new world record in the 100 yard dash. A couple days later myself and a friend found his tracks in the soft mud behind my stand. Now when hunting my pistol comes with me. Getting chills just typing this.

Last year I was hunting my favorite tree way down by the river. Now on occasion either going in before dawn or going out after dark I have walked right into a skunk at 2 steps and a badger at about 3 steps. Enough to make you jump but no big deal. Where I hunt there are many turkeys and they roost in trees right by my stand. Had them roost ten feet above me at times. Well on this particular morning I was up in my stand long before dawn as usual half awake waiting for light. I heard right behind me limbs breaking and being thrashed and then the most terrifying "scream" in the tree behind me. First time I was ever scared in the woods. I told my brother who farms the place about it and he goes "oh I forgot to tell you the hired men saw mountain lion tracks there last week, I was supposed to tell you to bring a gun just in case". Thanks a lot! I think that it was a mountain lion and he had turkey for breakfast. I cannot legally take a gun while bowhunting here, but wish I could. Speaking of which if it is illegal but in your own best interest, would you bring a pistol??

I climbed down in the dark after a day of hunting in a bottomland area. I was working in the dark so as not to spook anything. I heard the grraaaawwrrr of a puma within 50 yards that the land owner had seen in the area. I almost soiled myself. I decided to utilize the ole flashlight from that point on.

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That is a dang good one there, I agree JK

My girlsfriends step dad and i were on our way to coos bay oregon for a elk hunt and we stopped in nevada on a old indian reservation he said that they thought was haunted or some trash like that. We had some beer in the back of the truck and some gear and put our guns in behind the seat to take a nap for a few hours. Right when i was dozing off and ignoring wiley's snoring something bumped up against the truck on his side and he woke up and said "WHAT?" I woke back up and said whats the problem, he said did u just jump? I told him no i was falling asleep, and about that time something bumped on my side and i was like what the F#$k!!! Then the back of the truck just dropped like someone pushed it down with great strength and let go, about that time Wiley fired up the truck and we took off!!!! Still dont know what the heck that was, we was the only ones around[]