I am usually never scared in the woods anytime day or night. However, once I was walking to my stand about 5AM and a Grouse flushed right beside me....now that got my attention!
Another time I was ground hunting and sitting on a rock drinking coffee waiting for first light. The buck I was after that day deceided to play "sneak attack" came in behind me and started snorting, and pawing.....I had to laugh afterwards... needless to say he busted me early, and I had hot coffee all over my camos.

Odd as it sounds although it has never really scared me, I agree with Coyotefeeder. Once in a great while, there are some spots that you happen onto while in the woods, you know somehow you are just not welcome for some unexplained reason. And that is a very strange feeling to have.

HOOOOO Boy when I was a young pup me and my little brother would have had some fun with you all, we used to love to take friends for a walk to the store on moonless nights. We lived 1 1/2 miles back on a dirt road that wound its way down into a swamp, we would always tell them stories about a civil war cavalaryman who lost his head and was rumored to roam the swamp looking for his head. We would always say that we felt it was just a bunch of hooey, but it got them thinking. The great thing about passing though the swamp was it was dark as hades and it was almost garaunteed at least a rabbit or something would go ripping through the honeysuckle right beside the road, the best reactions were when a screach owl would cut loose!!! LOL We used to scare the caca out off some of our friends when they let thier imagination run a little wild, of course me tossing a stick down in the woods at unexpected moments probably didn't help thier nerves either.

Actually I have gotten scared a few times in the woods, twice by grouse coming up right in front of me and once at night when I aproached a buck and doe at an inappropite moment, the buck was not real happy and I slowly walked backwards away from them until he took off after pawing the ground, but I just am not bothered by things in the woods unless they are real and loud.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

i have no problems walking out in the dark since i got my night vision but about 20 some odd years ago i was hunting up in oregon when i walked into a clearing that was used as a ritual sight, the hair on the back of my head stood up but i ignored it and kept going, getting into the clearing there was an alter with old dried up blood all over it and candles everywhere. scared me so bad i ran out of there and never went back. this was before cell phones and never thought about calling the authorities. every once in awhile i still have dreams about that day.

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IT IS UP TO ME......

I've been walking thru the woods in the early morning when a bunch of roosting turkeys took off. That'll getcha for a second or two.

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Honestly, ya... there have been a few times when I have freaked my self out. Either due to my own imagination or the one time I completely got lost!

Keep fresh batteries in you flash light and use markers.

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I was going to reply:no,i've been stompin'around the Woods for over fifty years.I'm more scared to walk in the park,in my Hometown.
But Sixpoint's post reminded me of the time when,at well past four 0'clock,I was still a couple of miles back. I was not really hunting now,just making a compass East;looking for the trail.
Suddenly,a little Screech Owl piped up.Instntly,I'm thinking about Mountain Lions jumping on my back.It was a loong trek to the trail.
Once I got there,I could walk faster,and relax,a little.I relaxed enough to realize that it was only an Owl,and I had made a Fool of myself.
Like an Old New Yorker said;&quot;we have nothing to fear but fear itself&quot;
Frank

Well, I have really never been scared in the woods at night, but have seen some things in the daylight that made me do a double take.In WV we have Abbagoochies.......dang those things are scary..Hope they don't migrate to all the other states.
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I have to agree with Coyotefeeder and Christine B - there ARE places in the woods that I have happened upon in broad daylight that have really raised the hair up on the back of my neck. On one instance I was deer hunting in late November on Admiralty Island, working along opposite sides of a muskeg meadow with an experienced, no-nonsense friend. It had snowed 3-5 inches the night before and the air was clear and cold. He was in plain sight, and I saw him kind of go into a crouch and look slowly all the way around. I figured he must have crossed a fresh track and I moved along - keeping an eye out for movement or deer sign.

I went another 10 feet or so and got the creepiest feeling like I was either being watched by something, or I was in a place where I didn't belong. I stopped and checked-out my surroundings, but I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. My partner was looking right at me when I looked in his direction, and motioned at me to come across the meadow. I backed across to where he was standing. The first words out of his mouth were, &quot;Man, this place gives me the 'willies', I'm not going any further&quot;. He pushed up his shirt sleeve and his forearm was completely covered with goose bumps! I agreed with him and we worked our way back down to the beach and our skiff and called it a day. Others have sheepishly mentioned similar circumstances over the years and have attributed it to a nearby brown bear or somesuch, but I know it is a very unpleasant feeling that I would just as soon not experience again.

During Rifle season im always thinking about who im going to run into thats on are property. but when im bowhunting for some reason i always get freaked out and start thinking about Blair Witch. i would recomend to anyone who hasnt seen it to not watch it.

i was fall trukey hunting this year and i was a long ways into the woods when i got this really erie feeling, like i was being watched, i walked a little furthur and found a pile of rocks, about the size of a casket and at the top of the pile was one big rock(head stone im guessing). they looked like they had been there for a long time bc moss and plants were taking it over, but needless to say i didnt think about nothing else but gettin out of the woods. its a scary thing to find when your by yourself.