25 Paranormal or Unexplained Experiences People Had While Camping

‘I heard this very low vibration, sounding almost like a low roar’
25 Paranormal or Unexplained Experiences People Had While Camping

When you’re camping in the wilderness, there are certain things you expect — like whistling winds or critters that might lurk in the night. But it’s the unexpected, and often unexplainable, that you can never truly prepare yourself for. 

One Redditor remembered a camping trip he took with his mom and older brother that took a weird turn. After a day of hiking, he tucked himself into his sleeping bag beside his family. Sometime during the middle of the night, he woke up. He was still in his sleeping bag, but it had been taken outside of his tent and roughly 100 yards into the woods. He screamed for his mom, and she yelled back in panic until they found each other again. To this day, no one knows how he got there.

Chilling!

Other Redditors shared the unsettling camping experiences that they can’t quite explain, including a sudden silence so quiet that a Redditor could hear the hairs on his arm stand up.

huuaaang 7y ago Out in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. I could hear this strange music way in the distance. It didn't sound like any instrument... but it wasn't quite natural either. I never did figure out what it was. It lasted only a minute or so. We were miles from civilization. + 1.1K ...
7y ago My old man was an avid outdoorsman in the Colorado Rockies in the late 80s. He'd go on week-long treks with his buds. One Summer they'd been out for a few days in Pikes National Forest. They set up camp in a ravine they thought was safe. That night my dad unzipped the tent to take a leak in the dark and outside stood a pair of pale bare feet. My dad screamed and zipped up the tent. Everyone else woke up and asked what was wrong. My dad said someone was barefoot out there. They went
Magnus_40 e 3y ago Solo camp in the middle of nowhere. When I woke up in the morning someone had made a cup of tea and partially drunk it in the middle of the night. No sign of anyone anywhere. + 6K Share ...
n3phtis 7y ago Went camping with two friends back in 2011. At the time I lived in a rural area which is pretty much in the border of the Amazon jungle. We set up camp under some mango trees near a deserted road and take the first day to explore our surroundings. Night comes and it starts to rain. One of my friends forgot his tarp back home and since his tent wasn't waterproof we had to share mine. We wake up in the night hearing a calf cry. Sure, there were some properties nearby and It wasn't that uncommon
Colonial13 10mo ago | was 16. Camping with just the family dog on some property my family owned in northern Michigan. Family dog was a Chow Black Lab mix, built like a tank but also ridiculously mild mannered. Second night we're up there I wake up in the middle of the night to the dog standing in the middle of the tent, teeth bared, hackles up, this damn near subsonic growl coming out of him. He's doing a slow turn, obviously tracking something that is moving around the tent. I can hear footsteps and a kind of snort/breathing noise from
mareenotmarie 7y ago Camping alone in a bit of secluded bushland (lots of sticks and leaf litter so can hear critters and people moving easily). Hearing a plopping noise during the night (but no other noises) to wake up to see a decapitated kangaroos head next to the tent that obviously wasn't there when I put the tent up. No explanation. Got the f out of there. 2.9K ...
eclecticsed 7y ago My family went camping every summer when I was growing up. We usually bounced between Virginia Beach, Assateague, and this godawful place called Westmoreland. One trip we were in Assateague, near the beach, and we had two tents set up in different parts of the site. Some time in the middle of the night my mom woke up, which woke me. She was sitting up straight but completely still, and looked over at what she was staring at. In the moonlight there was the silhouette of what looked like an old woman looking into our tent. Long
passingbyraven 6y ago It is something simple really: It was my first camping holiday with one of my ex gfs, first night: I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night and see her sitting and staring at me. She notices I am awake and in a strange voice says: The river will wash the guilt of sinners. Then she fell back sleeping... I have to say I had difficulty sleeping after that. 76 ...
DeadpoolTK 6y ago Boyscouts, woke up at 4 or 5 am. We were camping right next to a lake. Saw a woman dressed in white just standing on the other side of the lake. I don't believe in the supernatural or any of that stuff, so It can probably be explained. (I often tell myself It was a newlywed couple who's honeymoon included camping or something.). She just stood by the lake, looked at me, smiled, waved and walked back into the woods. Still have no Idea what that was all about. Creeped me out. 42 ...
Grand_Arugula 2y ago Edited 2y ago I was tent camping in Beatty, Nevada. Behind the site was a revine with really tall grass and brush. My friend was in the car on her phone as I was finishing my setup for the night. I heard LOUD rustling in the revine. I thought it was people trying to mess with us so I got my headlamp out and was prepared to run for the car. All I could see was two sets of perfectly round, giant glowing eyes that would disappear for a minute and pop back up. Freaked me out
LawDog_1010 2y ago Backpacked in a few miles with my wife and young kids 9 and 7 into a wilderness area. We were not too far off the trail but there was no one within the area when we settled in for the night. At some point around 1:00 am a man screamed at the top of their lungs and woke us up out of a dead sleep. Then we never heard anything else + 83 Reply Share ...
haloone 2y ago We were broken down way out in the middle of nowhere...and I do mean the middle of nowhere. Headed out bush camping. Middle of the night of course. Spent a couple hours poking around in the engine bay trying to get the truck started...no dice. A native fella appears and says 'did you try this wire?' Truck fires right up. We offered a ride...he says 'no thank you' and wanders back into the dense forest. To this day I still have never seen a person on that stretch of gravel or anywhere near it. + 484 Reply
thefairlyoddkitties 5mo ago When I was young, we stayed at a holiday park that had a trail leading to a huge, dense forest. Me and my friend (I was around 7/8 years old) walked the trail and broke into the forest (people weren't allowed to enter it) and we walked around and chatted for a while. Whilst messing around, I glanced to my right and I saw a large, white, pigs head that had a white cone around it. It literally caught my breath and I couldn't look away, when I did look away a few seconds later | immediately
utprosimian 2mo ago Summer after I graduated high school I did a solo overnight in some woods near an old plantation. I had a nice set up, was getting ready to cook some steak; even made a fence with some branches. I heard something walking in the leaves, like something big was thomping steadily towards me. I called out NO BEAR but it kept coming until I should have seen it with my headlamp. Nothing there I booked it to the car leaving everything. Then I was worried about the fire so I headed back. On a semi overgrown gravel
deesmutts88 10y ago Edited 10y ago Two years ago, we were camping at a place called Lake Glenbawn in Australia. Now to set the scene, two mates were sitting around a fire, one was getting something from his car, I was passed out in my tent and another mate was down at a tap rinsing his plate about 50 metres from the fire. Не got smashed in the head with a beer bottle. At first, they thought it was me, thinking I'd drunkenly stumbled out of my tent to take a piss and had thrown the bottle. They went and
nweiskirch 10y ago Last summer i worked at an overnight camp in northern Wisconsin that had about 300 campers and 80 staff. One night we were woken up by a huge storm and the sound of lightning less than a mile from our cabin and wood cracking. After only 15 minutes the storm died down and we all went back to sleep. When we woke up over 20 huge trees had been downed many only feet from cabins with kids sleeping in them. If they had fallen 5 feet in the wrong direction they would have killed multiple people. The
Fez_and_no_Pants 2mo ago I was in Bethel, VT to help clear underbrush and stake out camping areas for a small upcoming festival. That night I slept in a single man tent and was woken up by an incredibly bright light above me paired with a loud roaring engine sound that I couldn't identify. I recall popping my head out, looking straight up at the light curiously, and then giving it a miss thinking 'I'm too tired for this shit' and going back into my tent and straight to sleep. The next day I searched the maps and news of the
Comfortable-Owl-5929 2mo ago A massive open pit about 40 feet deep filled with massive amounts of roadkill. Mostly deer. It was about 200 ft in diameter. Smack in the middle of nowhere in the woods. 7 Reply ...
Comfortable-Owl-5929 2mo ago Me and a few friends saw a craft appear above the tree tops when we were parked in the woods. Summer of 85 it happened. It suddenly appeared in front of us making no noise whatsoever, none! It shone massive lights over us as it moved above the tree tops (we all saw it, it had something like eight sides with incredibly bright lights underneath just like you would imagine a UFO craft to look like) and poof as fast as it appeared, it was gone. We were underneath some trees, but we were also in a
Annihilating_Tomato 10y ago I was a cabin with 4 other people. I woke up at about 5am and they were all sleep talking at each other. Like straight up grunting, mumbling, shaking and everything else a person mid-sleep would do only the four of them were actively engaging in some kind of primitive sleep talk at once and towards each other. It scared the shit out of me. In the morning I told them about what happened and they didn't remember a thing. What probably happened is one started sleep talking and it set off the rest of them, still
cathline 10y ago 1984-85 time frame. It was a break from college, and a group of us decided to go on a week long raft trip. The river went through a Native American reservation. The nights were clear and beautiful, the river was slow and manageable. Everything was going pretty well, until the next to last night. We had finished dinner, put everything away. My travel mates had snuggled into the tents. I stayed outside to stargaze a while and try to identify different constellations because we had no moon, we were miles away from the nearest light pollution and
cckaufmann 10y ago This happened to me when I was little. I went camping with my older brother and my mom. I was about 7 or 8 and I went to bed around 10 in a sleeping bag inside my tent with both my mom and brother. Some time during the night, I don't know when, I woke up somewhere in the middle of the woods still in my sleeping bag. I had no idea where I was or where my tent was. I screamed for my mom and I heard her calling back for me in panic but she
chunder_wonder 6y ago I was camping with a friend at a campground just outside Portland - so well-traveled, fairly urban, lots of rvs around. It was raining and we were both in my tent dozing off. We heard - I kid you not - a LOUD animal scream, very close by. I'm an ecologist and know all the typical campground animal noises and this was not something I could identify at all. It sounded like it came from something pretty big, but it wasn't a coyote or a raccoon or anything - my closet guess is maybe a cougar, but I wouldn't expect them so close to people in
Biggs180 10y ago Edited 10y ago Few years ago | was camping in the Everglades in Florida with a few friends. We all had gone into our seperate tents and were starting to fall asleep. The area was pretty noisy with bugs, crickets, birds, etc. I heard this very low vibration, sounding almost like a low roar. it was powerful enough to vibrate in my chest. Suddenly everything in the forest shut up. no bugs, no birds, nothing. about thirty seconds later my phone vibrates and its my friend in the other tent texting me asking if i heard the
hakim_abdul 7y ago I was camping in California and I over the hill I saw a large red flash and streak of light fall over the hills. I have seen meteors before but this seemed more intense. I told my parents what I saw but they didn't believe me. 514 ...

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