a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
mk  ·  4307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AskHubski:What's the creepiest thing that's ever happened to you?
When we were in high school, we used to often "camp" in the woods of Oakland University. I put "camp" in quotes because we basically ended up sitting around the fire all night just joking and drinking. There weren't any actual campsites there, and I am sure it was technically illegal to do it.

Anyway, there were five or six of us, and in the evening as we walked to the site, we saw a guy in a red running suit walking through the woods. As he wasn't on path, we thought it was a bit odd, and nicknamed him "Forest-walker". All that night, whenever we heard a sound in the woods surrounding us, we would joke that it was Forest-walker, and made some outrageous stories about him.

I don't remember if we slept that night, sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. But, the next morning, after we had walked about 100 yards out of the woods, someone turned around and noticed Forest-walker standing at the edge of the trees. We all saw him.