jmsharp167
Senior Member
What are some of your best stories of eerie or spooky situations you have experienced while hunting? Walking to or from stand etc....
I walked under about 30 roosting Turkeys while still dark. I didn't know they were there. They spooked and flew. I about had a heart attack.What are some of your best stories of eerie or spooky situations you have experienced while hunting? Walking to or from stand etc....
Not eerie or spooky I step in a covey of quail one morning going to the stand and they flushed one hit me in the nads and scared the heck out of me I screamed like a little girl limped back to the truck and went to the house I figured I was going to have to clean my drawers that was about the dangest thing that has ever happen to me in the woods thought I was going have a heart attack. Its funny now but wasn't then.
I've hunted around a few old abandoned cemeteries from the 1800's. Kind of spooky finding a acre or two of headstones and unmarked sunken graves in the middle of the woods with no roads leading to it. I never hunt in an old cemetery but only on the fringes of it not out of fear but out of respect for the dead. Guess I'm kind of old fashioned about some things.
Mine actually happened last week. We have a new property owner next to our land in Carroll County. They are putting in a house about 200 yards off the road and along the property line that I walk down to get to the woods. As I walked in, I noticed an old 50's-60's model truck up in the woods through my binoculars. I've never seen it before and but it looked like it had been that forever. Didn't think much of it and went on to hunt. I'm coming back out and last light and I glance that way again and immediately see orange. I assume it is a hunter and stop and glass with my binoculars. I was not expecting what I saw. It was a full size skeleton in the sitting position and it was holding about a 25 lb pumpkin. As dark as it was, it was just shining almost. I'm telling you the hair on my arms stood up and I got the spookiest feeling ever. I can tell you I covered that last couple hundred yards in record speed!
I have no idea how I didn't see it walking in while looking at the truck. I can only assume the owners were setting up some kind of Halloween scene in the woods, but dang did it get my blood pumping for a bit!
As cool, calm, and collected as you are, I would have loved to seen that!
I'm dying laughing.. I don't know what I'd doNot eerie or spooky I step in a covey of quail one morning going to the stand and they flushed one hit me in the nads and scared the heck out of me I screamed like a little girl limped back to the truck and went to the house I figured I was going to have to clean my drawers that was about the dangest thing that has ever happen to me in the woods thought I was going have a heart attack. Its funny now but wasn't then.