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scout · 09-14-2007, 03:00 AM

I haven't really ever felt any strange feelings from trees or rocks but I have felt strangely in some houses or other areas outside. I work in the service field and go into a several different homes a day and it's amazing the feelings you encounter when you walk through the door. Most houses feel all warm and cozy but every once in a great while you walk into one that just gives you goose bumps. No matter how long your there you can't shake the feeling someone/something is there watching you and it ain't a real friendly spirit. You have to really stifle the urge to get the hell out of there fast.

Back to the woods.

Have you ever become disoriented and come out of the woods completely opposite of where you think you should be? I have hunted the same 200 and some odd acres for the past 10 years or so and twice I have become disoriented and completely screwed up on where I was at. I know for a fact it has to at least one other person in these same woods. I was in my stationary stand a few years ago and my hunting partner since high school came strolling by my stand. I had some good fun with him that morning for a few minutes until he realized he was about 10 yards from me. He was really distraught because he thought he was on the other side of the property. Back at the truck later he described it as feeling he was in the twilight zone, exactly how I've felt both times. The first time it happened to me if I hadn't heard a car on the road I would have really freaked out because I had been wandering aimlessly for about an hour and I was starting to get worried. The second time happened to me about two weeks ago. I decided to go squirrel hunting so I loaded the Zero the fearless hunter {our Jack Russell terrier} in the car and grabbed the .22 pistol and off we go. He loves to squirrel hunt, he thinks it's his single purpose in life. All you have to do is mention the word squirrel and he's at the door raising hell. Fast forward. The woods where we hunt makes a U shape around about a 25 acre corn field I had planned just to mosey around the U and see what we jumped up. We started around and I tried to always keep the cornfield to my left which should have taken us around and back to the car. Somewhere in the middle it was like stepping into the twilight zone. The dog was even acting weird. He's usually just in sight or out about 20 yards or so in front or to the side of me. After about an hour I couldn't get him out from under my feet. I thought he was thirsty so I opened a bottle of water and tried to give him a drink but he didn't want anything to do with the water. Somewhere about this time I noticed some ditches and things I had never noticed before in the woods where I thought I was and some other landmarks didn't seem quite right. No birds or any other of the usual noises you hear when your in the woods and it then dawned on me that I hadn't heard or seen anything move for a long time. Just total silence. I got a really weird feeling that something was up, something wasn't right. Crap, better go left and find that corn field again. Left we go and after a little bit suddenly there is a cornfield on my left and I'm like ok great but the landmarks still just didn't match up. I see a barn that shouldn't be there. WTF where the hell am I at? Then after a few moments of pure mental anguish and panic I realized where I was, not far from where I entered the woods and the cornfield where I now at was the field on the other side of the woods where I entered so the car was behind me rather than to my left where it should have been. Talk about feeling weird, I got goose bumps and decided just to go to the car. I got back to the car all freaked out and looked at the time and instead of it being roughly 9-10 am like I thought, I had went in the woods about daybreak, it was now noon. I had "lost" a couple hours.

09-14-2007, 03:00 AM	#19 (permalink)
scout Psycho	I haven't really ever felt any strange feelings from trees or rocks but I have felt strangely in some houses or other areas outside. I work in the service field and go into a several different homes a day and it's amazing the feelings you encounter when you walk through the door. Most houses feel all warm and cozy but every once in a great while you walk into one that just gives you goose bumps. No matter how long your there you can't shake the feeling someone/something is there watching you and it ain't a real friendly spirit. You have to really stifle the urge to get the hell out of there fast. Back to the woods. Have you ever become disoriented and come out of the woods completely opposite of where you think you should be? I have hunted the same 200 and some odd acres for the past 10 years or so and twice I have become disoriented and completely screwed up on where I was at. I know for a fact it has to at least one other person in these same woods. I was in my stationary stand a few years ago and my hunting partner since high school came strolling by my stand. I had some good fun with him that morning for a few minutes until he realized he was about 10 yards from me. He was really distraught because he thought he was on the other side of the property. Back at the truck later he described it as feeling he was in the twilight zone, exactly how I've felt both times. The first time it happened to me if I hadn't heard a car on the road I would have really freaked out because I had been wandering aimlessly for about an hour and I was starting to get worried. The second time happened to me about two weeks ago. I decided to go squirrel hunting so I loaded the Zero the fearless hunter {our Jack Russell terrier} in the car and grabbed the .22 pistol and off we go. He loves to squirrel hunt, he thinks it's his single purpose in life. All you have to do is mention the word squirrel and he's at the door raising hell. Fast forward. The woods where we hunt makes a U shape around about a 25 acre corn field I had planned just to mosey around the U and see what we jumped up. We started around and I tried to always keep the cornfield to my left which should have taken us around and back to the car. Somewhere in the middle it was like stepping into the twilight zone. The dog was even acting weird. He's usually just in sight or out about 20 yards or so in front or to the side of me. After about an hour I couldn't get him out from under my feet. I thought he was thirsty so I opened a bottle of water and tried to give him a drink but he didn't want anything to do with the water. Somewhere about this time I noticed some ditches and things I had never noticed before in the woods where I thought I was and some other landmarks didn't seem quite right. No birds or any other of the usual noises you hear when your in the woods and it then dawned on me that I hadn't heard or seen anything move for a long time. Just total silence. I got a really weird feeling that something was up, something wasn't right. Crap, better go left and find that corn field again. Left we go and after a little bit suddenly there is a cornfield on my left and I'm like ok great but the landmarks still just didn't match up. I see a barn that shouldn't be there. WTF where the hell am I at? Then after a few moments of pure mental anguish and panic I realized where I was, not far from where I entered the woods and the cornfield where I now at was the field on the other side of the woods where I entered so the car was behind me rather than to my left where it should have been. Talk about feeling weird, I got goose bumps and decided just to go to the car. I got back to the car all freaked out and looked at the time and instead of it being roughly 9-10 am like I thought, I had went in the woods about daybreak, it was now noon. I had "lost" a couple hours.