A native American man I met in New Mexico once told me "never whistle at night, and never answer something that calls to you from the night unless it's someone you know" . Solid advice I've always followed. This had to have been terrifying.

When I'm out in the wilderness, I let nature tell me what's going on. At night, if the frogs and bugs get quiet, I know something is up.

skinwalker posts a youtube video. " Human in my backyard "

One night, I was SURE a large human or something bigger was walking through the woods behind my house in Florida, there was a canal across the street with gators in it, so I was extra careful. When it finally got to me, it was a normal sized turtle about 1 foot wide, making *all that noise!* 😂

The scariest thing about being in a forest at night isn’t knowing you’re alone, it’s knowing you’re not.

I will never forget the advice: "The further away it sounds, the closer it is to you. Saying its name will draw it near." Our guts know man, there are things out there.

That was a cobweb. I've been in the alarm biz for 27 years... definitely a cobweb

My Mom loved this series before she passed in January. She introduced me to you. Thanks for the amazing videos. 1984 - 2024 Rest in Peace. Morgan Rose Bishop.

One night I was out walking my dog a mile or two from my neighborhood where there is a big empty field on either side of the road. The street lights were broken, so it was unusually dark. In the past I've seen a lot of wild animals like foxes, skunks, raccoons, opossums, and coyotes that wander around that area. Suddenly, I hear a horrific loud noise that sounded like fleshy parts flapping together, and then I smell this god-awful smell. Never smelled anything as bad as that in my life. I stood there in the darkness thinking what the hell was that? Then it hit me, my pug Winston had gotten into my brothers room and ate the rest of one of his chili burritos, and was flatulating like a monkey's racehorse. Damn, that was the scariest shit I've ever experienced in my life. I'm sure any skinwalkers in the area took one sniff of that and got the hell out of there. I had to extend his leash to the max and make him walk down wind from me, and I just barely made it home safely.

If it helps to calm your nerves, the figure in the backyard on camera was a spider web hanging over the camera lens. We get them almost nightly and set off our cameras sometimes every 60 seconds.

Video should be retitled "The cobweb on my security camera."

As a Chinese, I was taught not to whistle at night because it will attract ghosts.

My husband and I live in the deep woods, completely surrounded by woods on all sides, and we've heard the exact same sound of coyotes howling and screaming from all around our house, some close and some just a little further away. There had to be hundreds of them without a doubt. We've also heard other terrifying sounds that we can't identify like a very deep, throaty grumble, almost a growl, but not like a bear or anything we've ever heard before. The best way we could describe it is when someone puts their open mouth on a microphone and breathes heavily into it. It has happened multiple times at night, and once during the middle of the day. Our dogs were completely terrified and ran to our front door scratching to get in. We fired a shot or two each time, and only once did it continue after we fired and sounded as if it were getting closer to us. Most people try to say it must've been a bear or a big cat, but we've heard those, too, and it's NOTHING like anything we've ever heard. My best advice is to stay locked and loaded and keep your pets inside, even during the day. Stay safe, my friend.

I’ve done a lot of hiking and camping in my youth. This one time I was sleeping under the stars, laying on my side when I heard like something walking up behind me. Now I’ve heard deer sound like people walking, this was similar but different. It kept getting closer yet I didn’t move. Then it touched my back still I didn’t panic, I slowly rolled back and found myself staring at a raccoon. After all that, heart racing, imagination running wild, and it was just a raccoon. It’s amazing how much certain sounds can make your imagination run wild.

7:32 As far as Skinwalkers go, I’ve heard the LOUDER they are, the FURTHER they are and the QUIETER they are, the CLOSER they are. Keep that in mind and move ASAP! Don’t answer any doors for any unknown persons or things *EVER!!!* Good luck man. Wow.

The most scared I've ever got in the woods was last year. Something was running up on me. Ended up being a deer that got just as scared as me.

Sleeping in a forest at night and waking up from a nightmare is like waking up from a nightmare in a nightmare

As someone who grew up in a Navajo family, I grew up hearing the stories about the skinwalker. you have some huge balls to be able to go out there for the night alone good job bro.

Cmon ppl, this guy is a content creator. He roped us all into watching, nice work, I mean that. From the beginning I knew they were coyotes but I still had to watch. You’ve accomplished your mission

This dude has balls of steel to go out there in the haunted fields 💀

I love how he's gonna take on a skinwalker with bear spray, but really has a problem with spiders. Good on ya mate!

The moment we need to panic is when the whole area goes silent, not even an insect noise that's when you really need to find a way out something or someone is out there and you are not alone..

I had a friend who got lost in the woods & had to spend the night out there, alone. He would never say what happened, but said it was a life changing experience.

“ Arrivederci” he said at one point, means goodbye in Italian, chills

I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what's in it

I heard some really crazy sounds coming from beyond my fence line one night, the next night I heard the same sounds, slightly louder this time. Armed with my flashlight I approached and found it to be two hedgehogs mating. They make some really freaky sounds when they're getting freaky.

I was in the woods one time and saw a sight of such primeval horror which will haunt me forever...a grotesque, twisted figure with a distorted face of such malignant evil that i wondered if hell itself had spewed it forth....my ex wife.

If you think its a skin walker, have you noticed any structures isolated in the woods, appear abandoned but once inspected seem lived in? When it's in human form, I'd imagine it'd wanna rest somewhere seclusive

As a Navajo, i appreciate our tribe being mentioned. My father told me never to whistle at night.

If you're outside at night and you hear something barking like a dog, but you don't believe it's really a dog, the best thing to do is go inside. It could actually be the worst thing on this planet, a human, messing with you before they do something bad

Ahh yes. The old "golf cart as a birthday gift for my young child who's not even old enough to know what a golf cart is" tactic 🤙🏽

Thank you. I've been hearing about these Skinwalkers so much in the youtube videos I watch, but didn't really know what they were so I appreciate the explanation in this video.

As a Native American who has spent far too much time in the woods you just can’t imagine the sounds some animals make if you aren’t used to going out at night in the woods. There are Owls that literally make monkey noises. 🤷🏼‍♂️

At 21:00 minute mark you can literally hear something walking through the grass. So scary to fight forces you can’t see.

Wow, you are a genius, this was intense, well done

Mr. Vlad, 63 year old Texan here grew up in the woods. It wouldn't matter if 20 coyotes were around you they would not bother you, they might if in dire hunger attack a child. But grown adults, just wouldn't happen. The difference and SC ENT will keep them away from you. They are familiar with camping humans and food refuse, so they might Circle curiously scenting for human food. That is all they would be interested in. With no food sent in the area they would quietly move on. Which brings me to the second point, coyotes are really stealthy and silent. They would not spend time shuffling around in corn stalks. Not in complete darkness they would wait for the Twilight of early morning or early evening to combine their their sense of smell hearing and sight to stir up mice or rats. In the dead of night you would not hear coyotes, not shuffling through corn stalks. Now depending on how close you were to these corn stalks it could be large rats, they would definitely be shuffling around. Of course I wasn't there so you must determine this on your own. Also I would get across to wear around your neck, I am not a religious man I am a spiritual man, big difference but the power of the Cross is guaranteed LOL I'll wait another video. I checked out your other channel but I'm just not into video games. You seem like a good man. If indeed this does escalate do not allow your young children out at night!! Portals for some reason are opening at this time worldwide, not to mention UFOs circling the earth like flocks of birds the Sasquatch of the woods are making contact with thousands of humans at this time. I know this sounds strange but true, I am Cherokee and Creek mixed-blood. With an open mind and spiritual awareness with the Earth Mother, these are all connected beyond our government suppressed understanding. Be careful

skinwalker: "Bark, bark" him: "woof, woof" skinwalker: "and i took that personally"

Amazing video. Great cinematography, compelling story, had be on the edge of my seat.

Never interact with random and or strange sounds in the dark, especially in the woods. Never engage a SW. Never play their games. It's absolutely sounds stupid to some people, but for us native Indian tribes and even those who AREN'T!...Never welcome that presence into your life or surrounding homes. I know it's tempting AND fascinating, but don't play that game with them.

I lived on an island in the middle of a river, homeless, for 4-5 years. I learned the best way for your eyes to adjust at night is to not use artificial light as the sun is setting . You can see a lot better at night when you allow your eyes to adjust with the setting sun.

Remember that sometimes you don't have autophobia, sometimes..... you're scared of feeling like you're not

I was already dying laughing at 2 minutes in. Bro hears nature noises he doesn’t recognize and is like SkInWaLkEr

I love how you're out hunting a skinwalker and you're scared of the spiders by the tree 💀

This makes me realize Vladd would make a great narrator for true crime, supernatural and horror stories.

Ohh wow that's crazy and scary. Keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏

29:42 *THAT* scared the *SHIT* out of me!! My heart skipped a beat! What in the hell!!!?!?!! 😟🫣

Actually, the BEST piece of equipment that anyone can carry on them at all times is a camera phone, cause everybody knows that the cameraman. NEVER. DIES.

Don’t forget at Skinwalker ranch the ranch owner shot the skinwalker that shape-shifted into a large wolf several times with a rifle but the “wolf” didn’t even flinch. Bear spray definitely won’t work lol.

"Dude, my phone vibrated"😂😅 ~Immediately regrets playing too many video games~. Lol this was funny as hell

Felt like I was watching part horror movie and part documentary. The video editing, the music you picked, the lighting, the sideways shots... phenomenal. I've had mystical experiences. Don't know if I've ever experienced a skin walker; but don't know how I'd tell, either. Heard raccoons make really strange noises; and crows are known to have many vocal ranges or ways that they verbally communicate. It's possible that many of us have entertained these things unawares. Thanks for sharing and having the courage to seek this mystery out. Much respect. I'll be watching the second video you filmed about this. I subscribed, as well.

It's been my experience, the normal nature/woods sounds are a good thing...it's when you stop hearing frogs, crickets etc all at once, and for no reason. Just a piece of advice to hopefully keep yoir mind at ease out there

Always check your surroundings in the day, never call back to something coming from deep in a dark forest *that leads the creature to you* , never investigate creepy noises, and LORD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT GO IN THE FOREST AT NIGHT ALONE Edit: Don’t go unarmed without any self defense stuff or a flashlight, in case of poison ivy or snakes, also tysm for the likes I never got this much!

Just want to say this was an amazing video! I’m in to interesting documentaries in any topic & this was very interesting. Your story telling is insane! I’ve lived in the Texas country side for a few years and boy let me tell you. It’s some weird stuff on them county roads. people don’t be out late at night because strange things go on and no one talks about it often because you’ll seem “crazy”. Great video 💗

As a content creator it's hard to ignore how deliberate you are with your editing to sensationalize the information into a creepy pasta.

I’m a 67 y/o female and live in a 3000sq ft haunted house on 20 acres out in the country alone. I’m a retired nurse who worked mostly nights and usually don’t go to bed until after 3 AM. I’ve always liked being awake at night even as a child. I often am outside in the middle of the night and the scariest to me is being in one of the barns or work shop. The work shop is a few acres from my house between a pond and the bayou. When I’m in there I usually have the big doors open, if I hear something outside when I’m in their I’m scared sh-less to look up at that open area. I hear coyotes all the time but, a couple of years ago I heard something that sounded like a woman being tortured, right across my fence line in some trees. My dogs were even scared, I couldn’t breathe I was so scared, and I had a pocket cannon. I ran not walked home, shop open lights on, doors open. I’ve heard it one other time in the same area. I don’t know what that was and if I never hear it again, that good with me.

This is how I felt as a kid growing up on 8 acres in a 1 red light town. The woods are definitely alive & you are not alone in them

This guy's a great story teller.. "i lay low for a month" 😂😂. Clearly a cobweb!

He thought there was a Skinwalker in his backyard, and what did he do? He went after the thing! "The only thing you have to fear is fear itself, and skinwalkers".

This reminds me of one night when I was 16. Two friends and I drove to the local swimming hole after dark to drink beer. The place is pretty with tall mountains on either side of the creek and we’d sometimes build a fire and play the car radio . This night we sat on the hood talking and drinking beer the crickets and frogs were singing and we were having a good time. Suddenly everything fell silent. Totally silent and I got a horrible feeling of something staring at us from up the mountain. I heard a heavy thud like a footstep and I said. “Guys, we need to get in the car and get out of here NOW! We piled in the car in a panic and peeled out of there fast. I grew up in the woods and never had that feeling of something bad about to get me before. To top it off, when we got home , my friends dog got in the car howling and wouldn’t get out. He sensed out fear I guess. I don’t know what or who was up there but I have a hunch it was dangerous

man if ur scared of sitting in a field next to a neighborhood definitely don’t try solo hiking for several days in the Rockies… heard some crazy things outside the tent but never had the gall to check em out! good video!

I'm hooked! I was in fits of laughter and curiosity. Your clffhanger is perfect!!

23:46 proceeds to jump on an e-bike and rides at night, then proclaims “it just got cold… like real cold.” Lol come on man.

I’m 32 years old and love to hunt. I often walk deep into the woods with just a compound bow and a knife in the dark to get to the stand. I still get that “feeling” every once in a while that I’m not alone, and I wanna piss down my leg. 😂

Weird tip for if you’re in a dangerous situation with a wild animal: many wild animals will scare off pretty easily if you throw any object at them, except apes and monkeys I guess, because any animal that can’t pick up objects can’t throw objects/manipulate their environment in that way, so it’ll probably be the first time they’ve ever seen any creature launch anything at them and hopefully they’ll be terrified and their flight response will be activated because they won’t know how to use their fight response.

Having nyctophobia, the part where he is in the dark alone gave me severe anxiety.

Seeing the eye reflection when you turned the camera back to you around 22min was instant oh shit moment

This video gave me some serious flashbacks of what I experienced on 2 separate occasions in the same deer stand at 8, then 16 years old. My family and a few old friends are the only people who know about these incidents. I’ve held it tight to my chest for 19 years in fear that I would be labeled as crazy. But I am not crazy… In 1994 my grandparents lived on a 450 acre tree farm located off a private and secluded dirt road in the backwoods of Alabama. The nearest town was almost 15 miles away and at the time had a population of just around 150. My grandad (Buck) was a WWII veteran and introduced me to hunting at a very young age. Before I was old enough to hunt alone, Buck and I would sit together in one of our 9 shooting houses positioned throughout the property. We were deer hunting one evening when I was 8 in our stand located furthest from the house. It was mid December and other than a small area we had cleared for peas, the surroundings were thick with mature pines and underbrush. It was around 4:45 P.M. and visibility was getting low when an ear splitting shriek came from behind us. It sounded 1000 yards away but at the same time sounded very, very close. It’s impossible to explain in words let alone in writing. I looked at my grandad wide eyed asking what kind of animal it was and he calmly replied, “That’s the “Haint” I’ve told you and your brothers about.” … Buck was an amazing story teller and it used to piss my grandmother off something awful when he would scare the shit out of me and my brothers with his tales of demons in human form who would stalk the woods at night, looking for people to eat. He always referred to these cannibal night stalkers as “Haints”. Little did I know, he wasn’t *ucking around… He shushed me and whispered in a very uncharacteristic & serious tone, “It's time to go”. When we got back I told my grandmother and my parents what happened but of course, they shrugged it off. I was plagued by nightmares for months after, however, they steadily subsided and normal life continued. I was completely and totally unaware that 8 years later I would meet the owner of that hellish scream… Fast forward to 2002. I’m 16 yrs old, hunting alone, same stand, same surroundings and it’s starting to get dark. I hadn’t visited that particular stand by myself since the incident 8 yrs prior but that night I told myself to quit being a *ussy and just do it. I watched a few Does come in and out feeding on peas pretty steady for 3 hrs, waiting on a Buck🦌. I was preoccupied watching deer and had not thought about my haunting experience a single time. My tranquility shifted violently to terror at dusk… With visibility beginning to get low I was watching a doe and her fawn feed when she snapped her head to attention, looking into the woods directly in front of me. I flipped the safety on my .308 beginning to get excited and strained my ears for what was coming. She stood at attention, frozen solid for nearly 2 minutes before flicking her tail and absolutely HAULING ASS towards my stand, under it, then tramping through the woods with her baby in hot pursuit. I found it odd as I had not done anything to spook them and deer do not usually react this way when a buck is approaching. I sat puzzled for a minute when I heard leaves crunching about 100 yards away, directly in front of me. I steadied my rifle, adjusted the scope and looked. I could see a figure in the distance pacing back and forth at about 10 ft intervals. My insides plummeted to 0 when I realized it was a man. He was shirtless with his neck craned towards my stand, watching me as he stalked back and forth. There was something so unsettling about his rigid body posture and smooth bald head as he walked that it caused a chill to race up my spine. It was hard to make out the rest of his features in the dying light but it looked as if he were grinning. When I took my eye off the scope and squinted my eyes over the rifle he stopped pacing and simply stood there, facing me, completely still. I cradled my rifle in my left arm and waved my right hand back and forth in the air and yelled at the top of my voice, "HEEEYYY!!!!!". I received another full body chill as I watched him slowly raise his hand in return, mimicking my wave. My adrenaline spiked as I lowered my hand and watched him do the same. I had my rifle in a death grip as I yelled again, this time saying, “Get the hell out of here!” at the top of my lungs. He simply stared, head tilted slightly forward, arms at his sides, still frozen in place. I was on the edge of panic at this point and again screamed, “HEEEEYYYY!!!!!” This time putting the barrel of my gun against the floor, stock between my legs and waving both hands in the air over my head in a SOS gesture. I was mimicked again. If you have ever seen the movie 1408 it was eerily similar to the scene where Mike Enslin sees his reflection in the window from the building across the street... I was on the verge of tears as I raised my rifle and watched his hands return to his sides. I aimed the crosshairs at the center of his chest, desperately trying to control my breathing and screamed, “This is private property I’ll fucking shoot!!” His response will haunt me until the day I die. He let out the same ear splitting shriek I had heard 8 years prior and although I was struggling to see, I raised my crosshairs to his face to see that his eyes were bulging inhumanly. The scream seemed to go on forever. I wanted to slap my hands over my ears but somehow I stayed focused. I took in a deep shuttering breathe and steadied my aim at center mass. I have no idea how long that scream lasted but immediately after it stopped, he turned and exploded into a sprint away from my stand screaming in rapid succession, “AHHH, AHHHH, AHHHHH, AHHHHH”. I was utterly petrified, wide eyed, listening to his howls slowly but surely getting further… further…… further……… away. I knew full well I had to get the hell out of that stand and home before night hit. I knew my mind would go absolutely bullshit with fear if I wasn’t out of there before the sun left the horizon. My 4 wheeler was parked about 500 yards away on the road so I mustered my courage, slung my rifle over my back, climbed down, pulled a Beretta 92 off my hip and took off in a dead sprint. I reached the 4 wheeler without incident, holstered my pistol, cranked it and gassed it to 50 in a matter of seconds kicking dust. Didn’t realize till I got home that I had actually pissed myself. I told my grandad about it and a year later they sold their house/land when he retired. Never again went hunting in those woods. My rational mind tells me it was a meth head *ucking with me but to this day I have never heard a sound equivalent to what came out of that *uckers mouth. Either way, I will never go near that place again for as long as I live

Him: "There's something walking..." The rabbit approaching: "Yo why is this dude sleeping out here"

Soooo terrified that he didn’t immediately close his garage door when he returned home. Anyone here who has truly experienced being terrified, you know what I’m talking about. You couldn’t get that garage door closed fast enough!

Bro literally went into the woods with good knowledge that there was something dangerous, and then slept there, no blankets or nothing and I can't even not run up the basement stairs as soon as I turn off the lights. bro is built different.

Sounds like an owl. I studied owls. Each species has its own call. Some of them sound pretty creepy. I worked for the forest service in Utah. But who knows. It could be something else. Just listen to your instincts regarding everything in your life. There are things we know about and things we dont and maybe never will. Just, again, listen to your instincts. They are right. And if people call you crazy, and some will, dont let it get to you. As i have gotten older, I have opened my eyes and mind and things are happening all around us all the time. Some things are malevolent, some not. Just keep looking. Be safe and enjoy the beauty and joy that is in life. There cannot be darkness without light.

I used to go jogging in the mornings around 4 am before school and part of my route went along the woods(nobody lives past that point, it's just dense forest). I hear what sounded like a girl laughing at me, but it came directly from the woods and sounded close, maybe 10-20 feet away. I heard it clear as day so I glanced over and saw nothing but darkness. I'm pretty sure I broke the world record for fastest mile that night.

I grew up in the woods of central Alabama. It's natural for people to be a little afraid of being in woods at night. Once I realized I was the most dangerous thing out there, no more fear.

the fact that your puppy didnt bark back tells the story

Lol! Cobweb in the light of the security camera

One night I was outside walking my dog and suddenly the atmosphere around me became eerie and quite. That was when I smelt this scent of death along with clicking sounds as if someone were clicking their tongue at me. It was freaky. To say the least, I rushed my dog in that night and locked every possible entrance/exit.

After living in a haunted house for a year, I've learned that unidentified noises are far too intriguing. I would venture into the dark to find out what the noise is. sense of curiosity is greater than my fear when it comes to that

“Yah-nah-go-she” I’m half Navajo and i was always told never to whistle at night or talk about them. It’s say that it brings unwanted attention. I have a few stories from all sides of family that have had weird encounters. Creepy stuff for sure but everything you have shared I’ve also heard from one of my elders. Great research!

Hahaha I love it. All of it, we hear up here in Canada on a daily basis. Glad you fell in love with the outdoors. Cheers!

As you’ve already stated, skinwalkers are capable of creating groups of a sorts. You’ve also already said that there seem to be multiple so it’s a very strong possibility that they have made a group and for some reason are targeting you. Maybe you should check out the history of the place you are living at and the property as well. Please be careful these things are dangerous.

There's no such thing as being alone, there is ALWAYS something with you, no matter where you are

I’m 65 now, grew up in northern British Columbia, hunting and hiking, spent hundreds of nights in the bush. Just me, my dog and my rifle, never seen anything like this. Coyotes would come right up to my tent so I would turn my 100lb husky out, I could hear his barking fade off into nothing. Every morning he would be at the foot of my tent, no problem. As far as I’m concerned, I was the scariest thing out there.

My brother-in-law was full blooded Cherokee and he had to me that he had came across a skin walker once in his life. He said that the skin walker tried to stare into his eyes intently. He stated that he started seen flashes of people. People unknown to him in different or various body conditions. He thought he might have been seeing those possessed by the skin walker throughout the years. He said he quickly closed his eyes and shook himself back to reality. He opened his eyes and was still facing the skinwalker and he backed away never losing sight of it. He said that as he left the area it never followed. He was able to get to his home, without it following. He said he had nightmares for 4 days. He said he had to go to the elder who put him in contact with a medicine man. He said that they had a group of elders to perform a ritual to assist him in removing the dreams or something along those lines. I honestly felt he was being totally honest with me. It was one hell of a story. Having a grandmother of full blood origin I almost felt his tale in person. Sadly, he has passed away. Very simple man but to me very wise.

God damn, that's how modern horror movies should be made like! These BS movies ain't frightening me in any way anymore, always the same snooze mode, but YOU sir nailed it! Chapeau!

All I saw was a cobweb illuminated by the security camera, owls, and packs of coyotes talking to each other. Out by the field, just regular night sounds. Being out in the pitch dark feels incredibly oppressive if you're not used to it. It's so dark it feels like it's sucking the life out of you. It is easy for your imagination to run wild and because you can't see your other senses become amplified. It is terrifying and thrilling all at the same time. We have evolved to be creatures of the day. It's our natural instinct to be wary of the dark - because that's when the biggest predators come out to hunt. BTW it's 9:30pm at my house and I'm writing this and hearing a bunch of coyotes and owls outside.

This is one of the most entertaining videos I’ve seen in a long time. I like it so much because I’ve been there. I’m 52 years old now, and this happened around 1994 or 1995, back in my mid 20s when I was “ten feet tall and bullet proof” as the saying goes. I was bow hunting whitetail deer in southern Louisiana, way, WAY back DEEP in the middle of the Atchafalaya (it’s pronounced a-chaff-a-LIE-a) Basin swamp. It’s where the show “Swamp People” is filmed (huge fan. CHOOT ‘EM!! Lol) and it’s the largest river basin swamp in the United States. So I’m up a cypress tree at dusk. There’s LOTS of big deer tracks in the area, scrapes, rubs on the small tree saplings, all the good signs. This spot was HOT with whitetail deer activity. So with the sun setting behind me, I hear a noise like I’ve never heard before. Grunting, hissing, growling (similar to your critter at the end), running in circles, and there seemed to be two of them. So I’m thinking it’s probably two big bucks with antlers locked in battle. But I didn’t see anything, then it got ABSOLUTELY quiet. I mean SILENT. The sun is setting behind me and out maybe 75 yards ahead I see this long, tan/gray animal the same size and shape as a deer, broadside to me and even though it was particularly obscured by tree branches, it showed bright with the last rays of light from the sunset behind me. But here’s the thing, it was at eye level out there in front of me, and I was about 15 feet off the ground. It was in the top of an old dead cypress tree which had probably fallen years ago and was leaning against another one. The animal was there maybe two seconds, then ran down the trunk and disappeared into the gray and dark colors on the ground. So the whole time my heart was pounding, an arrow ready on my bow string. But then the thought hit me, deer cannot climb trees. So putting two and two together with the noise, the fact that it was up a tree, the size, the color, it was no deer. It was a COUGAR. Between me and my boat, which was WAY out there at the water’s edge. I’d planned to stay until full dark, but NOPE! The deer, the cougars, the ‘skeeters, the hoot owls, the gators and the cottonmouths could HAVE IT that night. I was in THEIR world, not mine. By the time I got down out of the tree, packed up my climbing stand and started walking out, it was full dark. I had my bow, seven arrows, a knife, and a small headlight on my camo hat. That night I learned what it’s like to feel HUNTED instead of the hunter. I realized I was alone, in the middle of the largest swamp in America, with a large, dangerous predator between me and my boat. I sure was grateful to finally reach my small boat, flip on the lights, crank it up and get the hell out of there. That was one LONG, SPOOKY walk out of the swamp that night. Later after I got home I called my dad to tell him about it. I said it scared the HELL out of me, to which he said something like “Yeah, I’m sure it was scary, and definitely a dangerous situation. But think of it this way, of how much of a PRIVILEGE it was so see such a beautiful elusive animal like that out in the wild.” Dad was right. Considering the encounter from that perspective, it really was a pretty cool experience. Not one that I want to REPEAT, lol, but nevertheless a cool experience. Can’t wait to see part two!!

LMAO this reminds me of Ghost hunters where people are actually searching for ghosts and when they find them they get scared and run away. You literally went out there to find this thing and when you thought it was there you left

Bro fighting skinwalkers with bear spray🤣😭

The ‘barking’ and screeching in the beginning was absolutely an owl. It either flew to the other side of the field or it was talking to another owl that was already over there

Strange things happen in the woods man. I've had weird stuff happen to me. When out hunting at dusk I heard footsteps from a dog come up to my ground blind. I assumed it was a Coyote bc I heard sniffing right outside the blind but as soon as I released the safety of my crossbow and started to turn that animal started to growl. It was a crazy deep growl that was like a Lion or large cat. It was just really deep and powerful. I was filled with fear and I started to pray. As soon as I called on Jesus the growling stopped and I heard footsteps walking away. I looked out the mesh of the ground blind to see what it was but all I saw was leaves moving on the forest floor. I could see it's footsteps but not the creature. It was on 4 legs and walked away quickly. There was no wind and the sound of footfalls matched the leaves being disturbed. I waited about 5 minutes and dark was coming on quick but my truck was only about 100 yards away. I slowly unzipped the blind and ran AS FAST AS I COULD to my truck. As soon as I slammed the door shut I locked the door, thanked God and sped out of that area as fast as I could safely. I have not been hunting since. This was about 10 years ago in Ohio. Strange things are out there folks, be safe.

"everything was fine...until it wasn't" got my toes curled up fr

Okay I’m sorry but you saying “woof woof!” just caught me off guard 🤣

I couldn't help but imagine Vlad sitting in the tree scared af, like "I hear something coming towards me". Turns on his flashlight and sees a walker just cruising by on his electric bike. 😄

I can honestly say that my time in the military changed me permanently. Now whenever I’m in the dark or around dark surroundings. My mind switch to warrior mode. It’s me verses whatever is out there. I close my eyes ask the lord to give me strength and when I open them I’m on GO-Mode!! Shout out to this guy for having the balls to go out and do what he did.

People when they hear animal noises: GUYS ITS A SKINWALKER

"I gotta skinwalker in my backyard! I just don't want to see it anymore! Gotta, skinwalker in my backyard!" You know like that Dead Milkmen song. 😆

The best advice I can give you is to stop mentioning them by name, stop thinking about them. If you saw or heard something weird, immediately say "No I didn't!" Because all you're doing is tempting them closer to you. That's how these supernatural beings work. I thought I heard someone call my name once out near the woods. I was with a friend, asked him if he had heard someone calling me & he said "I didn't hear anything!" Immediately after that we heard the same voice, but a lot closer. I followed along talking as if we had heard nothing & it left us alone. Probably would've followed me home if I hadn't. Good luck.

Last year i was hunting deer alone in a ground blind by myself as ive done a hundred times. I fell asleep and i woke up to this feeling of something breathing in my ear. I looked out into the woods and saw a lone coyote. I felt that it was a sign for me to never let my guard down and never think I’m alone in the woods.

Probably just coyotes trying to catch cats out at night near the houses. This guy is afraid of his own shadow. Having the most calm "panic attacks" I ever saw.😂😂

City dude not used to night sounds 😂