Animal encounters/sightings

[henpecked]

me and 3 friends were camping on my buddies parent's large property in Monument we were like 12. we woke up in the middle of the night and heard what we thought was bear growls close to the tent. We heard it several times and were pretty shook up. so we decided to get armed. the person closest to the enterance with bear mace, the other three had axe, hatchet, and knife... we fall back asleep clutching our arms and wake up a while because a wild kitty jumped in through the enterance onto the guy with bear mace causing him to freak out a begin spraying the bear mace.

yea it sucked luckily most of the spray went outside

Did you all scream like girls?

[aahorn]

Did you all scream like girls?

like preteen girls at a justin beiber concert

[hollohas]

I was working for the summer in Glacier National Park logging and mapping all of the Park's outbuildings in the backcountry with a co-worker. We were walking along a trail quietly, exactly the WRONG way to hike in bear country and we knew it. I was in the lead when we came around a corner to a black bear within arms reach from me. The three of us froze, I pulled the bear spray and then the bear ran up the hill. My co-worker behind me freaked, promptly grabbed my pack and started to swing me around like a shield in front of him as we backed up down the trail. He was saying "what do we do? What do we do!"

I looked up the hill and saw the bear peeking over a log just like this . I don't know who was more scared, the bear or my co-worker. Although I was pretty pissed at my co-worker for using me as a shield.

A few days later I was walking from my park service house to my office when I heard a little rustle in the trees left of the path about 10 yards up. Then I saw a bear cub come out of the trees, walk up to the edge of the road, stand on his hind legs and look both ways before he crossed. Momma bear was on the right side of the road about 15 yards up and was too busy eating something to notice me thank God. But she sure did teach that cub how to cross a street safely!

[battle_sight_zero]

In one of my Army stints back in the late 80s I was stationed on a remote site in the some mountains in Germany. The nearbye town was small but had a couple bars that one could go too in their off time. There was a Castle that overlook the town that was surrounded by forests to sides not overlooking the villiage. If you did not drive into town you would walk through the forest and down some stone steps down to town by the castle. I remember walking through that forest on late evening and I could hear a shuffling in a bush. As I got closer I got an a strange feeling like something was wrong. I could hear a growling soon afterwards and could see what appeared to be a hairy small human shape with red glowing eyes. Needless to say I ran away as fast I could. Never saw this thing again. Well a few months back I watched a movie called don't be afraid of the dark, the creatures in that movie were similar to what I saw. The movie was lame but I got goosebumbs when i saw those little elves.