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>hiking lone star trail in east texas
>had spent some time in coldspring TX
>it's like 7:30 pm and getting dark
>decide to walk to the campground south of it to spend the night there
>arrive and it's completely deserted
>no cars anywhere, all doors locked, no lights anywhere
>shout around
>get no answer
>find bathroom
>shout more
>still no answers
>men's is unlocked
>women's is locked
>lights inside only flicker
>have a reaaaaally bad gut feeling about it all but I shake it
>coyotes howling
>wind blowing
>all alone
>decide to sleep outside bc I need the charge
>unpack my sleeping pad
>all of the sudden a light flicks on in the women's bathroom
>hear footsteps inside it
>!!!
>realize quickly whatever is in there had locked the door from the inside
>realize they have stayed quiet until now and not answered to any of my shouts looking for people
>pack everything up as quickly as I can and gtfo of there
>end up sleeping on the side of a closed-off logging road after another hour of brisk hiking away from there
To this day I do not know what it was. In the best case scenario it was some harmless homeless person who didn't hear any of my shouts (unlikely). In the worst case it was someone hiding from me and waiting for me to go to sleep before doing god-knows-what.
