>>1831241No, vast majority of creepy shit you hear in the woods is something harmless and natural, the few things that aren't are usually people. Never can 100% rule out a real alpha predator like a bear or mountain lion, but a lot of the shit people talk about in greentext stories are pretty clearly regular animals that make creepy calls at night or a person fucking with them. Or you know, they made it up.
Fox calls, screech owls, random critters bumping into things in the dark. Hell, the amount of times I got spooked by something in the woods when I was growing up is too much to count. All it took was a sweep of the flashlight and 9 times out of ten you're good. The tenth time that fucking wendigo gave me the fight of my life but joke was on that fucker, I taste awful so he spat me out.
Vast majority of these stories come from people who forgot what it was like to be in the woods. We're so used to being indoors that every little sound spooks us when were alone in the woods. Sounds shouldn't be what spooks you in the woods. Sounds means everything is normal, sounds means most of the critters are still out talking and trying to fuck.
Silence. Silence is when you need to be worried. When you're out in the middle of nowhere and all the critters go completely silent at once, that's when you get scared. Because something is out there that everything else in the woods is scared of.
