>>1746622I live next to a forest and hike three times a week, no less than 6 miles each time. Familiar trails or just trudging through the woods, often in the evening or at sunset.
Haven't seen anything that /out/ and /x/ tell campfire stories about, but lots of weird shit.
>trails changing on the flyComing back home along the same trail I came through, suddenly it gets a new twist or some feature I didn't see on my way in, like a small ravine or a dry log blocking the path that clearly was there for a long time. Never got lost, though.
>soundsSometimes the woods go quiet all of a sudden, like someone flips a switch. Or it is concert time, when as if on a cue, the entire forest starts chirping, croaking, singing, etc. Even my dog barks itself hoarse when that happens.
>smellsNow this really makes me nervous. Some smells definitely do not belong in a forest, yet I often sense them. Decaying meat, fresh dung, rotten bark and pine sap are all normal while /out/, but molten metal, incense, cinnamon and powdered bone (the dentistry kind) are definitely not. And there are no garbage dumps or hobo camps anywhere nearby, either.
>lightsWhen hiking at night, I sometimes see a red light flickering and moving in the distance, but that's most likely the local forest warden patrolling for poachers.
