>>2641628Probably a critter on something like a downed log, and whatever he was doing was causing it to bang into something. Porcupines are really good for that kind of shit because they are so heavy and eat wood.
In my experience if you yell and it stops like that, almost always an animal. Had you stuck around and you were quiet after yelling, it would have started back up again once the critter thought the coast had cleared. Most animals at night will freeze and go silent instead of running, in my experience anyway and I live innawoods.
Never seen anything creepy, and all things I've heard were wildlife of one sort or another. Don't get me wrong, if you're new to being innawoods the sounds a lot of animals make are creepy as fuck if you've never heard them before. Demonic child screaming? Fox. Snorting and stomping? Deer. Weird gnawing or rustling noises innawoods, porcupine. The things that are a threat to you, you will never hear.
The weirdest natural thing I've seen is a spider building a web in the open air of a clearing on the trail with nothing to anchor it to within 15 feet. I almost walked into it walking my dogs at night before bed, and of course it was right at face level and a big ass spider right in front of your face unexpectedly will startle even the most seasoned innwoods anon. I used my flashlight, but could only find one strand going to a tree 15' away.
It was gone for the morning walk. Then for the before bed walk the next evening the spider was out there building a web again. The next morning I took a solid look, but again found nothing there besides one lone strand remaining from that tree branch anchored to the ground like 30 feet away. Third night it was out there rebuilding again, but that was the last night I saw it. I figured the spider either took it down each night or a deer or something walked through it three times and it gave up.
