Would you find it scary to walk the woods alone at night?

Kaneda_

I cant think of many reasons that anyone would be up in the woods/forest at night, but would you be scared if you had to walk them after dark?

Links234

eh, hell yes I would! :eek:

I'm scared on busy streets after dark, but woods? I'd probably curl up into a ball and cry until morning.

Rabies

Phoenix park woods, yes.
Normal woods in a normal area, not so much.

Would like a flash light though.

diddlybit

It's those damn teddy bears and their sinister picnicing that gives me the willies.

Kojak

With all the fires that are happening at the moment in the west/northwest, I wouldn't want to be walking in the woods - you could get caught in the middle of a firestorm.

other than that, the woods are fine as long as you have night vision goggles, a mobile phone and a machete.

MyNameIsMethos

Wouldn't be that worried, a moonlight stroll 'twixst the trees can be just what the doctor ordered at times! Depends on the forest of course, the further from a built-up area the better perhaps, but I've not come to any harm just yet!

whiteboy

I find it hilarious that yes I actually would find it terrifying.

Queen-Mise

I would be terrified - all I could think of would be some of those horrific serial killers and the crap they got up to. I would probably end up in a whimpering heap on the ground or running crazily through the woods screaming at the top of my voice.

longshanks

The woods are dodgy in the middle of the day, there always happens to be a quarehawk wearing a rapist anorak walking his alsation.
At night the woods are science fictionally scary.

Local-womanizer

Queen-Mise wrote: »

running crazily through the woods screaming at the top of my voice.

Great,makes it much easier for me to track you!

Knasher

Yep, I'd most likely trip on a root and faceplant on the ground.

Kaneda_

Would there be people/weirdos/crazies who would be up in the woods during the night?

G_R

Anyone remember that episode of the simpsons where Mr Burns is in the woods at night, going around all radio-active like??

Well i'd be afraid that'd happen. Or get abducted by aliens or something stupid like that that wont actually happen

LighterGuy

Thread reminds me that there's a park here in Blanchardstown (hartstown/huntstown park for anyone aware of blanch) and i've often walked through it dark... and have to admit I keep my eyes and ears open.

You have too. Any dark or secluded spot you got to have your wits about you. But within saying that, you really shouldnt be walking through there in the first place. Its not a cowardly thing to say. Its just why put youself in a situation to cause trouble.

Bodhisopha

I believe i would, yes.

Hal Emmerich

Went for a late-ish run one night down a country road and a plastic bag russeled in a bush just as I was passing it. Nearly shat myself, fook the woods.

ger-h

I'm gettin chills thinking about it :P

I used ta wander the phenoix park with me mates at night after a party or whatever just for the thrill of being terrified. .... Badgers, deer and foxes own the place at night :P

Not to mention the other animals up there ha

citizen_p

Moved to the countryside, right beside a forest when I was 8, never been afraid of the dark. infact its hard to sleep when im any where with street lights... :P

i was regularly by myself in my house and have been since I was about 10, that combined with visitors who walk around to the back door, you wouldnt want to be afraid of noises or movment outside a window.

Done it a load when I was younger.. No biggie.
By now, fuk that.. Wouldn't enjoy it in the slightest.

Doc

If you go down to the woods today, You'd better not go alone
It's lovely down in the woods today, But safer to stay at home.

so sayeth the teddy bears picnic.

Queen-Mise

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Great,makes it much easier for me to track you!

*shudder* - you are not helping me here. I am even scared just thinking about it.


On a really serious note - I wonder what went through that girls head, when the two fisherman stumbled across her tied to the tree when the fella (can't think of his name) had her kidnapped and presumably was going to kill her in Wicklow. How she can ever sleep at sleep, a miracle if she can? It is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine.

Local-womanizer

Queen-Mise wrote: »

*shudder* - you are not helping me here. I am even scared just thinking about it.

I just want to be friends...

To answer the question, I have camped out in woods up a mountain near me,was good craic. We roamed the deserted road and quarry up there to during the night.

Nothing to fear but fear itself and all that.

LighterGuy

On the subject,
see all these "trackers" hollywood has glorified over the years.

How would one track another person at night?

"i smell his aftershave, he went west 20 mins ago, high-chief"

:pac:

diddlybit

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I just want to be friends...

That's what they all say just before they nail your carcass to a tree.

Local-womanizer

diddlybit wrote: »

That's what they all say just before they nail your carcass to a tree.

I don't see why that should stop us from being friends, every relationship has sacrifices god dammit!

diddlybit

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I don't see why that should stop us from being friends, every relationship has sacrifices god dammit!

She'll love you regardless. Then it gets really interesting, (illegal in California mind you, damn you Schwarzenegger!). But why, oh why, did she have to run away?

al28283

I've walked through a cemetery late at night a few times and it's very easy to see things that aren't there. Trees a few feet away can look exactly like an old woman reaching for you. A reflection off a marble stone can look just like a small child crawling on the ground. It can be very unnerving

Demosthenes

try walking down a road through several miles of open bog at 3 in the morning....sound travels from miles away!

nearly shat myself one pitch black night when a donkey in the field next to me, which i couldn't see, coughed....never even knew donkeys could cough.........

vampire of kilmainham

Kaneda_ wrote: »

Would there be people/weirdos/crazies who would be up in the woods during the night?

yes im allways in the woods at nite hehehe:D:D:Di see ya:p:p:p

vampire of kilmainham

Hal Emmerich wrote: »

Went for a late-ish run one night down a country road and a plastic bag russeled in a bush just as I was passing it. Nearly shat myself, fook the woods.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham

ger-h wrote: »

I'm gettin chills thinking about it :P

I used ta wander the phenoix park with me mates at night after a party or whatever just for the thrill of being terrified. .... Badgers, deer and foxes own the place at night :P

Not to mention the other animals up there ha

iv got chills their multaplyen and im loosing control:eek:

vampire of kilmainham

LighterGuy wrote: »

On the subject,
see all these "trackers" hollywood has glorified over the years.

How would one track another person at night?


:pac:

ya can with years of practice seasoned mountin men can do it and native americans were expert at it...

vampire of kilmainham

Demosthenes wrote: »

try walking down a road through several miles of open bog at 3 in the morning....sound travels from miles away!

nearly shat myself one pitch black night when a donkey in the field next to me, which i couldn't see, coughed....never even knew donkeys could cough.........

lol i love that one i bet your heart was going 90

vampire of kilmainham

id have no problem walking anywhere late at nite i have done it lots of times

vampire of kilmainham

if you go down to the woods at nite your in for a big suprise ill tie ya to a tree and tickle ya for hours

Kaneda_

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

yes im allways in the woods at nite hehehe:D:D:Di see ya:p:p:p

Im pretty sure you're post is ment as a joke,but it is genuenly creepy.

al28283

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

iv got chills their multaplyen and im loosing control:eek:

ya gotta shape up

deathrider

I've seen far too many horror movies over the years to go anywhere near the woods after dark. It's full of murderers!

Lanaier

Rabies wrote: »

Phoenix park woods, yes.
Normal woods in a normal area, not so much.

Would like a flash light though.

A flash light would be a beacon to potential scum in the woods, if it was near a populated area I'd prefer darkness and silence.

deathrider

Oh, and snipers! Did I mention the snipers? Snipers live in the woods too!

Lapin

Snakes

mawk

deathrider wrote: »

Oh, and snipers! Did I mention the snipers? Snipers live in the woods too!

I think you mean badgers

Paddy Cow

Hell yes. I went for a walk with my friend in some local woods during the day and it was lovely. Full of the beauty of nature. I don't know how we got onto the subject later on in the evening but he reckoned I'd be too scared to make the same walk again in the dark. I argued blind that I would have no problem with it.

So back we went to the woods. It was only 9 in the evening but being winter, it was dark. He parked the car and I got out. The wind was blowing and I took about two steps into the woods before almost having a heart attack and running back to the sanctuary of the car. Turns out I am a big chicken

They're just so creepy and sinister at night and every noise is something lurking, trying to get near you to do bad, bad things :eek:

Cú Giobach

Aren't people attacked out of the blue in towns and cities or along roads.
I can't imagine a crazed axe murdering rapist camping out in a secluded woods for months/years waiting for a lone victim to pass in the dead of night.
Apart from the vicious killer owls, badgers and hedgehogs wtf is there to be realistically scared of?

Caoimhín

I do it for a living...

Paddy Cow

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Aren't people attacked out of the blue in towns and cities or along roads.
I can't imagine a crazed axe murdering rapist camping out in a secluded woods for months/years waiting for a lone victim to pass in the dead of night.
Apart from the vicious killer owls, badgers and hedgehogs wtf is there to be realistically scared of?

Creepy things, like what found it's way into this woman's bed :eek:

Cú Giobach

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Creepy things, like what found it's way into this woman's bed :eek:

See, that's the perfect example of what can happen in suburbia, an excellent reason to "hang out" in the wilds.

Paddy Cow

Cú Giobach wrote: »

See, that's the perfect example of what can happen in suburbia, an excellent reason to "hang out" in the wilds.

I'm telling you, that thing lives in the woods and whenever he gets bored or lonely, he spices things up by snuggling up to random women *shudders*

Swampy

Never after seeing the Blair Witch Project.

I know it's not real but it scared the bejebes out of me.

alexa5x5

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Creepy things, like what found it's way into this woman's bed :eek:

Fook! that was horrible! :eek:

Kevin Duffy

No problem. Love it in fact. Have spent lots of time camping, mountain biking and running, all late at night in remote woods, mostly on my own.

Westmoreland Street on a Sat night on the other hand....