Not really scary, just different.
2 buddies, nephew, and myself were walking out duck hunting on public land years ago.
It's about a 1/2 mile back and 04:30 I heard something that sounds like arc welding.
I look up and see what looks like a comet, but really close, like a jet liner.
This thing was moving really slow, and had a contrail that went across the horizon
We continued on, set up ,and got ready for shooting time.
I asked everyone if they saw it and my 2 buddies looked at me like I had 3 heads .
They thought I was joking until my nephew said yeah, I saw that also.
How 2 people can see and hear something, and the other 2 couldn't is beyond me.
There was nothing about it on any news and no reported meteor showers.

Dang Wolfie was you dating Marie LaVoe ?

Late night coon hunting .
Dogs treed and I walked down the edge of the cornfield as close as possible.
Turned to walk into the fence row.
Reached down and turned on my headlamp, looked up and there was this giant hairy spider all in my face.
Probably as close to heart failure as I have ever been.
LOL

I was hooking my dog up one night after coon hunting and heard the scariest scream about 40 yds. up in the woods. My Dad was with me and I asked him if he had any idea what it was. Sounded like someone was killing a little kid. We both thought we knew every sound there was in the woods until this. I took off running as fast as I could to where the sound was coming from and didn't find anything. This was around 1988 and at the time bobcats were very rare in the area that I lived. It bothered me for several days and I had talked to a lot of people about it. I was reading later in a hunting magazine about the sounds a bobcat can make. Pretty sure that's what it was. Bobcats are fairly common now, but I've only heard it 2-3 times since then.

Another buddy was coon hunting one night and found a bunch of mannequins that were painted up like devils. Lots of other Satanic literature scattered about. It scared the crap out of me just hearing the story. I had hunted with him in this spot several times. I asked him what he did, he told me that he put it all in a pile and lit it on fire. I told him he was my hero ! He was a Vietnam Vet. and there were not to many things that scared him. I was glad I wasn't with him that particular night.

You guys need to see "Missing 411: The Hunted". Don't watch it before deer season, you might not go out. Very spooky.....seriosly

My son and I were moose hunting up a river and it was in the 1970’s. We were walking back from a clearing and in thick woods. All of a sudden there was a sucking sound in the distance, it got louder and louder, heart pounding and wondering what the heck is that? It turned out to be 2-F4 phantoms jets at tree top level. Ruined it for a while!

Someone later on told me that when in Viet Nam the Phamtons would fly over the Viet Cong like that they would instantly release themselves because they knew it was all over!

F-4 Phantoms were beautiful. An eerie sound coming in for a landing also.

I was trapping beaver one spring,walking across an opening toward the creek where my sets were.The going was rough,I had my head down watching where I put my feet.At one point I looked up to see 2 cubs up a tree,another scrambling to join his siblings,and their mother standing on her back legs watching me walk right at her.I froze,dropped what I had in my hand turned and tried getting back to my truck as fast as I could,which wasn't very fast because the ground was broken up.I didn't look back to see if she was chasing me,I couldn't have outrun her anyway!It was big time relief when I made it back to the truck in one piece!I went back a couple days later to pull the sets carrying a rifle.I had 2 beaver,so I had to carry 2 beaver in conibears,the rifle,and the equipment I'd dropped,I wasn't about to make two trips.Never saw the bears again,but my head was on a swivel the whole time!

Hahaha

I was breaking trail exploring a new area on my 1983 SkiDoo Alpine. There was a creek that I wanted to cross and as I pulled up to it the single ski of the Alpine dropped and the water was flowing over it the spring and under the tub. I backed out and cut a pole and checked the depth and it was over 4 ft. deep flowing. I was 18 miles off the road and alone. It would have been a long day if I had just charged out into that water.

In my late teens, I was parked on a South GA logging road with a pretty young thing. A cat near us screamed the most blood-curdling deathly attack sound I have ever heard. It was July and the windows were down, but we quickly put them up.

One fall I got a call from a lady whose father owned a woods about a mile from my house. She hadn't heard from him for several days. She had a neighbor check his house, it was locked and completely dark.
She knew he had been wood cutting in the woods. She asked me if I could check the woods? This was 10:30PM.

I drove up to the woods with my best flashlight and found the gate locked. I had been to the woods many times having trapped there in the creek. I walked in and spotted his truck parked about 100 yards in from the road. I knew it had been there a while as the windshield was covered with leaves. Not a good sign. I called his name and got no answer. I walked around his truck and my flashlight found him laying on the ground with a shotgun laying alongside of him. I called 911 and got the local sheriff's office. They sent out a deputy. A note was found inside his truck explaining that he had terminal lung cancer and decided to take his own life. He had lost his wife several years earlier.

The worst part was having to notify his daughter.

Long ago while bowhunting about 1/2 hour before dark the screaming and wailing began. It lasted about 10 minutes. Thought it was a woman being killed. It was very alarming because I could not think of the source. It happened once more a few days later. Long before the internet, so I went to the library and did some reading and determined it was a bobcat.

Walking up on a rattler that starts to buzz close by has a way of getting a guys attention real quick!

Funny thing you mention that, she would tell me her grandma believe she was the reincarnation of her. Yeah and apparently she tried putting some vodoo on me first time I was over......yeah when he cousins pulled me to the side and asked if I was ok first time I met them that shoulda been a red flag

Lightning.

Not much in the woods scares me as bad as some things in the citys. Have had something huffing and puffing and pushing on the tent that woke me. Had a big bore handgun under my pillow so yeah just HEY!! GET OUTA HERE!!! and a swift kick to the place on the tent where the pushing was. Whatever it was ran off.
One time had a wind storm blow through while I was elk hunting in the mountains here in Wyoming. It was snapping 10”~12” green lodge pole pine about 8-10 feet above the ground,trees crashing down a lot. Not much you can do but hunker down and wait till it blows over. We get 100+mph wind in the mountains here occasionally so that was probably the worst thing for me.

Stalking a cat walking on the edge of the woods and setting into a set/trap circle with tom in it. About it.

does and Anti walking her dogs around screaming obstinacies at me count , they only get madder when you show the dog your not a threat and start petting them there mad at you and the dog for not barking at you.