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Dee Ashley
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| | | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 80 on 11/12/2017 5:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Lola AB I was heading to a place this past summer which required a short walk through some woods and then a walk down a fairly steep hill in some long grass (over waist high for me). It was pre-dawn and the ground was a bit wet. I got to top of a hill and heard a weird snorting noise so I froze. It didn't sound human but I also couldn't see anything. I made some noises and nothing moved. Just as I went to take my next step, a deer pulled this tigger jump out from the grass fairly close to me and scared me enough that I slipped and promptly fell down the hill. The deer happily ran up the hill and then stood there looking down at me as if to say "hahahah"!! Probably falls more into the "most ridiculous category" but we don't have a lot of scary animals where I live.
| For a terrifying moment after you said, "snort," I thought you were going to say wild boar... those things scare me more than anything else in the woods when I wander around the central California region. We have them in Texas too, but for some reason I was more concerned out there - probably because of how frequently I saw their tracks out there. Mountain lions...,eh, sure you'd be screwed, if it wanted anything to do with you. Fortunately for most adults, unless you're the size of a toddler (or have one), it isn't interested. But boars... they just don't give a shit. They'll charge you just because they had a bad day and decided to take it out on you! But the biggest nemesis of all of these things? Poison fucking oak/ivy/sumac in all its evil forms. I would rather chew off my own arm than endure that shit ever again. And yes, I am totally exaggerating but that stuff seriously sucks, lol. *** *** *** Sorry for my momentary rant. Back to your comment: I surprised a deer once kind of like your story (fortunately I was on mostly flat ground) and managed to snap a photo right as he flew passed me and over the fence. That was pretty damn cool.
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| | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 84 on 11/13/2017 2:27 AM > | Reply with Quote
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This next one is by far the most dangerous animal in the woods. This one will come after you with malice and forethought. This one will try to deceive you and take your valuables, or have their way with you in other ways. This one is the most highly unpredictable of all animals, governed by forces other than nature give this one a wide berth. He can take you down from 1000yds or travel at speeds in excess of 100mph. Yes he is a dangerous animal. (picture shown for illustration purposes only should not be construed as an indictment of this subject who is actually just some really nice harmless old guy shooting targets) 1.
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| | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 90 on 11/13/2017 8:24 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | On a short visit to NC to see the eclipse I got fixated on finding the ghost town of Lost Cove, a several mile hike into the forest. I wandered round the forest and asked locals, but couldn't find it. The third day I thought I'd try from a different angle and went in through Tennessee along the train tracks. I walked as far as I could but turned back after walking 250m of trax with a cliff strait up one side and a long drop into the river on the other, the corner was too tight to see if anything was coming and I might not have been able to run back to safety if I heard a train coming. The fourth day I found the trail marked "Lost Cove" and walked for several hours down through the valley into the forest where I bumped into a young bear. I lead hikes in Canada and often tell people that if they bump into a baby bear mama is probs close by and they should just turn around and go home. They baby was startled by me and climbed a tree. I couldnt see mum, but could tell where she was cos baby was looking that way for advice on what to do. I walked back about 100 feet and asked myself for advice on what to do. I'd tell anyone else to turn back but this was day 4 of looking for this place and I knew I was on the right track. My flight was tomorrow, it was my last chance. I tried to convince myself to turn back but as I stood there I heard the train blow it's whistle. The train whose conductor waved to me yesterday, I was that close. I decided to keep going. I thought about all the bear advice I'd been given. I normally don't hike with a sandwich but this day I had one so I armed myself with it and kept walking, thinking if mum didnt want me to pass I'd offer her the snack and run for it. Just as I got to the baby's tree, he's climbed down now and I couldnt see him, I realized how good the sandwich smelled. and that they could no doubt smell it too. I stuffed it deep into my basket and kicked it into gear for a few more miles. Eventually the trail got much steeper and I was getting tired enough to not care so much about Lost Cove. I was worried about not having the energy to climb back up the mountain, it would be dark before I got out of the forest and Id have to pass the bear again. I turned back without seeing the ghost town or the bear. Once my plane landed in Ottawa the next day I turned to the man in the seat next to me and told him I'd have to wait till everyone else deplaned to get my carry on that was stowed in the back of the plane. It took us 2 sentences to find out that he was born in the small NC town I'd been staying in. I asked if he'd heard of Lost Cove. He and his wife's jaws dropped. He told me his uncle taught in the school house there that he assumed was gone now. I told him it was still standing and that I'd been trying to get there. He said he'd been researching the place and was the keeper of a collection of documents from the town. We had so much to say to each other but it was time to go. We were so satisfied with making the connection we didn't exchange contacts.
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| | | | Re: Your Most Terrifying Animal Encounter? < Reply # 94 on 12/13/2017 1:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Dee Ashley
And those lizards... Good god, I'd rather take my chances with the sharks down there. Monitor lizards I think they're called? Ewww, no. Nope. And... No.
| SW US has the venomous Gila monster. Unless you molest it though it's pretty much a harmless reclusive. Pretty critters. Scorpions aren't deadly but the little buggers can climb up bathroom tiles even. There known to drop from ceilings and sting people in their beds. The little ones are hard to see and they can sting. I've mucked around with them; they're goofy little mindless stinging machines. They glow under UV light... and are photophobic; even their own glow panics them. These are critters are never want in your house...
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