Would you walk through the woods at night?

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Pitch black at 6pm, with no lights. So dark you can't see your own feet.

The walk is about 10 minutes.

Never again after reading THE savernake story.
I live nearish to there. Not like walking distance but near enough.

Absolutely not, ever. I just feel it's putting myself at unnecessary risk and would feel very vulnerable. If someone was intent on causing me harm, there would likely be no one around for miles to hear any cries for help. The odds are slim yes, but I'd still rather keep those odds to zero!

Yes and do most nights (with a torch). I live in a semi rural area tho.

Obviously not Savernake Forest though. Fuck that.

Alone?
No.
Never.

With one other woman?
Still no.

With a group of other adults, including men I know and trust? Yes.

I'm not scared of the dark, or woods.

I walk a lot at night rurally because I like it , but not through woods if I’m alone.

No way. Attack may be unlikely but if it happens you are in a totally vulnerable position with no way out. No saying that someone with an agenda doesn't follow you in. Drug addict looking for easy money? Rapist? Why take the risk...if nothing happened I would still be mad with anxiety all the way through thinking it might. On the rare occasions stuff does happen when people walk in areas like this people always say why would anybody walk through there in the dark. Even holiday destinations talk about common sense safety and advise against walking in unpopulated places at night. Keep safe op

No - on two occasions when I have (once actually in a park at dusk) a man has jumped out from behind a tree having a wank at me.

I wouldn't do it in the day, let alone at night - if I'm alone that is. Like the above poster, not even in a twosome, male or female. I have an extremely over-active imagination though!!

I walk home from work through the allotments - it takes half the time of walking along the road - now the evenings are getting darker I think I might just stick to the long route.

I do it frequently - four mile walk to work through a pitch black wood at 5.30am. Have head torch. Not bothered.

Yes with a torch. I walk my dog at night on my own through my estate and a bit of the park next door.

So sad that so many people are so scared

I run through woodland In evening
It's an ok area and I have a head torch ... it speeds up my running though as I just want get out the other side

Not in a million years!

Depends, I live very rural so do that fairly often with no problems, but if it was somewhere more urban where people hung out at night or drank in, I probably wouldn't.

No way. DHorse used to be kept on the edge of a wood and poo picking in the mist and pitch black was like a really bad horror B movie. I couldn't live in woods either.

Probably yes. I'm big & bad tempered, though.

Yes, but I have an enormous dog. No chance I’d do it by myself.

@DuchessStabby being wary of walking through woods alone at night if the definition of being a grown adult. It’s a really stupid risk to take, especially as a woman. One would be asking to be assaulted and for what? Even walking through the park in the dark if it’s an empty one is unwise. Even walking down the street when it’s empty is best avoided if possible. It’s incredibly naive to think that a fear or murders is silly.

In a very rural area, of course - I remember walking alone in Pembrokeshire at night as a teenager on holiday, so peaceful.
In a city park etc - no way!
I have no fear of the woods and actually forests at night quite comforting, but people are another matter.

Depends where. I would where I live now (very small, very rural). I wouldn't in the cities I've lived in in the past except when drunk and unable to find a taxi

When I was a night owl teenager I used to sneak out after midnight and go for long walks around the village. My mum was horrified when I told her about it years later but it's probably not in the top 50 of stupid/dangerous things I did when I was younger. I mean, if you were looking to attack a random stranger you probably wouldn't choose to hang around a sleepy village at 1am just on the off-chance, would you?

I wouldn't, I used to hang out in the woods by my house as a teen sometimes alone and sometimes with mates in the evenings, was all fine until we got ambushed and chased one night by a random man. It was terrifying but also made me very aware of how easy it is to not notice you are being watched, we don't know how long this guy had been watching before we spotted him and legged it, I'm very thankful I wasn't alone on that occasion. Creeps me out too much to do a lot of things alone at night because of perilous past experiences, but I'd happily go anywhere with DP as I'm confident he could fight off anybody.