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Woo? Strange feeling in the woods

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Namechange7654321 · 12/07/2020 23:20

Hi, I don’t know why I’m writing this really but would be good to know if anyone has experienced anything similar.

There’s some woods near my house and my DH and I regularly take the kids for a walk there. I love it and usually feel really peaceful when I’m there. Today though it just felt different. I felt really uneasy and like I just wanted to leave. I kept looking around and trying to see if I could see something ‘off’ but i didn’t see anything.

Strangely my DH said he felt the same thing which really surprised me as he usually ‘doesn’t believe in that stuff’.

Anyway I now can’t sleep as I still feel edgy.

I need to stop overthinking it right?

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kittie01 · 12/07/2020 23:39

Trust your gut but it’s over now. I used to walk in the woods with my dogs and one time got that ick feeling. Couldn’t see or hear anyone around but the dogs were acting off too so we left the woods and didn’t go back for a few weeks.

JacobReesMogadishu · 12/07/2020 23:40

Wasn’t Savernake Forest was it?

Brigante9 · 12/07/2020 23:59

I have always felt fine in our local woods, even alone looking for naughty escaped dogs at midnight. However, I feel a bit funny about them after watching a documentary about a victim of dv being dumped there last year. Maybe you’ve seen something on TV and not connected the dots, or something has happened and you just haven’t heard?

FatThighsBlueEyes · 13/07/2020 00:03

@JacobReesMogadishu I live near there... did something happen?

JacobReesMogadishu · 13/07/2020 00:06

There was an infamous thread on here years ago from someone who had a horrible Spooky type experience in there. If you search threads you’ll provide find it.

Valkadin · 13/07/2020 00:30

I had the most overwhelming feeling of dread, fear and terror in a beautiful bit of countryside once. I was staying with my BF for the weekend in Staffordshire and he got called in to work. So he said take my car and go off for a country walk as it’s a nice day. Ended up on Cannock Chase, I felt terrible along a line of really nice looking think they were silver birch trees and had to run back to the car park. I f,et absolutely terrified.

That night at his friends house I talked about what had happened and apparently there had been young girls murdered and buried on the Chase in the 1960’s.

GreyGardens88 · 13/07/2020 00:35

I shouldn't be reading these threads home alone in the middle of the night!

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Namechange7654321 · 13/07/2020 01:22

@JacobReesMogadishu no but I remember that thread!

@Brigante9 not that I can think of it I guess it’s possible.

I fell asleep briefly but am now awake again. I feel ridiculous but I’m alert to every sound, which is silly as they are probably normal sounds that I’ve just never noticed!

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doingitforthefrill · 13/07/2020 06:25

Me and my OH talk the kids for a walk in the village next to us yesterday, all was normal until we walked down a narrow track which to the side of it was a derelict house filled with old junk all in the garden. I mentioned to my OH it felt a bit creepy and how I wouldn’t like to walk here on my own or in the dark and he said the same, when he’s the least woo person ever! Couldn’t put my finger on it but I just felt really uneasy walking along that stretch..

FredaFrogspawn · 13/07/2020 06:29

Maybe it’s just a primitive instinct kicking in because you are surrounded by trees and in ancient time could be visible to a predator you can’t see.

chaoticisatroll55 · 13/07/2020 06:30

The minute I read the title I thought how long would it be before someone mentioned Savernake? 😁

GreekOddess · 13/07/2020 06:34

What's the thread about Savernake?

FredaFrogspawn · 13/07/2020 06:35

I’ve had many a walk in Savernake - don’t be put off if you live there.

Frownette · 13/07/2020 06:36

@GreekOddess

What's the thread about Savernake?

It's in classics I think?

VictoriaBun · 13/07/2020 06:39

As a child I used to love walking in Savernake forest ,and then once I'd had children did the same with them. There is a notorious want serial killer ) from memory - Michael Ryan ) who killed a woman out walking her children there, before shooting someone in a petrol station and then phoning on a killing spree in his home town ( including his mother ) before eventually killing himself in his old school .
A man who lived around the corner to me as a child also committed suicide at Savernake forest. So it's maybe not the idyllic place I remember it as !

VictoriaBun · 13/07/2020 06:40

Terrible typos- apologies !

Livedandlearned · 13/07/2020 06:50

I had a horrible feeling when out walking in a large woods local to me. I was waiting on the path whilst dh looked for a geocache that used to be hidden in a tree.

I suddenly felt really sick and had this vision of lying face down in the gulley that runs down the side of the path.

Horrible but probably my imagination running away with me.

Frownette · 13/07/2020 06:54

There was a beautiful flower garden at the back of a hotel, and a relative asked me to check the prices at the hotel. I took a coffee and suddenly started to feel really uneasy and watched although normally I loved it.

I put my coffee down on the bench and walked the half minute to the hotel then when I returned, my coffee was gone. I scarpered.

ParadiseLaundry · 13/07/2020 07:36

Yes, there is a small wood next to our house and during lockdown I took DC 4 and 10mo (in sling) for a walk there. It's a very hilly wool if that makes sense and there are some big drops in parts but we know it well so safe to walk around it. We were on a hill but (but without a big drop) and I suddenly got the horrible feeling there wasn't something awful buried under the hill and you know in horror films where the camera spins around a person and it's all distorted? That's how I felt! I shouted to DS4 that we needed to go now and had turned back when I noticed what looked like an old stone chimney sticking out of the ground. All I could think was that there was a house buried under there

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Namechange7654321 · 13/07/2020 08:40

These stories are so creepy! I know some people say it’s just anxiety that causes a bad feeling but I do think there’s something to be said for trusting your instincts.

Also when we were there yesterday we found a large clump of what looked like sheep’s wool along the path. The woods is quite small and is surrounded by houses rather than fields. There’s definitely deer who live in there but I highly doubt there’s sheep. I guess things like that add to the sense that something is off as I have no idea how it got there.

I think I’m going to find a new place to go for walk for a while!

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Brigante9 · 13/07/2020 09:06

I noticed what looked like an old stone chimney sticking out of the ground. All I could think was that there was a house buried under there

Was it maybe a railway air vent? We have two in a nearby park, it sounds like a ghost train!

ShitShowofalife · 13/07/2020 09:11

I find walking in the woods makes me feel uneasy. I don't find it relaxing or enjoyable. The silence amplifies every sound, every twig being broken or animal moving around. It freaks me out massively not to see the sky or the distance. Nope nope nope. Trust your instincts OP. Give me a nice open beach any day!

leafeater · 13/07/2020 09:15

Our local wood was used by sheep rustlers for a while, they would butcher the sheep they had nicked there and leave the remains of the carcass.....

Chungking2046 · 13/07/2020 11:22

This used to be known as panic - as in encounters with the god Pan. If you're interested there;s an interesting thread about it on the Fortean Times forum Panic: A Genuine Example In The Old Sense Of The Word?

Prettybubblesintheair · 13/07/2020 11:27

Can someone post the link to Savernake forest thread? I can’t find it!

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