Would you walk through a foggy wood at night for 1k?

[Fatfreefatball]

A bizarre question I admit, but inspired by the foggy weather we had a few weeks ago. Driving at dusk and passing all the bare trees in the mist reminded me of countless Hammer horror films. A legacy of my teenage years waiting for Christopher Lee to pounce on the poor girl alone in the murky woods.

So how much would you have to be paid to walk alone in the woods on a foggy night? In the UK so no bears around. Personally, I don't think you could pay me enough 😂

Same! I’d quite enjoy a nighttime walk through a forest, but I wouldn’t risk being raped for £1k.

Find me a forest in rural Scotland, with nobody about for miles, and I’d happily do it. My local woods in London, no way.

Oh no. I'd like to think I would, but no. Too many crackling twigs and wouldn't be able to see anything in the foggy dark. I've seen Blair Witch so no way.
I'd be a blubbering wreck by morning.

Yeah, same. Highlands, Deeside, bring it on. The woods in my hometown, not sure at all. Then again there is the middle-aged invisibility factor, so... When you can march straight into the roughest pub in the city for a quick pee and not a single day-drinker or barman even notices you’ve picked your way through them, plainly not ordering a thing, you think ‘hang on…may become a hired gun yet.’

I often walk through woods during the day but at night I'd just be thinking Blair Witch Project! Or 'The Fog' movie!

So I don't think I would!

I would be happy to do it if no human males. Not scared of anything else and don't believe in ghosts.

I’ve done it plenty of times just because I enjoy foggy woods. 😂
Tbf though I’ve spent a fair amount of time exploring the wilderness alone in Canada and the US and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

I wouldn't walk alone to the end of my garden at night. Foggy or not.
But I'm a scaredy cat.

I would if it was very remote, I wouldn’t if it was somewhere like Croydon.

Did you actually walk across America?

I love walking at night in the woods so you wouldn't have to pay me
Although location of the woods would probably come into it. Woods near me absolutely fine

No, but I’m a scaredy cat! I can’t even watch horror films!

I do it regularly! I love the woods at night! Much safer than walking through a city centre in daylight!

Another yes from me, as long as I can have a torch to see what's underfoot. It'll be all beautiful and mysterious 🙂

I have no fear of the supernatural, and my fear of human miscreants is soothed by the low probability of anything bad happening. The owls freak me out, though. Weird zoomy things.

If you did walk in the foggy woods, would you prefer to bump into a bear or a lone male?

Is this £1k being offered in retrospect? I live in Scotland, near the coast. Certain times of the year there's nothing but foggy woods .... and roads ... and soup at the top of the hill.

Mate I'm doing it for £2 above minimum wage every morning on the way to work at 5:30am, show me the place that's paying £1k a pop and I'm there. I'll wear a cheerleader outfit and everything.

Definitely the bear.

I don't know if I'd do it for 1k as that's not a lot really and I think I'd shit myself walking through, not sure it's worth it.

As a teen I once climbed over a cemetery gate at night and ran through it to the other end which also had a locked metal gate just so I could get home sooner - now that was quite scary so I think I could handle the woods, just as long as I don’t start thinking about the Blair Witch movie.

I do it regularly so I can take my dog out for a walk (between parenting and my job it is often after midnight before I can get round to it). It is lonely but not scary. Except one woods nearby - I was walking there one night during lockdown, it was utterly miserable, windy and raining, unpleasant wispy branches and damp dead leaves blowing in my face. It gave me the creeps. I found out a few weeks later that tragically someone had taken their own life in those woods just around that time (hanging). My heart really went out to them as it was such a lonely place (and such miserable weather). Selfishly, I also dread to think what it would have been like to find them that night. I still sometimes go back there as, if it had been me, I wouldn’t like the thought of people avoiding it because of me. The standard memorials you get on park benches also seem desperately sad at night. Sorry, probably more than anyone was bargaining for but it hit a chord.

There is a good poem about walking through haunted woods in the evening: https://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/poems/the_way_through_the_woods.shtml

Shame about the poet’s racism and misogyny (only some of which can be attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child).

Yes no probs as long as there are no wild boar, we have them around here and I would not want to fall over one of their piglets and meet Mom

friday night (nicer woods). You can just about see my dog near the bottom right

I wouldn't walk through the woods in the daytime on my own let alone in the dark! Not on your nelly

@LikeEveGotBitten that is interesting.

Apparently men cannot understand why women would prefer a bear over a lone male. Men do not have any concept of the innate fear that women have of men which we carry around with us everywhere and is at the back of our thoughts.

Not a chance. An old woman who was a friend of my grandmother’s once said to me, “be wary of very old trees”. That put a lifetime of shits up me, so no chance. I’m not a woo person generally, but the way she said it, with her beady eyes. That woman had seen things.

A very misty night in 2021, at 00:10 according to my phone. In case I sound like an absolute nutter I should say that in the all the years of doing it no one has ever bothered me, though I am careful where I choose to go.