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 😂

I don't think women have an innate fear of men, we are not born fearing them.

Perhaps 'innate' is the wrong word. 'Instinctive' is more long the lines of what I mean.

Women are not born afraid of men, but they have learned the fear from personal or other women's experiences, particularly male directed violence and aggression towards women.

Otherwise, why would your son cross the road to avoid spooking women?

If the paths were marked clearly, then of course. I’d probably do it for a kebab and a tin of ginger beer.

If the paths weren’t marked, then no. It is annoying tripping over brambles in the daytime, never mind at night.

@bugalugs45 I might do it if I had 2 Rottweilers🤣. But I have an overactive imagination and even though I know vampires and werewolves don't exist, I've seen too many horror films so I'm easily spooked😆. I live rurally but admit I'm nervous walking through woods in the day. Sad really that the fear of lone males is always in the back of a woman's mind.

I only found out about this shocking case as I subscribe to someone on You Tube who made a video about the case.

Maybe as it was so long ago {1957} it has fallen out of people's memories.

It seems that life was very different then, that even very young children were allowed to roam around fields without an adult keeping an eye out.

Maybe as news wasn't as ''rolling'' as now, people were less aware of dangers.

I'd do it for 50p. Often walk through fog (admittedly with the dog) and I find it oddly comforting. I'd happily walk through foggy woods in the dark, because if I can't see anything, then it can't see me. Although there will be HELL to pay if I trip over a badger.

I would walk anywhere at anytime if, like @AppleKatie and others, I was sure there were no dodgy men around. I wouldn’t turn £1k down, but I’d be thrilled to be able to do that without fear.

I'd be more worried about falling over or walking into something than a monster / serial killer. If I had a torch and sensible footwear 🤓, I'd do it for £500

I do it for free anyway, I love walking in my local woods at any time.
In Finland, so there are bears, but not in my woods.

I often walk my dog round the local cemetery in the dusk and fog. It's only when you actually get home and think about it that, it's probably not overly wise.

Yeah definitely. As long as I knew the way.

Yep, and have done many times. I have horses and used to have to walk to the yard - a 10 minute walk if you took a shortcut through the woods!

As long as you can guarantee that I will stay on feet and not injure myself. I'm notoriously clumsy so avoid uneven surfaces where possible.

No.

I used to have to drive alone (for about 15 mins) through some woods late at night after visiting friends and that freaked me out. I called them “Scary Woods”. No lighting, fog, dense trees, scared the beejesus out of me every time. I’m a wimp.

What type of bear, and what do you do if you do encounter one on foot? I admit to always being slightly on edge if I visit a friend in Vermont — I’m Irish, and we don’t have any dangerous wildlife unless you get on the wrong side of a tutting stag.

I've done it for free 🤔

In the UK? If someone was daft enough to give me £1k for something like that, sure 😁 I'm not going to meet anything more bad tempered than me...

In other countries where there's more feisty wildlife? Less so - nothing to do with human attackers and everything to do with the possibility of irritating a territorial mama bear or similar.

Brown bears.
The advice is to talk quietly and calmly back away, back the way you came. Though a local man encountered one last summer and panicked and shouted at the bear when it was right in front of him and luckily the bear went off. His poor dog got hurt though, but survived.

Eek. I am absolutely fine with walking in deserted UK woods at 3 am if they’re properly rural, but the only real threat there would be twisting your ankle. Bears might be a step too far. A friend once had her car break down miles from anywhere in bear territory in the US. No mobile reception, no other traffic (it was about 2 am)., and she had only just arrived in the US. She had to walk to the ranch she was working on, singing the entire way to deter bears. Definitely not at all given to singing, but she said it was amazing how many school hymns came back to her…😀

I'd do it for a curly wurly

I really don't worry about bears at all in the woods where I walk, though a bear was spotted in town last year but that's very rare.
More likely to come across wolves but even then so unlikely as to not worth considering the possibility.

I did worry more when picking cloudberries in Lapland. I didn't sing but I did call out to the others I was with from time to time.

Me too! A lifetime of Horses means as a child/ teen I walked alone to stables daily through fields and woods. I live rurally now and would walk anywhere. I imagine a woods near a city would be different but an isolated place is no problem .

Before agreeing I would want A LOT of information about this random person who is so keen for me to walk alone in a dark foggy wood.,,

Yes. Shall we arrange a time and place?

No way. Though the only monsters I'd be worried about would be of the adult human male variety.

Yep, no problem. I wouldn't find it scary. I happily walk my dog through the woods in the day time or evening. I'd take a torch if it were dark, obviously. I'm not spooked by made-up stuff and I live in a very safe area. The most likely mishap would be slipping over and getting muddy!