Strange incident in the woods

[Livelaughlovesigns]

It’s still playing on my mind and was just really odd.

Today, Dh and I took Dd, 5 and our dog in the woods/fields by our home. All was fine and we were heading back home, I was walking ahead keeping track of our dog and Dh was with Dd (she walks slowly, wants to stop to play/have adventures etc)
I saw a person walking behind Dh who was swaying from side to side and just seemed very odd, I felt a bit strange and started to call to Dd to run to me (as in a game-run as fast as you can/who’s the winner type thing) Dh had also noticed and started to walk more quickly, he then picked her up and started to hurry to me and we got to an open part where there were houses and cars. Dd was getting upset and shouting about why he picked her up etc and we were watching this person in the distance acting so strangely, staggering everywhere and then suddenly running.
A man came up talking on his phone (Russian I think and looking around everywhere) Dh asked him if he was looking for someone, the man didn’t speak English, so Dh started motioning towards the woods where the person had ran ( Dh says it was a woman)
Dh then went with the man to show him where she was and Dh said he saw this man find her
We explained to Dd, without trying to scare her.
As we were walking back we were discussing it and saying why did we try to run away, why didn’t we try to help them.
It was just a really really odd situation, we in these woods almost daily, nothing ever happens.

I keep wondering about this woman and what on earth had happened to her, Dh thinks she may have been drunk because of New year and wandered back and lost her way (the woods are next to the beach)

Would you have done the same thing? My initial feeling was fear and to get dd away

@Livelaughlovesigns if you live your life in the same jumbled way you tell a simple anecdote on here, then I’m amazed you, DH & DD5 could even find your way out of those woods.

And please stop using the fact you have a child as an excuse for being morally negligent. You’ve had 5 years to get used to juggling parenting with real life scenarios. No 5 year old shatters to pieces when in the vague vicinity of someone who is swaying 🙄.

You have said a thousand times your DH saw it was a woman!! Mine, and everyone else’s question is WHY did your DH not check if the woman was ok and why did he leave her with a man who could have been absolutely anyone!

This is going nowhere - we can't decipher it, @Livelaughlovesigns you can't either.

@Maireas We were scared initially yes when we thought a weirdo guy was behind us in the woods yes. Not when the man arrived looking worried for his wife and she was fine and comfortable with him but drunk

😂😂😂

I think people are being a little unfair OP it sounds quite unsettling if you did not know who was walking like that right behind you and instinctively you tried to keep safe

that said, she could have been unwell or drugged that’s very true

But you didn't know she was a woman at this point, you thought she might be a drugged up knife wielding man, remember?

I too find it very hard to believe that anyone could be like this in the real world. I'm hoping Mumsnet come along soon, this thread is horrible if it's real and horrible if it's not!

Well remembered! I’m glad at least some of us can keep OP’s story straight for her 🤣 🤣 🤣

Then why are you posting about it on Mumsnet if it all seemed fine in the end?

“As we were walking back we were discussing it and saying why did we try to run away, why didn’t we try to help them.
It was just a really really odd situation, we in these woods almost daily, nothing ever happens.

I keep wondering about this woman and what on earth had happened to her”

if you knew it was all resolved and it was her husband then why are you so worried?

Right - so she was fine and comfortable with him? Chatting and relieved? So you stayed with the couple to reassure yourselves?

This was a genuine situation I wanted to post about, the responses are either just nasty, offensive or finding it humorous.

I realise we made mistakes

Because it was a bizarre situation in the woods’….. apparently! Lol

@Maireas I wasn’t with the couple, I was with my Dd and dog

@Livelaughlovesigns now you're saying the woman was his wife.

@Blueberry911 Because it still was an odd day/situation just on our average dog walk and a drunk woman in the woods

🤣🤣🤣 I can’t keep up with it all

@Tonight1 I don’t know, we made that assumption q

Also this. I am incredulous at your DH!

I don’t know why you felt the need to do anything at all, the strangest people in the woods definitely you and your DH.

@littlebopeepp234 Im glad this is entertainment to you

Right, so your husband was with the couple?
I'm not trying to be picky, I'm genuinely trying to clarify points to understand this story because it's so peculiar.

Or drugged and trafficked and managed to escape, until you helpfully got her back to her captor

Good old MN let's go for the most outlandish possibility.

If she was escaping don't you think she'd have approached the OP & her husband considering her 'captor' was on the phone to her. Or if she had a phone she'd have called 999

I’m starting to wonder, based on her lucidity whilst attempting to recount this anecdote, if indeed OP may have been the drunk woman in the woods 🧐

Well, he certainly could have NOT spoken to a man who apparently didn’t speak English and direct him towards a woman in the woods.

that was a really easy thing to not to.

it smacks of a man thinking “Here’s a man! He must be legitimately IN CHARGE”.

I understand not wanting to approach someone and ask if they’re okay. I’ve fallen foul of that one and ended up putting drunk women in cabs etc and one homeless guy (injured) I had to call an ambulance. I didn’t mind the homeless guy but drunk people, I just get cross.

it’s the automatic directing the man to her that I feel really annoyed about. He hadn’t even asked!

Calling the police quietly and saying “I’ve just seen an unwell person disappear into the woods” was the legit thing to do.