Any /an/ related horror or encounter stories? >Lived in

There used to be lot of feral dogs with rabies in out neighborhood, some kids got bitten and died.

Unfortunately for me i witnessed how someone dies from rabies, its terrifying heartbreaking especially for the parents.

Those time finally ended when all the "tie your dog or it gets shot" rule was implemented for a while and also the free anti-rabies drives.

>be me skiing in the Alps
>it's noon, and I'm on a difficult trail so there's nobody else around
>taking it slow
>get to a part of the trail where it evens out for a few metres
>hear rumbling from the woods to my left
>stop in my tracks
>2 seconds later a whole herd of deer run out of the woods going at fucking ballistic speed
>they cross the trail and enter the woods to my right
>It was all over in the blink of an eye, I wasn't even sure it happened for real until I checked the ground and saw their tracks

>>2380365
>zero dark thirty somewhere in NC
>pulling rear security for my squad and see what I thought was a deer moving behind our position
>it moves out of shadow and into moon light and I see the shoulders rise and fall as it slowly moves
>it's not a fucking deer
>through my nods, I see that fucking long ass thick tail confirming what I know it has to be
>a fucking mountain lion is stalking my squad
>we have no live ammo so we take off the blank adapters and jam a cleaning rod in the barrel to serve as a projectile
>the mountain lion stops in the shadows about 20 meters away, and watches us, then it slowly moves away heading towards a sister squad
>nobody believes me when I call it in and warn them

Never would have expected to see a mountain lion that far east, but one of the boys in the platoon saw a dead one there in NC when he was going through sere school.

>>2380461
Someone I know saw one up in the Shenandoah valley at a plant nursery he works at. The guy knows what a bobcat looks like, and it wasn't a damn bobcat. Someone else spotted one on the road in Fort Valley, too. Considering how far mountain lions range out west, I wouldn't be surprised if these came all the way up from the Everglades.

>>2380461
>not fixing bayonets

>the the middle of the forest stump shooting
>nothing for miles in every direction
>hear a rustling behind me and out comes this massive stag
>must have been fifty meters tall and huge rack
>it stares me down
>I try to shoo it but doesn't budge
>start walking away backwards and it follows me
>only have 35lbs bare bow and three blunt arrows so don't fancy my chances
>follows me for what feels like forever
>think it's going to freak out and eat me/gore me
>stops after I get to the road

tl:dr followed for miles by monster stag

>checking out the land by my house
>Live onnalake right by the stream that flows out of the lake, so any trash in the lake ends up on my land
>Start traveling into the swamp cleaning up trash
>Windy day, hear a lot of creaking, think nothing of it
>Occasionally get stuck in shin deep mud
>Get both feet stuck pretty bad
>Hear really load creaking and twisting, trying to look around but can't see anything that looks like it's ready to fall
>Then there's a loud boom and the ground shakes
>I'm showered with small twigs
>The top of a tree had fallen just behind me
>Use the branches to pull myself out of the mud


>>2380493
He grew to be a monster stag because he knew not to cross the god damn road

>>2380365
You from Churchill?

>>2380570
Winnipeg but raised in the Arctic, second most town in Canada. Resolute Bay.

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>>2380365
I want to live in nunavut and escape the life I have right now before I commit suicide. I live in quebec so I guess getting a job there shouldn't be that difficult

How was it there?

>>2380927
Very easy to get jobs there. Depending where you go there is beautiful scenery, animals and most water is a clear turquois. Very expensive to live there but the jobs can pay well.

Pros
>Good hunting if you like big game
>Easy to get jobs, well paying job if your smart and save
>usually quiet and isolated
>rcmp are friendly and will check up on parties
>A lot of winter sports and competitions
>Celebs, prime ministers and sports athletes come to visit, get to say hi and shake hands and talk to them personally without heavy security

Cons
>Rowdy drunks
>no hospital, have to be flown in for emergencies
>Usual little town drama
>Usually infested with TB or AIDS no joke hope you got your TB shot

>>2380365
At most I get spooked by the occasional coyote I hear following me. I've punted those fuckers and got to act all tough since they and black bears don't phase me but I'd shit myself if it were a polar or brown bear.

>>2381195
spooky, I don't think that I've been followed by polar bears but my cousins have.

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>>2381190
Alright, like expected. Didn't know it would be expensive to live there tho.
All in all it sounds cozy

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>in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, western MA
>be tripping on shrooms on a reservoir with some friends
>friend's gf is supposed to be guide (sober) but we end up each giving her some of our shrooms so everyone there is tripping pretty hard
>move into the woods to get a fire going
>fire gets lit, nice and chill
>suddenly hear howls all around us
>coyotes have literally surrounded us
>only 3 males, one small girl, and one ugly twink, all tripping balls
>don't really know what the fuck to do
>put out fire and move quickly back to reservoir
>still hear howling but its more distant now
>enjoy the rest of the trip

>>2380555
That's karma for ya.

This one time I thought there was a bee in my room but it was a fly.

>Used to seeing polar bears in town
>Be 8 moved down to Southern Canada
>See first fruit fly
>"What are thooose"
>Ask grandma
>She forces me to touch the apple infested with fruit flies
>Scream like a little bitch and shake uncontrollably
>Was scared of any bugs until I was 10

The only bugs I have seen were midges. In my home community. They look like mosquitos but they don't bite.

>>2381478
head of lettuce up to $28
Can of pop up to $8

>>2380365
>Be me
>Live in Tuscany (Italy), in the countryside
>Be playing with friend
>We go to explore an area with cypresses behind my house
>Get close to what looked like a little unused wooden house-shaped thing
>See a bee
>Start backing up because afraid of being stung
>Suddenly hear loud buzzing sound from the top of my head
>Fucking bees on top of my head
>Start freaking out and running at lightspeed while forcefully shaking head
>mfw insects' buzzing scares me to this very day

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>>2380365
That's fucked up anon, glad you were all fine.

Told this story in another thread but I'll tell it again.
>be driving with family in African game park
>bull elephant walks into the middle of the road
>dad tries to drive past but the elephant is blocking the entire road and there's thick bush to either side
>elephant starts flapping ears and hooting while walking towards the car
>dad puts car in reverse and slowly backs away
>elephant keeps going
>this continues for a few hundred meters
>suddenly elephant lunges forward and starts shoving the car off the road
>mom and sister are screaming, I'm laughing hysterically for some reason
>dad backs frantically into the bush
>elephant follows at a jog, trying to kick the car
>suddenly dad slams the gas and the car shoots forward past the elephant
>can hear him stamping and screaming in autistic rage for about 500m behind us before he gives up

What a cunt. Dad and I laugh about it to this day

>>2380365

Where abouts in southern Canada op? I use to live in Britt, Ontario. We had a lot of black bears and rattlesnakes. None of which I had a bad encounter with. However I nearly was killed by a moose protecting her calf (unknown to me at the time). I guess it made its way into our boat house I went to go inside and momma moose trampled me into the water. Didn't even see her hiding in the bushes.

>>2381582
Yea I know, pretty rough

>>2381582
>>2381842
I was talking about home/apartbills

>>2380489
>bayonets

Probably would have come in handy, though I'd still shoot the damn thing with a cleaning rod before it got close enough to stick.

I used to take the trash out at night until I saw a bear about 10 feet away from me, never again.

Also foxes in the backyard sound like murder.

Oh also one night while playing Pokémon go on campus a police officer roled up to me, saying some feral dogs were close by. I didn't want to run and activate their hunting instinct so I stood on our mascot statue for a good 30 minutes before leaving, after seeing them leave the campus. I've run into coyotes but they're not as scary as feral dogs. I feel like I'm repressing something really fucking awful from when I was a kid but if I remember I'll post.

>Live in northern Sweden
>Bicycling through a pretty common trail
>Moving shapes in the corner of my eye
>Two bear cubs are playing some distance away
>Think they're at a reasonable distance away so I start to take a few photos.
>Suddenly hear loud crashing, thrashing and low grunts from behind
>Instantly know what's going on
>Fucking go maxspeed pedal to the metal on my bike
>Hear the grunts get closer
>I'm fucked
>Suddenly the trail goes way fuckin downhill for an ok bit
>Like a forever rolling boulder I accelerate without thinking
>Lose control and crash as I try to slow down
a bit near the end
>Look behind
>The bear is gone

That was my first bear encounter and i've lived here all my life

>>2380365
I was out at my brothers place he was in vacation and I stayed with his dogs and took care of his house my girlfriend came with me and one night when we let the dogs out to shit we were waiting by the screen door and we heard him barking so I went outside and what I found was an adult mountain lion the dogs ran back inside when I opened the door so the fucked pounced and bit my left arm the dogs started barking causing the damn thing to let me go and leap at the screen door I ran back to the front door as my girlfriend ran up stairs two the second floor it had broken down the screen door and started moving up the stairs I got my gun from my car and shot the damn thing it walked away limping the next day we found it got hit by a car

>>2381921
What ???? Where do you live?

Is this a true ?

>>2381855
Warning: loud
https://youtu.be/RlHrRPyuX0w

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>>2381720

This pic is why errrryone in India shits in the Designated Shitting Street.

>be hiking onnamountain innagorge
>be alone on steep rocky trail, get very wind up and forget to notify the wild life of my presence by yelling
>take sharp left turn
>hear deep growl coming from the bush 10 metres in front of me
>freeze.jpg
>assesssituation.exe
>ITS A TIGER
>no wait there are no tiggers in southern europe
>ITS A BOAR
>A STARTLED BOAR
>walk backwards a bit
>maybe if I make some noise he will fuck of and let me go through
>slam my baton on a rock and let out a sharp "HEP"
>gggGGRRREEWWWWWLL *bush shakes"
>FUCK NO
>leave as fast as terrain allows me
>never again forget to make noise when walking alone

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>>2382129
Forgot pic for effect

>>2381720
Should have slightly ran over its feet bruising them so maybe its in pain for a few days

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>>2380365
>Be Filipino.
>Be 14.
>Swim far from shore in one of our less famous beaches with cousins.
>Look into the bottom of the coastal reef, which is probably like 10-15 feet down.
>I was with on of my cuzzes and we debated if it was a sea snek or some piece of trash like a pvc tube pipe or something.
>Swim to a shallower reef and grabbed a rock.
>Dropped the rock on the speckled band on the seafloor.
>It is a snake.
>Swim back to the far shoreline crying.

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2nd story

>be walking innapark by myself
>listen distant barking
>pay no mind
>suddenly a pack of stray dogs charge me outta nowhere and make a half circle around me
>start walking slowly backwards while trying to keep all 5 dogs in check
>end up on a pic related situation but with more dog and less dinosaur
>trying to figure out the alpha
>see one dog going for the outflank on my right
>no time for more games
>pick the largest guy, (not too large maybe 30kgs or smthng)
>raise hands yell "AAAAAEEEEIIIIAAAAEEE!!" and charge the sonofabitch
>big guy legs it, entire pack scrambles
>actually chase them a bit
>laugh on they way back because I was scared and didnt expect this to work so well

>>2382132
Are they poisonous and shiet?

>>2382136
It was some snek with black and blue bands on its scales. Didn't hang around to find out.

>>2382136
Yes

>>2382139
>>2382146
>Tfw no poisonous shit in the Med except some occasional weevers

Feels good

>>2380387
Im sorry you live in the 3rd world

>sitting chilling inside
>raise my phone to use it
>see my reflection in the black screen
>open my mouth slightly
>AN ANT CRAWLS OUT
>feel it tickle, scream and throw it across the room with my hand
>Parent was on the phone with insurance and they asked what all the screaming was
>HOW DID IT SURVIVE IN MY MOUTH AND WHY WAS IT THERE?
>am I demonic?

>>2382147
>black Africans
>not poisonous

>>2381720
>>can hear him stamping and screaming in autistic rage
Elephants can't be autistic. What is this empty buzzword doing on /a ?

>>2381921
This is the longest fucking run-on I've ever seen. Did you do it on purpose for style points?It was just a pain to read.

>>2382129
Where are you from?

>>2380493
>must have been fifty meters tall
fifty meters
164 feet

sweet jesus!

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>middle of summer
>lying on the couch at home
>feel the urge to piss
>walk to the bathroom and start draining the lizard
>feel something tickle the inside of my thigh
>shake my leg
>a wasp falls out of my shorts
>stand there frozen in horror
>hadnt been wearing underwear
>wonder how long a wasp had been chilling next to my balls

>>2380927
Pourquoi tu ne te suicide pas ma grosse pédale?

>>2382136
They are some of the most toxic snakes in the world, but they're really easygoing. If you don't try to pick them up, you'll be fine.

Florida anon here. Encounters all the time, only problematic one was the first one

>be me, nightfishing with two friends on the beach
>shark nightfishing
>rods and reels are large, 800 yards of line, 30 feet of which is 400lb leader
>cant cast this, have to tow it out on a kayak, about 50-200 yards off the beach
>everyone takes out their own lines one at a time
>go first as always, friends are pussies
>put a big bloody piece of bonita on my hook, drop it in the back of my kayak, start paddling
>only light is a little headlamp but the ocean is flat
>bout 100 yards out, everything is going smooth as normal
>BUMP
>hit fucking something in the middle of open water
>look to my left and see a big fin and the accompanying 6ft shark it belongs to
>followed the blood trail and tapped the back of my kayak
>drop bait in water instantly, 180, and speed paddle back to shore
>fucker hit the bait later and spit hook, so i had to go out and drop another piece of bait

Its a fairly common thing to get bumped doing this, but still scary as hell. Alot of people usually get tipped over and go in the water, so guess i was lucky

>Was visiting family in NC for a couple weeks
>frequently left house to chill on this giant tree that was dead from being knocked over.
>one day stay waaayyy later than I planned. It's dusk.
>hear very loud snorting all around me and it's getting gradually closer.
>can just make out the outline of many bucks and many does
>Shitting my pants. Too far from houses to be heard...
>stand up, start waving my hands and shouting
>A massive group of deer flee, some jumping over this giant trunk im on, only feet from me
>still gives me creeps

>>2382587
J'ai encore espoir pour une autre vie ailleurs

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>>2382657
jesus christ

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>>2381582
>30 dollars for a head of lettuce

>>2380365
Don't worry OP, polar bears won't exist for much longer

>>2381844
Usually depends on your income. My dad paid $750/month for a 3 bedroom house. Not sure how much the bills are though. Never asked.

>>2382708
Depends on supply and demand. Lowest price is like $15 highest is $28. A lot of the community relies on traditional hunting.

>>2382483
Greece

>>2382815
Shieeee araps where do we have wild boars roaming around?

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>>2382129
Holy shit anon my sides
Best description of angryboarsound.exe ever

>>2382830
Most of continental Greece
Peloponnese and Evoia have it worse

>>2382889
I've never even seen one from the distance, i had to ask tho from the
>HEP!

also to not clog the thread

>be 8
>visit Germany
>mother's friend runs a small zoo with animals she rescued and/or raised
>tells and shows how all felines love the shit out of her
>invites our family including my 4 y old bro to enter the cheetah cage because they are "like dogs"
>as soon as they come close and we are easily 20m in she says not to look them in the eye, turn our backs or make sudden movements
>or shout or make noise
>we all sit terrified while something that was as tall as me at the shoulder purrs like a fucking hoover and sniffs us for a good 5 mins
>after they lose interest we back up slowly and gtfo
>she happily yaps about how amazing her cheetahs are
never trusted a German again

>>2382129
A lot of wild boars around southern Stockholm, but I've never encountered them in the forests on my own, just seen 'em by the forests edge from a car.

I did encounter an Elk once while out running though, just a few meters to the side of me. While jogging I heard something in the bushes to my right and saw this huge animal.

>>2382892
>>2382895
They are very shy animals with excellent hearing and sense of smell, you might hear them scurring away but rarely see them

Boar hunting is a fucking military operation with teams with dogs and radios spread out trying to pin a single animal

That being said, since they are mostly nocturnal and likely asleep during the day it is possible to accidentally sneak up on them if you are alone(not too much noise) and happen to approach against the wind, in which case they might actually charge your ass.

Yelling once every3-5 minutes might sounds retarded but there is no chance in hell you encounter anyone that way

>>2382892
I would never get in the same cage with feline niggers for or the debt relief in the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-MA4mtNE58
I even refuse to pet cats at this point

>>2380365
Who the fuck here is going to be able to top a story about a polar bear trying to bust up in your house

>>2382903
*for all the debt relief in the world

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>>2382905
Bear just wanted some company and they shot her

Shame I say

Brace yourselves fuckers

>Be vacationing in South-Africa with a group of friends.
>We're staying in a small camp somewhere deep inside of the Kruger Park.
>Basically only us, four guides and a skeleton crew for cooking/cleaning/etc.
>Every morning at sunrise we wake-up and go hiking for four hours in groups of five plus two guides.
>Do the same thing again at around two hours before sundown, until sundown.
>Literally the happiest I've ever felt, just walking through the amazing African nature, experiencing all kinds of cool shit.
>Second to last day, we're walking through a dried-up riverbed.
>Hear some rustling in the thick bush to our right.
>One of the guides goes to look, immediately instructs us to start walking 180° in the opposite direction
>A little while later, at around 100 meters ahead of us the largest fucking herd of elephants I've ever gazed upon bursts out of the bush.
>ohshitnigger
>Turns out it's an unusually aggressive breeding herd.
>At least 80 full grown females with god knows how many little ones.
>They block off our escape route.
>Apparently they thought we were trying to ambush them or something.
>They are VERY pissed off.
>Unbeknownst to us, while the herd was busy blocking us from the front, the matriarch (AKA the biggest motherfucker of the group) circled around us so she could charge us from the back.
>We turn around to see this incomprehensibly enormous behemoth charging us from maybe 100 meters away
>Elephants can reach speeds of around 60 km/h, so it would not take her very long to reach us.
>When we arrived at the camp we were specifically instructed to NOT start running when an elephant charges. They very often perform mock charges just to scare you, if you start running they will chase you down.
>Like good little faggots we remember our training and hold our ground while a fucking semi charged us.
>At around 20 meters we finally realize this is most definitely not a mock charge and we start running for our fucking lives.

1/3

>>2382936

>This is obviously way too late and with in no-time she reaches the friend who was at the back of the group.
>She literally swoops him aside with her trunk and sends him flying for god knows how many meters.
>While he is lying there in fetal position, she walks up to him and proceeds to hold him down with her front leg.
>Then she starts thrashing him with her trunk and tusks.
>At this point I'm convinced my friend is fucking dead.
>All of a sudden: BAM
>The senior guide who was with us (a former South-African army sniper) shoots the elephant in the neck.
>It's pretty much a perfect shot, destroying her spine.
>The elephant falls back and with all the luck in the world, her head lands right next to my friend, instead of on top of him
>She's not dead, just paralyzed
>While lying there, she starts trumpeting so unbelievably loud. Literally the loudest sound I've ever heard.
>This is apparently the cue for all the other elephants to collectively lose their fucking shit.
>they all start trumpeting, some charge us, some flee. I see a calf get knocked-over and trampled by an adult.
>The other guide responds with repeatedly firing his gun in the air to try and scare them away
>I'm hiding behind a tree with three other friends, we are scared out of our fucking minds.
>Just try to picture the scene, it's complete and utter chaos. I'm convinced at least one and probably all of us are going to die.
>In an attempt to shut the paralyzed matriarch up and stop this madness, the senior guide shoots her point-blank in the head

2/3 (Cont)

>>2382937

>She takes a fucking .45 caliber flat tip bullet to temple
>MMMMWWWWOOOOOOOOOH
>She is still fucking alive
>The guide puts another round in her head
>MMMMMMMWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
>Oh you have to be fucking kidding me.
>It's worth mentioning at this point that there was nothing on earth this guide loved more than elephants.
>Tears start running down his cheeks while he tries to execute this beautiful animal.
>He puts three more rounds in her head, before she kind of stops making noise.
>I'm pretty sure she isn't dead yet, but it's good enough at this point.
>The other elephants decide they've had enough and the entire herd fucks off into the bush.
>The storm has settled. Kind of.
>My friend who has been lying there in fetal position suddenly lets out this weird-ass scream, gets up, runs a few meters and collapses again.
>Holy shit he's still alive!
>He's covered in blood (not only his), but on first-inspection he appears to have no broken bones and is kind of lucid.
>We take him back to the truck as fast as we can carry him
>The guides immediately radio other rangers that we need a transport to the nearest hospital ASAP.
>We book it back to camp at light-speed
>When we're almost at the camp we run into a young elephant bull blocking the road
>FUCK
>Luckily he decides we've been enough through enough shit and fucks off.
>Upon arrival we find a ranger waiting for us with a big-ass pickup and he immediately takes my friend and one other friend to the hospital (150km away).
>My friend has to spend the night in the hospital, but amazingly he has no serious injuries, other than bruises and some pretty severe PTSD.
>When he gets back to camp we are nice to him for about an hour before we start making fun of him and basically the entire situation.
>He tells us he's pretty traumatized (we all are) but he's happy that he can at least laugh about it with all of us.

3/3

I still can't believe this happened, I was shaking just typing this.

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>>2382936
>>2382937
>>2382938

>>2382936
>>2382937
>>2382938
when did this happen? i can't find anything online and there's tons of cases

>>2382995
In his dreams most likely

>>2382988
>>2383007
Goddamnit, I knew nobody was going to believe me.

>>2382995
We didn't report it to any news organisations and I'm pretty sure the Kruger park didn't either on account of bad PR and what not.

I don't have a picture of a dead elephant or anything. I do have pictures of my friend being fucked up, but that doesn't really prove anything.

>>2382936
>>2382937
>>2382938
tldr: some yuppies went to Africa, one got bruised so a beautiful elephant got killed. Fuck (((you)))

>>2383017
Forgot the part where he made a grown man cry and made said man kill his elephant waifu

>>2382678
D'où provient cette illusion?
Si tu n'est pas assez bon pour vivre dans la province la plus socialiste de ce pays de merde tu penses que tu as ce qu'il faut pour aller dans LE nord?
Trust me bro, you got nunavut...

>>2382493
Well he did say it was a monster stag.

>>2383084
If it was a politic or an economic problem I wouldn't go to nunavut obviously.

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>>2383015
>I do have pictures of my friend being fucked up, but that doesn't really prove anything.

Bost and i might believe you

>>2383184
fuck you you didn't even comment on my pun.
Hope you get raped by an inukshuk

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not really horror but spooked me a wee bit because of other factors
>4am, raining heavily
>still up after working on assignments all night, decide to get some heavy shit like cat litter out the car because i didn't feel like doing that shit tomorrow
>liftin all this stuff stealthily out the car and into the house so as not to wake anybody
>finally theres just a big bulk bag of pancake mix left
>as i closed the door i heard what i can only describe as Horse Moo'ing
>like a combination of REEEE'ing and whinnying
>at first thought it was the Rake or some shit comin to get me
>peek around the side of the car with my big bag of pancake mix
>if anything goes wrong i can make em some breakfast as pittance
>two fat ass drenched raccoons waddle out from under my neighbour's car, loudly complaining about the weather as they scurry from shelter to shelter

>>2383290
where the fuck do you live that you buy things like a big bulk bag of pancake mix

>>2383335
my costco card was about to expire, thought i'd stock up so i don't have to renew it right away

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>Be cutting plants in my front yard during the summer.
>Wearing sandals and shorts/shortsleeve shirt cause its hot
>Get to a part of a tall bush where the ground becomes obscured by the leaves of other plants
>While cutting off some flowers check the ground
>See distinct orange wings with a black body literally on top of my bare foot
>NOPE
>Run the fuck out of the bush
>Somehow not feeling a little woozy
>See the Tarantula Hawk hanging around the front yard and stay inside

To be fair, I've read that they're apparently pretty chill as long as you don't fuck with them, but this has taught me an important lesson to not wear sandals while doing yard work. It might have been another Parasitoid Wasp as well, but I wasn't taking any chances.

I've only really had two bad encounters with animals in my life.
One was with a wasp:
>be like 11 or 12
>had to transfer to a different school for reasons
>mom takes me along to a meeting, check the place out, and see if i like it there
>waiting in the hallway
>WHAM
>sudden white-hot, searing pain on my right temple
>like someone jammed a fucking hot needle in the side of my head with a clenched fist
>immediatly jerk my head away, lose balance and stumble around while screaming in pain, confusion, and fear
>everyone turns to look at me
>is this what getting shot feels like? what the fuck happened? holy fuck this hurts
>apparantly people saw this big fuck-off wasp lazily fly away from me
>mom rushes me to the nurses office to see if maybe the stinger got stuck in my skin because the pain isn't going away and i'm wailing like a newborn todler
I guess it's more of a jump-scare rather than true horror but whatever. And ironically, before that happened I was deadly afraid of wasps, but after that single asshole sting out of nowhere it transformed into hatred for the things. To this day, whenever I see a wasp I have to resist the urge to try and violently murder the fucker. So I guess my fight or flight response switched from "flight" to "fight" and is now stuck there.

>>2383344
The other one is with a dog.
>be 20-something
>walking back home, close to midnight so obviously I missed my last bus
>walking through town, the familiar streets I always use
>out the corner of my eye is see something move in someones yard
>turn to look
>huge, black shadowy shape runs up to me at breakneck speed, only slowing down once it has spotted I'm watching it
>was completely silent up to that point
>comes to a halt right on front of my face by the fence it could have easily jumped over and lets out the lowest, rumbling most evil growl I've ever heard
>obviously, I'm startled, but at this point my only and usual response to sudden noises and things is loudly yelling "fuck off"
>the thing, which is probably a dog I figure, growls again before it starts barking as I back away
I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't spotted it out the corner of my eye and turned to look that fucker would've tried to maul me, as it only appeard to have stopped because I noticed it before it could get to me. It wasn't guarding behaviour as I hadn't entered its "territory" yet and didn't even bother to scare me off, instead silently sneaking up on and running up at me. I dunno, maybe it just randomly decided to act on its hunting instinct? I've never had any encounter with aggresiive dogs there before that or since.

>>2382938
That's fucking terrible. Doesn't killing a matriarch completely fuck up the herd?

>>2383353
I think they just elect the next oldest female in line to become one, or maybe one of the more assertive ones just steps up and takes the job herself? I unno man i'm not entirely up-to-date on my elle-politics.

Worst for me was when i was 5 at my grandpas house and had no clue that bees stung people, or really what they were and I bare foot tried stomping on one. Stung like a bitch.

>>2383337

They are indeed pretty chill, I've spent a lot of time in their proximity over the years. I did get stung once when I was a stupid 17 year old though. Holy fuck, I actually vomited from the pain.

>>2383365
That reminds me of my 5 yr old friend who ate a bee, stinger and all

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>be n00b surfer dudes on east coast
>see fins break the surface of the water off in the distance and go on alert
>realize they're dolphins and relax
>they start to home in on us
>they're fucking huge....every bit of 8 feet long and thick as fuck
>all the sudden they don't seem so friendly
>they swim around us out of arms reach
>although intimidating as fuck, hearing them exhale when they break the surface is cool as shit
>they decide to move off
>catch a wave to shore and take a break

The ocean is fucking scary. You can put it out of your mind all you want, but when sharks, dolphins, whales, or whatever, decide to close in on your ass, you realize how out of your element and vulnerable you truly are, and there's not much you can do but hope for the best.

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>>2382427
Lone bull elephants sure act like autistic humans.

>always alone
>can't handle even the slightest disturbance
>prone to incomprehensible rage
>like to scream and rock their bodies

>>2382657
Sometimes you feesh de shark.
Sometimes de shark feesh you.

>>2380461
I've seen Mountain kitties in Massachusetts and I know people have seen them in Vermont.

>>2383349
Nah that's normal dog guarding. Some growl when they run up on you others don't. Maybe they like to see you shit your pants? Who knows.

>be 5 years old
>my dad is outside mowing the yard
>all of a sudden he runs inside and closes the door quickly, yells for my mom to make sure the windows and doors are closed.
>as he says all that hornets appear on our windows and keep smacking on the glass trying to get in and kill the fuck out of us.
> after a minute or so they leave

Apparently my dad ran over a hornets of some kind ( maybe under ground?) and they wanted to fuck him up.

I loved telling the story to people when I was a kid I called them "pointers"

>>2381497
>Scaref of coyotes
>With a group of other humans
Come on man, they're scary in numbers when you're alone, but if you've got multiple people with you you shouldn't die unless you're retarded.

Wolves are a different story though.

>>2385030
They released them in north WV too and they are extremely dangerous and hostile.

They just didn't tell anyone. With all the mushroom and ginseng hunters here, it's completely fucked up, but I can assure you they released at least 10 here.

>>2385120
you missed the part where we were tripping our asses off and in the middle of no where. Your brain isn't really functioning at peak performance in those circumstances.

I was up in New Hampshire at a campground fishing with my cousin at this river thats near a tenting area. We were there for maybe 10 minutes before we look up across the river and see a black bear cub, at that point i get a little nervous because i know there is a mother nearby when i look down and see the fucker sitting by the tree below the cub we look at each other look at the bears and just book it back to our site which is not too far from the river so we were scared shitless that is was going to follow us back

>>2380365
why don't you just kill those bears off?
Sure, preserving polar bears is neat, but human lives are more important

>>2382903
cheetahs dont have that instinct and wont attack you if you turn your back to them

>>2382907
>be polar bear
>chillin in the snow n shit, but need a hug cos lonely
>hear the sounds of huskies in distance
>wander up and find strange beast near solid black river
>go to say hi, beast makes noise and runs inside strange cave
>can see more new friends inside, smells like they have cooked me some food too
>try to enter cave, for hugs n shit
>mini beasts keep me out
>return to snow, still lonely, still no hugs
>smash up a tree to feel better
>fuck trees

>>2382227
I found a millipede in my ear once

>>2384313
I knew there was a reason why I like them so much.

>>2385457
Jesus fuck anon, I have a crippling phobia of millipedes and just reading that made me want to piss my pants.

>>2385457
I found an earwig in my ear. Fucking stereotype

>Camping with family up north
>Provincial park we're staying in has an outdoor theatre where they have nightly talks about wildlife and park history
>We show up late to one of these
>Parking lost is basically just six small fields in the woods, not even paved
>As we get out of the car we notice there's a moose in the lot we're in browsing on the trees
>Decide to watch him for a bit as he wanders
>Lose track of him but think he's wandered into the next lot
>Turn corner to go over there
>Forest is thick and light is fading so completely unable to see what's around the corner
>Wind up face to face with the moose
>He's an adult bull, giant set of antlers
>We both freeze for a second before booking it in opposite directions

>>2382139
A quick google search suggests it might've been the banded sea krait, which is venomous.

>>2385136
Who's "they"?

>18 yo Marine me
>Camp Pendleton California
>In School of Infantry doing land nav with a compass and map
>On my way to find my last point
>Btw no weapon on us, completely weaponless
>It's getting dark and am going down a hill
>Be told earlier this hill has cougar sightings and to not go alone
>Oh boy I'm alone
>I walk, and hear leaves crunching to the left of me
>I stop, leaf crunching stops a second after
>I take a few more steps, leaf crunching continue
> I take faster steps and grab a rock (better than nothing).
>Walk faster and faster
>Eventually the stalking stops and a truck with our combat instructors drives on the trail
>Find last checkpoint
>Relieved
There are a lot of coyotes there, I always hear them at night and you can occasions see them. So it could have been a harmless coyote, but I'm still not sure.

>>2386416
Second this. I have also heard stories that "they" released panthers into Kentucky/WV, but forgot to ask who "they" are.

>>2380927
why not just head up to the North of Quebec? areas around the Pingualuit crater as nicer than anything in Nunavut, not to mention you won't have to live in Nunavut.

>Be me, 10 years old living in rural Victoria, Australia
>hot summer's day, like 42 degrees hot
>was told to go outside and play because I was continually complaining that it was too cold inside
>go outside, decide to play pretend on the trampoline with a big stick because what else do you do other than run around flat farmland
>get a chair/seat from the porch to climb onto the trampoline
>MAXIMUM BOUNCE HEIGHT
>feel something weird bopping on my heel when I land sometimes, ignore it
>all of a sudden hear a rapping on the window, slow my bounces and look around
>Mum is beating on the window looking terrified, Dad half-running towards me with a shovel in hand
>Beneath the trampoline is a 2 metre long Goanna nipping at my heels every time i bounce, apparently very unhappy that I'm basically jumping on it

Used to get these on the porch taking shelter. They're non hostile to humans but obviously ready to not be jumped on

another story
>front door has several small brick steps leading down to the brick porch/patio area
>one day step outside with boots on, dimly notice a huge coil of brown at my feet mid-step
>scream like a chicken and goose-step my way quickly out of the way of the door
>turns out the family beagle (or the cat, we never worked out which one) killed a King Brown snake and bought it to the front door - his napping spot - as a present for us
>probably the cat as the dog was a huge nigger and kept stealing everything the cat killed to play with it

>>2386498
>they
why, the gubbmint
the epa, park ranger, fish and wildlife, cia, fbi, nsa, pentagon, black ops, black helicopter, smoking man, area 51, state poh-lease, secret protestor, secret hippie eco-terrorist, new york city, california, washington DEE-see, hidden bunker, top secret, nasa satellite spying gubbmint
don'cha know, anon? *spit*

>>2386536
Neat. I always forget that Australia still has giant lizards like that.

I went on a series of dives with my dad a few years ago

>first dive
>go through cargo ship wreck
>bunch of toilets, sinks, and bathtubs
>dad sits on an upright toilet for a fun picture
>he gets off
>there was a scorpion fish in it

>night dive
>jump in
>realize I'm surrounded by lion fish
>kick some fire coral trying to evade
>ankle burns for a while

>last dive
>see huge moray eel
>biggest I've ever seen
>notice it's coming out of its cave
>notice it's following me
>Freak out
>SINCE WHEN DO THEY DO THAT?!
>FUCK!
>ABORT MISSION!

>>2386536
keep that cat inside, penis face

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>>2387750
some are really pretty, I like perenties personally

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>maybe 12-13 years old in middle class suburban Midwest usa
>going to meet friend who lives maybe 3 miles away, riding bike since we meet half way and ride to wherever
>cutting through backyards in my neighborhood cause inconsiderate kid
>get to yard near the end of my block where I usually hop back on the street to cross larger 5 lane road
>full grown st bernard outta fucking nowhere on my 4 o'clock
>summer day so panting and frothing at mouth, barking and generally being a good guard dog
>terrifies me so I try to give it everything I've got, right pedal snaps off bike and I lose it
>tumble a few times with bike thinking dog will kill me before I come to a stop
>come to rest on my side immediately get a wet willie
>dog is pouring drool on me and licking my face aggressively
>make new friend that summer

The family ended up adopting the bernards sister from the same litter maybe 2 weeks later. Had another brother/sister pair of Irish wolfhounds in the neighborhood around the same time.

>>2382132
Had a banded sea snake chase my cousin and I on the old disney island. We were on a paddle boat and hopped off to snorkel for a bit. Saw the snake when we were down checking out a huge conch shell on a shallower sand bar. It chased us to the boat then for another 5-10 min. She was hot af in that bikini.

>>2380387
>Dying from rabies when you were knowingly bit by a feral dog.
Life in the developing world must really suck.

>>2382903
>>2382892
Cheetahs really are just like big house cats and are mostly domesticated.

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>>2382892
>Getting purred at and sniffed by a cheetah

>>2380493
> Fifty meters tall

Are you sure you didn't just get drunk and wander into Jurassic park, friend?

>>2387989
Yeah I'd love to have that chance, too bad anon is a little bitch that's scared of a cheetah.

>>2387972
not even housecats are more than half domesticated you retard

>>2387956
Snakes don't wear bikinis anon, you're lying through your teeth.

>>2385304
>tripping in the middle of nowhere
sounds like your brains weren't functioning at peak performance before the shrooms either.

>>2389696
haha jokes on you i'm a meth user and don't have any teeth left fuckin idiot.

>>2385030
I have seen them an hour north of Toronto.

>>2391938
They're getting silently released all over the place 5-6 at a time. You really have to be careful anywhere wooded at night, doesn't matter where you are now.
Used to be very safe here because it was just pussy coyotes, but after having a 2:30am-5:30am encounter with a mountain lion that wanted me dead, I have only been out overnight a couple times. Appalachia.

>>2382775
would grocery stores even be profitable at that point

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Not me but I know a story that happened to another guy.
>Live in Australia
>4th grade
>Go to camp at Lake Ainsworth
>After dinner
>Pitch black
>Someone spotted an echidna outside the cafeteria
>A bunch of us (Myself included) go out to see it
>One kid walks up to it, tries to pick it up
>Echidna's scared, curls up
>It doesn't look that sharp (Keep in mind the visibility was low)
>Tries to pick it up
>"OW"
>Camp counsellor shows up
>"All right kids that's enough, leave it alone"
>We go back to our rooms.

>>2380461
What does any of this shit mean? Were you playing paintball?

>>2385120
tell me about wolves

>>2393848
I saw a great greentext on /k/ about a guy who got hunted by wolves surrounding him just like in >>2381497 but for the life of me I can't find it now.

My girlfriend is a wildlife photographer so I've got one

>go diving in Florida at molasses reef
>down by some caves n shit
>get stung by a jellyfish
>Fuck!
>distracted
>didn't notice hiding Goliath grouper
>scared the shit out of me turning around to see this huge black thing

One time I seen the silhouette of a manatee from far away in murky water and it spooked me. Kek

Also
>alligators in Texas
>when they turn and hiss you run for your life
>one night a sticky tree frog leaped on me scaring the shit out of me here as well

>enjoying slurpee at water park
>wasp in straw
>fucking stung in the tongue

>be in Kyoto
>snow monkeys crawling EVERYWHERE
>just apeing the fuck out shaking trees
>nothing bad happened but it was the most nervous I've been around animals

My girlfriend also got mock-charged at by a buffalo in Alberta .

There's probably a ton more but I can't remember right now ):

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>be like 12yrs
>visiting the zoo with my mother and sister
>i'm so excited to see the tapirs for some reason
>finally go to the place where the tapirs are
>one of them comes quite close to me so I pat it
>it turns around and shoots a massive spray of piss on my face
>i'm crying because I thought i had made a friend but instead he peed on me.

Bump
I want more

>>2394301
You stuck your arm in to touch it? Don't fuck around with tapirs, there was one that literally ripped a woman's arm off in a zoo in the 90s. She was a zookeeper who reached her hand in it's pen to place food, and she must have been too close to it's baby, it fucking grabbed her arm and tore it off, not even at a joint, either. That thing was so strong that her god damn arm came off halfway at the upper arm.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-11-22/news/9811220098_1_tapir-horse-and-rhinoceros-cage-and-bit

You're lucky to be alive my boy.

>>2381497
>put out fire
Aren't animals usually afraid of fire?

>in the park with a bunch of buddies during a particularly nice summer
>One of them owns a pitbull and brought him along
>It's not one of the meme ones, dude has him trained properly
>Sitting on the grass with a my face up-turned to catch the sun
>A frisbee zips right past my head
>Hear thunderous footfalls
>Look down to a see a fucking furry wrecking ball storming directly at me in his zeal to get his damned toy
>Veers out of the way at the last second

More funny than anything, but that scared the Christ out of me.

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>>2380365
Friend & I walked into a nasty moose encounter another couple were experiencing.
Date: August 1992
Location: 1 km east of Upper Elk Lake @ Elk Lake Provincial Park near BC/Alberta border.
>Buddy & I hike in from Alberta side for 6 day/5 night trip. Glorious hot sunshine, do not see another soul.
>Hours later closing in on our destination, see male female couple in mid-30s appropriately dressed for day hike running towards us.
>Note they have an unleashed husky-cross type dog with them in a park off-limits to dogs.
>Couple looks terrified & constantly looking over their shoulder.
>Tell friend "wtf.. if they've seen a sasquatch i'm turning around." hehe
>Couple out of breath & highly agitated, warn us not to continue as there was a big moose up ahead that was trying to get them.
>They describe having to hide behind trees because the moose would charge at them the moment they stepped into the clear. Not bluff charged.
>They claimed the encounter lasted just over an hour (but seemed 5x that) & just ended when they heard us coming.
>They described raging moose would run towards the tree one of them was hiding behind & then tilt its head just as it passed it in order to hook the person hiding behind it with its antlers.
>It went on & on forever.
>When they realized escape was impossible they tried waiting it out.
>After 10 mins or so, they started to sneak away only to find moose hiding just off the trail a little ways away in ambush. This happened several times.
>They described it as something out of a horror movie.
>Hear us approaching, moose hi-tails it outta there, they make a break for it.
>I look at their dog & ask if It had anything to do with it?
>'Oh yes' they replied. See moose peacfully eating in swamp off in distance. Dog goes after it barking, moose is like 'are u fucking kidding me!' & charges.
>Dog is like 'oops' & runs back to owners bringing enraged bull moose with him.
>They leave, we continue. See moose 6 days l8r. No probs.
Damn dogs.

>3AM going West out of Ontario on a stretch of highway that has fucking nothing but wildlife parks and lakes for like a 10 hour stretch and we're in the middle of it
>been driving for 20hrs straight
>just let my buddy take over driving
>foggy as fuck
>suddenly shape ahead and brakes slammed going 90
>car stops with bumper less than a meter from the ankles of a fucking champion bull moose
>he looks at my little car for a sec before deciding not to fuck it up and trots off
On the way back going through the other side of Ontario, a little doe ran out in front of the car in front of me, got clipped in the hind legs, flew 7ft into the air and spun a 1080 into the ditch. Impressive moves.

>>2382227
>>2385457
>>2385972
I also found a god damn earwig in my ear once. My ear was itching like crazy, so I went to my bathroom to grab a cotton qtip, and when I leaned over the sink to clean my ear out the damn thing fell out before I could use the qtip. I rinsed that fucker down the drain.

>roaches crawling on me when I sleep
>roaches dropping into the bathtub while bathing
>roach on the towel when drying off
>roach crawling out of cereal box
>hear roach picking at taped up hole in my ceiling
>roach in my shoe

Such is life in a rotting old Florida house

>>2396944
Astonishes me that we haven't had a Fallout game set down there.

>>2396681
lmfao

>>2396715
Damn. Close call. Moose aren't normally an issue with cars here in western Canuckistan but I think it's Nova Scotia or NB where they outnumber the human population? Nasty business hitting one of those.

Had a similar close call while driving south from northern Vancouver Island in 2007 on a dense, foggy night.

In the 1960s when my Dad was a teenager, his brother and Dad were bombing down a logging road in his fathers brand new Ford truck with a camper on it close to where I had a close call. Hit an adult Roosevelt Elk doing 50 mph. The force of the impact brought them to a complete stop in just a few truck lengths. Grampa badly injured, uncle hurt from slamming into the windshield, Dad with some bruises (only one wearing seat belt). Took several hours for help to arrive. RCMP officer asked if they wanted to keep the meat, when told No the cop took it home. Truck written off.

I also was told by a cop of an incident where a guy got attacked one night by a bull Elk in Yoho National Park. He thought it would be a good idea to blow a horn that emulates an elk mating call during rutting season to see what happens. Severe vehicle damage & nightmares for a week.