Fear of the dark
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hi from OZ.
JonathonD can you recall what time of year this occurred as i am wondering if this person is protecting this patch from other people due to the presence of psilocbe cubensis or magic mushroom if this is the case then it would have happened in the autumn.
All the best.
Steve.
JonathonD can you recall what time of year this occurred as i am wondering if this person is protecting this patch from other people due to the presence of psilocbe cubensis or magic mushroom if this is the case then it would have happened in the autumn.
All the best.
Steve.
Magic mushies are everywhere over here Muggins so I doubt it could be that, there maybe something else Stachioman is hiding though
Found him.
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Here is my 10 pence worth:
If you are like me and learning alone and also have the dreaded fear of the dark I think that is woulb be much better if you could Idenfiy the strange noises. I havent had any nights out alone before but would love to beat the fear. One thing I have started doing is sitting in the woods and just take in the noise. I find in the day you can identity most noises and learn to identify them without looking. If I here a new noise I look around and try and workout what it is. I am increasingly feeling more at home in the woods as I get used to all the strange noses and goings on. I aim to progress this by stopping out later and later as it gets dark. This way when i finally do get to stay out all night (and the wife gets used to my new "Wierd" hobby) I will not be scared off at the slightest noise. But I also do understand that there will be unexplained goings on but hopfully by then I will be so used to it it wont bother me.
There used to be a guy that lived in a cave down borrowdale valley near where I live. Since his death many years ago there has been another guy who lives out in the wilds. I met him a few years ago and he is a very warmly chap but i am sure if it was in the middle of the woods at night I would of ran a mile.
If you are like me and learning alone and also have the dreaded fear of the dark I think that is woulb be much better if you could Idenfiy the strange noises. I havent had any nights out alone before but would love to beat the fear. One thing I have started doing is sitting in the woods and just take in the noise. I find in the day you can identity most noises and learn to identify them without looking. If I here a new noise I look around and try and workout what it is. I am increasingly feeling more at home in the woods as I get used to all the strange noses and goings on. I aim to progress this by stopping out later and later as it gets dark. This way when i finally do get to stay out all night (and the wife gets used to my new "Wierd" hobby) I will not be scared off at the slightest noise. But I also do understand that there will be unexplained goings on but hopfully by then I will be so used to it it wont bother me.
There used to be a guy that lived in a cave down borrowdale valley near where I live. Since his death many years ago there has been another guy who lives out in the wilds. I met him a few years ago and he is a very warmly chap but i am sure if it was in the middle of the woods at night I would of ran a mile.
Im not sure if it was this thread or another but one of the members told a story of someone throwing small peebles or rocks at their shelter all night. When they got out to look there was no sign of anyone else being there but the throwing continued until morning. I was on the BushcraftUsa forum the other night and a discussion similar to this was going on when a gentleman, from New York I believe, told a story almost identical of him being in the woods and someone throwing small stones at the tent all night but in the morning, again no sign. He ruled out birds and local animals. So was just wondering has anyone else had a similar experience? Would be interesting to hear some feedback.
Got another update. Dave (Davey569) and I went down to investigate some more today around the areas where I don't usually go. It is one weird place. We found weird hollow ground where if you jumped up and down sounded hollow, some stashed carpet and tarp(which we think he resued and hid, that came from the big main foxhole), an epic amount of used bog roll, an unused gas canister and a crayfish trap.
Dave pulled the oar out to see how far he had puched it into the bank. It was far and it looked like he had sharpened and fire hardened the tip....
There was an odd bloke in there too, who just appeared from nowhere. But judging by his bright red top, was not going for the concealed look. On the way back we stopped off on the tow path for a brew, and a few passers by thought that we where the weird ones.
Stay tuned for the next adventure as we go in search of the Kinver panther that Ian Maxwell tracked a couple of years back....
Dave pulled the oar out to see how far he had puched it into the bank. It was far and it looked like he had sharpened and fire hardened the tip....
There was an odd bloke in there too, who just appeared from nowhere. But judging by his bright red top, was not going for the concealed look. On the way back we stopped off on the tow path for a brew, and a few passers by thought that we where the weird ones.
Stay tuned for the next adventure as we go in search of the Kinver panther that Ian Maxwell tracked a couple of years back....
We only had a couple of sticks. dave found the holes the roof poles went into in the main hole. The carpet had been hidden by a fallen tree. Some of the stuff was really old. To be honest, if there was another foxhole that hadn't been uncovered, we would have been hard pushed to find it. In the Summer when we both camped over there, we must have walked right over the big foxhole without knowing it was there. No way could we have missed it as teh path went right over the top virtually. The crayfish trap was a good find on the opposite bank, but when I went to get across via some dodgy fallen trees and washed up branches, I bottled it half way and came back before I fell in. Dave had his camera out and no way was I letting you lot have that image.
Been trying to get a mate to lend me his, but I haven't seen him to pick it up yet. Will do though.
Do you think that there is another forum somewhere, where some dude who likes pistachios is bitching about all these scary, wild bushcrafty looking men who keep coming past and ripping up his stash, pulling down his dens, and messing with his paddle fishing gear? 
Do you think that there is another forum somewhere, where some dude who likes pistachios is bitching about all these scary, wild bushcrafty looking men who keep coming past and ripping up his stash, pulling down his dens, and messing with his paddle fishing gear?
Maybe we should check out the Tom Brown Jr forums and find out. He can't blame us for his foxhole being destroyed though, the river did that. And it was only Dave who was wild looking, after crawling on his belly to get that oar out
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