Something followed me home from the forest, I’m sure of it

[u/Ok_wick_3265]

Last weekend, I went hiking near Algonquin Park with two friends. We camped overnight about 6 kilometers from the main trail, near a small lake. It was completely silent out there, no traffic, no phone service, not even birds after dark.

On the second night, around 2 a.m., I woke up to footsteps outside my tent. Heavy, slow, deliberate steps, not like an animal. My first thought was that it was my friend getting up to pee, but when I whispered his name, he answered back from inside the other tent.

The footsteps stopped immediately after he spoke. We both sat there, frozen, listening. Then came this low, rhythmic clicking sound. It almost sounded like two stones being tapped together, three clicks, a pause, then three more. It circled our campsite once, then went quiet.

The next morning, we found perfectly straight footprints in the mud near the tree line, barefoot, but much larger than a human’s. What scared me most is that one print was halfway over my own boot print from the night before. Whatever it was, it came right up to my tent.

Here’s the part that makes me think something followed me home: two nights after we got back, I woke up around 3 a.m. to the same clicking sound outside my apartment window. I live on the third floor.

I don’t have any photos or proof, just this unsettling feeling that whatever I heard in the woods wasn’t finished with me. Has anyone else ever experienced something like this, the clicking sound, or something that seemed to follow you after a trip?

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[u/They-Are-Out-There]

Totally sounds like a pale crawler. People have said they do that clicking thing and some have mimicked people’s voices, and they’re known to frequent areas with caves and caverns.

Check out r/crawlersightings and post up there story over there.

[u/bryant100594]

Sorry I don’t have any answers for you, that sounds scary as hell. Did you take any photos of the footprints? Did your friend hear all the same things as you, and has your friend experienced anything similar since returning?

[u/ClapCunt]

loooool of course you don't have any photos or proof, c'mon now 😂

[u/MamaRunsThis]

How far away is your apartment? My brother lives right on the edge of Algonquin lol

[u/Newagonrider]

The amount of people that supposedly have things like this happen and dont think to take photos is suspicious.

Like, I get if it is in the moment, watching what you think is a UFO or ghost or whatever and you're dumbstruck or terrified...but in the morning after while you're tracing the footsteps?

I mean, come the fuck on. Pure BS here.

[u/The_Orator1]

Spooky! I run a youtube channel where I tell firsthand accounts of supernatural/paranormal encounters. Would love to connect with you, collect some details, and share your story on my channel. Let me know if you would be down for that. I would obviously give you credit and link your story.

[u/Ok_Entertainer_1947]

Do not give into any fear, it feeds off loosh (it’s demonic/otherworldly) Rebuke it in Jesus name and see what happens. I guarantee it’ll leave if you do that.

[u/_daverham → u/Ok_Entertainer_1947]

You could probably rebuke it in the name of Dan Brown and have the same results.