Creepy Encounters on My Appalachian Trail Thru Hike
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In celebration of Halloween, here are the 5 creepy encounters I had on my AT thru hike.
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I had 2 encounters in 2016, one in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey💀 one of those was like your last encounter. I hiked in a group for a week until I was past the area the man indicated he knew. Other hikers were also concerned about me.
I 2019, I was with thru hiker Spirit. We were hiking SOBO for a anniversary hike. She had been following the chatter about J Jordan. One day out of the blue Spirit said she wanted to go home early. I thought weird but ok. R get off the trail and 2 days later the stabbing happened. I calculated our miles going SOBO. We would have been very near where it took place. I really do think that Spirit’s intuition kicked in and kept us out of harms way. She is amazing and I’m glad we met on the trail. A life long friend.
@@jillaubin481 wow! I’m so glad you were okay and had that friend with you.
I love that you did a creepy halloween style video.! Complete with crackling campfire, well done! I was waiting for the guy with the skin comment, i was scared for you that night 😳
Thanks for sharing your stories! 🎃 Last month, while hiking the last 20 miles of the NET, I met a guy who made a point of telling me he was a AT trail angel. I immediately thought of your 'stalker' because this dude was creepy.
@@craig67 😨
Your camera and phone are survival tools. Take a lot of video of any "creeper" and get his voice, turn conversation on him. Always be "waiting for friends"! Stay safe!
The Uber/Shuttle incident has stuck with me too since first hearing it. I too would try Uber first for convenience; I really like the app. Thru hikers support local plenty. No need for that shuttle driver to bully you about it.
Agreed. That uber driver needs support too. They're doing no different than the shuttle drivers... profiting from a need that others have.
I’m a little disappointed in your fellow hikers in that last story. With a guy stalking you, you’d think at least one of them would have stayed behind with you that morning.
I had two men approach me on the trail in PA, who were not backpacking, but miles from the next road crossing. They asked me if I was hiking alone. 😮 I told them my husband was coming up right behind me.
@@Mosshikes that’s really creepy, and a good way to answer that question!
You had me laughing out loud on my break at work😄
Perfect way to tell about your creepy encounters. 🔥
Seems that real persons are the most creepy encounters on trail 😅 you are really brave 👏
Now you have Halloween stories. The trail just keeps on providing.
Happy Halloween Jenny
Happy Halloween!
@@HikingwithJenny your video showed a good reminder to everyone to stay on their guard while out hiking, especially when alone.
Lot's of trail tramps on the southern portion of the trail, living out there doing drugs etc. I was sitting at a picnic table at the Groundhog Creek shelter before Max Patch, and a guy sat down across from me and looked at me in the eye and said, " I want to kill someone." I said to myself ok, what a creep. The next day up on Max Patch a female hiker approached me while I was eating lunch and inquired about that same creepy guy, and his location, she had this total look of fear on her face, she said she would avoid the next shelter and find a place to camp alone to avoid the creep, since she had a bad encounter with him. Yep not all peace and love out there!
That is terrifying!
I am remembered all of these but wanted to hear a retelling of the last one & that’s the one that really bothered me on your hike. I’d have been most afraid of the homeless man living in trail & the stalking. But, still upsets me your hiking friends didn’t act to your protection. Not ins I’d want as my tramily.
Normally I would say it is safer in the backcountry concerning people then it is in your average city. With that being said in the last month two innocent people have been murdered in the backcountry one in Montana and another in Tennessee.
How can hikers leave you there knowing that guy was asking for ya
Uber drivers are local people and you never know, maybe that Uber driver needed your support to put their kid through dance lessons or whatever!!! They need to support themselves also and with you supporting them, you helped them also!!!
I agree! I have met so many Uber drivers who are just trying to make an honest living and support their families. I remember this particular Uber driver lived right in Unicoi, not far from where I was getting picked up and he had newborn twins.
@ exactly! And besides you can take whatever shuttle or way to get to wherever you are going anyway, this Jerry gets a lot of support from other people, and a lot of UA-cam coverage also, I remember him from other UA-camrs!! You can do what you want, not that big of a deal and he shouldn’t have made it a big deal either,
Uber drivers are local. Sketch.