Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate – links to my social media are in the description
box - and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Camping Stories!
You guys love scary, so we are bringing them to you!
Although I love camping and after scripting this list for you, I am a touch anxious about
it!
Argh!
Before we pitch up our tents and settle in to this video, I just want to ask you guys
if you like camping and what your best camping adventure has been?
Also, do hit that thumbs up button if you’re feeling thumbsy.
10 - Yellowstone Bear Attack I was always told by my mates in Ontario that
I shouldn’t be too afraid of black bears because they’re not likely to kill you,
it’s the grizzlies you need to watch out for.
I don’t know if this is true or not but in 2010 a Grizzlybear rampaged through a heavily
occupied campground in Soda Butte near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night.
One man, Kevin Kammer, was killed, and two other people seriously injured.
A woman suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms and a man had
part of his calf ripped off.
Other campers ran into their cars to hide from the mother bear and her cubs.
It seems the bear had wandered into the chained camp and started slashing at tents.
One survivor, Deb Freele said she woke to feel her arm being bitten by a bear and her
tent totally slashed away.
She said nobody helped her, and she survived only by playing dead after a while then grabbing
her bear spray, although by this point the bear and cubs had moved on and eaten another
man.
The attack was the most vicious and brazen in Yellowstone since the 1980s.
The bear was euthanized.
Let this be a warning to anyone who uses a mini barbeque and brings it in a tent -
9 - Death by Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In 2013, a 14 year old girl was killed by
fumes when her parents placed a bucket barbeque in the tent they were sharing.
The family tried to minimize the fire danger but had no idea that contained burning coals
produce carbon monoxide which, if trapped in an enclosed space, can kill.
The incident took place at a campsite in Bucknell, Shropshire, UK.
Hannah Thomas Jones was the closest to the bbq and died over night.
Her mother, Danielle Jones, suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and she could not move
when she woke up.
Sadly, other members of the camping party found the childs body in the morning and called
an ambulance, but it was too late to save her.
8 - Camping with the Klan There is a Reddit Thread in the Ask Reddit
section all about creepy and unsettling camping stories.
BeerHunter420 said that they were camping near a river where they’d been fishing and
kayaking.
They were sitting up their tent with their friends in a purposefully remote spot, hoping
for a quiet escape.
Later, round the fire, they spotted a bigger fire in the distance about 300 yards away.
They then said they heard chanting.
On a closer look at the fire, the campers realised the group was burning a cross.
The cult members then started yelling about white power and shooting their guns into the
air.
Isn’t that terrifying!
One….
Christ… the klu klux klan and two….guns.
Okay, White Supremacist are terrifying, but at least you can recognise the idiot when
you see one!
7 - The Silence Another Reddit post here – Biggs180 shared
a story about a camping trip in the Florida Everglades with friends.
The group had retired to their tents for the evening and were beginning to fall asleep
when all of a sudden heard a very deep and low vibration.
After that, all nature was silent, including the bugs and birds who had previously been
generating a background hum.
The four campers all text each other about how freaked out they were, careful not to
break the eerie silence.
Eventually all of the creatures started making noise again… but all of the campers didn’t
sleep a wink.
When nature unanimously falls silent, you know something big is going down.
6 - The Hangmans Tree The Holcomb Valley Campground in Big Bear
California is a lovely place to camp, just don’t go wandering near Hangman’s Tree.
The campground is near a mining ghost town, and if the ruins of an old settlement weren’t
enough to freak you out, nestled deep within the woods is the Hangman’s Tree, an area
that was used to enforce the law or even enact revenge in the 1800s.
The area was huge with the Californian gold rush and attracted a few unscrupulous characters
who were brought to justice there.
Many campers who have hiked to the tree have reported paranormal goings on and strange
whisperings around the tree area.
Some say that a gold smuggler uttered a curse as he was hung in the area.
I am not sure I’d fancy camping near all that bad juju.
5 - The Ghosts of the Hawaiian Night Marchers On the 5th July 1995, Ricky, his girlfriend
Jennifer, his friend Richard and Richard’s son Ryan went camping on Mokuleia Beach on
the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.
While on the beach at 10pm at night, they saw distant flashes of light, then a long
line of troches on a mountain in the distance.
It appears they happened to spot the Night Marchers, a Hawaiian folk legend that says
phantoms of ancient Hawaiian warriors roam the islands at night.
Rumour has it, if you share any blood relation with the marchers you will be saved, or else,
you can pee on yourself for redemption.
If you’re on the path of a Night Marcher, you must strip naked and lay face down where
you are.
It seems the camping group got lucky – they lived to tell the tale.
4 - The Lake Bodom Murders This is one of the most notorious unsolved
crimes in Finish History.
In 1960, four teenagers were camping by Lake Bodom in Finland.
What happened between the evening and the morning, when three of the four youths were
found brutally murdered, we aren’t quite sure.
A slashed and bloodied collapsed tent was discovered by a hiker the next morning, and
when he went to investigate.
Two 15 year old girls and an 18 year old boy were battered and stabbed to death, with a
fourth left stabbed and unconscious.
One of the girls, Malia Björklund, had been stripped naked from the waste down and had
received the most stab wounds.
Upon discovering the horrifying scene, Hiker, Risto Siren called the police and an ambulance,
and the life of 18 year old Nihls Wilhelm Gustafsson was saved.
Gustafsson, the sole survivor, had a concussion, facial bruises and fractures.
He recalled seeing a vision of a black and red clothed attacker.
I can’t imagine being Siren, the hiker who found them…..having to see all of that with
my own eyes…it would haunt me forever.
3 – Wells Gray Murders In the summer of 1982, Bob and Jackie Johnson,
their two daughters Janet and Karen and Jackie’s parents, Edith and George Bentley went camping
near Wells Gray Park in British Columbia.
The family were reported missing a week after Bob failed to show up to work.
Around 6 weeks after they had set off for their camp trip, their bodies were found in
a burned out car on Battle Mountain Road.
They had been shot in the head with a .22 caliber weapon.
Fast forward over a year later and 24 year old David Shearing was arrested.
He later admitted to stalking the victims at their campground and later shooting the
adults in the head.
He kept the two girls alive for a week, raping the eldest, 13 year old Janet, repeatedly
throughout the week before killing them too.
2 – The Dyatlov Pass Incident Something horrifying happened to nine ski
hikers in the Northern Ural Mountains in Soviet Russia between the evening of February 1st
and the morning of February the 2nd, 1959.
The group were experienced winter trekkers who had set up a camp on the slopes.
On the morning of the 2nd February, the bodies of the campers were found in a very disturbing
scene.
It seems that something in the night caused the group to tear out of their tents without
proper clothing to face the sub zero snowy climate.
Six of the group died of hypothermia, three died from major fractures.
One victim had their head bashed in, two others had their chests crushed.
One woman had her tongue and eyes missing.
The soviet authorities investigated the suspicious deaths but the case remains unsolved.
Leading theories include an animal attack, an avalanche scare, infrasound panic or assassination.
Others say it could be paradoxical undressing from hypothermia, which causes people to act
crazily.
Others say it could have been a Yeti or even aliens.
The area remained closed for investigation for three years, but is now open and has been
named Dyatlov Pass in memorial of Igor Dyatlov, the 23 year old leader of the group.
Think the rest of this list has been horrible?
Well the worst camping horror story comes from a terror attack in Norway….devastatingly
at number one we have the mass murder of 70 youths at Utoya Island in Norway.
On the 22nd July 2011, Dressed in a police uniform, Andres Breivik boarded a ferry to
the island of Utoya.
This was the location of Norwegian Labour Party youth camp, a political party Breivik
detested.
The annual summer camp was attended by around 600 teenagers.
Brevik marched around the island, including the cafeteria, the campsite, the woods and
rocky areas by the water killing teenagers and young adults, many of which were at point
blank range.
He killed youths hiding in their tents and many others as they tried to escape.
A lot of the survivors managed to hide in caves around the island.
The mass shooting lasted an hour and a half before police could reach the island.
Of the 70 victims, the youngest victim 14, many of the rest were kids in their late teens
and early 20s.
A further 110 people were injured.
Okay, that was the top 10 scary camping stories!
It definitely puts me off camping a bit….but I don’t know…I’ll just make sure my
bear spray and pen knife are close by!
I had a scary camping situation in a thunderstorm in Algonquin park last year… but it is nothing
compared to these stories!
Have you ever had anything scary happen to you while camping?
Let me know.
Just before I bop out of here I just want to read a couple of comments from my Top 10
Haunted Airport stories.
Brianna Dukart wrote: If I were a ghost I’d haunt my ex.?
Swifite Runner 89 said: I would haunt Six Flags to make it more thrilling?
That would be too much for me, I think!
I am on this persons wavelength!
Aelta E Official said: Personally I would haunt the music rooms and the auditorium of
my high school.
I mean why not?
You get to mess around with props, instruments and leftover scripts from different events?
I love me a theatrical ghost!