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I got lost hunting with my brother and father decades ago...not overnight but it was very weird..
my brother and father were on crossings I doing a wide sweep to hopefully kick some deer towards them.... well I got off track....
I had a 12 gauge shotgun., so felt pretty safe.. I heard lots of movement like I jumped some deer..
well I realized I went in a circle.... I gave my brother the compass earlier in he day and usually go by the sun,,and usually never get lost
well,,,it was getting towards 4pm and I fired a few shots with no return,,,fire.... I do remember this clearly...I sat on a stump.... and this dog started meandering towards me...the dog was on edge ....looking behind him,,, he was a chocolate lab with a scar on his right cheek,,,his tail was wagging he came right over to me,,,then turned around and started to growl,,,, he felt cold but not shivering ..
anyways im debating to go in the direction I think is out ,,,,I need to start moving its getting dark and cold
things got real quiet,,,i can see my breathe but not the dogs breathe ..he was still acting on edge growling and glaring into the woods.... I let off some more shots ...so if they were looking for me,,,theyd follow the sound....
I realized I should build a fire..... for light and warmth...I had a lighter with me...
I gather what I could close by ....for sticks,,,and bark,,, got a fire started... yeah I was nervous.....the dog had me on edge acting weird,,,im believing my father and brother showing up anytime ..
then im hearing weird growls from the woods... very low rolling growls... im clutching my shotgun ...and piling on the fire ...for a bigger one,,,knowing if its a bear,,,usually they go away from fire..
the low growls continue.... now im getting a bit scared...im thinking thank god for this dog,,,,and my lighter and jackknife.......then I hear walking a heavy walk,,,,thinking its my dad coming,,,,but it stops....I hollering and it takes off! then more steps coming from the other direction im hollering and my brother hollars back,,,im sooooooooooooooooooo relieved!!! I go to my brother and father and this other guy is with them,,
"frank" is a older guy ...but knows the land well.. we all go back to the fire,,,warm our hands and put it out...
I asked the old guy if the dog was his ...he said no.. and the dog was gone,,,,never saw him again,,,,walking out of the woods,,,the old man said,,,,"what kind of dog was it" I said a chocolate lab with a scar on his face...he said on his right side under his eye,,,i said yes....how did he know that??? he said he had a dog just like that he lost (died) 10 yrs ago ... and I was the second lost person who claimed to see him...
I said he as growling into the woods,, he said "ralphy" was protecting you from something ... in spirit
Once when I was a toddler, I was lost in the woods. I had fallen into a clay pit. My oldest sister found me. No one in my family remembers this but me! To this day, I can see the clearing in the woods and myself in the pit. I have one other 'odd' memory from that time...that no one remembers but me. So frustrating.
As an adult, I took a wrong turn and ended up on MacGregor (sp?) Airforce (?) Base outside of El Paso. Very remote and high security. It was terrifying as there were so many signs posting various 'dangers'. I was a wreck but finally found a road out. I missed a class and friends were looking for me, finding no one at my home. It was before cell phones were in use. I was also running out of gas and it was desert, so....Panic.
mainebrokermans story sent chills down my spine too..
but I'd still like to hear yours 303Guy.
Oh mine was pretty mundane. I got lost in a hilly forest. My topographical map wasn't detailed enough and I went up the wrong hill and thinking I was on another hill side and facing north, my compass appeared to be 180 degrees out. I was actually facing south! I had gone up a north slope and not a south slope I thought I was. Very confusing and a valuable lesson. As I said, pretty mundane.
Oh I've been lost so many times it doesn't even faze me anymore. Since I turned 38 years old I no longer have a car, so travel everywhere on bicycle. One time I was hopelessly lost on my bicycle at 10pm after work and I was exhausted and tried about 5 times to find my route but eventually collapsed & just lay down on the sidewalk in front of some cafes in Arlington. I had no phone & no wallet. My phone had dropped & shattered earlier that day.
After about 30 minutes of deliberating & fact gathering, some concerned strangers pooled together a few bucks for me to get on the metro back to my home. I knew my way home on the metro, but for my first time on bike at night in that area, I was lost. A policeman escorted me to the metro and then I was fine.
Since then I've been lost a few times but (finally with a smartphone this time) discovered that even without phone service, data, internet, and on airplane mode (to save battery), my GPS still tracks where I am! (That's creepy, but great!) So I used that to get un-lost a couple months ago. When I got home & studied my path later that day, I saw I'd gone about 15 miles out of the way on bicycle. I was exhausted.
When I was 3 yo I had somehow got out of the house without my mother noticing. Some woman saw me trying to cross a busy street 2 blocks away from my home. She picked me up, took me back to her house, and called the police (this was back in '82 before cell phones).
The only memory I have from this is me sitting on a kitchen counter eating an Oreo cookie and the woman was standing in front of me talking on the phone.
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