Even if you’re a fan of horror stories, movies, and video games, it doesn’t make you immune to real-life fear. There’s an abyss between seeing something scary play out on the pages of a book or on the screen and actually being in the middle of a disturbing situation.

In an entrancing AskReddit thread, internet users opened up about the creepiest, most frightening things they witnessed in the woods and remote rural areas. Keep scrolling to read their tales.

But be warned, some of these might spook you way more than you thought they would… Got your holy water and garlic? Good. Let’s get to it.

I'd been at football training with a few of my cousins when I was about 10 years old. We decided to take a walk before our parents picked us up, so we went along the canal towpath. My cousin looked

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