Wendigo & Similar Creature Stories From Reddit NoSleep

Out here in Colorado, my uncle Jim always said once when we were camping "If you're ever deep in a forest not near any major roads and all of the birds and animals go quiet, to leave the forest as fast as possible."

Imagine an alternate reality where Wendigo’s keep their terrifying appearance, but instead of being monsters they are guardians of the forest who help lost hikers and give flowers to children.

Wendigos: creatures that only seek to eat, since they’re constantly starving Skin walkers: shapeshifting creatures that try to trick and kill humans

I camped out one night with a buddy of mine in Colorado and we was sitting around the fire drinking some hot coffee when my buddy said”you hear that?”I got to listening and we heard huge like heavy footsteps and we looked everywhere and couldn’t see anything so we yk went to bed and halfway into sleeping I hear what sounded like my buddies voice and I was frightened when I woke up to see him fast asleep with his voice outside saying”come out here and drink with me buddy”I’ve never been so scared in my life

I just realized a wendigo’s presence is sometimes foretold by a blizzard or foul smelling odor so that’s another similarity

As a deer hunter for years, the part about animals going quiet is very true. Make it to your stand and roughly half an hour will pass before they start moving again.

My grandma told me a story about her grandma when she was a young child and her family had a close encounter with the wendigo in the trapline during the winter. Soon as they knew it was clear outside they packed up got the families on the dog sleds and rushed back to the community and she said those dogs ran and never stopped because they were scared of something in the woods. But that never stopped my family from hunting on the trap line in the bush in the winter.

Idk what I saw when I was younger but it shook me to my core. I’m being fully transparent if nobody believes me that is ok. When I was young, maybe 8-9; I awoke to a sickening feeling that I was being watched. The best way I could describe this feeling was as if I had just had a near death experience and my adrenaline was high. I felt frozen in fear, eventually I mustered up the courage to just lift my head up with my neck in order to look around the room. My eyes eventually rested upon my doorway, and that is when I saw it. The moon illuminated its gaunt figure it was no more than 4ft tall, hairless, as well as pale white or light grey. I had laid my eyes upon it as it was slowly crawling on all fours. When I looked in it’s direction it’s head slowly turned and it’s gaze met mine. I am sorry to say I can’t remember it’s eyes, but I believe they were a solid black. Eventually I did what any kid would in that situation, I covered my head with the blankets to make it go away; it did not go away. Eventually I kept my blankets over my head and fell asleep. A full decade later and I hardly have nightmares anymore, but whenever someone brings up a similar looking creature I can’t help buck think back to that fateful night. Please don’t ridicule me for this story, it is what I saw nothing more, if anything I’d like for others to reply if they have similar stories.

Finds corpse with face chewed off "I'm starting to think these weird beasts may be bad news, Phil."

1st story is definitely a skinwalker. Likely the best depiction of a skinwalker i ever heard

2nd best piece of advice I’ve been told by my halfblood grandpa for the woods, “A deer doesn’t walk on 2 legs”

I’m starting to think maybe I shouldn’t have watched this at 2am in my pitch black room

cover me boys, I'm about to watch this without my blanket on

Since there's no music it feels like someone is telling me a story in person, good job on the narration.

There’s currently a blizzard in my hometown which is a rural suburb of Chicago. All night I kept smelling a foul odor and was stopping me dead in my tracks... but then I realized it was just my dog passing gas all night. I hate when she does that while I’m enjoying a movie and some popcorn 🍿. Scary stuff man.

I’m a deer hunter up here in Ohio, we have this property of a friend whos tree farm went under and all the trees are overgrown making a thick forest, me and my dad were out one day when suddenly the birds and small vermin went silent. I thought nothing of it until I heard a breaking of branches a ways off. I readied my bow in hopes of a deer, but nothing. I soon relaxed myself a little and about an hour later the forest went back to normal. I always dismissed my experience as over active imagination, but I don’t know what could have been out there.

This guy could read me a cordless drill operator's manual and i'd still be attentive.

I lived on a 1,600 acre ranch for over a decade, before moving away three years ago. I’ve learned a lot, but what i learned most, was if the woods were silent, you were in danger. I come from strong Native American roots, and i have a strong intuition that’s never lead me wrong. Ive never seen any creature i couldn’t explain, but when one of our cows died it shook me. I rode around the property daily, so i know its body hadn’t been there more than a day. I know how a cow looks when they first die: they get all swollen from the heat and buzzards will flock to it. But When i found her, she looked sucked dry inside and like she’d been there for weeks. I know she hadn’t. I’d fed her veggies from the garden only two days before. I can’t explain it, but my mind always goes to a Chupacabra. Theyre rumored in my area. Other than strange feelings about areas, thats the only “encounter” ive ever had. I dont know. I painted warding symbols on some of the trees and hadn’t seen another death like it again. Its been years and it still bothers me.

Everyone on Youtube: We can't stop it, it's too fast! Me: Have ya tried Napalm?

the first story reminded me of the "so anyways i started blasting" meme... tbh he should've unloaded the entire magazine