Anyone ever get the "There's something watching me" feeling?

I was inside my neighbor's cabin looking for his key to the shed when I felt like I was being watched from behind. I turned around to see a gray mouse sitting on the kitchen counter looking back at me.
 
Luckily I have a very alert German Shepherd/ACD cross that notices everything, as my hiking buddy.

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It's a good thing because I usually don't. She's always on the lookout for deer and when she gets that look, it takes me about 30 secs to spot what she's got a bead on. Then it's a game of who cracks first before the chase. Usually it's a doe or buck but occasionally it's a coyote or bobcat in which case I have to go chasing after in case she gets into trouble.

I do however feel I have a sixth sense for "spirits". I have explored nearly every wood, ridge and hollow in my area and there are certain areas that I feel are haunted. Some areas have a very positive energy about them and others, very dark energy. There is one particular side of a hill/ridge in my area that always feels like I'm not welcome there. Ironically when we're hiking there, my dog just bee-lines it straight through instead of her usual meanderings; no bird songs, no squirrels or chipmunks, nasty feeling.
 
I have been woods traipsing many times and suddenly realize my head is on a swivel and I am looking for an exit to the spot I am in. Had the hair on end more than a few times. Good things to listen to and no harm done.

Perspective is interesting. I have been "hunted" intentionally in the woods, just know that people are searching for you and you need to not be found changes everything.

Bill
 
that 'somebodys watching me' song was actually by someone named rockwell although michael jackson did backing vocals on it.


on topic, ive sometimes had a case of 'the creeps' that will motivate me to leave wherever im at or take a different route home or whatever. generally try to listen to it because i figure sometimes the universe is trying to tell you something.
 
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Everybody gets gut feelings. There is so much stuff going on around us that [I think] our brains cant handle it all. If your walking in the woods , your eyes , and ears are busy, your feet are sending signals about the terrain , your nose is telling you stuff... I think sometimes we just sense something subconsciously. Maybe a sound disappears that we didnt pick up but subconsciously we get an eerie feeling.
 
Being deaf outdoors is a game changer. I depend much more on my other senses than I once did. And I've known for years that many animals can "sense" that they are being stared at by a potential predator. I attempt to foil this by not looking straight at a deer that I might take, but keeping them in my periphial vision and trying to project neutral thoughts. Does it work? More often than not if not betrayed by my own movement or smell. But I often "sense" a deer looking at me intently long before I pick them out of a cluttered background and foreground. Sometimes they foil me until they use movement in an attempt to get me to reveal myself.
 
Exactly every time I leave the tent for a midnight pee I get that creepy shiver down my spine that I'm being watched.
 
$HIT that story in the op is putting all kinds of terrible images in my head I am freakin glad I have my shotgun next to me right now reading this at 2am
 
I usually camp under a tarp and while sleeping out one night in UT under a full moon a few years ago I awoke to see a coyote looking at me not 2 feet away from my head. I screamed so loud I scared everybody else in camp so bad other people started yelling also. Never been so surprised in my life!
 
I know we focus here on events in the outdoors in wild places but this same insitinct happens in urban areas as well.

I have gotten the willys in crowded areas and started scanning around carefully and spotted the "You owe me money" look from people.
Heppened in a crowded area just outside Manila, I just returned the look until the party turned away- then I left the area. Usually when I feel it and catch the gaze, the other party ends up looking away and I stay a little heightened until I am out of the area.

I watched a show once on how scuba divers could be surrounded by schools of fish and then extend their arm towards a group and the school would part.

Bill
 
I came home from work at 3-4am a few times and have had a feeling of something watching me with a malevolent feeling to it, so much so that I've actually pulled out a pistol just to walk from my driveway to the front door. It is a very intense feeling. I live in a semi rural area that is pretty quiet.
 
Whenever I go outside at night, but that's just paranoia. I'm always on-edge whenever I'm out alone at night, even being 6 feet tall and over 260 lbs, I scare easily. Always got my hand on a knife though, 9 times out of 10 you'll find me with my XL Cold Steel Voyager or something else rather large on me when I'm out at night. If only it weren't so hard to get a gun here in Maryland...
 
This has been a good thread, and I'm pleased the stories we have shared have given the willies! Fun all around. I hope we can keep this thread alive until after Halloween. I'll hold onto my best story until Halloween night, and I will post it then. I can remember at a young age,
going on solo spot-and-stalks into the woods behind my old house. No weapon of any kind. My family were friends of the landowner, and
were allowed to come and go as we pleased. However, he'd been having problems with weirdos going into his woods, and..they had gotten
ah..."mischevious". I went on a solo trip one morning while school was out, just wanting to stretch my legs. Went in about three miles, and knowing the area like the back of my hand, made it quickly through. Went a mile into land my grandda and I had never trekked. Regretted it. I found what must have been a poorly setup camp..ashes were still vaguely warm, maybe a few hours abandoned.

I searched through the abandoned camp, finding the fire's ashes to be vaquely warm. It had been abandoned for hours. I found several little things--a knife, a few articles of clothing, a kerchief, several books torn apart and burned. It was odd, to say the least. There had been several different sets of footprints, both male and female. Bottles of alchohol were tossed around. A small get-together? But why the burned books? It was unsettling.
 
Holloween night, my senior year of highschool, six of us went out to a place called spook road which is about 3 miles out of town in a heavily wooded area. All of our lives we had been told of strange and spooky things...floating lights, blood curdeling screams from deep in the woods, animals hanging from trees which had been killed and skinned, etc. My uncle, who was then a trooper on the highway patrol always told me to not go out there. He said that there was a lot of signs of satanic activity. Of course, being young and dumb, ten feet tall and bullet proof, and in a group, we decided that we could and would tempt fate.

Anyway, the road was a narrow gravel road that in most places was more of a tunnel due to the plants and trees. It was about midnight when we got out there and about 5 minutes later, we had gotten through and the woods opened up to the right. The whole thing being uneventful, we decided to stop and discuss what we would do next. I was in the front seat and as I was turned around and looked over my left shoulder into the bask seat, I noted that it had all of sudden gotten very bright and there was a look of terror on my friends faces. I turned around and behind, in the clearing, up on a hill were a group of individuals, all dressed in black coming down the hill toward the car with a large fire behind them. Let's just say that we proceeded to get the hell out of there.

We didn't talk about that night at all since. Fast forward about ten years, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the local Game Fish and Parks officers. I don't specifically recall what we were discussing, but the topic lead me to ask him what the craziest thing he had seen. He said that on Halloween about ten years prior, he had received a report about some strange activity down by spook road from a land owner that lived nearby. The GFP officer, along with some troopers and deputies went down there proceeded to come into contact about 15 individuals, all dressed in black robes and heavily armed with knives, swords, and axes. After questioning, law enforcement learned that these individuals were planning on going vampire hunting.
 
On Halloween night? When adults and children dress in costume, often vampire costumes, a group was going vampire hunting...sounds more like a delusional group setting out to commit a massacre. Awful, but a good tale to share never the less. :-)

My cousin, Johnny and I, came across a site such as that in an old abandoned hospital when we were teens. There were dead animals, bones, candles, and even dolls hanging from the ceiling from ropes. It was creepy. We didn't stick around. Creepy stuff. Keep the stories coming folks! Fourteen days to Halloween! :-)
 
It has happened to me on several occasions and I do believe it is a sixth sense we have and don't fully understand. Last fall while scouting for a new spot to hunt I had such a moment. I was heading back towards my truck which was a good 1 1/2 miles away when the hairs on my neck stood up and I got the feeling of being watched. As I stepped past a large oak tree I slipped up against it and stood still. I watched and listened while standing motionless for what seemed like an eternity but was probably only ten minutes or so. There was no sign of anything so I started to ease downhill. I hadn't gone five feet from the tree when I heard rocks above me hit together. I walked as quietly as I could to my truck never seeing anything but having "that feeling" until I got about a quarter mile away from the truck.
 
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