Did that just happen?

I had a gull grab my lure once. It was a hell of a fight bringing him in and a hell of a time de-hooking it. This was all done in a canoe that was tipping this way and that. Managed to keep from flipping over, but I think I came out of the experience worse for wear. Had to paddle back without fish and a face full of scratches - all the while thinking, I came here to relax!

Wife caught a nice sized pike. She hauled it into the boat before I had a chance to get the net. It was flapping around the boat like crazy pike will usually do - all teeth. I finally got my hands around the head, removed the pike and remarked on what a nice fish it was to my wife. She wasn't there. I looked overboard and there she was calmly floating in her life jacket. Apparently she was mimicking the behavior of the pike a minute or two ago. Couldn't get her to climb into the boat, even trying to have her use the engine as a step. Finally gave her the anchor line and towed her to shore. Glad she had her life jacket.
 
Bob W said:
In Arkansas on the shore of Boggy Creek, home of the Fouk Monster, there was a lot of rustling noise in a swampy area on the other side of the creek. A coyote ran out of the woods, jumped in the creek and swam across towards me. It climbed out of the creek, ran right past me, and kept going! I can only assume the Fouk Monster had frightened it. :D
FYI, there was a 70s horror movie about the Fouk Monster, The Legend of Boggy Creek.
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That's what I'm talking about.:thumbup::D
 
Was out deer hunting one year and slept in the back of my pickup and my brother was sleeping in the back of his pickup. I woke up to the sound of running feet and then a loud bang followed by a little yelp and the sound of running feet again. A coyote had run into the side of my brother's truck. Scared the daylights out of both of us when he banged into the side of that old pickup
 
Was canoeing in Quetico a couple years back. About the fourth night, we came to a decent campsite and made camp. Took us about 20-30 minutes to make camp. Actually sent a couple guys across the small bay the campsite was on to gather some firewood as there was none around the campsite worth using. Made a fire in the stone fire ring that was at the campsite. All four of us were sitting around the campfire, talking about the day's events. Had been there for ten or fifteen minutes when this smoking rabbit goes running out of the fire and smacks into the outside of one of the tents. We stared at it for a while and finally somebody said "Did that rabbit just come out of the fire?"

Stupid rabbit had sat there for a long time before figuring running was a better option than cooking to death. Man that sucker was black. And the kicker was that it was SMOKING as it ran off.

We wondered for a bit if it would run into the brush and set the forest on fire. That would have been completely bizarre.
 
That one takes the cake so far.:thumbup:
He must have had a burrow right under the fire pit?
 
No burrow or any holes, we checked afterward when the fire died down. He wedged himself in with the rocks somewhere.
 
Haha, some good stories here! That rabbit one is insane rocketbomb:D

One that sticks out for me:

One night a friend and I were night diving off makapu'u beach (east point of oahu) when I was surprised by a good sized parrotfish that came into my beam (most sleep at night). He was really booking it so I didn't get a chance to spear him, but I managed to flash my friend in time as the fish headed towards him. He speared it and started back up to string it on our floater. Then from out of the darkness, this enormous moray streaks in and latches on to the parrotfish on the end of my friend's three prong. This thing must have easily been 6 feet or more; it was a beast. I know my friend freaked out for a sec because he let out a stream of bubbles, let go of the fish, and somehow let go of the spear. I was already on my way back down so I managed to grab the spear while this huge eel was still yanking away at the fish. I couldn't get the fish off the spear before the eel knotted and took it off by itself. My friend couldn't use that spear the rest of the night because the eel had bent it (yeah, it was just aluminum, but still!). Needless to say, It was a little unsettling to realize that when the fish initially swam past me and I tracked it with my beam, I didn't see that beast of an eel chasing it and swimming right behind/beside/under me in the dark :)
 
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not woods related but...

i still keep my two teddy bears in my bed with me when i sleep...i have just had them there since i was little so they always stayed. we just got two new kittens about a month ago or so.

the other night i woke up and moved to roll over when one of the teddy bears sat up and yawned right in my face. scared me wide awake. turns out it was one of the kittens. gave me quite a fright though.

oh and once i almost ran over a squirrel on my bicycle. topping a hill, so i was going slow, and the squirrel didn't seem to want to move until i swerved around it.
 
30 years ago, I was golfing with my mom and she hit a "worm killer" off the tee box. The ball buzzes through the grass about 50 yards and stops. But this time, a striped gopher heard it coming, and stood up to look. BLAMMO! One dead gopher, but he did a nice backflip for points after he got hit. She stuffed him down the hole and said, "Play on!"

You just didn't mess with my Mom.
 
siguy said:
oh and once i almost ran over a squirrel on my bicycle. topping a hill, so i was going slow, and the squirrel didn't seem to want to move until i swerved around it.
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I had that happen to me with scavenging raccoons!! They were in a little pack and a couple of them actually hissed and charged me while I rode by.
 
Joezilla said:
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Walking to the dorms one day back in college, a red tailed hawk came and swooped down to pick up a squirrel. In the middle of the quads not 20 feet from a group of sorority girls.

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Useless without pics :p

Seriously, though, this one isn't as cool as some of the others, but it's OK. I was on a guided white water rafting trip on the Kennebec River in Maine about 12 yrs ago. On the lower part of the river, after you get through the gorge with all of the "serious" rapids, they let individuals take rubber "ducky" boats (inflatable kayaks) on their own for a leisurely float down the remainder of the river. I was paddling along some minor riffles and saw a chipmunk swimming across the river. The river was probably 200 yds wide at this point and the little bugger was struggling. I laid the flat part of the paddle in the water near him, and he crawled right up it and onto the bow of the kayak. Looked like a fuzzy hood ornament. He stayed there for 45 seconds to a minute and jumped back in continuing his swim across the river.

Jon
 
At a little private lake I used to fish at often, the landowner has a couple of those plastic bass boats stored there. Used to take one of them out on the lake when I'd go there. The mice liked to stay inside of them, and often while you were floating around the lake a mouse would come out to visit. Never bothered me, but my mom didn't like it at all when it happened while she was along once. Didn't know mice could swim like that...
 
j williams said:
I was dropping off a pt at the hospital, and While I was straightining up the truck, a psych patient did a header out of the 4th story window and landed on his head not 10 ft from me. I nearly crapped my pants.

I had a freind who was unloading groceries from her car and after the first trip inside, a driver missed the curve and hit the ditch, flipping his car on top of her car. She was standing about 25 yards away on her way back for the second trip of groceries.

I coded a guy once who was talking to me, died, and I shocked him back all within a matter of 15 seconds. When he came back up, he finished the sentance he was saying right before he croaked. Then told me his chest pain was gone. I bout pissed.

I pt who had no pulse you could feel, looked dead, and was laying flat on the ground. When my partner went to intabate, she grabbed his hand and said "dont do that".
Turns out she had a AAA and was just so thready, you couldnt feel a pulse....Well when she sat up, it ruptured and she bled out and died. Weird call.

I have more, but I will stop now.
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Dude, you've been holding back. These would have been great stories for around the fire!
 
rocketbomb said:
Stupid rabbit had sat there for a long time before figuring running was a better option than cooking to death. Man that sucker was black. And the kicker was that it was SMOKING as it ran off.

Check this out- it's the famous "Squirrel Cop Story". Act 2. Gotta listen to this- it's about 20 minutes into the show: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=115

When I was a kid, a monkey got loose in the neighborhood & Animal Control shot it in the yard next door.
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I got up early one morning to go hunt deer from a tree stand in the hill country of South Texas. As usual, my enthusiasm caused me to get out to the hunting ground way too early. I began looking for the stand but became disoriented in the inky blackness. My flashlight was totally inadequate. After wandering around in the darkness for maybe thirty minutes, I began to get a little spooked. Finally, I looked up and saw that I was directly under the stand. With a sense of relief I climber up the tree and stuck my head through the entry hole behind the bench seat. All hell broke loose. There was a furious fluttering of heavy wings beating me in the face and I had to use my gun as a club to protect my eyes. Presently, the large bird departed and left me along in the still night air. Had to be a great horned owl. I breathed a sigh of relieve and took a few minutes to relax and compose myself. Just when I was about settled down, the huge bird returned and attempted to land on my head. Again, I brought up the gun and flailed it above my head. After harassing me for what seemed longer than a few seconds, the feathery beast departed leaving me alone again in the dark.

What a beautiful sunrise we had that day. Sometimes the most exciting part of the hunt can happen before dawn.
 
I was camping in mainland BC a while back, and woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of an owl hooting from close by. It was one of those great nature moments - just me lying in my tent, a bright moon, a little bit of wind in the trees, and the sound of that owl hooting above ...

... and then I noticed that the bottom edges of my tent were rippling. Turns out the surrounding area was heavily populated with mice. In the absence of any serious underbrush, a bunch of them had concluded that the best place to hide from the owl was underneath my tent. They could only scurry a few inches under the edge, but there were quite a few of them. I lay there for a few minutes weighing my options, and then decided that the best course of action was to simply go back to sleep. Which I did - just me, the moon, the wind, the owl, and a dozen field mice.

It was definitely a "did that just happen" moment, but I can't compete with that smoking rabbit. That's just weird!

All the best,

- Mike
 
Last year my g/f and I are walking through our neighborhood when an Ostrich comes running up the stree, right by us and down the road. Turns out someone had it living in there basement and somehow it broke loose. Never expected that one.

I have had a bobcat stalk my turkey decoy and right before it pounced I let out a bit of a shout and watched it jump out of its pants an run like hell.

Just last thursday I was hunting up a treestand and I look to my right and staring right into my face is a small racoon. we looked at each other and I made a whistle.....lil guy jumped off the tree and scurried into the brush, that was funny.

One morning hunting in a hemlock forest I was watching these two squirrells play. Out of no where this huge owl as silent as can be picks one up and just kept going......damn scary how quiet and fast it was.
 
Saw a fly fishing guide in Costa Rica catch a bat at night on a fly rod with a barbless hook fly. There was a big flourescent street light at the boat landing that was surrounded by millions of flyin bugs and about 25 bats all feeding on them. He just kept casting a big fly up there and caught a couple while we were watching. He'd just give them slack and they would spit the hook out.
 
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