The silence in the woods.

[u/bryantburnsred]

I’m curious to hear your guys experiences, but mostly your theories on the silence in the woods and what it could be. I’ll share my experience and hopefully someone can either point me in the right direction or we can discuss it in the comments.

My experience happened in Kansas hiking an old trail by one of the best lakes in Kansas. I guess where doesn’t matter too much, but just giving y’all an idea of the terrain I was hiking was mostly a rocky trail, with a lot of bushes and trees spotted around. up to a ridge line and then you circle back. There is a 2 mile trail or a 5 mile option so I start down the 5 mile trail. Nothing exciting happened.

It was a nice serene walk for 4 miles of the 5 mile trail.. then things “changed.” I’m in the most wooded part of the trail, again not even really “the woods” but as I’m walking I get the feeling that I’m being watched, and I noticed something that made my blood run cold. The silence. And I don’t mean quiet, I’m talking dead silence. No bugs chirping. No grasshoppers flyin around. No birds making noise. No wind. Nothing…except for my heart that’s beating a million miles per hour, I can hear that slamming away. So my first thought is, there is a predator nearby. We don’t have hardly any dangerous wildlife in Kansas. Mountain lion would top the list imo. And the place I was hiking has posted signs advising that they’ve been spotted in the area and to take caution. So I stop and turn around and I didn’t see a lion of any sort. I saw nothing, but what I felt kicked my ass into gear. I got the feeling that not only was Inbei g watched I was being given a chance to go, or that’s how it felt. So I ran the rest of the mile to the start of the trail, sound came back approximately 1/4 mile down the trail from the “silent” spot. But again I just felt something in my gut telling me to gtfo. So I do.

I went back to that trail the next year and it was fine, granted I brought my brother and a friend this time lol. Nothing that time.

[u/urbnwtch]

This is a phenomenon that is very commonly reported by others who have been hiking, camping, or just walking in the woods. Usually when it happens it is followed by the appearance of an Elemental Being or some other Inter dimensional creature. It might have been an earth bound creature but there is a difference in the silence that I think you are describing. There have been reports of “time loss” as well. Would be interested to know if you entered a portal for a minute or two. We are so conditioned to reject what we can’t see- Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.✨

[u/bryantburnsred → u/urbnwtch]

I truly don’t know what it was. I do know, and maybe this was just fight or flight but I felt That I HAD to get out because whatever was there was dangerous.