Wild Camping Scary Experiences What is out there on the Cumbria Peaks

Many years ago now and I mean years ago. I decided to go camping just as teenagers do, I went with a few mates. Now I am 51 but I can still remember that night clearly. Things did not start well, and we got the directions where we should of been going wrong so we didn't end up in the Lake district but in a place called Alston. It was really remote and we walked along the river bank for miles. There was nothing around and we were miles from anywhere by the time we set up the tent. We had a good day even though we got the original area wrong, so it turned out in our favour as we ended up in a really good place. As mates do we had a laugh, messed in the river enjoying ourselves. But everyone one of us had the feeling that someone always seemed to be watching us. We did not see anyone around anywhere.

Much later as if got dark we settled down and got into the tent and it seemed like we kept hearing strange noises of in the trees. At first it was the noise of breaking branches, and then later in the night we awoke because rocks were being thrown at the tent we were in. But no one was there when we looked and the tent was well away from the trees, so we would have seen people throwing stones and rocks at us, the tent would be too far away from the trees for anyone to throw and reach us from there, they would have had to be stood in the open. It was a horrible night so we were away by early the next morning, we just got out of there.

That was not how that outing was supposed to go. We were just young lads and we got the wrong bus and ended up there by mistake. We didn't stay the next morning and hitched a ride back to Durham then caught a bus and then finished by a long walk home. And if took us almost a day and into the next night to get home and we didn't want to camp anywhere else over night, We just wanted to get home. Its been 35 years and it still puzzles me.
Another report a short walk as the crow flies is from a camper in a similar situation.

It was a while ago now, a good few months or maybe a bit less. I was doing an overnight wild camp in the Peak District, the location was not far from the Derwent area, I hope this makes some sort of sense to you as I struggle to explain the events as there was nothing visual that I could see.

I had set up camp in a valley that is just before the ridge, as the wind was initially forecast to be high that night, but as it turned out it was not that bad and pretty calm and still. I had decided to settle in for the night after a small fire and the cold had started to get worse. I had lay there for quite some time and decided to venture out of the tent for a wander and for a call of nature, nothing seemed to be odd or out of ordinary at that point, and I remember thinking that if anyone came I would hear them a mile off due to the ground being full of dead fall.

Well it was pretty cold and I became warm inside my sleeping bag and the night drifted on with absolute quiet apart from the sounds of planes and the odd train, I am not sure what time it was but all of the sudden I had a very strange feeling, this also came with a sense of heat, I know that sounds odd but I felt a kind of heat and as I lay there getting hotter and hotter the woods became full of Owl call's. I remember listening and thinking it was amazing to be here listening to all this commotion, all of a sudden there was a change in the atmosphere, as if an off switch had been pressed and the noises all stopped dead, I felt a very strong sense that something was near my tent, I can't really explain the feeling, it was like a silence and a heat inside me, odd I know, then I heard one single Grunt close to me, not a badger, fox or a vole of any kind, a Grunt is the only way I know how to describe it.

I lay in the tent eyes wide open and my mind racing but at the same time I did not feel in any danger. This pattern happened once more during the night. And I had the same feeling, but by this time I was too tired and I felt in no danger and I nodded off to sleep, all I can say now is, I think something was there at my tent twice in the night.

I had noticed some strange mounds as I was collecting kindling before settling down for the night and they were about 3 ft high, large clumps and something about them just made me feel uneasy but I had forgotten that when I was inside the tent.. Anyhow I hope this is of some interest, I do not claim to know more than that really, it just struck me on the way home the next day it was a very odd experience I had never had before, and a strong sense too.

The owl calls were also followed by shrieks but that stopped like an off switch. This happened twice then the single grunts. I hope you don't mind me not giving my name as I feel a bit uneasy about it...I just hope maybe this makes some sort of sense.

Anyhow I hope you do well in your hunts. I don't feel scared to go back as I am sure there was nothing to fear. I did notice a dead sheep also, and a very sad one of a animal trapped in fence but I just put this down to natural deaths as sheep do tend to be their own worst enemy sometimes, I have not heard of any live stock being taken by these "things" your searching for.

I did not look for tracks or anything, I wish I had used my head a bit more now, maybe this area is some sort of place they travel to or even pass through, it is so isolated you would never see anyone moving through it and it's 45 min walk to a town.




The Keswick Stone Thrower


It was about 29 years ago. My Husband and I went to Keswick in the Lake District. We decided on a lovely day to go walking through some dense remote woods. We found a track and followed it. We all of a sudden came to a clearing. We stood commenting on what a surprise to find such a clearing in thick brush like this.

As we were standing there looking we carried on talking then we both froze and all the hairs stood up on our arms. We didnt speak at the time but both of us felt the same. All of a sudden the birds stopped singing and everything went still and quiet. We sort of froze to the spot and we still didnt say a word.....then we had stones thrown at us but not quite hitting us. They were coming from the trees and landing really close to us. Then I said lets walk back the way we came and keep talking as if everything is normal. 

We did just that and as we walked back we knew we where being followed and whoever was following, was really really close. At the time I thought it was the panther they see up there but then with the stone throwing I thought it was a raving mad man. I never ever thought of Bigfoot until I started to view this in a different way hearing all the reports. Anyway we were escorted to the edge of the wood and we knew it. So no actual sighting but now as I have got interested in Bigfoot and understand some of the behaviour  I have no doubt what happend that day. My husband does not believe in Bigfoot. But he explained what he felt and it matched my feelings. 

A Shepard Finds strange prints in the Snow. Cross Fell Cumbria.1988

Cross Fell, Cumbria is an area where a shepherd experienced some very
unusual events whilst looking for lost sheep on the summit of Cross Fell in 1988.
She tells the following story in a letter to BUFORA and talks about ramblers in the
area, who have reported unusual anomalies, or a strange feeling which causes them to feel apprehensive and uncomfortable and glad to return home after dark..

The shepherd concerned had been out with her partner searching for some sheep that
had gone astray. It was winter and there was a great deal of snow. They agreed to
separate and go in different directions to search for the sheep. As she and her partner separated she came across an unusual set of footprints.

The dogs and I sat on the summit rocks to eat sandwiches and have a well earned rest
when suddenly there was violent swishing rumbling sound. Looking back over the
summit ridge itself towards the Dunfell Radar Beacon was a peculiar cloud or disc,
which hovered for a second then disappeared down Eden Valley. 




I decided to retrace my steps down off the summit and continue looking for the sheep at a lower level,when the second weird event occurred. Not only were there my tracks and those
of my two collies, but two more footprint tracks alongside ours of a much larger size and with a deeper tread. No one could possibly have made them in the short time that I turned to observe the strange cloud. My way up was at all other times …in my view ..from where I had been sitting. Also one of my collies started to sniff at those strange tracks.

Cross Fell is less than 15 miles from these reports and there are other experiences of strange Cryptid Creatures and unexplained events reported close by. No doubt we will be hearing more as the years go on. If you stand at Cross Fell summit on a clear day you can see the sites of numerous 'Big Hairy Upright Bigfoot Like Creatures. 

And of course we must not forget Isir the Giant. A tale as old as time.

In Eamont Bridge in Cumbria, by the river, is a cave known as Giant's Cave, a place associated with two giants called Tarquin and Isir. 




The pair lived on a diet of human flesh, a practice which might have lost its appeal when Sir Lancelot slew Tarquin in battle. A similar tale comes from another Cumbria cave system, the Isis Parlis system. This cave system was once the home to a giant named Hugh Cesario, who either fought on the side of good, or took local men, women and farm animals back to the cave to snack on. There are ancient standing stone henges dating back to 1000bc which you can still visit to this day. It would seem Cumbria is still a place with many surprises still to come.





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