These shares involve camping trips—tents, multi-day stays, and outdoor overnights where recreation turns into fear after dark or at first light.
Common threads are planned campouts, families and friends, and the decision to pack up early or never camp that way again. Browse these shares if you want classic camping-under-pressure stories from across Alaska.
Sam shares his experience while on a bushcraft and hunting camping trip, also experienced with a group of friend who later joined up with him.
Brad and his then 8-year old son both share a terrifying experience from 2004 while on a camping trip in remote Alaska.
Michael, a doctor, shared an encounter from Juneau while on a camping trip about ten years ago with a friend.
Two seasons ago, Cody came to Alaska to check off a bucket list item and camp at a cabin at Upper Russian Lake when he encountered a sasquatch who ruined his plans.
Ben Sr., a doctor, shares his story from Alaska in 1980 while on a camping trip with his young son Ben Jr. at Hellbent Creek. This is an encounter where a sasquatch shows interest in a child.
From Herbie, who shares his experience from when he was ten years old a couple of years before Alaska became a state. The incident took place near what is now Iditirod while camping with his uncle.
Hunters Derek and Brian had an intense experience about five years ago near Cordova on a trip to check out a new property, where they also tried to do some hunting. They left their camping gear, didn't buy the property, and never returned.
An interview with John who shared some experiences over his many years in Alaska.
Jack, who did geological surveying, shared his story that happened about a decade ago on the Brooks Range with four others.
A recent encounter from Caleb who shares what happened to him while on a moose hunt near Swede Lake.
A log home builder named Charlie shared his experience from four years ago while constructing a log cabin for a client with his apprentice.
An account from Oscar's nephew recalls discovering a bloody tent near Slana where they witnessed four to five robust, 5-to-5.5-foot-tall, lemur-like monkey creatures with human faces fleeing into the brush while making strange monkey noises. Another experience shared by Oscar describes spotting three 5-foot-tall creatures with 3-foot-long tails running along the Copper River shoreline like rabbits before rapidly ascending a steep dirt bank.
An experience shared by an Ahtna Elder named Agatha recalls her childhood near Horse Creek, where her family routinely heard distant screams while berry picking. She also recounted an incident at their fish camp when her uncle and brother-in-law found their fish wheel intentionally jammed with a large log. While working to clear it, they heard whistling from the shore and turned to find a hairy man crouching on the bank. After shouting at it, the brother-in-law fired a shot into the air, causing the entity and two other unseen companions to crash away through the brush.
An encounter shared by a young man named Austin took place around late June 2023 during a camping and target shooting trip with his friends Michael and Jerry. Around 2:30 AM in the twilight of the Alaskan summer, the group was walking down a dirt access road when they heard massive brush thrashing nearby. Jerry climbed onto a large roadside rock to investigate but immediately scrambled back down in an absolute panic, stating he spotted an enormous black figure that was far too large to be a local black bear.
