Firstly, I’m a huge skeptic when it comes to stuff like this. I’ve camped and hiked all over the world in very remote areas. Never saw anything weird, have heard weird noises to later be explained.
Hoping someone can shed some light to what happened to my fiancé and I.
Couple days ago my partner and I were on our sixth night of road tripping/camping trip.
We drove through the blue mountains (which were breathtaking) I’m from Alaska and it was the first time in a long time I got that butterfly feeling in my stomach from how beautiful the surrounding scenery was. Definitely the highlight of our trip driving through those back country roads.
We got to the free camping area at Chifley Dam around 7ish and had dinner and our tent setup by 8:30ish. Two other campers showed up around then as well. We went to sleep around 9:30pm. It was really hot out so we had the rain fly back and watched the stars before falling asleep. Everything was great!
Right around 1am I heard a footstep noise that woke me up.
For a second I thought it was our neighbors going to throw away rubbish in one of the bins located behind us.
Still very alert I continued to lay down. The footstep started to get closer & I grabbed my torch and knife. At this point I could here two different sets of footsteps. One seemed to be going left around us and the other one going to the right side of us.
I don’t get scared easily but at this point I was shaking and very anxious.
I noticed a couple things that stood out to me when they were close by...
The footsteps were heavy. When they stepped on branches the branches broke. There was an awkwardness about them like if you were to count one one thousand slowly then step then two one thousand & step. Like somebody who had been walking through the desert for to long or almost like somebody that drank a bit to much. Dare I say zombie walk? They both did this walk the whole time and never changed pace.
Third thing was the weirdest to me. It sounded like they were wearing a skirt or clothing made out of wood. Almost like a wind chime flowing in the wind without the chimes going off as they stepped.
They never stopped to check us out. Whatever it was got very close but I couldn’t see anything and I was to scared to move and give away my position in case it was someone trying to sneak up on us (I wanted them to think I was asleep) thought to myself that was my best tactic at that moment.
I laid their as they went by and then once they were far enough I woke my fiancé up said I heard something very strange and we needed to go on a quick car ride to see what it was. Got in the car turned the lights on and continued down the path towards the bathrooms. Had my fiancé shine our really bright torch and had the high beams on. Didn’t see anything...
This area is also fenced in. We got to the bathrooms and I wasn’t sure what to do at this point. Whatever it was didn’t try to harm us. The campers next to us were clearly asleep and wouldn’t have had time to run back too we’re they were without us seeing them.
I had thrown away some rubbish and waved to them earlyer so I knew exactly where they were. I’m sure at this point they were wondering what the hell we were doing with our brights on/torches out driving slowly through the campsite at 1am.
We went back to the tent and I laid their & didn’t fall asleep tell the morning. I wish I could have asked our neighbors if they heard anything weird but they were gone by the time we woke up and left. Overall, extremely weird expericance and I’ve been researching animals in the area an cannot make sense of what it could have been.
Wondering if anybody has had a similar experience or would know what kind of animal/thing it might be. Thanks.