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For Mid-Drive, enjoy these allegedly true and scary folklore stories and be sure to

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Now, let's begin.

Camping Tales from Grade 7. From Anonymous.

I live in Australia and my school was pretty big on doing camp outs and such. They had

taken us out to some camping grounds to the base of a mountain. When we arrived, there

was no one else there. We set up our tents and found the toilet block up a driveway.

Not first night, something strange happened. I woke up seemingly for no reason. As I

struggled to go back to sleep, I heard heavy breathing right outside our tent. It was

right next to my head. I looked over to my best friend. She was also in the tent with me,

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