Today we've got five absolutely terrifying true stories

from people who went camping

and came face to face with something they were never supposed to see.

And I promise you, every single one of these will make you think twice

the next time somebody suggests sleeping in a tent.

Story 1. The Visitor at Boundary Waters

In the summer of 2016, a 31-year-old man named Kevin Brower decided to take a solo canoe trip through the Boundary Waters'

Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. For those unfamiliar, the boundary waters is over

one million acres of untouched forest, lakes, and rivers that stretches right up to the Canadian

border. There are no roads, no cell service, no buildings, no power lines. Once you paddle in,

you are completely and totally cut off from the rest of civilization.

If something happens to you in the boundary waters, nobody is coming to help. Not quickly anyway.

Kevin was an experienced outdoorsman. He'd been making trips to the boundary waters every year

since he was a teenager, first with his father, then with friends from

college, and eventually on his own.

He knew how to hang a bear bag.

He knew how to read a portage map.

He knew how to patch a hull with duct tape and pine sap.

He knew that the isolation was the entire point.

That's what made the place feel sacred to him.

Out there, it was just you and the water and the trees and the birds,

and the rest of the world didn't exist.

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