What’s the weirdest/strangest thing you’ve encountered or seen in a remote area?

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Northwindlowlander@reddit

A pair of crutches leaning against a fence on the southern upland way.

Oh I once mountain biked through a halloween party in the woods, miles from the nearest road, I got chased by a werewolf.

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My partner and I had a moment of going into a weird time glitch when we were in Dorset. Checked the time, wandered around exploring for about an hour, then checked the time again and it had gone the wrong way.

It took quite some time to figure out that my phone had connected to France and so the time had changed automatically.

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New_Line4049@reddit

"A weird time glitch" yeah..... Devons like that.

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auntie_climax@reddit

Whenever I walk on the clifftops where I live, I always get a text from Giffgaff saying, welcome to the Isle of Man, roaming charge may apply" 😂

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Choice-Demand-3884@reddit

I found a Tesco bag with a DVD in it, shoved into a dry stone wall near Mardale Ill Bell in the Lake District. Looked like it had been there a long time. I took it home to throw away, but had a look at the DVD first. It had 'Clyde' written on it. The DVD had a short home movie on it, of two half naked blokes having a fight in a yard somewhere.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

A 'fight'?

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Choice-Demand-3884@reddit

Punching each other.

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Tennis_Proper@reddit

Gut punching each other?

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EarballsAgain@reddit

A sword fight perhaps

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Decent_Confidence_36@reddit

I started hiking on my own a few years ago, was in the Peak District and a man came up to me and asked if I wanted a cheese and ham sandwich he brought with but didn’t want… he was just being nice and didn’t want it to go to waste but it freaked me out

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Sunnyforrest@reddit

Did you have it?!!

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9182tlm@reddit

An empty bothy in Scotland, but in the corner stood a bucket full of condoms, lube, and rubber gloves. To be fair, I was so tired when I got there that I probably wouldn’t have been too bothered about being a bystander in an orgy. As long as I can eat my dinner, then all’s good.

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Simbooptendo@reddit

You don't wanna bang on an empty stomach

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Odd_Committee_100@reddit

I don't wanna bang any of these people, they're all paunchy and weird and old!

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FromYoTown@reddit

He'd have to know the ooooorgy password first.

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AdministrativeShip2@reddit

I was walking the Ridgeway and stopped for the night near Weylands Smithy.

About 10pm a whole bunch of doggers turned up. Saw my tent, apologised and moved further along to engage in their hobby.

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vipros42@reddit

Was with a few colleagues on a site visit outside a village in Dorset. Saw a black panther across the field. It walked along for a bit then stopped and watched us before disappearing into the bushes. We found it's footprints afterwards. Not a doubt in my mind about what we saw. Rarely met with anything other than extreme scepticism though. Unfortunately this was before smart phones and the camera I had on me was utter shit. My photo is in a book on Dorset big cat sightings though, although it's attributed to my old colleague who sent it to the author.

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Fluffy_Ad2274@reddit

Walking along a lame - Drystone walls either side, and open land either side. Turn a corner and see another walker about fifty feet ahead. By the time he turns at the next corner, he's about thirty feet ahead. I turn the corner, and he's nowhere to be seen - walls intact, no passing places, not in the fields either side. A sunny, clear day in Snowdonia, next corner half a mile ahead - and no walker. Spent the rest of the walk shivering and looking over my shoulder.

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MrHotfootJackson@reddit

Found a (human) turd in a Pot Noodle not long back. Just casually left next to a bubbling brook and luscious green rolling fields. Rather exposed place to take a danger dump, but gotta admire the dumpee's brazen disregard for social norms and mores.

It was a donner kebab flavour Pot Noodle, aptly enough.

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BorderlineWire@reddit

I think some people just go for it. I’ve seen two pretty odd shits along Cheltenham Promenade.

The most prominent was absolutely massive, and was front and centre of a parking space, in the middle of a row of parking spaces outside the municipal offices near to the war memorial and facing the street. Not even behind it, just proudly in view of anyone in the buildings, anyone walking past, the entire taxi rank, the bus stops and shops. It was like someone needed a stage to shit on and that slightly raised area facing everything was it. Maybe they just needed moral support, it was genuinely the biggest turd I’ve ever seen in my life.

The other one was between the phone boxes. As I was wearing a hi viz at the time it occurred one of the local drunks must have assumed I was police or something so came running over and told me that a man had just taken a shit over there, and it was fucking disgusting and she was really sorry but she had actually kicked him in the cock to make him stop. There was another local drunk rather awkwardly making his getaway trying to pull his trakkie bottoms up whilst walking like he had both shit himself and been kicked in the nuts. Behind him sat a rather cartoonish looking pile of shit.

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CasualGlam87@reddit

As a child I once saw one of those Flemish giant rabbits just chilling with a bunch of wild rabbits. Guessing someone dumped it in the countryside and it somehow managed to join a warren of wild rabbits. It looked massive next to them.

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tinymoominmama@reddit

There are legendary massive rabbits around the country. Can't remember any details but remember reading someone else's account, years ago.

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missuseme@reddit

I was running down a remote track, it had earth banks on each side that were pretty overgrown.

I see a man walking towards me, as he gets a little closer I see he has a rifle. Ok, thats unusual but it's the countryside.

But then he sees me, seems startled and runs up one of the earth banks into the bushes.

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PengyLi@reddit

Early one morning, walking along the Eastney end of Southsea Seafront, the fog was so thick that not only could you not see the Isle of Wight, but from the road, you couldn't even see the sea. As we were looking towards where the sea would have been, 4 horses and riders emerged from the fog! The riders were dressed in what looked like silk Seikh robes and turbans. There was no traffic going by. It was so quiet. All you could hear was the sound of the horses' hooves on the pebbly beach! It felt lilke we'd suddenly time-shifted into another dimension.

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Simbooptendo@reddit

I was expecting naked people ha

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PengyLi@reddit

TBF that probably would have been easier to get my head around!!!! In reality, we realised it was the day of the Southsea Show, so probably these folks were exercisinng their horses on the beach before doing some display or show. Still, my friend and I talk about it often, it was so unexpected and spooky!

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NortonBurns@reddit

I once found a sheep caught by one horn over a wire on top of a drystone wall. I was way out on the tops over Darnbrook Fell heading towards Pen-y-Ghent, which is pretty much a tourist-free zone, as middle of nowhere as it gets. The poor bugger was standing bolt upright, the wire only stretching enough for its hind legs to touch the ground.
No clue how long it had been stuck there, but I decided I had to unhook it. It wasn't in any way grateful & fought me for the duration, but I did manage to lift it off & it ran away to eat more grass & grow more wool.

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dingdong-lightson@reddit

Not hiking but I was a young boy in the back of my dad's car and we were driving in the middle of nowhere and my dad saw a sheep stuck in barbed wire. He got out and had a five minute tussle with it, both him and sheep making noises. He freed it only for it to run a couple of metres into another section of wire and to get stuck again. My dad said "dickhead" and got back in the car and we drove off.

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No-Calligrapher-7415@reddit

I was helping out on a family and one late a ram decided to escape his field then got into the next field that was also a small campsite, he was having none of it and entered the campsite toilet/shower block, it was quite the battle until I had no other option but to grab him by his ball sack to then drag him out. It was the only way.

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Watchkeys@reddit

'it wasn't in any way grateful' lol! Brilliantly phrased!

I've never trusted sheep.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

I have a job working in the countryside now. Previously worked in the safety of civilisation. I had no idea how aggressive some sheep can be, and don't get me started on cows. I'm surprised I'm still alive four years on.

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Watchkeys@reddit

I think they know a lot more than they let on. This image of them being 'stupid' is a ruse. They're watching, and plotting, constantly, but not kindly.

The coin slot eyes bother me. Goats have them too, but goats are honest about the fact that they're arseholes. I can respect that.

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Radiants_Table@reddit

I think it’s referred to locally as a leisure centre.

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Extreme-Trainer7338@reddit

was hiking alone in the cascades a few years back and came up over a ridge to find a full dinner table set up in a clearing, plates and silverware and everything, no tent or people anywhere. still no idea what that was about.

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whoops53@reddit

Probably a staged event for Instagram? I saw something similar and the guy was planning to propose

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Choice-Demand-3884@reddit

I freed a ram that was trapped in a wire fence at the Helwith Bridge Inn, not far from Horton. He wasn't very grateful either. Someone should get the local farmers to teach their livestock some manners.

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NortonBurns@reddit

Intelectually, I'm aware an animal such as a sheep hasn't the wit to figure out I'm trying to help it, but fer cryin' out loud, stop fuckng kicking & biting me while I'm trying to save your life ;)

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Ok_Manufacturer_5790@reddit

Fly fishing in a remote loch with nobody around, when a child's voice said "Hiya".

Let's just say we got the hell out of there pronto.

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NoApartment7399@reddit

You'll be surprised how weirdly voices can carry from VERY far away. My husband recently went out on a double kayak with a friend and we could hear them chatting clearly from the shore but they were specks in the distance. On another note, husband and kid went on a long hike and once they were in view up a cliff face from where I was waiting, every time the wind came by I could hear them talking as well, couple km away

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MaxMouseOCX@reddit

Was out hiking with a load of friends, ended up in a secluded field with maybe 6 horses in it, they all come over to us and are very friendly, much friendlier than you'd think.

So we stopped and we're fussing the horses, we've put our back packs down, one of the horses steals my fucking backpack and runs off, it doesn't dissappear it stops a bit away from me, it wasn't to be chased for some reason?

So we play that game for a while and eventually it just gives me the backpack back.

I've never seen a horse act like that.

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WanderWomble@reddit

My big idiot would absolutely do something like that. 😆😆

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

I was leading a walk for my hiking group across Darwen Moor in Lancashire recently and at one point we passed three naked people who were casually hiking in the other direction.

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TheNecroFrog@reddit

Up at the Coach and Horses in the Peak District. Middle of December, snow and ice all around and up walks this couple, boots, hats, gloves, and nothing else.

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Simbooptendo@reddit

A couple of elderly hippies playing bongos in some woods. Perfectly pleasant but possibly tripping balls

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genxerrr@reddit

Walking across fields on a dark night there appeared to be something on the ground in front of me so I poked it with my foot to see what it was. Turns out it was a couple in a 69 position. They just got up and walked off.

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CMDR_Vectura@reddit

Interrupted their scripted animation so they went into default behaviour mode

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theotherquantumjim@reddit

Fucking hell

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ajtyler776@reddit

Watched a baby give another baby a tattoo

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Mr-Incy@reddit

I grew up in a very rural area and spent most of my childhood (1980's) out in the fields and woods with the other children in the village.

We were walking through the woods one day, and quite a way in we found an abandoned picnic, nothing too strange, but what made it weird was that there was proper glasses, plates, cutlery, and even folded cloth napkins, all laid out on a blanket the same as if it was on a table, and an empty suitcase, which we assumed is how it all got there.

Nothing else, no food, no rubbish, nothing to indicate that a picnic had actually taken place.
We wandered around looking for any signs, climbed trees to get a better view of the area and even walked out the the edge of the wood where there was a lane, but nothing, no one around.

We thought that maybe someone had set it up as a surprise for someone and had gone to get them, so we hung around for ages, a good few hours, just doing what we usually done, which was building dens until it was time to go home.
No one came.

Obviously we went back there over the next few days and it was the same, still set up and no signs that anyone had been there, apart from us of course.
It was there for best part of a week, and apart from getting stuff on it like leaves and dirt, it didn't look like anyone had touched it.
I think it was day 6 when it was all gone and none of us were ever able to find out why it was there.

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crazyabbit@reddit

Teddy bear picnic

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colinah87@reddit

That would’ve scared the shit out of me as a child

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Mr-Incy@reddit

We were more curious than scared.

I guess being a Gen X and growing up being pretty much left to your own devices, having little to no restrictions on where you wander off to, no way of contacting anyone as it was pre mobile phones, and living in a rural area, you get excited about exploring and being scared is usually only when faced with something that could possibly hurt you badly.

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No_Ring_3348@reddit

I was taking a mid-hike shit in a river in the middle of nowhere in Galloway, and I mean I hadn't seen another soul since the carpark that morning at it was now past lunch, when I heard this bone-chilling screeching noise. It sounded like a cross between a crow and the imagined roar of a demonic entity and let's be clear: it was for the best that I was already mid-defecation at the time. Obviously there was little that could be done other than crimp off in a panic while wildly trying to look for the source of the noise, a deer in rutting season perhaps? An enraged badger or pine marten? A Lowland scatsquatch?! I scrambled up the bank and saw, to my absolute horror, >!a fisherman about 100m behind me gesticulating in disgust. To quote Sir Patrick Stewart: he saw everything!<

Then I continued with my hike and got absolutely fuckarooed on some nice whisky in the weird little village of St John's Town of Dalry.

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shortymcsteve@reddit

Why are you taking a shit in a river in the first place? No wonder he was disgusted, that’s crazy behaviour. What’s wrong with digging a hole in the woods?

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Turbulent-Chef4164@reddit

Finding a set of false teeth with a condom in them.

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

A small pink butt plug. I don’t think I need to say anymore.

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gigglesmcsdinosaur@reddit

Not all that weird but found an unopened, boxed bottle of 10 year aged Laphroaig under a stone atop a Dartmoor tor. Turned out to have been hidden as a prize for a treasure hunt by a Mountain Rescue member. Day I found it was the day my mum died so it's not going to be opened until my dad goes too.

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aChocolateFireGuard@reddit

I found a micro SD card in an abandoned building i was working in to renovate.

Had a look what was on it but it was just some guys poor attempts at rolling spliffs with red rizlas (the worst kind for those who dont know)

Not sure what i was hoping for but i was disappointed

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steveakacrush@reddit

Doggers!

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doraisexploring27@reddit

Believe me they were more than merely snogging!

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clickyclicky456@reddit

The next thing I was upside down and staring at the clutch!

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steveakacrush@reddit

Oh most definitely!

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doraisexploring27@reddit

https://youtu.be/MXzaVOk_Ydk?si=Xg7ICUeDqBm8msix

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Royal_View9815@reddit

As soon as I saw the word dogging I knew what was coming (oooh er missus).

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

I was unfortunately also about to comment this. Lol

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NikkiJane72@reddit

Someone doing a soft porn photoshoot at Weylands Smithy in Oxfrodshire. It was a VERY cold day. I hope the poor lady had her nipples insured.

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Phoenix-190@reddit

Slipped her the tong?

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___MorningLovely@reddit

I wonder if it would be value per nip or a pair?

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NikkiJane72@reddit

I suppose it is possible she could get frostbite on one and not the other, so per nip would be the sensible way to go.

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___MorningLovely@reddit

Glad we've solved the puzzle lol

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pickindim_kmet@reddit

I mentioned it on a similar post a couple of years ago but I came across an electric wheelchair with a carrier bag of food items in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't near a road so it wasn't just thrown out a car and dumped and there was nobody around at all.

It really confused me, it looked in good nick, I don't think it was stolen or anything. The thing that worried me is there is a tidal area of water quite close to it. I had a look around and saw nobody and nothing, I just assumed someone was taking a dump behind a bush and was hidden enough for me not to see them when looking around.

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Milvusmilvus@reddit

A photo of a woman with a suspicious substance on, left by the side of a regularly used path. It was weighted with a rock so clearly left there on purpose.

A sheep which was dying from a traumatic labour, the dead lamb was hanging out of it still - reported that to a local farmer so hopefully it was put out of it's misery but I suspect was probably left to it's fate as it was hard to access :(

Most of the weird encounters have been eerie sensations where I've just had to nope out of somewhere which at first glance seemed like a nice place to walk.

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BillyJoeDubuluw@reddit

A man wearing a bad blonde wig driving past me about a dozen times in a little red mini… After the first couple of times it was quite obvious he wasn’t struggling for directions.

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