when I was younger I spent
the afternoon at a friend's house so I
knew from school he lived in a
neighborhood that I wasn't all that
familiar with so when we decided to take
our bikes out for a ride well I just
simply followed him until we came to a
large wooded area it was in a valley
that descended away from the roadside
and from what I could see it became
rather dense and overgrown quite quickly
because of all the foliage we decided to
leave our bikes and just go down on foot
we've been hiking for about 20 minutes
when we realized that we could no longer
see the spot where we had left our bikes
we were surrounded on all sides by thick
vegetation being the boys that we were
we thought this was absolutely fantastic
and we decided to carry out further into
the valley at some point we came across
would look like an old abandoned
campsite there's some old cans lying
around that looked like they had been
used to boil water also there was a fire
pit and quite a lot of plastic - we had
to look around but didn't really find
anything interesting so we decided to
carry on with our hike just as we're
leaving somebody called out to us from
somewhere on the other side of the camp
so as we're looking around a man
suddenly appeared and no doubt it was
the camp well er that was here he
demanded to know what we were doing with
his things we explained that we didn't
take anything and we're just looking
around and he finally calmed down we
made polite conversation for a few
minutes exchanged names and gave a fake
idea of where we had come from at this
point we didn't feel like we were in any
sort of danger and the guy was actually
quite friendly well we decided to get
going though and we said our goodbyes
and told them we were leaving but that's
what he told us that we had to give him
something before we went we hadn't
brought any food or water with us so we
didn't really have anything to offer to
him he apparently took exception to this
he then started yelling at us and
demanding our shoes which neither of us
were really willing to part with we
started to back away from him and at the
same time we were trying to figure out
which way we had come from all of a
sudden he started running right towards
us I don't remember exactly
which way we went or how far we had run
but we were absolutely full of
adrenaline I looked back a few times and
realized that we were getting away from
him but he was still chasing us
unfortunately for us there was no cover
from the trees at this point we reached
the side of the road where we left our
bikes unfortunately we had enough of a
lead on them that we could hop on it we
could pedal for all we were worth a
couple of builders who are offloading
materials of the road saw that we were
panicking and stopped us to find out
what was going on we gave them a brief
version of events and they went back to
see if he was still around but
apparently was long gone by then my
friend told his folks would happen that
day but I never heard anything more
about it as far as I know he could still
be living at that campsite but I
certainly won't be going back and
checking