hair standing up on the back of your neck

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Just curious if during or just previous to a bigfoot encounter the hair on the back of the witnesses neck stands straight up and he/she knows right away that they are not alone??....I am sure this happens in any wildlife encounter like a bear or cougar sighting but am curious how others have reacted to this strange feeling. This happened to myself about 8 years ago on the upper Chilliwack River while fishing alone. I suddenly had a feeling that I was not alone and that there were definitely eyeballs on me. I tried to ignore it and keep fishing(steelhead...) but it was impossible to keep my back to the treeline. I finally left the area by walking downriver, there was no way I was taking the same trail back to my car.Of course, I am not saying it was sasquatch because I saw nothing.Up until today, I always figured it was a cougar (or paranoia), but after reading the topics in this forum it makes a guy wonder...I'll definitely let you know if i hear sticks banging or if boulders come flying overhead

[bushape]

I had that very sensation about 15 years ago while moose hunting south of Fraser Lake. I was on a 3 wheeler and made my way across a deep ditch along side the main FSR into a clearing.
Back then it basically meant if there was no truck access, it was virtually untouched except by what you can see from the road (now a majority of hunters have quads, myself included). At the far end of the clearing the spur road continued on. Note: You couldnt see this from the FSR.
After going under/over and around plenty of windfall, I came to 2 more clearings, the last older than the second. I didnt make it 50 meters into the last one when that feeling struck me. An almost forboding sensation.
I turned that trike around and made time leaving that area.
Now Ive spent literally thousands of hours in the bush for both work and play, had relatively close encounters with grizz and black bears, and been in virtually every region of this prov., and NEVER had that sensation before or since.
Something was there, no doubt in my mind, and as well armed as I was, at that moment, the #1 priority on my mind was getting the *#@^* out of there!

My story.

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I can totally relate to your experience my two young kids were playing near a creek bed by the edge of the waterI was about 60 ft away when I glanced across the creek into the forest on other side, not seeing anything, but the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I called my kids to the camp immediately, this occured at the chipmunk creek campsite chilliwack.

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Ugh, I hate that feeling. Get that from time to time in my life. Once at least it proved accurate that I was being watched, as I had found my quiet observer. I say, trust your natural instinct's, if you feel it in the pit of your stomach that you are not alone, then you just might not be...

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My brother and I had a similar incident while fishing in the Chehalis R. canyon in the late 80's. Out of the blue I had an electric feeling over my body, hair on end all over. My brother who was about 20 yards below me suddenly turned around and gave me a shocked stare. We both left the area immediately, not even talking to each other on the way out.

[vilnoori]

Hey, did you guys see in the local paper (Chilliwack) a teenage boy went missing while he was walking on Morris Valley Road? I read it just this spring. Made me go hmmm...

Sorry, can't remember the date I saw that. But it kind of gave me chills.

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I know a 13 year old girl went missing about 3 weeks ago around there. She was found in Quesnel. Sounds like a run away.

[thomassteenburg]

I still think we humans still have some of that old warning instinct, which most other animals have in abundance. When you get that feeling, assuming of course you are not just scaring yourself with visions of monsters getting ready to jump on you in your head, when you get that feeling be extra alert. Something is probably close by, and until you see and identify it that feeling almost always stays with you until you are out of the area.

Thomas Steenburg

[Sean V.]

I agree with Thomas.

Whenever I have gotten that sort of feeling, I stop in my tracks and do a slow scan of the area that I am in. If anything seems "out of place", I attempt to figure out what it is before I move on. If the feeling intensifies, I may back out of the area & return shortly afterwards to see if I still get that feeling or not.

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I have been with four seasoned hunters after bear when the single file stopped without prompting on a game trail and wordlessly turned around to leave the area. I was a city folk relative and felt badly freaked out and would have spoke, but was gestured to be quiet. When we emerged at the trucks we ate our overnight supplies and went home. "Heebie-jeebies", was the term I heard. It was enough to prompt five heavily armed men to leave the area before nightfall, though. I should add that these guys were hunting for food for thier families because they were down to pasta and bears are easy to get.