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Dantheman62 · 10-25-2008, 07:10 PM

O.K. it was late summer in northern Minnesota, in what's called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area which borders Canada. My best friend Tom and myself had decided to go camping for two weeks and check out the whole northern Minnesota area. Well we decided to stop and camp in this campground that we saw from the road, instead of staying out in the woods another night. So we went in and got a nice site and pitched our tent and unloaded our gear and thought we would rent a canoe and go up this river that ran along this campground. So we talked to the guy running the campground and got our canoe and told him which way we were going and he said be very careful and watch out for moose because they can be very aggressive, just avoid them and bear also, if you see them just turn around. So we paddeled up the river for a long ways and actually went into Canada, but didn't see any bear or moose and the mosquitos were so bad that we decided to turn around and go back to camp. Well we made it back and started a campfire and made something to eat and started drinking. I guess it was about midnight or so and we had a pretty good buzz on by then and the fire was roaring and we were just sitting there being quiet for a minute,staring into the fire when Tom looked up and said in a quiet tone, DON'T MOVE, I could see the look in his eyes and I could actually here something breathing heavily behind me. I was frozen in time but had to turn my head slowly and look and here was the (or what I thought was) biggest wolf I had ever seen in my life standing about 6 feet behind me. Neither one of us moved or even breathed and I'm sure we both thought we were dead! The next thing is it started to move closer to us and came within 2 feet and we let out a huge sigh of relief as we saw a dog collar around it's neck and he came up and licked me in the face and hung out with us for the next two hours or so. Wow talk about close to a heart attack, the next morning we saw the campground owner and told him what happened and he laughed hard and loud and said that's just my dog Buddy and he is as friendly as can be. Well turns out that Buddy is part German Shepherd and part wolf and ways about 150 pounds, but looks exactly like a wolf! I'll never forget it, but laugh about it now.

10-25-2008, 07:10 PM	#5
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Spook/Scary things that have happened to you. O.K. it was late summer in northern Minnesota, in what's called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area which borders Canada. My best friend Tom and myself had decided to go camping for two weeks and check out the whole northern Minnesota area. Well we decided to stop and camp in this campground that we saw from the road, instead of staying out in the woods another night. So we went in and got a nice site and pitched our tent and unloaded our gear and thought we would rent a canoe and go up this river that ran along this campground. So we talked to the guy running the campground and got our canoe and told him which way we were going and he said be very careful and watch out for moose because they can be very aggressive, just avoid them and bear also, if you see them just turn around. So we paddeled up the river for a long ways and actually went into Canada, but didn't see any bear or moose and the mosquitos were so bad that we decided to turn around and go back to camp. Well we made it back and started a campfire and made something to eat and started drinking. I guess it was about midnight or so and we had a pretty good buzz on by then and the fire was roaring and we were just sitting there being quiet for a minute,staring into the fire when Tom looked up and said in a quiet tone, DON'T MOVE, I could see the look in his eyes and I could actually here something breathing heavily behind me. I was frozen in time but had to turn my head slowly and look and here was the (or what I thought was) biggest wolf I had ever seen in my life standing about 6 feet behind me. Neither one of us moved or even breathed and I'm sure we both thought we were dead! The next thing is it started to move closer to us and came within 2 feet and we let out a huge sigh of relief as we saw a dog collar around it's neck and he came up and licked me in the face and hung out with us for the next two hours or so. Wow talk about close to a heart attack, the next morning we saw the campground owner and told him what happened and he laughed hard and loud and said that's just my dog Buddy and he is as friendly as can be. Well turns out that Buddy is part German Shepherd and part wolf and ways about 150 pounds, but looks exactly like a wolf! I'll never forget it, but laugh about it now.