I went camping for a couple of days when I was 11 years old, it was an school event so we went with our classmates and some teachers. Before going we formed groups, each one of them with its own tent & stuff. The location was a somewhat big open green area but surrounded by what it looked like a big forest. The main attraction of that place was thermal waters. It was fun, but some strange things happened there.
1- In daytime we were listening to the teacher talking, all sitting around him on plain ground when suddenly one of our classmates starts screaming out of pain, he was suffering, what I guessed, cramps on one of his feet, when they took out their shoes the fingers looked twisted. I've never seen such thing at that time, so it was mildly shocking.
After sometime he calmed down the teacher kept talking. Minutes went by, when suddenly we all see far behind the teacher, going into the forest alone with the head slightly upwards like looking something upside, the same classmate. Of course we all told the teacher who went there and brought him back. Since he was not my friend and never talked to him due to him be from another classroom I never asked him what was going on with him at that time.
2- Me and one friend decided to explore on our own the forest. We waited for the opportunity, bypassing the teachers vigilance was somewhat easy. Once there, yes, we got lost. That must have been one of the most anxious moments in my life, the forest was thick, out of panic we run searching an exit like searching breath because it felt like the forest was suffocating us. Thankfully by luck, we found the little path we were following earlier and managed to come back safe.
3- It was night and we were ready to go to sleep to our respective tents when I hear someone, while pointing way up to the tips of the most tallest trees: "hey, don't you see something hanging there?". It was almost pitch black the forest area where he was pointing so it was difficult to see, but yes, there was something reddish hanging there. It didn't took much time before everyone gathered to look at it and try to make something out of it. Some went to tell the teachers, with one of them deciding to go check into the forest with a group of students. I didn't go, so I waited with the others in the campsite. To calm ourselves a little me and a couple of friend went inside of one of the female tents and played card game with them but just a moment later we hear screaming coming from outside, we go out quickly and see how all the students that went to the forest comes from there screaming, sobbing, and some outright crying. Ok now my stomach was mess. That shocked me, even seeing classmate regarded as the "tough" ones sobbing. I don't know what happened there, I don't remember if I asked or what, I can't remember. All I remember is the teachers saying it was just a joke from them, they just put a red plastic bag and end of it. But that high, in the tip of such tall tree? Was a joke? Or was the most fastest and easy way to calm us down.
All that being said, that was the best camping ever!!
