A Reddit user said one of the strangest nights he ever had while fishing happened when he and a friend were finishing up a catfishing trip around 2 in the morning. According to his comment in the thread, they were parked on a point of land that sat out between a river on one side and a lake on the other. He described it as the kind of isolated place that feels great while you’re fishing and a little different once it’s deep into the night and you’re the only ones left. They had finished for the night and were in the process of loading their gear back into the car when the mood changed.
He wrote that out of nowhere a shirtless man came out of the darkness and walked toward them. The guy wasn’t coming from another parked car or from a visible campsite. He just appeared. What made it worse was the way he started talking. Instead of opening with anything normal, he asked them weird questions and seemed focused on them in a way that immediately felt off. The commenter said he and his friend were both already tired, it was the middle of the night, they were halfway packed up, and now they had this stranger standing there in the dark getting closer and acting wrong.
According to the story, the man kept creeping closer while he talked. The fisherman did not describe it as one quick awkward exchange that ended on its own. The guy hung around long enough, and got close enough, that both of them became convinced something was not right. From the way he told it, they were trying to finish loading without making it obvious how uncomfortable they were, while also staying alert in case the man suddenly made a move. The questions were strange enough that it did not feel like random conversation, and the whole setting — isolated point, 2 a.m., dark water on both sides, no obvious reason for a shirtless stranger to be there — only made it worse.
He said they finally got out of there, but the encounter stayed with him because of how little about it made sense. It was not a bear in the brush or some animal eyes in the dark. It was a person, at an hour when no one should have been coming down that point shirtless and asking odd questions, acting just normal enough that there was no clear excuse to explode the situation, but off enough that the two fishermen knew they needed to leave.
That was the full story he shared: he and a buddy were loading up after catfishing around 2 a.m. on a point between a river and a lake when a shirtless man appeared out of the dark, walked up asking strange questions, and kept closing the distance until they finally got their stuff together and left.
What do you think — if you were packing up after fishing at 2 a.m. and a shirtless stranger came out of nowhere asking weird questions and edging closer, would you try to play it cool or get out immediately?
Original Reddit post: Spooky Fishing Stories
