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Question of the Week#9 · 11:11pm May 16th, 2021
Hello everyone,
Sometimes, when you try to come up with fun questions to ask, you suddenly come up with numerous questions/ideas to inquire about. Which to choose?
I guess I'll pick... this one.
So for those of you who've hung out in a cabin in the woods, what's the thing you'd not want to see during your stay? What sort of horrors would you fear to find either inside or around your cabin?
Am I going back to my grimdark phase? No, but I am thinking of maybe dipping my toe into the pool of suspense and terror maybe sometime in the future.
Well, that's it for today. I hope you find this question to be much easier (and hopefully more fun) to answer.
Have a great day. 
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You are there as the guest of someone whose family owns the cabin (could be themselves). They have some mannerism or unique item. Just before you are about to settle down for bed, that unique trait or item gives you incontrovertible proof that the person you are with is not your friend.
Example: You drop your toothbrush behind the bathroom vanity. Levering it out of the way, you see a desiccated hand squeezing up between two floorboards. On one finger is your friend’s uniquely scarred class ring.
Something that's harmless in its own right, but has absolutely no business being in a forest. Alternatively, everyone is accounted for, and there's a knock on the door.
My mother.
Can't say I've resided in a stereotypical log cabin out in the woods, but I have gone to a summer camp that was surrounded by woods. And a story where the first part of this...
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There was this one time I was on the way back to my assigned cabin alone and darkness had fallen across the camp. There was no moon that night, and the stars were swallowed by the tree's canopy. The only way to see was by the small cones of light from the above security lamps along the path, but it was one of those nights where the surrounding darkness seemed to eat at everything. I had made it about halfway, when I noticed something out in the darkness. A dot of red light.
It was a small dot and wasn't very bright, so my first thought was that it was from a telephone tower in the distance breaking through the trees. But I was standing on a high point of the camp, and the light was down-hill from me, sitting at a low point. Confused, I took a couple more steps to my cabin when suddenly that single dot in the darkness became two. As soon as the second one was revealed I froze in my steps.
I had watched and played a fair share of the "scary" genre over time, but I knew all of those were fake. Yet when I saw two red glowing dots out in the pitch darkness, my rational and irrational minds clashed. In order to get to my cabin, I would have to get closer. After a moment of silent deliberation I slowly resuming my walk, keeping the dots in my sight. All of a sudden the darkness was suffocating, snuffing out any sound throughout the camp, but at the same time making my footsteps through the dry leaves and twigs deafening to my ears. I became acutely aware of the sounds around me, real or imaginary. My body starting to sweat in the cool night air, still watching those dots.
After what was only about a minute, but felt like 30, I arrived to the door of my cabin. With how far they were, I couldn't tell if the dots had moved or if they hadn't. Many things ran through my head, my mind still in battle with my imagination, with a side-dose of mild fear added to confuse the mix, but the biggest was figuring out what those dots were. Not feeling like reenacting a horror film, I instead decided on keeping my eyes on it, but moving my head around to try and see it from different perspectives, and not moving more than a couple steps from the entrance to my cabin. After leaning heavily one direction I caught a glimpse of a blinking blue glowing dot. Becoming more confused, I thought about what was over on that side of the camp when--in a moment of clarity--I realized one of the camp buildings was over in that direction, and those lights were in fact from some of the electronics inside shining through a window.
In conclusion: I was scared by harmless air-conditioner controls.
So, to answer your question, suspicious lights in the woods would be one thing.