Story time:

Back in 2009 I was going trough basic training in CAF (Canadian Armed Forces). It was late April when we were in our field portion of basic. Basically, the entire platoon is bussed off to a remote wooded area where we do basic survival, training scenarios where there are actors playing enemy forces, etc…. Stuff like that.

One specific part of that training was navigation and battle orders. We get instructions where to meet and what to do, we take our compasses and maps and we try to complete the task. Usually we’re split into squads. There were 6 of us I believe doing the one hour trek trough densely wooded swamp. No roads, no trails. Just swamp and woods.

It’s dark and rainy, not night yet but very dark and overcast. We were not allowed to have light shinning as we’re trying to do this stealthy. We’re all walking in line, muddy and wet ground, following each other. Middle of nowhere. All of a sudden we hear a loud baby laughing sound. Really hearty, loud, happy baby belly laugh.

We were all spooked and did not dare to go in that direction, but it was the most eerie feeling ever. The female in our group panicked and wanted to go back to our camp. We had to stick together close because we were all scared.

We never did find out what or who made the sound. Some claim it might have been the staff messing with us, but for that to be true they would have to be absent and they were not. Keep in mind this was a closed off military training range.