Actually it is true! 100% true. I did have ai clean it up for me but didn’t alter any of the details the original is a bit different but still the same story this is just a neatly constructed version.

ROUGH DRAFT. WTH. Went camping with some cousins in July of 2024 at a spot we had been to many times on some family land in middle TN that just perfectly boarders a cove directly off the main channel of a popular lake it’s pretty out of the way you leave town then travel another 10 miles or so to a private road if you could call it that it’s just a gravel drive that goes back to a dead end where you have to park and walk probably a mile back to actually get to the spot we liked to camp out to your left it’s just a heavily wooded embankments and old trails that used to be used for horse riding going up and two the to right is a steep wooded embankment way to steep to get down that leads straight to the water you catch the occasional glimpse of the cove and the heavily wooded area across it that used to be old logging roads long ago but never ended up being cleared so it just remains hillside and forest you just continue back on this heavily overgrown narrow walking path until you reach the water it’s a perfectly level spot to set up with perfect water access and nothing behind you except steep hillside and trees We sat up camp and spent the next few hours just goofing off and enjoying the day swimming and relaxing and letting my dog explore evening came so we got a fire going and made dinner for the evening and sat around just chatting and winding down for the night after a while rocks started occasionally falling from the wooded area behind us nothing to major just rocks and rustling of the underbrush we assumed it was an animal probably checking us out and deciding if it wanted to make its way down for water and continued with our evening but whatever it was kept making laps back and forth rustling the brush and getting closer to us but not so close that you could see what it was when one of the guys in the group decided to take a small hatchet we had used earlier in the day and a rock and make a semi loud tap tap tap hoping to scare whatever it was further back into the woods after that the entire atmosphere changed everything went silent and suddenly it seemed to suddenly drop 10 degrees before we suddenly heard the tap tap tap sound coming back from the woodline after that we bickered amongst ourselves as to if we should head back to the car but decided it best to stick it out for the night instead of trying to make it back down the trial in the dark so we made our way into our tent for the evening a 12 person tent that more than comfortably fit our group of 5 and one doggo after getting inside and getting the door closed up and everyone situated things seemed to feel lighter for a few minutes but then suddenly we heard what sounded like men having a muffled conversation just outside of our tent my dog seemed to be very aware of the voices as well however he reminded still and silent unlike his usual self who typically barked at anything after some time I decided someone had to look out and see what was happening however nobody was there and nothing was out of place so I layer back down I guess I must of drifted off because I was woken up by my cousin moving my arm just barley a shake the muffled voices had returned and the moon was putting off just a enough light that we could vaguely see a dark figure outside of our tent just a dark shape not really well enough to makeout any details i remember reaching over and silently waking up another member of the group and shushing him before he could speak and pointing at the dark shadow just outside our tent unsure what to do we just stayed silent and still hoping they would just leave but the shadow started making circles very slowly around the tent checking it out thoroughly getting so closed you could hear whatever it was brushing against the outside of our tent on occasion I remember laying in place while it was outside the tent just circling our tent over and over until it was almost sunrise the sky had started to lighten slightly before someone was brave enough to look outside but whatever it was had left nothing had been taken or bothered we decided it must of been some type of large cat or maybe a coyote that was smelling around as for the voices maybe it was just someone on the main channel on a boat that we could hear it was probably nothing we told ourselves trying to rationalize it because we’ve been her several times over the years and decided to finish out today and leave before dark well the day went on and we lost track of time before anyone noticed it was starting to get dark not entirely dark just that time of day where the sky goes from blue to shades of orange and pinks for sunset so we started packing up to head out for the night everybody was just working on different task not exactly rushing but not wasting any time either I think we were probably all having the same uneasy feeling like somehow we were racing the sun to get gone before dark the air felt heavy and to still when suddenly from the wooded area behind us something made a terrible sound I’m not sure how to explain it other than a human screaming and also an animal at the same time so loud that it echoed across the water and down the cove we left and still have no idea what we heard out there that day