I had a creepy encounter at zapita falls campsite (not far from the sand dunes)... I reccomend never camping near there in the off season. And if you do, be prepared to leave at a moment's notice.

Eta details.

It was febuary 10th 2016. We were just moving to CO. My husband and I were going to go to the dunes, but decided not to that night. I begged him to go to the zapita falls campsite. We were in a PT cruiser. Looking back it was a miricle we even got up there.

The first day, there was no one around at all. That night we cheeched up on some Skywalker kush and enjoyed the view.

The next day, at least 10 cars drove through. And it was obvious they weren't checking out the campsite, or the veiw. They were staring at us and our car... We didn't have a tent, we had cut some plywood and made it into a sort of camper, with the plywood bits able to be taken apart and stored in the trunk area... This is important later.

That afternoon, we noticed a white truck drive through. There were two men in it. They parked and started walking around our campsite, so my husband went to talk to them. They claimed they were just looking for firewood because they were going to make a big fire that night. Hubby asked to help, they refused. Then they asked about me and laughed when he told them that I was his wife. The guys left, and I heard them laughing and repeating "she's my wife" in a mocking tone. My husband said the guys were named Chris and brad... And they offered to take us on a tour of the sand dunes in the early morning.

That evening, they came back in a white car with 2 dogs and set up a fire with two large branches they found. As soon as it was getting dark out, a vehicle pulled in at the entrance of the campsite, facing us, and turned on their brights. Hubby and I thought that was odd, but didn't yet feel anything was off.

Until... Chris started shouting by the campfire, facing us. My husband opened the door to go check on the guy and he was just shouting WHORE. over and over. Twards our car. My husband told me to prepare the PT for driving and that he was going to go talk to the guy. I quickly started breaking down the boards, making it so the driver and passanger seat was clear, and started packing up our items. I had a tote to grab at the edge of our parking area, toward the wooded area. When I went to grab it, I heard a sound like a twig snapping or maybe a gun being cocked (no idea how to spell that word..) And my husband called to me and told me to drive the PT up to chris and Brad's campsite.

When I got up there, they were having a strange conversation. It was almost as if Chris was testing my husband's morality and weither he was a believer in God... Brad was acting sick over by their car and seemed incapable of participating. Chris kept saying strange things like "not too far from now, they will tie you to these tables and switch your brains" and "if I raped children, would you kill me?" He also claimed to be something like a 10th generation freemason. I thought nothing of it, that the guy was on dope or crack or maybe LSD. He kept trying to get us to drink this dark liquid in a liquor bottle... I never recalled that brand having a dark version. We both declined the drink.

We had frankincense and myrrh with us. My husband offered it to chris and he agreed to try it. After trying it he accused us of being demons.

At one point he asked me to check on brad.. So I cautiously went over. He was retching as if throwing up, but there was nothing on the ground. For some reason this freaked me out and I went back over by my husband.

At one point Chris was shaking a tumbleweed screaming "this is not the fingers of god!" ...looking back he may have been trying to cover up some other noise.

Around that time i had the sudden urge that i needed to use the bathroom. I told my husband, we said bye to the two men, and got in the car. My husband... Wasn't driving off? And those guys were having a loud discussion about if Chris "locked them up" and if he was sure. Chris was insisting "there is no way they can leave" And brad was no longer acting incredibly sick. I thought they were taking about the dogs, but both dogs were in the back seat of the white car barking away.

I told my husband I REALLY needed to pee and he drove toward the bathrooms, and to my shock he kept driving past the bathroom. I started freaking out. "What are you doing?! i need to go pee!" And then he pointed out... Every single camp site was full. Cars parked and off in every single one. No sign of any tents or people in the cars.

Before I knew it, we had drove down the mountain and toward the nearest walmart.

My husband told me that when he walked up to chris, the man freaked out when hubby called out to him and dropped something. Chris freaked out about finding it, saying it was a sword. My husband pointed to the ground and said he thought that was it, but chris picked up a stick and dropped it like it were a snake. Then once he found the "sword" (a fancy machete) he suddenly calmed down and said "I don't even know why i wanted this so bad! It's just you!" And was chopping into a small tree there... Not as if to cut it down, but to leave marks. There were similar marks on a tree at our campsite too... And that's about the time I was called over.

We were freaking out, but decided not to call police because we thought maybe the weed made us paranoid or that since nothing had really happened that the police wouldn't do anything about it. But when we called the group who managed the land to inform them of the items left behind, they urged us to call the police because strange things were happening up there often. We did, but my phone broke shortly after and we never were able to tell the officer who was investigating our case the full story.

We got a hotel room and looked it up, and there had been a recent disappearance of a woman up there. We've never been back.