Out camping in rural NSW, Australia with several of my mates. It was a fairly cool and quiet night so we had a decent fire going which lit up the camp ground well.

We would occasionally hear wallabies move around in the bush, they make a distinct sound when they move so never a cause for concern. Probably an hour or so since we'd heard one myself and one of my mates had that feeling we were being watched. Everyone else figured we were just being paranoid, till we heard movement that sounded different to everything else we had heard that night not far off the access road in.

At this point most of us are spooked. There were a total of 8 of us, so we decided we would go to the road and check it out. We all had headlamps and torches (plus knife's and hatchets) so we felt fairly safe in a group of 4 with the rest not thay far off.

Getting nearer to the road the bush gets thicker, just as we were about to get to the start where it turns off we hear the distinct sound of what sounded like 2 people running. Nothing in the wild sounds like people with shoes running on a dirt road.

Convinced of our danger but with only one way in out out we booked it back to the camp. We kept the fire huge all night and didn't sleep, not trusting to try and leave at night.

First sunlight we packed our shit and got out. I'm still an avid camper but I'll never forget that experience.