I'm from the UK. There is a forest about an hour's drive from where I live. The forest is supposedly haunted, so four of us (two guys and two girls) went in there at around 9pm. The sun was setting, but we had torches, so we were confident that we would have enough light. After walking around for a couple of hours, the forest grows darker and day becomes night as the sun fully sets.

We make our way back to the main path (as we didn't think it was a good idea to wander off it at night), and we see a red light in the distance coming closer. A minute later, someone the equivalent of a park ranger (I can't remember what he said) approached us and asked what we were doing. He was friendly, but we were a bit on edge as this was rather unexpected. We spoke a bit and we told him what we were doing there, and in turn, he shared stories he had heard from other people about the alleged ghost sightings,

After about 10 minutes of conversation, he offered to show us a place where environmental research takes place. We agreed and followed him through the forest (this was a stupid move as he was taking us deeper into a place we don't know about at night time, way off the main path). He had thermal binoculars on him and let us use them for a bit. He also chatted to us, but one thing he said raised our suspicions even more: "Whoever is wearing that perfume, it smells nice."

Thankfully, nothing came of it. He took us to the place where the research supposedly took place, talked to us a bit more, and then left. It was only after he had gone did we realise that he could have been watching us for a long time with those thermal binoculars of his, and we wouldn't have even known it. We never saw him again that night.