What's the scariest encounter you have had with a wild animal?

When I was 16 years and two of my buddies wanted to smoke some weed so we went to our normal spot. (under a railroad track and by a creek) Friend one, who we will call T, forgot his phone in his car so he left to go get it, which was about a 5 minute walk.

During this 5 minutes me and the friend I was still with, who I will call B, started smoking. We had music playing and we were just talking about whatever came to mind and then we heard a noise but played it off as the wind blowing the trees. 30 seconds later we heard the same and I turned on my phone flashlight and pointed it in the direction of the noise. And I shit you not.. it was some small animal and the front half of it was a beaver with the big buck teeth and the back half was a raccoon with the stripes and tail and it was no farther than five feet away from us.

Needless to say me and B we're scared shitless and we left so quickly and leaving everything we brought down at the spot. As we were running back to the car we ran into T who had no clue why we were freaking out and once we told him he did not believe us one bit. We never returned to get our stuff in fear of running into that creature.

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