I canāt really say Iāve had any but friends have told me about some spooky happenings on the trail. I love hearing these stories - ideally around a camp fire 
Anyone got a story to share?
Not sure if it counts as a typical horror story but a few years ago, a couple of friends and I went for an overnight hike in Victoria, Australia. The hike was beautiful with some gorgeous beaches along the way. Unfortunately though, our group had seriously underestimated how much water weād need to bring.
On the second morning we had completely run out of all liquids and were getting seriously thirsty. After walking all day with no water, we finally came across a flowing river some time in the afternoon. But! As we went to fill our bottles up we noticed a sign that said āPlease Note: Water may not be fit for drinkingā.
We all looked at each other wondering what we should do. We were all pretty desperate. After a quick chat we ended up deciding to balance the risks of dehydration against getting sick from the water and opted to just drink as little as possible - just enough to keep us from becoming dehydrated.
After a few more hours of hiking we had each drank about 500ml but we had managed to finish the hike without shriveling up into dried apricots.
Anyway, on the way home we decided to enjoy a nice big pub meal (chips, schnitzles, burgers, etc). At some point during this meal, one of our friends snuck off to the restroom. We were all having a laugh about how stupid we were to not pack enough water when our friend came back looking like heād seen a ghost. We asked what was wrong and he told us he had just peeād solid blood-red liquid for about 30 seconds in the menās room. Our faces dropped. Needless to say, we all drank as much water as possible to try and flush out whatever we had been drinking before.
To our surprise though, not a single other person peeād red that night. Our friend also had no further issues over the next few days. We were stumped.
Turns out our friend had just eaten a beetroot sandwich which, when youāre exceptionally dehydrated, makes your pee turn super red.
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haha oh my god! my face was pure horror when you said he peeād pure red. glad he was ok! 