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The Hiker



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

I was through hiking the Appalachian Trail last year, when I got lost and found myself off the trail, in a strange, dark hollow with heavy moss and one running stream. It was getting dark, and starting to rain. I found a cave just above the creekbed, and there were no bear-tracks, so I went in for shelter. 

Sometime in the night, a bear DID come, right into the cave, and I had no way out! Keeping my head, I crawled deeper into the cave and found a passage too small for the bear to fit. It led to a long crawlway ending in a little alcove.

I had no light, and was terrified. But the sound of the bear in the bigger room faded away. This new room was cozy, with what felt like mounds of soft moss and crackly leaves all over the floor. A breeze blew through, and the leaves, though I couldn’t see them, seemed to move all over, they tickled me all night long, making it hard to sleep.

The next morning I crept back out to see if the bear was gone – he was. So I exited back into the hollow. I had a terrible rash all over my body from the itchy bedding I had slept on, and couldn’t stop scratching as I gathered my stuff and went down the creek looking for a road and some directions back to the trail.

I found another trail along the creek, and in a few hours, it ended at a dirt road. There I rested, trying to decide which way to walk for help. My skin was bleeding in spots now, and pustules were forming at the itchiest places. I thought I might need some cream or something.

A Game Warden jeep came around the bend, and when the Warden saw me sitting at the trailhead, he stopped.

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“You planning on going up there?” he asked, gesturing up the trail I had come down.

“No, actually-” I began, but the itching on my skin made me stop short to scratch.

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“Well, if you are, just stay the hell clear of Spider-Nest Cave.”

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Credited to BlackEyedClown.

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97 thoughts on “The Hiker”

  1. I’d like to think that this doesn’t have more stars because everyone’s going “DEAR GOD SPIDERS FUCK THAT NOISE”
    Nightmare material right here.

    Because spiders are just a whole lotta NOPE.

    NOPE.

  2. …Ok, when the spiders leave your flesh like that, you should be going to a hospital

    Anyways, for those who are complaining about the story, I cooked up an ending for you:

    “And then there were skeleton spiders that ate all the people everywhere and made them bleed bloody blood for the rest of their lives the end”

    Honestly, the fact that he had all those spiders on him all night, crawling in and out of god knows where, and leaving his skin in THAT condition should be creepy enough for you

  3. so, he was sleeping with spiders,not leaves… yeah he’s stupid.
    i think the moral is never hide in a cave, sleep somewhere else!

  4. I love the idea of spiders lating eggs under people’s skin, but it doesn’t actually work like that, I’m afraid. Also, I, for one, would be slightly more worried by bleeding lumps under my skin than this chap.

    Fear the Darkness

    -Nex

  5. The bear: Ummm… Yeah. So I’m going to wait til you get lost and find my cave and I’m going to scare the bejeezus out of you and make you crawl into my spider friends’ cave so they can nom on you tonight. Then I’ll leave just as pointlesly as I showed up, you’ll leave with spider nomnoms all over you and we will all live happily ever after.

    The End.

  6. @induction
    I love how you said theyll come down the stairs like in a brady bunch parady. Imagine they made the poor guy the maid.
    Good pasta although it does seem more FML

  7. @induction
    I love how you said theyll come down the stairs in a brady brunch paradox. Imagine they made the poor guy the maid.

    Good pasta although it does seem more FML

  8. Damn, my eyes involuntarily jumped down to the last sentence and ruined the whole story for me.

    but who was warden

  9. So the ranger was blind and didn’t notice the postules that were sprouting all over his skin?!?
    Other than that, this was so spider-licious! -pukes-
    Very nicely written & not cliche.

  10. Kinda reminded me of that one time when my friend went camping and pitched her tent on an ant’s nest. She and her tent-mates woke up in the middle of the night scratching their head wondering wth were they feeling so itchy… *shudders*

  11. @ Twitch

    One can imagine the horror 3 months after the event, when spiders scuttle down the man’s staircase in a grotesque parody of the Brady Bunch.

  12. “they tickled me all night long”

    Don’t you guys get it?! The spiders weren’t biting him, they were LAYING THEIR EGGS IN HIS FLESH. D8

  13. @ LULZ:

    LOL That’s what I thought. The next day, he’d come back with a light only to find that he’d been sleeping next to a dead body or something.

  14. WTF?!!! How is it creepy or scary when you don’t find out until the next day when he is totally safe and after he:

    DIDN’T get eaten by a bear and he
    DIDN’T get trapped in a time-warp cave and he
    DIDN’T wake up and realize he was sleeping in the dinner bowl of a troop of zombie goblins

    that sometime last night he got bitten by a few spiders?

  15. PWN’D.

    I was kind of thinking when he crawled into the inner cave and all that ” He’s gonna wake up, the light will shine through the cave, and he’ll be lying next to some skeleton or something.”

    Blew my prediction away.

  16. I also figured it would be dead bodies or something, but I couldn’t see how anything like that could feel like leaves. The “tickled all night long” part was a dead giveaway that it was something alive, though.

  17. “My skin was bleeding in spots now, and pustules were forming at the itchiest places. I thought I might need some cream or something.”

    YA’ THINK

  18. shortys roc my sox

    holy crap!!!
    i would die
    im highly alergic to stupid spiders
    i would die in the middle of the night and never wake up how sad :(

  19. Would have been much better if it hadn’t been revealed what the things were.

    Thought the same thing as Double L, too. :P

  20. We know how much you like being bitten, so we put a spider nest in your cave so you can get bitten while you sleep.

  21. Not creepy at all.

    Nor did it interest me at all.

    slightly grotesque but not enough.

    I agree with everyone, only a silly story.

  22. Not bad, but sounds like it should have been an Urban Legend or something.

    When he mentioned ‘Soft moss and crackly leaves’ I was half expecting the cave to be full of rotten flesh and broken bone fragments as if a murderer had been hiding body parts there

  23. Ahaha, that amused me. Of course, saw it coming a mile away. Entertaining, though of course it wasn’t all that creepy.

  24. Darth Skeletor

    Larry got this one spot on. Really doesn’t fit into creepypasta. Maybe if there was really no cave, or inner cave, or they were zombie spiders (okay not really but..)

  25. Only creepy due to my spider fear.

    Written like the stories I read that my husband wrote in elementary school. Bah.

  26. CREEPYpasta.com

    Does the word creepy have some whole other definition that I’m not aware of?

  27. That actually sounds pretty painful.

    And how can someone think spider bites feel like tickling leaves?

    1. It doesn’t say what sort of spiders they are… maybe “Alien-Spiders-From-Hell’s-Nest Cave” was just too long a name… then again, it’s possible that this pasta has interacted with my arachnophobia and affected my critical thinking ability O_o

  28. Sup, Dawg. We put a Spider-Nest in your cave so that you can get bitten by spiders while you hide from a bear.

  29. Lol what’s the moral in this story?
    “Don’t go into a dark space without knowing what’s in there. Allow yourself to be mauled by a bear instead!”

  30. If you were crawling all over spiders wouldn’t you feel the squishing and gooeyness?
    Also, this isn’t really creepy. I would expect to see [a shortened version of] this on fmylife.com. x3

  31. @RedKamo

    Why is that silly. It would keep people out of it, like “Ah shit, can’t be going there, fucking spiders.”

    But yeah, was funny.

    1. Not unless that’s a particular aspect of it.
      A “special”kind of nest?

      MAN EATING SPIDERS, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

  32. Ah shoot, the biggest giveaway was the “rustling leaves that tickled all night”.

    Oh and finally a creepypasta that’s not supernatural. And doesn’t involve a creepy person.

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