Bolt Camp
My now husband and I went overnight hiking on one of our first dates. Out by Mt St Helens. About a five mile hike to our destination shelter- Bolt Camp. It’s just a little wooden shelter in the middle of nowhere in the Gifford Pinchot national forest.
The hike was beautiful. The sun was going down and there were many ancient Doug fir trees with hollow bases. The sun was setting through them and they looked like little faerie abodes with warm hearth fires burning within. There were little wooden footbridges here and there, we could imagine little trolls living under them. As night fell we started seeing all these bioluminescent mushrooms on fallen logs, glowing an impossible shade of green. Magical.
We arrived at the shelter, built a fire, ate dinner, drank, went to sleep under the shelter (which was half collapsed because a tree had fallen on it at some point).
I woke up in the middle of the night cold because the fire was out. Of course it was pitch black. Now hubs was sleeping towards the outside of the shelter, me on the inside, facing near the back. That’s when I saw it. A “thing”, whatever it was, floating around inside the shelter. Don’t know how to describe it, other that a gossamer spiderweb looking thing, floating through the air, turning and twisting over and over on itself. It was really quite lovely. I wasn’t afraid of it, but so fascinated. I really wanted to wake him up and ask if he could see it, but I was afraid it would either disappear or he wouldn’t be able to see it and would think I was crazy. I mean, I barely knew the guy. So I watched it for a bit, fell back asleep and said nothing.
Until a couple months later when we’d gotten more familiar and were reminiscing about our trip. I told him about it and his mouth dropped open in shock.
So, we’d packed up and left the next day and I dropped him off at his house, that night he was out on his porch having a beer, when he saw the exact same thing! Twisting, floating through the air, seemingly almost a living thing. It dissipated near some shrubs, he was staring wondering what the heck he just saw when a pair of glowing red eyes appeared. He freaked a bit and booked it inside, never spoke of it to anyone until I told him about my own experience at the camp.
Tl/dr: went hiking in the forest, accidentally brought the Bolt Camp Spirit home with us and deposited it somewhere in SE Portland
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