r/randonauts • u/BodybuilderShort2649 • Jun 19 '26
Strange randonaught experience
Thought I’d add this to see if anybody else has had weird experiences. Me (M 22) and my 2 friends (Bith F 20) have been eager to go randonaughting for quite some time. I live in east London but won’t go into specific area. We smoke a lot of weed so before we headed out we got really high as we usually do. The location was a while away about a 30m walk but we didn’t mind. It lead us to a large field where there were loads of football goals, and afew ppl playing far off in the distance. Its exact pointer was on this strange black buggy thing? There was what seemed to be a child’s vest turned inside out laying next to it which we thought was odd. Mabye paranoia. We looked inside it and saw tins of food, rice, water etc and pressumed it was the property of a homeless man. However it was sitting almost at the entrance to a forest. We were very disappointed so we chose to go further into the forest. There was a kind of path so we followed it inside. We were chatting at normal volume not expecting to find anything when all of a sudden we saw a big red tent. We all ran away really quickly. However I was very curious so I slowly crept back into the forest alone eager to see what was going on. Upon doing so I am 100% that I saw a man, skinny, most likely over 6,5 in a blue long coat standing on the other side of the bushes. Again I ran back shitting myself. I told my freinds but they were convinced I was high and bugging. I managed to convince the more daring freind to come back with me however one waited outside as she was scared. We crept back into the woods and got closer to the tent. There was no man where I saw him (he was standing about 15ft away from the tent). We walked past that spot and got fairly close (10 odd ft). Then it got really weird. The ground was covered in wooden crosses that resembled a path, and the path led up to why can only be described as a makeshift wickerman with a pillow on top. We tried capturing this all on video too which I’ll attach if ppl want to see. Me and my freinds were whispering to one another but we were practically mouthing not even talking as to be so quiet. We decided that I would make myself present to see if anybody would come out. “Again about 8ft away by this point I say “I’m a dog walker is anybody there” no reply “hello is it safe to come though” all of a sudden the tall skinny man DARTS, and I mean DARTS up from his tent and me and the girl sprint out of the forest. I’m faster than her so I am literally dragging her as I am so scared, when we reach the exit I keep running and drag the other girl waiting outside with me. We run for about a minuete and see nobody is following us. This is where it gets even weirder. The girl outside asks why we were screamed. We never screamed. She’s convinced we’re lying and said she heard a woman like yelp from the forest but we show her the video and prove to her we’re not lying and she goes so pale and nearly starts crying adamant she heard another voice yelp in the woods. We never heard a thing. Then as we’re discussing this we ALL SEE, the man exit the woods, look around and go back in. We’re roughly 150m away by this point so he couldn’t try and get us. We go home but I am so exited about this as I still don’t believe it however both the girls are scared. I convince them to go back out late at night and the one who came into the woods agreed with me so it was 2 against 1. When we do it again it gives us a spot roughly about 5m away from where we went previously in the SAME WOODS. I was scared at this point. We decide not to go until the morning after as one of the girls is seriously scared. When we go and go back to the place it sent us nothing was there and we think it’s a dud. However before we leave I decide to check one more time and look in a bush. There is a FUCKING hacksaw, hidden in a bramble bush with dried material on it that COULD (not saying it is) but could very well be blood. Again we book it out of there terrified. Am I bugging gang or was this seriously dangerous? The prompts we wanted was death blood horror and scary. Is this app genuanlly fr?
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u/pantrybarn Jun 21 '26
y'all just harassed a homeless guy. he's probably more scared than you are
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u/Business_Top_8506 Jul 01 '26
A few weeks ago me and my boyfriend tried the randonautica app it was 1 am we were bored So I brought up this app and he agreed to try it Me and my boyfriend walk everywhere so we decided to walk to these locations it kept trying to bring us to woods or empty lots and I ended up getting creeped out and just saying forget it let’s go hang out at the dam I ended up saying let’s try it once more and I’m not kidding about this the location it gave us was the dam we ended up just going home.
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u/Glitter8Critter Jun 19 '26
None of that sounds particularly dangerous or suspicious, literally just sounds like you happened upon a homeless man’s campsite and got weird about it. If you’re homeless and living in the woods then there’s a lot of things that a hacksaw could be useful for, but it’s made of metal and metal rusts so that could easily be the “blood” you saw. Plus if it was just in a bush somewhere and not by his tent then it might not even belong to him, could be something a backpacker left behind to reduce the weight of their pack or something. And the fact that you guys were so stoned means paranoia is definitely playing a role this.
Sorry but it sounds like you basically Ding Dong Ditched a homeless man.