i never saw ghosts before. my worry is getting lost in a forest at night. i always hike alone and at night. it's very easy to get lost. the moment you step inside a dark forest with no trails, the timer starts. you must find your destination and exit within 1 hr if slopes are involved and no food was brought along
if the forest is on level ground, at most 2hrs must finish if no food but got water, else you risk exhaustion and panic attacks. there's nowhere to lie down and sleep inside. everywhere got ants
it's very dangerous to bash your way through forests alone at night. you get tired very fast. and this is my favorite sport
never ever hike alone at night in a forest if the weather is bad. this is the worse combo because once the soil gets soft, and you go hungry, tired, thirsty and lose your direction, it is game over
I got enough of bashing through jungles during my army time
On missions, we easily walked over 20km at night to reach our objectives when we were in Taiwan
Sometimes back in SG, our starting point is at Lim Chu Kang cemetery and our move off time is 1am - there's a slight rotting smell if the wind is "right"
Our worst experience in Taiwan was constantly having to make our camp among cemeteries - our S3 had a grudge against my OC and we always kena tekan by giving us the worst harbouring spots and trickiest routes
Funny story in Taiwan - we were approaching an enemy objective when the trainer said we were "contacted" and we moved into a hasty defense - a few of us jumped into a nice "trench" to return fire
But my CSM did not jump in and he just crouched by the trench and he looked at me strangely, saying he will tell me later
After the drill, I asked him when he never jump in to take cover - he said "do you know what was it that you jumped into? It was an excavated grave!" I let loose on him with a lot of choice words for not telling me in advance
