I went camping with a group of people and we were split between two tents . Earlier in the night as we were hanging around the fire , some guy passes by the site just at the edge of the radius of light from the fire . We thought it was a little creepy he was coming that close to our spot , but in the interest of trying to be cool , we call out and offer him a spot by the fire and a beer . He doesn ' t say a damn word , just looks our way a moment and then disappears into the darkness . We shrug and go on with our night . In the middle of the night I am woken up by deathly screaming coming from the other tent , as well as what sounds like thrashing . My friend Justin is screaming He ' s killing me , he ' s killing me ! and honestly , all my friend and I in our tent could do was stare at each other and stay stock still , hoping that the obvious murderer decides that he ' s done for the night and doesn ' t need to visit the other tent . We stayed with our eyes wide open for several hours with no other noise and eventually fall back asleep . Turns out my friend got night terrors but didn ' t tell any of us . Also , I found out that in times of true danger , I take the path of a deer in headlights .