I was camping with a few friends and the friend I was sharing a tent with decided he wanted to sleep under the stars in the back of the truck . I wanted to as well but there was no room so I was in the tent by myself , no biggie . Now a little back story , I have a lot of experience with camping and being in the woods but the friends I was with were very indoorsy and don ' t have much common sense to begin with which lead to my little predicament . I also had recently sprained my ankle and wasn ' t exactly in peak condition relevant later . Anyways I ' m laying there falling asleep then suddenly hear crinkling like a plastic wrapper getting ripped . I remembered , despite me instructing them not to leave food out , that I had seen a bag of their Jolly Ranchers on the table outside and decided it must be a raccoon or squirrel or something and they can clean up the mess in the morning . Well after about 5 minutes of hearing this animal gorge it ' s self it decides to take a little stroll around the site , this is where it got scary . I was now wide awake and realized from the steps I was hearing whatever animal this was was very big . I had so many thoughts running through my head does it know about the friend in the back of the truck or vise versa ? What if the friends in the other tent get out to piss and run into it ? What if they left food in the tent too ? As I was processing this I heard this mystery animal walking towards my tent . Shit . If need be I couldn ' t run because of the ankle , if I tried to scare it away it could decide to fight instead of run then I ' m really fucked . So in the spirit of Jurassic Park I stayed as still as possible while slowly reaching for my bag in which I had a hatchet . No way in hell did I plan on attacking it but if worse came to worst I might have a shot at defending myself . As it drew closer it walked to the back part of the tent , it was so close I could hear it breathing . It was a heavy , moist kind of sound that scared the shit out of me and with the slowest of movements I turned enough to see out the kind of side vent the tent had and in the moonlight I saw the mouth of a bear . I had seen the Revenant not long before the trip so I was supremely freaked out at this point . It stood there for what seemed like forever as I sat with the hatchet ready and trying my hardest not to breath hard . After an eternity it slowly walked into the woods but needless to say I didn ' t get much sleep after that .