>>9054474Oh hey, I can finally contribute!
I'm also in Florida. Once, when I was in the sixth grade, there was a pond and a forest just outside the school. Our science teacher, being a hands-on sort of person, often liked for us to go observe back there as a class for certain projects where it would work, such as observing the turtles and ducks in the pond and insects in the forests for reasons and projects I forget the specifics of.
So this one day, we're doing this, and there's a fair amount of us, like 18 or 20, full class. We go to the small forest behind the school. About 30 feet in, we find that the ground goes from dirt and leaves to just... flattened pine needles. Like, set up as a rug, covering the whole path in a certain direction. We followed it a bit, and we came upon a tent. Next to it war a tarp with some stuff on it, a raised pot, presumably for cooking, cans, there were a few jugs for water next to it. That pine needle "carpet" went on for a while, and as we all began to be a bit unsettled after the initial comedy of finding a hobo hovel next to the school, we heard rustling about 15 feet deeper into the forest than we had been. The teacher calmly led us out promptly.
Basically the last of it, except for one thing. I live rather near the school, about two streets down from it actually. That night I heard sirens off in that direction. The next day there was no explanation at school or any acknowledgement of it really. I should have checked the news. Didn't.
Not overtly terrifying, no, no wolves or monsters. But I will say that it bothered me how someone was living there, right next to the school, in this small little thicket without anyone noticing, no problem, no consequence. Just waiting around right there. It's a strange thought.