That's a good one, I usually get a feeling like some tweaker is behind me. I had an experience where a guy strung out on "whatever" came up to me. I could have easily knocked him senseless with my fists or my Ground Shark, but i just left instead. I already felt uncomfortable being there. I don't usually get the feeling in the woods though, only in the parks. I'll remember "I hear Banjos" though, I'm not sure you can beat that one.
I know the feeling. Specially if you are at a homesite deep in the woods that had an obvious catastrophic demise. Burnt down half a century ago, remnants of clothing, shoes, kids toys, lots of bleached bones that you keep stopping to identify as deer bones vs the more ominous bones I have not stumbled across thankfully...
My buddy always has quotable quotes.....we were flame cutting landing gear from an OTR trailer.....inexplicably, Jeff reaches down to remove a freshly cut part. He jumped back after burning a hand exclaiming " MAN ! That had instructions written all over it !"
To my friend when it is getting very late in the middle of the woods: "Stop wandering away to where I can't see you and you can't hear me!" Except it is yelled loudly and followed by a little profanity in many cases
....A senior Geologist I worked with , whilst in the field , lamented ,"All Mountains Yearn To Be Valleys!" .
His claim to fame ? ......He developed the international standard Frisbee Golf "goal" !
"For your safety and mine, you need to step back away from me about 3 feet". But in all these years, never had to use that while out detecting. Used it in daily life a few times, but if some person showed up and made me nervous while detecting, that's what I'd say. (Note-doesn't work on rattlesnakes, bears or moose.)
i once got approached by 2 guys while i was detecting who asked "what if we take your detector ?" my answer was "you would probably get it, but im English and i love a fight and one of you WILL be going home blind tonight".......they made there excuses and left shortly after.