I don't know about scary things in the dark, but I was sitting in stand last night, and there was a squirrel chasing another for about 20 min. I wasn't sure if he was trying to get a piece of a$$ or something, but he chased the other one up a tree 3 feet away from my stand, next thing I know I had a flying squirrel leap right over my head and what I'm guessing was less than a foot from my face. That got my hear racing. The only thing I could think about the rest of the night was if those things carry rabies?