Darker Woods!
You decide to take the darker of the trails, it would give you better cover if it ever rained but it was also somewhat hard to see in the darkness. As you walked you kept seeing things out of the corner of your eyes; movement, lights you could even hear some low cries... You started to pick up the pace.. Every time you turned your head you saw something.. or well thought you did, your brain must have been playing tricks or else these woods are rather haunted.
After a while, the noises became uncomfortably loud, and the flickering shadows had you jerking your head left and right to identify the apparent apparitions. Eventually you saw lights, real ones. The forest receded from the trail and opened up on a hill nearby a village.
You turned around one last time looking into the dark trail.. The shadows had stopped jumping around, the noises were gone. Everything seemed calm.