Longtime Hallmark fan-favorite Victor Webster was hoping for a peaceful camping trip, enjoying the great outdoors with a buddy. Instead, he got a painful and scary adventure he’ll never forget.
On May 25, 2026, Webster detailed the “disaster” of a trip on social media. His wild story had fans rolling with laughter and expressing relief that the “Hannah Swensen Mysteries” star is okay.
Victor Webster Admits to Having ‘Questionable Survival Skills’ After Camping Trip
Captioning two photos of himself and his friend Ricardo, Webster didn’t specify when their adventure took place, only that the plan had been to take a “‘simple’ motorcycle camping trip,” and then joked, “You know, the kind where two grown men drive hours into the absolute middle of nowhere with no cell service, questionable survival skills, and the confidence of people who have watched at least half a season of a survival show.”
Once they found a clearing to set up camp, Webster hilariously wrote, it turned out the spot that seemed like a “peaceful camping stop” could have also doubled for “the opening scene of a horror movie.” The nightmare started as soon as he tossed his duffel bag on the ground and “immediately heard this loud SSSSSSSSSSSS.”
“I looked at Ricardo and casually said, ‘Huh… wonder what that is,'” Webster continued. “Which, in hindsight, is the exact sentence people say moments before disaster.”
“A few seconds later my eyes started watering,” the actor recalled. “Then I started coughing. Then breathing became optional. Ricardo was backing away from me like I had activated a chemical weapon.”
Webster said it suddenly dawned on him that his can of bear mace had exploded inside his bag with a force that broke through the two Ziploc bags he’d placed it in.
“Every single thing I owned was now marinating in concentrated rage sauce,” Webster wrote. “My clothes? Bear mace. My tools? Bear mace. Toothbrush? Spicy. The air itself? Toxic. And of course we had absolutely no service, so I couldn’t Google things like: ‘How long does bear mace debilitate a human being?’ or ‘Can you survive inhaling an entire grizzly bear defense system without long-term side effects?'”
Victor Webster’s Brilliant Solution Didn’t Fully Do the Trick & Things Got Even Crazier
Thanks to Webster’s quick thinking, he grabbed a bottle of soap he’d packed, figuring that it would cut through the chemicals on his skin and clothes.
“So there I was in the middle of nowhere, desperately hand-washing random camping gear like a raccoon doing dishes behind a restaurant,” Webster comically recalled. “After what felt like an hour of decontamination, I figured I’d done the best I could. Crisis mostly handled.”
Realizing he needed to relieve himself, Webster said he found a private spot in nature and “handled my business like a rugged outdoorsman.” But moments later, he found himself writhing in pain.
“I learned a lesson that will stay with me forever: I had NOT, in fact, gotten all the bear mace off my hands,” Webster revealed in the comment section of his post. “The next few hours were less ‘camping trip’ and more ‘Dante’s inferno.'”
Webster continued, “I was limping around the forest like a man trying to put out a structure fire in his pants while Ricardo stood at a safe distance crying laughing and being absolutely no help whatsoever. At one point I considered diving into a lake, if only there was one. I now realize why bears get so damn angry”
Hilarious Horror Story Has Victor Webster’s Fans Rolling
HallmarkWebster’s social media followers got such a kick out of his dramatic re-telling of his hilarious horror story, relieved that he was okay, but rolling with laughter over his comedy of errors.
One declared in the comments, “This is the best campfire story I’ve ever heard! 🤣 P.S. Thanks for the ab workout! 🤣”
Another wrote, “This is one of those stories that you hear and you snort laugh as you’re reading it and then you feel horrible because you snort laughed thinking of what you went through and how panicked you must’ve been! And then I go back to snort laughing! Lesson learned I hope?”
“As soon as you said you were answering the call if nature, I knew what was coming next,” someone else quipped. “Not an experience I’d wish on anyone. Glad to know Ricardo stood by you even if he was no help. 😉”
Webster often shares his latest nature adventures on Instagram and Facebook, with beautiful photos of spots he’s visited with friends and his beloved dog, Nova.
Praise God, there was no permanent damage.
😄🤣😂😅🤩🙂😃 snort laugh! Poor guy!!