Weird

[gnappi]

My dad and I were hunting in the Adirondaks (Warren county) in the late 60's in an area the city folks wouldn't dare to go. Even the locals stayed pretty close to roads near baited stands.

We stopped for a bite and at the top of the ridge above us we heard an awful cry / scream / bellow and loud thrashing in the fall leaves just over the crest of the ridge. It continued for what seemed like minutes and it sounded horrible like something was getting an arm or leg chopped off.

Soon all of a sudden the noise came over the crest and in a jumble of leaves and branches something large was sliding down the steep grade towards us. Dad had his Ruger .44 deerstalker (I had my Ruger 10/22... no threat to whatever it was from me) at the ready and all of a sudden the leaves stopped thrashing next to a huge boulder. We waited for a LONG time for something to move and we figured whatever it was died. So dad led the way up and all we found was a deep skid mark in the dirt from the ridge crest to where we were and the leaves piled up where the skid stopped. No noise, no odor, no blood, no tracks. Weird.

[bula]

A lot I might say. Am not sure our host is ok with this subject direction. I did send a couple of PM's to one of the above. As I said, this a kinda, alook into the abyss, you may not go back, it's not a zoo. 

[gnappi]

Apr 25, 2023 11:59:34 GMT -5 bula said:

A lot I might say. Am not sure our host is ok with this subject direction. I did send a couple of PM's to one of the above. As I said, this a kinda, alook into the abyss, you may not go back, it's not a zoo. 

Are you saying  this thread violates the site policy?

[fre3]

Apr 23, 2023 20:08:44 GMT -5 wendigo said:

This stuff always interests me (hence the username). Cowpuncher, your story contains a lot of elements that I've heard of, and not all from the same person or story either.

fre3, did yours take place in Oklahoma? I heard a story from up there where the air "changed" and there was a blurred area along with an ozone/electrical smell. The guy who experienced it gave me a map with the spot marked, but said I was on my own as he was never going there again.

It took place near Hamilton Montana. No weird smell, but I definitely didn't get closer to investigate.

[bula]

Sorry Gnappi, I work 2nd shift. I post in the am. Later I can view forum from cell, but not "on", to post, reply. My concern, the subject can be volatile, and not S.A. related. Just trying to be careful not to mess our nest. As shooters here, figure a good percentage also hunters, outdoorsmen. A higher percentage of us vs others may have found themselves in the presence of the big furry ones. Just up and coffee not yet in. I'll say I've had 3 incidents, 1 may have been a bear. Other 2 way more definitive, yet no eyes on, so others can doubt. I believe. I grew up fishing, hiking. On to camping then backpacking, hunting, mountaineering etc.. Always been at home in the dark, many nights out beyond the end of the road, in all kinds of weather. I suggest Steve Isdahl's youtube channel. #howtohunt for videos. He read accounts, as they come to him. 

[randyb]

I too live in the PNW. East side, out in the Cascade foothills, but we hunt deep in the William O Douglas Wildnerness area...Bumping Drainage.
My brother and I have run in to the wood-knocking thing a few times. Once up north of Colville, WA while whitetail hunting in late November.
Then, the next fall, in the Bumping Drainage we ran into it again while elk hunting. We had just stopped for a rest and a bite to eat when the first 'knock' came up the ridge from us and was immediately answered by another further behind us.
It most definitely makes the hair on your neck stand up and the heart start racing!

[cas]

Turkey hunting one fall, I was going up a trail that went out of a dense forrest, into a couple hundred yard wide, overgrown clear cut. At the top of that hill there was a small clearing where another trail intersects it. Coming up the rise to the clearing, I realized I'd accidentally snuck up on the the beast with two backs.

I quietly turned around and went back the way I came.

[wendigo]

Same thing happened to me while rounding the bend of a cove while fishing Amistad Lake out by Del Rio back in the '90's!

[jfs]

Apr 30, 2023 20:12:22 GMT -5 cas said:

I quietly turned around and went back the way I came.

Would have done the same thing but a bit faster then you....

[bula]

Used to be, only my wife feared poision ivy. Over the years I need be concerned to. Less nature romps now, sigh..ok none. Grrr. But back to the weird. The sudden feeling of "pressure", critters go quiet, lighting kinda goes gray thing. It happened so fast, like a switch thrown thing. I turned to friend behind me and saw his eyes bugged out too. Hair on arms up etc.. We both felt a presence in front, above and to right a bit, in the hollow we had just turned up, a chosen by map route back up onto the ridge for us. A weekend backpacking trip in the late '80's. We back pedaled a 100 yds and pulled the topo map out and chose to take the next run up, hollow up , from the river path. Lamentation Run, feeds into Tionesta Creek. Forest County Penn.. Lamentation Run, has a story, not sure it's the correct story. 

[nirvana91]

Creepy and interesting ive never had an experience but just hearing the stories makes my hair stand up

[gnappi]

Mar 10, 2023 20:15:20 GMT -5 fre3 said:

A few years ago I was huntin at one of my favorite deer spots. It was December and right in front of me it looked like someone dropped a stone on a still pond.

That happened to me once while fly fishing a pond on a golf course at dusk. I was throwing a light feathered jig way off to the side when it happened and moved the jug toward the center of splash ripples, a ginormous LMB grabbed the plug and headed north for Atlanta Georgia. I finally got it near me and the bugger spit the hook, when he rolled to the side he looked like the Goodyear blimp :-) 


 

[wendigo]

Back to the weird. Not far from here there's a scrub oak canyon that runs north-south so, except for midday with the sun overhead it's always kinda dark. To add to the ambience there are a number of abandoned mines dotting the sides. The water that trickles down the bottom comes from the mouth of a flooded out mine, and right next to the mine opening stands a scraggly oak with a climbing stand in it. I've hunted squirrels in this canyon every fall for close to 20 years now and that tree stand next to the gurgling mine entrance has always been there - no one's ever come back for it. The place just has a dark uneasy feel to it. I was talking with a co-worker about it a few years back and he remarked that he "knows an old boy who used to run cattle in there, his horse didn't like being there either". Smart horse...