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Lost Time / Painful Arm Following Humanoid Encounter

I recently stumbled upon the following account:

This was a few years ago, but it's really stuck with me just for how strange it was. And I'm hoping this is the proper place to put it, as my encounter was with a humanoid being.

Anyway...I was heading out of my house at around 6am. It was summer, so I took my walks at sunrise to avoid the daytime heat. I had done this many times, and had my walk down to a science. Just my muscle memory could get me through.

So, shortly after leaving my home, I'm heading up this road toward the highway. I lived behind a school, so I was very aware of the roads and vehicles, even if I was distracted by something else. Which I was. As I walked down this road, I was going through playlists on my MP3 player. I was almost right on the first intersecting road by time I found what I wanted to listen to and looked up.

Everything was normal, and there were no cars to be seen, which made sense as it was a Saturday morning. So, I continued up toward the highway where there was a sidewalk.

But about three intersections from the highway, I noticed a shadow on the School Zone sign ahead of me. Figuring it was mine, I just kept walking. I was only two intersections away when a disturbing thought hit me. I was walking east. There was no way that shadow belonged to me, and since there was absolutely no one around, there was no way on Earth that that shadow was really a shadow.

And as if it could read my thoughts and sudden fear, a figure stepped out into the intersection right behind the school. And the only thing I can figure it was was a Grey alien. It had all the features: spindly limbs, enormous head, gigantic black eyes, and barely a nose, ears, or lips to speak of.

For anyone else, this would have been time to panic and run, but my military training kicked in. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what it wanted. But I knew it had no place this close to my home and my children.

So, I charged at it, hoping at the very least to run it off, or better still, find some way to capture it. Of course, under both of those desires, I wanted to kill it. To this day, I don't know why I wanted to kill it. Maybe it was part of my training that had stuck into my brain, or maybe it was because this being was undoubtedly a threat, at least in my mind. I don't think aliens come all the way to our neck of the intergalactic woods just to hide behind signs. There was something going on here, and I had to fix it.

The next thing I know, I'm standing in the intersection. The creature was gone. Naturally, I was confused. The sun was higher than it should have been, and a quick glance at my MP3 player showed that I'd missed at least ten songs. By my best guess, I was missing nearly half an hour of time. Now, scared and disoriented, I turned back and walked home. It was already getting hot, and heatstroke was not going to help me sort out everything than had just happened.

I haven't told this story to anyone other than my parents and a single friend. We all agree that this was something strange, and that whatever it was, it was definitely not right. Even now, years later, I wonder what I really saw. Was it really an alien? Did I honestly try to capture and kill an actual extraterrestrial? I don't have those answers. And that scares me.

But one thing is, I don't think I got abducted. I don't have weird dreams, and I couldn't find any mysterious marks anywhere on my body. The only thing that I can't explain is a painful feeling in my upper left arm. It feels like there is something in there, but X-Rays have shown nothing. Could it be that I was tagged by this creature the same way we tag animals for study? Another question I can't answer, and that scares the daylights out of me. This pain has not gone away, but I have become accustomed to it. Maybe one day, I'll be able to get better scans of my arm and see if maybe a different machine could see what the X-Rays couldn't. UP

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Newspaper Account: 'Wild Men' in British Columbia

Here's an article that was published in the Hammond Times (Munster, Indiana) on October 25, 1935. It describes a supposed 'lost race' of wild men in British Columbia's wilderness:

Settlers Fifty Miles From Vancouver Describe Hairy Giants

Hammond Times, October 25, 1935

Sasquatch men, remnants of a lost race of "wild men" who inhabited the rocky regions of British Columbia centuries ago, are reported roaming the province again.

After an absence of several months from the district of Harrison Mills, 50 miles east of Vancouver, the long, weird, wolf-like howls of the "wild men" are being heard again and two of the hairy monsters were reported seen in the Morris Valley on the Harrison river.

Residents in the district tell of seeing the two giants leaping and bounding out of the forest and striding across the duck-feeding ground, wallowing now and again in the bog and mire and long, waving swamp grasses.

Reported Agile as Goats

The strange men, it was reported, after emerging from the woods, came leaping down the jagged rocky hillside with the agility and lightness of mountain goats. Snatches of their weird language floated on the breeze across the lake to the pioneer settlement at the foot of the hills.

The giants walked with an easy gait across the swamp flats and at the Morns Creek, in the shadow of Little Mystery Mountain, straddled a floating log, which they propelled with their long, hairy hands and huge feet across the sluggish glacial stream to the opposite side.

There they abandoned the log and climbed hand over hand up the almost perpendicular cliff at a point known as Gibraltar and disappeared at the top of the ridge. They carried two large clubs and walked round a herd of cattle directly in their path.

Indian's Story Retold

The return of the giants to the legendary stronghold of the sasquatch monsters recalls the narrow escape of an Indian at the same spot last March. A huge rock narrowly missed his canoe while he was fishing and looking up, he said he saw a huge and hairy monster stamping his feet and gesticulating wildly. The Indian escaped by cutting his fishing tackle and paddling away.

The same Indian declares the sasquatch have twice stolen salmon which he tied outside his house out of reach of dogs. The latest appearance of the monsters was peaceful. They avoided the trails usually used by the people of the valley and molested neither cattle nor human beings.

People who have reported seeing the giants on their rare appearances described them as "ferocious looking wild men, nine feet tall and covered from head to toes with thick black hair." - Hammond Times, October 25, 1935

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Stalked by an Unknown Creature in Michigan

Herm's Knob, Reed City, Michigan, USA- “I was once an avid hunter for 20 years, never missing a deer season; longed for it and lived for it. I am 71 years old now, and started hunting at eighteen. At the age of 38 I had a terrifying encounter with something after being lost in the woods until 2 AM, and something followed me for 2 miles on a two track road leading back to the cabin. I walked backwards on that two track for the entire 2 miles, with my 9mm Mauser off safety, with no light and no moon or stars, listening to heavy foot falls, trees being snapped and loud cracking underbrush under those foot falls, a stench that curled my toes, and deep guttural breathing, which was nerve-wracking. The place I had hunted was called Herm's Knob, which was 2 miles off Thirteen Mile Road (where the cabin was) in Reed City, Michigan, although the cabin is actually closer to Leroy, Michigan. The event repeated itself one night latter, only with my partner. Like you, after feeling like I was being hunted, that ended my hunting. I have never returned or hunted since. I don't know what it was, and perhaps I am better off not knowing.” KW

NOTE: Here is another account from the same area - Trucker Shoots Upright Canine Near Reed City, MI

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Bigfoot in a Blizzard

“It happened to me going 15 miles per hour in a blizzard, a giant figure 10 to 12 feet tall, crossed the highway. It came out from a gulley of trees through the ditch so quickly, only a few feet away. It had the outline of man and a hairy gorilla covered with snow, when it took only 4 or 5 steps to cross the two lane highway. My thinking was WTF was that? I said to myself, "Now I am just seeing things." This was 25 years ago (in 1993). Only now and one other time, I ever spoke of it. Just seemed too surreal. I drove a few more miles out of the blizzard it kept popping up in my mind. I drove in snow storms my entire life never seen a mirage before. A few more miles it was clear as a bell. I said; I just am going to forget about this and went to my destination.” DW

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UFO Over Bremerton, WA

“My first experience seeing a UFO was somewhere around like the 9th grade. So I was in the passenger side of the car with my three sisters, coming home from this church thing. it was probably like 9:00-10:00 PM-ish. and as we were crossing a bridge (the Warren Avenue Bridge in Bremerton, Washington) we noticed there were these three hella bright lights in the air. They were in a triangle shape, not a perfect triangle but sort of in a line, if you know what I mean. Anyways, these lights were just floating above the bridge pretty close up, and we were all just confused. I'm so mad that I didn't think to record it. It was just too weird in the moment. I opened my window to kind of just get a better look but the lights were too bright to identify anything else. The thing is, you know how you hear airplanes zoom across the sky, or helicopter sounds whirring in the sky? There was NO sound at all. Suspicious... I still wonder if anyone in my town saw it too that day because it was so close to the bridge.” J

Cryptid Hominid Killed During Vietnam War

“When my dad was in Vietnam, he was on a small SF-kinda unit, an eight man hunter-killer team. Only eight guys would go on patrol into the jungle for up to 30 days at a time. He had a Native American named Too Late on his squad. As they were on patrol moving making no noise, my dad's buddy looked at him and pointed to the treetops. My dad said he looked up and saw something in the tree. He thought it was a sniper so he shot it. They saw it fall out of the tree. They moved up slowly to confirm the kill. When they got up to it, it wasn't a man. At first they thought it was a man but then realized it wasn't. They called in on the radio. They had to drag the body to the LZ and one chopper came and took the body and they were left in the jungle to finish their mission.

When they got back to base they we informed when they asked, it was a rare monkey but there were no big primates like orangutans in Vietnam. They were told as a group never to speak of it. I've talked to every guy from the team because they all made it home alive and they all tell this story and all believe it was some kind of missing link my dad shot. Crazy stuff.” RO

NOTE: This was probably one of the mysterious 'Rock Apes' reported throughout the Vietnam conflict. Lon

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UFO Appears Above Trampoline

“Years ago some friends and I were laying on the trampoline and watching the sky and we saw something really really far up in the sky. It was tiny and it was moving across the sky really fast and it was almost invisible. I seen it first and then was trying to help my friends see it and I think one of them actually seen it too, not all of them could. Then, all of a sudden, it just like blasted off super fast into the sky and disappeared... like you see in the damn movies, it was a trip. I’ve always believed in aliens and if I had any doubt that they even existed it went out the door that night because that wasn’t of this world. I honestly don’t understand people who say they don’t believe in aliens... How can you not? Do you not realize how tiny we are floating on a planet in a damn solar system with who knows how many other solar systems with planets like ours?” SR

Strange Tales From The Highway

I was alone, on my way home from vacation. I was driving a pickup pulling a camper. It was after 11:00pm on a summer night. I was about 2 hours from home but wanted to get home yet that night. I was traveling through a wooded area. It was about 50 miles of just trees on both sides of the road with an occasional house every 5 or so miles.

I saw something move up ahead. I immediately slowed down, thinking there was a deer in the road. As I passed I saw a young woman walking on the extreme shoulder near the ditch. She was walking with traffic. She had on knee high socks. A very short pleated type cheerleader type skirt and a halter top. She was tall with long brown hair. Since this was the middle of nowhere on a road that sees only a few cars per hour, I immediately assume she was in some sort of trouble. (fight with a boyfriend and left stranded, car trouble etc.) I was not going very fast at this point so I pulled over hit the emergency flashers, set the parking brake, grabbed the flashlight and got out and went back to see if she needed assistance. When I got to the rear of the trailer, she was gone. I shined the flashlight up and down both sides of the road, the ditches and even the tree line, but saw no one. I drove the rest of the way home with the hair on the back of my neck standing on end. B

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My dad has several stories from hauling logs in Idaho and driving trucks through Utah and Nevada. My favorite is from actually just in his pickup going through Utah. He said there was a light keeping pace with him out in the desert on a moonless night. It kept pace for a minute before it disappeared and his truck turned off. He stopped and turned it on and pulled off at the next diner. The folks in the diner called it a common occurrence.

The creepiest is when he was hauling logs in Idaho and was coming down from near Coeur d'Alene area during a snowy winter night. He was putting on chains before heading down steep grade and said all of the hair stood up on his body. It felt like there was something watching him. Halfway down the switchbacks he saw a large figure standing on a 20 foot tall embankment. As he got closer it jumped down and the shoulders were as tall as the cab. In a single bound it leaped down and then leaped over to the other side of the embankment. At the time he thought it was a Sasquatch, now he says it was probably a "demon" trying to make him crash. He didn't stop to remove the chains until he was well away from the mountain. IW

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My grandfather was in the Air Force and one night he was driving (back to his base maybe? I can’t quite remember) and he saw a woman standing on the side of the road in a long white dress at about two AM. He circled back to ask if she needed help and she was nowhere to be seen. He searched for her for about an hour before giving up, and deciding to leave it alone. When he decided to go on his way he had a strong feeling that he needed to switch lanes (he was on the road alone in the middle of the night so he had no idea why) and just ahead on the road there was a broken down truck with no hazards on that he would have hit, and probably been killed by, if he stayed in the lane he had been in. To this day he’s convinced the woman was trying to warn him, like an omen or something. CD

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My mom, sister and I were on my our way to a baseball game of mine during my junior year of high school. This was in northern New York so spring got a little chilly at times. The main road we took stretched about 35 miles and was nothing but corn fields and tree lines. We hit a stretch of the road that was super foggy for no reason so my mom slowed down to a proper speed. We finally reached the end of the fog and we all looked to the left to see where we were. About 50 yards from the road was a man and woman in what appeared to be wedding clothing from at least 100 years ago (man wearing a big top hat and the woman wearing a very old looking white dress) holding hands with their backs to us walking towards the wood-line.

We drove past and I just remember the silence in the car until my mom said “what the f*ck was that?” Till this day whenever we are together and one of us tells the story we all get goosebumps. LL

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My grandfather told me the story about how he was driving west to east along an empty stretch of road in southern South Dakota. He stopped at a stop sign at an intersection with nothing in sight: no buildings and no other vehicles. Then there was a bright light that hit him. He looked up and saw a bunch of blinking lights.

Next thing he knew, he was at the counter of a diner about an hour down the road. It was about 6 hours later and he had no idea what had happened. He asked the person at the diner when he came in and the guy told him he came in about 10 min ago and just started drinking coffee without talking much. My grandpa told him what had happened and the guy said something like, "Yep, that's happens around here sometimes."

Nothing weird ever happened to him again. He avoided that area for the rest of his life. He said he doesn't believe in aliens and doesn't know what happened, but I had a suspicion he thought he had been abducted and just never accepted it. He told me never to tell this story to other people, but he died years ago and most of the people who knew him are dead, so I figured it was OK. HT

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Bigfoot Carrying Deer - Brazos River, Hood County, Texas

Brazos River, Granbury, Texas - “I moved to Texas a year ago along the Brazos River area outside Granbury. One evening about 6 o'clock while driving down a OE lane rural road, I saw what I know for a fact was one of these things run across the road in front of me with a kicking deer held in a headlock. It scared me so bad I froze solid. I only coasted to a stop and could hear it crunching through the thick woods for a short time. I shook like a leaf, regained control, drove down the road, turned around, and went back the way I came.

I went back a week later and took a couple pictures from my truck window, told my family, made a post on Facebook even. Nobody seemed to believe me. That thing had ran uphill from a creek gully, crossed the road in three running steps fast. And was as tall as my 94-F 150 roof crouched running. I can look at my Google photos for the exact date that were taken a week later of the gully and fence it hopped. I'm not interested in going in the woods or any bit of publicity at all. I just wanted to share my story. When I drove back there I got the total shivers and normally I'm not scarred of much. Thanks. D

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Bigfoot in New Brunswick, Canada

Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada - “My name is Bob. I've been in the woods all my life and most of what you talk about has happened to me at some point although I have never had as close an encounter as you have had. Me and a few friends were hunting back in 1986 and were sweeping through a fresh cut area near Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada and spotted something walking on two legs at about 400 yards from us. We watched this thing for close to a half hour walk horizontally across a ridge-line of pretty open hardwood in front of us and your description of the forearms was dead on through my scope. I could tell how big its arms were we were. Transfixed for days after that, we all never told really anybody about it. We figured they would think we were nuts but all my time being in the woods; the knocks, the whistles, and thrown objects were there. But anyways I don’t want to bore you but just wanted to say thanks for sharing this with us and thanks for what you do and keep doing it. RP

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Bright Light in the Sky

“I live in the suburbs and one time I was riding my bike outside in the middle of the night and I crashed and I just turned over and looked up at the sky and I remember seeing this really, really bright light in the sky and at first I thought it was a star or something but I also thought it was too big to be a star. Then it started blinking and it started getting brighter and blinking its light on and off even more and I was so freaked out. Then I saw it move to the left in this fast zig zag motion and then it vanished and I was so weirded out. H

Strange Cryptid Evidence in South Africa

I found the following account recently. Maybe a reader can shed some light on this:

I'm a 32 year old man, in the military and been through extensive tests for cognitive function (MRI, EEG, etc). So I would be alarmed if I had some flunk in my mentality, in relation to this experience. And hence, this makes it rather unsettling.

I was about 12 years old, when this took place. My family moved into a 13-story apartment building. We lived on the 4th floor overlooking normal suburban housing in South Africa. From my room I could see my friend's house not so far off and to the left of our building and to the right of my friend's house was a rather huge (couple of hectares) field of knee high grass that went over a hill. The building we stayed in was at the peak almost of said hill.

Hopefully you get the idea of the area. So this friend, I'll call him J, a few months after we initially met told me about this thing that he has seen and heard in the field from his house late at night or in the early mornings about 3 or 4 am when he was prepping to go fishing for the day. And that a few years prior to me moving there, one of the neighbors actually went out with his shotgun one such evening and shot in the general direction of this thing.

He described it to me as just seeing the red eyes and a tall dark mass but in the shape of a "werewolf" standing on two feet. Notable is that this field was not illuminated as the rest of town and only partial when there was a full moon even from my vantage point in my room.

I took this with a grain of salt for certain and had a normal kids mentality of fancying the idea for spooks and scary tales.

One evening though I was in my room struggling to fall asleep lights off and all. Then I heard a rather odd growl howl or whatever from the direction of the field. So naturally I peeked out my window, obviously my imagination kicked in and I thought I saw something red moving around but as a blur. The distance from my window to the the crest of the hill was about 300 meters. I just brushed it off as silly mind tricks.

A few months go by and I'm about to join J on a fishing trip. We wake up at 3 in the morning and have to start packing and loading all the equipment and so forth. Now from his house there was two more houses to the right then the field started. The street of his house was adjacent to the grounds for the building I stayed in. So I could see my room window standing in his yard.

We started hearing noises coming from said field and proceeded to investigate without leaving the yard. From his house we could see about 200 meters away into the field two red specks staying really still. The thing is when one looked at it, it seemed to blur or fade, meaning you had to look away and quickly back again to see it. These specks or eyes as we deemed it was about the two meters above the ground if not more as at that distance one's judgement can be a bit off. Next moment we see the eyes darting away, we could barely make out the body features of whatever's eyes it was, just a tall black mass moving at an alarming pace back behind the hill.

So we chat about it and just leave it at that, thinking we both just imagine things. We go fishing that day without a hassle or even talked about what we might or might not have seen.

So here comes the kicker. The following day my brother and my friend J and me go for a bit of exploring in this massive field. It was at a dry spell so all the grass was brown and we had no rain for a few weeks. Noteworthy is that we found really old arrowheads, you know rusted and primitive looking but more like 200 or so years back in that field/ hillside.

As we are walking along we near the crested area of the hill or field, and I stumble upon a footprint in the sand. Mind you this was at a small clearing between the grass that was just sand.

This footprint at first looked to be of some kind of animal but catlike, so my first reaction was 'hey guys look some lion or leopard got free or something.' Then on closer inspection that all changed.

The main cushion was the size of a grown man's palm, with three smaller cushions for the toes and the above them three triangle indentations that would be for claws. The footprint did not look like whatever this was had been moving too fast, just a quick walk maybe. Now this was the first footprint. Big with three toes and clearly clawed. The freaky part came when we found two more. The direction of the tracks was towards the building I stayed in buuuuut, and pardon to long buuuut, they were at least three to four meters apart and there was no prints after or before the ones we found.

This was at around eleven in the morning, and three of us. My brother the most sceptical just went silent. I mean that he did not react or say anything when he saw this, more of a shock reaction or something to that nature. His reaction still gives me uneasy vibes thinking about till this day. Freaks me out more than the actual footprints of whatever that thing was.

Now we had no cellphones at that time and I wish I could have taken pictures. The day is still burned into my memory. We went on exploring some more afterwards though.

What really got me is that we were so aloof to all of it that we never really talked about what we saw and found that day. It's as if the pure nature of it was too much for our minds to grasp and I eventually thought it might have been some ostrich footprint. Still their feet don't look like that nor is there any damn ostriches living in that place.

Well that's how I tried to reason it out for myself. I've seen a lot of other animal footprints, especially big cats, dogs, etc. But none had that distinct shape or three toes thing going on. Whatever it was was clearly something unbeknownst to us.

We never really talked about it afterwards and its been years since I asked my brother about it. He is the older one and when I asked him a few years back he got really uncomfortable so I refrained from asking him details or pestering him about it. And I'm not in contact with J for years now. SB

NOTE: Very interesting account. Since this was in South Africa, I wonder if there is a cryptid that would match up to this evidence? Could it have been an Agogwe? - Lon

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Upright Canine Peers Through Window Near Cresson Mountain, PA

The following account was recently forwarded to me:

In Western Pennsylvania, on Cresson Mountain, in 1965, I was exploring the woods with a friend who lived in the area. We crossed a stream at the bottom of a ravine and went up hill.

Maybe a mile up slope, in trees, we came upon a dome made of interlaced tree branches. It was tall enough for me to enter without bending over. I did so. It stank horribly.

Inside we found fresh timothy grass laid out in a kind of pallet or bed in one end. There was no debris of a human kind anywhere, but there were small bones and sticks. We couldn't stand the odor and backed out, then felt we were being watched from upslope.

Growing nervous as dusk fell, we left, fast. We told his father about it, who dismissed it as a hobo's hutch. We'd found many of those. It was not a person who made what we’d found. We’d glimpsed a shadow moving and maybe a glint of eyes, too. Reflective eyes can be down to something as simple as the lurker wearing glasses, we were told, but it had felt more animal than hobo to us.

One foggy Saturday morning I was again visiting my friend. We preferred roaming the woods to wandering in town, where I lived. We were sprawled on the floor watching an old horror movie neither of us understood. I think it was DEMENTIA 13, which seemed incoherent. It did feature a good many spooky images and a few jump scares, so it held out interest, especially with the fog that day. We heard a thump on the front door.

Glancing across the living room, we saw a dog’s face gazing at us through the middle of three narrow windows set high on the door. It would have had to be six or seven feet tall to peer through those windows. Its gaze shined, and we both screamed, thinking ‘werewolf’.

As we gaped, it dropped down below the door’s windows. Nervously, we peered out the picture window that took up most of one wall of the room. In the fog, we saw it again, moving past, just far enough away to be little more than a shadow. Thing is, it was upright. It sort of hop-walked on its hind legs, its forelegs held in front of it. This sight scared us even more.

When it had vanished, headed toward the tree line, we talked about whether the thing we’d just seen could be what had made the domed nest we’d found not long back. At the time, this seemed reasonable to us. We knew, though, not to tell his parents about the huge dog thing looking in through the front door windows. We didn’t want to be ridiculed again, but we did learn to be more careful when playing in the woods.

Only years later did I hear about the Ohio Grass Man, a Sasquatch analogue for that area. Where we were fell within its range. Later still, Western Pennsylvania began experiencing a cluster of what people called a Dogman. Supposedly, it was pretty much what my friend and I had seen as kids, peering through his front door windows and moving past his house as it went toward the trees.

I’m glad we didn't encounter it directly either time, but kinda wish we'd seen it more clearly before it moved away. Still gives me chills thinking about being out on the mountain at dusk with something like that, or what would’ve happened had it gotten through the door. GR

NOTE: The Cresson Mountain area of Cambria County is very near several locations where we have received upright canine reports in recent years. Our team has been on-site as well. This report has been added to the PA Upright Canine/Dogman Witness Sightings Map - Lon

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Sasquatch...or Skookum Spirit?

I recently came across the following account:

My wife, daughter, and I went camping over the Labor Day holiday weekend. We both took off work Friday and headed off to meet up with a group of friends who were camping with their kids and dogs. They were already out there and had found and a nice campsite that was big enough for our group. Just a spot off of a service road with primitive fire pit and not an official campground.

In total there were 10 of us, 7 adults and 3 tweens. We were camping out in an area south of Mt. Rainier just outside of the park boundary off of a road that would lead you to a locked gate that enters the park. We knew at the end of the road was a locked gate because all the cars that went that way only to flip back around because it was only accessible to National Park staff. We set up our camp in a flat area that would fit our 2 tents that they had raked up for us prior to us arriving, it was a bit closer to the road then their tents were. They had set up their tents much further back.

Once camp was set up we hung out with our friends while the kids played and had dinner around the fire. Just friends hanging out having drinks hanging around the fire and all was great. We stayed up pretty late and everyone was getting tired and cold. Slowly everyone faded off to their tents and to bed. My wife was cold and went to warm up in the car and then proceeded to fall asleep in the car. Now my daughter and I are the last two awake out by the fire and she decided that she wanted to sleep in the car where it was warm with my wife. I agreed that was okay after I attempted to wake my wife up and get her to come to the tent to go to sleep and she was out cold. So I watched her go to her tent and grab her blanket and her sleeping bag for my wife as it was cold and I had turned the car off now. She grabbed the stuff and zipped up the tent and off to the car she went.

I stayed up a little bit longer by the fire and must have dozed off momentarily because when I woke back up I was sitting in a camping chair by only glowing embers and it was pitch black. Only the coals of the fire glowing red glowing in the now dead fire. I got up and found my way to the tent in the pitch blackness of the night and climb in and went to sleep. I was exhausted and fell asleep as soon as I hit in that sleeping bag.

Around 3:30 a.m. I woke up to my daughter's tent kind of rustling and what sounded like two female voices talking really softly. I listened intently trying to hear what they were saying, but I couldn’t really understand anything. There were no real discernible words coming out just mumbling. Then silence. I figured it was just my wife and daughter finding their way to my daughters tent, not wanting to wake me up by being loud. Figured my wife was just going sleep in the tent with my daughter. However now I am up because my back is killing me because the air mattress is now flat and airless.

As I lay there in what I can only describe as dead silence I hear cracking like sticks breaking or popping so I assume it the fire still hanging on somehow. Then I hear something moving around towards the front of my tent and it stops. Something is directly outside the front of my tent I can feel it and sense it. So I slowly raise up to a seated position and hear something breathe in and exhale a large breathe. This is the heaviest breathe I have ever heard and it was followed but what I can only describe as a very loud huff as if from a horse or cow or some very large animal. I sat there frozen with fear trying to rationalize what it is I am hearing and it stopped. All I heard was the one deep inhale and exhale and that huff sound then everything went silent. What followed next is a owl hooting a little ways off back from behind the area of our friends tents and after that I heard nothing else. No sounds at all no fire popping/sticks cracking nothing. I stayed there sitting up frozen with fear for what seemed like forever until I could tell the sun was coming up and that it was light out now. I muster up the courage and go outside and check the ground in front of my tent and that’s when I noticed my daughters tent unzipped and and empty!

I panic and rush to the car and there they are in the car sound asleep. I see not a single track, nothing around our tents and everyone else is about 20 to 30 yards away in their tents. Now I am freaking the hell out. Who did I hear talking? Who was skulking around the tent? What the hell was that breathing in front of me and huffing outside my tent? What opened my daughters tent zipper? Surely there is an explanation and I sit out there for at least an hour getting the fire going as our friends begin to get up and move about. They slowly make their way to the fire and I immediately start asking them where were the dogs all night? Did you let them out where they sniffing around my tent? Did any of you wake up and were talking or moving around and did you hear that owl? Nope, no, and no they all replied.

I have no idea what that was talking softly and what was breathing and huffing right in front of me. What the hell opened my daughters tent in the night? I watched her zip it shut and go to the car. That breathe and huff was so scary it left me frozen with fear and I didn’t move at all after hearing it and sat there as silent as possible not even wanting to breathe. One of the scariest moments of my life something large and unknown in the darkness directly in front of me and only thing separating us is a thin tent wall. This all happened Friday into Saturday morning and we still have another night here. I decided that I am not sleeping in the tents and neither are my wife and daughter tonight or ever again.

The rest of the day goes great hanging out having breakfast, went into town (Ashford), and went for a hike down the road to lake (Cora Lake). Basically just camping and hanging. It’s getting later now and although the sun is out and blue skies the canopy in our camping area is thick and even at the brightest point in the day was still pretty dark compared to road area.

As we are hanging out we hear woooo-ooops way off in the distance and we are thinking 'what is that?' More time passes by and now a few of the people that were there when we arrived at camp have left. Just 7 of us left and 2 of the 7 were pretty much always in their tent. So that left 5 of us out hanging out by the fire. That’s when dusk crept in and my buddy began working on dinner for all of us. As we sat there, from off in the woods between us and the park boundary towards the creek we hear these blood curdling screams and wood type howls that everyone heard. We all stopped talking and fell silent and we all began to ask each other wtf was that. We heard this about 4 - 5 times. It sounded like a woman being murdered and howl type of sound.

Then came a few tree knocks from the same general direction. Is someone messing with us out here everyone was thinking? Keep in mind it is a holiday weekend, so tons of campers within a 15 mile radius. So I call my buddy over and he hadn’t heard the screams because he had been cooking on a skillet and had a propane lantern in front of him and behind him and they are loud. We stand there and listen and don’t hear it.

We decide we will do a tree knock back, closer to the road that divided us from the area we heard these vocalizations and knocks from. That is when we heard it! I got a chill down my spine to my core and the hairs raised up on my arms and neck. We both looked at one another and at the same time asked, 'did you f*cking hear that?' I asked him what he heard and we had both heard what we can only describe as a monkey/gorilla sound like you would hear on Discovery channel or something. It was like ooooh oooh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh sound. It was far off but deep and rumbling sounding unlike what you hear on T.V. I want say it was like directed/focused at us, I only say that because the other people were sitting behind us maybe only 10 feet away and they didn’t hear it only us.

Now we are freaking the hell out and nobody is sleeping in their tents! We don’t want say anything and freak everyone else because at this point they are already on edge. I have been hiking and camping here in the PNW for almost 20 years now and have never experienced this while I was camping out with family and friends. I am 39 years old from the east coast and have been shot at and chased growing up in the ghetto. I am a former U.S. Army Infantryman who has spent countless nights in only a sleeping bag in a dug out sleeping hole and in tents. I am now afraid to ever sleep in a tent again after this weekend. I have never really ever felt fear like I did that 1st night in all my time in the forests out here except when I was a kid in the woods back home. JB

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Katherine: The Lady of Gray's Mill

As some of you may know, I began investigating paranormal activity in 1977. Back then, there were very few investigators of unexplained phenomena. This particular investigation was conducted in 1984 at a location near my former workplace. Some of Maryland’s most interesting history occurred along the Pataspco River. From Parr’s Spring to Elkridge, the river valley’s geography goes from a cold piedmont stream to a rugged, rocky gorge into a coastal plain. Many of my investigations have been in locations closely related to the river. Many paranormal investigators have concentrated on locales around Ellicott City. I preferred to dive deeper into the Pataspco River’s haunted history:

This investigation took place in August 1984 in a location ½ mile downstream from the Frederick Rd. bridge at Ellicott City on River Rd. River Rd. veers right from Frederick Rd. and descends to the river bank. As soon as the road levels, about 400 ft. from the turn, you will see the back wall of an old building against the hillside. Above this wall was a Baltimore Gas & Electric substation (on Frederick Rd.). This property was also owned by BG&E, though at the time of this investigation there was more building structure and the area was accessible to most anyone.

This area is historically known as Gray’s Mill. It was originally a Methodist Church later enlarged and fitted as a paper mill. In fact, it was advertised in 1807 as the “largest paper mill in the U.S.” Edward Gray and other investors soon purchased the mill and transformed it into a major cotton duck plant. After a huge fire, Gray rebuilt the plant into the largest cotton cloth mills in the U.S. and named it the Patapsco Manufacturing Company.

Gray built a large mansion adjacent to the mill where he, his wife and daughters lived happily for many years. In 1829, Gray’s daughter Elizabeth married John Pendleton Kennedy and the couple lived together in the mansion. Kennedy was a well-known writer and lawyer in Baltimore who had reached the pinnacle of social status at a fairly young age. He entered politics and was elected to Congress, and later was appointed Secretary of the Navy under President Millard Fillmore. The list of guests and friends who visited and stayed at his home was remarkable. Edgar Allen Poe, James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Andrew Jackson, Commodore Perry, James Madison, Francis Scott Key and many more important writers and statesmen spent time at this mansion.

Kennedy’s library was said to be the most impressive private library in the country containing many European first editions and works of famous friends that were never published. As well, Kennedy had a spectacular garden and grove. Washington Irving was known to spend many evenings sitting among the trees gazing upon the river. Elizabeth Kennedy would stand on the river bank and wave an American flag as the Union soldiers would hoot and holler from the train on the west bank of the river heading for Baltimore. All this would change in 1868 when the flood of the century swept through the valley and washed most of the mansion and contents away. The Kennedys were devastated and forced to move from their beloved valley.

Gray's Mill Mansion - engraving from 1867
For several years, I had been told about strange lights and mists that emanated from the mansion area onto River Rd. at night. For many years previous, the river bank was a hangout spot for local kids until the state built mounds and barriers on the riverbank that blocked cars from parking. The sightings began after the parking areas were removed and the area was quiet in the evening hours. I had personally noticed fog in this area because it is swampy and there is a small drainage stream that flows through the location. I decided to investigate on a night when there would be minimal traffic on River Rd. (namely when the mill down river was shutdown).

I received permission to park my car on a small private lot on Frederick Rd. and walked down River Rd. to the Gray’s Mill location. A friend, who had worked with me previously, accompanied me to the site. We decided to walk around the grounds as best we could and see if we could observe any activity. We started at 7:30 pm and used the remaining light to get our bearings to which areas of the site we would concentrate. The weather was very warm and humid, in the mid 80’s and clear.

I decided we would stick together because of the swampy terrain. We set up along the mansion remnants that included large pieces of granite strewn randomly. There was a small part of the back wall remaining, so we sat there and waited. As dusk came, the area comes alive with “peepers”, small frogs singing in the moonlight. Behind the wall is a high bank that extends up towards “9 Mile Hill” onto Frederick Rd. We could barely hear the traffic on the main road above and behind us. It was very peaceful as the river rippled through the valley and the moonlight bounced off the water, providing dancing lights against the opposite bank.

Around 10:30 pm, we started hearing sounds on the hill directly behind us. I figured it was a raccoon or a possum looking for a meal. After a couple of minutes, I heard a rustling in the high weeds to our left and could see movement. I pointed the flashlight towards the area and noticed nothing. As soon as I turned the flashlight off, I sensed a presence of something. My friend suddenly commented that he felt a chill sweep by his right ear. The entity I sensed was definitely that of a woman. She seemed to be joyful and was definitely enjoying herself. I started to get a deeper sense of this spirit and started to 'see' the name Katherine. There were a few cold spots along the wall but there was no vibration normally associated with a vortex. Her presence continued off & on for another half hour. I tried to get an indication from this spirit if it was aware we were present. I walked around to see if I could get a better gauge of the presence. The best sign we could get was an occasional sweeping sound in the high grass.

Gray's Mill, MD - engraving from 1865
This activity continued past midnight until we noticed a scent of honeysuckle. There were no honeysuckle bushes in the area and the scent was getting very strong, almost to the point of being sickening. Then we noticed her! Directly in front of us at a distance of about 20 yards we became aware of the misty full-bodied apparition of a woman with blonde or gray hair in a light blue dress moving left to right, then proceeding towards the road. Then she would move back towards us. It was a very spooky sight because it seemed she would “light up” occasionally revealing her facial features and hair. We watched this for a few minutes when I decided to try to communicate. I slowly got to my feet and walked towards her. I stopped and watched her move around me when suddenly she started moving towards me. Instantly, I was hit in the face with that sickly honeysuckle scent. This time it made my eyes and nose burn. I tried to look around me but could not see nor sense her. My eyesight was blurry and I was very uncomfortable. My partner said she moved off towards the road and he lost sight of her. I then realized that I should have restrained from making physical contact. This could have easily been a serious situation if this spirit was malevolent and, frankly, I knew better. All indications are that this was a visiting spectre and that there was no residual haunting, at least by this spirit. We waited for another ½ hour but noticed nothing further. Frankly, that odor of honeysuckles was still on me and I was ready to go home and wash it off. One interesting side note, when I did get home my wife thought I was crazy because she did not notice any scent of honeysuckles.

I have checked the name “Katherine” for many years and the best I can speculate is that Katherine was either a guest or friend of the Gray or Kennedy family who is drawn to this location. I never received any indications of sorrow or evil from her while she visited us that August evening. It’s too bad that this is not the case with most of the entities I have encountered.

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