Sasquatch, strange experiences, etc.

[Jason]

Originally posted this in wildlife, perhaps it is better suited here:

I'm sure someone has done this before, but I'm bored and can't sleep so I figure I'll see where this goes...

I was hiking around yesterday in Highland Forest in southern Onondaga County. I came across a trail register and someone had written in the book, "I saw a Sasquatch." I laughed at the absurd simplicity of the statement.

I have no agenda and no thoughts or conclusions on Bigfoot, but I have always noted that new sightings seem to crop up every year all over the country. Either there are lots of crazy people out there, or there is some common mental phenonemom that makes fatigued but normal people see big hairy things in the woods.

So, has anyone in this forum ever seen, heard, smelled, or sensed something strange in the deep northern woods of the Adirondacks? I guess this thread doesn't have to be limited to Bigfoot--whatever strange experiences anyone has had would be more than appropriate.

I'm not starting this forum to create a joke or lure people into a situation where others will torment them. I have been continually impressed by the maturity of this forum and I expect that if any individual has, for some reason, encountered something odd in the woods, that he or she can simply share that experience with no judgements attached. I believe that humans experience a lot of things in life that are seemingly unexplainable and that these experiences are legitimate if not completely provable.

Thanks--I hope someone has a good story to tell!

Jason Feulner

[fvrwld]

Originally posted this in wildlife, perhaps it is better suited here:

I agree. I deleted the post identical to this in the wildlife section.

[redhawk]

I think we already had a thread on this somewhere.

[Dick]

It's here.

Dick

[Rock]

I think I saw the Labatt Blue Fairy once.

[Justin]

My father, his friend Dave, and myself witnessed a strange small fire on the shoreline of the [big] island at Middle Lake in the Wilcox Lake wild forest while camped at the southern penninsula. It was dusk/alittle after dark, didn't see anyone else around all day long, and really didn't think much of it. It didn't last long, 10-15 minutes maybe. The first thing next morning, we paddled across to investigate and found no signs of anyone, or a fire of any kind where we believed we saw it. The firepit at the nearby campsite was deeper inland and we would not have seen it if a fire was ignited in the firepit.

Maybe someone came in late, crossed the lake out of site from us, with a different boat (other than the one we found near our campsite), had a quick stick fire at shoreline, cleaned up the ashes when they were through, without using any flashlights, and left that night or very early in the morning before we woke up. Certainly not impossible, but we all thought it was really weird.

[redhawk]

Is it possible that it was St. Elmos Fire? Was it the type of weather where you might have expected a thunderstorm?

[Justin]

Was it the type of weather where you might have expected a thunderstorm?

It was fair weather, I think Aug. or Sept. so ...sure!

I'm not sure what exactly "St. Elmos fire" is though.

[Sasquatch]

I see Sasquatch... every time I look in the mirror.

[Jason]

Thanks!

I looked at the past thread, and I enjoyed some of the serious and not-so-serious stories.

Redhawk, your story was particularly chilling. Obviously, you have no idea what forces were at play, but you witnessed the effects. I assume that 99% of these legitimate stories aren't like "I saw Bigfoot" but are "I saw something weird and felt more scared than I can describe." Once-in-a-while, there is something out there that we simply can't explain.

My only encounter with the unexplained occurred not in the Adirondacks but in Big Flats, NY (near Corning) around 1989. I was 9-years-old and sleeping over at a friend's house. His house abutted a large cornfield that stretched into the endless woods that define the NY-PA border. We were sleeping on his back porch, in a tent that we had thrown up, and I laid awake while my friend was sleeping away.

What I remember most was his dog going absolutely nuts--it was hopping up and down and barking like crazy. Suddenly, some sort of of something with glowing lights came into view and hovered slowly over a shed. There was a humming sound. This object made its way past a line of pine trees, there was a red glow, and it was gone.

Of course, I have no idea what I saw. Could it have been conventional craft? Possibly, although the low sound and the slow, hovering-like movement doesn't remind me of anything I've come across since.

I wasn't under the influence of anything, of course, but my relatively young age may have made my mind fill in details that simply weren't there. In any case, it's a fun story.

I have always felt at peace in the woods, and I have never even felt a momentary chill of fear in the woods of the Adirondacks. We shall see...

[stripperguy]

The two of us men folk went in to St. Regis Pond early on a Friday in 1982, made camp on the little island, and returned to Little Clear by flashlight to wait for the ladies. They were behind schedule, as always. So we waited and waited for several hours.
By this time, it is nearly midnght, and the two of us are standing at the launch on Little Clear Pond. You could hear a whisper across the pond. We see a light rise up over St. Regis Mt., kind of focused, like a spotlight. This light swept from left to right, from our viewpoint, then disappeared, only to pop up again by Jenkins Mt. a moment or two later. The same swept beam, and then nothing. These peaks are about 3 or 4 miles from our position, and maybe 3 miles from one another.
But here's the strange part...niether of us heard any sound from an aircraft of any sort.

[chairrock]

I was in the woods during deer season in a spruce swamp. There was fresh snow, it was a winter wonderland. All of a suden I swore everything was moving.... I atributed this to to much gin the night before.
Later in the week I heard the reports of the earthquake....

[Adkleaddog]

A couple of friends and myself were camping on a "secret" lake once, it was one of those typical Adk summers....rain and gloom, overcast and foggy. The rain stopped, and it was foggy....One of the guys (Bob for the discussion) had his tent under a huge white pine, and the other tents were about 30 to 50 feet away from his. The rain indeed stopped, except for the constant downpour over Bob's tent. It never stopped, it went on all night, the fire was only about 50 feet from it as well, and we were bone dry! It was a sight to behold

We as engineers and scientists, had figured that the pine was wicking the water from the dense fog above, condensing it on it's many needles (see surface area) and delivering right on his tent...that's our theory and we're sticking to it..

We endured the situation in fine fashion

[dmartenvt]

Driving down Route 74, past Eagle Lake towards Rte 22, around 4 years back. Middle of the night, an early April snowstorm had just ended...saw strange lights hovering above the road, in a double V shape, like an upside down "W" crossed in the center, translucent and kind of shimmering and shaking. There was no physical thing there, just light, the width of the road, hanging at just about the height of the top of a telephone pole. No other cars around, no street lights, just this huge light form shimmying and shaking. I was fairly nervous to drive under it, but kept hoping I'd figure out what this was, see a streetlight or something to explain this weird light. Did the smart thing. Pretended I saw nothing. Hoping the husband saw nothing.

Went under it, looked up, was entirely blinded by the light, but there was no form or structure, just light. Let out a little yell because it was like being hit by this blinding light that blocked everything out, and then we were beyond it and there was only darkness ahead.

The entire conversation went ... what the *%^& was that? I said I have no idea. He says, let's go back and see. I say absolutely not. No way. I'm not going back there, didn't you see "Fire in the Sky?". He insists on saying it's the night we saw the UFO and telling everyone. I'm a scientist. I cannot run around talking about the night I saw a UFO. Everyone already thinks I'm a wacko because I insist that the fluoride in the water is very bad for health. I can only say it was a weird light like I've never seen, can't explain, and frankly had no desire whatsoever to investigate it...just wanted to get away from it!

Then there was the day I was on my boat in Lake Champlain and I saw something very odd...but I'll leave that for another time...

[Justin]

COOL!!