I still think the worst you can do is walk into a covey of quail in the dark. It doesn’t last long but your heart will miss a beat. I have heard some hair raising sounds from creatures that sound capable of hunting the human species to extinction but have convinced myself that I am the most dangerous thing in the woods. So far that’s gotten me out the woods safely.
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Strange occurances in the woods
- Thread starter Jay_Disarray
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I don't know how the heck you hunt in the same swamps as gators. No. Thank. You. I will gladly take black bears who run away as soon as you yell at them.
My dad and I were in the upper peninsula of Michigan, over on the western side near Amasa. I was 13 and it was the year before I could legally hunt with a rifle in Michigan. Legal age was 14. We were walking out of the woods and it was well past dark. The camp we were staying in was about a 15 minute walk from our spot. I'm walking with my flashlight and my fold up chair along this trail, my dad is taking his sweet old time slowly trailing behind me. I hear something in the bushes beside me, turned and nothing was there. I took 1 more step and heard another twig snap. Now I will preface this next part with my dad and his step brother telling me about "three toes" the bear that had been hanging around the local deer camps. So with that in mind, I hear the twig snap I shine my flashlight over and I see this big mass of fur stand up and I utter the words "OH $hi7" thinking it was three toes coming to tear my head clean off with one swipe. I was surely done for...until in that split second my brain suddenly recognized "moose head and long legs". Calf moose. It stood up, turned opposite of us and let out this weird distressed grunting noise as it thumped away. I still remember feeling my heart pounding out of my chest. My dad standing right next to me with his gun still casually slung over his shoulder. He has a notoriously slow reaction time so I'm not surprised he didn't do a combat roll and shoot it to defend his kid. I turned and looked at him and he says "Whoa that was cool.... What did you say when you saw it" That was probably the first time he heard me swear out loud. One of the scariest and most adrenaline pumping moments of my life. I've always been scared of the dark, the woods have always been freaky to me at night until recently with age and confidence. Definitely the freakiest moment I've ever had in the woods.
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My struggle w/the whole Bigfoot thing is no trail cam pics or legit documentation. I think a lot of crazy unexplained noises get attributed to them. But I’ve yet to experience that, so I could be made a believer crawling through some thick stuff at 4am ........
The strangest things that have happened to me in the woods mostly have to do with people. I was walking to one of my deep spots once at around 4am. It was a long walk and I wanted to be set up with plenty of time before first light. Well about 3/4 of a mile in I run into a random guy standing on the trail. No light or anything just standing there with gold panning equipment. (That's popular where I hunt). Kind of surprised me but I walked on by and I said hey how you doing? He just replied with mmhmm and watched me like a hawk as I walked by. I looked behind me twice as I walked on and he never moved. Another time, same area, my wife and I finished hunting and we're walking out when we noticed 3 guys walking our direction on the trail. These guys looked like homeless meth addicts. They kept leaning toward each other talking and looking at me and my wife as we got closer. I honestly thought I was going to have to fight our way out that evening. They walked by us slowly just staring and walked on.
I've had some interesting moments while hunting and backpacking.
When I was a teenager, my dad and I hunted along a river in Ohio. This river was often visited by people floating in canoes. It was early season in October and I was set up at a shallow riffle crossing in a pinch point between two fields. About 3pm I hear some laughing and talking coming down the river. It was a guy and his lady friend. about the time they get 30 yards upstream, they pull off onto a sandbar and she jumps out of the canoe. She was wearing a short one piece dress with a bikini on underneath. She hikes up that sundress, drops the bikini bottoms, and bends over with her backside and everything else facing right towards me. I never say a word. She does her business, jumps back into the canoe, and off they float, none the wiser that I just saw everything. And I mean everything. Best hunt of my life to date.
Another time, while backcountry hiking in Colorado, I set up camp near the old Haywood Fire area, right on top of a high ridge. I ate dinner, hung my bear bag, and got into my tent. I was with a friend and it was late, pitch black dark. I can hear my friend is asleep. All of a sudden I hear this loud drumming, almost as if it was a helicopter about to land on us. It was so loud and all around us. My friend remains asleep, even as I'm going "Hey man, do you hear this?" I was freaked out. Well, next morning we get up, and as we're cooking breakfast, I ask him again, "Didn't you hear that loud thumping last night?" He said no. We pack up and start on our way deeper into the backcountry and we aren't 30 yards down the trail when I take a misstep off the trail and break a twig and BOOM!!! A covey of grouse bust out of the underbrush and scare the life out of me. I looked at my friend and said, "Well, that explains last night."
When I was a teenager, my dad and I hunted along a river in Ohio. This river was often visited by people floating in canoes. It was early season in October and I was set up at a shallow riffle crossing in a pinch point between two fields. About 3pm I hear some laughing and talking coming down the river. It was a guy and his lady friend. about the time they get 30 yards upstream, they pull off onto a sandbar and she jumps out of the canoe. She was wearing a short one piece dress with a bikini on underneath. She hikes up that sundress, drops the bikini bottoms, and bends over with her backside and everything else facing right towards me. I never say a word. She does her business, jumps back into the canoe, and off they float, none the wiser that I just saw everything. And I mean everything. Best hunt of my life to date.
Another time, while backcountry hiking in Colorado, I set up camp near the old Haywood Fire area, right on top of a high ridge. I ate dinner, hung my bear bag, and got into my tent. I was with a friend and it was late, pitch black dark. I can hear my friend is asleep. All of a sudden I hear this loud drumming, almost as if it was a helicopter about to land on us. It was so loud and all around us. My friend remains asleep, even as I'm going "Hey man, do you hear this?" I was freaked out. Well, next morning we get up, and as we're cooking breakfast, I ask him again, "Didn't you hear that loud thumping last night?" He said no. We pack up and start on our way deeper into the backcountry and we aren't 30 yards down the trail when I take a misstep off the trail and break a twig and BOOM!!! A covey of grouse bust out of the underbrush and scare the life out of me. I looked at my friend and said, "Well, that explains last night."
Same. I think someone would have probably hit one with a car by now too if they were real.
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Started up a big split trunk oak with a with limbs starting up about 18'. Thought I would hang just above the first big limb between the trunks. Going up on screw in steps with no linemans or harness, get to the first limb and see that there is a hole in the trunk where I was going to hang. Grab the limb and lean out pretty good on one step so I can look over in the hole. Whole entire family of flying skwerls stacked in there tight and all staring me right in the face from about 8". That was one of those laugh when you recover sorta deals and was happy I didnt bail off the side of that tree.
Had a similar deal but was in a climber and got up to a hole, looked in and there coiled up was some sorta snake that I didnt stick around long enough to identify. Slid back down and moved to a different tree. LOL
Hogs and bears in a chest high cutover in the dark will raise the heart rate a little.
Had a similar deal but was in a climber and got up to a hole, looked in and there coiled up was some sorta snake that I didnt stick around long enough to identify. Slid back down and moved to a different tree. LOL
Hogs and bears in a chest high cutover in the dark will raise the heart rate a little.
I caught this photo on camera last season. It really creeps me out. It's probably two guys looking for their dog, but my imagination tells me they had a girl enslaved in their basement and she somehow escaped and they are chasing after her. Gives me the chills everytime.
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I don't know..... the wood breaking noise sounds like a substantial piece of wood... I cant snap cypress. I think I would have called out and then shot based on response but easy to say sitting in my chair not in that situation ......that is the most real looking footage I've seen
So, hypothetically, if u do kill a skunk ape /bigfoot what is the order of calls your gonna make?
1 wife
2 game warden
3 jack link beef jerky
4?
1 wife
2 game warden
3 jack link beef jerky
4?
Ima call Turtleman to come help with the announcement video for instagram.
IF...IF I shot one the first phone call will be to 911 to let them know my location because it’s mate, friend , momma or poppa is going to break me in half and I want someone to find my remains. If I’m still alive after that gone calland if I don’t high tail it out of there , I grab my knife and take its hand, head or whatever body part I can get, take good pictures and then get out of dodge. If the authorities want me to me to take them then they will need to provide me an AR-10 and a full squad of Navy Seals, Force recon and delta force cause there isn’t anyway I’m headed back to that location.
1) Rich guy that wants to buy a Bigfoot for really crazy $$$$
2)My Bank
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Seriously, listen to some of the YouTube videos from howtohunt.com
Don’t listen to just one, but listen to a few before making judgement.
It is just him relating info., but, at least to me, it is compelling enough to listen to and research. And he is a hunter and hunting guide, that should give him some credence in our minds. At the very least, you can come back here and say sojourner is nuttier than a squirrel turd. Otherwise, it may give you something to think about.
One recurring theme related to this is that individuals with means would not shoot it due to it being so human like.
Me, I hope to never experience first hand observing any cryptoziod entity, let alone one that could harm me.
Hypothetically, if I killed one of these. I would take enough DNA evidence and photographic evidence for multiple sources to test / analyze. Then anonymously get it to entities that could analyze it.
But hey, that’s just me.
1 hunting buddy
2 taxidermist
3 game warden
4 google how does a Sasquatch taste over open fire
I am going to head over and check out some of those videos soon. One thing I do know, I had a few friends when I was in my late teens/early 20's that did some pretty funny shenanigans in a big foot costumes that they had bought online. With that said, I would feel horrible for killing a real human (although a very stupid one) that had made a bad decision trying to be funny. Now if I really felt that I was imminent danger of being harmed and that this may be something legit, I would have to take those matters serious. But to shoot something I saw moving or standing in the woods because I felt that I would become rich and famous for it, I'll take a hard pass. As for the costume, I would think a 5'10" person in a suit is going to be a drastic difference in the mythical (to me at least) beast that many have claimed to experience.
Sorry for the long post...hang with it....
This strange thing didnt happen in the woods, but the story starts there........A few years ago a buddy and I go for a hunt in the late split bow season here in Iowa, just a couple days before Christmas. We had just had two days of snow let up that morning and knew the afternoon hunt would be terrific. We both had hung stands in a small wood lot surrounded by draws, treeline and two corn fields nearby. We can barely see each other from our stands and his is slightly closer to the field edge than mine. The deer pour out into that cornfield with at least a 7 or 8 shooters.
A little before dark the deer are at the field edge, I rattle a little and the big guys come right to my friend, he arrows a very nice 9 point. We start to try to drag out the deer but with our gear and especially with about 18 inches of snow on the ground we dont make it 30 yards. We decided to take our bows and gear back to the truck and come back. On the way back to the truck we see off in the distance a couple of people riding snow mobiles. That's when I had a great idea.
I tell my buddy let's go find those guys and pay them to drag out his deer. He thinks thats an awesome plan so we get into the truck and go looking. About a half mile down the road around a corner we see some snow machines in a drive way. We go down the drive and up to a large garage. Go to the small door and knock. It is opened and we begin to explain who we are and what we wanted. As we are doing that I start to notice what is inside. (This all happens in less than a minute as we talk)
First I notice a really large window on one wall to the left. On the other side of the window is the kitchen. Odd.
Then I see a couch in front of a big screen TV, kinda randomly there in this big garage. Then I start to notice a fenced in area at the back of the garage with what looks like a bed and a broke down recliner chair in it. There was this animal lying on the bed, and one hopping around, and another sitting in the chair.........wait are those kangaroos? Yep, this family had 6 kangaroos in their garage. They were just hanging out with them in their garage. Totally blew me away.....very surreal.
Oh and the guy dragged out my buddies deer for free.
This strange thing didnt happen in the woods, but the story starts there........A few years ago a buddy and I go for a hunt in the late split bow season here in Iowa, just a couple days before Christmas. We had just had two days of snow let up that morning and knew the afternoon hunt would be terrific. We both had hung stands in a small wood lot surrounded by draws, treeline and two corn fields nearby. We can barely see each other from our stands and his is slightly closer to the field edge than mine. The deer pour out into that cornfield with at least a 7 or 8 shooters.
A little before dark the deer are at the field edge, I rattle a little and the big guys come right to my friend, he arrows a very nice 9 point. We start to try to drag out the deer but with our gear and especially with about 18 inches of snow on the ground we dont make it 30 yards. We decided to take our bows and gear back to the truck and come back. On the way back to the truck we see off in the distance a couple of people riding snow mobiles. That's when I had a great idea.
I tell my buddy let's go find those guys and pay them to drag out his deer. He thinks thats an awesome plan so we get into the truck and go looking. About a half mile down the road around a corner we see some snow machines in a drive way. We go down the drive and up to a large garage. Go to the small door and knock. It is opened and we begin to explain who we are and what we wanted. As we are doing that I start to notice what is inside. (This all happens in less than a minute as we talk)
First I notice a really large window on one wall to the left. On the other side of the window is the kitchen. Odd.
Then I see a couch in front of a big screen TV, kinda randomly there in this big garage. Then I start to notice a fenced in area at the back of the garage with what looks like a bed and a broke down recliner chair in it. There was this animal lying on the bed, and one hopping around, and another sitting in the chair.........wait are those kangaroos? Yep, this family had 6 kangaroos in their garage. They were just hanging out with them in their garage. Totally blew me away.....very surreal.
Oh and the guy dragged out my buddies deer for free.