Wow bigdave. I used to go to church with a blue lady. She was just as blue as could be. I used to ask my Mom why the lady was that color and she always told me that little girls shouldn't be so nosey. :glare:

We had a blue lady at church. I just thought she was so old, that she was putting Blue Eyeshadow on her face and thought it was foundation or something

I waved at you, but I guess you couldn't see me through the darkened plexiglass canopy.

:biggrin:

My "weird" encounters are not as creepy as some of the others posted here...but I'll share them anyway. Neither was during a BF expedition.

1) Late 80's, summer, I was in my early 20's, went hiking in the Olympic National Forest with my boyfriend - we went up a river (the Humptulips? gosh my memory is fading!) for a weekend hike over "Little Hump" and "Big Hump." It was a holiday weekend and very crowded on the trails. Campsites were few and far between - we ended up with a nice spot right next to the river, but we also had to share it with some Boy Scouts so it wasn't the most peaceful experience. Still, we made the best of it - plus they made foil packet dinners and shared with us. Anyway, in the middle of the night my boyfriend woke me up, asked me if I heard a strange noise. I could barely hear it. It was like a humming sound, really low and deep. Maybe a plane flying over....? He had to pee so he got out of the tent and soon came darting back in, insisted I come out and see this "thing" over the river. It was cold and by this time I was freaked, but I got out anyway and there, in a very soft moonlight, was this black object hovering about 100' off the river and just upstream from us. It was pretty big - just this round, dark mass making this low, barely-audible humming noise. We kept trying to wrap our heads around what it could be. A helicopter? No, too quiet. A plane? Too low. A UFO? We weren't really the UFO types but hmmmm, a possibility. By this time one of the scout leaders was with us, and we were all perplexed. We ultimately decided it was some kind of trick of the eye, a play of light, something like that - maybe just so we'd all be able to get back to sleep. He asked us not to mention it to any of the scouts as they were hiking into the Oly Natl Park the next day. We stayed another night and nothing weird happened. At some point we ran into a ranger and mentioned the "thing" to him and he said there hadn't been any rescue operations in the area, and that it was probably an optical illusion. Still, all these years later, I can picture that "thing" in my memory and I am not sure what the heck it was!

2) Same boyfriend, same time period, farther south near Staircase campground in the Olympic National Park. We were car camping and liked to hit the logging roads in our little pickup, just drive up and goof around up in the mountains, do a little hiking, stuff like that. One evening we were heading back down to the campground from the main logging road leading out of there...it was just before dusk (we liked to get off the roads before dark as they were pretty treacherous)...we pulled over near a switchback for one last look at the view and we were standing there on the side of the logging road when I noticed this weird little "altar" about 10' below the grade of the road, right there in the middle of the clearcut. It it really difficult to describe. It was small - maybe a foot wide and a foot high. It was made entirely of really weird-looking food. It reminded me of the food they ate in old 70's sci-fi movies - weird colors and shapes. Some was on little styrofoam trays and some was in the dirt, but it was all very perfectly arranged. It kinda creeped us out, so we got out of there. Still not sure what that was all about!

3) This was just a few years ago, here in good old Whatcom "Bigfoot Country" County, WA - hubby and I were thinking of buying some property about 1/2 way between Bellingham and Mt. Baker. We were with a realtor, walking around this 20-acre piece (hindsight: prices were so good then, we shoulda bought it!), the back 1/2 was all forest so we were just wandering around in the trees and we came across these 5 identically-shaped and sized pits in the ground. They were rectangular, about 4' wide by 6' long, about 5' deep, all layed out in sort of a fan pattern (like peacock feathers) in relation to each other. You could tell they'd been there a few years. They were definitely not a natural feature. I commented they looked like graves, the realtor said they were caused by "soil testing" but I have always wondered what the heck those things were. It was pretty creepy at the time!

The pits could very well have been "perc" pits. I have a few on my own property from a soil test (for septic system approval) last year. Thing is, they're typically dug with a backhoe, and usually only a couple feet wide and about six feet deep. They can look bigger if the sides have caved in a bit.

But...could also be graves, too! Maybe the seller was busted for murder before he could bury his victims? Bwaa haaa haaa haaa....

I still call them the graves, but your answer makes more sense! They were pretty far from the property's proposed building site, though - still, who knows! We definitely have some weird characters up here so I almost don't WANT to know what they were.

Any new additions in time for Halloween?

A long walk out into the woods just about sundown, then it gets to me dusk, and murky, and bats start flying around, and then... BANG! Something hits a tree with a log! Then you hear/feel a deep moaning growling sound/vibration, then...

OK, take it from here...

Replace the tree knock and groans with footsteps and something large running through the brush and I had that happen. The Cliff Notes ended with rocks being thrown and multiple guns being drawn.

The creepiest thing I found while in the woods was a Sasquatch(or it found me). It scared the heck out of me and
I have not been back in the woods since!

I have a great Uncle who is an antique arms dealer, he had a tree trunk with a civil war rifle stuck through it, still loaded.. very cool...

We lived right next to Boeing in the outskirts of Seattle, we also had those black unmarked, fast, helicopters hovering above our neighborhood.. They were so quiet you would not even know they were there if you didn't see them..

Why not?

I'm strictly armchair in terms of bf research, so the creepiest thing I've found was the time I was looking up something on neanderthals on google in responce to something here... and stumbled into a neonazi/white supremacist forum. It was obstensably a "tuetonic pride" forum, deceptively normal looking. It had well organized sections on genealogy and physical anthropology in particular, which is what got the hit. Then you noticed the usernames. And the icons. And the warnings not to discuss jews so they wouldn't get shut down. There might as well have been a bigfoot or a freaky altar 'cuz I definately wanted to back out of there in a hurry too.

That is legit creepy.

The creepiest/strangest thing that I've encountered in the woods while researching was several bones and what appeared to be the skull of a horse, hanging about 6 or 7 feet up in a tree. This was just across the river from where we had our sightings. I don't know what put them up in the tree, but it seemed pretty weird at the time.

Wow!! I had forgotten about this thread, one of my favorites...

Anyway... I found a few weird things while out & about, not necessarily Squatchin, but in likely areas.

Once, hiking by myself along the river bank further than most people hike, I came across a fifteen foot stretch of discarded clothing, both mens and womens. Underwear too. Kinda creeped me out, wondering where they went without their clothes. It was cold out too.

In that same general area, only even further out, my son, my ex soninlaw and I found a protion of a fairly large skull.
Couldn't tell what it was from, it was only the domed part, no teeth etc. We thought maybe a huge carp or turtle, but it just didn't seem right.

One morning, I went out to our barn on a farm we used to live on, and in the horses feeder, there was an outfit of womens clothing. It didn't belong to my wife or daughters. And it looked out of style, and definatley out of place. Nobody had an explanation.

The creepiest by far was when 2 buddies and I were hiking in a remote national park, far from any roads or habitation. We decided to take a rest in some shade, under some trees in the brush, off the trail a ways. We sat on this mound and chatted a few minutes, when I noticed that the mound was sort of loaf shaped about 7 ft. long. I thought that rather odd for a natural formation. Then I glanced behind me, and at the end of the mound was a crude handmade cross, made out of logs.
We all freaked for a couple minutes, then one of my buddies said somebodey must have buried a pet dog here. But then we all agreed that it must have been a huge dog. We didn't stick around long after that.

I know a gentleman with Down's Syndrome (along with other disabilities) that is blue. His heart just doesn't pump strong enough to keep him "pinked up". His normal skin tone is 'standard BFF background blue/gray' behind our sceen names and his lips/fingernails are darker yet, like the color of the "little slider thingy" (the thing you click on to move the screen up and down) at the right edge of the screen. When he gets excited (mad, laughs, etc), he turns normal pink and becomes blue again when he relaxes. His Dr. says he is healthy and there isn't really anything to do about it. He is very active and well into his upper 50's (quite old for someone with Down's) so he's obviously doing well despite his color.

It's kinda' freaky until you get used to it though.

17x7

Long Story short.... 3 pigs buried in a row, buried in an erect position, with only the heads and necks showing out of the ground. And seriousy, out in the midlle of nowhere, with no road access. There was not a pig farm for probably 60-70 road miles. Scared and still scares the hell out of me. 3 pigs just staring at me....

Nearby was there one house made of straw, one house made of wood, and one house made of brick? I think the big bad wolf did it!

That would have freaked me out. You didn't hear banjo music by any chance?

SQUEAALLL LIKE A PIG! No, thank god!

you shore got a purty mouth, Sac-squatch!

hey its your avatar not mine.......


dav

That is soo wrong.

sorry way too easy, I couldnt pass that line up.


dav

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article385529.ece

I'd just moved to a rural area about 12 miles from the nearest town.We had a german shepherd dog.The dog kept coming up in the yard wet.I followed the dog and I asked him to show me his pond.This was one smart dog and he walked right to it.I had to follow the dog about 1/2 mile through the woods.
In the middle of the pond was a burnt cross hanging from a wire.At the south end there was a huge firepit in the shape of a cross and a cleared trail for 4 wheelers.I thought it was a KKK meeting place. I never had much to say after that to the neighbor who had the pond on his property.
I only went back once to show my wife and brother about a month later.They thought I was blowing smoke when I told them about it.. My brother said he thought it was a cult meeting site.I haven't been back since then.

I wanted to point out, trees grow from the top, not the bottom, so any damage 25 feet off the ground had to have been done at that hieght, unless they bent the tree over as a sapling. I don't know if that makes it more or less weird. the rod almost sounds like an insulator of some kind, like for a bush phone line or something?

Was just out today doing some looking around in one of my photo areas and found this:

Curious as to what's inside it...Its just off the public trail but away from where most people (besides my exploring self) could find it. It was hidden pretty good so it might be important, either that or the Bigfoots are now planting IEDs? lol

looks like a possible geocache.

dav

Could be a letterbox.

http://www.letterboxing.org

Not sure if this question applies here or not, but is it possible that some of the things that are seen and heard and experienced out in the field, and are attributed to Bigfoot (rock throwing, wood knocking, etc) could be moonshiners or people operating meth labs or other people with nefarious intentions just trying to scare people away from their area of operation? I'm not saying this is always the case, but could it be the case in some instances?

shenandoah, I think that's a very valid point. I've heard from some of my LE friends that the meth cookers around these parts come up with some pretty far out stuff to throw people off their trails. I've never thought of these people using bf 'tactics', but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

I would bet it is a geocache. If you do not know what that is check this out.
http://www.geocaching.com/


Not sure about the meth but a moon shiners set up would be smelled. If they was running the still you could smell it from a long way off and chances are hear it. Don't ask me how I know that stuff :-)

Shot this picture years ago. It's a small cleared area in the middle of all these fir and oaks. There's only a couple of oak leaves and one or two twigs across this spot. It's almost all needles. Totally different than the duff around it. There was no trail leading to or from this clearing or any trash or human evidence that I could see. The only out of place item there was a single deer leg bone.
The clearing was probably big enough to stick a single person tent on it, but who the hell would camp there?

With a new year come more creppy things!

Great thread, I'm glad it got revived. Here's a Halloween story for ya. October 31, 2006, last day of whitetail bowhunting, I'm out in full camo creeping along a small creek valley. Mid-afternoon I spot a small patch of something blue down just off the trail and down in the brush. As I get closer I realize its a chunk of tarp covered mostly with leaves, but it looks wierd so I climb down into this little depression for a closer look. When I get down there I realize the tarp is covering a piece of sheet metal that's been put over the bottom end of a small ravine as a crude shelter -- there's a small fire pit and a bit of garbage laying about. I'm wondering who the hell would be trying to live way the hell out here, so I take a peek into the front of this crude shelter. It was on a slope, so I had to lean way down just to look in the entrance. The first thing I see is a couple of feet, one has the boot still on, and the other just has a sock on and its pretty puffed up. Oh f#*#, I figure, why is it always the hunter who finds these guys. So then I get right down on my knees to look all the way in, and there's a dummy with a big happy face for a head. I'm guessing somebody set this up as a prank for that night -- it was far enough out of the way nobody was likely to stumble across it accidentally, although I did. If I'd got a deer that day I was going to cut the head off and prepare a surprise for the guy who set it up, but alas my bow tag went unfilled that year.

Hi

I found this small rack while out hiking the Plymouth ,MA state forest, it was sawed from the scull, it still had flesh and blood on it, must have been a few weeks old, didn't find the rest of the deer, don't know why someone would saw up scull like that

Peace
Tim

Drill a hole in the center, screw it to a plaque and hang it on the wall. That's a standard cut for mounting antlers of any kind.

Hi


"O" ok, i thought it was pretty cool, i have kept it on my fire place mantel

Thanks
Tim

TaaaDaaaaa! Micahn wins...you're right, it IS a geocache. I opened it (carefully ofcourse) last month and sure enough there were objects and a letter and instructions. Kinda neat, I will leave something in it soon.

wasn't hunting bf but locating and marking old gravesites for a timber company in north middle georgia.these graves ranged from the early 1800's till the 1950's.the old homesteads of most of the graves were quite aways off the present day roads.

Rounder, that's awesome as well as kind of disturbing that somebody would go to such lengths. Perhaps it was a recluses shelter, particularly with the garbage and all.

FredSneakers,
It really did look like one, I suspect someone had been living there for a time. The tin/tarp thing was built into the little ravine quite well and the fall leaves had covered it to the point that you could barely tell it was there. I in fact walked right past it on my way in without seeing it, and I was moving slow and looking around a lot since I was bowhunting. It was only on the return trip from a different angle I spotted a small patch of the blue tarp. I guess someone else must have found it before me, but after the previous occupant had left. The whole thing was pretty creepy until I saw the happy face. I really thought at the time it must be a set up for that night (Halloween), and if I'd been a little more ambitious I suppose I could have stuck around, put on the outfit myself, and really given some people a scare!

You didn't get a picture of that, did you?

If you have a GPS, it's a great hobby. I've been geocaching for a few years now.

Late reply [FWIW]: What you might have seen was a US Customs "Blackhawk" helicopter. Theirs are painted all black with "US CUSTOMS" written in gold(ish) on the side. The writing isn't always that easy to see.

As far as the lights... I'd have to see that to comment. In daylight they're not always that visible. At night, they *should* be on. Unless they were flying some kind of 'secret squirrel' missions or something.

The USCG flies the HH-60J "Jayhawk" version, which is painted 'international orange' and white. The US Army has been flying them since the late<?> 1970's. Theirs are painted either olive drab, or whatever camoflage<sp?> color they use for whatever part of the world they're flying in @ the time.

Cool thread. I'll add mine. Its nowhere as good as some of these but it gave me the chills when it happened.

I live in Colorado and my Siberian Husky and I go out roaming around in the Pike National Forest after work. One day last year we were a pretty good ways back in there, about 30-40 mins by foot off the nearest forest road. There are a lot of large granite boulders and rock formations in this area. They are pretty cool to climb around in and on. Some are a hundred feet or more high. My dog likes to play hide and seek with me in them. Anyway, this was a formation we hadnt been around before. I noticed a really nice looking "cave", kinda hidden in this formation so I turned sideways and slid in there to check it out. It was about 6- 8 feet deep and about 6 feet wide...maybe 12 ft ceiling. Inside I immediately noticed a large plastic tarp covering a small rear opening, as if to prevent wind from blowing through. There was also an old but usable chaise lounge chair in there and a table that had been made of tree limbs and wood. There was the metal grate from a cooking grill laying over a rock ring fire pit. Thank GOD there was no one in there. My hair stood on end when I realized where I was and that there easily could have been some six-toed freak sitting in there sharpening a machete' or something. Needless to say, we hauled ass.

A few years back while looking for Bigfoot evidence in Virginia, a couple other investigators and myself saw something none of us could explain. It was around midnight and we were walking back a dirt road to a large wooded area. We were walking without any lights just hoping for a chance encounter or possible movement.

We get to about 30 yards away from the tree line and notice a ball of light come into view over the trees. The trees were probably 40 feet tall and encompassed the whole area in front of us. Now there were no lighting bugs, the brightest part was the size of a softball, and this thing did not blink but stayed lit. We asked each other if we saw the same thing and we agreed. It hovered at the edge of the treetops and actually gave off enough light to reflect off the trees.

Being very interested, one of the researchers walked over to stand right underneath it and confirmed it was reflecting off the trees and he could see through it.

This whole encounter lasted for but a minute or two and then it just shot off over the trees and was gone in a flash.

I am sure as I tell this story you are all raising an eyebrow but we know what we saw. Jokingly we talked about it later and the similarity that came to mind for all of us was it looked seemed like what a fairy or Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, would look like, crazy as that sounds!!!!!

MDBigfoot,
I'm not raising my eyebrows in the least. I know the story sounds wierd, but I've heard several first hand accounts of the same thing from an area around 120 miles northeast of here. I've never seen it myself, but you're not the first person to tell me a story very much like this one. I personally have no idea what on earth it could be.