04 Sep 2023 23:50:45
What’s everyone’s thoughts on “cryptids”, Bigfoot, dog man etc. personally I never believed in them until recently. A friend of mine for ages was trying to convince me, and I was having none of it, but a few weird experiences have certainly made me question whether something is out there. My friend and I went up a local hill for walk, middle of the day, it’s extremely thick forest for the most part and as we were walking through the centre of the hill my friend told me he’d seen videos of people “communicating” with bigfoot by banging sticks against trees. Anyway I humoured him and he went ahead and did it, immediately and I mean within a second or two he had a response. He knocked twice and he had two knocks back. We both just froze kind of in disbelief. My eyes watered and I was just kind of frozen. I told him to do it again and he did, this time 3 whacks with the stick and again immediately coming from the middle of the forest three knocks back. Again he did it one knock and one knock back. Anyway we did it a few more times and nothing else happened. Neither of us could believe it. It couldn’t have been another person messing with us as it came from the middle of the forest and the undergrowth where it was coming from was so thick you just couldn’t walk through it, and just the timing of it. It was a second or 2 at most from the first time he banged the stick to when we had the response. It would have had to have been someone who knew exactly what we were going to do and waiting for it, but it was just a spur of the moment thing. This also happened on one other occasion late at night up the same hill and caused us both to run out of the forest pretty quickly. Never happened again no matter how much we tried to get a response.
Another time we were up a different hill nearby to us. My friend and I used to meet up late at night quite regularly as his wife is disabled and he didn’t get much time in the day as he was always caring for her. So this other time we were up this hill and we were sat in my car around 1am ish looking out over the valley below. No forest on this one just fields around us. Anyway we got out of my car for a cigarette and heard in the distance, a strange noise. It sounded like an animal in distress. It sounded a mile or so away, very faint but noticeable for sure. We thought nothing more of it, im a country boy, so used to animal noises at night. 45 minutes later we did the same again, got out of the car for another cigarette and heard the noise again. We acknowledged it but again thought nothing more of it. Another half hour or so after we were getting ready to leave and decided to have one last cigarette, we got out of the car and this time didn’t notice the noise. We were finishing our cigarettes and just about to get back in the car when all of a sudden we heard an extremely loud and close low guttural growl. I can’t describe the noise, I’ve never heard anything like it before, the only way I can describe it was like the cross between a cow in distress and a big cats growl, it was very loud and it sounded CLOSE. Like 15-20 yards away. Safe to say we didn’t hang around to see what it was, we ran back to the car and shot off. As soon as I got home that night I looked at animal growls and noises from panthers and lions to steamer sheep and cow noises but heard absolutely nothing close to it. Never had any other experiences like this, but it really made me question if there is anything else out there we don’t know about and if these things are real, and if so what are they? I’ve since looked into the whole cryptid phenomenon and there’s some very credible sightings around the country, and it’s just made me really curious as for my entire life I never considered these things could be real but now I just don’t know what to believe.
Has anyone else’s had any strange experiences, or any insights in to what this phenomenon is about?
Thanks Ed, yeah the second one in particular scared us. The first one just peaked out curiosity. We kept going back to the same hill trying to get responses. The only other time we had a “response” was this time when we thought we’d have a bit of fun with a security who used to come and close the gates to the car park on the hill (a bit silly I know lol), my friend was making the knocks with a stick, and the security guard heard them and was going around with his torch trying to see where they were coming from. We’d been there for a while trying to get some responses, we tended again to go after dark. I think this time was around 9ish. Anyway as we having a bit of fun with this security guard when, after my friend made some knocks, coming from the forest behind us we heard 3 loud knocks back. Again we just ran to my car which wasn’t too far away. That one freaked us out a little as we weren’t expecting it at all, also being in a forest at night is a little creepy to say the least haha.
But yeah the growl was really really weird and frightening. Like I said I’m a country boy and never heard anything like it before in my life. I know around where I live there’s been reports of black cat sightings, but it just didn’t sound like a black cat. It didn’t sound like any cat or dog or known animal I’ve ever heard. I came across one video a while later of some guy who supposedly recording “dogman” noises, and that was the closest I’ve come to the noise we heard that night. Not saying that’s what it was of course, I honestly have no idea, but when you’ve exhausted all possibilities you begin to wonder what it could be.
I understand what you mean about woods etc being scary at night but that is mainly in the mind from watching too much MSM BS. I used to be scared of the dark but now I love being out early morning and watch it go from dark to light and see the realm wake up.
I haven’t actually watched it, I’ve heard of it, and I think I may have heard the video of the noises, it’s almost talking by the bigfoot creature. I think that’s the one you’re referring to anyway. What we heard wasn’t like that noise. I wish I could describe it better. It’s sounded otherworldly for want of a better word. To be honest I’ve never been scared of the dark. My friend and I used to walk through the woods regularly late at night, but particularly after that growl noise we haven’t been walking in the woods after dark anymore haha.
Have you seen the video of the Russian hunter in Siberia? Let me see if you can find the video. If you can watch it with headphones. I don’t think the videos fakes at all. The guy seeks genuinely terrified and his reaction seems genuine. Also his channel is just a hunting channel. There’s nothing else paranormal on it except this one video. Skip to 13.30 for when it starts, as I said watch with headphones to really hear what’s going on if you can
This sounds very Bigfoot-like. What exactly that is? The thing about the darkness/night time, is that it opens up your imagination. When I was younger I had no control over that, hence the fear of the dark. Now, rather than being scared if I hear some freaky stuff I will it to appear "show yourself". Still scared mind you but just standing my ground and owning my space. A good way to control fear.
Thought I heard wolf calls at first. Second lot of sounds sounded more like an animal pining for a dead mate. Gunshots freaked me more than the sounds. Just why would you put yourself through that mental torture, for a YouTube video. Stay on the path I was always told.
Knowing that can help you stop feeling fear of the unknown?
I’m not sure what it is Ed. To me it sounded like it was talking, almost mimicking a woman’s voice. Very odd to say the least. Yes that’s a good way of dealing with fear for sure. I’m not generally one to be scared but that growl sounded so menacing and whatever it was that made it sounded big, and I just instinctively ran for the car immediately.
Haha Scouseduckred, I know what you mean about the gun shots, scared the life out of me the first time I watched it. The thing is he’s just a hunter. There’s a video on his channel where he explains that he’s been hunting deer in the Siberian wilderness for decades, and that he knows every sound of nature but that night he heard noises that he had never heard before, and that he’s never scared of going out into the wilderness but that night he was terrified. I think that’s what he says anyway can’t quite remember now, but it’s along those lines. Also there was a cabin a few years before where another hunter was killed. It was put down to a bear attack, but it was odd as the guy was an experienced hunter no doubt carrying a rifle and the door of his log cabin was broken down and he was nowhere to be found. Could be a bear but it makes you wonder.