Highlaker's Rock Throwing Experience

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highlaker said:

A couple of years ago myself, and two other researchers hikes into a mountain lake. When we were taking our backpacks apart and setting up camp rocks started flying in to camp. They were smaller rocks than the rock shown on the roof in the video. This went on for about 10 minutes. Whatever was throwing the rocks was not trying to hit us, or it was just a bad shot! OUr car was the only car at the trailhead, and this was a very remote area northwest of Darrington Washington. I am almost certain it was a bigfoot. After the throwing things got quiet. I am looking forward to going back into the area next summer.

[moregon]

This "Rock Throwing Phenomena" is being noticed and reported more and more over the last few years. It's possible it's been going on for some time, just nobody put two and two together before. I've personally not noticed it when I've been in the woods/forests, but then I wasn't looking or listening for it either, which I will do from now on. Or it's possible I heard a rock being thrown, but brushed it off as being an acorn falling from the oak trees common in this area, and didn't think any more about it. On the other hand I have had something more significant tossed in my direction, but since I didn't see WHAT it was I'm not going to claim it was bigfoot either. For those who frequent the other board a number of us are from and may not remember or have seen this before, and for those who may not have visited the other board, let me give a brief account of what happened.

It was on a warm summer night when a friend and I decided we wanted to go fishing for catfish along the Sugar River in Southern Wisconsin. The area is quite heavily wooded and I can honestly say I know it like the back of my hand having hunted and fished the majority of the area for many years. At the time I was working the evening shift and got off work, at best around 11:30 PM after locking up the store. From there we headed out to the river which is about a 30 minute drive to the area we were going to fish. Early that spring there had been some significant flooding along the Sugar River and much of the low lying areas were still flooded making an excellent area to find some big cats on the bottom during the evening and night hours.

We'd been fishing for about an hour when suddenly we heard some branches breaking in the darkness just beyond the area by Coleman Gas Lantern was able to illuminate. At first there wasn't anything to alarm us, just the sound of occasional twigs breaking. I figured it was probably just a deer making it's way along a dry area near the river so didn't pay a lot of attention to it. Then my friend just about jumped out of his skin when a signifcantly larger branch broke, and I grabbed the latern to hold it higher hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever was making the sound. In the next few seconds I can only describes what happened as, "All hell broke loose." The sounds of branches breaking increased and it sounded as if something was throwing a violent fit on the other side of a row of brush we couldn't see into or beyond. We heard a loud scream, but not like those sounds often attributed to being screams of bigfoot, but certainly nothing either of us had heard before. Then a large branch, or log came sailing over the top of that line of brush and landed in the center of the ponded area in front of us. The log that hit the water was probably about six inches in diameter and about eight feet long and made quite a splash when it hit. We didn't run but sat there peering into the darkness to see if we could see ANYTHING that might give us a clue to what it was. No more logs and no more screams but whatever it was we could tell was still there moving up and down that line of brush breaking branches from time to time.

My friend was noticeably shaken up, and was in no mood to remain there not knowing what was there in the darkness. I suggested we pack up and head down to my house, where I'd retrieve a firearm then return to continue fishing as we had planned until the next morning. To go from there to my house and return took about an hour, and nothing else was heard or seen the rest of the time we spent out there fishing.

There are (or at least were) any bear out there at that time, so that rules them out. Deer wouldn't be able to lift and toss a log like that, unless maybe with their antlers, but at that time of the year they would have been covered in velvet and been painful for them. And neither has ever made a sound like we heard that night. I highly doubt it would have been another human since that entire area was flooded and the only way in by dry land was off the road we were parked on a few yards away. Any headlights would have been easily seen approaching.

This is one of a few experiences I've had in the wild that finding bigfoot exists would explain, since there doesn't seem to be any natural explanations for them. At the same time I refuse to accept bigfoot existing without proof, and using him as a scapegoat to explain things I still can't.

The log was of sufficient size, but like the rocks it wasn't thrown to hit us as I'm sure whatever tossed it could have easily hit us with it, but it was more of a warning for us to move on.

[Bigfoot]

You make a good point, Moregon - perhaps object-throwing incidents have been going on for awhile, but only recently have people put two-and-two together and made the possible connection to BF.

Last summer at scout camp we had a weird rock-throwing incident while at the BB gun range. BF102 was one of the scouts on-range at this time if I recall correctly. Here's a picture of the rock that was throw in our direction (over our heads). Okay, nevermind, I can't figure out how to attach a pic. Anyone???