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Aug 17

This thing is built like Gollum

A listener writes “I’d like to take the time to tell you about an experience I had in ’98 in Madison WI. Before I do that though, let me mention why.

I was listening to your podcast the other night, and episode 321 came on with Tom. I’ve had this experience a long while, and I’ve never heard anyone else talking about it. The description Tom gave was exactly, to a t, the same thing that I saw.

Then I listened back to Alex’s sighting in 320, and her story reconfirmed it to me. So now I have a problem, because this thing might be real and it’s terrifying. I’m hoping you can forward my e-mail to Tom and Alex because I’d like to talk to them. I want to know what it is.

Here’s what I saw, I was living in the dorms in Madison WI, along the lakewalk. My room was on the first level but the first level started at about six feet, which put the window at about nine feet from the ground. The window overlooked the courtyard, and outside our window there was a big tree. You could only see the trunk from the inside, with just a little foliage showing at the top of the frame.

I was looking out the window, and this thing started climbing up the trunk of the tree, with it’s back to me. It had long arms and legs, its torso was about three feet. It climbed with a herky jerkiness that kind of reminded me of an insect, with the legs moving in an unnatural cadence. It had a big head, it was hairless, and it had light brown skin. “This thing is built like Gollum,” I remember thinking, “and its skin looks like tree bark, but it’s alive like an animal.” It stops climbing, it turns its head around 180 degrees like an owl. It’s looks at me with big dark eyes.

It takes it’s right hand off the tree, and puts it’s index finger in front of its mouth. It shushes me. Then it grins with razor sharp teeth across the entire width of its face. It turns its head back around 180 degrees like an owl, faces the tree, and climbs up and out of sight.

Now, I’m standing there, and my heart is hammering a mile a minute. I start kind of side shuffling toward the window with my front leg out and my head back, sort of creeping up to it trying to get a second look. My heart is beating fast, I’m thinking to myself, “stop, you’re doing exactly what they do in horror movies, this thing is going to reach down and grab you.” I made it to the edge of the window alive, but I didn’t see anything further up the tree.

I turned all the lights on and sat with my back pressed against the wall staring at the window until it was light out. I had chalked it up to a hallucination until I heard Tom and Alex’s stories. Now I know it’s real, at least real in a way. I’m creeping myself out writing this. I just had to move away from the window. So if they’re down to talk about it please send my e-mail address or e-mail along to Tom and Alex.

Thanks Much”

13 Responses to “This thing is built like Gollum”

  6. Lee D

    Honestly the way the creature is moving in the video for tonight’s episode. Is atLeast how it moves in my eyes… all jerky.. not normal movements at all.. when I first seen the video posted here earlier in the week, the first thing that came to mind was the rake that was talked about on both of those episodes…. I’m currently reading the genesis 6 conspiracy and all I think about are these weird pre flood cryptids that people are seeing more and more of, or at least starting to report more of… ugh..

  7. Rick T

    That report reminded me of a report I read a couple three years ago, at the BFRO site. I went and dug it out for you all:

    YEAR: 1996
    SEASON: Summer
    MONTH: August
    DATE: 8/15/1996
    STATE: New York
    COUNTY: Essex County
    LOCATION DETAILS: Pine Pond -area can be accessed by an old snowmobile/bike path that enters from Rt 86 in Ray Brook. This area is also one mile south of Oseetah Lake -site of the 2002 ESPN outdoor games. It is located at the base of Mt. Ampersand.
    NEAREST TOWN: Saranac Lake NY
    NEAREST ROAD: NY Rt. 86
    OBSERVED: In August of 1996 myself and six friends were camping at Pine Pond in the lower Saranac Lake region. It was around dusk and my friend and I were fishing in our canoe. The other members of our party were at camp preparing supper, about a quarter mile away through the forest from our location on the canoe in the middle of the lake. My friend and I were speaking openly, not attempting to be quiet in any way. I was scanning the northern bank of the lake, which I knew quite well, when I noticed a strange shape on the edge of the wood line. It was about 50 yards away. Immediately I pointed it out to my friend and he spotted it instantly. The shape was about 3 1/2 feet off of the ground at its highest point. At first we both thought it was a black bear standing broadside but after a few seconds I realized that was not the case. We started to row towards it somewhat cautiously. Just as my friend whispered “it’s a bear” the thing stood up. It had been crouching there on its feet like a catcher from a baseball team. It was about seven feet tall and was very dark brown in color. Its face was hairy yet fleshy around the upper cheeks. Its eyes were dark in color but clearly visible and had a brightness about them. Upon talking afterwards, we both agreed that we saw slight movements of its head and hands. It stood there for what seemed like ten seconds looking at us. It tilted its head slightly up as if it were sniffing the air. As if all this wasn’t strange enough, we then heard the snapping twigs about fifty feet behind it. The creature turned its torso to the left and looked to its side. It immediately turned back towards us and then spun 180 degrees around and darted into the wood line like a cat. We then heard the sound of movement for about ten more seconds then we heard nothing. To this day I have no idea what made the noise behind it. After staying put in the canoe for about ten minutes my friend decided (against my wishes) paddle to the spot on shore and investigate for tracks. There were only two discernable markings in the sand which were obscured from the pivoting of its feet when it turned around. The whole experience was very, very upsetting. Although I can honestly say it did not attempt to threaten us in anyway it was scary as hell. That night I did not sleep one wink because I was so focused on every little noise that I heard. The next day we left. The other people in our party are convinced we saw a bear. It was no bear.
    OTHER WITNESSES: One other wittness. We were fishing in our canoe.
    TIME AND CONDITIONS: Approx: 8:00PM
    Well into dusk-period. Sun was below horizon but sky still illuminated. It had been a typical clear, sunny summer day.

  8. Rick T

    Actually, I pasted the wrong report. Sorry about that. The above report was interesting too. But since there is no edit function here I will try again:

    The following report is the one that sounds kind of similar to the “Gollum” report

    YEAR: 1990
    SEASON: Spring
    DATE: Spring
    STATE: New York
    COUNTY: Warren County
    LOCATION DETAILS: Just south of the Tongue Mt.Lookout on Route 9N.
    NEAREST TOWN: Sabbath Day Point
    NEAREST ROAD: Route 9N
    OBSERVED: My brother and I were canoeing on Lake George, in N.Y state at about sunset. We headed south for 10 minutes to an area known as Deer Leap. At lake side it is a boulder strewn area with cliffs rising 600 feet above the shoreline. As we were begining to come on to this area we saw something standing on shore. It was brownish in color and standing straight up with it’s arms at it’s side. It was about the size of a small man and very thin. Its body was facing south, looking down the shorline when it suddenly turned its head directly towards us and looked very intently. We whispered to each other and watched it while it watched us. We were 2 grown men paddling parallel to the shore and about 200 feet out but we could not summon up the courage to go in closer. This thing had a strange look, almost a crazed grin. Like a giant Lemur. The sun was set now as we continued to watch it in the shadows of the mountain. As it was standing next to an old, dead pine tree, it turned and climbed, sloth-like up the tree about 20 feet to the first and only large limb and onto the crook of a branch. We paddled back around and as we approached it again cocked its head directly at us, after a minute or so it turned its face downward into its body and became as if it were a part of the tree. Just a lump on the crook of the branch. You would not know it was there unless you saw it move. I have been in this area all my life and have never seen anything like this and have not seen it since.
    In my searchings I have found reference to a creature found in the woods of New Hampshire. Back in the 30’s they called it the “Wood devil or Stick Men”. The one thing incommon is they are able to blend into trees to avoid being seen.
    ALSO NOTICED: It did not make any sounds.
    OTHER WITNESSES: 2 witnesses, 30 and 35 years old . Canoeing. Swimming.
    OTHER STORIES: I have not heard of another story like this one but I did submit a “bigfoot sound” report that I heard near this location back in 92 and 93.
    Also there is mentioned way back in the 1700’s, in a report by Roger and his Rangers that “as they were traveling in Vermont from an attack on a French Fort in Canada, they were followed by a thing they called Old Slippery Skin ( a skinny thing) which threw rocks and branches down on them from the ridges above the valley floor they were traveling on. It did’t make much of an impression on them , it seemed to be just a pest.
    TIME AND CONDITIONS: sunset
    ENVIRONMENT: Boulders, lakeside. towering cliffs near by deep water and pine trees.

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