A listener writes “I have been listening to your show for a few years now and I have to just say, thank you for allowing people to come on your show and tell their stories. I have debated for a while to reach out and tell you mine.
I have had a few strange experiences while working in the mountains. I am a forester by trade and I spend 4-5 days a week without cell service in the Intermountain West all year long. I also fight wildfire in the summer. On October 5th of this year I had a very strange experience just south of Glacier National Park. I had a mushroom the size of my hand thrown over to me while marking out a timber sale. It was myself and two coworkers on the far southeast corner of the forest that I currently manage. I had taken a water break and was checking my maps for where to go next and watched a mushroom arc over to the right of me and land within 30 feet. I found more mushrooms placed in the notches of tree branches after checking out the area.
As a crew we had experienced weird noises and something breaking limbs around us for a few days. This experience is why I have contacted you. Nothing before has shook me like that before in the mountains. For three seasons I have worked for the US Forest Service as a field technician either in timber or rangeland programs across the West.
I started out working in Idaho in 2019 on the Sawtooth National Forest as a rangeland tech check on high-alpine sheep and cattle herds. That was the first time I have ever had anything weird happen in the woods. My supervisor and I were hiking into the backcountry to go check tree regeneration after a wildfire. We had driven up to an empty trailhead to a valley with one trail in and one trail out. Along our hike we heard what sounded like someone taking a 2X4 to the trunk of a tree multiple times.
The next season in 2020 on the Eldorado National Forest in California a coworker and myself heard a scream at the boundary of a wilderness area. These experiences initially were brushed off and I thought strange. After this most recent experience, I have begun to question more of the strange things I have run into out there. I wanted to reach out to hear your opinion and to see if it was Sasquatch at all. Also I would like to know if you have ever gotten any reports in my current area and what I could do be safe.”
Matt C
His experiences needs to be a show. Foresters, I’m sure, see and experience a lot of strangeness
Connie O
Very scary. Especially with no access to cell service. Be careful out there!
CJ M
Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall of his and Wes’ phone conversation!
Do you wonder if the mushroom was edible or not? Did they leave a scrumpcious morsel treat in the trees or a noxious trap?
Was it gifting in reverse?
Charles R
I thought all of the same.
Ron S
I’m just speculating as usual based off my own experiences and where my roads have led me, so take it or leave it. I can’t say for sure that what works for me will work for everyone. But here it goes…
To me, this does sound like the typical calling cards of a dark entity masquerading as a Sasquatch IMO. Some of these beings really have a disgust for humans or anything related to the Creators natural world that benefits mankind, or anything also associated with Christ.
I’ve already previously talked about how fungi have a networking unified connection with flora and fauna as a complete functional ecosystem, which humans should be assimilating themselves to more but instead are becoming more disconnected and unappreciative of its complexities and blessings for us.
Experiences associated to things we don’t relate to the known world as natural are oftentimes deciphered when these displays by darkness that usually cause fear are thought of as a metaphor or tongue-in-cheek mockery. I think it’s probably as close as they are allowed to or dare to use as language when speaking against God… Assaulting some trees and causing feelings of fear is sometimes their only allowed retaliation to specific individuals inside the realm of this creation at only precise moments.
The fact that this man has done work to protect the environment and somewhat act as a shepherd to animals doesn’t surprise me either as adding “experience fuel”.
Within his good deeds (no disrespect here) I’d also surmise that there are activities he is doing that could be done with more respect and awareness to something pertaining to God or life within creation as a cause where these strange events are being allowed for him to experience. My intuition tells me he is nearing a turning point of some kind.
The way I see it, when God allows darkness to intervene it is part of a complex plan with many facets and multi-functions… One is a test of faith, another is a message for the witness and additionally it’s a message for humanity (as God already knew who would pass the encounter on and when), there is also other reasons for the encounter that might make more sense later for those it needs to as different events unfold.
The way I see it, only select experiences of dark phenomena are allowed by the light and happen when they reach critical crossroads for a multitude of planned events by the Creator including a fork in the road in the case for adult witnesses where decisions and choices that have repercussions have to start being taken more seriously. Some encounters may lead to enlightenment or faith and some stages of the after effects of an encounter will be fear… wether you reach more faith and dig yourself out of the hole is through reflection of the encounters events and making choices in a self improving and in spiritually positive ways. If the encounter attaches fear to you, then you have to find your own solutions to overcome it.
I believe it just might work somewhat vaguely in this way but I have no doubt it’s actually so complex I may not be capable to do more with this idea without more time and knowledge for myself. It’s more difficult still trying to decipher an encounter for someone else as I don’t know the person, but even so many of these encounters have a similar ring to them that eventually I think we might be better able to give mor accurate but still general advice. There may even be a day where the encounter or experience might actually give us information to that persons situation or personality and why it likely happened.
It’s all pretty amazing stuff that I’m continually conditioning myself to be more consciously aware of and learn from, but my own unique experiences (that have gotten me this far) don’t happen all the time as “wow factor” and I can never predict them… Even now I wonder if anything else will ever happen or if the baton will be passed onto someone else. Wait and see I guess.
🌞🙏🏼
James G
I’m beginning to think there are other “things” in the deep forest that sometimes we attribute to the Sabe. On HTH, he has had a few forestry workers write in, one shared many terrifying experiences with unseen entities. Also, if you don’t follow, he recently had a knife that he lost months earlier, appear in his backpack after sitting it down for a few minutes. Not everything is good and not everything is Sabe
Charles R
I think after David Paulides started the Missing 411 project, he would state the same. I do not know for sure, however I expect hs started this thinking it was all or mostly Bigfoot related. He has started the Hoopa project and NABS years before and it was a very good early Bigfoot website. However the Missing 411 took him down a path of high strangeness, that yes, there are forces and not understood energy in the forest, that we have not come to understanding of.
m99
Looking forward to hearing this conversation. Thx for the update Wes.