Mar 11

A Large Rock The Size Of A Watermelon Being Thrown At Us

A listener writes “I live in NY and am a 20 year Army veteran. I am currently still on active duty and I am an avid hunter and fisherman. I spent most of my life in the woods hunting and fishing. My knowledge of Sasquatch was limited to in search of tv show and some books I read when I was younger. I moved up to Dutchess County NY from Westchester County NY about 15 years ago. My house backs up to about 5 acres and is surrounded by farms and large patches of woods. There are deer, turkey, squirrels , frogs, fish etc . The property is a 100 year old chicken farm from the early 1900’s. In the back of the property there is an old chicken coop with a creek which runs around the property and is butted up to the 5 acres of woods.(this is relevant for my later experiences)

But my first strange experience wasn’t at my home, it was where I duck hunted in Schuylerville NY on the Battenkill river about 2hrs north of my home. It was early October 2017 and my friend and I were heading out pre-dawn to set up our decoys and head out for a day of duck hunting. The area was a private hunting and fishing club called the Wreck. We were the only ones there that morning, so we loaded our jon boat and headed up the river to our spot. The river was not very wide and was in a ravine about 50 ft high on one side. As we headed up the river ( using a small electric trolling motor) I caught something in my peripheral vision to my right. It was a large rock (size of a watermelon) in mid air coming through the air from the top of the ridge. It hit about 3/4 of the way down the hill then hit the water. My buddy spun around and said” what the hell was that? ” Was that a rock from the hill?” I told him I saw it get launched from the top of the hill and hit the bank and ended up in the water. We scanned the hill but didn’t see anything , the sun was just coming up so it was low light and the woods were dark. We brushed it off and continued on. That day the ducks just weren’t around so we decided to head back in. On the way back right around the spot where the rock hit the water we heard a loud growling scream. We looked at each other and realized we both heard it and had no idea what it was. My buddy said that wasn’t anything he ever heard before.

Fast forward to late fall early winter 2020 at my house in Lagrangeville NY. It was just after sunset and I got a whiff of what I thought was my septic backing up. I opened my kitchen window which looked out towards the old chicken coop and the wood line where the septic field was. I could smell it from the window but it didn’t seem right. I have smelled the septic before but this time it was different. Right about then I heard a loud scream roar type call from the wood line. I’ve heard just about every native animal in my area over the years and this isn’t even close to any of those. It was sustained for several seconds changing in pitch . It started off as a high pitch then got deeper and made the hair on my neck stand up. It sounded like a coyote mixed with a lion and a T-Rex (the T-Rex from the Jurassic Park movie). Once I realized what just happened I remembered my daughter was home. I went upstairs to her room and as soon as I walked in her room she said what the hell was that noise. We talked about it and I decided to report it to the BRFO.

About a month later my wife and daughter came home after dark around 19:00. When they got out of the car from behind that old chicken coop my wife heard banging from the woods. She stopped and then heard what she said sounded like loud heavy footsteps. She said it sounded like something crashing through the woods. It sounded large and the ground shook when it was running. At that point her and my daughter raced into the house. My opinion is they might be feeding and moving through my area. After each incident I went out to look around for any signs of what we experienced.”

5 Responses to “A Large Rock The Size Of A Watermelon Being Thrown At Us”

  1. Linda B

    Such a scary thing to have to race into the house after hearing screams and heavy footfalls crashing through the woods. That is pretty terrifying.. I hope these folks are safe and I’m sure glad I don’t live in a rural area anymore. I can hear coyotes in the hills outside our little town and from miles away I heard a long “call” that sounded like the Ohio Howl a year ago. They are close so as it happens I even moved a little closer into our little town just three blocks from the downtown area. My poor mom lives in a rural area in a house with activity all by herself, and she’s 88 without a firearm. She’s pretty tough though. She would give these things what we call the Gladys Steel look (my grandma’s evil eye look, mom’s mom), and even the sasquatches would run, whimper and hide. Hehe

  2. Chris L

    Crazy! My wife and I heard a lion/t-Rex type roar while we were hiking in the Catskills once in 2019. It seemed to come from no more than 10-15 feet away, but when we scanned the tree line, there was nothing there. We were frozen for about 3 mins, until a few more hikers approached us on the trail. I told them, “be careful, there’s a bear or something over there.” One of the guys looked at me like I was an idiot, but after they took a few more steps they got the same deep growl/roar. At that point we all stood there frozen not knowing what to do. I had no interest or knowledge of the Bigfoot phenomenon at the time, so I just assumed it was a massive black bear. But even then that explanation didn’t seem to line up, as we did not hear any movement and did not get a visual on anything. This also sounded too large to be a bear, especially a black bear in NY.

  3. John M

    I live in New York,I’ve had rocks thrown at ,near me and a buddy 3 times at the same places,bullhead fishing at like 3am,over a 4 year span..Scary as hell when rocks the size of footballs fly threw the air and there’s NOTHING AROUND!! Heard growls at my house a couple times..Rock Clacks,which I think actually they do with their Mouths,Rancid Smells,and this is just the tip of the berg..I believe you,and Yes Folks There’s Alot of Bigfoot Across all of N.Y. State..On the same Latitude line as the Hotest Hot Spots Out West and Ohio,etc..Be safe
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