A listener writes “Hey, I’m in Miramichi tonight, where my family is from, listening to your Quantum Bridge Project podcast. I’ve listened to you for years, and that brings me to why I’m writing about my daughter, Emmy.
Emmy and I have both listened to your podcast for a long time now, but before she ever heard your show, she had an experience on our property in southern West Virginia, near where I grew up. I was the first in my family born in the USA to Canadian parents who moved to West Virginia for work. I spent my school years in West Virginia and my summers in New Brunswick, where my family is originally from.
I grew up spending a lot of time outdoors camping, backpacking, kayaking whitewater rivers, and traveling all over the USA chasing mountains and rivers. Over the years, I’ve had experiences I could never fully explain myself, but that’s not why I’m emailing you.
I’m writing because my daughter Emmy wanted her story shared with you.
Emmy is 13 years old now, but this happened when she was around 7 or 8. When she was younger, maybe around 5, I taught her how to build fires in the fire pit beside our house near the tree line and hay fields. One evening, we started a fire together and were hanging out outside. She had built a little fort with blankets and camp chairs, and we were sitting by the fire.
At one point, I told her I needed to run inside quickly to use the bathroom and grab a snack and drink. I told her to keep an eye on the fire and that I’d be right back.
After I went inside, used the bathroom, and grabbed some chips and a drink, I headed back toward the porch door. Before I could even get outside, Emmy was already there trying to get in, crying uncontrollably and clearly terrified.
I opened the door and asked her what happened. She told me there was something very large, tall, and dark standing at the edge of the woods near a big pine tree, watching her while she sat by the fire.
She said she looked several times because she thought maybe it was just her imagination, but it never went away. Eventually she realized it was real, and that’s when she panicked and ran toward the house. She said when she reached the back steps, about 100 feet from the fire, she completely broke down crying. That’s when I met her at the door as I was coming back outside.
I asked her to show me where she had seen it. Near the large pine tree, the leaves on the ground were flattened differently from the surrounding forest floor, like something heavy had stood or crouched there. There were no footprints, just compressed leaves unlike the rest around them.
I also noticed a broken pine branch roughly 8 feet high. I’m 6’3”, and even stretching my arm above my head, I couldn’t reach it.
That night, after she calmed down, Emmy explained more about what she saw. She told me it was big, dark, and had glowing red or orange eyes reflecting like the firelight. She also said she could see hair on the arm that was holding onto the pine tree. According to her, it just stood there silently watching her.
The next day, in daylight, I asked her to show me the spot again. She took me to the exact same location without hesitation. The flattened leaves were still there, and the same branch remained bent or broken. Emmy told me she wanted me to email you and share what she experienced.”
Wade B
I really enjoyed reading your testimonial. Im in my mid 50’s living in NE Alabama on Lookout Mountain. I grew up in south central MN fishing, hunting, trapping and camping. I enjoy Sasquatch Chronicles the best of all podcasts. Now after listening to testimonials when I sit on our front porch after dark in the evening, I get the shivers when I think how something could just come walking out of the woods. Not sure what I would do but probably run for the house as fast as humanly possible. In my youth we would camp in the boundary waters of northern MN and Canadian border. Fortunately Ive never had an encounter with anything cryptic, paranormal or extra-terrestrial. It fascinates me to know something might be out there. Wes Germers experience in Washington would be pure terror for me. Fortunately he wasn’t alone. I think its best if you have an encounter with another person present just so you can process whats happening and know someone else see’s it too. Its good you listened to your daughter so she knows someone hears her and that you investigated the area with her.