A listener writes “I found your podcast recently, and for the last few years I’ve been attempting to speak to someone or at least report an experience that happened to me and three other friends on November 10, 2020 in Franklin County, NY- in the Adirondack park- specifically on the shore of Loon lake. This event terrified all of us, and to this day we don’t have clear answers.
While I didnt initially connect this experience with Bigfoot, after searching for explanations I began finding these stories so similar to what we experienced that I eventually considered it a possibility. A few months after it happened I did try to report this to BFRO, a site that had similar stories, but , I didn’t get any follow up, but I did see another report posted there of a sighting three years after our experience in the same vicinity and along a same tract of powerlines that travel by loon lake
Anyway- here’s my story. In November 10th, 2020, I went to a friend’s camp in Loon Lake with two others (4 of us total). We are all teachers, and we had the following day off from school – being Veteran’s Day, so we had decided to have a fire and enjoy the unseasonably warm weather. My friend’s camp is at the end of a dead end road that runs up alongside some powerlines. We had started a fire at his camp and were just getting situated- putting stuff away and gathering firewood when we heard some eerie, loud and unfamiliar calls coming from the direction of the powerlines. This was probably right around dusk. It was almost like a scream and howl at the same time. One friend thought maybe it was a strange bird cry, but didn’t sound familiar to any of us and was enough to make us all stop and say “what the hell was that?” We soon moved on, and eventually thought we would take the four wheelers down to the Lakeside.
This would now be probably around 8:30-9PM. The lake is only about a third of a mile from his camp, so it was a quick ride. We sat down on the shoreline on some Adirondack chairs, and it was a still, warm night. We didn’t have any fire by the Lakeside, so it was pretty dark, but the stars were clear. While my friends were talking, I suddenly began to hear this very low pitched humming or vibration that was so subtle it was almost imperceptible. I was sitting back towards the stone wall, that used to be part of an old hotel that had burned down long ago. The hill behind the stone wall had a couple empty camps at the top of it, and all of the camps around us were empty being the off-season. This place is typically a very quiet area, and that night we seemed to be the only people at all who were in this area. There were no boats on the lake or fires around it, no lights on in any of the camps. It was pretty much desolate. I’m trying to figure out what this humming noise is and it’s kind of driving me crazy while my friends are talking just a few feet in front of me. All of a sudden, all of us were surprised by an enormous plunging sound about 150 feet out in the lake to our left. There were no boats on the lake, no docks out, whatever made the sound did not come out of the water, but was clearly thrown into it from the shore. It sounded like an enormous person did a cannonball.. it wasn’t the sound of a small rock, but an epic “curplunge!” This alone, freaked us out, being that we couldn’t figure out how anybody could throw something that large, that far out in the lake. We debated about what it might be. My friends who are avid hunters and fisherman said immediately that there are no fish in that lake that would sound like a 250 pound man jumping in the water.
They also immediately ruled out a beaver with how distinct the sound was. Then, about two minutes after the first and while we were still debating what it was, a second huge plunge-but this time it was landing about 50 feet offshore, much closer. At this point, we are all of us feeling watched and a sense of dread that I can’t describe. Whatever is throwing these things seems to be watching and waiting to see what we will do, and purposely throwing them closer, but there is no noise in between these huge objects landing in the water. Not long after the second, a third splash startled us and this time it is right basically offshore.- maybe 10 feet in front of us. At that point all of us got up and without even discussing it just booked it towards the four wheelers. It was pitch black, and I’ve never felt so scared waiting for my friend to find the key so we could ride back to camp. I went back the next day to the shoreline, but I didn’t see anything notable. I just know that whatever was throwing those rocks was not a person. They were far too loud and huge based on the distance and sound. we all agreed that it also felt very purposeful and done by something more powerful than us. We felt it whatever it was was waiting, watching, and sending us the signal to get out of there. This experience along with the strange calls and low pitched humming all added up for an very peculiar evening.
That is our weird experience. I know you get many and it may take you time to get to this one, but just wanted to share it.”
Sharon H
Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
Donald P
This seems like an encounter that the BFRO should investigate, but I’ve read where other people have reported where they weren’t interested in checking out their story. Perhaps they only want the juicy reports on their website.
Heather G
I went on an excursion with BFRO and I signed an NDA so I have to be very careful with what I say here but I have no respect for them at all. I heard peoples personal stories that were not documented on the website bc Matt owns it and he only documents what aligns with his beliefs. He along with Cliff refuse to see or hear the other strange things that go along with Bigfoot. I’m not knocking them but I think they do this bc Bigfoot already is a taboo subject and adding the orbs, lit up eyes, and other stuff that goes on just makes it weirder. I think that if they ignore that stuff then they deem themselves as respectable researchers looking for a northern great ape. I just don’t like anything they stand for and I think they will never encounter one ever or again if they don’t start listening to everything bc nobody is an expert on these things. Nobody. That’s why I have so much respect for Wes. I like everything about him and what he stands for. He’s as humble as they come and probably knows more than all them combined yet you would never know it bc he goes into everything super open and willing to hear people.