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May 9

One of them threw a rock at me

A listener writes “I had drawn an area in Fall Creek Falls state park. Once again it was bow season. I knew a little about the area I was going to hunt. The deer in this area was massive and not accustom to being hunted.

I got to my area before sunrise and was heading up my tree. I started hearing this sound in the woods. It sounded like one of those old Samurai movies. I could hear two men making this sound. I turned around in my stand trying to find the location it was coming from. While turning I made some noise with my stand and the chatter stopped. I waited for what seemed like an eternity. Then I heard something coming around the trail I had come in on. Thinking this was a hunter I turned on my flashlight and called out. Everything got quite. Then I heard them step off the trail. One to the left and one to the right. I called out again and once more it got real silent. With daylight approaching I advised them I had drawn this area I let them know if I was in the wrong could they please advise me. Nothing, not a sound.

Now I am getting mad. Wanting to hunt and now someone messing with me.

I started climbing out of the tree. While climbing I could hear the one to left moving towards me and the other moving back toward the trail. When I got to the ground I was expecting to see someone waiting to explain the mix up. Unhooking my stand I scanned the area with my flashlight. I advised them I was going to the ranger station to sort this out.

When I got to the trail It sounded like they were standing just off the trail. I heard one of them mumble something and that is when I went off on them. I was yelling and cussing them. After my rant I turned around and headed toward my truck. I could hear them following behind me. I turned once more and yelled some more. This time when I turned to head out one of them threw a rock at me. The rock did not hit me but landed very close. I continued out the trail and they continued to follow. Tossing rocks and sticks at me. When I got to the truck I was very mad. I started the truck then spun out several times. I started honking the horn and flashing my lights. I was acting like a child but I thought if I could not hunt this area neither were they. As I left one of them threw a rock that hit the back off my truck.

When I got to the ranger station I explained what happened. They took me to a different area.

I did not think nothing of these events until a few months ago. While listening to your show I heard a sound that made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. It was that Samurai sound. The events of that day and the earlier event came back to me. A sick feeling came over me.”

16 Responses to “One of them threw a rock at me”

  1. Tennessquatch

    My primary research area (and yes, I know Wes doesn’t like that term) is in a part of Fall Creek Falls. We’ve had some very interesting encounters, as well as recorded several eyewitness reports from within the park (some of the rangers are very aware of whats going on there). Wes, would you please see if they’d allow you to pass on their contact info to me? It would be huge to know where exactly this took place, in co-relation to the other active areas of the park.

    HUGE thanks for sharing this Wes!

  2. Joyce E

    Really interesting encounter….maybe it’s a good thing he never saw them. Since he immediately took a very stern attitude with them, if that would have suddenly changed to fearful, the situation may have gotten really ugly. Thank-you.

    • Michael L

      I can not understand why people would go out into the wilderness with only a few arrows. Might as well bring a slingshot with you instead. I sleep with a nine mm under my pillow at home. Out in the wilderness I would be ready for a Grizzly bear, much less a BF. I guess Paratroopers think different than sissy-villians..
      Michael1lion

  4. SHANNON D

    Michael, in a lot of states you can not carry a pistol if your bow hunting, even if you have a license to carry, the anti hunter and anti gun rights people could care less about a hunters safety… They just want to chip away anyway possible at your second amendment rights, and state fish and game departments are more than happy to oblige….

  5. SHANNON D

    Scott, don’t try that up here in the “peoples Republik of Massachusetts” !!! However I do agree with your sentiment, big fan of the AR platform, as I am a predator hunter…..

  6. doug w

    Wow being a bow hunter myself that time in the morning when your in your tree waiting for light is great. The sounds you hear sometimes are good other times scarey. I know once I had something passing back and forth just before light and it left before I could see it. Dude don’t go back without a sidearm period. I’m going into a narrow valley on Saturday where they have been seen more than once. My dog me my 45 and an AR and a fox pro caller. I’m sure there are lots of huntets that see these hings and never say a word.

  7. doug w

    Shannon my predator AR is a Mossberg MMR.
    Btw if I was to call one in and I can be 200 percent it’s not human it’s getting lots of lead …hollow points flying at it cone shaped head.

  8. Eddie M

    Some years back when I still would hunt I had put my clients out on their stands and gone to my stand which was the last one out of this area. This way if anyone got down and started walking out they’d have to come right by me. Getting down unless it was an emergency was strictly a no no. We did not allow still hunting because of the danger of someone getting shot. You just cannot be too careful when dealing with folks with limited hunting experience so, we just ask them to stay up in the stand (14 foot ladders) until they were picked up. I had not been in my stand but, just a very few minutes when I heard a conversation to my left that sounded muffled and I assumed just too far away to be understood. I got down and went looking for the poachers or trespassers … I walked and walked toward the conversation and nothing. I never heard it again but, it was clearly someone giving information and someone acknowledging.

  9. Dave T

    Can’t carry a firearm bowhunting here in Ohio either. For the most part I don’t get in my stand in the dark anymore. I wait till I can see without the help of a flashlight. I have way more confidence dealing with something that I can see. In the dark we are virtually helpless.

  10. Kerry D

    Hahaha !!!! Great story. I especially like the part where you wanted to make sure the “hunters” wouldn’t get anything in that area either,, so you were honking, spinning out, etc. You no doubt ticked the Sasquatches off by being there.
    Thanks for sharing

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