A listener writes “My experience is not as dramatic as those I hear on your podcast, but to me it was just as real and life changing…. I, like others, have always been interested in the topic, but never thought I would have any sort of encounter myself.
It was almost 7 years ago now, and I was dropping a trailer off at my father in laws property on Erdman road in Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan on his 80 acre plot in the woods he calls the farm. I had just unhooked the trailer and pushed it back about 40′ from my wife’s Honda Pilot when I heard the loudest, most guttural scream/roar I have ever heard. I could tell it was about 1/2-1 mile away to the NW of me, and it lasted for probably 45-60 seconds total. This started low and built in volume to a crescendo that rattled me to my very core. I grew up hunting, fishing, running a trap line and spending every possible minute in the outdoors in the countryside of Fountain in Mason County, and know what sound every animal known the exist in Michigan makes. This was no fox, coyote, owl, dog, bear, or bobcat, this thing had huge lungs to be able to make the kind of sound I heard.
I listened, not believing what I was hearing, and then when the sound got to the end of a descreschendo I lost my composure and ran back to my wife and the waiting vehicle where I started to tear up while trying to explain to her what had happened. She states that I was ash white, with tears in my eyes in a complete panic, and she knew something had happened.”