A listener writes ” I was hunting solo modern deer and was hunting behind Alder lake in WA. I was on a trail that leads from pleasant valley rd to Gifford national forest. It was a clear morning around 430 am, no wind either. I had my head lamp on and it started to flicker so I stopped and grabbed my other one from my pack.
Both had fresh batteries put in the night before. That headlamp was working fine for a couple of minutes then same thing happened, started flickering. I was using the ONX app so I knew where I was, about 3/4 mile from the car/trailhead. Out of no where a tree crashed down, no wind no rain. I stopped and listened and heard a rustle after the crash.
I don’t know if it was just my brain or something else but a screaming voice in my head kept repeating “get out!” I grabbed my side arm and immediately turned around and took off all the time the voice saying get out and also “leave food.” I don’t know what was going on but I left and continued to hunt that day but about 20 miles away.
I came back that way through Elbe while there was still light and noticed that where I was at had been clear cut except for a stand of trees where the event occurred. Weird shit man.
A few years earlier my buddy I were hunting a gmu called stormking not too far away where this happened and found barefoot tracks in a creek bed heading into old growth forest.
I never saw anything but my gut knows that there’s something out there and I won’t go out solo again.”