A listener writes “I’m from New Hampshire and I discovered your show while working on the road driving up to Maine scanning through podcasts. I’d like to share with ya my experience but I’m declining to go on your show.
I simply want to email ya what happened. I’m 30 years old I’ve grown up hunting and fishing the north woods and have a passing n for the outdoors. I have encountered every species of animal in our mountains and forests, deer black bear Lynx moose and so on. Here in New Hampshire we have a night hunting season for coyote that runs from the first of January to the last day of January. An exciting time for us as hunters, because we get to cull the herd during their prime time of activity (nighttime).
Most guys bait but on this particular night about 7 years ago me and two of my hunting buddies set out with our shotguns into a piece and setup on a nice knoll next to a swamp where we had seen tracks and a possible den site. About 11 pm we set into the woods about a half mile back in. Before I explain I want to emphasize nothing scares me in the woods.
Now we get to our spot and spread out about 20 yards apart, this way we each had a shooting lane looking down off the knoll. Well we had sat for about two hours or so and I started to hear what I thought was a stick breaking ( in my mind a moose coming out of the swamp). Now we had about a foot of snow on the ground and it was a perfectly clear night no wind no sounds nice and quiet.
Well all of a sudden 3 distinct knocks, like someone taking a bat to a tree come out sounding off from my right down near this swamp. Well this happened twice (6 knocks in total). I look to my hunting buddy closest to me and he seemed unfazed, so I kinda phssss to him and whisper loud enough for him to hear, “hey you f—- hear that bub?” Right after it didn’t again- BAM BAM BAM. this time he heard it.
I could tell he was alerted so I got up and sat down next to him, we got our other buddies attention. Now we are all sitting there guns in hand looking out towards where these knocks are coming from. Talking amongst ourselves wtf is that and so on… Well it happens again now this is about the fourth or fifth time I say I’m goin down there, one of my buddies was down to go and my other buddy said f that and he starts heading for the truck.
Now it’s us two and we are just standing there guns pointed towards and I remember saying it’s us vs is we got guns let’s go down there and figure out wtf is going on, something messing with us?? Is this a bigfoot from the show?? What the f—?? Well it smashed the tree twice, which looking back on it was this some sort of symbolism of it being two of us, who knows. We decided to head to the front of the truck and leave it be. We told a couple people and they laughed it off. I’ve been in the woods every year hunting since and nothing like this has happened again.”
Richard W
This knocking fits right in with what a fisherman (if I recall correctly) observed. It appeared to him the Sasquatch could count, and three knocks for three humans. Two for two humans, etc. interesting!
Matthew W
I counted 11 knocks in this story.
Linda B
The final two knocks counting the final two hunters in this story fits with my experience of two whistles mom and I heard the other night coming home after dark to her active property. Yup.
Whoop whoop
Interesting about the coyotes. I’m here in the land of Oz and twice now I’ve heard what I call the ladies screaming in our Mill Creek watershed which is large enough to support a large group of sasquatch/Flint Hills of NE KS. Mimicking coyotes, they sounded from the North of our campsite last night and were answered by like calls from the south. It was way too early for coyotes and they were female voices, loud from far away. There are lots of unreported word of mouth sightings in this area. It happens every time we come out here.
“There’s something on the hill!”
God bless! Come on Fri night SC!
Ron S
So many ways to interpret knocks from good to bad. I’ll give it a go. I’ve heard plenty of knocks and have made many guesses at it and sometimes made sense of some of it at times, sometimes not. I think it helps a great deal to know yourself decently well with honesty first before trying to figure them out.
Sometimes knocks may have the potential to be supernatural and seem intelligent. Sometimes knocks could come in sets like caveman morse code or a series of sets with communication updates to the intended listener at the other at the end of the Knocky-Talkie.
Additionally, the timing between each knock, direction, location, loudness, sharpness, elevation, time of day etc. may all mean something if you pay attention to your surroundings as it is happening… or later reflect on the experience, (it may mean something more to you that anyone else). Keep in mind that everything has a force, an energy and a cause and effect, everything is essentially connected to everything else. You’re going to need a really good open mind, but I believe this is how you might code break the knocking if it was indeed a supernatural or spiritual message, the intention of it, it’s purpose and who it was seemingly directed at.
Or go with the basics (gut instinct), if scary, likely bad. If interesting, likely natural. If good, you’ll definitely know it:)
Not every knock is supernatural though, knocks can be natural with moisture content in the tree along with changing temperatures, soil with a loose footing for a tree, roots snapping, a tree with damage or a crack being moved in the wind could cause a knock, a dead tree, a large dead limb falling, a tree already partially fallen over and gravity is still winning etc., but even in this case it still has the possibility that nature is giving you a message that you need to ponder. If you can’t shake it you should think about it. Usually these types of things will really stand out to you though.
Another kind of knock could be something like a camper or two chopping firewood in the middle of the night for extra warmth, security or light, or acorns falling on a hollow log (you get the idea). Keep in mind it might not even be related to a tree sound at all. And never forget it could also be some Yahoo trying to get a response from a Sasquatch, or someone trying to scare you off their poaching or growing parcel in all reality.
Some people believe another kind of knocking could could be a giant man-ape in the flesh that’s either mouth popping, hand slapping, whacking a tree with another tree like Babe Ruth or slamming a rock into it and that it’s communicating to its kin about driving game, or giving intel about you or your group…(no offense, but until I stumble upon better evidence of a giant undiscovered super-predator, I gotta personally rule that one out for now). The sad part about if we ever get any kind of random physical specimen like a deformed gorilla or monkey that even remotely looks 10% like a Sasquatch, there’s going to be so many people all over the world that are going to want to stuff that sucker in their “I told ya so” box
….moving on.
On the paranormal or otherworldly side of things, maybe the knocking is coming from a source that merely wants you to believe it is indeed something scary… With our current state of sedimentary science, we have little exploration into the science of the human imagination or the power of it. We’d be shocked if we were manifesting something closer into this reality or inviting something just by thinking about it.
(Sadly) it seems that before we fully begin to understand the science to ourselves, it’s looking like we are now quickly handing over what could be the power of imagination (hence spirituality) over to technology to do our creative thinking for us… it doesn’t seem comfortable or right to me, it shouldn’t to anyone really IMO.
Now you can start to understand how (just the knocking itself) creates quite the rabbit hole for us to look into, and I haven’t even talked about my thoughts on how different forms of energy from underground or above could possibly be the cause.
If we could just get some brilliant scientifically open minded, curious, trustworthy and good hearted people together who aren’t afraid to be cowboys or ridiculed to look into these different topics, we’d learn so much… I have faith that someday we can