A listener writes “So it was back in about 2006 I was at work at one of our comm sites. Our sites are located on hilltops and this particular site sat on the outskirts of a cemetery right next to the protected watershed.
The weather was a thick fog with maybe a few feat of visibility. I was doing preventive maintenance to the cell equipment but would go outside everyone in a while to go pee. At one point I went out and was taking a piss when a group of deer scared the crop out of me as they ran frantically passed me from behind. After I noticed they were just deer I continued (I’d been drinking a lot of water haha) when all at once a huge musky smell came over the air. It was so thick that I thought it was coming from the fog (I couldn’t think of anything else). When behind me about 25 feet I could here something circling me, taking huge leaps then stopping then circling back taking huge leaps and stopping on the other side. First thought was a mountain lion was circling me and that’s what scared the deer to fly past me. I pictured in my head a mountain lion taking huge leaps 1,2,3,4 stopping then going back to the other side. And the smell was literally everywhere, so I freaked out and went back in the shelter to continue working. I would continue to open the door and see if the smell was still there and the smell stuck around for a couple of hours until suddenly it was gone but it didn’t go away until the for stopped rolling in. In the shelter prior to the smell leaving twice u heard something hit the shelter but I attributed that to the high winds blowing something that hit the shelter.
It wasn’t until years later that I thought hey maybe it wasn’t the fog (or a mountain lion) that made that thick musky smell in the air, mountain lions don’t necessarily leap repeatedly like that and maybe it wasn’t the wind blowing debris against the shelter.
A few weeks later about 2 miles from the above location I had another weird experience. This time I’m in the watershed. At the time we were given permission to use the watershed’s fire roads to get to another site as it was easier to go through there as opposed to going up the other side. We worked late and we were making our way back down getting close to the exit gate that exits to the cemetery I mentioned above. As we were going down the road I suddenly saw 2 red eyes about 25-30 feet up in a tree.
The weird part was it looked like 2 round red lights about 5 inches apart. It wasn’t an orange red but an artificial red similar to the red lights on an old alarm clock. I didn’t know what to think of it, I said nothing to my coworker (we weren’t good friends then yet) cause I thought it would sound stupid. First thought, because of the kind of red, was that it was the light on a trail cam, but there were 2 and too big and who the hell puts one up 30 feet up? I thought maybe an owl but that would be a huge owl and the red was not what most animal’s eyes look like when reflected.
So for the longest time I had no clue. It wasn’t until years later when i was watching the documentary Finding Jay that he talked about red eyes and showed a reenactment and that is exactly what I saw! It blew my mind.”