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A listener writes “I can not believe I am emailing you. I have listened to your show for many years and appreciate your kindness to your listeners.

I wanted to share what happened to us and maybe get feedback on what you think it was and if anyone has told you anything similar. Friday Oct 10, 2025 My Daughter and I and Son In-Law went on an overnight hike starting at Blood mountain. This was only my 4th overnight hike. We enjoy hiking but camping overnight is a little more nerve racking for me. So I brought my dog, thinking she would alert me to anything and if she was sleeping I could sleep.

We arrived on top around 3:30 . Top being the look out of blood mountain. If you look at an aerial view it is marked look out. This is not a campsite. However, my daughter who is a few months pregnant was tired when we reached the top, and we decided collectively that we could just camp on the top. There were two soft spots off to the side of the trail. I want to be clear we were out in the open and those on the trail would see us and get confused. Again this top look out is not one of the campsites, there are campsites along the way but we loved the views of the Appalachian mountains and decided to set up there.

We went to bed around 9 pm. The hikers stopped coming once the sun went down. So we felt like it was going to be a quiet night.

I also was playing an audio book to help me sleep. It was not loud. I slept fine until 4:00 am. I woke up because I heard what sounded like a boulder or something very heavy hit the ground. And it woke me. I laid there thinking, what was that? I started thinking a boulder fell off the mountain. . It was maybe 15 mins later that the dog was 100 pounds, started to walk on me and wanted out of the tent. So, now I have made all this noise and my daughter asked if i was going out, I said yes I have to pee and so does Holly. She asked if I wanted her to watch my back, which I thought was weird but I had been asleep and she had been hearing things I had not. So we did our business and returned to tents.

Not long after returning to our tents and getting comfy we heard 2 rocks banging together. Hard and loud, and maybe between 8 and 10 smacks. After this I just said out loud my daughters name, like i was checking did she hear that and she replied. And then we heard 2 men talking. But I could not understand them. It was like one would say something then the other would reply. Like they were just out of my hearing but it was weird I could hear them, just not what they were saying.Then again with the rocks, the same fast hitting of 2 rocks together. And Then they talked again. We both were in separate tents listening to this and I thought what are these dudes doing up here? It was too early for the sun to rise and our tents could be clearly seen. it just made no sense.

Hearing the men talking threw me off and I started thinking they were out there on the lookout and my daughter said do you want to sit outside. I think we both wanted to be outside and if there were men we were going to face them head on.

After we came and sat outside, made coffee, no fire there was no more talking, no rock clacking silence. We were expecting to see other hikers out there, or that they would come out of the trail to the top. And there was no one. My dog slept, my son in-law slept and that is when My daughter told me that around 2 am someone walked down from the right of us (so the top) and came by our tents. But she had her eyes open and there was not a headlamp she could see. And she never heard them walk off. She also heard small rocks being thrown.

Also there was a bear can that we had put on top about 70 paces away (per instructions) and it was undisturbed. Even the loose items were just as we left them.

I wanted to tell you, I can not tell my friends and some of our family. My daughter said today she wanted to tell someone. I think if I were alone I would not have believed it but my daughter heard all this too. I would love to know what you think and if anyone has reported anything similar. Again Thank you! Your podcast is documenting something very important.”