A listener writes “I was in a remote part of North Carolina in a community known as Thickety Creek doing some gold panning. I was on a family friends land down the creek from an abandoned 1800’s gold mine.
I had walked probably 200yrds into woods from the small winding country road. I had been there for probably an hour or 2 working the creek bottom. I decided to take a break and drink some water. While I was standing in the creek watching a couple leeches swim around I heard some noise coming down the mountain side. All of a sudden I heard something flying through the tree tops. My first thought was “Wonder why that bird it hitting all the limbs?” I knew after spending most of my life in the woods hunting,fishing and gold panning that birds don’t normally fly into limbs while flying and this object was tearing the trees tops up. After a few minutes another objects flew through the tree tops about 20ft above me again and this time I focused on the sound and noticed that it was a rock about the size of a regulation football!
Now there’s nothing in nature that I know of that can throw rocks that big that high and that far! I just said out loud “You stay over there and I’ll stay over here!” I had my 9mm and wasn’t really scared but it was kind of weird. I felt like I was being watched as I walked back to my truck. Needless to say I left and haven’t been back!”
Denise F
I have wondered if they are attracted to areas with certain minerals (he was planning for gold at the time) – back to the football -sized rock….. I would be freaked out!
I can’t understand how people think that’s a playful behavior. If I threw a giant rock at a Sasquatch, what would their reaction be? BAD….their reaction would be very bad, I’m sure.
Charles R
I also do not think a football size rock is playful behavior. Small pebbles and stones and pine cones may be playful behavior. I imagine big rocks and limbs like what was throw at Wes means get the heck out of Dodge. The one tossed at my nephews and myself in the Huron National Forest was a small stone, and not enough to scare us out. Well my one nephew, 19 at that time, did want to leave, but we got him calmed down.
Denise F
Darn autocorrect, he probably was planning and panning lol
Kathy K
Can’t wait to here this one Wes, Show sounds Awesome!
Lisa B
Thickety Creek is enough to keep me away!
Sharity
He said he had his 9mm and wasn’t really scared lol! I hope he doesn’t think that’s adequate protection from a squatch. A 9mm to a squatch offers no more protection than a BB gun would.
Matthew W
Chris, if the guy was a good shot, could he shoot out both eyes, or shoot it in the privates, that would likely end the creature’s attack, right?