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!”