Heard or seen anything strange ?

I saw a UFO while scouting sheep. I have it on video and I could try and post it sometime but it looks very small on the video with little detail. It was a silver shiny disc and was moving slowly West towards the desert. I would guess it was some sort of military aircraft heading to Dugway but who knows.

I have heard a few strange things out there for sure but only one that I couldn't explain and can't even describe the sound. Not a canine not a feline not an elk not a bear and LOUD!!!

Once while walking in an area I got the creeps so bad I had to leave the Mountain and I have never been scared in the woods before or since I was a young kid even when walking at night without a light and this was broad daylight. Can't explain but the hair on my neck was on end and I couldn't explain it but I felt like PREY!

Saw a couple UFO's over the years. I don't believe in aliens mind you but these were definitely not easy to explain.

Bill

Well, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would fit into this thread that I have witnessed, but there are a few folks that would swear I was the culprit that caused them to fear the woods in the past lol

...and possibly in the future!

I have seen the pheonix lights twice while I was either fishing the Colorado River in Tuma or in the field for training.... Not sure if there are any stranger things than that and not really sure how to describe them.

The Pheonix lights would be way neat too have seen, back in the 80's once camped out in the Steen's Mts., in Oregon, we were in the sleeping bags watching the stars and saw a "satelite" slowly moving across the sky, then make a 90 degree turn and absolutly speed away...I'm just saying, weird.

Cuppacabra!

Seriously I have heard plenty of noises I have not been able to identify and some have sent chills down my spine. Some I am sure were birds or who knows but when you are in the woods in the dark it can sure rattle you. I'm still here so nothing has dragged me off yet. lol

Out looking for sheds one day with my dog sammie.. she was running around out in front of me, and disappeared up over a small ridge, just before i reached the ridge she came screamin over the top and right between my legs whimpering the whole way... I petted her and kept on my way up over the ridge, she stopped and kept whimpering and would not go with me, then i got this sick feeling in my stomach like something was watching me and i kept looking for it but never could see nothing. I could smell the gnarliest smell ever the whole time i was there. So i turned around and vamboozled back to the truck as i could and havent gone in that canyon since.. Dunno what it was, or if it was anything at all, but the thought of it still creeps me out to this day..

Just remember:

We are not at the top of the food chain.

Or bottom lol

I have had a few strange/scary/unsettling things happen to me while enjoying the great outdoors. Once had a badger up above Kamas on the Provo chase me while fishing (think he wanted my stringer of fish but I wanted them more); been charged by a Black bear (all turned out well except for my underwear); been stalked on more than a few occasions by cougars; and the following experience which still leaves me with the chills.

I was hunting the Marble Mountain Wilderness area in Northern California in 1995 the final week of the season. It had been a very hot hunt, the mid 90’s every day. My second to last day I decided to hunt a canyon I had been eyeing on the topo for a couple of days but hesitated to do so before because of it’s remote location from camp, some 3 miles away. It was a bit farther than I wanted to pack out a deer but heck, I was getting down to near desperation time.

I watched several doe and a couple of small blacktail bucks feed in a bowl near the top of the canyon for a while, and as the day grew hotter, I decided to swing over the ridge and still hunt the north side of the next canyon. I dropped down into the thick pines a few yards and stopped to let my eyes adjust to the much darker view. It was a lot cooler and I was hoping a nice buck would be bedded down just below. It was around noon, so I pulled some jerky from my fanny pack and settled down to watch and listen. It wasn’t long before the dead quiet of the woods overwhelmed me. Not a chirp, not a rustle of leaves, no breeze, nothing but still, unrelenting silence. Even my chewing seemed magnified. I slowly made my way down a few more yards, one or two steps at a time.

Then it hit me. A pungent, rank smell began to fill the air. I stood silent and still, eliminating the critters in my mind that might be causing the smell. Definitely not skunk. Much too musky for bear or deer, and I was pretty sure there were no elk in this area, though the smell just didn't say "elk". The hair on the back of my neck pricked and I began to get a very, very uneasy feeling. I could just make out the other side of the small canyon, about a hundred yards across. It had a fair amount of tall Manzanita and Chamise, with a scattering of Pines and Quakies.

The strong odor was becoming noxious, as I scanned the far side. I coughed suddenly and loudly, quickly putting my hand over my mouth to stifle the sound. Then I heard it: the crashing of brush, hard and fast. I could clearly see the thick brush on the far side swishing and moving, like a plow was pushing it aside. I could hear branches snapping loudly. My senses were filled to a fever pitch and my heart was racing like mad. I needed no further excuse to turn and beat tracks up hill to the other canyon I hunted earlier.

I didn’t stop until I reached the far side of that same canyon. I was out of breath and my leg muscles burned like heck! I couldn’t fathom what had just happened. To this day I still don’t know what kinda critter would have that effect on me. The sound of antlers on limbs is pretty distinct, and I sure didn’t hear that. Who knows, maybe it was a big old bear who winded me in no wind.

^ Nice story, That kept me reading!

Stillhunterman, I have hunted all over much of that country and there is a LONG HISTORY of stories like yours in fact both of the accounts I posted were within a few miles of the Marbles. The one where I felt like a prey animal reminds me of your situation in many ways. (???)

Bill

"ElkHunter243" wrote:^ Nice story, That kept me reading!

Thanks EH243

"huntindad" wrote:Stillhunterman, I have hunted all over much of that country and there is a LONG HISTORY of stories like yours in fact both of the accounts I posted were within a few miles of the Marbles. The one where I felt like a prey animal reminds me of your situation in many ways. (???)

Bill

Yeah Bill, have heard a few of them myself. Between the Marbles, the Trinities and the Russian WA's, I have definately had some strange things go on and heard. Most were in the 80's when I was young enough to go where ever I wanted, and it was always a long ways in. I know what you mean by feeling "like prey".... it's just plain creepy! :>/

That's BIGFOOT country up there!!

Big R called those hills home back in those days,the odor description is spot on,maybe you jumped him during "nap time"? lol

:)