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e7454
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 12:50 pm |
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First off, this was reported to the GCBRO right after it happened which was in 1999 or 2000. I used to Crappie fish on a very secluded lake in Franklin County. There are two campgrounds, which close in October, and no houses on this lake. I arrived at the lake, before daylight, between Christmas and New Years of 99 to go fishing. It was very cold that morning so I waited until daylight to put the boat in the water. I was the only person at the boatramp. When I got out of the truck and started getting ready to put the boat in the water, I kept getting a feeling that there was someone around. I looked out onto the water and around the campground, but there was no one around. I put the boat in and started fishing near the ramp. Around 8 o'clock I started hearing a sound as if someone were hitting a tree with a large limb. It would be three hits and then silence for about 20 or 30 seconds and then three more hits. This went on for about 4 or 5 minutes. I couldn't figure out what it was so I didn't think much of it. I have been hunting and fishing all my life, alot of night fishing, and on occasion hear things that I can't figue out. That same week on New Years eve I went back to the lake to fish again. I had someone with me this trip and we heard the same thing again. My fishing partner asked me what it was and I told them that I didn't know. They told me it sounded like a large piece of wood being slammed into a standing tree. I told them that that was what it sounded like to me also. We heard the sound for about the same amount of time as I had heard it before. I started looking on the internet at Bigfoot sightings about this time and found that these knocks were sometimes heard in areas of sightings. So I sent an email to the GCBRO. Most all of the above has been posted there. The rest of this has never been posted anywhere.
I told my Dad about what we had heard and what I found on the internet. He fishes with me alot on this lake. He laughed and kind of brushed it off as hogwash. The next winter he and I were on this same lake. We had just put the boat in the water and had started to fish. We were near the same boat ramp as mentioned above. We heard a scream that was something I have never heard before. He looked around at me and asked what it was. I told him that I wasn't sure, but as long as it stayed up on the hilltop that it came from I wasn't going to worry about it. We just heard it once and that was all. We thought that it may have come from a hilltop to our east. We looked and could never see anything and heard nothing else that day. I heard tree knocks two times this same winter, both times I was fishing alone. One time the knocks sounded as if they were from the north and after 3 sets of knocks there was 1 set that came from the south. There were no knocks heard after the set from the south. This same year I was fishing near a limestone bluff and something hit the water about 80 yards from where my boat was sitting. From the splash in the water it had to have been about the size of a 5 gallon bucket. I didn't see anything come to the surface as if it were an animal. It could have been a big rock fall off of the bluff, but after the things that I have heard there, it has got me to thinking about everything that I hear that is unusual.
There have been other things that have happened in the years since the things I have reported above. Mostly tree knocks and other unusual sounds. I have never seen anything there except once an eight point buck came bolting out of the woods into the water and swam like crazy right past my boat and climbed out on the opposite bank and kept running. I have seen them run from dogs before, but this thing was running like the devil was after him. I quit fishing on this lake about 4 years ago. I still fish on the other lakes in Franklin, but not on this one. Maybe some of you have heard these same things. If so, let us know
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watch1
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 04:02 pm |
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I think your response to the first time you heard knocking "didn't think much about it" is the common reaction to hearing it the first time. You know that something is making the noise but have no idea what it is..it stops and you you think about it for awhile just wondering what was doing that and you can not come up with anything that makes any sense and then you move on to other things. A person might not even think about it again if was never heard again or you never read or heard anything about it.
Then ..like yourself, a person goes back to the same area or another area and you hear the same thing again and you remember the first time you heard it and now you really have your curiosity stirred up. Then you start running down through the list of known animals / birds that could / might be making such sounds. This is when we run into a big problem. There is nothing out there in the common list of animals or birds that is capable of producing the sounds that we are hearing.
Notice I said "common list" of known animals / birds. If it is not a commonly known animal / bird making that sound / noise..then just what is it? Welcome to the world of research.
Hearing this knocking noise / sound is what got me started in this research in the beginning. Now I want to see just what it is making this very un-common noise.
More on this later.
Mike (watch1)
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 05:54 pm |
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Common critters, like a woodpecker - has a very different sound. That's the only way I can describe it - it's a very different and distinct sound.
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 06:14 pm |
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I have a friend who is a bigfoot "denier" who hunts and hikes near the Colbert/Franklin county line, who has said he has heard the knocking sounds.
If we ever find the time, I hope to hike out there and listen.
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Posted: Sun May 20th, 2007 04:41 am |
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During the time we had the sightings/encounters in Marion county, I heard screams but don't recall ever hearing any wood knocking. There might have been, but I don't remember any.
e7454, did the scream you and your dad heard sound like the one in either my post, or Mike's mp3 on the following link?
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/forums/forum12/50.html
Thanks.
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e7454
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Posted: Sun May 20th, 2007 10:50 pm |
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What we heard that day sounded similiar to the recording. What we heard was not as long as what was on the recording and didn't change as much in pitch. It is hard to describe, but basically it was shorter and had less vocal range, if that makes sense.
I know a guy that lives in this area and when this all happened I asked him in a round about way if he had ever heard anything strange or seen anything strange around his farm. He told me no, that all they ever heard was panthers at night screaming. He is retired now. So I called him the other day and asked if he wanted to go fishing with me. He told me that he would meet me at the boat ramp, (different lake than the one above but in the same general area). He met me and we went out and started fishing. He told me that early that morning before daylight, he got on his four wheeler and went to check on his cows. He said that he was in an upper pastor and had shut the four wheeler off and was counting cows in the moonlight. He told me that something in the woods above him screamed at him and it was unlike anything that he had ever heard in all of his life. I asked him how it sounded and he described it as sounding like something very large and mad. He metioned it a couple of times that day while we were fishing and said that it bothered him because he had lived around there all his life and just couldn't figure out what it could have been. He told me later on that he was going to have to go and count cows again because he left after he heard that scream. I didn't metion anything else to him about what I had heard around that area because he looked at me like I was nuts when I questioned him about such things back 6 or 7 years ago. I will keep in touch with him and see if there is anything else that is going on.
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watch1
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Posted: Mon May 21st, 2007 04:43 am |
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Sounds like it might be worth keeping a watch on the area. If the locals ever start talking among themselves about hearing strange sounds..everyone might be surprised what others have heard.
Like you..the sound that I heard several years back was just one sound and it did not vary in pitch that much. It was just a long bellow/howl/roar that was real deep in tone and high in volume. It came out of a part of the swamp that is not visited by man very often and some areas can only be reached by boat.
Mike (watch1)
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e7454
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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 12:13 pm |
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The firs time that I heard the knocks I had no idea that it could be anything but man made. The only problem with it being man made is, I could not figure how it was being done. The knocks did not sound like they were close, within a mile, but it is hard to tell on this lake because of the terrain. If any of you have ever used an axe on a live tree, you know when you hit the tree with the axe it makes a dull thud. The sounds that we heard sounded like somone or something hitting a dead hollow tree with something large. My first thought was that someone was working on their deer stand, there are some very nice permanent stands around this lake. But that didn't add up either, who would build a permanent tree stand in a dead tree? So after this was heard on News Year Eve, my fishing partner and myself tried to re-create the sound. I took a peice of firewood, Hickory, about 30 inches long and 6 inches across and hit it against a dead White Oak in the woods behind my house. It was closer to the sound that we heard, but still was not as close to the booming sound that we had heard that day. So it still puzzles me to this day.
I was wondering if any of you have heard these knocks before and if so have you heard any other sounds along with them? Also were wondering if any of you are near Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin or Limestone Counties of north west Alabama?
Thanks to the people who own and run this website, it is nice to have a place in State to go and see what is going on and share ideas on this subject.
Chuck
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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 08:29 pm |
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Chuck,
I'm over in Itawamba County MS, but originally from Marion County, AL. Last fall, I heard the scream/yell/howl here, but haven't seen anything. My sightings/encounters were in Marion county, back in the early 80's.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13th, 2008 04:12 pm |
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I also have heard knocking on a couple of occasions at the lake in E7454's report. Once when launching our boat there before daylight early one morning, I had the overpowering feeling that we were being watched. The woods around the ramp and parking lot were dead quiet. When we got in the boat, we just used the electric trolling motor and started fishing towards the east from the ramp.
Then the knocking started up on the ridge to the southeast of us. There were a few answering knocks to the northwest, but the knocking to the south followed us until around 8:00am or so. We about wore our eyes out trying to see what it was that was making the knocking sounds, but never saw a thing. At the time, we weren't thinking Bigfoot at all. We didn't know WHAT was making the knocking sounds.
It was years later, after an incident on our farm, that I started actively researching BF and I learned about knocking noises, and I remembered the incidents at this lake. We came back there researching BF and we recorded the T-rex scream there, that appears elsewhere on this site.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 12:08 pm |
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I've heard the knocking a lot. At least one of those times was in Limestone County, but that was probably about 15 years ago. I haven't heard screams with the knocking, but I've occasionally heard whistles and suspicious owl-like sounds. The knocking was almost always accompanied by the occasional tree being pushed over. Sometimes we'd hear answering knocks from further along (and usually lower on) the hillside or across the valley. Not having gone out at night to research yet, I've only heard the knocking in the daytime and only up the hillsides, usually about 100 feet below the ridgeline. I think that's where they spend their days.
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Lucy
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Posted: Mon Jan 5th, 2009 03:56 pm |
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| I just read your May 18, 2007 post. I used to live in Phil Campbell, and still have Ifriends in the the area. I have heard many reports of similar activity in and around Franklin and Winston Counties; also in, and around, Bankhead Forest. There are some pretty remote places in those areas, so I'm not surprised that so many reports come from there! If you don't mind me asking, on which lake did your experience take place?
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