Encounter in the backyard, by Bryn Rose from Wisconsin

Encounter in the backyard, by Bryn Rose from Wisconsin:

Camping in the back yard: A year after I bought my place the lake flooded, and it’s been a few years that I had no shoreline. I have my shoreline back this year. We are on a stretch of beautiful weather, and I thought well let’s air the tent out and spend the night out here. Absolutely beautiful afternoon, then at sundown around 9pm I put the dogs back up in the house and came back down to my camp.

The few lights in the cottages and cabins on this small lake one by one went out as people went to bed. Last night was a pitch-dark night. The area to left of me is the woods. It’s interesting how in the day one has no fear yet at night it becomes different. Our human sense of sight is taken and your ears become alert to the myriad of sounds going on around you.

It is one thing to set up camp and assume or think you know that the Sasquatch are around, it is an entirely different matter to actually know they are there. I heard little pebbles hitting my paddleboat and branches braking at the forest line and thought here we go, the Forest People are here. My almost fully charged phone shut off completely as I was making notes and I thought yes just be, experience. I know they have been using the shoreline and have seen their trails going into and out of the forest. They also left me a glyph message in front of the pier the other day and it is still there.

At some point in the night, I heard what sounded like popping and smacking/drumming sounds. It sounded quite a bit like the sounds gorillas make when they are smacking their chests and making sounds with their mouths. The sounds started out coming from one direction and then reverberated to where it sounded like it was all around me, as if the sound itself was moving in a circle around me. It was kind of like sitting in a strange extrasensory jungle. This has happened once before a few years ago when I was camping out here. It is not a sound that can be attributed to any other wildlife out here. I sat there frozen and reminded myself to breath.

I kept telling myself you are not in danger and indeed I was not. I feel at times they give me lessons on conquering human fears and conditioning. I had so much adrenaline running through me that I became exhausted and as I was falling asleep, I thought I heard faint talking coming from the woods. I woke back up to what sounded like a huge tree breaking and falling on the other side of the lake ended up running back up and into the house like a scaredy cat. I was somewhat disappointed in myself thinking that they are probably disappointed with me, asking for them to come and then becoming scared when they did, but I think they understand and are very patient with me. I am going to try again tonight and see how it goes.