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Offline inluvwithsara

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Dead of Summer, sudden Silence?
« on: July 30, 2004, 03:03:17 AM »
Ok, I posted this before and got no responses...lets try again...

back about 18 years ago, when I was 12, me and my two friends snuck out of one of their basements at 1am during a sleep over...we lived in the suburbs of Northern Va, but our houses backed up against several miles of park land...and we foolishly decided to take a hike in the woods...
we played everyday in those woods, and often camped in them...well we got about a 1/2 mile from home...and y'all know how loud the woods are on a summer night...frogs, crickets and such...well we where almost to the creek when it went dead quiet...every noise but the creek stopped...we froze...we all stooped, got back to back, sat there scared to death...its a big woods, and yet there wasn't a sound but the creek...we decided to run for it and beat feet all the way home till we reached the edge of the woods at his backyard, and then the sound suddenly started again...we went into his basement not to sneak out again...

As I turned about 21, I started walking in those woods everynight with my little 32 sw long, and my dog...never had that happen to be again...But never forgot it...since I have upgraded to a SBH 44, but never go unarmed into the woods...

Any Ideas what caused it???  Anyone ever have that happen to them???
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2004, 03:49:58 AM »
You and your buddies were probably making such a racket that it scared the varmits into silence. :wink:
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2004, 04:01:06 AM »
nope, we were being real quiet...nothing above a wisper...
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2004, 05:52:49 PM »
Musta been a Wampus Cat. :D  :-D  :-D  :)  :)  :)
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2004, 06:00:04 PM »
I think I would be more worried, if the same scenerio happened after I had been sitting very still for a length of time, and then everything went quiet.  :shock:  the insects, frogs, etc, are normally noisy, on these warm humid nights, and walking through the woods, could probably surprize them, and they get quiet. Probably heard or felt the vibration through the ground of you coming. Then again, maybe not  :shock: . There could have been something else there watching you.

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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2004, 06:40:07 AM »
It mainly gets noisy as I walk thru the woods hunting the birds let everything know your comming.  But if things get quiet then I think your not alone and something is going to happen.  There maybe a predator nearby too and the other things in nature sense that too.    BigBill
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2004, 06:35:33 PM »
yes it happened to me. central ohio,in early afternoon. I was on my way to a spring for watter and suddenly every thing went silent, my sub-contious shreemed, and I hauled out of there. I believe it was a couger. :twisted:
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2004, 09:29:16 PM »
About 8 or 9 years ago wife(ex now) were comming back from Auburn CA. Just before we got to the freeway ramp there was a strong green light in the sky. It looked like it was comming from the Donner Summit area and extended in the general direction of Travis AFB. I talked to several of the LEO's and they say they dint see anything, and gve me a funny look. I dont drink (had been dry about 15 years or so then, and dont do drugs). Where I had pulled the  motorcycle over to look, about 8 or so cars also stopped to look at the light beam. Any of the LEO's or people at Beale AFB said they dint know anything. Several years ago my present wife and I were in the general area where the light had seemed to come from. There was a small mud pond, but no tracks of any animals in the mud. A little further up the road got out to go P, there were no birds around and no insects anyplace around and it was just a dead still ness in the area, wife and I looked around for bout 5 min then I told her it was time to leave. Got the feeling we were being watched but not shure from where. Talked to several other people that have been in the same area and same thing. Had a 44 mag in the jeep but never took it out. There is an area up behind Truckee CA, that is about the same. People have said they hear a humming noise in the area, and one person said he was stopped by the military police and questioned why he was in the area and then released. As far as I know there is no military posts in the area.
It makes you wounder what our goverment might be up to.

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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2004, 05:05:03 AM »
Infrasound..........Some years ago, it was discovered that tigers in India emit sound at such a low level on the hertz scale that people can't hear it...They do this when hunting, and the entire jungle goes dead silent...It means that the top predator in that environment, is on the prowl...Same thing happens on a Coral reef when sharks come in looking for a meal; fish disappear,mollusks retreat into their shells, critters bury themselves in the sand. etc.....Although we can't hear it, we sense it on some subliminal level, and it often produces an overwhelming fear and flight response......In North America, the top predator which produces infrasound is Gigantopithicus Blackie, better known as bigfoot...
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