I've told this story before but it's been a while, and it still flips me out. This happened back in 2012. My ex was in the hospital and I was keeping her dog. Along with my dog we went for a walk. This was in our old neighborhood and it was around midnight.
We'd been out only a couple of minutes when we heard an incredibly loud knocking sound. As a percussionist and the son of an Architect who's been to many construction sites I knew that it was the unmistakable sound of wood on wood. What was unusual was the sheer volume. It was piercingly loud.
It seemed to be coming from about two blocks away. At first I thought someone was freaking out and slamming a 2x4 against a fence or something, but they'd have had to have been incredibly jacked-up on something to be able to generate that much volume. I didn't think that even the strongest human could hit something hard enough to be that loud. It was loud enough to wake the neighbors, and several lights came on.
What was unusual was the way the dogs reacted. They froze and didn't make a sound. They just stood there listening in the direction the sound came from. The only other times they did that were a couple of times we came up on a deer and once when we saw a Bobcat. If they heard a dog or a person they'd bark, but they were frozen in silence. They only reacted that way when a wild creature was involved. That was interesting.
After a dozen or so knocks it went quiet. I stood still, trying to figure out what the heck it was. About a minute later it started again, only now it was coming from several blocks to the right, and it was further away. It made no sense. How could something move several blocks in less than a minute?
It repeated the pattern a couple more times. It would stop and then start up again several more blocks away. It kept moving to our right until it finally stopped for good. We finished our walk and I lay awake for a while, wondering what we'd just experienced.
The next night we went for a walk, again around midnight. I was thinking how crazy it'd be to hear it again, and sure enough as soon as we went outside we heard it again. The dogs once again froze in silence, listening. We heard "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK" and it was incredibly loud.
This time it had drawn people's attention enough that they'd called the cops. A patrol car came up from the street below. He was going barely 5mph, with his windows down and his head poking out. He was obviously listening for something. I didn't want to yell and wake the neighbors, so I waved and tried to get his attention but he was focused on trying to locate the source of the sound and he didn't see me. I'd have loved to talk to him about it.
When something unusual happens you have to try and find a logical explanation. I thought it might be kids playing a prank...knocking on something, getting into a car, driving a few blocks away and knocking again, but they couldn't have driven several blocks, found another place to knock and gotten out of their car in under a minute, and again the sheer volume would be pretty much impossible for a person. I had to rule that theory out.
Maybe there were several groups of people who knocked in sequence but that hardly seems plausible. Sure it'd freak people out but who'd go to that much trouble, or even think of doing it in the first place? I was just trying to think of every possibility whether it made sense or not.
It is said that Bigfoot will grab a branch and pound a tree, to communicate, mark territory or scare people off, and that's what the knocking sounded like. I've spent a lot of time in the woods, sometimes at night. I've been deep into the woods and I've heard knocking sounds where there shouldn't be people. I recorded it on an old phone and the playback was interesting, although it wouldn't have proven anything.
I've also seen tall saplings snapped off about 6' up, with several all pointing in the same direction. It's said to be a sign of Bigfoot. I do know that it wasn't the wind, as nothing around the trees was disturbed, and it'd be extremely difficult for a person to do without a ladder and some sort of special equipment. Trees don't just snap over and line up in the same direction on their own.
Some say Bigfoot is a supernatural being, possibly a relative of the Nephalim. They say the creatures can teleport at will, and move between dimensions. I know that sounds crazy, but several decades of research have told me that reality is truly stranger than fiction, and that you can't rule anything out.
As we know, sometimes the craziest explanation is the correct one. The notion of a Bigfoot knocking on a tree and teleporting a few blocks away and having another knock makes as much sense as anything else I could come up with. Plus I'd love to see a person who could generate enough volume to wake the neighbors. I'd sure want that person on my side.
Like most of my stories that sound crazy, there were witnesses...in this case two dogs and a cop. Dang I wish I could've talked to the officer. I bet he'd have let me ride around with him. I wonder if he ever saw anything...something tells me he didn't.
So, what was responsible for the ear-splitting knocking? Why did the dogs behave like they only have when a wild creature is near? I'll never know. I'm not claiming that I heard Sasquatch those two nights but I can't rule it out. I do believe there's worlds we can't see but that are just as real as our world, and the String Theory guys would agree. Just because we don't believe something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Did we hear Bigfoot knocking? It makes as much sense as anything else I can think of. It really does. Whatever it was it was freaky, and strange enough to draw the attention of law enforcement. Once again it was loud...crazy loud. I don't see how a human could generate that much power. Life is strange, and these episodes of weirdness sure do make things interesting. Stay safe and have a nice day.
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