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There is no mundane explanation for this phenomenon. You will hear people talk about bioluminescence, but that occurs only in marine life and terrestrial arthropods like fireflies. It also occurs in some fungi and microscopic organisms. It does not occur in mammals. Even if it did, it would be an odd evolutionary trait for a light gathering organ such the eye with its photoreceptors to also be a photo emitter. Like with other extraordinary attributes commonly associated with Sasquatch, someone looked around for the closest natural equivalent to explain it away. Tapetum lucidum is usually trotted out as an explanation, but many cases of these self illuminating eyes occur when there is no external light source. Even people who are firmly in the flesh and blood undiscovered ape camp like Moneymaker and the NAWAC folks have mentioned the self illuminating eyes phenomenon, regardless of the biological improbability of it. Long answer short… no one has an explanation. Even those of us who have witnessed it.

I have heard many stories of sightings that mention glowing red eyes. What explains this phenomenon? Is there any records of this in the known animal kingdom?

No worries. I appreciate the passion. My inquiry was just focused on reports and stories regarding glowing red eyes. Not my own experiences. It appears other phenomenon got mentioned and topics got crossed. That said I did appreciate your input.

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I just read the original post bud.

I'd like to answer for myself on that one. The specifics of the situation leave little alternative. I awoke to a situation with a number of components. 1) There were strange pressure points inside of my eye sockets and they were moving. Not painful or even uncomfortable, just .. weird. Never before, never since. It was too dark to see, 9:45 pm guestimate under heavy timber in a deep mountain basin, 50/50 cloud cover, before moonrise. Black as the inside of a boot except for a few stars between clouds. I suspect even with light I would have been blind because the vibrations and pressure were mostly in the general area of the optic nerve around the back of the eye. 2) Hyperventilating. I heard very fast, very very deep breathing. 3) The muscles in my face were spasming uncontrollably. Like they were firing randomly without any input from my brain to control / coordinate them. 4) Intense "congestion" .. could not breath through my nose and struggled to breath through my mouth. I thought I was dying. I thought the hard hike from 2000 feet to 6000 feet had done me in. 5 miles from the road, more from cell service. I did not expect to live. 5) Mid-panic I began to notice that the rhythm of the breathing I could hear felt out of sync with my own chest. I managed an experiment .. I crossed my arms over my chest to be sure it was not rising and falling, then held my breath. The sound continued unchanged. I started figuring and concluded the source of the breathing was not past my feet, that was too far. It was not beyond my head because there was another tent there. It wasn't the guy in that tent 'cause I could hear him move occasionally and the location was wrong. It was, by my best guess, 18-24 inches from my face. I still don't know if it was to my left, my right, or standing directly over me. I was in a low bivy .. would have been possible. 6) I lay there struggling to breath .. I could, with labor, mouth breath .. and trying to figure out just what the [expletive deleted] was happening to me. After a few minutes, there was a soggy thud 25-30 yards outside of camp, then shortly after that, a clean power-knock from about 75 yards away and off maybe 45 degrees uphill and past my feet. The breathing did not change. This means there were <at least> 2, probably 3, "whatevers", not just 1. 7) It was difficult to move but possible. I was thirsty, forced my hand to move to open the tent, get my water bottle, drank about half of it, re-capped it, and put it back. 8) I have low back problems. Eventually as this "event" continued (breathing unabated), I had to roll over to ease the pain. I did this twice. Some time after that, I think about 45 minutes after I initially woke up, I fell asleep. I woke up about 12:30 or so. The moon was up. The breathing, etc were gone. I had not noticed in the moment how quiet it had been when all that was going on but when I woke up it was very bright, there were bugs and birds making noise in the trees around camp and fish splashing in the lake. There was zero congestion, neither sinus nor chest. No weakness. Nothing amiss at all. The next morning the canteen was exactly where remembered putting it, half full, capped. It was not imagined. That removes sleep paralysis and false wakening from any further consideration. The only source I'm aware of which is clinically consistent with all of the symptoms simultaneously is infrasound. (I am open to other intelligent suggestions but not to being insulted by attempts to sweep the uncomfortable back under the carpet, which is about all I've experienced so far .. so I apologize if I get a bit prickly.) .. but that still doesn't account for glowing red eyes. That's something else. MIB

I know someone who said that they saw eye glow in pitch darkness.

No, but I was referring to the other phenomena that you mentioned… vanishing into thin air and (to a lesser extent) mindspeak. I am extremely familiar with all of the proven and alleged symptoms of infrasound. Sick Building Syndrome. Wind Turbine Syndrome. The dreaded Brown Note. Vladimir Gavreau and Vic Tandy. The offhanded remark by Elizabeth von Muggenthaler that started the whole “tigers use it to stun their prey” rumor. A huge portion of my free time has been consumed by the study of infrasound over the past year or so. Can infrasound cause a feeling of irritability or maybe even low level confusion or anxiety? Yes. It doesn’t come anywhere near to causing the “zapping” effect that people describe, however. People are experiencing these physical symptoms, but I don’t think that it is caused by infrasound. But, that’s a separate thread. Those are still reflecting light though. Not self illuminating.

That wraps it up pretty well. I don't really know what to think. This is one of those things, like orbs, mindspeak, and "vanishing into thin air" that I have not experienced first hand. I'm not laughing, I consider some of the witnesses dead reliable in other contexts with no reason to lie specifically in this one. I'll throw out a theory but I'm not sure I believe it myself. Eyeballs are curved. Curved surfaces can focus reflection to a single focal point .. same principle as a directional mic or like a satellite dish antenna. If the eyes are big enough, they might reflect enough otherwise diffuse ambient light to it shines on / illuminates a single point seemingly much brighter than the background that is collecting / redirecting the light. If that .. or any of these things .. does happen, I'm going to try to do the best science I can: observe, take notes, record as much as possible. Don't let preconceived ideas about what is/isn't possible get in the way of noting what appears to be happening whether that thing is possible or not.

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