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I have not. (Probably. :)) I'll recommend caution with the term "zapping." People are experiencing unexplained things. They are desperate to have a label for what happened to them. I've dug into the reports some .. interviewed witnesses, etc. What "person A" is calling "being zapped" is not at all similar to what "person B" calls "being zapped." You've gotta peel the label off the "onion" and ask people about the details of their experience and ignore the label or likely you're going to be chasing after an average of dissimilar things, not after something that truly exists. One guy I know likens it to being tazed. There was no fear, no nausea at all. Just dumped to the ground in full muscle contraction .. extreme pain and no control over his body. Another talks about fear to the point of nausea. Someone else talks about a situation of strange head pains, lights, and develops cancer she attributes to "zapping." These are NOT the same thing. As long as we are shoving them in the same pigeonhole as if they were one, we're not going to understand any of them. I'm not laughing. I'm not ridiculing. I'm saying "do science" if only in the sense of do some critical thinking. Forget the labels. Record your observations, not your interpretations. Do it immediately because within a couple days or less you'll be trying to explain it by putting it in a framework of observation and the value will be gone.

I'm up in northern Alberta and I spend a lot of time ice fishing alone on fairly remote lakes. I've had a few experiences (large indistinct tracks going along the middle of lakes, multiple breaking branches that sounded intentional in the middle of the night on the nearest shore while camping, vocalizations from back in the bush that changed location throughout the day) that changed me from casually interested to something more. I don't know anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are aware of which lakes have springs to allow access to water in winter, and other specific geographical things that would determine a suitable wintering site. (I never made any significant attempts to investigate any of my experiences. I don't want to cause trouble or harass anyone/anything, I'm just trying to increase my own understanding of my world)

This appears to be, in my opinion anyway and based on what i get from the data, the way they are in that specific area of the Olympics anyway.

Thanks. I've been lurking around for a few years. This was one of the few times I felt I had something to share and an appropriate thread to jump into.

The Olympics have a fairly mild winter at the lower elevations, not sure where the nest sites are but I imagine that’s where any BF in the area would go then.