hiflier Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Who's there? Hello daveedoe, Sorry, couldn't resist. Last September, camping Downeast Maine, there were NUMEROUS wood knocks behind the campsite in the larger pines. Not everywhere mind you, just "out back" and mostly in the morning hours just after sun up.. Turned out to be red squirrels cutting green hickory nuts from the branches up high which were falling through the very dead and hollow sounding Spruce branches closer to the ground. Some of the "knocks" were quite loud when they struck larger branches which sounded LOUD and almost hollow. At first I thought WOW but when I walked back into the woods and entered moss covered ground under the pines I saw several of the nuts falling through the Spruce branches and looked up. The little guys were VERY busy up there LOL. Seeing them of course ruled out the idea that they were being thrown by the Hairy Ones. Edited December 5, 2013 by hiflier
southernyahoo Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Myself and at least three other people were sitting in camp by a fire. Our camp was in a river bottom area right next to a river in early February 2008. It was about 11:30 pm and we were just talking (loudly at times) when we heard these two knocks, one seemingly in answer to the first and from two different directions. Temps were around freezing. 2-9-08-2-knocks.wav
bipedalist Posted December 5, 2013 BFF Patron Posted December 5, 2013 Tree knocking associated with BF goes back hundreds of years. Didn't keep Moneymaker from claiming he discovered the connection though. We all know of the archives of Tirademan on the BFF with newspapers making reference to such things in the mid-1800's and earlier.
Guest Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) I tend to think... that knocks or taps, are more of a position identification, between the subjects. Putting out a recorder overnight, and listening to the entire recording.. has taught me a few things. The difference in sound... between the unknown knocks / taps, distant gunshots, and the natural sounds trees can make, including frozen moisture explosions and change of temp tree pops, and wind causing them to hit together. How are the knocks / taps by the subjects actually produced ? The jury is still out on that answer, for me. Edited December 5, 2013 by imonacan
Guest LarryP Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Didn't keep Moneymaker from claiming he discovered the connection though. We all know of the archives of Tirademan on the BFF with newspapers making reference to such things in the mid-1800's and earlier. Haven't had time to look it back up, BP. But there is a Native American Tribe whose name for Sasquatch translates to something like, "He who drums on trees". I've spent a heckuva lot of time in the woods during my time and yes I've heard trees pop and crackle and creak, but I've never heard a tree make a sound like it was hit soundly with a 36 ounce Louisville Slugger by someone who weighed at least 500 lbs on its own.
Guest Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Myself and at least three other people were sitting in camp by a fire. Our camp was in a river bottom area right next to a river in early February 2008. It was about 11:30 pm and we were just talking (loudly at times) when we heard these two knocks, one seemingly in answer to the first and from two different directions. Temps were around freezing. 2-9-08-2-knocks.wav So that sounds like stealth mode, simple single knocks to locate other while watching humans. Howling would give them away.
hiflier Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Hello daveedoe, i'm almost afraid to ask but here goes....Nacho who?
Guest Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 OP zaa Wag only those with inside information can answer your questions, outherwise is just outside tactical gleaned evidence. Which eviden' before you in posts is displayed. Ta ta. I post'd this you in the other thread too.
Cotter Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 @ Wag. Well, in my county, over the last 5 or so years, there have been 10 calls to the Sherriff's dept regarding sasquatch sightings (which I find very interesting as I don't consider my area a 'hot bed' by any means). The woods I was hunting in is need of a thinning. The tree canopy has the underbrush knocked down considerably, so, when in a tree stand, with the leaves off the trees, one can see VERY far in the woods. The 'wood knocks' were coming from all around me at distances of 10 yds to 100 yards. It is interesting you ask about the next day as well, it was about 10 degrees warmer in the morning the next day. I'll be out in the area hunting over the Holiday Season, and my ears will be peeled. I've been hunting this same ridge since 1996 and never have experienced something like that.....it had to be a perfect combination of stimuli to get it to do what it was doing. @BobbyO. Agreed. Trees don't knock back. What struck me about my situation is that I've NEVER experienced anything like that in woods. Had it been night, while camping, I would have surely been a bit freaked out thinking that BF were everywhere. If there was a BF behind each of the knocks I heard, there would have been over 20 of em within 150 yards of me! But perhaps that would explain why I didn't see many deer! :-) @Larry - these 'knocks' did not have the force behind them you describe. I would say it sounded like someone with a bat swinging about 1/2 speed at a tree.
southernyahoo Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 So that sounds like stealth mode, simple single knocks to locate other while watching humans. Howling would give them away. There were a number of other events on that trip that surely has shaped my perspective on BF. My son had his sighting this trip for one, and there were some interesting vocals captured along with other knocks. I think it was probably buisness as usual for them, but they, for the most part would only make sounds at a safe distance. The first woodknock I ever heard (one that I would call a whack on a tree or log with deliberate force) happened on the previous trip there and was at a distance of about 30 yards. It sounded alot like a hammer on a wooden picnic table. These sounds I think are often attributed to someone building a fort or cabin in the woods, though I think it should be obvious by the repetition and frequency that it's not hammering or chopping wood. We did chop some wood for the fire, so that could have drawn their interest a bit.
Guest Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Numerous times I have experienced and others also have a single knock when people arrive and later a single knock when people depart. This is one thing the recorders do well on research after you leave it and drive off. Also if they dont see you still there and the vehicle drives off....single knock.. I have called it right before it happened in the field after this repeatable behavior becomes the norm in Oklahoma and Texas had it in both. Edited December 5, 2013 by GEARMAN
Guest DWA Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Just reading a post here and blogtalk, about wood knocks possibly meaning: "Human in area" It could also be locational, just wondering if you've heard stories about multiple people hearing more than one knock in relation to group size 3 knocks 3 people, or single people hearing more than one. And so howls would be location of individual. What are whistles? That a girl thing? It's known that pileated woodpecker knocks mean "human in area." Count the rat-tat-tats; divide by 3, add five to the result and... I know that some people just have to know, and can't wait for confirmation to find out so just have to start supplying details themselves. Me, I'd prefer to confirm the animal first.
Guest Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 It's known that pileated woodpecker knocks mean "human in area." Count the rat-tat-tats; divide by 3, add five to the result and... I'm thinking you must be joking or being sarcastic.. because that's bologna
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