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The Official NESRA 2005 Spring Expedition
(Unexplained Wood Knocking and Thumping Heard)

The Following Report Was Submitted By: Chuck Adinolphi (Big Daddy)

Hi Folks, this is just an excerpt of my report to NESRA of our April, 15-17, 05, Whitehall, NY, expedition.

It's unfortunate that the exact location needs to be kept secret but it is likely that we will be active in this area again in the near future. (Death to trolls and hoaxers!!!)

My quick disclaimer: I am not suggesting that any activity I describe here is related to Sasquatch activity, though the area is well known for such and I have spoken with eye witnesses who claim to have seen BFs within a mile of this very spot. All I am saying is that there was a quite unusual event and it bares further investigation.

What happened and what was observed:

In the mountains West of Whitehall, NY, on Friday, 4-15-05 David Thomas King and I were at our base camp. The conditions at camp were as follows; 10:30pm, wind out of the East at about 7mph, 37F, humidity 34%, sky clear, moon waxing 40% illumination about 20? past zenith.

I had recently finished grilling boneless pork chops on our campfire using McCormick brand Montreal Steak Seasoning (because I like the stuff, YUMMY). Just after adjusting the grill so the chops wouldn't dry out, I found myself on the South side of the fire with David to the East. While making sure everything was going well with the fire and chops, I heard a single wood-knock (I have heard wood-knocking before) from the West, it seemed to be at quite a distance, (I don't dare take a guess how far). I looked at David and said "I just heard a knock from the West." David looked at me with a bit of surprise and bewilderment as to what to do next. I told him it was from quite a ways off. In a matter of what might have been about 10 seconds, there were 2 knocks, considerably closer to camp (also from the West). David grabbed a board (earlier in the day, we had determined what sounded right by trying a few combinations for knocking) to answer the knocks we had just heard (we had not done any wood-knocking of our own). As David raised the board to try a whack, we were stopped in our tracks by what we heard. A thumping noise approaching camp from the West (over the hill and out of our sight), the exact direction our smoke was heading (approached from down wind). We both pointed to where we heard this thumping (too stunned to speak) as the noise approached the camp to within about 40 yards (we were pointing in the exact same direction). As the first few thumps sounded, a Bared Owl began hooting (as if it had been startled) from what seemed to be 10 yards directly South of the origin of the thumping. The thumping stopped for a few seconds, just long enough for David and I to look at each other as if to say, "what the heck was that?" Then the thumping began again, headed to the North this time as if it were trying to get away from our camp, and it thumped off into the distance. The entire observation, from the first Knock to the last thump lasted about 40 seconds, neither of us smelled anything out of the ordinary or heard anything unusual aside from the knocks and thumps. The thumps were quite loud and shook the ground (not like an earthquake but it could be felt through our boots), as if they were made by something hitting the ground with a section of a telephone pole. The timing between thumps seemed like if it were an animal walking, that it would be an unnatural gate, as if something with long legs had one lead foot. Hours of speculation lead to no conclusions and an investigation of the area that the thumping noises came from gave no clues as to what may have made the noises. We were not able to duplicate the intensity of the thumping. The nearest trail in the direction of the thumping is over a half mile away.

I don't know how to list this encounter as anything but unexplained. If anyone reading this has any plausible explanations as to what we heard, I would love to hear them. Also, If anyone has information that would link this to Sasquatch activity, it would help my research.

I'll check in to answer any questions, as your questions and my answers might help us all better understand what was observed.

Thanks,

Chuck

The Following Report Was Submitted By: David Thomas King

Here's my account of our 2005 NESRA Whitehall (Spring) expedition...

There was a definite unexplainable encounter that occurred on Friday night. I also heard one distant vocalization on Saturday night that sounded exactly like one I heard on a Bigfoot site somewhere. (I'll have to find it again to make proper reference.) I got my car stuck in the mud at the base of <location withheld> and walked 2.7 miles up an extremely steep ravine to our camp site. I was about a half a mile from my destination when I heard a clear vocalization in the distance behind me, coming from the <location withheld> direction (Where I had left my car in the mud).

Friday night's encounter "took the cake" however. At approximately 10:30PM, Chuck heard a distant tree knock, he believes came from across <location withheld>. It was immediately followed by two more wood knocks which sounded like they were made about a quarter mile from us. It was at that point that a barred owl started hooting and both Chuck and I began to hear what sounded like bipedal footsteps approaching our campsite from the West. I was leaning on a horse hitch and Chuck was tending the pork chops on the fire. The noises could be likened to a very large boulder being dropped on the ground repeatedly. They got louder as they approached and literally shook the ground so that both Chuck and I could not only hear the "thumps" but also feel them. The horse hitch I was leaning on shook as well as the ground underneath our feet. The sounds and ground reverberations were unexplainable and could not be attributed to any known phenomenon of nature. Chuck and I discussed possibility after possibility and nothing we came up with could fit the scenario. The thumps changed direction just over a small hill at our campsite and moved North, away from us, growing less intense as they moved off into the distance, eventually disappearing.

The gait of the thumps was not only inhuman but also seemed out of the range of even possible Sasquatch movement. When I searched the hill for impressions, there were many indentations but nothing that could definitively be classified as a footprint due to the extensive leave cover. I did find grouse feathers however and it occurred to me that if it was a Sasquatch that made those ground-shaking thumps, it could have been taking a few steps and then stomping on the ground with all its might to stir up the many grouse that were "holed" up in our area. We had been hearing grouse thumping their wings on logs since Thursday. They sounded like mini helicopters or like someone trying to start a lawn mower. The place was loaded with them. This "stomping for grouse" theory could easily account for the extremely long gait as well as for the ground shaking that occurred in tandem with each consecutive thump. The thumps were consistent and moved along at a quick pace. All-in-all, I'd say it was a 30 to 40 second encounter that involved well over 25 thumps.

As for known animals large enough to possibly account for the thumps we heard and felt, the chances are extremely low that a known animal such as a deer, moose or bear hopping through the forest that evening are the source of these very intense stomps. These animals are quadrupeds and the sounds we heard were not quadrupedal in nature. (There was no flam or gallop in these noises at all.) What we heard were single successive thumps, consistent with a bipedal stride or intentional stomps. In addition, I doubt any of these quadrupedal animals could shake the ground from that distance, save maybe a large bear jumping up and down with all its might. But even this could not account for the crescendo and decrescendo of the approaching and departing thumps and vibrations.

That's a brief explanation of what occurred. It's definitely an area worthy of some repeated NESRA expeditions this Spring, Summer and Fall.

DTK

PS. Here's a picture of one of the many tiers of swamp I transversed on Thursday in search of <location withheld>. Enjoy.