Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: I heard the tree knocking for several minutes, there was a second knocking
that seemed to answer the first one.
Animal Description: did not see the source of the sound
Aprox. Height: could not see what was making the noise.
Aprox. Weight: could not see what was making the noise.
Head/Facial Description: Could not see the source of the noise.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: There was no smell then, but later when I was walking back to the park, there was a smell that smelled like a dead skunk, so it could be that creature, or just a skunk, I do not know.
Vocalizations Heard?: none
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Recordings Made?: No
I heard wood knockings in the woods behind hubbard park, on July 31st at 3:00 in the afternoon.
(Montpelier) Investigation taken over by Norma Parcia I contacted Seth via e-mail to see when we could make phone contact and set up a date to meet him in person and investigate the area of the wood knocking. We e- mailed back and forth several times, (on Sept. 3rd, 2010). During which time, we made arrangements to meet that next day (Sept. 4th, 2010), in Montpelier VT., at a coffee shop in town. I called Seth the morning of our meeting to find out a little bit more of what happened on that day, and we gave him our ETA. Bob and I and our cousin drove to Montpelier, on Saturday the 4th of Sept. 2010. We left our town at about 10:30AM and arrived in Montpilier, Vt., at about 12:40PM. We met Seth at a coffee shop and drove to Hubbard Park where the event took place. On the way to the park I asked him if he could tell me what brought him to the hike to begin with. He said he hike there quite often, had just come from a seminar put on by someone, he said, was from NESRA, at a hall in town. He then decided to go to the trails for a hike. While on his hike, about 2 miles up the trail, he heard the knocking sounds off in the distance. He said it sounded to be about 1/2 a mile away or so. He said he had never thought of the sound before as being that of a Bigfoot, until he heard the seminar that day. He said when he heard that
sound before, which I guess he had previous to this day, he just thought it was someone hammering, and never gave it much thought. He said it sounded like a woodpecker but only more eerie. We parked at the gate to the park, which was only less than 5mins from town, and started our assent up the hiking trail. Seth led the way, and led us toward the place where he heard the knocking off in the distance. While hiking up the trail, about half way up to the spot where he heard the knocking, we stopped, and looked for a branch to use for our own wood knocking. A little further up, Bob took the branch and hit a tree several times to produce the knocking sounds. I asked Seth if that was what he heard, and he said that it was similar but much faster, and a sharper sound. He said it was about 10 rapid knocks in a row, and before the first set of knocks ended, the second set began, was farther away in response to the first set, and in the same rapid manner. He then demonstrated with his own stick against a tree of the speed of the knocks he heard…..his demonstration was much faster then what Bob had done, and in very rapid
secession. But he still wasn’t able to produce the right sound or speed of the knocking he heard. Bob again tried to knock faster than before, and Seth said the speed of the knocking was still faster and more at one time, about 10 knocks in a row. At this point I wondered if maybe there was a shooting range in town, and maybe he was hearing a semi automatic shotgun or rifle going off, and asked if he knew of any ranges around there….he didn’t know if there were any, being that he was fairly new to the area. We still had a little way to go to the spot where Seth heard the knocks, so we kept moving up the trail. Along the way, I observed the terrain and told everyone at the beginning of the hike to keep an eye out for “X” formations, arches, smells, sounds, and anything out of the ordinary. All the while I was making all these observation myself while hiking. At this point, as we got closer to the spot, I would ask everyone to stop, asked Bob to knock again, 3 or 4 whacks on a tree, and wait and listen for anything in return. We did hear one knock sound after each knocking session, but only one in return, and it sounded more like a pop then a knock. We all agreed it sounded more like a gun shot way off in the distance than a knock. We kept moving toward our goal spot, stopping along the way to knock and listen. At one location I whooped twice in a row shortly after we knocked, and heard no response of any kind, except for that gun type sound. After 1 1/2 to 2 miles of hiking, we arrived at the location where Seth heard the
knocking sounds in July, on his solo hike. We did a few more knocks, and whoops, went a little further still, on the trail, did a few more knocks and whoops, and nothing came back in response. After waiting and listening for a while, we headed back down the mountain. My observations and feeling on the wood knocking Seth heard, the terrain, and overall investigation is this: While on this whole investigation I kept my eyes and ears, as did everyone else, open for any tell tail signs of Bigfoot occupation…..at one point early on, there was a plank bridge that we crossed, where I saw prints below and to the side of it.
We went down to see what made them, and it looked like a possible bear print that had been walked over several times ,by a dog or dogs. We saw a few deer prints coming down a hilly side of a trail, but they were old prints. There were small stream beds in quite a few places, but were very dry and hadn’t seen water for some time. The ground was very dry and hard, so any chance of there being prints from anything was slim to none, not to mention the leaf litter, and pine needles all over the trails. We could hardly even see the prints we had just left. Apparently the deer population is very high there, though we didn’t see any during our visit, but Seth said he sees them all the time when he hikes. There is no hunting of any kind allowed in this park, so there is a good food supply for a BF, if it hunts there. I didn’t see much in the way of berries, though it is blueberry season. As I walked I looked for “X” formations, arches, and the like. We did see one lone arched branch, across the trail, but that could have been from storms. We did have some severe storms come through our area this summer, and storms this past winter that were pretty bad, so tree damage was plentiful, branches and uprooted trees everywhere, old and new. However, I did see some peculiar tree and branch oddities that I took pictures of, one in particular where there was a very evident path, that something had walked through some high grassy area, leading to a grouping of branches that had been placed in the crook of a split tree. That was unusual and in an area about 1 1/2 miles up the mountain. I didn’t see any other strong evidence of Bigfoot activity in this area, other than what I mention, which may or may not be. When Seth told us of the knocking pattern, I really had to wonder if it was wood knocking and said to him that I had mixed feelings about it. I gave him some sites to check out on-line, and asked him to listen to the wood
knocking on these sites to see if any sounded like what he had heard, because I had never heard of any that were that rapid, and to send me, via e-mail, the ones that came close. That same night he sent me two sites he said sounded closest to what he heard…..one was a woodpecker pecking on a fiberglass basketball backboard, and the other was a u-tube video from 2 Canadian Bigfoot hunters who had a interactive wood knocking encounter, that was also rapid and sounded like rock hitting rock, or a rock hitting a tree trunk. In reviewing the Canadian video, I began to re think the wood knocking patterns, and how the ones Seth heard could have very possibly, been done by a BF. I asked him to keep NESRA posted if he has any more events like this happens again. He is more than happy to do so. I believe Seth is genuine, and truthful….he heard something, whether it was Bigfoot wood knocking, or something else producing the wood knocking like sounds, is the question. I googled the topo for that area, and the forest is spread out in a range big enough for a BF to wander and possibly live there. Without being there on that day, and even if I were there, without seeing the source, I wouldn’t be able to say 100%, what made the sound. I am comfortable saying, however, that futher investigation may be needed in this area. I still have mixed feelings, but I’m open to the possibilities and promise of the area.