A Chilling Paranormal Experience, And What It Means For The Missing

[@BobGymlan]

I’m hearing mixed news on Fred’s condition, some positive some negative. Fred is on lists to begin trial treatments. Decidedly bad news, however, is that Fred’s wife Deserea also has cancer, and both of them are currently on chemo. Count your blessings folks, www.gofundme.com/f/help-local-artist-fred-beat-cancer

[@lorefox201]

I'll pray 🙏

[@MurdahBassRecords]

​@@lorefox201🙏

[@Scottuz]

My mother has recently started chemo, after her 3rd Cancer Diagnosis, she's beaten breast cancer twice and now it's back in her Liver, Lung, and 1st time for Chemo, it's a horrible Disease and we should have a treatment or Cure by now. my heart goes out to them both, Best wishes, and Good Feelings from the UK

[@MultiKm1]

Praying for them both.

[@lorefox201]

​@@Scottuz the problem is that it's not one disease, but many, all similar but different.

[@АртёмДубравин-ы6у]

This guy gets it. The idea that squatches, gnomes and some other species are attuned to natural reality cracks and hide in them whenever they are spotted is pretty old, and you can even track it back to old school folklore. I for one believe it's absolute fact. How many times have you spotted a squatch only to see it vanish in a blink of an eye? That's because they basically shift to another plane of reality.

[@AndrewMaksym]

Astral and ether realms?

[@АртёмДубравин-ы6у]

@@AndrewMaksym think so

[@lildemonshannon5202]

It reminds me of the dwarves from god of war how they can travel in the realm between realms to get anywhere they want and they can just vanish like that

[@KusakaMusō]

​@@lildemonshannon5202 I remember a story by a fellow commentor that she encountered a fairy, which after getting caught transformed/manifested into a beetle and flew away within split seconds..These beings are mainly called elemental beings. Gnomes, dwarves, leprechauns, sylths, faes, sasquatch, bigfoot, yetis all are interdimensional entities , which adds up to the no-evidence theory to these things, since 4d substance can't be tracked in a 3d world

[@doctorfeelgood2670]

To even say something as silly as that and fully believe it is insane. Besides, even if it is true, it wouldn’t be a fact because we don’t know. The entire idea of a fact is something you can visibly prove to someone else via information, visible evidence, etc. Something that has been seen by many, and confirmed by many. Gnomes, Sasquatch, everything in between are all rumors and folklore. They could be out there, but I highly doubt it. With the amount of deforestation we do as a species I find it hard to believe we haven’t even discovered the corpse of one of these creatures. Not even a drop of shit.

[@chirpinsquirrel8710]

Back in 2008 I had a similar situation happen to me in a wilderness zone in washington near the base of Mt Rainier. Walking a path I made in the brush and looking up and seeing the entire forest was changed, barren and dead. Turned around and headed back and everything went back to normal. Have had multiple paranormal encounters within 3 miles of that spot.

[@darkcat5649]

Please be careful

[@steviechampagne]

I was hiking Ape Canyon last year, when i turned a corner and there was a blue jay feather laying directly in the middle of the road. It could be a coincidence, but after my sasquatch encounter in the North Casacdes in 2021, i’m not so sure. The woods are full of mystery, really strange things are constantly reported by tens of thousands of regular people in them.

[@freelancepear87kakkoka11]

i have heard that both Mt Rainier and Mt Shashta are cursed af with tons of weird paranormal encounters happening in them.

[@theredknight9314]

There is a similar place in the UK. A woman allegedly saw primeval britains fighting a dragon.

[@darklordojeda]

That's where Ken Arnold saw the flying discs as well.

[@lilliamoof7129]

This reminded me of a report in one of David Paulides' Missing 411 books, though I cant recall which one. It talked about a park ranger in the smokey mountains during the early 90s who experienced a silence in the woods while on trail, stopped dead in his tracks, and looked down to see his foot was missing. He took a step back and his foot re-appeared, he decided to reach forward with his hand and found that it also vanished past that point, just one step ahead of him. That park ranger likely encountered one of these rifts in time or space and was able to stop before he fully entered. Lord knows what he might've seen if he hadnt caught himself, I imagine it would be something like these 2 people experienced.

[@hypno18s]

I have a feeling that the UAP thing. the Bigfoot thing and the missing people thing are all connected and it's the reason why they don't wanna tell us as it'd cause mass panic of going places and disappearing for good. Hell maybe David Grusch gave a hint he said UAPs are interdimensional craft right so if true beings from a higher dimension are reacting to our reality and maybe they also open these little rifts in our reality? Which is what may have caused some of these disappearances.... shits honestly scary to think about but I don't think it's a coincidence......

[@MichaelSplatkins]

Just in case anyone experiences such a thing: Don't put more of your body in the portal. The exotic energies required for dimensional tears could be extremely dangerous. Just assume that it's radioactive and that it will melt your balls like bubblegum if you poke at it. Then mark the location, record what you can, and come back with geiger counters and any other energetic sensors you can find.

[@unikeko96]

Laser can detect gravitational distortions

[@randybaumery-u5r]

Paulides spoke of a report of a hunter who heard a machine going by flattening grass and NOTHING was there!

[@nix-cipher]

​@@randybaumery-u5r Can you recall what channel or the name of the story? This sounded fascinating to me,thanks!

[@enragedkaiser237]

There's a case from Poland described by Arkadiusz Miazga that came to mind while watching this (Miazga is a well-known Polish paranormal researcher; he wrote a couple of great books that are unfortunately not translated into English). A man told him that when he was a kid, he got lost in the woods that he knew very well. He couldn't find his way nor did he recognize the surroundings, as if he was somehow transported to some other forest. He then found a clearing and could see something he described as "huge, tall stone buildings". He had a very strong feeling that he was not supposed to be there and see these "buildings". He eventually got out of the woods, but he could not find these strange buildings after that. There are so many cases like these that it's crazy. Great video. I hope and pray that Fred and his wife will get better.

[@naimayaman4975]

Also John Keel writes of the most consistent unexplained noises across the board that accompany paranormal experiences if all kinds are: 1. The sound of either a baby crying; sometimes a woman wailing 2. The unexplained sound of an (impossible) car door shutting.

[@angrydrunkengerman2819]

This was also reported by Ron Morehead of the the Siera Sounds fame. He described what sounded to be like a car door closing at one point and different sounds that made no sense in the woods. When I was a kid we played in the woods a ton. On a number of occasions me and by friend heard a very creepy and out of place number of sounds in the woods. It was only when I was older and working at a factory that made radiators did I hear something that sounded exactly like it. There was a giant press that would slam down and when it did so it was so loud you had to wear ear plugs. That day there was a guy working on it and he hit this thick meal side with a rubber mallet. That was exactly the sound. A heavy rubber hammer hitting a quarter to half inch thick flat sheet of steel with great force. The creepy thing was when we heard the sound in the woods it was coming from above us. We looked up and saw nothing. Just the wind slowly blowing the tree tops. Three hard, echoing, slams of a rubber hammer against thick metal about a second apart. From above us. We probably heard this on 4 or 5 different occasions. We'd look at each other with the look or actually say "that's creepy. It's time to go. Let's get out of here."

[@valiantthorr7577]

​@angrydrunkengerman2819 can you share where this occurred? Or rough location?

[@Emiliapocalypse]

@@angrydrunkengerman2819wow that’s so weird. Reminds me of that creepy story I heard that came out of Finland. I don’t remember all the details, but a few hikers were wandering through the woods and heard full-on factory type noises coming from the isolated wilderness where there were no factories or wood mills. One of them went to follow the sounds, when suddenly all the noises and sounds of machines and people working just suddenly - stopped -. It’s wild that you heard something later on that sounded just like the initial sound. I wonder if there could be some kind of, for lack of a better phrase, wrinkle in time, that allowed two parts of your life to connect briefly? maybe you really did hear the sounds of that press for a moment. Just thinking. Cool story, thank you for sharing your experience.

[@DestroyedArkana]

Many of these sounds, as well as high pitched whooshing also accompany an astral projection.

[@CrazyBear65]

That's (probably) the door out of the holodeck shutting.

[@roku3216]

There was another missing case of a man in Montana, right before he disappeared, the last phone call with him was difficult to hear due to the roaring rush of wind sound, yet there wasn’t such weather at the time.

[@yourfriendlycommisar2406]

You have a link? my interest is peaked

[@aarondavies8486]

It was a young lad on phone to parents lost they heard him like he was being sucked up

[@roku3216]

@@yourfriendlycommisar2406 I don’t but it was a David Pauline’s story from MT. And apparently there’s another case says the other commenter. I’d like to know more about that one too.

[@roku3216]

@@aarondavies8486 I think there are multiple. Which case was this and how do I find it?

[@roku3216]

Paulides… damn autocorrect

[@ram6671]

I had a similar event. My wife and young children were with me and all experienced the same feeling. I am glad to hear these stories because they help justify my experience. I will never forget the immense feeling of something being wrong. I have been in bad situations before and after where panic and fear kick in but it was never as overwhelming as facing a portal or shifting. To this day whenever I hear of the missing. I always think of the poor soul stuck in another place rather then being dead.

[@bgff1555]

Thank you sir. I have to say the lady's story about Gramps saving the pelican steals the show. Thank you for this. You are a great person ❤️

[@JulieS828]

Absolutely!!! Great man!!!

[@BlackDiluvian]

This whole video is epic. The lady’s story and style, and the narration; perfect. Very impressive.

[@RapaxGuardian]

And just like that, thousands of strangers fell in love with this absolute mad lad and his pelican. Lol :)

[@WolfKickboxing]

Weird how a man saving a bird kept me more interested than a wrinkle in time story

[@BasicGeometry]

The wife looked so mad in the drawings but she was in bed with an absolute chad every night, good thing she let the bird slide

[@rickcharlespersonal]

As a paleontology enthusiast, just the description of the dragonflies and orange sky immediately reminded me of the Carboniferous Period, so I'm glad you also made that connection. What gives this so much credence to me is how pinpointedly this account describes a very real time period that I would not expect a random grandfather and his granddaughter to have any knowledge of to the degree they described.

[@rickcharlespersonal]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I mean I'm not going to bother re-watching the video to double-check, but I'm pretty sure it was Bob himself who pointed out the similarities to the Carboniferous Period after he was done reading the account she'd sent him. I don't know if you were listening to this video in the background and only half paying attention but that's how I remember it; the witness herself made no mention of the Carboniferous Period and I'm pretty sure it was Bob saying HE went down a rabbit hole and discovered the similarities. There is a point in his videos where he finishes reading the account, says something like "hi it's me again," and injects his own commentary/critique over the account. I imagine that's pretty easy to miss if you're listening to his videos as background noise.

[@RyanC__]

I hope you are doing well bob

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

Well he has a thousand likes in one hour.

[@Snoopaloop1981]

@@stevenfunderburg1623we be hungry for content

[@Pillagingjust4fun...]

Getting likes on a youtube video and doing well are two vastly different things my friend.

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

@@Pillagingjust4fun... Well, as he said in this very video, he works hard on the videos and prioritizes them over correspondence, so maybe not as vast as you think...

[@pninnan]

@@stevenfunderburg1623I believe this person is talking basic happiness with life, in general

[@jdaniel3068]

In 43 years ive had only one experience of "paranormal." Myself and a friend were in the downstairs of a church building on a large church campus painting the walls of the kids rooms. We were in our mid-20s and It was around 230am as we were nearing being finished for the night. The entire facility was dark other than the lights in the room we were in and the emergency exit signs illuminating the hallways. Suddenly the loud sounds of many pairs of feet running across the hallway directly above us along with the loud boisterous chatter and laughter of many children, exactly as one wld hear at 10am on a Sunday morning. We both looked at each other wide-eyed and immediately left our things on our way out. Back then the "ghost" explanation was about all we had. But since then I have come to believe it was some sort of time slip or shift. We heard a different point in time- but not so distant as the church had only been there since the 90s. This story from Bob seems like they saw a huge time slip of thousands or millions of years.

[@jhtsurvival]

Why were you painting a church at 230am

[@jdaniel3068]

@@jhtsurvival being paid to complete a job.

[@dannyhernandez265]

So freaky. Never experienced anything else like that again?

[@jdaniel3068]

@@dannyhernandez265 not that I was aware of. The dead silence contrasted with the sudden loud noise made it easy to know something was happening. Life is filled with so much noise I wonder if it happens more frequently we just cant distinguish it.

[@edlomonaco]

When I was younger I used to fish the Naples pier. One day it was very windy and it was only me and a handful of pelicans. I sat on the bench and they all snuggled up close to me for the whole day.

[@maxdoughty4213]

The main issue with time travel isn't continental drift, or elevation changes, or even environmental hazards on the other side. It's the fact that Earth is hurtling through space at 1.6 million miles a day, so you're just going to step through the time hole into cold vacuum because the Earth either isn't there yet, or isn't there anymore...

[@mmstick]

This assumes that time is detached from space. If time is affected by gravity, then it is probable that time is relative to space.

[@leroysanchino]

@@mmstickthat’s interesting

[@Declined469]

This is from the Carboniferous Period of time. I would know after working at the UNESCO World Heritage Fossil Site called, “The Joggins Fossil Cliffs”. Insects were much bigger in this time period due to the high oxygen content in the atmosphere. There is also fossilized evidence of the large dragonflies discussed in this video at the site’s Research Center. Also, I recognized this as the time period as soon as I seen the outside designs on the so called “trees”. “Trees”, back during this period are not like the trees we have today. They had a hard outer shell and a spongy inside, the modern day equivalent to these would be club mosses. When they would die they would eventually become completely hollow. This is what caused the formation of the “in situ”, fossilized stumps found in the cliffs where I worked for many summers. Ferns were very commonplace during this period and thousands of fossils of them have been found at this site. Also, these cliffs are located in the small rural community along the Bay of Fundy in Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada. Time to finish the video. Cheers!

[@toonrex2806]

Sounds like a case of time traveling. Maybe some people who go missing stumble into a portal that takes back to prehistory like the anomalies from Primeval.

[@DamplyDoo]

But if she went back then wouldn't it affect our future? Or it another dimension

[@theredknight9314]

Exactly. This could explain some missing 411 incidents

[@theredknight9314]

@@DamplyDooi dont think time works like that

[@marthafast6613]

What a great experience. Thanks for adding this knowledge.

[@sweettooth-ji7qc]

Bob you have in my mind achieved legendary status, you are a credit to the bigfoot community as well as the weird factual and paranormal. I'll never get tired of your excellent content and the addictive way you story tell and explain things thank you for what you do and who you are hope you are well!

[@jhtsurvival]

Don't forget Fred

[@driftless2487]

I have recorded loads of audio with strange "cracking" sounds here in the Chequamegon N'tl forest in NW WI, most notable thing about them, is that they are almost always heard shortly after I leave my recorder, or shortly before returning to pick them up. I call them all clear alerts. These unnatural sounding "cracks" aren't quite like sticks breaking, or rocks clacking, they never have any reverberation to them, indicating that they are quite close. Often times they wait until I close my car door before producing these sounds, I can't help but feel the timing is intentional. I have been monitoring these phenomena for a few years now, and I still have no clue.

[@thealternativecontrarian9936]

can you post some of them on KZbin for us?

[@driftless2487]

@@thealternativecontrarian9936 Yes.

[@toddpartain6606]

Had the same thing occur on bigfoot expeditions. I believe it is the daywatcher sentinel doing a wood knock to warn the others that humans are in the area and out of their cars. We always hear an initial wood knock as we exit our vehicles.

[@NewGuyDarren]

Its funny how your perspective changes when something actually happens to you. Before, a story like this would seem fanciful. It could easily be blown off as "fake" or an eye roll. But once you have some kind of weird thing that you can't explain, you can't say for sure. I saw a translucent orb in 2011/12 which slowly and playfully flew through my living room and straight through a window(solid matter) and then out up the back of a brick wall. I watched it the whole time. After seeing this, I had to sit down and re-evaluate my existence. So now whenever I hear a ghost story, a bigfoot story or a ufo or glitch in the matrix story, I have to pause and ponder it. There's more out there than they are letting on.

[@matttriano]

Thanks for sharing! Anything else of note regarding that experience? What precipitated it, what occurred after?

[@dextermorgan1]

I've never personally had any kind of paranormal experience, but I have seen some strange stuff in the sky. Nothing too crazy, but it's all real. UFO's, Bigfoot, Dogmen(unfortunately) The Jersey Devil. Too many people have seen these things. Especially UFO's and Bigfoot. The world is a very strange place. We've been lied to for a long time.

[@NewGuyDarren]

Not really anything more. Boring. I know. But it didn't scare me at all. It looked playful the way it went through the living room area. Also, the rays of the sun were coming in through the blinds. It looked like a soap bubble about the size of a golf ball. It acted like it was surveying the area. And again, right through solid window. I studied mostly science in college - this broke all the rules. :) You ask what precipitated it? Nothing I know of. What happened after? I sat there in shock for like 15 minutes. My mind wanted to forget it. I said to myself "No I'm not going to forget this! This is evidence! The truth is out there." Sometimes our minds will try to downplay things like "Oh I must have been sleeping" or "Oh I must have eaten some hallucinogenic mushrooms that day' or some other excuse. No. I was wide awake in the day time. Completely sober.@@matttriano

[@BinroWasRight]

Indeed. There are very few things I immediately scoff at. But I don't automatically believe everything either. The place of wisdom is somewhere in between, and it's easier to get there when you have the sort of open mind our experiences gave us.

[@maeton-gaming]

please study neoplatonic metaphysics, you will find many surprising answers to your questions there.

[@placeholderhandle1995]

thank you for being so kind to fred; i think some people might just gloss on by with a "wow that's sad buddy, hope it gets better." "the sound of a giant trap closing" made my hair stand on end.

[@josh-kf2rd]

I heard something similar before from a witness in one of the cases featured in the first missing 411 movie... sort of. The guy gives a description, and then Paulides claims he gave a similar but different (spookier) description when they weren't filming. Paulides is a liar.

[@josh-kf2rd]

timestamp?

[@placeholderhandle1995]

@@josh-kf2rd oh, i fully don't believe paulides' shit. i just thought it was a scary-ass turn of phrase.

[@josh-kf2rd]

@@placeholderhandle1995 when in the video did he say that?

[@hannah1948]

I wonder if these people were mant to fall into the trap.

[@nirotanaxamandbear533]

What an odd coincidence. I also saw a mystery dragonfly a couple of weeks ago. I'm a bug guy, an animal, plant, and outdoors guy in general. To the point where I wouldn't be stumped on even obscure invertebrates from the depths of the jungle or ocean. In any case, this dragonfly I saw was about 6 inches long, possibly 7. A fairly large dragonfly, but not too weird. The strange part was that it was very thin, like a damselfly and much faster than any other dragonfly I had ever seen. It was a metallic blueish green. Nothing else was strange about that day. I have yet to identify anything like it.

[@TheBandersnoot]

I have heard of things like this. One story was a guy who was walking a trail in open wilderness and took a step into a cloudy jungle with red light, and heard a voice behind him say "I've got you." The guy stepped backwards and was back in the normal world.

[@josh-kf2rd]

That story is from the Author of Missing 411, who is a liar and a fraud.

[@joonsmelodie9927]

@@josh-kf2rdare you just in a miserable Karen kind of mood with something up your 🍑, or do you actually have the receipts to back that statement up?

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

@@josh-kf2rd you seem to be a very miserable fellow who likes to make angry accusations about others without providing any evidence to back up what you say.

[@jannythewonderwomen2215]

Yes I've heard this same scary story. Good thing he stumbled hey?

[@stovis]

He heard a voice behind him say that and he stepped backwards and toward it? Doesn't sound smart.

[@brandonstewart4349]

Glad to see you are still surviving the possessed audio file. When she said “snap of a whip” I exclaimed “MISSING 411 : THE HUNTED”. Thorough, my guy. Very thorough. Prayers for you, Fred, and his wife

[@matttriano]

I think that sound might be animals; forests can be cacophonous in modernity and ours are quite small by ancient comparison. In an endless forest, some parts on fire, all animals in it making lots of big sounds..?

[@mcbrians.8508]

i remember reading about the banishment of those who build the tower of babel, it was said that they were banished into 3 parallel dimensions. This could be it.

[@uziel25]

Firstly, my prayers go to Fred and his wife. I lost the grandfather who raised me to cancer (brain), and I saw up close and personal everything, in fact i was the person who found him when he passed. I was 12. Secondly,, and this eems so inconsequential compared to what i just said, I'm glad you're still making content.I check regularly to see if you've released anything. Your stories are so unique and well produced. I'm sure you have to be very selective in your process to determine what you produce, and stories like this one don't come in "on the regular" so you must read/listen to a lot of stories to find them. I hope you're doing well. I'm calling "DIBS" right now for if/when you write a book. You're scripts are impeccable and if you were to write a book with selective illustrations from your videos I would more than happy to buy it. if anyone could pull it off you could. Your scripts are written so perfectly to be read and ithe llustrations and images you show during your videos would be perfect. Seems like most of the work has already been done. You'd just need to format it in such a way that it could be printed. /fingers crossed this come to something. Hate to use a meme but. "Shup up and take my money!"

[@Lando00100]

I had some what of a similar experience. I got married at the age of 18 and walked everywhere in my city of Pasadena TX. Even after I got a car I knew every street and back road way, I didn't have a license so I stuck to back roads. After getting Married things didn't go so well and I often took walks with earbuds in hoping to get lost, but I knew every road so that seemed almost impossible. As these walks started more frequently my emotions were high. With music blasting in my ears and tears in my eyes I paid little attention to my surroundings. When my walkman missed up and my music no longer playing the complete silence was loud. I don't like silence I even sleep with a TV on cuz of this. But with my ears still ringing from my music the silence was uncomfortable it was way to silent for a neighborhood at 10 pm. You would atleast hear cars from the man road only a block away. It may have not been a big deal but I realize every house had a light in there yard. These lights mimic old street lights, that were shaped like lanterns. These were very common in this neighborhood I had a broken one in my front yard. I believe they used to belong to the city and were powered from a city line not sure. The point is most of these lights were broken or flat out removed. But when my music stop and my ears stopped ringing I noticed every house not only had the lights but they were all working. I had never seen this road before, I would have noticed the dozen of other times I walked cuz all the yard lights were not just there but working. As far as I could see in front of me and Behind. This horrible silence got me scared and I started walking faster and faster hoping to get to bend in the road that should be on every block. When I finally got to a bend I saw a car in the road and with the car all the sound came back. That quiet seemed very unnatural, it may have been a minute or two of that but with no noise and lights that aren't supposed to be there its stayed with me to this day. Yes I did go back the next day over and over many days and nights. Those lights, I could never find any road that had all of them and all working. It wasn't as extravagant as this story but in that time at that place, words can't describe the feeling.

[@BinroWasRight]

As a fellow Texan, we live in a very weird state, LOL! There are so many little country roads you can only find once and never again. Been on some myself in East Texas.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

eh, they never broke so it was never removed

[@itzakpoelzig330]

You probably went back several decades to whenever those lights were new. Do you know when they were from? Were they electric, or gas?

[@Lando00100]

@@itzakpoelzig330 There electric, I know this cuz the house I was living in had a broken one in the front yard. When I was a kid (90s) many still worked but they were older than that. I didn't live in the area until I was older 2000(06,07). This is in hart of the city too I could see the mall from house. Thats why what I saw when I turned around is a image burned into my memory.

[@imskiller99]

Scanning through the store and noticed you added "pelican cuddles" to the store. Tempted on buying it, but the impression of the average person will have of me is given me second thoughts.

[@kimberlycrouch7228]

This story repeatedly sent chills down my back. And its true, too many people are just plain dismissive of these accounts. I definitely believe theres more than meets the eye. Subbed.

[@squatchgoblins]

I cried then I cried from laughing about poor Henry coming back to visit, so crazy how animals can connect with us.

[@mjkiii9603]

The idea of a grown man cuddling a pelican like he would a dog is hilarious to me

[@gf301]

Great video, especially in regards to that strange unsettling noise. I heard a podcast where a police officer had a night of pure terror, he said one of the precursors to the night's events was a sudden loud metallic sound coming from the woods, not dissimilar to a trap snapping shut. Only in later years did he hear of Tom Messick and that disturbing sound, so he got to wondering if they'd both heard the same thing. All that aside I was very moved by the pelican story, what a terrific guy pulling of that rescue, and who doesn't like a happy ending (for once)?

[@slidetek]

Super interesting and compelling story, glad you finally brought it to life. _Love_ the pelican part! Don't forget, also on Missing 411 The Hunted, at the end of the film he was talking with the hunters that had recorded the sasquatch "talking" in the early 70's. They mentioned some strange sounds, one like a giant tuning fork up in the sky, and one that sounded like a _car door slamming_ out in the middle of nowhere! Strange world we barely have a grasp on. Thanks Bob!

[@KahshinLiu]

I've got to say man..... The animator drawing the "girl's" extended "feel the bern" coffee mug out & your body language being there with your arms cross is exactly how we all feel listening to this story.

[@peacetheory5544]

Hey Bob, great story! I remember watching some fringe show on TV a long time ago, maybe early 2000’s, and watching a story that an old man was telling. He was out hunting one day (this took place in the 90’s) and he was walking along the bank of a river to get to his hunting spot. As he made his way to his spot, the trail/ river took a sharp turn, and as this man started to make his way around the turn, he claimed that he had seen a massive praying mantis-the size of a man. One thing that was interesting (besides the massive insect) was that this man claimed the mantis was surrounded by mist, or fog, and after a few seconds, the fog enveloped the mantis, and it slowly disappeared. I wish I remembered what show this was

[@Juliet7245]

That would have me terrified.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Maybe a mantid alien?

[@ldawg7117]

Awesome video, Bob! . It's definitely gonna take some getting used to not having Fred do your illustrations, but absolutely no complaints with the new illustrator. This is, in my opinion, the best damned channel on KZbin..

[@angelalankford5905]

I appreciated the illustrations showing the lepidodendron from the Carboniferous. I immediately knew the time to which they had been transported.

[@iasimov5960]

"A wonderful bird is the pelican. Its beak can hold more than his belly can. He can hold in his beak, enough food for a week. But I'm damned if I see how the hell he can." - Dixon Lanier Merritt

[@crystallaws7050]

I'm only 15 minutes into this story and I've got to stop and try to find the words to express how riveting this storytellers experience was! I was kind of laid out on the couch and just about to zone out and I started this video and my eyes popped open and my mouth stayed open😅 I love this video I think this is my favorite video I've ever listened to! The writing and the narration... fantastic! The subject matter and everything about this video.. it's just freaking amazing 👊👊👊

[@doltBmB]

Alien abductions are often accompanied by realistic hallucinations that have been called a state of "virtual reality". I wonder if rather than a timewarp, this is something more like that, simply the appearance of some other place, it would explain the sudden appearance and disappearance of it. Did she notice any "missing time" at this point, like their few minutes on the island turned out to have been much longer than it should have been?

[@dextermorgan1]

That's definitely a possibility

[@aylahughes9185]

can confirm from personal experience. more then 5hrs lost in my case, and experienced a full on wind and rain storm that i can confirm from multiple other people who were present that day did not in fact happen to them.

[@chadlynch1551]

From what I've read, a lot of the strange memories that accompany abductions are thought to be cover memories; fake memories implanted in the person to mask the real memories of what happened. These cover memories will often seem a bit off, but generally something less dramatic than strange fern forests, two and a half foot long dragon flies, and a burn orange sky. They generally seem to be things like owls or deer in the woods staring at the person before taking off.

[@TheCollapse410]

​@@dextermorgan1I pray ur using sarcasm. For real. Please for the love of God be sarcasm.

[@TheCollapse410]

​@@chadlynch1551life's not like this. Stop and get help. U have let KZbinrs wanting content and internet weirdos wanting attention convince of the weirdest shit. Just sign off.

[@wildernesssurvivalandthriv7953]

I was just watching your videos yesterday and thinking “it’s about that time when bob should be uploading again”. If you read this, please do more videos like you used to where you discuss the biology and cultural relevance of Bigfoot, your old videos are my favorite because you have such an objective and fact based view on the subject.

[@sbcinema]

That's what I always liked

[@shaunnewbedford736]

Im with the both of you, Love all his stuff but th older BigFoot stuff is my fav

[@Votrae]

Story experience -- that seemed like an effective way to describe something.. indescribable. Moments of sudden terror or wrongness are an always heed warning to me. Thanks for sharing it, and RIP your awesome grandfather ❤️

[@TheConchell]

This was a fascinating tale and I loved that your good memory was able to recall the similar sound that was heard by a witness of someone who had mysteriously disappeared earlier. People say how can portals exist, I say why not? We haven't begun to explore space seriously yet, but scientists have predicted the feasibility of "jumping" spacecraft through portals to shorten the distance from point A to point B. Why not have a few select places on our own planet that have such things naturally? As Mulder from X-files was wont to say, "I want to believe."

[@toooldfortwowheels2048]

Oh man, that dragon fly like a leaf on the hood of the truck... perfect.

[@gabriellemckenna5198]

I feel that most skeptical thinking comes from fear, and people will try to convince themselves that it is something different to feel safe.

[@teresalopez7081]

Wow- this has to be my all time favorite episode. Her grand father was a unique soul. His compassion for the pelican was amazing as was the gratitude the pelican bestowed upon him. I wonder how many years their relationship ran- not knowing the lifespan of a pelican. It also highlighted that most humans have no humanity to allow the suffering of a wild animal. I do believe that there are time slips or portals and whoa be the person that steps into one. But I have heard testimony of individuals and the best correction is to retrace your steps back to our current time. I really appreciate your artistic skills and thank you Bob Gimlan for this spectacular episode. Keep drawing- you are most definitely a master!

[@scockery]

I was reminded to the story of the parking garage where the people took an evalator to where they thought they parked, only to see a run down level, cloaked in darkness. The weird creepypastas (probably) of people driving across country and stopping into towns that are in the past like the 1950's. And the more compelling famous case of the soldiers in Britain who came across the village that seemed to be frozen in time hundreds of years earlier. They left after an eerie walk through and looked back the town was how it should be in their modern time. I suppose the people who do wind up in water and such are the ones we don't hear from, because they don't make it back.

[@turqoiseillinois9955]

Can you provide a link to the parking garage story??

[@scockery]

@@turqoiseillinois9955 I thought it was a Bed Times stories one, but I cannot seem to find it. I found this one that includes a night watch guard who finds the outside has changed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5TOYqqrfqukn9Ufeature=shared

[@scockery]

@@turqoiseillinois9955 Found it. It was aBeyond Creepy episode from 6 years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4Cuin6pr8d0oKcfeature=shared

[@choptop81]

The parking garage story just sounds like they accidentally got off on a disused floor lol.

[@joesickler5888]

I’m a fort myers native. That’s awesome that Gramps helped the Pelican. There are other sharks in the gulf though. We recently had some tracked great whites going up and down the west coast.

[@thealternativecontrarian9936]

I have seen several videos where people describe hearing a loud mechanical sound as if something had just closed.

[@Iceman99255]

Missing 411 featured a case where a hunter went missing while hunting with a large group. The other hunters in the group described hearing a mechanical sound like a trap closing during the time the hunter disappeared.

[@cindyp5703]

@@Iceman99255 ..."the sound like a trap closing"...now that is terrifying!

[@tvav69]

This has to be one of the most incredible stories I’ve ever heard. Just amazing. And once Bob broke it down it made even more sense to me. Top notch stuff. Thanks so much. ✌🏻👻🇺🇸

[@11bluekitkats]

Another awesome video Bob!I continue to hope Fred’s condition improves and the same goes for his wife.I thought missing people who just vanish without a trace had some connection to extra terrestrials but I think it is possible there are places where people go and don’t come back.Wether they are time warps or worm holes or anything else they seem to have the ability to consistently disappear people.

[@nathansands71]

When i was a toddler my dad was out walking our sheltie in a bitter cold, icy north carolina winter. He found an irish setter barely alive soaking wet in a creek. He carried it over a mile home while still leading our sheltie. We warmed the dog up and found its owners. I like to think i'm wired the same way. So proud, dad.

[@mikebond6328]

I have been obsessed with the disappearance of Tom Messick since the release of that movie/documentary. I too immediately thought of his case while hearing you tell this story.

[@tjsumigray22]

I live very close to where Tom disappeared. Upstate NY - the foothills of the Adirondacks in particular - is a beautiful, yet eerie place. We have everything that Paulides preaches about: water, granite, caves, and (obviously) deep/dark woods. Something very wrong happened to Mr. Messick.

[@JM_Smith1]

I've been really interested in missing 411 and the messick case more than others..his friend hearing a metal noise is a key to it somehow

[@trailblazer632]

​@@JM_Smith1i noticed the odd behavior bob mentions from toms friend when talking about the noise he heard. And its always made me wonder just if he had actually heard that noise before and is either terrified of what it relates to, or simpky doesnt understand it, but knows it was related to toms disappearance... which is what makes him seem so nervous about it.

[@delicflower13x3]

This story had a lot of moving parts, but I have to say, the pelican story warmed my heart ❤️ And I disagree with her grandma, it doesn’t make grandpa sound crazy. It took a lot of heart to do what he did. Good man.

[@charlottejay136]

If coming in from yard work to a Bob Gymlan video and pouring a whisky in the afternoon listen to relax is wrong, well I don’t want to be right.

[@charlottejay136]

Also, Bob if you need an assistant to read, filter and answer emails, I work for Bob Gymlan videos.

[@void.sawyer]

I swear, in liminal places like the woods, the barrier between realities gets real thin

[@circleinforthecube5170]

or old corners of infrastructure/utility only areas. like those utility tunnels under skyscrapers

[@THE-ERADICATOR]

Yes! I've always believed that the woods are some kind of psychedelic, a place where anything can happen.

[@ikaiju-eu9wn]

my favourite explanation for it is from the five nights at freddy's series, in fnaf emotions can infect and attach themselves to objects and places, when they do that they can cause or attract the paranormal, and these liminal places where there once were many people but not anymore would be drenched in emotions

[@schnoz2372]

Forgotten places seem to have that quality. The more attention we pay to them the more the border breaks down between ours and the next world/worlds.

[@schnoz2372]

⁠​⁠@@ikaiju-eu9wnits not emotion that attaches itself to these sites. Maybe you have heard of the Observer Effect? It states that observing the experiment necessarily changes the outcome. Our decreased awareness of these sites, the fact they are in our blindspot, that is what thins the barrier between our observable world, and another dimension or aspect of what exists. Like folding paper. Or maybe like crumbling it into a ball, technically the paper isn't an actual ball its just lots of flat surfaces that resembles a sphere somewhat. This could be something like that going on. This i think is why the ocean has so much weird shit in it. Things that appear alien, and even things that cant be explained with science yet. At least with outer space, its just a vacuum with a low density of matter so we can see really far into it. Not the case with high density areas such as the bottom of the ocean or the inside of jupiter or something like that.

[@xdean816]

Always ecstatic to see your post. You're the only person that can still create the feeling of being a kid and hearing a scary story. Fantastic.

[@sticksnstonespatriot1728]

It reminds me of the Steven King book (and movie) "The Mist" . Giant,arm sized, dragon flies with stingers. And rolling fog that conceals hideous creatures from antiquity and beyond. Anyway, loved the story. Very eloquently done. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. You are great at conjuring up the gambit of emotions: from fear to comedy to awe and wonder.. A skill reserved to the very best writers and storytellers! Thank you, sir.

[@Juliet7245]

The Mist was a great movie.

[@1972dsrai]

Always look forward to a new video from you. The artwork as usual is first rate. PS-If you check at 6:37 scroll to the right you will see there are several dark entities looking back. Let me know if anyone else sees them. You will need to zoom in quite a lot. From London, UK

[@sugar-sammich]

Just wanted to tell you how excited I get to hear you tell whichever story it is that you choose to grace us with, and it's sooo appreciated. Been here for years, waiting on your posts, so thank you.

[@VeeZee777]

the artwork in this video is top tier

[@Endymion766]

volcanic activity and forest fires can create orange skies. That famous painting "The Scream" shows an orange sky that was probably the result of a distant forest fire, or maybe even Calbuco volcano though that was really far from the painter's POV so more likely a forest a fire. I imagine that primal Earth probably had as much orange sky as blue.

[@el_spicerbeasto]

Finally! Thank you so much! I just was admitted to the hospital for something that seems to may be serious. Just opened YT and this notification is the only thing that has made me smile. Thank you again!

[@zanejohnson9730]

Its always a good (and spooky) day when Bob uploads.

[@rickyjames1659]

FINALLY! I've been checking everyday for 2 months for a new upload. Lol

[@mizdink]

Just when I thought I may have to learn to live with my Bob Gymlan withdrawals... Great story, as usual. Prayers for Fred and his wife. We just never know what life might throw at us.

[@williambigger1545]

stories like these remind me that there is more to reality than we can understand, I hope that knowledge helps me when I go through hard times.

[@charlesaustin566]

The illustrations are amazing..

[@Spoeism]

The mechanical noises is often reported in wilderness anomalous experiences Often described as a turbine or engine

[@lukecy8187]

Huh. Playing with the time warp idea, I wonder if that could be a property of different atmospheric pressures trying to equalize across an abnormally shaped boundary, like when you have only one window cracked while going down the highway

[@Spoeism]

I was thinking quantum wind in a tunnel@@lukecy8187

[@digemsmacks5690]

I've had audio recording from 'the other side' of people I've known before theu died and sometimes I'll bear the mechanical electronic sound before I hear their voices and other people's that I didn't know and even horses and other animals. Yeah, sounds wild but thats what I heard

[@Spoeism]

Time slips in the fluidity of space?@@digemsmacks5690

[@SouICoffin]

Adrian did such an amazing job illustrating this

[@gogetavsvegito]

Theres stories from people with good characters like the grandpa, who you would assume wouldnt even believe in things like that. I'm Mexican I grew up believing in all this stuff, I assumed the grownups around me wouldnt believe or entertain these curiosities, that is until i heard all their stories. Mexico sounds terrifying lol they have had all types of stories mostly ghost, but also anomalies and monsters chupacabras and such. living on farms and having no lights or civilizations close by seems to attract these things. What a world we live in. its ignorant to assume we know even 5% of its true power and capabilities. maybe there are hidden portals in the world in very desolate areas humans are incapable of reaching unless by accident.

[@andycarter4581]

Thanks for your work Bob

[@theunknowngamer5477]

The "contributors" of OMNI Magazine, over 40 years ago....before the Webs and String Theory....after a year of research, concluded, the strangeness we experience is the result of dimensional spaces combining or mixing, at specific places.

[@janesfilms]

I live near a lake that has beautiful houses that sit empty for most of the year. The majority of those people treat those mansions like their beach houses and they only visit occasionally. It’s such a colossal waste.

[@Lokian_Mermaid]

As for Bigfoot, yes, it's been said they've slipped in and out of dimensions and in my favorite "Bob's Bigfoot" story, they can emit sounds that cause mild hallucinations in humans; which I think adds to their camouflage capabilities.

[@yourepathetic6706]

Lol these opinions are why people don’t take Bigfoot seriously

[@al3xander353]

@@yourepathetic6706look up infrasound, it’s real and large animals can make it. It doesn’t cause “hallucinations” like this guy said but it can definitely effect you

[@josephmoncada7557]

​@@yourepathetic6706literally

[@hopsta5628]

I watched a Neil DeGrass Tyson video several years ago and he explained how infrasound at 18 hertz interferes with the structure of our eyes and can cause illusions and hallucinatory effects with our vision, I believe that is why people think they see Bigfoot stepping in or out of portals or having cloaking abilities, of course it's just my opinion but I seriously think that the infrasound the big critters emit has a lot to do with what people claim to have seen in regards to Bigfoot.

[@kairu_aname]

​@@yourepathetic6706 I think it's people like you that cause them to not be taken seriously.

[@johnthom5258]

I love this episode. Watched it a few times. The story itself. The presentation. The delivery. It's great.

[@jakell4711]

Bob's upload schedule seems to be whenever I think to myself "It's probably about time for Bob Gymlan to upload something." I was just thinking that yesterday. That's also happened several other times with Bob' channel in particular.

[@sherryjoiner396]

I was just thinking about him yesterday too. 😮

[@PARASYKETV]

Always stoked to see an upload from ya Bob. With each new upload comes the inevitable binge of your other videos.

[@michaelwarenycia7588]

The whole experience you've provided here is charming, beautiful and very immersive. Another in a very long list of such works (sometimes I like to just put one or more of your early clips that are only your voice and a slideshow of photo stills on in the background...somehow it feels cozy...though, for looking, the art ones are naturally better). -- a longtime fan in Ukraine.

[@charliebrown3579]

Great grandpa story. Super fantastic illustrations. Kicking it old school like comic style.

[@TheDoorspook11c]

Hey Bob! Glad to see your videos. It's been pretty tough out here lately so it's good to see a video to distract from "regular life".

[@charlesblithfield6182]

Blessings to Fred and his wife. Props to Adrian and you Bob. You’re all did and are doing something special here.

[@Ler-ky1tz]

That dragonfly art is mindblowingly cool

[@imshinycaptain]

The illustration of the pelican snuggled up with grandpa and grandma on her side of the bed made me laugh. XD Sounds like a stand up guy.

[@rebeccalove9169]

There is another story from a former police officer who was hunting in the woods with his partner/Good friend at the time that heard this same sound in the woods. He said it sounded like a metal door scraping on a concrete floor. Hours later they were attacked by dogmen and what he thinks were bigfoot. His story and the fact that he was a police officer for like 30 years seems very believable. But he thinks these things came through some door or portal and that sound he heard was from the doorway. Crazy was he met another hunter earlier in the day who's camp was semi close to theirs and he was brutally and savagely ripped apart. Him and his partner barely escaped unfortunately the other hunter did not. So now that's 3 times(and I'm sure a lot more we don't know of) where people report hearing this strange noise and something unbelievable happening. Great story I believe this woman about what she experienced.

[@austindmunday]

do you remember where you watched or read this I would like to see it

[@angrydrunkengerman2819]

The odd coincidence is that I was just listening to that guy on the Confessionals podcast before I clicked on this video by Bob. Same mention of the sound. Same discussion about the sound on that forum.

[@angrydrunkengerman2819]

@@austindmunday Confessionals podcast ep 514.

[@allenrusselljr]

Jeff nadolny just visited the spot where tom messick disappeared and caught the sound. His channel is dogman & paranormal research with Jeff nadolny. I want to say it was Friday Dec 1 2023 videos. He's had other things happen when visiting there.

[@chewy99.]

@@allenrusselljrWas the sound captured in the video??

[@msmeltzer1]

A temporal time “warp” is not as far fetched as it may sound. Listen to some of the videos by Rusty West. Missing 411. Anyway, he chronicles people who go missing and after a massive search with dogs, volunteers, air asses etc. Never found so much as a single scrap of clothing. So, where did they go?

[@CleoHarperReturns]

I'm so sorry to hear about Fred and his wife. As much as I miss his illustrations Adrian's are also amazing. Let's hope for the day the two artists can collaborate, yeah? Getting your feet wet in new territory is exciting stuff. This story was fascinating so I almost don't want to mention it, but back about 20 years ago there was a British series called Primeval and its premise was exactly this phenomenon. The physics here are a worthwhile tool to have -- though I still struggle with things until I'm warmed up. This is good; if I'm busy all-hands-on-deck concentrating on the studies hardest for me to comprehend, it takes me outside of myself long enough to gain some new perspective. Physics as a coping mechanism. We all pray in some form or another.

[@sergemaster]

The late Sasquatch researcher Scott Carpenter has been speaking and documenting these "portals" that suddenly appear out of nowhere and has even caught on video this occurring.. He believed that these were used by the Sasquatch and God knows what else as a means of transportation between our dimension and theirs.. He also believed that there was a big spiritual component, a puzzle piece that connected everything together.. As well as a satanic aspect.. Scott was ahead of his time, RIP..

[@angelalfedo9574]

This reminds me of a time about 3 years ago, I was at a swapmeet in the southern portion of San Antonio, It was passed midday and I was looking around the swapmeet on my own looking at the mercy and stuff they were selling here and their. Then I went into a other section or isle and notice a food stand and shops and continued walking, but this one was oddly longer then the last isles I've walked though and I kept walking for a while more and I'm not sure how to explain how this happened but some how some way I made it back to the front of the isle where I saw the food stand and shops. I didn't know what to make of it because the whole time I was walking straight ahead.

[@dannyhernandez265]

Odd. I live in Austin, maybe I need to visit this swap meet. Lol😂

[@angelalfedo9574]

@dannyhernandez265 12280 TX-16, San Antonio, TX 78224. It's open Saturdays and Sundays but it's best to go on Sundays and it's 2$ to park

[@Thegreatesttoneverlive]

Similar story happened to my friend and I. We were walking a completely straight walking trail, passed by 2 ladies on the walk, only to walk by the same ladies a little bit later . We came out of the trail where we started. I've walked this many times and I've yet to understand how this happened

[@C000DY]

Whomever.. even thougg ive heard you mention it before.. does your drawings, and visuals.. is incredible.. bravo with the illustrations.. it really keeps me in the middle of the story.. 👌

[@terrysmith3637]

Enjoyed the story. Having listened twice I still don’t know how the telescoping paddle was supposed to have become important later in the story.

[@matttriano]

YES! And the storyteller, not Bob, also set up and dropped something about her brother?

[@gorgorletyran7424]

I think the story implies that it could be used as a weapon against the "giant wasps".

[@TheOtherPinkMeat]

And see my comment. She was in the lead as it narrowed and they walked into the fog but somehow she said she was 3 feet behind him? This would be before he grabbed her and turned her around to go back the other way. Too many inconsistencies for mw

[@dickdiamonds3410]

​@@matttriano9

[@JJEERRPP]

Came here to see if folks are talking about THAT video, sup Bob!? Holy moly i can’t wait to hear what you have to say. Take your time :) You’re the most level headed person I’ve ever heard talk paranormal, it’s beyond refreshing. You’re an absolute treasure!

[@justiceforpoets]

Bob I wish that you uploaded more. Your stories are my absolute favorites. Hope you are doing well, love you man.

[@sharonrigs7999]

First story I've heard with a prehistoric time slip. Very cool! The pelican part was adorable

[@MarcoStrange]

Always happy to see you return with a new video. The way you tell the stories as well as your thoughts on it are why i love your videos over others. Shame to hear that videos like this are from an email you got years ago. Makes me think theres a lot of great stories you could touch on. Hope at some point youre abke to make a team to help with that. Either way, im still happy with what we get.

[@laurelsilberman5705]

This was a good one. I loved the pelican story part. “My mom was almost never born” 😂 and then the drawing!! So funny!

[@bbllaakkeeee]

Bob, as far as how everything is laid out, everything within the situation indicates that the individuals experienced some form of time travel. From the megafauna to the sky turning orange, these are both indicators of a prehistoric period. The insects are self explanatory (we have evidence of their existence) but the sky is what I want to touch on. It’s been determined that the composition of earths atmosphere has fluctuated throughout the planet’s history. There’s a leading theory that earth’s atmosphere was somewhat “thicker” than it is today which the visualization of such an environment has ben considered as well. Just how you have noticed that when the sun sets, the sky turns from a blue, to pinks, oranges, reds, and yellows, the photons that are reaching your eyes are refracting though through more atmospheric layers. Theorizing that if the earth’s atmosphere was indeed thicker, the photons would have refracted the same way as a sunset, all day as a normal constant. I am unsure of which periods the sky was predominantly one warm color versus another, but we can most certainly assert that there was a period where the atmosphere’s density and composition produced an orange hue. To further illustrate the point, I’d suggest that you look at the mars curiosity rover photos taken at various parts of the day. Mid-day atmosphere appears as almost monochromatic, BUT when the sun sets, the color is BLUE. I hope you’re doing well Bob but most importantly, do not discount yourself from understanding this subject matter, you’re more than intellectually capable of understanding it.

[@lcy-es6928]

While the atmosphere of Carboniferous Earth was certainly higher in oxygen, I don't think that there's much data to support it being denser than it is now.

[@bbllaakkeeee]

@@lcy-es6928 they layer was thicker than it is now according to researchers in Texas. They came to this conclusion between paleontologists and paleogeologists.

[@lcy-es6928]

@@bbllaakkeeee Got a link? All I've been able to dig up is that Earth's atmosphere was

[@surf_wizard]

Haven't watched a vid for a while, I love the cryptid lineup at the beginning

[@gotredeemed]

Perhaps, the fabric of time is thinning temporarily in certain locations. If you walk into an area like that, you may be relocated in time, but in the same location, not unlike, 'The Time Machine'. Thanks Bob Gymlan!

[@12gauge_shawtyy]

there's many accounts from a certain paranormal imageboard that detail this exact phenomenon. one includes a "hand" with a claw that is seen behind a tree, which the op drew, and another has a very similar a hand drawing which almost snatched them up. something to think about.

[@johndoe7270]

This was really good! I believe in this kinda stuff. I used to work at the lake in Opp Alabama. There is an island there and it has this strange otherworldly feel to it. It feels like you are visiting purgatory or something.

[@kevinjackson1893]

I live very close to there and I know exactly what you mean

[@wyattmazzochette8709]

Glad to see you’re back on the air missed your unique brand of cryptid story telling

[@theD0D0ByRd]

I’ve had that interview replaying in my head for years now.. “like a big trap closing”. This has given me a lot to think about, as always.

[@baneverything5580]

My grandfather who helped raise me was born in 1886 and made it to age 96 in the early 80s while I was in high school. He told me some wild stories about survival back then. They hunted birds at night in thickets with pine knot torches and blowguns. They were terrified of "Haints" in the woods and "Boogers."

[@DreamsAreLies]

I live in NH, not too far from Mt. Washington. When I was this viewer’s age, 14-16 years old, my dad let me take a day off from school (SCORE!) so we could have some all too needed bonding time. Part of the way up the mountain but not far at all, we had a similar experience of things… changing. Unsettled, and knowing the mountains shifting weather no matter the time of year, we decided to forego said trek and turned around. While nothing of noticeable or notable happenings happened… we both couldn’t help but feel like we made a good choice. My dad had to hide his homosexuality his life, so he wasn’t one to believe in ANYTHING he couldn’t explain with logical reasoning, he mentioned this on his deathbed… and hoped he would finally understand. Sounds uneventful, I know, but for him and that particular “situation”, it was its own event. There is more than we’ll ever truly understand. I find this fact comforting, albeit slightly unnerving. I hope you are well and that Fred is holding on strong. I think of him and his amazing art style periodically. ❤