Weird hunting story

[billr]

I want to start this off by saying that I in no way think that this had anything to do with sasquatch
This happened during the last week of September while I was hunting up at Pink Mountain
One of my hunting partners was sitting near a clearing about 800 to 1000 meters away from me as the crow flies, he was also at least 30 meters higher in elevation
I had to drive about a km down the road from where he walked into to where the road Y'd then drove up the spur and walked into the bush about 75 meters and settled down
I was siting along 1 ridge that had a few other ridges running parallel to it.
About an hour later I heard something walking along one ridge over towards my partner. I could not move or see what was there.

About a half hour later I heard something else walk the same route as the last one only this time it was making donkey sounds.
The thing was it sounded like a person that was trying to imitate a donkey

About a half hour after dark I walked back to my quad then drove back to camp.

After dinner my friend said, man that was weird
When I asked him what he told me that something walked by him just out of sight that sounded like a person trying to imitate a coyote. Then about a half hour later something else walked the same trail and sounded like a person trying to imitate a donkey

Of course we all started making jokes about sasquatch

[billr]

PART TWO
That night we go to bed
We are sleeping in a 23 foot travel trailer, my friend is sleeping in his own bedroom and my brother and I are sleeping in the two fold down beds in the living/kitchen area

About 4:30 AM I wake up to a weird sound (my brother noticed I was awake and said that this was going on for over 45 minutes )
You would hear a "bang, bang, bang" like two pieces of wood being banged together, it only lasted 2 or 3 seconds then it would be silent for 5 or 10 minutes then start again but in a different location

The sound was about a 100 meters away in the bush
My brother said it was slowly circling our camp
It was pitch black outside and we could not see any lights through the windows
My brother had been trying to see what was making the noise since he first heard it

We both listened and watched for about a half hour
It was constant 2 or 3 seconds of banging followed by 5 or 10 minutes of silence

We then opened the door and tried looking around
We didn't see or hear anything after we opened the door

I have no idea what it was, I have hunted all my life and have heard deer, moose and elk rattle many times over the years and have never heard anything like it

This was only my third time hunting there but my brother and our friend have hunted there since the mid 1980's

Since it was way to dark to walk around out there without lights or night vision, I can only assume that it was an elk or moose doing some rattling in a way I have never heard before and not bugeling or grunting

[Jason C.]

Great story Bill! Wish I could have heard that!

[billr]

It was weird, I should clarify that this just happened in 2012

[billr]

So a little update
Today I was talking to my brother about this year's Pink Mountain trip (i couldn't go this year)
He said the knocking happened again this year but it only lasted for about fifteen minutes
Also he told me that two years ago two of our group where picking wild strawberries when something screamed at them from behind some bushes
Fred has hunted foe over 50 years and has done African safaris and been to the base camp of Mt. Everest and he has never heard anything like it
So it seems like three years in a row something funny has happened up there

[Cryptosaurian]

Nov 10, 2012 0:09:38 GMT -5 billr said:

I want to start this off by saying that I in no way think that this had anything to do with sasquatch
This happened during the last week of September while I was hunting up at Pink Mountain
One of my hunting partners was sitting near a clearing about 800 to 1000 meters away from me as the crow flies, he was also at least 30 meters higher in elevation
I had to drive about a km down the road from where he walked into to where the road Y'd then drove up the spur and walked into the bush about 75 meters and settled down
I was siting along 1 ridge that had a few other ridges running parallel to it.
About an hour later I heard something walking along one ridge over towards my partner. I could not move or see what was there.

About a half hour later I heard something else walk the same route as the last one only this time it was making donkey sounds.
The thing was it sounded like a person that was trying to imitate a donkey

About a half hour after dark I walked back to my quad then drove back to camp.

After dinner my friend said, man that was weird
When I asked him what he told me that something walked by him just out of sight that sounded like a person trying to imitate a coyote. Then about a half hour later something else walked the same trail and sounded like a person trying to imitate a donkey

Of course we all started making jokes about sasquatch

"...like a person trying to imitate a donkey" 

That's unusual. Were you the only ones at/on Pink Mountain that night? Because that aspect has me curious.....why would a person, all the way up a mountain, would start imitating a donkey sound, to be confirmed by another inidividual? And why would they then switch to a coyote sound? 

I recommend talking to your pal to see if further activity has taken place recently and do an investigation. Interesting story. 

[billr]

The Blue Berry ranch is a few miles away and the area is quite popular with hunters
We didn't see anyone else up there but I would not state with any conviction that we where alone

We have had a few strange events happen up there over the years, but nothing conclusive

[Cryptosaurian]

I see.......that would be an interesting subject for an investigation though.

[billr]

We had a couple of trail cameras sitting up there for over a month 1 year, and we didn't find anything strange
my one friend puts up a couple of trail cameras every year for the last 8 or 10 years
so far only your normal wildlife

[Cryptosaurian]

Feb 8, 2016 20:56:22 GMT -5 billr said:

We had a couple of trail cameras sitting up there for over a month 1 year, and we didn't find anything strange
my one friend puts up a couple of trail cameras every year for the last 8 or 10 years
so far only your normal wildlife

Hmmmm.....
Well hopefully that will be  a solved mystery. Thanks for the story. Real interesting. 

[island]

in case its Sasq you could try forcing his hand camp for a month in that spot in the same month as the encounter?

From what I understand a hardhat could prove useful if your able to annoy a Sasquatch sufficiently

[Cryptosaurian]

I wonder what other explanations there are.....could be a donkey which, by some freakish fluke, has lost its way. How far away was Blue Berry Ranch? to add on: COULD a donkey even have made it that far? Those are questions I have on my mind.

Mother Nature certainly is a strange one....

[billr]

Yes a donkey could have made it that far
There are ranches within about 30 to maybe 20 minutes drive away

During the summer a far number of atv'ers and motorcycle riders spend their weekends in the area

The same trip I had that encounter we had a paraglider land in the little clearing near us and drag his gear into the middle of our camp to fold it up
He almost had a heart attack when I popped out of the trailer to see what he was doing (by then his group of friends showed up)

[billr]

Yes a donkey could have made it that far
There are ranches within about 30 to maybe 20 minutes drive away

During the summer a far number of atv'ers and motorcycle riders spend their weekends in the area

The same trip I had that encounter we had a paraglider land in the little clearing near us and drag his gear into the middle of our camp to fold it up
He almost had a heart attack when I popped out of the trailer to see what he was doing (by then his group of friends showed up)