We had a nice evening last night doing some late night shopping. Our jaunt allowed for a 'night drive'. A term our daughter has coined. She loves driving through the city at night, and I imagine as every kid does, they allow the glow of the lights to take them away to another place in day dream and thoughts, just imagining as the yellow glow of the soft lights overhead pass by as the vehicle slowly hums passed, inching towards a red light trying to stream line its way to the city outskirts.
We arrived home shortly after 10 pm. The drive is about an hour and a half either way and it is a good time to sit in the car and laugh and joke and enjoy eachother's company. I like night drives too, and like my daughter, share her interest at the mesmerizing light display, but also have many reasons why I like night drives so long as my husband's driving. My night vision isn't bad, but the glare from the other driver's lights, can sometimes give me a headache.
When we got home, and our daughter was tucked in bed, my husband and I decided to play a movie we had just purchased that night. Can I mention the movie? Do I dare? I'm no longer one for violent movies and this one is violent. Sorry guys I just do not find over the top antics to woo an audience all in the name of entertainment~ entertaining.
That for me is not where the substance of the story should lie.
The Book of Eli.
So after only about 15 minutes into the show, I decided my time could be better spent writing instead of disrupting my husband with my knee slaps and annoyed comments like ' geeze' and 'flip sakes'. I am sure he doesn't purchase a movie to be entertained by me making redundant comments to the television screen.
So I went up to bed, and settled in and began writing a project I am working on for something else that has nothing to do with Sasquatch, but I turned on the monitor just in case.
About an hour and a half of listening, I began to hear a soft whistle, then a little bit of leave rustling, a little tap, perhaps rock clacking... and I decide to use my little reading lamp as source to 'test' to see if my assumption was correct.
I flashed the lamp on and off quickly, not taking into consideration that he/she may know morse code, I certainly don't. But I recieved a whistle when I turned the light of completely for about two minutes.
Could be a bird.
Yes, birds do make noise during the night. They flap their feathers to keep warm, ruffle and preen eachother before going to sleep, or if something disturbs their nest at night, they will fly off making a noisy ruckus with bird call to ward the predator away from the nest.
Tonight was different. I turned the light on again to continue my work and heard some noises again, a soft whistle, rock tapping... and slow quiet movement.
I decided to turn out the light and try to just listen while I waited for the movie to end.
A light whistle again.
The movie ended and my husband always has a cigarette before bed. Yes this annoys me because I do not smoke, I can't stand the smell, and I've complained so much, my husband has obliged me~ Thank you~ that at the very least on the last puff, just blow out your lungs as best as you can, because smokers- I do not think they are aware that the smoke lingers in their lungs and this is what the rest of us breathe when they enter our clean air space. We have to breathe the smoke they exhale and it is naaaasty.
With the movie off, I could hear my husband's footsteps go to the back door. I couldn't hear him open the back door, but as he did, what he heard and what I heard on the monitor was alarming!
I heard a loud thump and the resonance of that thump was loud and booming and what my husband heard was the same loud thump but only about 25-45 feet in front of him!
We have an old building we are now demoloshing just on the otherside of a tree line that lines our back yard by about 15 feet from our back door!
Let me give you a run down: Our back door faces North, and is only about 15 feet before the perimiter is lined with short row of about 60-70 ft tall mature fir trees. On the other side of that, there are only about 10 feet or so distance between these and an old one room house that has been converted into an outlet to clean seed.
Paul figures that the bang was on the back end of the house, so that is about another 15-10 feet in length.
Does it really matter how many feet away it was? Well all paul knows is that this thing was close and he heard the bipedal footfall running away! He startled it when he opened the back door, so this creature could see the back door from where it was!
We then got to thinking, why would it bang the side of the house, as it has done this before. But the question was why? Perhaps to warn others... and then I asked why would it whistle? It was low enough not to alarm the dogs, as it was almost a bird chirp but not quite, more of a made whistle call. Could this whistle mean something?
Could a whistle mean~ I'm okay, coast is clear. No worries so far?
It's quite curious because animals do not usually make any sound unless provoked in some way.
Case in point. You look at your animal and watch their mannerisms for a while, most often times they use body language to convey their desire to you or to other animals, if they use vocalization or other means of physical communication such as thumping a foot, pawing the ground, this seems to be as a last resort and a gesture they want something or something is wrong.
It came back after that, not right away- but I woke up to the monitor by my ear to hear the door to that house slam shut! We have the back end of the building pulled apart which allows any animal to have free access to it, and can eaisily come and go undetected.
I was so groggy from sleep to listen further, I actually turned off the monitor in annoyance!
So that is at least three nights, possibly four in a row we've been visited by Sasquatch.
Tonight, I'm going to try putting out some food near the house as well.
