My wife, dog and I decided to go for a night hike at the Berlin Lake Trail. As we drove from the house the sun had already set and it was getting dark. About half way to Berlin Lake I heard my wife shour DEER! It was too late. I looked left and could see the deer on the side of the road maybe 10 feet in front of us. I noticed it just as I started hitting the brakes it decided to jump out in front of us. I hit it hard with the front right side of the car. I watched as in rag dolled across the shoulder off into the woods with its legs flailing all over the place. I stopped the car, got out, and checked the front end for damage. I contemplated checking on the deer but after aa short discussion, we said a short prayer for the deer and kept driving. As we drove I thought about what I could have done. The only thing I coulda done was put it out of its misery. Unfortunately I only had my typical Ruger LCP 380 with me and it prob would not have been able to get the job done. So I made a mental note to start taking my 45 with +P hollow points when I drive at night in case this happens again.
We drove to the north end of the trail. When we got out I checked my camcorder first thing. Unfortunately I somehow let the battery drain so I had to leave it behind. About 50 yards into the hike we heard a loud sigh come from the woods. At first I thought it was a dog....maybe. But thinking about it afterward it was either a moose or something else big with a similar lung capacity. I then saw the no descript image of a big foot in my mind. Which made me want to get out of there. The sound startled us both but oddly we just kept walking as if we wanted to put some distance between us and the noise. I thought if it had been a Sasquatch we should have seen some kind of behaviour from my dog but he seemed fine. So we started walking faster for a bit to get further away.
It was a typical creepy October night in the woods of north east Ohio. The wind was blowing pretty good. Looking across the lake the lights of a some houses could be seen through the few trees between us and the water. I stopped at several points along the way to take pictures with my phone. Once we got near the end we crossed a concrete bridge. I took and few more pictures. Just as I turned around to head back to the car I heard a clear knock come from the woods behind us. My wife was talking and didn't notice the knock. I waited a few minutes while I debated telling her about the knock as I was sure it would freak her out a bit. A few minutes later I told her and she got a bit scared. This got me a kind of defensive and I started paying more attention to the other noises in the woods.
As we walked back to the car we started seeing light briefly blinking in and out ahead of us. At first all we saw was flashes of lights. As we got closer and closer to the car we could see more detail. The lights were actually moving either left to right or right to left. Eventually I figured out they were cars aon the road the path ends at. Because of the tree coverage we could only see the cars through a 10 foot wide break in the trees at the end of the trail. Once we got to the car it was obvious I was right.
On the way home I kept thinking of all the encounters I heard on Sasquatch chronicles. I started to get excited because I thought we had a minor encounter with maybe 2 bigfoot. One sighed at us just as we started into the woods on the trail. Another knocked on a tree just as we started back. I had 2 4000+ lumen flashlights with me. All I had to do was point it into the woods and I would have seen whatever it was. Most of the leaves had fallen leaving nothing to obstruct my view but bare tree trunks. Something made me want to turn and keep walking down the trail. Then I thought, if there were anything in the woods which meant us harm it could have blocked us from getting to the car. Leaving us to run to the other end of the trail where apparently there was yet another one waiting. Thankfully none of that happened and these 2 woodland spirits chose to just freak us out a bit.
Next time I will to make sure I take my camera bag with extra batteries, my 120,000 lumen flashlight, night vision camcorder and infrared hunting flashlight to illuminate the woods for the IR camcorder.
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