Thicket Encounters
Well, in the wake of the discussion that has ensued since I posted a story last week on sightings of strange, aerial balls of light and ghostly black dogs at Britain’s Cannock Chase forest, I’ve received another, somewhat similar story, this one from a man named Bobby who currently resides in Houston, and who saw the post linked at the Anomalist website.
Bobby’s story originates not within the confines of jolly old England, however, but in the heart of Texas’s notorious Big Thicket forest. As some of you may be aware, the Big Thicket is an area that has been linked with high-strangeness of both a ufological kind and cryptozoological kind for decades.
And, if you weren’t aware of that fact, you should be: check out Rob Riggs’ book, In the Big Thicket, that reveals countless reports of encounters with Bigfoot-type entities; “wild men of the woods”-style creatures; and unidentified glowing balls of light that flit among the trees with intriguing regularity.
Bobby claims that on a dark evening in October 1999, he was driving through the Texan town of Kountze after a night in Sour Lake (which is definitive Big Thicket country), and was returning to his then-residence some fifteen miles further on, when his ears “almost burst” when a deafening sound not unlike a swarm of bees filled the interior of the car, and “made my ears pop like when you’re on an airplane.”
Disoriented and suddenly dizzy, Bobby stopped the car at the side of the road, got out, and was amazed to suddenly see a laser-like, pencil-thin shaft of red-light appear about 10 to 15 feet in front of his car. Quick as a flash, the light disappeared, as did the strange buzzing noise that had so affected him. Not only that: he suddenly heard a diabolical roar coming from the woods of the Big Thicket, that sounded like that of a large, enraged wild animal - but of a type that Bobby had never before encountered. He quickly jumped back into his car and fled the scene.
But the story was far from over. After retiring to his bed that night, Bobby had a distinctly strange dream of a truly apocalyptic nature, in which the Earth was in ruins following a planetary-wide nuclear exchange, and large, Bigfoot style entities surfaced out of the dark forests and woods to claim the Earth as their own. And all the while, strange UFOs (”like giant jelly-fish”) soared overhead, as the last remnants of the human race attempted to stave off extinction.
So what does all of this mean? Well, I’ve been digging recently into the links between alien abductions and apocalyptic dreams. And I’ve come across several other cases that parallel Bobby’s to a truly astonishing degree. But fringe cases like that of Bobby often get relegated to the sidelines by the research community - and more often than not because they are not easy to categorize, and because they fall uneasily within the rigid confines displayed by much of that same research community.
Indeed, Bobby’s story was told to another researcher back in 2001. And what did that researcher do with the story? Nothing, that’s what! He intimated to a colleague (who in turn told Bobby) that the witness was “nuts.” Of course, that was simply as a result of the fact that the researcher could not accept the reality of such a high-strangeness case.
What the researcher should have done is investigated the whole story in an unbiased and open fashion. That he chose not to is one of the reasons why, to an extent at least, we haven’t succeeded in finding the answers that we seek.
Only by putting any and all ufological prejudices to one side, and looking at each and every case on its own merit do we stand any chance of finding those answers.
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Feb 19 2007 
February 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Nick:
Bobby’s dream has got me to thinking of the great extinction event that removed dinosaurs from the Earth, clearing the way for the rise of mammals and subsequently intelligent life (us.) Is it now time for humanity to be removed from the planet to allow the next giant leap in evolution?
February 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Hi Nick,
“when his ears “almost burst†when a deafening sound not unlike a swarm of bees filled the interior of the car”
With apologies for constantly bringing up the BVM, but…
Fatima: “We would follow the children and kneel in the middle of the field. Lucia would raise her hands and say, ‘You bade me come here, what do you wish of me?’ And then could be heard a buzzing that seemed to be that of a bee.”
Mothman: “…an older woman who said she had encountered Mothman in her backyard. Her property was close to the boundaries of the TNT area and, hearing a buzzing or humming sound coming from the back of her home, she went out to investigate. It was mid-afternoon, and when she opened the back door she found herself face to face with Mothman, hovering about 10 feet in front of her. Her description was detailed, suggesting something more like a machine than an animal. ”
Near Croton Falls, New York, it was reported that “dwarf-like hooded beings†emerged from a shimmering circle of blue that appeared in an outcrop of rock “following a buzzing sound.†In a humanoid entity report from 1975, “Angelica Barrigon Varela and co-worker Remedios Diez were on their way to work at a local factory along the wall that divided the railroad tracks and the street when they heard a loud buzzing sound coming from the area of the tracks. Looking in that direction they beheld a bizarre creature floating and balancing itself above the railroad tracks. It appeared to be wearing a monk-like smock or coat, dark green in color that emitted intermediate flashes of light under the light rain.â€
In their book The Unidentified, Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman also say that many contactees have reported a bee-buzzing sound that introduced and ended their encounters.
I could go on (and on)…
;)
Kind regards,
Greg
February 19th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Nick,
Great stuff, and great article in this issue of UFO Magazine. I wrote something about your views on The OrangeOrb.
http://orangeorb.blogspot.com
February 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Seein:
Interesting idea. Certainly life-forms and civilizations do begin, flourish and ultimately flame-out one way or another. You’re far from being the only one who thinks maybe our time is coming.
Greg:
Thanks for those “buzz-related” stories. Again, something that makes me personally believe that many of the mysteries of this world that seem unconnected have at their source, one “thing” that is manipulating us in some way and via wildly differing guises.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Regan
Many thanks; I will link your article to UFOMystic tomorrow, with an introduction for people outlining the basis of my article in UFO Mag that you have commented on in your blog.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Has anyone considered that the ‘apocalyptic’ visions presented to abductees and/or UFO witnesses is merely a form of mental exam or even mind control. It seems to me that our visitors are attempting to understand the human psyche. The fact that ‘apocalyptic’ scenarios abound could mean that they are very interested in the human concept of fear. On the other hand it could mean that they are attempting to use our religious beliefs against us. For example, an invasion disguised as ‘The Second Coming’ would fool many a Christian.
(FYI: I hope the individual in the blog above realizes that the aliens are extremely deceptive. If he truly wants to understand what happened to him that night, then I would recommend he assume almost everything he remembers is a lie to cover the truth, and then seek out professional help from an abductee researcher.)
Jason Gammon
February 20th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Nick, all those references to ‘roaring’ certainly chime with many of my own experiences, particularly those of mine where the whole world - except for me - seems to suddenly slow down to a dead stop.
In my case, though, the ‘roaring’ presages my hearing being ‘turned off’: in the examples where the world has ground to a halt, that kind of makes sense, because if nothing’s moving, then nothing can make any sounds; in other instances, though, where whatever ‘world’ it is I’m looking at is clearly moving, the absence of sound becomes less explicable.
This ‘Big Thicket’ business, though, is extremely interesting, not only because it brings to mind Kirk’s ‘Secret Commonwealth’, as well as all those fairy tales set in eldritch woods but also because it reminds me of Frazer’s ‘Golden Bough’, a great deal of which covers ’sacred groves’ acting as ‘natural temples’, i.e., portals where the ‘gods’ can be accessed or even interacted with.
February 20th, 2007 at 5:38 am
All of you who have not yet read Karla Turner’s “Taken”, should do so. I think it sheds more light on the UFO phenomenon than anything else I have read, including Whitley Strieber’s books. It’s available free (in .pdf format) here.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Jason
I am in full agreement with you re the deception angle of abductions - I see nothing positive in this at all, and suspect a major plan of deception at work to lure us into a false sense of security.
I think you’re right: the end-of-the-world scenarios that abductees see is likely linked with fear - and the possibility that these things are Tulpa style entities that thrive on intense emotion.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Alan
The scenario you describe sounds very much like Jenny Randles’ “Oz Factor” term re. the world grinding to a halt, and the absence of sound, etc.
February 20th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I have to concur with Savage30L that Karla Turner’s books are excellent. It hurt me to read Strieber’s books, watching as he developed a severe case of Stockholm syndrome.
Jason and Nick nailed it, I think: “I see nothing positive in this at all, and suspect a major plan of deception at work to lure us into a false sense of security. … and the possibility that these things are Tulpa style entities that thrive on intense emotion.”
Again, Turner’s books (especially her first) are some of the best to demonstrate this, IMO. I also here the new books on Fatima (Heavenly Lights and Celestial Secrets) make a pretty good case for the “religious manipulation” angle Jason mentioned.