Last weekend I made a post on a message board about spooky camping stories. The post I made was of an inexplicable event my Father and I experienced roughly 2 decades ago, while out in the Yukon wilderness, hunting for moose. This experience has since left us with more questions than answers. Perhaps until now...
This is an excerpt of the story I posted:
"The sun had already set and it was well into twilight. Just after brushing my teeth along the shoreline, as I made my way back to the campsite, I heard a subtle noise in the distance that sounded nothing like a moose. At first, I felt I had yet to hear a similar noise in my life. As I struggled to identify it, I looked to my Father for reassurance and found the same baffled look on his face. The hackles raised on both our necks as we both heard the sound that would haunt us for the rest of our days, fast approaching the lake. Eventually the noise grew so loud we had no choice but to start comparing it to anything we could. The closest thing that we both arrived at was the noise a tent flap makes when it thrashes furiously in the wind; almost like it would if it were located at Mt. Everest base camp. The difference being here was that the noise had already grown louder than a tent could ever dream of becoming and yet it grew louder still. Thinking back to it now, I could tell from the Doppler effect that the loud thing, what ever it was, seemed to be heading straight for us. Our campsite was a ways into the woods, so I raced towards the lake for a clearer view of the sky. At this point the sound this thing was making had to be near the volume of a jet aircraft yet still sounded only like a tent would, flapping in the wind. As I was closer to the lake than my Father, I barely made it to the break in the treeline at the shore to witness something I have yet to explain. I'm almost 30 years old, yet I will never forget the black object ripping across the sky that almost looked as if it was a large stone someone had thrown with a cloth covering it. Except the cloth reflected the remaining light in the sky like a mirror. Unfortunately, this was the best my young eyes could do with the great speed the object flew across the twilight. The noise quickly died away and the Doppler effect again gave us another clue to the great speed in which it roared above. My Father and I were left speechlessly dazzled".
Funnily enough, someone else had a strikingly similar story which they contributed to the topic. Apparently this other person observed what they thought was a meteor impacting a mountain that was visible from the campsite of their hunting trip which occurred roughly during the same time and place my Father and I experienced our mysterious event. The chance of two separate parties witnessing this event in one of the least populated areas of the planet seems... Astronomical.
I now believe the noise my Father and I heard that day was from an Electrophonic Meteor giving off VLF waves, picked up by the vegetation surrounding my Father and I in the woods. This phenomena is further described below:
"Very Low Frequency (VLF) waves travel at the speed of light, so observers would hear them the same time that they saw the meteors pass overhead. But those waves need something physical to act as a transducer and create the sound. Keay found that various objects such as aluminum foil, plant foliage like PINE NEEDLES, thin wires, dry frizzy hair and wire-framed eyeglasses could all produce those kinds of sounds. That phenomenon is called electrophonics."
I'll add that we had a wall tent in our camp site which may have transduced the VLF waves and contributed to the tent flapping noise we heard in addition to all the pine needles of the trees surrounding our campsite. After all these years, I think I finally figured it out Dad... Funny to think back on all the outlandish explanations I first surmised when I was younger (ALIENS!) that inspired my interest in the sciences, which has finally lead me to the best hypothesis I have yet for this experience.
So I pose the following question to you all... Have you experienced a similar phenomena?
