What is the most unexplainable or strange things you have seen in the woods? I'm not talking about strange people (that post has been done a few times on this forum).

Parallel lights, brief and brilliant like strobe lights, flashing the prime numbers faster and faster, on a lake in northwestern Ontario. I wasn't afraid, but my partner was. Perhaps I should have been afraid.

An evening campfire on an isolated island in Lake Superior that kept re-igniting itself after we thought we had put it out. All day leading up to that night, which was our last on the island, we both felt a vague foreboding as if we were being watched or that something wasn’t quite right about that campsite.

deerfoot: "An evening campfire on an isolated island in Lake Superior that kept re-igniting itself after we thought we had put it out. All day leading up to that night, which was our last on the island, we both felt a vague foreboding as if we were being watched or that something wasn’t quite right about that campsite."

That's interesting. I wonder if it was like an old stump or tree root deep underneath that kept making its way up after you thought you got it.

Three disc-like lights, zipping back and forth, but returning to form a delta.
Appeared to be miles away.
I have written it off as drones, but this was about 15 years ago.

Deer hunting 300,000+ acres. Camp always does good,lots of wildlife seen and herd. Three years ago nothing, not a single deer harvested,and only three that were seen. I mean a few birds, a couple squirrels but they didn't stay out or in sight for very long. Weather was great,perfect conditions 40deg during day, low 30's at night. Very strange.
The next year was back to normal, 13 deer harvested, Bob cats seen,turkeys on the cameras. Don't know and nobody really talks about it 20 guys and nobody says anything about that year.

I have a deer-hunting one. I went out to get in my stand in the morning before sunrise. Once settled, I was looking at the treetops, there was a bright flashlight type of light going from tree to tree. It lasted about 10 minutes. The only logical thing I can think of is some squirrel stole a hunter's flashlight and was jumping through the trees. But squirrels rarely are out at night because of the owls.

Another one was I work nights online. One night in the early summer, I got off work at around 2 am and decided I wanted to go on a walk in our woods before bed. I was down by the river walking when all of a sudden, there were 100s of glowing spiders on the ground. Spiders are not supposed to be bioluminescent. I stooped down to take a closer look, and sure enough, these were spiders that could glow like lightning bugs. Later I contacted several experts, and they all said it was impossible, and I didn't see what I saw. But I know they were bioluminescent spiders. I haven't seen them since, either. I wonder what would happen if a group of spiders all ate lighting bugs at the same time. Could they then because bioluminescent temporarily? That's the only thing I can think it could be if bioluminescent spiders don't exist in Mn.

Oh, I have another one. I was watching the northern lights in the early 2000s, and they had noise. I really enjoyed hearing them. At the time, I was told they do not have noise. But now that we have google, I found they can rarely have noise so I guess it isn't unexplainable anymore.

Also, another time I saw a deep purple deer. I was told deer do not come in deep purple, but that deer jumped in front of my car, and I know it was a deep purple color.

missmolly: "Parallel lights, brief and brilliant like strobe lights, flashing the prime numbers faster and faster, on a lake in northwestern Ontario. I wasn't afraid, but my partner was. Perhaps I should have been afraid. "

Were they in the sky or near the lake?

Canoearoo, they were about 20' above the lake, about 50 yards away from our island. My partner was an experienced outdoor writer who'd paddle with polar bears and didn't seem afraid of anything that one finds in the woods and water, but the lights rattled him. They lasted for about ten minutes. I've always regretted not using my flashlight to flash the primes in response.

Canoearoo: "Also, another time I saw a deep purple deer. I was told deer do not come in deep purple, but that deer jumped in front of my car, and I know it was a deep purple color. "

Canoearoo..... You have to stop dropping acid.

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Stumpy: "

Canoearoo: "Also, another time I saw a deep purple deer. I was told deer do not come in deep purple, but that deer jumped in front of my car, and I know it was a deep purple color. "

Canoearoo..... You have to stop dropping acid.


Kidding
Kidding
Kidding"

All I can figure is someone dyed it. But why? How?

missmolly: "Canoearoo, they were about 20' above the lake, about 50 yards away from our island. My partner was an experienced outdoor writer who'd paddle with polar bears and didn't seem afraid of anything that one finds in the woods and water, but the lights rattled him. They lasted for about ten minutes. I've always regretted not using my flashlight to flash the primes in response. "

I read an article that tried to explain these lights because they are seen a lot it Europe. They are thinking they come from the electoral magnetic fields of the earth. They sometimes are associated with earth quakes, thunderstorms or other earth event but not always.

Without a doubt, the strangest and unexplainable (at the time) thing I've ever seen while in the wilderness was the Starlink Satellite train SpaceEx during it's initial orbit in late May of 2022. None of my buddies nor I heard anything about it beforehand. When we saw it while camping deep in the wilderness, we were convinced that something terrible had happened on earth and that we'd be exiting the wilderness to a changed world. It was so bright and so odd and so ominous. My buddy described it as a New York Subway train lit up in the night sky. UFO? Spaceships? Enemy missile attack? We had no idea what we were seeing. It wasn't until we got back to town that we Googled it and realized what we'd seen.

Canoearoo: "

missmolly: "Canoearoo, they were about 20' above the lake, about 50 yards away from our island. My partner was an experienced outdoor writer who'd paddle with polar bears and didn't seem afraid of anything that one finds in the woods and water, but the lights rattled him. They lasted for about ten minutes. I've always regretted not using my flashlight to flash the primes in response. "

I read an article that tried to explain these lights because they are seen a lot it Europe. They are thinking they come from the electoral magnetic fields of the earth. They sometimes are associated with earth quakes, thunderstorms or other earth event but not always. "

We saw parallel, straight lines. Nature, as far as I know, doesn't do parallel, straight lines and it doesn't flash the prime numbers.

missmolly: "Canoearoo, they were about 20' above the lake, about 50 yards away from our island. My partner was an experienced outdoor writer who'd paddle with polar bears and didn't seem afraid of anything that one finds in the woods and water, but the lights rattled him. They lasted for about ten minutes. I've always regretted not using my flashlight to flash the primes in response. "

Among life’s regrets, that would definitely not be on the list.
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Camping in the BWCA with BS Troop 155. 6 scouts and 4 dads. I heard heavy foot steps in the middle of the night right outside the head of our tent. I figured it was one of the other dads going to play a prank on us. Nothing happened and the foot steps moved on after a short while. The next morning I asked the other dads, "Who was it that was walking around camp last night?" They all denied being up at night. Upon further investigating it was clear we had pitched our tent right next to a game trail. Those heavy foot steps had to have been a moose who stopped to check things out as he/she passed by.

Here's one that always stuck with me, happened 52 years ago, middle of August the summer before my junior year of high school. Buddies folks had a cabin on a lake in Kansas and the two of us were sleeping out on the deck. I wake up before sunrise and on the eastern horizon is a cloud bank and it looks just like God sitting on a throne along with light beams radiating up and out away, and He is centered right at the apex.

Well, thought that was kinda cool and rolled over and went back to sleep, hey I was a teenager. So a month later sitting in English class back in Nebraska, the teacher had everyone tell something cool about their summer, well this young lady starts to describe that sunrise to a T.

Had two regrets about that, she did say it was August when she seen it, I just wish I would have found out where she was for her sighting, and I should have asked her out.

x2jmorris: "

deerfoot: "An evening campfire on an isolated island in Lake Superior that kept re-igniting itself after we thought we had put it out. All day leading up to that night, which was our last on the island, we both felt a vague foreboding as if we were being watched or that something wasn’t quite right about that campsite."

That's interesting. I wonder if it was like an old stump or tree root deep underneath that kept making its way up after you thought you got it. "

That’s probably a logical explanation. But considering the other things we had experienced during the day at that campsite, the re-igniting campfire well into the evening was spooky.

In September of 2015 my canoe buddy and I were camped on Pine lake. It was about sunset I was leaving the latrine when there was what sounded like a wooden bat striking a tree. This happened 7 or 8 times. When I got to camp I looked at me buddy and ask, was that you? He said no, I was hoping it was you. While standing there a small Birch tree about 12 foot tall started shaking violently for about 5 seconds followed by more strikes on a tree. We both looked at each other and said GUN. We both had hand guns.

This happened again about 15 minutes later higher on the hill. The next 4 day were uneventful though we did catch a lot of walleye.

Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

Interesting! Very unlikely a meteor. It's too stationary. Meteors typically hit the atmosphere at 25,000 MPH or more. Any visual is a fast streak even when the event is a very long way away. No guess, at this point.

KawnipiKid: "

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

Interesting! Very unlikely a meteor. It's too stationary. Meteors typically hit the atmosphere at 25,000 MPH or more. Any visual is a fast streak even when the event is a very long way away. No guess, at this point."

Seen and found a couple huge weather balloons in Quetico with attachment below.

Paddling across Kawnipi by the light of the full moon, headed for Lemay Lake, Explorer Scouts 1964. Three jets flew east to west, low overhead.
Twice we've come close to being swept up by waterspouts in Quetico--once on Ted Lake and once on West Lake (see photo). The one on Ted was the bigger of the two and really quite scary--no photos though.

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

That is a video I took of strange lights while camping with my MidwestMan in the Q a few years ago. I mentioned it in a post here shortly after the trip. Some say sundogs, which I had never heard of, but reflections of sorts. I'm not sure.

Springer2: "Paddling across Kawnipi by the light of the full moon, headed for Lemay Lake, Explorer Scouts 1964. Three jets flew east to west, low overhead.
Twice we've come close to being swept up by waterspouts in Quetico--once on Ted Lake and once on West Lake (see photo). The one on Ted was the bigger of the two and really quite scary--no photos though.


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Cool!

plexmidwest: "

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

That is a video I took of strange lights while camping with my MidwestMan in the Q a few years ago. I mentioned it in a post here shortly after the trip. Some say sundogs, which I had never heard of, but reflections of sorts. I'm not sure."

Hey! Really cool to hear from the owner of this video. I looked at some other videos on YouTube of sun dogs, and I just don't think that's what this is. Especially as it appears very focused, well-defined, and intense, and the sky appears to be completely free of clouds. Gotta be something else IMO.

plexmidwest: "

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

That is a video I took of strange lights while camping with my MidwestMan in the Q a few years ago. I mentioned it in a post here shortly after the trip. Some say sundogs, which I had never heard of, but reflections of sorts. I'm not sure."

Yep pops, I remember this like it was yesterday. Very, very odd thing that you & I witnessed together.

SummerSkin: "

plexmidwest: "

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

That is a video I took of strange lights while camping with my MidwestMan in the Q a few years ago. I mentioned it in a post here shortly after the trip. Some say sundogs, which I had never heard of, but reflections of sorts. I'm not sure."

Hey! Really cool to hear from the owner of this video. I looked at some other videos on YouTube of sun dogs, and I just don't think that's what this is. Especially as it appears very focused, well-defined, and intense, and the sky appears to be completely free of clouds. Gotta be something else IMO."

Here's the link from the discussion on this site from 2015
UFO or Sun Dog or...

Pinetree: "

KawnipiKid: "

SummerSkin: "Here's one for the community to figure out...I was trying to find videos of Robinson Lake in Quetico and came across this short 13 second video. I am not sure what this thing in the sky is...meteor? Strang sighting in Quetico sky "

Interesting! Very unlikely a meteor. It's too stationary. Meteors typically hit the atmosphere at 25,000 MPH or more. Any visual is a fast streak even when the event is a very long way away. No guess, at this point."

Seen and found a couple huge weather balloons in Quetico with attachment below."

+! Pinetree. This makes good sense to me after watching the video a few more times. Weather balloons eventually pop and float/flutter back to earth dragging their collection instrument. Very cool that the guys who shot this video are on here. Thanks for posting the video, pleximidewest and MidwestMan.