I did, lol.

You're right, it didn't even dawn on me to be afraid to ask the question because I didn't realize so many adults in these places were still so childish. It literally is like being in a room full of 7 year olds, so now I can see why they would be afraid.

No "unknown" ever occurred to me. I had been leaning toward a moose the whole time, but you don't have moose by you, so...? I was just hoping for an explanation just like the mystery of the grouse sound after I heard it for the first time, but no can do...

Well i believe in Bigfoot so it was probably a Bigfoot cause they knock on wood and stuff like that, have you had any occurrences since? No matter how crazy they are I won’t judge

Didn't they explain the knocking theory on the Finding Bigfoot show? Or maybe not, since they never actually found one.
But they did hit trees with sticks and waited for an answer, then usually said "wait, did you hear that?!!!" and then went to commercial.

By the average age on here probably most lol

Anybody raise Emus in the area? Their drumming is tremendously louder than grouse.

This is your brain...............This is your brain on drugs !!!

One plausible explanation for Bigfoot sightings is that they are biologists from an extraterrestrial race and are here studying Earth's ecosystems. They are undoubtedly bound by the universal intergalactic law of nonintervention with per-intergalactic space travel civilizations and are forbidden from carrying advanced technology or interfering in any way.

The knocking noises could be experiments performed by the biologists to observe how the dominant specie on this planet reacts to various stimuli.

One theory... ain't the worst I've read.

Hi, everyone, first post here. This is to hopefully give some support to what cathryn and Mainewoods have posted about their experiences with their knock sounds. I carefully read all of the details within each telling and saw that a lot of the suggested sources of these sounds don't fit the descriptions of carolyn's and Mainewoods' locations or relatively isolated location conditions.

I'm going to post a recording of what I think is what they've heard. There are two prime differences between what they said and my own experience. One is that both of their occurrences happened in the daytime where mine occurred primarily between 9:25pm and 9:50pm. There's more to relate concerning the backstory of that but for now it can wait. The second difference is that they were going about doing normal things whereas I had intentionally set up a recorder to run all night that, with luck, might acquire such evidence. All comments are welcome.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vmsz...huio0btt3e0dqzk&st=pjimoknm&dl=0

Welcome

Thanks, YJ

So I reread my post and saw where cathryn kinda morphed into carolyn. Apologies, cathryn,

Who knows, maybe someday Yukon John may become Yakima Jim. I'm 75 so it could just come with the territory, LOL.

Whatever you say.

WHOOO, WHOO

All I can say is: People come on here asking a question that can't be answered and accuse the rest of us to be stupid for not knowing what they expect us of to say.

Rest assured, T-Rex, I'm not one of 'em. All that can really be done realistically is through a process of elimination. It would seem that options are fewer for night time than day, however. And since woodpeckers are not nocturnal it would reasonably cut down the choices. The recording I got was just last May 31st. Deer and moose have all shed their antlers easily by then which cuts down options even further. I can't tell you what made the knock-like sounds because I don't KNOW what made them. I can tell you it was lakeside about 30 miles up a gravel logging road in a remote location with no people around for miles. I was camping solo which I prefer to do.

I have no answers either and claim none, Just wanted to see if the phenomenon was, or similar to, what cathryn and Mainwoods had experienced. Since some folks mentioned that there was no record of the sounds they witnessed I thought it might be beneficial to share what my recorder picked up that night.

It is definitely interesting, Researcher.

Y’all got birds the chirp at night? Most of ours are really quiet at night unless it’s Full moon, then I’ll hear some occasionally.

That it is, trapdog1. I have been all over the web for several years trying to get an answer. Hunting forums, camping forums, biking forums, and even a hammock forum. Those all came up when doing a search for knock sounds in the forest at night. Even a state regional biologist said he wasn't familiar with the phenomenon. So, turkey putts, beaver tail slaps, pine cones dropping on dead pine branches, temp fluctuation in trees have all been suggested from various sources on the web but none of it sounds like the recording. So...IDK. But agreed, definitely interesting.

How about a bit of honesty here? I did NOT hear what was on the recording in real time. In fact, I heard nothing when I was there. I was not camped at lakeside. My truck was about thirty yards up the hill in a small flat clearing because I was worried my truck would get hung up on a hump in the access to the lake. I had gone up to turn in at around 9pm and didn't check the recorder until two days later after I was home. I was a bit taken aback when I looked at the time signature on the recorder's files. The phenomenon started in about 25 minutes after I left lakeside. The recorder was set up at the lakeside in the crotch of a cedar tree hooked up to a power pack so that it would run all night.