Two creepy encounters and one that was a once in a lifetime wildlife sighting
1: I hiked about 3 miles into State Game Land #110 on blue mtn (I think) in PA. I found a fair amount of tracks crossing the road/trail so I went off into the woods to see if I could get a setup. I walked about 5o yards in and the terrain stepped of pretty steep. Then there was a Big pile of rip-rap stones going off the edge of the MTN, it was almost like a weird sorta driveway except it was super steep and it was rip-rap and HUGE stones. All the ground around it was covered with some type grass that was very thick and about 4 feet high (Real good place to fall and break an ankle) I took advantage of the stones and headed down them instead of risking falling with all my gear. I went about 30 yards down the mtn there was a chain link fence, with wire at the top. It was about 8 feet high. Now I am not a local but the best I can tell I was in the middle of nowhere and this fence seemed to go on for a great distance in both directions. I didn't follow it too far either way, I wanted to hunt plus I was kind of skeered why the fence was there. Realistically, it was probably something to do with the original use of the land long before it was a SGL or maybe it was something to do with strip mining and keeping people safe but it really got me stirred up ( in a bad way.)
2: On the same SGL as the story above, on the same day but later on. I found a water source with fresh sign so I set up my stand, about a hundred yards from the fence thing. The stand was facing the road/trail I walked in on. Three people road by on bicycles but one was on a big tricycle thing. It didn't look like they spotted me up in my tree back in the woods. They obviously were not hunting and I don't know why but they had me uneasy. Maybe because I was so far back in there or because I was still thinking of all the creepy reasons that fence may have been in place. Almost an hour elapsed and then I started hearing them in the woods further on down from me. First they started playing music that sounded like it was from a hand crank phonograph (Like form all the horror movies), the music was also reminiscent of something upbeat and highly vocal and soprano from the twenties (JUST like a horror movie). Then they continued on walking through the woods trudging around but after an hour or so they began to carry on and cry out undistinguishably for an hour or so. I pulled up from that spot and began to walk to the car. I didn't want to leave after dark or be on the trail after dark in that place, ESPECIALLY with those people around. Honestly they were most likely just getting really high and having a good time. Kinda sounded what I though an acid trip might be like but I didn't to ended up having an encounter with them.
3. Hunting off of French Creek state park in PA, I was in a tree overlooking a clearing that had a three feet rock fence that ran through it. I figured that a deer might walk down that old rock fence and give me a broadside shot. I was looking over my shoulder to another trail that intersected a trail in front of me and as I strained to look for anything brown or out of place (it was about 45 minutes before legal sunset) and an owl swooped down from the canopy and grabbed something form the forest floor and flew away. The owl was completely silent except for the "scratch" in the leaves but the critter it grabbed squeaked and squealed like, well, like it was gonna die... By far the coolest thing I have seen while hunting.
