I was a semi believer up until last summer when the, what I call, the “incident” happened on the lake. Have had a camper at a seasonal site that’s in the Chequamegon National Forest, and the owners have told some very interesting stories of some strange “occurrences” on the property.
Was out with the neighbor in the camper across from us doing some fishing, late July, Friday afternoon, dead calm, and hot. We were fishing the NW area of the lake, a little breeze from the SW comes up for about 20 seconds, then stops, then it comes from the E, again, for about 20 seconds, then stops, then comes from the NW, stops, then comes from the S. I’m asking the neighbor (ex military) if he has ever seen the wind do this, his response, NO. Same here, I have been on the water countless hours/days, and have never seen that. I also made the comment, why on a beautiful Friday afternoon we were the only boat out there, which made it kind of freakishly quiet. I suggested we move to the NE corner of the lake, which we did. Had the boat parallel to the shore, about 250 yards out, I was casting and facing away from shore, Ernie facing and casting towards shore. I suddenly hear wind whipping through the trees, and I thought, thank god, here comes a breeze. Tell Ernie, well here comes a breeze, he says “turn around”. I turn, we can hear the wind, but there isn’t a leaf on a tree moving, and then, about 5 feet from shore it sounded like somebody threw a boulder in the lake, you heard it hit, saw the stream of water come up, and then the “trail” disappeared, it didn’t come back down, plus, both of us were looking directly from where this happened, and neither of us saw anything “get thrown” from the shore. I asked him, “What the hell was that?”, he responds, I have no idea. Both of us were speechless, and were just watching all this take place. We were about 30 yards from a reed bed that was about 75 yards long, and about 10 yards deep, all of a sudden, about 1/4 of the reeds bent over to the right, and touched the water, then stood back up, I asked Ernie, did you just see that? He responded “The reeds?” I just said “Yup”, and he says, “I sure did”.
Just before the wind sound started up, it was very strange that all sounds of nature ceased, no birds, no bugs, even the water bugs that skip all over the surface were gone.
We brought the boat up to where the “boulder” hit the water, it was about 2 feet deep, and there were no “fresh” rocks there, and why did the stream of water just disappear?
We decided to leave and go back in, and I just kept asking him, “What the hell was that? What did we just see?” He says, “I have no idea”.
We get back in, tell the resort owners, they just smile, and say “You had a visit from the spirit”.
I have had several other “things” happen that have no logical explanation as well, and yes, this is a true story, and I have a witness.
