Invasion on Chestnut Ridge Page #6

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So I don't know if what

I was doing back then

triggered something, and then

it carried on to my grandson.

I don't know how that works.

All I know is, it was about

1975 when these things started.

I talked to one other person

that was involved back then

that said that they were afraid,

that they were telling about,

seeing things in the mirror

when they looked at themselves

and incidents like that, but,

it's quite scary when

it happens to yourself.

It's nice to read about

it by somebody else,

but when it's

really your life...

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I became friends with

a guy named Sam Sherry.

He lived right in the

heart of the Chestnut Ridge

up in Ligonier, Pennsylvania,

a little town called Wilpen.

It was 1986 and he was

fishing at a place called

Sleepy Hollow.

It's a popular spot for fishing

and it's a little breezeway

or a crossover between Route

30 East and Route 30 West,

and one night Sam was

out there fishing,

and he heard some

noise to his left,

and he looked over to see a

figure standing on an embankment

a little further down the

creek from where he was,

and this was Loyalhanna

Creek that he was fishing on.

So as he's fishing

and doing his thing,

he notices this figure's moving

closer and closer to him.

And it got to the point

where it was so close to him,

that he could make out very

good detail of this thing.

And as he described it,

it's not your typical

Bigfoot creature that he saw.

It was an upright-walking

creature that had very sparse

hair on its body, almost

like it had mange.

It appeared to have a mohawk

on the top of its head.

And this creature was

very tall, had long arms

hanging down well

past its knees.

Sam saw this thing walking

closer and closer to him,

ambling closer and it

kind of unnerved him.

So he got in his

vehicle to leave,

and just before he

was able to leave,

this creature stopped

the vehicle from leaving,

put its hands on the

driver-side door,

stuck its head in the window,

and he was literally

face-to-face with this thing.

He said this thing

actually opened its mouth,

he could see there was

no teeth in its mouth,

or it was missing

a lot of teeth.

It was pushing down on the car,

preventing him

from driving away.

He hit the horn on his

car to scare this thing,

this thing stepped back like,

oh-my-gosh kind of expression.

Sam took off and left.

And he said in his tail

lights as he driving away,

he could see thing waving

at him as he drove off.

Although the Chestnut Ridge

has yet to see another outbreak

of reports quite like

the flap of 73 and 74,

unusual sightings

have not stopped,

and if anything, they've

become more bizarre in variety.

Otherwise sober-minded individuals

professed to have seen

enormous dark-colored birds

in flight and on the ground,

which are sometimes

referred to as Thunderbirds,

as well as Black Panthers,

upright-walking canid

creatures known as Dog Men,

winged humanoids and even a

22-foot-long flying lizard

resembling a dragon.

In many cases, observers

struggled to describe

what they have seen because

there are no categories

that correspond to what

they have perceived.

All they can do is react

to the invasive presence

of what appears to be a monster.

But there's all kinds

of strange creatures

that have been seen.

The most recent was the Dog

Man sighting that took place

literally miles down the

road from where we're at

here in 2015.

Four women were going to a

place called Ruringrun Park,

and they pulled into a

pull off at the trail head

to get out of the vehicle

to start hiking the trail,

and as they got out of the

vehicle, they started into the

trail head and they noticed a

figure walking towards them.

The one woman claimed that

this thing wasn't a person.

It was actually a

very tall, muscular,

salt and pepper

hair-covered creature,

that had a large snout

like a wolf or a dog,

had pointy ears and

had a tail on it.

And it was standing

upright on two legs,

and it just approached

them out of the forest.

Three of the four women

got back in the car.

She stood there watching it and

it stood there watching her,

and the stare-off went on

for several minutes before

this thing turned and walked

back off into the forest.

There have been many reports

over the years of not only

Bigfoot sightings, but

reports of Thunderbirds,

those huge generally

dark brown or black birds

with massive wingspans

like a small aircraft.

A Thunderbird basically is a

large bird with anywhere from

eight to 20 feet in

length of wingspan.

Some witnesses describe

the Thunderbird as having

black feathers all over its

body while other describe

the Thunderbird as having

like a reptilian-like membrane

skin on its body, almost

like a Pterodactyl-like thing

flying through the sky.

I only ever heard one that

came from a guy that said that

he was up on the Derry Ridge,

and this large Thunderbird,

well, didn't name

it a Thunderbird,

but this very large bird flew

right over the top of him.

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Yeah, I grew up in Lower

Burrell, I joined the army

and then in 2005 I retired,

moved out here to Derry.

I just got done

cutting my back field.

My family was down at

Keystone State Park there.

I went down to get

them to bring them up

to show them what the

field looked like.

I came back up to the field,

I'm looking out there at the

end of the field and it looked

like there was a tree stump.

So we drove out there

to the tree stump.

I go, "that isn't a tree

stump, it's a deer."

It looked like a big deer,

about this tall, maybe five,

five and a half feet tall,

sitting up on its butt.

You know, it was like this.

And I'm getting closer

and I'm thinking,

that doesn't look

like a deer anymore.

And it picked up its head and

it was staring at me like this

like it was mad.

Huh, so I stopped 50

yards maybe from it.

I'm looking at it.

"That's a bird."

It got up and it took one swipe,

and it starts coming

towards me and I'm like,

"oh, Judas Priest."

Came over top of our bus

and my yard is shaped like a

rollercoaster and

when it hit that,

it came up like

that into the air.

It was big-chested,

just claws like this.

If it wanted to and

it swooped down,

I'm not saying it's

gonna pick you up.

It'll pick you into pieces

and take those pieces away.

Strange events like this go

on all across Pennsylvania.

And there's certain areas

where sometimes you get more

activity than others, but the

one area, of course, that,

year after year we seem to

get more than normal activity,

is areas along the

Chestnut Ridge.

There's been all kind of anomalies

up on the Ridge such as

underground sounds and mystery

booms and strange lights and

people seeing small little

lights coming near their homes.

And they appear, as I said,

very close to the ground,

or very very high

up in the trees.

There's no rhyme, nor

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