Invasion on Chestnut Ridge Page #7

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reason, nor explanation

for the pattern they move or

why they move, or direction.

They just, they move, and

it seems almost as if like

they're intelligent

enough to move,

so they don't want

you to see it.

Like you see it over here and

you'll be focused over here

and then it'll appear over

here and then when you look

over here, it's gone and

it's back over here again.

(dark atmospheric tones)

To this point, that is the

biggest event that's happened

in my life that I have

no understanding of.

In August of 2015, myself

and a friend of mine, Eric,

we were on the West Virginia

side, near Preston County,

in a very remote location

about two miles off of anywhere

that would have been

near any civilized area.

Well there's a couple times

where I've experienced this,

and I don't know what it is.

I really don't have

an explanation,

and I don't think anybody

does at this point.

We were out doing a

Bigfoot investigation

in this very active area.

This night was pitch-ink dark.

I couldn't even see Eric, I

couldn't even see my hand.

I mean, there was

no Moon that night.

You couldn't see through

the canape of trees.

No residual light

from the stars.

So we were in

total ink-darkness.

[Eric] And I noticed off

in the woods, to my left,

probably about 100

yards away, this light.

And it first looked like

someone just carrying a lantern.

If you would swing a lantern

as you're walking through

the forest, you could see it

moving back and forth rocking.

What appeared to be a

light permeating underneath

the canape of trees, was

moving around very slowly,

but erratically

at the same time,

almost balloon-like

but it would stop,

and then it would move again.

And as more people focused

on it and more people started

to see this light moving

through the trees,

and we were trying to

figure out where it was

emanating from, where it was

coming from, if maybe there was

somebody over there in the

woods with us that night.

As it got a little bit closer,

you could see, if you've seen

the lava lamps of the 70s,

it has this pulsating light

change going on inside of this

spherical object.

I know for a fact it

was within 60 feet of us

when the next thing happened.

Well, I didn't see Eric

and he couldn't see me.

Well, he has a 500

lumen flashlight.

He lit it up with a flashlight.

This window opened up

in this black darkness.

It was a translucent, silvery,

almost like it was light

projecting out of it.

This thing went in,

this window shut,

and then we're standing there

in total darkness again.

I have no idea

where it came from.

I started talking to

other people about it,

seeing if they had seen it,

other people researched up

in that area and little by

little, I began to hear people

talking about seeing these

floating light in that area.

[Narrator] Is there a simple

cause for the glowing orbs

being detected in the

forests of Pennsylvania?

Perhaps an atmospheric condition

or weather-related

anomaly is to blame.

Or is there something

more than natural

generating light in

those dark places?

What is it about the Ridge

that seems to produce a

parade of the monsters?

Do these creatures crawl

forth from the belly

of the Ridge itself?

And what about the strange

lights that appear in its skies?

Are they terrestrial in origin,

somehow generated by

the great earthen mound?

Do we even know the

right questions to ask

about this window

into the unknown?

In this region,

mysteries tend to layer

one on top of the other.

People, they sort of

make the connection between

Bigfoot or UFO or UFO

along with Bigfoot.

I am no expert by any means, I

think there are power sources

in the area and I think

there might be a link to

power sources having

something to do with this.

I know, if you

look on the internet,

after that I started looking

on the internet what I seen.

There's a lot of stuff that

goes up on the Chestnut Ridge.

Is it strange?

Probably it's everywhere,

they just don't pay attention.

But density of forest?

I'm not sure.

I don't know why this

area seems to attract

the phenomenon, I really

don't, but it seems to be

concentrated in the

state in this area.

It seems like the mountain

areas around here and the West

Virginia area have a lot of

strange things happening.

Over the years, we saw

certain patterns emerging,

and we thought, gee, we're

getting close to some answers,

then another case would show

up that would completely

dismiss your thoughts

and theories.

And you're always hopeful

that you're gonna finally come

to a conclusion, but the more

I receive reports, even the

last few years, some of the

cryptid reports we're getting

are so strange and so unusual.

They're not even close to the

normal Bigfoot or Thunderbirds

or Panthers and other anomalies

we get reports on, so,

there's a lot more

out there going on

than any of us have

any answers for,

and I think we're dealing with

something very strange and

unusual and right now beyond

our scientific understanding.

[Narrator] Some who have

encountered the inexplicable

along the Chestnut Ridge

have been able to go

on with their lives.

The occurrence becomes

an intriguing footnote

in their personal

history, nothing more.

But for others, the

experience has a profound

and lasting effect,

shifting their world view,

changing their thoughts

about what is possible,

what is real.

Like Sam Sherry, they become

obsessed with having just

one more encounter to justify

what they've been through.

To prove it to the skeptics

and maybe to themselves

that they're not

losing grip on reality.

Or like Barry Clark,

they would rather not know

what happened to them.

They'd prefer not to remember,

but to forget.

And maybe if I went

and had regression,

maybe I would

understand more, but,

like I said now,

I don't know if I

wanna know any details.

I know what's

happened, happened,

and I've had some physical

stuff left behind,

but do I really wanna know?

If I did do that, would it

be worse than not knowing?

It's kind of...

Kind of a Catch-22.

[Narrator] Today, the

village Kecksburg has embraced

its enigmatic past, hosting

a UFO festival each summer,

that has attracted

thousands of visitors.

Families bring children

to play in the shadow

of the UFO replica,

once used in the filming

of a TV program about the crash.

Locals are somewhat used

to camera crews in town,

as media interest in the

incident never wanes for long.

The people of this community

have done their best

to turn the events of

1965 into a positive.

Once again, I started this

when I was 10-years-old in 1959

so this year is gonna

be 58 years of research.

Why do this?

Well, I guess it's just the

fact that I'm continuing

to be curious, I'm still

learning more and more

about the phenomena out

there, I've learned that

this is a very strange world,

and there's a lot of ongoing

things out there that we

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