REPORT RECEIVED FROM: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.

 
REPORT POSTED TO GCBRO WEB SITE ON:  June 22, 2013
 

DATE:    07/12/12
 

TIME:     Mutliple times and days
 

LOCATION:   Lake County, Minnesota
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    The following accounts happened within the same 10 day trip on XXXX lake. It's a very long section of water for people traveling by canoe (7 miles
or so total I would estimate.)

1) On night 5 of the trip we reached the south arm from the lake to the southeast and settled into a campsite. I was nestled into my hammock for the night with a tarp pulled over me like a blanket in case it were to rain. I was in a deep sleep and it must have been 2 or 3 am since it was still dark and the sun comes up at 4:30 there. I awoke to the sound of sobbing. It sounded like a woman and it was growing ever closer. then I heard the footsteps coming through the brush and trees toward our campsite. The noise entered the campsite on the side I was sleeping on and before long I could sense that whatever it was was standing right next to my hammock. I flung the tarp off half
expecting a scared scout but instead my hand struck a rather solid body that then sprinted off into the dense forest. Startled, I awoke my crew and did a head count only to find that everyone was in their tents asleep. I waved it off as a bear encounter and went back to sleep.

2) The next day we moved to a campsite another 3 miles southwest down the lake and settled in once again. I was out gathering some firewood while the scouts cooked dinner. As I worked through the forest I heard a really strange and very loud primal sounding scream that made my muscles tense up and my hair stand on end. I involuntarily produced a strange whooping bark-like vocalization that I've never ever heard come out of my own body. This happened once more immediately after the first one. I was pretty shaken at this point, but stayed strong and calm when I got back to camp as any good guide would do.

3) The following day we decided to do something unconventional and go for a night paddle. We sat around camp all day and relaxed then at around 10:00 pm we left camp and kept heading southwest. At about 1:00 am we came to the pinch of water separating XXXX Lake from XXXX Lake. Here we had to cross through a relatively narrow passage of shallow water. At it's narrowest it's probably 25 yards from bank to bank. We were exactly at this point when out of the darkness of the right bank comes a flying rock. And I mean a ROCK! This thing was very large to have made it the 15 yards from the bank to right in front of the canoe. It nearly swamped us. Either a
world strongman threw that rock or something really big living in the woods did. The rock landed on a flat shoal next to us; a piece of flat-topped granite about a foot
under water. The rock was so large it still had six inches sticking out of the water and was too heavy to pick up from the canoe.
 

ADDITIONAL THINGS:  N/A
 

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:  The one that was next to my hammock was not seen long enough to conclusively give a description. It was hairy. That much I know. My skin touched it's fur.
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS:   Sleeping/collecting wood/canoeing (see above)
 

OTHER NOTES:    N/A
 

HISTORICAL OR NEIGHBORING AREAS:  N/A
 

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND-OR FOLLOW-UP COMMENTS:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.