Hiking the beautiful national parks of America is a delight, but it does come with its dangers; nobody expects Aliens to be one of them.
Most people will be prepared for bears or getting fatally lost on a hike through the wilds of the US. These things can be prepared for with bear mace or a good GPS. These are calculated risks, well worth it for the chance to see something truly stunning.
But, in an interview, the two hosts of the podcast National Park After Dark revealed a terrifying alien abduction in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine. It wasn’t until almost a decade later that the hikers discovered they had gone deeper into the unknown than they realised.
Hikers’ Hazy Memories Of Aliens And Operations
Danielle LaRock and Cassie Yahnian run a podcast looking into all the weird and creepy things that happen in national parks. There are more than you may think. Everything from murders to unsolved mysteries hides away in the trees. However, while speaking to Atlas Obscura, they described an alien invasion that a group of hikers experienced.
“In August of 1976, the twins, Jim and Jack, along with Charlie Foltz and Chuck Rak, were amid a two-week camping and fishing trip along the Allagash Waterway,” they began. The trip started innocently enough.
While helping another group search for one of their lost members, they spotted something odd. “They’re scanning the tree line, they’re looking through binoculars. All of these people saw this bright light, and it was in the eastern part of the sky, and it was moving slightly.”
It only got weirder, too. Initially, they didn’t presume it was aliens above the national park. But what the light did next shocked them. “It was astoundingly bright. It seemed to be hovering about 200 feet from the top of the tree line. And then it all of a sudden, as they describe it, inverted on itself. So, it closed like an eyelid shutting, then blinked out of sight.”
They found the missing camper and continued their trip through the national park, thinking no more about the alien light. But, as the evening came around, they had another encounter. After building a fire, the group went for a paddle. Jack, looking over his shoulder, spotted the light again.
“He threw his gaze over his shoulder, and he saw this ball of light rising from the trees about 200 yards away,” they explain. “It ascended roughly 300 feet, and then it hovered. It fluctuated between red, green, and yellow, and it wasn’t solid, but rather had an almost liquid appearance.”
One of the hikers flashed his torch at the alien light, and suddenly, it changed behavior. A searchlight moved toward them. Terrified at this point, they paddle for camp as fast as they can.
Missing Moments Marked
The boys arrived back on the shore, but something was amiss. The huge fire they had built was nothing but embers. Additionally, they all felt dazed, like the feeling of waking from anesthesia. They all had a notable missing patch of memory from their paddle home.
Putting it down to adrenaline, they continued their trip and pushed it to the back of their minds. However, ten years later, that missing patch of memory returned. Jim started to have strange dreams. He would be lying in a white room, on a table, and it would feel like he was awake. Not only that, the three other guys from the hike were there too.
He finally called Jack and asked him if he was having the same dreams. Not only was he experiencing the same thing, but when they called the other two guys, they had the same. Together, they went into hypnosis and tried to dig into what it all meant.
What the four men found was a shared memory of aliens in the national park, abducting hikers. “They all recalled being aboard a spacecraft, where they were all subjected to different medical examinations by some of these humanoid entities. They all described them as having large heads, dark eyes, slender bodies, and they don’t speak with words, but rather telepathically send messages to them.”
Next time you’re out hiking, don’t forget your compass, bear mace, and tinfoil hat.