I have this writer's name but he didn't give me permission to use it so I won't.

Here's what he writes, this is pretty interesting, nothing in your face but it's very interesting.

You would be interested in what happened to me a year ago and twice more recently, near

the humble Mendocino County Headwaters of the Matole River.

After the encounter with the inexplicable, I have become absolutely convinced that some

unknown animal exists here and I began on the internet a search of similar accounts.

While immersed suddenly in this mystery, it became clear to me that these experience

must be documented and conveyed to others.

Just July 2018, I was staying in an isolated region which had limited access behind three

lock gates and it was 20 miles north of White Thorn, California on a primitive 4x4 road.

This place is at the end of the road, a lost world of primeval forest on the northern

border of a vast green belt spreading from shelter cove on the lost coast east to highway 101

and south to Fort Bragg as can be seen on Google Earth.

At 3am I was awake and there was a hot, dark and completely silent July 9.

Something above my tent location began knocking on wood.

It would be best described as loud wax on a tree trunk by a big club or branch.

It started with one knock which got my attention with a brief hesitation and then several more

knocks but randomly timed some in succession and others after hesitation.

The knocking was so loud that it echoed down the canyon and the event only lasted a minute.

My first thoughts were that there was no one on the mountain and who could be out here

in the middle of a primitive and protected area.

The knocks were from something large and no North American animal could have made them.

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