Post by Chad Lewis on Mar 16, 2005 10:44:45 GMT -6
We just received an e-mail from a man in Northern Illinois, here is part of the e-mail:
(Name and personal information withheld)
I live in northern Illinois on 6 wooded acres. I have a one acre pond in my back yard. About 5 or 6 years ago we awoke to find one large swirl in the snow that covered the entire pond. It looked like someone took a broom, started from the center of the pond and pushed the broom in a circle going wider and wider until they reached the outer shores of the pond. What was odd is that the pond was not frozen more and an inch or two at the most so there was no way it would support someone.. At first we thought it was very bizarre until we realized there is one thing that could have caused it. A helicopter that might have hovered over the pond when we weren't home. Once we thought of that we all figured that is what it was. I am convinced it was a helicopter (most likely some guy doing a prank).
Then last winter something just as strange happened. We have two sets of horseshoe pits that I put in when we built the house. Instead of buying the cheap stakes, I went to an Iron shop and had four, four foot by 1 inch iron pipes made for the stakes. Last spring I was out in the yard and notice that on one end of the two sets of pits both of the stakes were significantly bent (and in the same direction). These are extremely hard to bend to say the least. My wife thought that the folks that mow our lawn hit them with a tractor and we just hadn't noticed it in the fall. But there were no tracks in the yard and there is no way a riding mower could bend these pipes and they are too far apart for one accident to cause them to both be bent. If a mower hit them it would total out a mower before bending them. If a car drove back there it would have left tracks. Any thoughts on how they were bent?
(Name and personal information withheld)
I live in northern Illinois on 6 wooded acres. I have a one acre pond in my back yard. About 5 or 6 years ago we awoke to find one large swirl in the snow that covered the entire pond. It looked like someone took a broom, started from the center of the pond and pushed the broom in a circle going wider and wider until they reached the outer shores of the pond. What was odd is that the pond was not frozen more and an inch or two at the most so there was no way it would support someone.. At first we thought it was very bizarre until we realized there is one thing that could have caused it. A helicopter that might have hovered over the pond when we weren't home. Once we thought of that we all figured that is what it was. I am convinced it was a helicopter (most likely some guy doing a prank).
Then last winter something just as strange happened. We have two sets of horseshoe pits that I put in when we built the house. Instead of buying the cheap stakes, I went to an Iron shop and had four, four foot by 1 inch iron pipes made for the stakes. Last spring I was out in the yard and notice that on one end of the two sets of pits both of the stakes were significantly bent (and in the same direction). These are extremely hard to bend to say the least. My wife thought that the folks that mow our lawn hit them with a tractor and we just hadn't noticed it in the fall. But there were no tracks in the yard and there is no way a riding mower could bend these pipes and they are too far apart for one accident to cause them to both be bent. If a mower hit them it would total out a mower before bending them. If a car drove back there it would have left tracks. Any thoughts on how they were bent?
