Hunter hears late night wood knocking near Nelsonville, by Wayne Nat'l Forest witnessed in Athens County, Ohio

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My "encounter" was completely audio related and contained no visual input. It was late November 1998 and I had travelled to the home of my brother-in-law in Southeastern Ohio for Thanksgiving and the opening day of deer season He lives with his family on the edge of Wayne National Forest. Things went well for the first two days, with several members of the group taking deer, and I retired to bed on Wednesday evening exhausted after a day of trudging up steep hills and down deep draws on drives for deer. The first thing I remember about the incident is that I had been hearing the "sound" for sometime, and had been thinking it a part of my dream. It then occurred to me that in fact the "sound" was actually not in my head, and I sat upright in bed with chills running down my back and stared at the window. At first I didn't hear anything and almost convinced myself I had in fact been dreaming when I heard it again. It was the unmistakable sound of someone rapping a large branc...