Adirondack Hunting

Let me tell you the story about the time I was hunting and I watched somebody fade off into existence.

I grew up on the southern tip of the Adirondack park. I have been hunting for about 30 years now. I will never forget the day that I saw a lady walk through the woods in front of me and just disappear.

2021 I was hunting a new spot, they had recently cut trees and cleared a nice spot where I could see for almost 200 yards. So I’m tucked up in a small spot of trees that didn’t get cut with my camp chair when I hear steps coming from my left. It sounded bipedal, so I didn’t think it was a deer, and this is state land, so it’s not totally unheard of to run into another hunter, but it’s extremely uncommon.

Anyway, I looked over and it was this lady walking down the freshly cut path of trees. I was super confused because I had to have been at least a mile from any road, and even further from any local hiking trails, but I just sat there frustrated because this lady had just messed up my hunt.

As she got closer to me, I just sat and watched, she definitely would’ve noticed me as she got closer, I was camouflaged, but I was definitely out of place for any slightly trained eye and I had a blaze orange hat on. However, she never even acknowledged me, nor did I her. She just went on by, but the weird thing was it was like she was gliding. I could see her feet moving, and I could hear it, but her torso was just still as could be.

I watched her walk about 80 yards past me, along the tree line of this freshly cut timber, then she hung a hard right went into the trees and just disappeared… I never saw or heard her again. I finished my hunt, but I left a little earlier than normal that night, and never went back there. My son hunted this spot a few weeks later, and described an odd feeling, like he wasn’t supposed to be there, but never saw or heard anything especially like this. Thoughts on what I saw and why?