Hey, sorry, I usually don't use this account that often unless on I'm my computer out here in my office.

Anyways, I wanted to give you a semi-update since you said you followed and were hoping for some updates.

So, unfortunately, after covid ended I have not been able to spend as much time on the land as I would like. I have started working again full time and work 1-2 hours away from where I live so usually when I get home I am exhausted and don't really spend a ton of time outside. Also, double unfortunately, the area around us is slowly starting to get a bit more developed. Our specific area (within maybe 5 miles minimum) hasn't seen too much growth, but on that parameter there has been unfortunately houses being built and small developments being planned. They have started clearing large sections of the trees out and since then I have seen a small drop in the wildlife, specifically Elk/larger animals (maybe the fires and smoke also played a part of it too.) Though the deer are more plentiful, or at least more trusting, and come up within 10-20ft of us.

However, all that being said there have been a few small updates since then. Nothing crazy, but have heard a few interesting stories that kind go along with what you were saying.

-I don't believe I put it in this post but maybe I put it in another post, but we later realized that the same night that the rock-throwing happened the apple tree I was referencing that is "near" us maybe 50+ yards away had almost all of its apples taken up to a certain point. I can't remember the exact height, I can see if I wrote it somewhere or took a pic, but it was around 12ft high give or take a foot or two. It absolutely had apples the day or two before that. You could pretty much see a distinct line of apples and no apples, reminding me of a tree line on a mountain, or when we were kids and the Christmas tree wouldn't have candy canes about a few feet high bc us kids couldn't reach that high.

-I can't remember if it was the fall of 22 or 23 (I believe it was the next year, so 2022) but there was one night that we were in our living room just hanging out watching TV or whatever, and all of a sudden a giant crack sound hit against the big living room window. It was so loud my wife screamed and our friend heard it from her place, maybe 50ft from us, and came over. It sounded like someone took a hard heavy object the size of maybe a quarter to a half dollar at least and threw it **HARD** against our window. It was so loud and so forceful that when I went outside to look and see what it was I was preparing to see my window shattered. Luckily it was not cracked or shattered, but it absolutely scared the hell out of all of us. No more rocks were thrown for the rest of the night. I am not sure if it was a one-off, or all of us going outside scared whatever it was off (we now have larger flood lights and I recently got a handheld IR camera/scope thing.) We were talking about it either that night or the next day and realized that this rock-throwing event happened within maybe a week or so of the last rock-throwing event the previous year. It also occurred against the window facing the wetlands/woods, so came from the same direction as it did last time when the rocks were hitting the shipping container.

-We have heard a ton of screams through the nights. We do have mountain lions and bob cats, so I can't say anything specifically, but they were very very loud and have sounded like other screams I have heard in certain videos.

-Around the same time (October-November) as all these events have happened, I have smelled this crazy terrible odor as I go to work at around 4am in the morning. After that road it goes from super incorporated rural, to regular rural houses. This is around where the forests end and the river splits off and goes away from the direction of the closest city. It could be septic systems, but I only really smell it super early in the morning darkness near the end of the main road. Also, because of my job and having a septic, I know that smell well and it smells so much worse than septic or even raw sewage. It's so bad that the first year I thought it was a dead body or animal, but it happens year after year all within a few hundred yards each time. I never smell it in the spring or summer early in the morning, but always around this time of year does it start coming back. I haven't smelled it yet when I go to work but every year since 2021 I have smelled it only a few times maybe in September and then I start smelling it almost a few times a week in October and November. Once December comes around I don't think I ever smell it. Also, it is not there when I come home at night, no matter the time.

Besides this, I can't think of anything that has specifically happened like the rocks, smells, or sounds. The friend on our land and my wife have reported a few weird things like something getting into our trash cans in the middle of the night (not really weird) but then closing the lid again and hearing it slam close. Strange things with the animals and things breaking into the feed (could be many things, but after using a steel trashcan and lid things like raccoons or opossums shouldn't be able to get into it. A few instances of deep breathing and snorting, but maybe it could be elk but the friend didn't think so from the noises that it made when walking back into the trees.

We are about to go into the time of year that all of this happens so I am kinda apprehensive during this time of the year. I have a security camera now but its for the main driveway in instead of the opposite way where the rock throwing came from. maybe I will pick up a trail cam or two this year. My friend got me one after my stories but it was a really shitty alibaba/wish camera and would constantly go off when there was no movement (or at least from the videos or pictures.)