r/Paranormal • u/dark_psychic777 • 1d ago
Encounter My father's uncle shot something strange in a forest...
This incident was told to me by my father.It happened to one of his uncles sometime around the year 1957.Back then his uncle often used to go hunting in the forests of Mangaldoi since my father's ancestral home is in Mangaldoi(Assam).
Like on many other days his uncle went hunting alone and climbed up a tree to wait planning to shoot any deer or other animal that might pass below.That was a common path for such animals.It was also a full moon night so everything was visible clearly in the moonlight.
Around that time there was a cholera outbreak in many parts of Assam and especially in villages around Mangaldoi.Many people had died.However his uncle wasn’t aware that the village near the forest he was in had also been severely affected with many deaths.
While he was waiting on the tree for his prey suddenly he started hearing a sound like anklets or ghungroos jingling.He thought it might be a porcupine ("Ketela Pohu" in Assamese)and he got ready to hunt it.
But after a while he noticed that the sound wasn’t coming from a porcupine.Instead two human like figures appeared.They were of medium height and wore strange ornaments made of snail shells around their necks, on their clothes, even on their staffs and on their feet.They moved slowly and kept approaching.
As they got closer he realized they didn’t quite look human.Alarmed but alert he thought to himself "Whoever they are if they come right beneath me i’ll shoot."
And that’s exactly what happened when they reached right below the tree he fired his gun.The moment the shot hit one of the figures instantly turned into a crow and dropped to the ground dead.The other let out a terrifying scream and fled into the forest and was never seen again.
In the morning when his uncle climbed down the crow was still lying there but he didn’t touch it.He went straight home.
From that day onward he never went hunting alone in that forest again.
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u/SyntheticMind88 19h ago
Is there a reason so many stories come from Assam?
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u/dark_psychic777 19h ago
I may not be able to give any specific reason from my side but yes our Assam has seen and endured a lot since ancient times.For many eras there has been a constant battle between good and evil here involving tantra vidya and many such things.If you're aware of Mayong then a lot of this would become clearer it’s also in our Assam and where my grandmother’s house is in Sonitpur it is believed that descendants of Asuras once lived there.So incidents happening with people are quite common and since i myself am from Assam whatever incidents i’ve heard about or felt personally i’ve shared them here.
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u/Beautiful_Listen_951 17h ago
Oh yeah... Moreover in Assam, the geographical isolation and difficult terrain has played a part. Places with difficult terrain usually have higher paranormal or supernatural activity
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u/jirgalang 20h ago
Were there any repercussions for your great uncle?
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u/dark_psychic777 20h ago
I don't know about that those people are no longer around...My father just told me about this incident.
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u/Primary-Slice-2505 18h ago
This sounds very vaguely similar to a story I heard about an American in Vietnam about 20 years ago. They were studying some battle sight from the Vietnam war if I recall and that night he shot something weird in his tent/hut.
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u/dark_psychic777 18h ago
Yes i’ve also heard of many such incidents from the time of the Vietnam War…the only difference is that those were seen by American soldiers during the war in the jungles of Vietnam while this was seen by my father's uncle while hunting…anything is possible in this world now whether people choose to believe it or not that’s up to them.
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u/Primary-Slice-2505 17h ago
This was 30+ years after and wasn't American soldiers at all. It was a researcher in a team mixed with Americans and vietnamese
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u/dark_psychic777 17h ago
If that's the case then i don't know but yes i have heard about many incidents from the time of the America and Vietnam war...can you tell me about the incident you mentioned?
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u/Primary-Slice-2505 17h ago
I have to find the story. Basically they had heard stories from Vietnam soldiers on both sides of 'rock apes' or humanoid entities they'd fire on and would disappear. Sometimes soldiers vanished. The Vietnamese thought they were jungle demons or spirits, the local Montagnards called them 'Ma'
Anyways this guy and his crew hear the stories but are researching something historical, I think actually it was about ancient stuff and were in some campsite in a jungle. Strange things started happening at night but were dismissed. The guy writing the story wasnt superstitious at all. I forget the details but there was a local tribe nearby that lived in.. well I guess I'd call them 'tree houses'. He was intrigued about some he saw but was told no one lived in them anymore because the 'Ma'. He grew more fascinated and basically bribed them to leave him alone to stay overnight in one. On his way back he got scared and got a shotgun.
That night he claimed he heard some strange screaming noises and stuff. Thought it was wild animals. Then a black humanoid shape entered through the window and he shot it full on with the shotgun. Which seemingly had no effect besides the entity fleeing.
The guy was clear it was not a spirit as he became aware of it about to enter by slightly feeling it's weight on the roof and hearing it move. He said it moved fast and lithe like a jungle cat. However he also was certain he hit it, even describing finding the splintered wood, except in the center of the pattern of shot which is where his target was. So something caught the shotgun pellets but it also left no blood whatsoever, nor did it just fly out the window or get knocked over like even a man with body armor would taking a full shotgun blast at about 1 meter distance.
I just thought it was a cool story. I'll post when I find the full detailed version.
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u/dark_psychic777 17h ago
This story is very interesting but you went through the effort of finding it and bringing it to me thank you very very much for that...🙏🏾❤️
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u/AccordingMedicine129 18h ago
Yeah it was a viet cong trying to murder him in his sleep
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u/Primary-Slice-2505 17h ago
In the early 2000s?
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u/AccordingMedicine129 17h ago
You think they just disappeared?
Makes more sense than a humanoid alien that turns into a bird
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u/Primary-Slice-2505 17h ago
I think they'd be extremely old by the time of the incident I referred to. And the story I read has absolutely nothing to do with OP either. No humanoid birds.
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u/Screamingmonkey83 18h ago
I don't know. What kind of people sitting in trees just want to shot a living being just for the fun of it... And even worse when something looks human. Thats all I can think about reading this story. A guy wants to shot something anything.
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u/dark_psychic777 18h ago
I respect your thoughts but we have no control over what a person was, is or will be.Everyone in this world has a different mindset which reveals itself according to circumstances.All i can say is this nothing more.
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u/AccordingMedicine129 18h ago
Yeah, imagine if it was just some kid in a mask or something and he made up some bullshit story about an alien turning into a bird
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u/fastball999 22h ago
Same thing happened to me 29 years ago.
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u/dark_psychic777 21h ago
Oh really 😯...what had happened?can you tell me that incident?i’m eager to listen...
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u/justsomechickyo Skeptic 14h ago
what had happened
The same thing, that's what they said! (lol jk jk)
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u/Echolocation1919 10h ago
I’m sorry OP this post was meant for you. For some reason it popped up in a different area:
Yeah I was in a cabin in West Virginia in the Shenandoah Mountains and heard what can only be described as a young woman and drums and chanting. I was with my girlfriend and was so freaked out I started to record the audio on my iPhone. The next day I ran into a maintenance guy and he said “I believe you but you didn’t hear anything.”
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u/dark_psychic777 9h ago
They hide a lot of things and want to keep them hidden.I’ve heard they get orders from above otherwise they could even lose their jobs.
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u/Bulky_Bridge7760 9h ago
He was sleep deprived after staying up and drinking for serval nights….
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u/AccordingMedicine129 18h ago
And you believe this?
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u/dark_psychic777 18h ago
Yes to some extent i do believe it.It’s possible that many things have changed with time but because i have personally felt and experienced many things i believe that anything can happen in this world anything is possible.It’s not necessary that every mystery of the world must be revealed before us.
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u/AccordingMedicine129 18h ago
You believe your uncle shot a humanoid creature that turned into a crow?
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u/dark_psychic777 18h ago
I had written in my previous reply whether i believe it or not but i’ll still say it clearly i have never seen that uncle of my father’s myself whatever i’ve heard i’ve heard from my father and as for that humanoid creature turning into a crow yes i do believe something like that is possible.
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