Post by aneaglesangel on Feb 18, 2007 11:30:44 GMT -5
Anawan Rock is named for the Wampanoag Chief or Sachem Anawan, who surrendered there in August of 1676. Benjamin Church, who was a famous "Indian Hunter" received his surrender, and promised his safe passage. Unfortunately, when Anawan was brought to Plymouth, he was beheaded and his head was stuck on a pike.
When my partner and I got there, we couldn't help but be excited, after all, we both have Native American ancestry. We climbed, oh so carefully to the top of the rock, and almost immediately started experiencing visual and audio phenomena. We repeatedly saw quick moving human-like shapes, and the sound of something rubbing together, sort of reminiscent of pants rubbing together as someone walked. I have to say, as a person who grew up in the woods, that these were not animal sounds. Shining our flashlights into the darkness, there were no shiny eyes reflecting back at us, no scurryings or softly padded footsteps of creatures. It was more like a slow and deliberate procession to get closer to the strange curiosities atop the rock, speaking their language.
Before the investigation I found a great site that explains the rich and full language of the Wampanoag's. I learned that the word neetomp means friend, and later because of one of the following recordings, that keetompoag means, friend, kinsman. I'm listing a few of the ones that I did get that night, and there are more, but I'm still working on this. Though we didn't hear any of this audibly, there was a time during our stay at the rock in which I did hear audio phenomena. It was very quick, and I am not sure what the whole word was, but what I did hear sounded like "ash" or "arsh" and was not picked up by my recorder. At another point in our investigation there, I visually saw a tall, gray, man-shaped misty figure, standing very close to us atop the rock. He would have been a tall, thin man, judging by the shape. Whenever I look back on the memory, I can't shake the feeling that he held something wrapped about himself. Funny, but the more I look back on it, the more I'm convinced they were slowly surrounding us, not sure what to think, but egged on by the fact that we called ourselves friends! None of the sounds in the following recordings were heard audibly. All of the recordings are a bit faint, but I think they were a bit leery of getting too close to us, and preferred to stay at least a few feet away.
This first one is one of the Indian words:
Click here to watch anawan1
This one is English, which I was a bit surprised to hear. Either the red-headed hitchhiker was riding shotgun for us, or the Natives could speak very good English, which I would say makes sense. They did trade with us, and tried to live with us, for quite some time.
Click here to watch anawan3
When you hear this, remember, I went over this recording very carefully, there is no other sound like this. The sounds we do make, are very easy to distinguish, such as the two cameras that were going, the click of the EMF detector, were all clearly recognizable sounds, and even the digital display of these sounds each had their own distinct waves on my program. I think we had company, LOL!
Click here to watch anawan4
This is also a strange sound, not either of us, and we didn't hear this audibly. It was only on the recording that this sound could be heard. There is a bird that can make a similar sound, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a bird, this sounds like someone imitating that bird to me, and well, I know myself nor my partner heard this audibly while we were there!
Click here to watch anawan5
This is also a Wampanoag word. I know what it means, but I'll let you guys guess at what the word sounds like, but it will be hard, since it's not English. I will tell you the meaning, but I don't want to spoil it by telling, LOL! This word that I think this recording is saying means "friend" or "kinsman".
Click here to watch anawan8
Again, English, male voice. Our team was a pair of women, there were no men close by, and as far as I could tell in the darkness, there are no houses relatively close enough to the rock for me to pick up voices. Like I say, maybe we had a hitchhiker??
Click here to watch anawan13
When my partner and I got there, we couldn't help but be excited, after all, we both have Native American ancestry. We climbed, oh so carefully to the top of the rock, and almost immediately started experiencing visual and audio phenomena. We repeatedly saw quick moving human-like shapes, and the sound of something rubbing together, sort of reminiscent of pants rubbing together as someone walked. I have to say, as a person who grew up in the woods, that these were not animal sounds. Shining our flashlights into the darkness, there were no shiny eyes reflecting back at us, no scurryings or softly padded footsteps of creatures. It was more like a slow and deliberate procession to get closer to the strange curiosities atop the rock, speaking their language.
Before the investigation I found a great site that explains the rich and full language of the Wampanoag's. I learned that the word neetomp means friend, and later because of one of the following recordings, that keetompoag means, friend, kinsman. I'm listing a few of the ones that I did get that night, and there are more, but I'm still working on this. Though we didn't hear any of this audibly, there was a time during our stay at the rock in which I did hear audio phenomena. It was very quick, and I am not sure what the whole word was, but what I did hear sounded like "ash" or "arsh" and was not picked up by my recorder. At another point in our investigation there, I visually saw a tall, gray, man-shaped misty figure, standing very close to us atop the rock. He would have been a tall, thin man, judging by the shape. Whenever I look back on the memory, I can't shake the feeling that he held something wrapped about himself. Funny, but the more I look back on it, the more I'm convinced they were slowly surrounding us, not sure what to think, but egged on by the fact that we called ourselves friends! None of the sounds in the following recordings were heard audibly. All of the recordings are a bit faint, but I think they were a bit leery of getting too close to us, and preferred to stay at least a few feet away.
This first one is one of the Indian words:
Click here to watch anawan1
This one is English, which I was a bit surprised to hear. Either the red-headed hitchhiker was riding shotgun for us, or the Natives could speak very good English, which I would say makes sense. They did trade with us, and tried to live with us, for quite some time.
Click here to watch anawan3
When you hear this, remember, I went over this recording very carefully, there is no other sound like this. The sounds we do make, are very easy to distinguish, such as the two cameras that were going, the click of the EMF detector, were all clearly recognizable sounds, and even the digital display of these sounds each had their own distinct waves on my program. I think we had company, LOL!
Click here to watch anawan4
This is also a strange sound, not either of us, and we didn't hear this audibly. It was only on the recording that this sound could be heard. There is a bird that can make a similar sound, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a bird, this sounds like someone imitating that bird to me, and well, I know myself nor my partner heard this audibly while we were there!
Click here to watch anawan5
This is also a Wampanoag word. I know what it means, but I'll let you guys guess at what the word sounds like, but it will be hard, since it's not English. I will tell you the meaning, but I don't want to spoil it by telling, LOL! This word that I think this recording is saying means "friend" or "kinsman".
Click here to watch anawan8
Again, English, male voice. Our team was a pair of women, there were no men close by, and as far as I could tell in the darkness, there are no houses relatively close enough to the rock for me to pick up voices. Like I say, maybe we had a hitchhiker??
Click here to watch anawan13
