We all know that Saturday night is party
night, ... right? After a hard week at work, you
need to get away to a quiet place, crack a few
beers, smoke some grass, play some groovy music
and well, just relax. Of course you had to choose
a place where no-one would drop in and spoil
everything, particularly some picky neighbour who
might feel motivated to call the cops. Well Stuart
Henderson and his four buddies knew just the right
spot. Fromme Mountain. You’ve never heard of it?
....well the truth is, I hadn't either and I’ve
lived in the Vancouver area for over thirty years.
For those who aren’t aware of its location I’ll
point it out. Right alongside Grouse Mountain, I
do mean to the right, or if you prefer, to the
east.
So
the guys packed the supplies, drove aways, parked
the car, hiked upwards for an hour and a half and
finally arrived at the cabin. Just perfect, 80
foot trees, mountain peaks and just all to
themselves. Or so they thought. About the time
when they were all feeling kind of mellow, Frank
and Ken noticed a light in amongst the trees some
distance away. The time was somewhere between
midnight and 1:30 a.m., Sunday, l2th September,
1999. Then they heard a sound. Someone suggested
the ghetto blaster be turned off. When it was,
they heard a hum, like a high pitched generator,
that seemed to be coming from above the trees.
Frank got up and walked about 20-30 feet from the
party to where he thought the sound was coming
from. He had to cover his ears. The noise seemed
to last between 5-10 seconds before it changed
into a pulsating noise with increased volume. It
seemed as if the whole forest was vibrating. It
was like no other sound they had ever heard before
in their lives.
Frank
said later that he felt an energy wave that seemed
to go through his head, almost as if his head had
been "probed", is how he described it. Then
without warning it stopped, just as suddenly as it
had started. Silence returned. Everyone was very
much alert and scared out of their wits, the party
mood had evaporated. The small group spent the
next hour discussing and analysing the very
unusual experience. It was also decided that
leaving might be a very good idea. They packed up
and descended the familiar trail. Arriving home in
the early hours Stuart said that he and a friend
felt very dehydrated, resulting in a need to drink
water, something that they had never done
previously. Another member of the group said his
ears were ringing until about 7:00 a.m. Frank
suffered from headaches.
Agreement
was reached on one important point. They are maybe
going up there again, but not this year!
Commentary
The
brother of one of our directors stated that in
1968 a gentleman who had a cabin on the very same
mountain also related having had a close encounter
UFO experience.
Much
more recently for example, we here at UFO*BC
received four separate reports between Aug - Sep
1999 from a couple whose home is at Lonsdale and
23rd in North Vancouver. This residence faces onto
Grouse Mountain. The married couple described
seeing anomalous lights that were multi-coloured,
sometimes stationary and apparently, on occasion,
located over the power lines! Other nights they
were located to the right or left, (east or west)
of Grouse Mountain.
We have been aware for many years of
reports from this region as sightings have been
recorded in the Cyprus Bowl area, and also Goat
Mountain. In fact so many strange lights were seen
at that location in the 1970 era that one person I
met told me he rented a plane just to check out
that locale. Needless to say he found nothing to
support his suspicions of a mountain UFO base.
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