This is Really Weird!

SteveA · 03-01-2010, 09:55 PM

Don,

Is it definitly "on" the island or maybe something beyond the island on the other side of the lake?

DRH · 03-01-2010, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveA

Don,

Is it definitly "on" the island or maybe something beyond the island on the other side of the lake?

Steve, I can't say with certainty that it is actually "on" the island, but it certainly appeared that way to us. We could just make out the peak of Rattlesnake against the sky beyond it (from our vantage point), and the triangular light appeared to be directly on the peak of Rattlesnake. Rattlesnake Island is so high that from our house we cannot see any of the Ossipee mountains beyond it. In other words, when we look at Rattlesnake in the daylight, all we can see above it is sky. So I don't believe the light could be on any other point of land.

upthesaukee · 03-02-2010, 12:13 AM

do do do do; do do do do;

(see that would be like the Twilight Zone theme. What dear????? Yes dear, I will take my medication and go to bed.

)

do do do do; do do...

20mile · 03-02-2010, 12:13 AM

My wife and I have a house in twenty-mile bay. For years we have seen an odd light out over the lake in the direction out beyond Long Island and or Sandy Island. From our perspective the light appears to be miles away and sometimes at the level of the distant mountains and sometimes lower. We have watched it for hours with binoculars or spotting scope. It definitely moves around and then hangs stationary for long periods. We can't figure it out.

riverat · 03-02-2010, 09:11 AM

I blew it up on my PC and was amazed at what I saw![

Argie's Wife · 03-02-2010, 09:20 AM

Love it!

DRH · 03-02-2010, 10:32 AM

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Love it!

Me too! Excellent, Riverat!

Grant · 03-02-2010, 10:47 AM

Could it be the lights for night skiing at Gunstock? They are quite bright.

DRH · 03-02-2010, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Grant

Could it be the lights for night skiing at Gunstock? They are quite bright.

We're on the southern shoreline of the lake just west of Minge Cove, and Rattlesnake is north of us. Gunstock's to our southwest and we can't see it from our house.

Here's a winter photo I took of Rattlesnake a couple years ago. There's nothing beyond it from our vantage point but sky.

The strange triangular light we saw last night appeared to be coming from the tallest crest of the island.

Pepper · 03-02-2010, 11:08 AM

that is creepy!

Now that it's daylight, is there anything visible on the crest of the hill? Maybe a telescope could allow a better image of what's up there. Keep us informed!

DRH · 03-02-2010, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Pepper

that is creepy!

Now that it's daylight, is there anything visible on the crest of the hill? Maybe a telescope could allow a better image of what's up there. Keep us informed!

QL and I scanned the entire large crest of the island with our scope this morning and could not see anything other than trees and rock. Here's a photo I took a couple years ago showing a close-up of that area.

Pepper · 03-02-2010, 11:38 AM

I'm a bit geographically challenged, and wonder what town or area is beyond Rattlesnake, following the line of sight from your house? Is it possible that whatever it is could have been there? Regardless of what or where it is, this is a fun mystery!

DRH · 03-02-2010, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Pepper

I'm a bit geographically challenged, and wonder what town or area is beyond Rattlesnake, following the line of sight from your house? Is it possible that whatever it is could have been there? Regardless of what or where it is, this is a fun mystery!

Beyond Rattlesnake from our vantage point is Winter Harbor, Tuftonboro and beyond that, the Ossipee mountain range. But Rattlesnake is so high at it's peak that we can't see anything beyond it from here.

LIforrelaxin · 03-02-2010, 11:59 AM

You will have to tell us if it reappears tonight.... then we can really panic, because it means the little green guys are coming back to either pick somone/something up or drop something back off......

TOAD · 03-02-2010, 12:04 PM

Similiar lights were reported in Haiti and Chile shortly before the earthquakes!

jmen24 · 03-02-2010, 12:40 PM

DRH, something we do when taking preliminary photos of a job when we need a close up is to put one reticle of a pair of binoculars over the lens of the digital camera. It zooms us in far closer than the standard zoom on the camera. Try it out and see if it will get you a little closer, you will have a black edge all around as the relief will not be correct, but that should not matter.

I think a call to the government is in order, maybe they are conducting tests on the island while everyone was in the dark.

NoBozo · 03-02-2010, 12:41 PM

Maybe it was this phenomena called St. Elmos Fire attaching itself to a Barren tree trunk at the top of the island. NB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Elmos_Fire

wifi · 03-02-2010, 01:11 PM

Or maybe its some Mexican geese with a full load of beans headed north ?

gtagrip · 03-02-2010, 01:38 PM

I think it is the new night time speed limit sign.

riverat · 03-02-2010, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by TOAD

Similiar lights were reported in Haiti and Chile shortly before the earthquakes!

Actually I was watching a show on disc channel (I think) last night that was about strange lights at night that appeared out of nowhere in the mountains and in a dessert. There were many theories to these but one of them were that the granite was giving of electrical emission in the form off a plasma type ball or bubble that would float and sometimes move around, this was usually just before an earthquake of great to moderate magnatude was taken place sowewhere in the world, sometimes far away. The granite would compress causing electricity and than would find it's way to the surface through a fissure and burp out a bubble of plasma, they duplicated it in a lab atmosphere but could not make it last more than a blink of an eye.
One study of the phenomenon was in NC mountains where the folklore has it as spirits of native americans had a fierce and bloody battle in that area 3-400 years ago and legend has it that the strange lights seen by many are from spirits trapped and reliveng the battle. Very interesting, did anyone else happen to see this show? How strange that the next day this post is here.

Brown Mountain NC
http://www.ibiblio.org/ghosts/bmtn.html

DRH · 03-02-2010, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin

You will have to tell us if it reappears tonight.... then we can really panic, because it means the little green guys are coming back to either pick somone/something up or drop something back off......

The triangle shaped lights were back on this evening. We suspect they may be solar powered because they start out bright and then fade away after an hour or so.

Slickcraft · 03-02-2010, 11:43 AM

I think that the Alton Town Hall ghost was out for an evening fly around. Maybe a case of cabin fever and too many Girl Scout cookies.

Should the incident be reported here?
http://www.paranormalnews.com/

angela4design · 03-02-2010, 09:22 AM

Where is the link to the original picture?

Newbiesaukee · 03-02-2010, 10:20 AM

It is not really a link but is within the body of the first entry in the thread.

03-01-2010, 09:55 PM	#1
SteveA Deceased Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 2,311 Thanks: 1,070 Thanked 2,054 Times in 497 Posts	Weird Don, Is it definitly "on" the island or maybe something beyond the island on the other side of the lake? __________________ "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry he'll be a mile away and barefoot!" unknown

03-02-2010, 12:13 AM	#3
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,605 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,476 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Too dark for the Twilight Zone do do do do; do do do do; (see that would be like the Twilight Zone theme. What dear????? Yes dear, I will take my medication and go to bed.) do do do do; do do... __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

03-02-2010, 12:13 AM	#4
20mile Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: 20 mile bay Posts: 87 Thanks: 0 Thanked 15 Times in 12 Posts	Strange Light My wife and I have a house in twenty-mile bay. For years we have seen an odd light out over the lake in the direction out beyond Long Island and or Sandy Island. From our perspective the light appears to be miles away and sometimes at the level of the distant mountains and sometimes lower. We have watched it for hours with binoculars or spotting scope. It definitely moves around and then hangs stationary for long periods. We can't figure it out.

03-02-2010, 09:11 AM	#5
riverat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Alton, NH Posts: 722 Thanks: 337 Thanked 280 Times in 123 Posts	Could it be "The Great Smiling Spirit"? I blew it up on my PC and was amazed at what I saw![ __________________ Waking up in the morning is the greatest, everything after that is a bonus

03-02-2010, 10:47 AM	#8
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsyltuckey, Tuftonboro, Moultonborough Posts: 1,504 Thanks: 382 Thanked 232 Times in 126 Posts	Could it be the lights for night skiing at Gunstock? They are quite bright. __________________ "When I die, please don't let my wife sell my dive gear for what I told her I paid for it."

03-02-2010, 09:20 AM	#6
Argie's Wife Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alton Posts: 1,908 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 533 Thanked 579 Times in 260 Posts	Love it!

03-02-2010, 11:08 AM	#10
Pepper Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Laconia, NH Posts: 1,284 Thanks: 409 Thanked 155 Times in 40 Posts	wow that is creepy! Now that it's daylight, is there anything visible on the crest of the hill? Maybe a telescope could allow a better image of what's up there. Keep us informed! __________________ Never waste time lamenting what was. Simply celebrate what is!

03-02-2010, 11:38 AM	#12
Pepper Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Laconia, NH Posts: 1,284 Thanks: 409 Thanked 155 Times in 40 Posts	I'm a bit geographically challenged, and wonder what town or area is beyond Rattlesnake, following the line of sight from your house? Is it possible that whatever it is could have been there? Regardless of what or where it is, this is a fun mystery! __________________ Never waste time lamenting what was. Simply celebrate what is!

03-02-2010, 11:59 AM	#14
LIforrelaxin Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas, Lake Ray Hubbard and NH, Long Island Winnipesaukee Posts: 2,891 Thanks: 1,040 Thanked 896 Times in 528 Posts	You will have to tell us if it reappears tonight.... then we can really panic, because it means the little green guys are coming back to either pick somone/something up or drop something back off...... __________________ Life is about how much time you can spend relaxing... I do it on an island that isn't really an island.....

03-02-2010, 12:04 PM	#15
TOAD Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Soon to be Moultonboro Posts: 258 Thanks: 1 Thanked 81 Times in 34 Posts	Similiar lights were reported in Haiti and Chile shortly before the earthquakes! __________________ "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.....Unknown....but attributed to George Washington

03-02-2010, 12:40 PM	#16
jmen24 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,139 Thanks: 223 Thanked 319 Times in 181 Posts	Something to try DRH, something we do when taking preliminary photos of a job when we need a close up is to put one reticle of a pair of binoculars over the lens of the digital camera. It zooms us in far closer than the standard zoom on the camera. Try it out and see if it will get you a little closer, you will have a black edge all around as the relief will not be correct, but that should not matter. I think a call to the government is in order, maybe they are conducting tests on the island while everyone was in the dark.

03-02-2010, 12:41 PM	#17
NoBozo Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Portsmouth. RI Posts: 2,231 Thanks: 400 Thanked 460 Times in 308 Posts	St. Elmos Fire Maybe it was this phenomena called St. Elmos Fire attaching itself to a Barren tree trunk at the top of the island. NB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Elmos_Fire

03-02-2010, 01:11 PM	#18
wifi Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Lakes Region Posts: 1,321 Thanks: 282 Thanked 287 Times in 169 Posts	Or maybe its some Mexican geese with a full load of beans headed north ?

03-02-2010, 01:38 PM	#19
gtagrip Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 301 Thanks: 115 Thanked 75 Times in 52 Posts	I think it is the new night time speed limit sign.

03-02-2010, 11:43 AM	#22
Slickcraft Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Welch Island and The Taylor Community Posts: 3,329 Thanks: 1,239 Thanked 2,118 Times in 968 Posts	Town Hall Ghost I think that the Alton Town Hall ghost was out for an evening fly around. Maybe a case of cabin fever and too many Girl Scout cookies. Should the incident be reported here? http://www.paranormalnews.com/

03-02-2010, 09:22 AM	#23
angela4design Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Meredith Posts: 353 Thanks: 45 Thanked 54 Times in 38 Posts	Am I missing something Where is the link to the original picture?

03-02-2010, 10:20 AM	#24
Newbiesaukee Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Coral Gables, winter; Long Island, summer Posts: 1,360 Thanks: 959 Thanked 574 Times in 299 Posts	It is not really a link but is within the body of the first entry in the thread.