NUFORC Sighting 31739

Occurred: 1995-05-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-09-22 19:21 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Zanesville, OH, USA

Shape: Unknown

loud sound coming from water

I am not sure if this falls inthis category or not. My brother and I were fishing at Dillon Dam in Zanesville,Ohio. My brother believes he is Daniel Boone, a real outdoorsman who is scared of nothing. He was in his late 30's, I am 2 years younger.

We have fished in this cover for decades, ever since we were young children. The cove itself is only about knee deep as we have waded in it many times. It was dark out that night, cloudy, no stars could be seen.

We were bottom fishing, just relaxing,not much talking. All of a sudden, we both heard this tremendous sound. The only thing I can think of is it sounded like a house coming out of the water. It was happening right in front of us though we could not see a thing. Without a word being spoken, both of us immediately ran backwards frrom the water's edge. I looked over at my fearless brother and he had a 25 caliber pistol pulled, aimed at the water (he was a manager of a rest. and carried alot of money so he carried a gun).

Both of us just looked at each other and asked what the heck was that, though not in such nice terms. We both basically ran to our poles, grabbed them and reeled them i nwhile running away fro mthe water....

My brother refuses to talk about that incident to this day, and tho we fished there every monday, we did not go back to that spot for 2 months.

All I could think of was maybe gas being released, but there are no pipes there and it just seemed so big and loud. It sounded like a house coming out of the water, as the water poured off it....

Posted 2003-09-24