Thinnys

[Killer Bud]

Ive been all over the world, stood on Aztec sacrificial altars and gazed into mexican jungles when I was just 7, danced naked around bon fires on sabbats playing drums and worshipped mother earth in Germany, to abandoning my car on the side of the road and hiking to the woods with rainbow children, and joined them sleeping on the ground and foraging for food wherever we could find it. Ive survived hurricanes in a houseboat in the Florida Keys that was almost shattered to pieces from the violent waves slamming it into the seawall over and over all night long.

When I was 12, I had a real encounter with sasquatch, and came close to running over him with my bicycle. At the time we lived in the swamps close to the mouth of the Suwannee River just a few miles from an an ancient 2000 year old midden shell mound that towers over the flat muddy oyster bars.

Our home was a mile away from the main road and I usually rode my bike early in the morning to be the first one the bus driver picked up on the bus route. This particular morning I was pedaling briskly down the limerock covered road when he stepped out from the woods and started to cross the road. I was moving along rather briskly as I mentioned and the wheels made no sound on the road, in a short moment of contemplation I pondered what I should do next, suddenly the ten speed bike started making the clicking noise they make when you stop pedaling, and sasquatch turned to me suddenly with a look of fear and surprise.

By this time I had made the decision to use my momentum and just ride by him as fast as I could. I had to get even closer to him and I took in every detail of his physical characteristics as I drew steadily closer to him. By the time I got to where I saw him cross the road he had just gotten to the other side and he started running into the woods howling loudly and I remember the sound of the wood on the trees of branches snapping violently as he made his escape.

I was 12 at the time, and have had nightmares of that morning creep into my thoughts almost 26 years later. Ive gone as far as having a sasquatch sketch artist make a composition of what I saw.

Id post a picture of it but dont have 15 posts here yet.

Sasquatch didnt look like the furry depiction on the infamous bigfoot footage from the 1970's in Washington, or Oregon, or wherever they filmed that at. He stood upright more like a human than an gorilla, but had the graceful gait similar to a gorilla. He wasn't covered in thick fur either, it had more of a dark, long, wispy look to it in various patches over a very muscular physique. That is one of the things that has always stood out more than anything else was the muscle tone throughout his body. He stood over 7' tall, and I had no doubt in my mind that what I was seeing was faked.

The road I rode my bicycle to the schoolbus had something wierd about this one particular section. The left side where I initially saw sasquatch felt benign to me, it was ok... but the other side always gave me the creeps. There was this tree, a tall old cypress tree. It was bare of branches most of the way up, except for one. It stretched out like an old witch's gnarled finger, like it was pointing away from the right side of the road, warning you to turn back. Just passing the tree and looking past it into the dark swampy water, its cypress knees jutting out from its depths, with their twisted looking faces growing on them, made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

I sensed before my encounter there was something odd about this particular spot, and most assuredly knew there was afterwards. I had found a thinny. I didn't call it that then, I didn't have a name for it, at the time, as I was basically being written off by most folks I told my story to. My teachers, the bus driver, kids on the bus that day, they saw the fear inside me, and even my father laughed at me, and I still had to go by there even the next day on my bike, wondering if he was watching and possibly waiting for me to pass by and kill me before I told anyone else. I never saw it again, but I really wished that a grown up would of just taken the time to go back there with me and scout the area out for signs of it actually happening.

Im still not sure if thinnys actually exist, because I never been through one and entered a multiple dimension, but I do believe that they are scientifically possible, and explainable with the discovery of quantum physics. Who knows what modern science will accomplish with quantum physics in the future, one day they will possibly be the gatekeepers. I believe in predetermination over free will, and knew it was meant for me to share this at this moment because I was meant to, not because I chose to. SK led me here with his writings, and opened my mind to things I have pondered over for a long time. For that I thank you.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

Long days and pleasant nights

[GravemakersAndGunslingers]

Reading this post I couldn't determine whether I was reading a fictional or factual account or a mixture of the two. Sorry if it is the latter, the style you wrote the post in was very much like a fictional story in a lot of places. You certainly have had an interesting life thus far if true. Perhaps other members of the board have had strange experiences in the same vein that they could share with us?

[Killer Bud]

Id like to use this thread to discuss thinnys. Does anyone else believe they can possibly exist? As you can tell from my previous post I do. I have really enjoyed the way Stephen King has incorporated them in his stories and made them even more real for me. Yes I know he is a fictional writer, but there is something to thinnys that seem possible, and the stories he writes regarding thinnys, almost go into the realm of Michael Crichton's writings of scientific possibilities, mixed with good fun fiction.

Upon my reread of my first post I did make a minor mistake I would like to clarify. I do not think it was fake, I believe to the my best sense of judgement that was I saw was real. sorry for any confusion that may have caused.

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

There are scientific studies that show that there are other dimensions. I think it's possible for something or someone to pass through accidentally.

[Killer Bud]

Reading this post I couldn't determine whether I was reading a fictional or factual account or a mixture of the two. Sorry if it is the latter, the style you wrote the post in was very much like a fictional story in a lot of places. You certainly have had an interesting life thus far if true. Perhaps other members of the board have had strange experiences in the same vein that they could share with us?

Thank you for the reply, I am telling the truth, albeit in a narrative fashion. I thought it would be more interesting if I told it from a personal perspective and to hopefully invoke productive responses pertaining to the subject matter Im referring to based on my own personal experiences. It would be counterproductive of me to embellish on something that I felt very compelled to express here. It just kind of happened to come out that way as I started typing, perhaps subconsciously due to the fact, this board is Stephen Kings, I may of come across as pretentious wanna be writer, for that I apologize.

Thinnys do intrigue me, I also hope others might be drawn here to express thoughts on this subject as well. To be honest I was actually surprised that there wasn't a thread discussing them until now.

[GravemakersAndGunslingers]

I'm very open minded about things like this, given how amazing the world and the universe is in general and the fact that there is so much we don't know about, I'd say just about anything is possible. In fact I read somewhere that scientists are going to try to recreate 'The Big Bang' in a controlled environment underground on 10th september (next week!) and couldn't help thinking of what happened in Stephen King's 'The Mist'

[Deavlynn]

I absolutely believe in them - I think there are a lot of places on earth where the "worlds wear thin." I can't say for sure that they are exactly as described in the dark tower with the noises and the subconscious pull, but I fully believe that beings from another place could walk into our world through a strange sort of worm hole if you will.

The Thinnys have always been a favorite part of Steve's books for me because I think they are very plausible. Steve isn't the only writer to use this concept either - a lot of writers have different ways of explaining the passage from one world to another - for C.S. Lewis it was a wardrobe, for the Atheist counterpoint a subtle knife that cut holes in space itself, and even Steve uses doors, thinnys, the trunk of a car, and even death itself as a mode of transportation between worlds.

Did you experience a Thinny? I don't think anyone will ever know but you - and my guess is, if you had taken an adult back with you that day you wouldn't have found any evidence anyway. That's the way it is, in my experience, we see and feel things sometimes that can be very real, but may only be real to us. It's kind of like J.K. Rowling's concept of a Room of Requirement. Maybe it was only there because you needed to see it, or maybe it only shows up on the 358,764 day in a cycle, or maybe you were just a 12 year old kid with an over-active imagination - I see nothing wrong with believing it anyway.

I'm rambling... but that's my 2 cents on the subject.

[DarkWriter]

As they say, "Fact is often stranger than fiction."


If it shakes and moans, don't open the box.

[rjt65]

Wow some first post... get to 15 would luv to see the sketch's!

Reading S Hawkings books before SK DT and insomnia made me make the link between actual Quantum Physics and DT series. SO I do not know what why or where but there is certainly more than meets the eye so yes i do think things like thinny's or dimensions above or below us exist.