Leatherwood Lake CE6 Investigation
While editing footage for The Presence at Leatherwood Lake, I found myself focusing on something I hadn’t expected.
Not the lights.
Not the visuals.
Not even the moments people would traditionally label as evidence.
Instead, I found myself paying attention to sound.
During my Leatherwood Lake CE6 investigation, some of the most interesting experiences weren’t things I saw. They were things I heard. The deeper I reviewed the footage and reflected on what happened at the location, the more I began noticing a recurring pattern. Again and again, the phenomenon seemed less interested in showing itself and more interested in making itself heard.
A few weeks after participating in a CE6 event at Leatherwood Lake in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, I returned to the location for a third visit.
There was no organized gathering. No meditation group. No experiment.
I simply wanted to spend time at the location again and see what happened.
That’s when I heard it.
A heavy metallic door slamming somewhere in the distance.
The sound was unmistakable.
Not a vehicle door.
Not a camper.
Not a gate.
A large metal door.
I stopped several times and listened, trying to determine where it was coming from. There were no nearby structures. No visible buildings. No obvious source.
Yet the sound continued.
A loud metallic impact echoing through the woods in the middle of the day.
At the time, I filed it away alongside the other strange experiences associated with the location.
Later, while researching witness reports connected to paranormal activity, Bigfoot encounters, and high strangeness cases, I discovered something fascinating.
The sound of doors appears far more often than most people realize.
Across a variety of unexplained encounters, witnesses frequently report hearing sounds associated with structures that shouldn’t be there.
Doors slamming.
Metallic impacts.
Gates opening and closing.
Footsteps inside buildings that don’t exist.
Some witnesses even describe encountering entire structures deep in remote wilderness areas.
Cabins.
Houses.
Small buildings.
In many cases, the structure appears completely normal during the experience. Only later do witnesses discover the building was abandoned years ago, collapsed long ago, or never existed at all.
The details vary from case to case, but certain themes continue to repeat:
Doors.
Structures.
Thresholds.
Transitions between one space and another.
Whether these reports represent misidentification, folklore, psychological effects, or something genuinely anomalous remains open for debate. What interested me was how closely those reports mirrored my own experience at Leatherwood Lake.
The metallic door wasn’t the only unusual sound connected to the investigation.
During one meditation session, blackbirds suddenly appeared in the surrounding trees and began calling loudly.
Not one bird.
Not two.
A chorus.
Their calls erupted almost immediately after the meditation began, loud enough to completely break my concentration.
Caw.
Caw.
Caw.
The timing felt impossible to ignore.
Then there were the REM Pods.
Throughout the investigation, the devices repeatedly activated, filling the woods with electronic tones that felt strangely out of place against the natural sounds of flowing water, insects, and wind moving through the trees.
Later, while reviewing footage, I began noticing other audio anomalies.
Unexplained pops.
Odd tones.
Voices that seemed to emerge briefly from the background.
Patterns hidden within environmental noise.
What struck me most was how many of these experiences involved hearing rather than seeing.
Across locations associated with high strangeness, I keep finding the same environmental ingredients: moving water, historical trauma, underground spaces, and recurring reports of anomalous sound. Leatherwood Lake may be another example of that pattern.
The experience reminded me of ideas proposed by paranormal researcher John Keel.
Keel’s Super Spectrum theory suggested that reality may contain layers of energy and information existing beyond the narrow range human beings can normally perceive.
According to Keel, our senses may only be tuned to a small portion of what actually exists around us.
Whether one agrees with Keel’s conclusions or not, the theory offers an interesting framework for examining experiences like those reported at Leatherwood Lake.
If reality contains overlapping layers that occasionally intersect, perhaps sound becomes one of the first indicators that something unusual is occurring.
After all, sound is vibration.
Frequency.
Resonance.
It moves through environments differently than light. It can travel around obstacles, carry over long distances, and affect us emotionally before we fully understand what we’re hearing.
Perhaps that’s why so many reports involving UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, apparitions, and other forms of high strangeness often include unusual sounds.
Hums.
Voices.
Knocks.
Tones.
Electronic interference.
Doors.
The phenomenon may not always reveal itself visually. Sometimes it announces its presence through sound first.
I don’t know what caused the metallic door.
I don’t know why the blackbirds appeared when they did.
I don’t know why the REM Pods seemed determined to become part of the conversation.
What I do know is that while editing footage from this Leatherwood Lake CE6 investigation, I kept returning to the same realization.
The phenomenon wasn’t simply showing itself.
It was making itself heard.
The deeper I looked into the mystery, the more I found myself listening.
The Presence at Leatherwood Lake explores recurring patterns found at locations associated with high strangeness, paranormal activity, and unexplained experiences. Many of the sound anomalies discussed in the film were captured on audio and video, allowing viewers to examine the evidence for themselves and draw their own conclusions about what may have been happening at Leatherwood Lake.
The Presence at Leatherwood Lake premieres in July.