The Hubbardsville NY Encounter
Testimonial II by Lou Piazza
Hello. My name is Louie Piazza. I’m here to tell about you a
story – something that occurred in my life back in July of 1991. It was a
Wednesday night. I’d gone fishing with a friend of mine, Frederick Curie. Pretty significant
occurrence. As we were coming downriver at the end of the fishing trip. Lost a
paddle on the way, which we can’t explain! There was – what preceded the thing
that wound up occurring, as we were coming down, I don’t know, we were probably
a couple hundred yards from where we have to get out of the water, to put the
canoe back on the truck - Freddie was
standing up because he had to take my paddle. I’m sitting down enjoying the
nice warm summer night, it was a balmy summer night. July in upstate New York
is a beautiful time. All of a sudden, Freddie started – I don’t know, we were
about 150-200 yards away from our site, and Freddy was getting very excited.
And he’s asking me, Louie, you see that?! Louie you see that?! And I’m wondering
– you know at first, what’s he seeing that’s getting him so excited? I could
see a fog on the left side of me. And there was no fog anywhere around us.
There was no fog behind me, no fog in front of me, no fog to the right of me.
Just to the left of me, because that’s the way I was facing. And Freddy’s ‘Do
you see that?” And I’m getting a little nervous because I see the fog and I don’t
see anything else. He had a better vantage point because I had taller grass in
front of me, from sitting down low in the canoe and he’s in the standing
position. We’re in a big 17 ft [c?] canoe. And when you’re on a stretch it’s very
easy to stand.
All of a sudden we start coming around, and as we’re coming
closer I could see the fog plain as day now. Er, and more foliage. And at this
point I don’t know again what Freddy was seeing, because of my vantage point.
And as we start pulling up, I could see this tripod-like thing. It wasn’t a
tripod, no bars or anything. But it was kind of tripod shape. And it had amber
lights. I don’t remember if they were vertical or horizontal, I don’t know
which way they went but I remember seeing amber lights on this thing. As we
were approaching, coming around – from the top of this thing, a light wound up
coming round. And it started shining on Freddy and then it came around to me.
Now the weird thing is, that the light came around but there’s no light on him
and there’s no light on me. Which was unexplainable. Now here’s the damn canoe
paddle’s gone. And now I’ve got a light shining on the both of us and there’s
no light shining on him or me. How could something come around and there’s no
light on you?
So now I’m becoming nervous, and Freddy’s like ‘Louie, you
see that? What is that?’ and he starts yelling ‘Hello! Hello! Hello!’ and he’s
trying to make contact with the… with something that he had seen. And after the
light got on the both of us I got pretty nervous, as I said, and we wound up
coming down closer, and we start inching closer and closer to an old beaver
dam. And at that point, I wind up seeing these two beings. And as plain as day,
they – were human form, humanoid form, human form. Just like us, I’d say 5’6, 5’6
and a half, no taller than that. They were human figures. And the figures that
I wound up seeing, uh, one was bent over and there was another one standing
behind it. And I’m looking at these.. uh figures, and I’m quite nervous. How
could you not be? You know, they looked like naked bodies. Very very white. I don’t
want to say translucent, because I could make out appendages, I could make out
arms, I could make out legs, a head. I don’t recall any ears. The one in the
back, I don’t know if it was foliage or what, it looked like there was a l
ittle bit of hair. But the weird anomaly that I recall, uh most of all, was
when this thing was behind the other one, I looked and – there’s no genitalia.
And that kinda really freaked me out. You see two beings, they look human. Human
like. There’s no sleeves, it didn’t look like it was any type of clothing on
them at all, no pant leg, no cuffs. Yet, I could plainly make out these two figures.
Frank’s sitting here, ‘Hello, Hello!’, he’s still trying to
make contact with these two individuals, or whatever they was. And I kind of
freaked out. To be honest, I grabbed hold of the front of my canoe and I
started jumping in the water, and I nearly knocked Freddy out of the canoe. And
I uh proceeded to pull the canoe out of the water, off the dam actually,
because we were stuck on the dam. But while we were on the dam I could see
everything plain as day. I could see the… the tripod-like thing with the amber
lights, and these beings over here. I was pretty freaked out, I’m not going to
lie about it. I had a daughter that was just born, and I wanted to get out of
there. So as we pulled out --- gotten out of the water, pulled the canoe out,
wound up throwing the canoe on the truck, driving down the road. And as we’re
driving down the road, about a mile, a mile and a half, Freddy asked me to pull
over. We pull over, he wanted to go back. And I didn’t want to go back. I
wanted to alert the authorities, because I believed something like this the
authorities should know about, because it was an unexplained phenomenon that
had wound up occurring. And, uh, Freddy was a little insistent on going back, and I
was a little more stubborn, and I was behind the wheel! Because it freaked me
out quite a bit, you know I’m not going to lie about it. You know because I don’t
know what the hell I saw. Because all I know, it was something that I’ve never…
(shakes head) never came in contact with before. Been all over the place – I was
in the military, I travelled all over, and I’ve never seen anything like it.
And, uh, we wound up going home.
And a few days later, which was a Saturday, we
decided to go back. And we wound up going back down, to the site. We’re walking
up to the spot and lo and behold here’s 30, 40 foot round, I’d say, uh, section
of woods. Now it’s July, you’ve got foliage all over the place. Here’s this
spot that’s just coffee ground dirt. It’s the best way of explaining it. It was
so fine it was like coffee grounds. How that could have occurred in such a short
period of time is beyond my imagination. I’ve tilled my garden, I’ve done a lot
of different things, and I’ve never – I’ve worked landscaping, and I’ve seen
screeded soil, and I‘ve never seen it that fine in my life. Here’s this fine
like coffee grounds. Not a… not an ant, not a, not a footprint from a deer,
nothing. And there’s all these big mature trees, and everywhere else you look
there’s nothing but foliage. And I kind of found that to be pretty freaky.
A few days later, and I wish I’d took a camera, which I didn’t.
I mean I’m called the camera man any time we go fishing I always take a camera,
and I didn’t have the darn camera with me! I was pretty shook up from it, and excited
to get back and look at it. And I.. I guess with the excitement of what I might
see, I just forgot to bring the damn thing, and I wish I did. And there was
like three mounds in the dirt, they wound up coming across which was pretty
cool. But, you go in the mounds, it’s like maybe there’s something buried here –
reached right down, Freddy was reaching right down in the soil , I’m reaching
right down in the soil and it’s there it is coffee grounds. You know, just a
strange anomaly that occurred in my life. And it’s something I’ll never forget,
and something I just never wanted to tell too many people about, because I
figured they’d think I was crazy. It was something that we talked about from
time to time, and it’s something that does need to get out because it is a true
story. And there are those things that happen in our lives that are worth
mentioning. And I wish I’d mentioned it years ago to the authorities so we
could have actually known exactly what we saw. But we didn’t, and you know maybe
we should have gone back there like Freddy wanted. And investigated it further.
But I decided I didn’t want to. And I was driving and if it was today I would
definitely extended my hand. And tried to make contact, better contact with
these individuals! I do remember at one point them waving… just came to the
side this wave, and down. And I don’t remember exactly when that wound up
occurring, but I do remember the wave. And like I said I was, I don’t want to
say frightened… it was just a pretty weird thing that wound up occurring, and I
had a daughter that was just born, and I wanted to get home to her. But it er, let’s
just say Spooked. It spooked me enough not to investigate it further... I wish
I’d turned around. You know. And we didn’t. And it’s an actual event that did
happen. And I’ve got no real, no reason to make this stuff up. I am glad that I
was able to partake in and see an anomaly such as this. And I think it was a pretty
fascinating thing, and a blessing to see it.
Lou I have a question for you about the beings you
saw. Do you recall anything about the facial features? The eyes, the nose, the
mouth, the ears - anything that really
stood out?
Yes, their eyes. Their eyes were bigger than our eyes. If you were to … take out the eyeball of a human being and look at a skeleton, the orbital, large, the way it is, that was about the size of eye was. I would say about this, it was … they were larger than our eyes, and they were dark black, the eyes. I don’t really recall ears or anything like that. There was no genitalia!! None whatsoever. I’m looking at these things plain as day. They were.. god almighty.. thirty yards at the most away from me. And I’m looking at these things plain as day. I hunt, I fish… These, these – there was no genitalia, and that – you can’t explain that. And like I said, no clothing. If they were naked... And I don’t know, maybe they were, something was wrapped around them (shakes head). I don’t know. -
When you saw them, when you actually got the best look at them, were they parallel with the boat, behind you, or in front of you in the boat. What vantage point were they at?
I was at the front and they were literally as we were coming by directly right at the side of me. Literally I could have shaken hands with them.
- So the closest you were to either of these entities was, in feet, how close were you?
… The closest point was probably when they waved, you know, uh, I don’t know – 20 feet. 30 feet at the most. At that point. And then we wound up at the beaver dam and when we came closer, here we’re stuck on this beaver dam. And that’s when I wound up seeing –plain as day, they’re standing there. And Like I said, one was bent over, the other was standing straight up behind it. You know, they were as apprehensive as we were, I would say. But then there was… I never felt threatened to the point where I felt like I was in danger. I think it was more spooked by the fact that I’ve never encountered anything like this before. It was unexplainable. I never seen anything like it. How do you explain a human being without genitalia? Be it a male or a female. I don’t care if you haven’t… you know, it’s just spooked. That’s the part that spooked me out, I knew they wasn’t of human form at that point.
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