The Tales of Strange Thumping Sounds

In 19 18, fred beck teamed up with his father in law to stake out an area of forest known as the lewis river area. The men would spend days blasting into bedrock or tunnelling into cliffs looking for the tell tale signs of gold. While nights would be spent gathered round the camp fire with a pot of beans, smoking pipes and gazing up at the endless night sky. One night they heard something else that none of them had heard before - a strange thumping sound coming from somewhere far off. It was met by another similar sound soon after, coming from some other distant place. They thought little of it until the next day when they heard it again, this time