Every Devil Hunter should know Leeds Point. With that in mind, we decided to give one of our most active members, Brian, his own little tour of Leeds Point. So Brian, Charley and I went back down to our most familiar place to show Brian the hotspots of the area.

We started out by heading back to the house foundation during the daylight. The place has changed, yet again. The walls are starting to cave in even further, and the wood that used to make it so difficult to maneuver within the foundation has started to crumble. It's almost as though everything is flattening within it. Brian started to videotape the area, and oddly enough his camera battery died shortly thereafter. Brian's camera hasn't given us any trouble in the past (it's usually Kevin's camera with the battery issues) but this time it started to shut off. As we moved away from the house, the camera battery was working again. In fact, it came back on saying it had 90 minutes of battery life left. I have no idea how to explain it. Mary had suggested in the past that it could be electromagnetic, so we took out the compass to see if it was going crazy. It wasn't. It was perfectly still and working fine. So I don't understand why our technological equipment decides to malfunction when we're near that foundation.

We did a little more digging around in the area of the foundation, and this time we managed to find another set of steps leading into what would have been the house. So now we've got two sets of steps. Charley also discovered some sort of strange rusted metal thing that looked like it could have been a jack, but we were unable to get it to work. It was so rusted, and full of dirt, that forcing it would have probably broken it. If you know what it is, or have an idea as to what it could be, please e-mail us and let us know!

We headed back down one of the trails to visit the water that flows in that area. We found that the water level was high and had overflown significantly onto the trail, creating almost a mini-canyon in the trail that you now have to jump over to get across. The stench of the water was also really foul this time.

Then came the tracks... we found lots of tracks. We tried to identify them by cross referencing the prints in our field guide, however some of the statistics weren't matching up. For the most part, they looked like deer tracks (or something of a hooved nature) but the paths that the prints took were not consistent with the paths of a deer. It was odd. There were significant spans between footprints, and again we'd find a single track with a large span between them. Unfortunately, it was nothing conclusive.

Well, that's our story for Hunt #25. Questions? Comments? E-mail us at [email protected]. Want to join us? Click here for the online application!