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February 27, 2008

If you go out in the woods today...

StreetAdvisor.com recently received a review of Treeridge Pkwy, Alpharetta, Fulton, Georgia, United States (StreetScore 32.84) by mrskeeblerelf. It is by far the strangest review we have received.

I believe it is genuine, though it has a creepy kind of weirdness to it as well. We'll leave it for the StreetAdvisor community to decide.

mrskeeblerelf starts in his/her review by telling us that:

Treeridge Parkway started out really calm and pretty. Tall lush trees, tons of little sparrow and squirrel families all around. It was like a little hideaway from the hustle and bustle of Holcomb Bridge. But last year it all changed, and it was so bizarre that I had to break my lease and move out immediately. So if you are considering moving into an apartment over there, I'd highly recommend that you take a walk through those woods... notice how there are no longer any birds. That's all I'm allowed to say. If anyone knows what happened over there I'd like to know about it. Because I was too afraid to ask when I lived there. Please, if you have children or a family, or even if you don't-- PLEASE-- don't move there. Thanks, and I wish all my old neighbors in my building the best-- they were all good people.

Birds650

After another community member requested more details we got more information from mrskeeblerelf:

I could see the woods from my apartment window, and to be honest-- no. No animals living out there at all anymore. I'd see a few little squirrels and birds playing out there every now and then... but they never stuck around for very long. They all cleared out a couple months back. I lived there for 2 years and in winter of 2006 I saw lots of animals out there in the woods, so I knew something unsettling was going down out there.

Forest650_3

As to why I am honestly unsure-- but I did notice towards the end of the year was getting frequently disrupted by an unusual amount of landscaping crew who were out there all the time with snow-blowers, but there wasn't any snow out there? And there was this beeping noise that sounded like a dump truck in perpetual backup going off all day intermittently. It got so loud sometimes that it sounded like a TON of construction going on-- but when I'd look out of my window there nothing out there at all. No traffic, no cars... no people... no crew... sometimes not even snow blowers out there.

Crack650

I noticed that the lightpost overlooking the back parking lot been "repaired" about 2 months back-- oddly enough-- to a 360° covered dome, while leaving the light post in the neighboring parking lot (that flickers on and off all night) untouched. In my unit, I watched deep heavy cracks suddenly started to show up along the walls by the ceiling and even across my stone hearth to the fireplace. I kept hearing these loud cracking noises in my sun room-- like the foundation was sinking or something. It was more than creepy-- a little TOO creepy to stick around. I was petrified. My intuition told me to get out of there ASAP, so I did.

I'm ready to call in FBI Special Agents Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks and Fox Mulder from The X Files...

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"That's all I'm allowed to say"... infers Someone in Authority has told you to say no more. Which makes for a good story, perhaps it's the start of one?

Were the local authorities contacted? Did local conservation or birdwatching groups get interested? Had the sparrows flown south for the winter? http://www.wingsoverga.com/

There's probably a very mundane answer though, so perhaps it's better not to ask and leave it up to the imagination and we can make up our own great conspiracy tales :)

In our area of Florida we have sink holes. This happens when we have a particularly rainy season and the undergroud caves form full of water as we experience a drought and these caves dry out the earth above caves in taking homes and roads with it. Prior to it happening people have experience squealing and popping noises and cracks in foundations that seem to grow hourly.

As for the animals I don't know. Usually animals sense when natural diaster is eminant but not sure how a sinking house would affect them.

During the sunami in Thialand elephants and animals started heading to the highest point hours before the waves hit.

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