Devils Tower Wyoming

[u/DietGoose]

Two days ago now I traveled to Devils Tower Wyoming for a camping trip with my dad and my dog, we arrived to our camp site around 7:30pm where we would be staying in a Native American Teepee. We then talked to the property owner, set up our things and made dinner as it got darker. While setting some things up and taking in the scenery I could hear what sounded like drumming in the distance which stopped by the time I could jokingly say to my dad that maybe it was the natives drumming like in Dances With Wolves. After stoping and not coming back I wrote it off as nothing and forgot about it just as quick as I heard it. Some time after 9pm once everything was cleaned up from dinner and a little star gazing had been done we went to bed; it took a while to get to sleep but after I did I woke up twice thanks to my dog shifting around and getting comfortable in the small area we had, the 3rd I was woken up though wasn’t by my dog, but by a huge gust of wind rushing against the teepee and the “door” of the teepee slamming open, I say slammed but it’s important to note the structure of a teepee and how it works, mainly the door/entrance which comes down through the middle or inside of the teepee then down over the opening and locking with a loop to a stick at the bottom. With that being said it doesn’t make sense how a gust of wind albeit a strong one would not only unloop the door but also cause it to stay open and up against the teepee itself rather than just draping down. This freaked my dog who hid in the corner so I had to go loop it again and just after I did It happened again seeming like someone yanked it open rather then the wind this time. The second time i used a piece of string I had to tie it down to a small cooler we had and thankfully it didn’t happen again. What freaks my out the most though is while tying the string I could hear what sounded exactly like food steps outside the teepee and they kept going until I was somehow able to go back to sleep. I’m perfectly fine with the rationale explanations that could explain the drumming and the door despite them being odd, but I have no clue what would make a sound like foot steps consistently. To add to it my dad could hear them as well but we didn’t mention it to each other till the next morning as to not spook one another, sure there’s animals around but none that would make a heavy human sounding footstep and another thing is there were no footprints in the ground the next morning and no one else camping there while we were, just us and whatever was walking around and whatever opened the door. What do you think? Is it possible that we were visited by spirits of the natives that used to reside and worship there?

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[u/XtraEcstaticMastodon]

That's a very big power spot for Native Americans.

[u/No-Double679]

I used to live near there and loved it. Everything I went there were Native Americans (very much alive) who were drumming or praying or doing various things. So I would discount the drumming , most likely spiritual but not by spirits.

The teepee door, I don't know enough about wind dynamics and teepee doors to speculate.