Email Interview with Timothy F. Terry, "The Rockstacker"
 

By The Night Watchman

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN: You came into rock stacking kind of abruptly, almost out of nowhere. Rockstacking isn't your ordinary activity. Could you give our readers the story of how and when you started rock stacking? Secondly, can you explain why you think you were compelled to do this?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  Hello, Night Watchman. I bought a digital camera to take pictures of some things I wanted to sell online in May of 2003. On May 30th, right about midnight, I was out back taking some pictures on our great big flat boulder above the swimming pool. I was taking a picture of two interesting rocks I had found in the yard that day. As my flash went off, I saw from the corner of my eye about 20 feet away up in the oak tree above the boulder, an image of a Native American in a crouching position looking at something in his hands. As the flash went off, both of our heads turned toward one another at the same time. I brought my camera up and aimed it toward him as he flew out of the tree changing shape continuously as he few directly up to my face, swooped up and to the left, then out and away. I was taking pictures the entire time and managed to capture eight different images of what I learned to be a Spirit Guide. (Six are shown below)

The next day, as I went out into the yard, I began to dig almost uncontrollably, and stacking rocks that I found on top of each other. I stacked one stack over six feet tall using 11 different rocks. There were some days shortly after that, that I would seem to get lost out there and stack rocks for hours on end until my fingers bled.

I would hear voices in my head. Things like "don't lose your head or you'll lose your head", "I am not a head", "you can do better", "at the base of the rock you will find another rock unknown to this earth" and "you are to plant as plant is to tree". Over and over nonstop things like that would bombard me. It got to the point where I didn't want to even go outside.

It was weird because these rocks were balancing in the most unbelievable angles and I could hardly believe my own eyes. I took pictures of every one because I didn't think they would stay up, but they did. Even through 80 mile an hour winds, rain and an earthquake! Sometimes, one or two will fall over and I will restack it usually with a different rock. Each day, when I go down to the Koi pond, I will put another one up. Last time I checked, there were over 500.

I believe that there are souls on this dirt and that this was possibly an old burial ground. Or, maybe there was a massacre here, but these souls want to be seen. They have called on me to set them upright. The interesting thing is, after I balance these rocks and stand back, they seem to have faces and they are all facing in the same direction.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN: I'm curious about the area surrounding your property. Is there any Native American land close by? Also, were there any kind of unnatural disturbances to your property or nearby property that coincided with your first experience with the rocks and pictures of the Spirit Guide?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  We are right next to an Indian Reservation and the Old Pony Express Trail.

When I first saw the Spirit Guide, the neighbors had bought this 120 year old adobe house that sat on top of the hill across the way. It was a beautiful old piece of history and the neighbor tore it down. It broke my heart. I was really angry about that. I could feel the disruption in the air. He should not have disturbed the old site.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN:  Let's expand on the last answer. Prior to the sighting of your Spirit Guide, did you notice any energy emitting from this area? Also, what kind of energy (positive or negative) have you experienced since this? Did you think it is a natural energy distinctive to the area?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  In the 18 years prior to seeing the "Spirit Guide", I can't say that I have ever noticed or felt anything that was out of the ordinary. I am very sensitive to the various sources of energy I feel on this property. There are several different fields of energy - both positive and negative.

After I took off part of my finger tip a couple weeks ago while challenging a boulder in a spitting contest (in which I obviously lost), I have become even more sensitive to the energy levels. The finger tip actually starts to throb and ache as I get near certain areas in the yard. Very strange. I feel very positive energy coming from all the red rock areas, and strong negative energy coming from the stuff I brought home from a place called Campo.

Positive energy is felt in almost all the areas around this Southern California area. I have felt negative energy in certain places I have been, but felt it was from the present occupants.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN:   Regarding the negative energy in certain areas, you believe the present occupants are giving it out. Who are these present occupants? Are you referring to the rocks, or is it some other entity?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  I believe the present occupants are pulling it in. The positive and negative energy coexists to keep everything equally balanced - yin yang - but ever since the tsunami threw the Earth four degrees off its axis, the energy is misplaced.

As far as the rocks go, they are just rocks. But, the last time I said that out loud next to a rock, I lost part of my finger.

We have several different forces that seem to collide right here. It is pretty strange at times. I believe there are forces out there that overtake whatever physical mass works best for their present need.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN:  I wanted to get clarification on the last question concerning the present occupants. Do you have any thoughts on who these present occupants are?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  In the question about the energy and the present occupants, I believe I was referring to the present people living on the land where I was attempting to stack rocks. I have gone to some places and felt such strong negative energy that it was impossible to balance.

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN:  Many times when people hear of stories of unexplained occurrences and events, they tend to shrug it off that a person's imagination is going wild - or worse - on a personal level saying the person who experienced it is crazy or nuts. I usually take a skeptical view of things as is usual for people in the news business, but after viewing the pictures you've sent in, I've come to the conclusion that SOMETHING odd is going on on your property.

I'd like to know how this whole affair is affecting your daily life. Did you prefer the life you led before all this happened? Also, if it's possible to answer, what do you think it would take to get a better understanding of what is going on there?

THE ROCKSTACKER:  THANK YOU for asking! It seems to me that I have lost every bit of what I used to be. I feel like I am losing my mind. This all is so real and yet I am not myself. I can't seem to do the normal things that used to be routine. I had a 151 IQ in school and to listen to myself in our interview, I sounded like someone else. I don't know what has happened, but things do not seem important anymore that really are. I can't seem to get organized in any area of my life. And, I have let everything pile up and let everything go. I can't concentrate on work and stopped going. I am at my wits end and feel very desperate. I am very uncomfortable in my own skin. I don't even know who I am anymore. I feel like I have been invaded and have an impending feeling of doom.

I would take it back in a minute and I would never have gone to Campo (another story) had I known what I was in for. It is a box I would have left shut. I know there is something going on out there, but I feel like it has sucked me in and is trying to make me crazy. It's happening more and more, stronger and stronger everyday. I believe that's what it wants to do is break me down and I am real close. It is not very easy dealing with this everyday. It tells me things everyday. Today, "everything has a shelf life." What is that? I don't know and I am tired of trying to figure it out. I think I really need to get away from this property for a little while and take a break.

I really don't know what it will take to put things back or figure this out, but I know that someone needs to check it out. This is the real deal.