So we would play a game, where we would all go out, 10, 15 of us, and just start whistling. But if they're down too low, you know, our parents used to always tell us, "They'll come down and chop your head off." Growing up, as kids, there's a game that we used to play where we would all go out to whistle to the northern lights. Post image on Facebook: Wayne Broomfield remembers playing a game of chicken with his childhood friends under the northern lights.Post image on Pinterest: Wayne Broomfield remembers playing a game of chicken with his childhood friends under the northern lights.
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Wayne Broomfield remembers playing a game of chicken with his childhood friends under the northern lights. Here is Wayne Broomfield's story, and the legends he's heard, in his own words.* He's heard the folklore and stories, and remembers the fear of the lights when he was growing up. "I have a fascination with the northern lights," he said.īroomfield is a photographer from Makkovik, N.L., and has shot the northern lights from Nunavut to Nunavik, Que., Labrador to Antarctica. Wayne Broomfield has been listening for that crackling for years. 'They'll come down and chop your head off' And to this day, that's one of the things that I carry with me, is that experience. The visitor is something, is a great power that's beyond us.
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I was almost like in a spiritual world when this happened to me. (Submitted by Kristian Binder)Īnd here I was experiencing something that I don't think anybody has ever experienced before. Post image on Facebook: A view of the aurora borealis in Inuvik, N.W.T., Jonas Antoine said he heard a whooshing noise all around him on the Horn Plateau when the lights were out.Post image on Pinterest: A view of the aurora borealis in Inuvik, N.W.T., Jonas Antoine said he heard a whooshing noise all around him on the Horn Plateau when the lights were out.swishing sound, almost like a crackling-type thing, as far as the northern lights were moving, dancing up and down, and they seemed to be so close at that time.Ī view of the aurora borealis in Inuvik, N.W.T., Jonas Antoine said he heard a whooshing noise all around him on the Horn Plateau when the lights were out. There was like a sizzling, like a sifting sand kind of whooshing noise all around me.Īnd then I recalled that many, many years ago - when I was young and our elders told stories about such things as the northern lights, the sun, the moon - my grandfather told me that if you listen closely, you can hear the northern lights.Īt that time, my grandfather and I stood outside and listened. It was like I was shrouded in this bluish, almost like a rainbow-type thing, all around me and right onto the lake surface. So I stepped outside and I couldn't believe my eyes. Post image on Facebook: 'I was almost like in a spiritual world when this happened to me,' said Jonas Antoine about his experience with the northern lights.Post image on Pinterest: 'I was almost like in a spiritual world when this happened to me,' said Jonas Antoine about his experience with the northern lights.
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'I was almost like in a spiritual world when this happened to me,' said Jonas Antoine about his experience with the northern lights. Here is Jonas Antoine's story, in his own words.* He had a small Coleman lamp burning and knew the moon and the northern lights were out - but there was no way they could cast the sort of light he was seeing. It happened several years ago on the Horn Plateau, a prominent landform in the Northwest Territories' South Slave region, known for its abundance of fish and great hunting and trapping.Īntoine, who lives in Fort Simpson, was in his cabin one evening when he saw a bright light. Dene Elder Jonas Antoine says he had an experience with the northern lights that left him "awed."