Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here, something
just cause my dog. Something killed your dog? My dog. We're flying
through the or over the tree. I don't know how it did it,
Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming
over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,
I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over
the fence. Sat what are you putting? We got some wonder or something
crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? Or was it
was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and I
don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus, Quice you
better New York. Hello, get somebody out here. What quen on out
there? I thought of a bit of about six nine. I don't know.
Easy him out there. Yeah, I'm walking right head. Greetings from
Alaska. My named spread Roll Curry, young trouble member from Delleham, Alaska.
Today, I want to share an experience that happened with Eric s.
He agreed to be interviewed. It's just not going to happen until later on
once I'm closer to the area he's at It was near Campwell off the Dnaley
Highway where this particular encounter happened with Eric and his fiance at the time.
Unfortunately they're no longer engaged. What ended up happening is he had been going
to the spot for twenty four years, every year, same time of year.
Never had an issue ever, not even weird Alho's none of that stuff
to standard Alaskan critters, no big deal. Since he's freshly engaged at this
point, he decided, you know what, I've been doing this, it's
a passion. I'm going to bring her in on it and get her laced
up. Basically, get her on board with his yearly routine. He's used
to spending a couple of weeks every year out there just doing his saying,
not necessarily hunting, but getting out backpacking, exploring the area, trying to
photograph wildlife, caribou, et cetera. Just outdoorsy stuff. Not necessarily out
to kill anything, although he was armed rightfully at Alaska, everything wants to
get shipped. They make it out. They're just south of the Dnnaley Highway
and on the motorized side. What ends up happening is they get there,
they get set up, no issues. First couple of nights, it's great.
She's really digging his Alaskan lifestyle. Now he's an import. He's not
originally, he's not First Nations, but in Alaskan. To me, if
you've been up here for a few years and you've gone through the winter bs,
you're in Alaskan. Yeah. But anyway, I'm trying to put my
mine's eye in his situation. So he's got this new bee to the woods.
I think she was originally from Connecticut, used to the woods there,
non issue. So first couple of nights, it's nothing. They're going to
hike. The third morning. They're on this hike, and they've already hiked
that place five six times already the last couple of days because they just go
out for an hour at a time or so, just kind of stay close
to camp. The bears were on the move, so they didn't want to
necessarily be out too much, but they didn't want to just sit there on
their excursion. Just as they were getting away from camp, just out of
sight, third morning, they hear a long, moaning groan. It sounded
like something really big, basically, sobbing is what he said. It sounded
like and he said it couldn't have been too far away, but they couldn't
pinpoint exactly where because where they were at there was a bunch of trees wrapped
around. They couldn't pinpoint because of how things were egging around in this little
quasi meadow. He figured safe bet get back to camp. He didn't bring
his firearm with them on the excursions, is Beyonce was against him. He
gets back to camp, he gets his firearm out and leans it against the
little makeshift table they had there, and they started making breakfast. The moaning
ruin their morning. They go on about their way, and it'd been about
he said, three hours past. Now it's plenty daylight. It's not dark
and menacing or anything, but all the sound goes away, he said it
was. He was struggling to even hear the crackload the little fire they had
going to boil up to make some cowboy coffee. Having dealt with that pressure
that just kills all sound. It's different. Some people have experienced it,
some haven't. Those who haven't. It's very You recognize it immediately, but
you don't know what it is. You just know it's provoking some kind of
fear. He said. When that happened, he was in the middle of
packing up or cleaning up some of the utensils that they had made their breakfast
with just a little bit ago, and so he assumed, what's probably a
bear smell breakfast is coming in, and they had prepackaged all their food just
to basically warm it up. But it's still put the scent of the food
in here, you know. It's not like he was out there frying,
bake it over and open flame or anything like that. So he gets cleaning
stuff up and keeping an eye on and telling her, hey, just listen
for any strange movements in the woods. We want to be bear aware.
So she puts on these little bells on her ankles that jingle when they walk.
I call them dinner bells for bears, but anyway, people use them
and they swear bioletic labert. Here's the bell it takes off. She gets
those on, they're still a rounde camp and letting's two ominous. At this
point, he doesn't even have Bigfoot Harryman, Sasquath, whatever you want to
call it, on his mind. It never, not once in the twenty
something years he's been going to this place, has it ever been an issue
that happens for a lot of people. They go year after year, never
had an experience. You could tell them your experience and they'd be like,
to ha been out there twenty something years. Ain't not never happen and you're
full of it. That type of thing, which is me to each his
own. If some people, if they haven't seen it, they won't accept
it, and I respect that. I get that. As they're sitting there
and he's trying to explain to her, Hey, it's very important that you
beyond your wits when it comes to the woods because if there's a bar circling
when we don't see it, it may come after you. It may view
you as the weaker of the tube since you're smaller, and pounce on you.
So be aware of that. And his fiance wasn't having none of that
shit. She was like, screw that on no one's meal. Well,
let's go. It was like, look, okay, I don't want to
call it a trip though, Let's just move somewhere else. She goes,
okay, we'll move somewhere else. So they pack everything up, weird feelings,
a side or whatever. They decide we'll just go down we'll go down
to Swede Lakes, which is further down the din Naley Highway going forwards Packson,
not too far from the Volcano River incident. Coincidentally, same area.
You got to go the same direction to get there. There's multiple trails,
but the main ones from that gravel parking lot where the guy ran out of.
So they make it to Sweet Lakes a little later on, just it
was going on dusk, so they had enough time. They set up and
camped out in that parking lot. The first night uneventful, talking to people
coming and going, photographers whatnot, having a great time. She lose.
She calmed back down, was telling everyone all there was a barrier further upwards.
Camp well, so we skiditled down here. And that was suffice both
of them because they really didn't have any anything to go on outside of that.
Now it's quite it's quite a distance that they went from where they were
to Sweet Lakes, no visual, no confirmation on whatever was going on in
his original spot, the same spot he had been going to for twenty something
years. Bear aware. Whatever. They continue out. The next morning,
they make it to Sweet Lakes, and once you get back there, it's
hard to explain that she'd been there. There's a part of the trail that
kind of has the weird kind of zigzag to it, and over the years
people have made little campsite areas, and so they picked one of those,
about one hundred and fifty yards from the main part of the lake. Is
this is what he's saying. So they get set up and it's going on
into getting dark, and so they got a good fire going and everything's going
great. She's calmed down from the bare things. She no longer wants to
run away from the woods. It's his fiance. He doesn't want her to
not like the woods because then he knows he has to make it out every
year, and that's just going to create some kind of tension. So he's
very happy she's back in it, and they get their fire going and everything's
calmed down. They're enjoying some adult beverages and just relaxing and enjoying. Man,
it's beautiful, from what he was saying, was beautiful out and they
were just enjoying the evening. On the far side of the lake, they
hear that same groaning, moaning type of sound, same tight, not exactly
the same, he said it was a little higher pitched, but it was
similar in rhythmic. Oh, however, the sound went so that immediately peaud
both their interests because they just left the campsite that they were at because of
this noise and the weird feeling. So they're trying to figure out what's going
on with these weird noises. We're way over there and now we're hearing some
similar over here. This was late August twenty seventeen is when this occurred.
They're discussing with each other, Hey, what what do you think this could
possibly be. One of the other campers that was a little further down,
he said, was walking by going to get something because the people were parked
their four wheelers up. He was going to resupply with something, and he
asked, hey, did you notice that sound across the lake? And he
goes, yeah, it's been going on for a couple of days now.
We went looking for it earlier today. We couldn't pinpoint where the noise was
covered from, but every time we would leave the area, we would hear
it again, and some thought none of it. Okay, So these guys
have been here unmolested for a couple of days with this going on so we're
good, we're safe. They continue around the campfire, they're doing their thing,
they're getting the feeling good, and behind their campsite about he said,
less than seventy feet, he would guesstimate they heard a big crack crack that
immediately cut their attention, and it was such a loud crack that the camper's
further down. The same guy that they had seen came back that direction a
little while later, asking hey, what was that noise? We heard that
crack way over there, and they're like, yeah, it was about seventy
feet back there, and the guy was like, hey, why don't we
go check it out to make sure that it's not a rogue bear, young
male, little four year old just out causing trouble. We could be prepared
running off now before we're in bad early does it? Yeah, I'm game.
So he gets his rifle and his fiance wants none of this shit.
She is like dead set against him basically trying to run off a potential issue.
She's dead set against it, and he's not feeling that at all.
He feels there's going to be some problems because she's not outdoorsy and she's very
susceptible to freak out, and rightfully, she doesn't y know Alaska. She's
not accustomed to this stuff. So him and this guy, Eric and this
guy they go and they check out the area. It's all in the dark,
so they're using their flashlights and the one guy had a spotlight and they're
going through and they're looking and there's nothing to miss, and then they find
a broken birch sapling was actually it was about three inch in diameter ands it.
Birch is a hardwood, So this tree was alive and about six feet
up it it was broke like someone broke it down and it was laid out.
So they're sitting there inspecting it, like, wow, you know that
bear must have just stood up on it and pushed or something and knocked it
over. They heard that groaning noise again, that's not bare, but it's
between them and Eric's tant now it was real low, real subtle, but
they both heard it. Now they both turn around and they don't want to
have to fire in that direction, so they start flanking to their left so
if they do have to shoot at a bear that they thought they wouldn't have
his tent, his campsite, as a back crossfire in the backdrop that type
of thing, which a very smart thing to do. So they're cutting around
to the left and that noise is mirroring them moving off to their right,
so that they're making this little bit of a kind of a circle thing,
and they're like, don't typically do that. They're looking at each other.
Let's just get out into the open, because they're in some pretty thick brush
and stuff. They wanted to get out in the open, give themselves room
to see do whatever they got to do. As they get back to the
campsite, his fiance is in the tent. She won't come out. She
heard everything going on. She heard them talking in the woods because it was
echoing right back out to her, and she said, we're not staying here.
He's look, it's on in the dark. We're several miles from the
parking lot. To get out of here hanging there. Will get out first
light and we'll just leave. We'll go back to my place and anchorage.
She said, okay, but first light. Yeah, as soon as there's
a sliver of light, we're out of here. She is full blown not
having it. Ain't ever going to come back. She stated as much and
Eric is feeling sick inside because he knows he needs this outlet. He needs
to be able to go out in the woods. He's been doing it for
twenty something years. He just it's in his blood. At this point,
I don't mean to make light of it. I've lost relationships over similar stuff
being in the woods, and people just can't hang with it. Not everyone's
built for the outdoors, even if they really like the idea of it.
In practice, it sometimes doesn't work. This cereal this morning is still going
along while she's complaining about wanting to get the hell out of there. Eric
and this guy the guys, Hey, there's about five six of us over
here. Why don't you get your stuff and just come on over and we'll
stay as a group, and his girlfriend his fiance immediately times in I'm not
going to hang out with a bunch of strangers over some silly noise in the
woods. Me I would have been like, shut up, pack up,
let's go with the group. But he wanted to salvage what was left of
this little trip of theirs because they are engaged and he wants to keep it
that way. At this point, the guy who looks at Eric Okay,
I'm gonna go get a couple of my buddies. We'll come back. We'll
take another look around as a larger group, and maybe whatever it is we'll
get shoot away just by mere presence of a bunch of people. And Eric's
cool. Yeah, definitely do that. And so while Eric is fumbling around
in his equipment trying to find his handgun that he had brought along with too
to hold strap and have a second firearm, his financee starts freaking out about
guns, like laying into him, you shouldn't even have a gun, and
he's trying to tell her, hey, look, this is a perfect example
of why we need a gun. We got strange noises in the woods.
We don't know if it's a rogue bear out to come get us. We
don't know none of this stuff. Just calm down. He's getting his buddies.
We're going to go and check this out. Just as he hears the
other group coming from the other campsite. They're talking amongst each other and some
kind of laughing guy's camaraderie going on, and just coming up the trail back
to their site from the same direction of that break on the birch tree,
they hear and it god awful sound like a woman being murdered scream. And
right after that scream that just pierced their ears and shook their bodies crash all
around. He said, it sounded like someone had some kind of big something
and was just swinging it in a circle, and it was like a almost
like a rhythmic sound. And he said it was nothing he had ever heard
before. He never heard that kind of scream, and he definitely never heard
whatever commotion was going on. And so at this point, the guys that
would come and they come trotting up and they're like, what the hell is
going on over here? Where'd that scream come from? And he was like,
right over where we saw that break. One of the females that was
with the other group came with that party and coached his fiancee added the tent
back over to the other campsite. She said, hey, honey, come
on, you're not staying here. If these guys are firing off guns.
You just need to be over here with the other group, larger number at
least until it's settled. She agreed. So they go in and takes her
away to the other campsite as they're coming up with a game plan. So
they've been into the woods already once and it seemed to layout and how the
brush and stuff is so Eric and this guy is explaining to the He said
there was three other guys that ended up coming, or four other guys something
like that. It was getting on in the dark, and he just saw
a bunch of heads. So he was guestimating because after the scream, they
were discombobulated, which I totally understand. So they decided they're going to two
groups only facing one direction. They didn't want to turn muzzles towards each other
if they had to fire. Eric was like, if we're in separate groups,
that's not really a good how about we're in a line like search and
rescue and just pushed through going that direct. Hey, that's a good idea.
So they all agree. They're all armed and most of them have flashlights
and what not, headlamps, and they start pushing in and once they get
back up to where that broken birch was, that birch is now broken all
the way off and moved off to the other side, and they did nothing
but look at it. When they were there just a few minutes ago,
probably half hour forty minutes had passed since they cleared the woods. The guy
went to get his friends, and all that stuff transpired. It's well on
in the dark at this point, especially in August. Yeah, it was
plenty dark. They're beaming around there trying to figure out what the hell.
And they noticed just past that birch tree was a line of smaller alders and
some other brush that were just broken off at about seven feet up, just
broken off, and it appeared that broken piece of birch was swung around like
you would a rope over your head, like you going to lasso. It's
how Eric said it looked. And he said, that's twenty twenty hindsight at
the time. They didn't put two and two together, but he's assuming that
it was used to spin around and knock the other ones down. I don't
know. I didn't see the carnage myself. So they're checking it out.
Everyone's looking everywhere. Okay, we haven't heard any movement. We hadn't heard
anal thing that it's a definitive it's a bear. Let's get it, let's
move on and let's push it out. Any of that that it was actually
dead quiet now, when they decided, okay, there's no movement, there's
no sound, we're not seeing anything. Let's retreat back and just forget about
a call out a night. Just as they're getting back to Eric's campsite,
another scream, this time between them and the other people's campsite. Now they're
really pequd because they got their women over there. I think there was a
child with the other group. They were screw that, we're on this.
So they run down the trail. They get along, they get to the
area of the scream, and they're asking the other campers that are right over
there at this point, hey, what direction was that scream coming from.
They said it sounded like it was past where you guys were, And they
said, no, this scream came between us. And they're like, we
didn't hear it that close. So they're just perplexed. What the hell do
we do with that? They went through looking, They looked as best they
could. Not a sign, nothing broken, and no tracks, none of
that kind of stuff. Things that calm down for a bit. Now they
decide, okay, it's calm enough. Nerves calm down. They started doing
a little sipping. They felt better about the whole thing. Erica and his
fiance went back to their tent. Now they get there and hit his fiance
is wiped out. They get in their ses immediately in the sleeping bag,
snoring, complaining about the bugs. He's tending the fire. He is getting
it going again because he wanted to keep some kind of a fire going all
night, just for whatever that sound was. No one had any idea what
that scream was. No one. He put his rifle away in its case
because she was complaining about stepping on and if she had to get up to
takle, so he kept his handgun nearby. Now as he was just starting
the doze off, he was sitting at the front of the tent with his
legs outside of the tent, looking at the campfire and just leaning back,
just staring at and listening to the crackling fire. Because it's just a small,
little two man hay frame tent that they had. So he's at the
front of it staring at the fire. Fiancees laid out. He notices the
nylon sound of the tent, something rubbing on it, So he clicks on
his head lamp and he turns and he looks back and on the inside of
the tent. He sees a huge hand impression of a hand sliding up and
down the tent on the inside, and it touched his fiance's head and he
could see it going like this, and then it moved back up and then
come back around and then touch on his fiance's head like that again. He
said he was hypnotized at this. It was so surreal to see this impression
of a sheet. It was. It was huge moving around. He saw
the fingers moving individually, so it wasn't just a prop pushed up against her
or whatever slid up. He didn't know what to do, he pad he
just bawn put a bunch of shots through the back of the ten into this
impression of the hand. Right as soon as that happens, he fired in
quick succession and then stopped because his fiance was getting up like she thought he
was trying to shoot her. Understandably, she's laying there and all of a
sudden he's shooting over her at this hand impression. Right, She's freaked out
hard, and I totally get it. Jesus, being woken up to gunshots
from your fiance going over you. It's not a good time and I'm not
trying to make light of it. I'm really not shots a fire, loud
commotion at the back of the tent, and a bunch of crash, something
running away. Now his ears were ringing from the gunshots. He's telling her
calm down. Something was trying to grab you through the tent, and she's
looking and she sees the bullet holes and there's a little bit of blood there
right. She immediately she calms down and was like a bear was trying to
get me while I slept. And he goes, it wasn't a bear.
It was a big, five fingered hand impression on the tent, pushing around
and touching you on the head. She goes, that's what that was.
She felt it touching her head, but she didn't know what was doing it.
She just thought she didn't know. She was asleep, out of it
from drinking a little bit, but she remembered feeling some kind of touch on
her head. She didn't realize that was it. She's in the fog of
trying to come to grips with what just happened. He's freaking the hell out
because of the sheer size of the hand. He never expected to see anything
like that ever in his life. He has not been back out since this
incident. He scrambled to get his rifle out. Now. By this point,
the other campers, three of the guys are running over with their firearms,
coming to see what the hell is going on, because they heard the
gunshots and then they heard the commotion going through the trees. It was so
loud it reverberated back to them. They come over, they're all armed.
He commences it, telling them what happened there. I'll look at him.
I'm like, dude, you had a little too much, and he goes,
look on the end side of my tent. They went around to the
back and sure enough, they're splattering of blood. At one point on one
side of the tent there was like a greasy outline of a hand. He
said it was hard to make out, but he knew what it was that
made the marks. And they were saying, oh, you could have rubbed
your tent against something to make that. They were dismissive of it is what
it was. And he was like, look, I'm not shooting at imagination.
Imagination doesn't bleed, and it bled. That's splattering from the outside,
and the shots came from the inside. Come on, don't dismiss me like
that, don't mock me. He he was very upset by this point.
He's got his rifle out. His fiance is over it, like over it.
She wants nothing else to do with being there, being with him,
being near him. She still has alcohol in her system, so she's not
quite picking up what's happening. She's going off of adrenaline. Over emotional a
little bit and shots ringing over her head. Would hey, understandable? Stuff?
This poor guy. He's got the other campers mocking him, his fiance
wants to leave him, and he's sitting there dealing with what just happened.
There's a lot of that goes on when it comes to these kind of sightings,
a whole lot of that. Even people that were together when it happened.
One will want to tell people and they're they'd be like that never happened.
Why, I don't know. The rest of the night, according to
Eric, was uneventful. His fiance never went back to sleep. She had
everything packed again. He had to make her understand we can't go until we
got a lost liver or light. We don't have enough battery power for the
headlamps to make a hike out the multiple miles it is back to the parking
lot. So they had to sit there by the fire and he had to
listen to her explain in detail why she was not going to stay in Alaska
when they get married, he has to live away from Alaska. Just a
whole bunch of stuff that he knew it wasn't going to help the relationship one
iota, and so he never made it back out again. He's currently down
on I believe he said Vermont again. He's going to be back up sometime
a little later on this fall. The poor guy, he was really busted
up about losing his fiance. He loved her, and this situation just it
was it just it canx sends you waited the weakness in their relationship because she
wasn't outdoors and he was. He'd been an outdoors guy for decades and she
was not with that. So I guess it's for the best that they wouldn't
have gotten along anyway. But the poor guy lost his fiance from there,
and then to be mocked by people that heard the same screams that he did,
saw the blood on the outside of the tent, Like I don't know
what causes people to just immediately deny something that was obvious. Can you imagine,
you know, you saw something and then someone coming up saying, hey,
you're a liar. You're either gonna smack him in the mouth or you're
just gonna keep your mouth shut and never speak of it, And that's just
not cool. It can cause issues within yourself to hold that in. Like
after my experiences for a couple of years, I was self medicating with drinking.
It can lead to a whole lot of unnecessary damage in your life by
not sharing it. Stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see. We'll be
right back after these messages. This happened just a couple of years ago.
He went up on the New Yek Couk with a couple other relatives. They
were going to go up there and just look around do some I think they
were woodland caribou, looking for caribou or something, just scouting around. It
was in the fall, probably early September, I think he said, mid
Septin, probably right around the same time of year I was up there in
six. They ended up staying at the very first Sam Accounting little cabin,
which is bigger than the one we stayed in further after New York Cook by
the New York Cook Falls, so they were when they had got there.
This particular counting check had an actual shed and it also had the bunk house.
When they got there, there was some other guys there in the bunk
house. They just left them alone. They got in that shed. This
happened the year before that story I shared with you about the guys leaving the
middle of the night and then they went into the cabin and then the hairyman
came in, peeked over the door and tried to snatch the guy. This
happened the year after that or the year before, roughly within the same short
timeframe we had been talking about it. So I got him mixed up a
little bit. But the guys in the cabin, they weren't going anywhere.
Two of them were fishing game officers. That are kicking it in that shed.
It was about two three in the morning. They had been sitting up
discussing because they had gotten there relatively late in the day. Riding on the
river all day. Trust me, it takes it out of you. You
just bumping around. It's not a joy ride. Let's say, of course
they're armed. This is Alaska, Remote Alaska on a Bear River. Come
on. Yeah, they were heavily armed. So as they're sitting there,
they're on either side of this shack in these little makeshift cots, right,
they hear this heavy breathing going around the shack and what the hell is that?
Something was off. He said that when he was talking to his look
kept saying chi kayoki, it's a hairy man out there, and now it's
not. It's probably just a bear, which pretty standard response around here,
and go out thinking it's a bear. They go and listen at the door,
and as he's going to open the door, they felt it jiggle,
so they held it because bears don't jiggle doors. This makeshift shed had a
actual doorknob and three hinges on the door. Was utilitarian. It was basically
a hollow shell. I think there was shelving in the back. He said,
They're standing there and all of a sudden, Wow, it's just getting
banged on really hard, and they're nervous. Of course, they get their
guns and they got them. Hey, we're in here, announce yourself.
Who's there. We have guns, we're armed, nothing more. Circling around
and it felt heavy in the ground. They said. So, as they're
sitting there, they're discussing, who the hell is that we got fishing game
troopers right thirty five feet away. It wasn't adding up what was going on.
As they're sitting there, they kept hearing this huffing and puffing going around,
and it sounded like at one point it was breathing on top of the
shed. They heard the heavy breathing coming from above big and they decided,
let's confront this thing. Let's confront it. We'll shoot it. Whatever.
Hey, when you're in the woods and something's terrifying you, you got a
gun. Guess what, you're gonna freaking shoot it. That's just how it
is. I don't care who it is. If you're in the woods and
something freaky's going on, you're getting you've got a gun. They peek out,
they saw nothing. They shut the door again. As they shut the
door, it was trying to be forced back in, so they pushed real
hard. They got it shut. They lashed a little thing that they had
there. It was like a little wood piece that kind of flung over onto
a little l bracket and nothing. So it was a one sided roof on
this shed, and it was about a five to twelve pitch, not too
steep. They keep hearing it going around and going around, and they're getting
nervous because as it's going around, it starts tapping the side of that shed
that they were in. They had finally had enough, and just as they
were getting up the gumption to go back out again, bang there's banging at
the door. The third guy with them turned on his headlamp. They all
put on their headlamps, just watching this door just slowly just get beat to
shit, and then bam, the thing flies back past him and there's this
hairy man squatted down looking at him, just looking at him in there,
and it was staring at him, and they were frozen in fear. They
couldn't believe what, you know, what are we seeing here. One of
the guys with them started trying to speak, you pick, trying to say
to my trying to see if there was some kind of communication to be had.
This thing just it showed his teeth and put its hands on either side
of the shed, was kind of pushing against it, making this weird noise.
So his cousin across the way clicked the safety off and it ran off
around the shed. They're freaked out. They froze up from the oh shit
factor, and then they hear it run around and they're expecting it to come
to the doorway. So they're all sitting there like three stooges. So they're
just sitting there just waiting for this thing to come around. But it doesn't.
It jumps on the roof. Now, he said. When it jumped
on the roof, all they heard was the pressure of its weight. So
this thing was so nimble it jumped up and just landed there smoothly. It
didn't like bump or none of that. It just and it was up there
and they felt the they heard the weight there, and so they're like,
oh shit, freak out mode. Totally understandable, been there. So they
said after a second or two and it wasn't moving, they're like, let's
shoot it, let's get it, because they were they wanted to run to
the other cabin and get the fishing game troopers involved. Why wouldn't shift,
They're right there, I would too. Shit. So they run out and
they turn a round a point up they see it and they start blasting away
at this thing and it just jumps off the backside. They hear it land
and it just it was gone. All the shots. Wake up everyone in
the other bunk. Now, this is what he told me. I'm not
going to name the troopers. I want to put them on blasts like that.
But they all came out. They were all armed. They're trying to
figure out, WTF. Who's shooting in the middle of night. Is there
a bear? Do we need to be concerned kind of thing? Or is
it a drunk guy that we need to arrest taking a cussy of stop hurting
anybody. As they come out, of course they're freaking. They're like,
hey, the harry Man, it was just over there whatever, And everyone
was calm. They were like, oh, Nikola, I didn't know these
people. He've seen the troopers around, but he didn't know. And we
have relatives that are in there. But they're all kind of introducing each other.
I'm so and so from and such whatever, and they're saying, hey,
the harry Man tried to get us, that's why we were shooting.
And the guys go, well, calm down. It did the same thing
to us. We did the same thing. And they're like, what do
you mean they did the same thing to you? You still have a door
and he said no, it was jumping on the roof, jumping off,
banging the walls, looking in the windows at us. So this thing,
for two days prior had been doing the same thing, looking for a way
to get somebody. It was predatory behavior. They're sitting there doing their own
thing. These were wildlife troopers. They're not out doing nefarious shit. They
were up there doing some type of research. I think they were getting ready
to go in the field and check hunting licenses for the hunters. They came
across out in the bush hunting for caribou. Hey, they're doing their job.
But they said, for two days this thing was lurking around this place,
banging at night. It only happened at night. They saw it one
time during the day up in a lagoon and it ran across the lago.
So they were pan faced. They were like, yeah, it was here,
and it left a good thing. It left, And they said do
you think you hit it? And Nickolai was like, yeah, I hit
it. I know how to shoot and they said okay, and they the
way he took it. They were so nonchalant about it, like it was
just another day, which essentially it is. But these things up on the
New Yekuk River. That is the only place I've ever been. Now,
I've been to plenty of other places in Alaska, and anytime I've come across
something, it's always made it self known. Shook a tree, break something,
maybe throw something, little pebbles at you. You don't even realize it's
following you at first. But on that New Yekuk River from the village of
Koalignik up to New York Cuk, where it wraps around and goes back up
to tik Chik and narrows past the New Yakuk Falls, that area up there
is no joke. I shared a photographer's encounter at the New York Cook Falls
just the other day, same area, probably thirty five forty five miles away
from there. But my point being is is there's these places in remote Alaska.
Whether you accept it or not, it's irrelevant. If you were to
go to the village of Kalignek and bring up the Harryman either probably wouldn't even
talk to you about it, or be they would just look at you like,
yeah, it's like talking to them about a moose across the river.
It's just what it is. And for a lot of people hearing stuff like
that, it's kind of hard to accept. It's hard to just go,
wait a minute, all these years, these things are running around terrorizing people
and nothing is being done. That's exactly right, nothing is being done.
They take whatever precautions they got worked out. I've talked to a few of
them, but I haven't had a chance to really delve deep. It's just
been little cursory conversations prepping for interviews, but it's typically not talked about.
I've said, before they get back to the village, it's just another day
unless someone asks, oh, did you see a Harryman? Or they may
share with the immediate family, but outside of that immediate family dynamic, it's
like saying, oh, I saw a moose cross the road up here.
It just it's something that happens all the time, so it's not news.
It's not worthy of running around, Oh my god, get you going,
there's Harry Man. It's not even like that, which to me it boggles
my mind because I had to get out of Dodge. To be honest with
you, I couldn't stick around knowing that they're that aggressive up that way.
I have some encounters coming soon from the actual village of Kalignick, less than
one hundred year round residents. There, great people. Just beware on the
New York Cut. That shit's real out there. They say, you don't
have to go home, but you can't. Stays step Joy, this chard,
that chart, everything calling right back, right back, Joy for me,
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