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I got a screen going on here. 18 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.040 Something just kid with my dog, something to kill your dog? My dog. 19 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.519 We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know how it 20 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:21.959 did it? Okay, damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was 21 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.599 my dog coming over the fence, and they would dead once you hit the 22 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.319 ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 23 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:47.480 over the fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got some wonder 24 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:57.439 or something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? It 25 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.319 was enough out here looking him new the window now and I don't see anything. 26 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:07.840 I don't want to go outside. He just point you're Kara, Hello, 27 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.120 hit the boddy out here? What went on out there? I've thought 28 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.639 of a bit of about sixty nine. I don't know. Easy am out 29 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.120 there? Yeah, I'm walking right ahead. Oh, greetings from Alaska. 30 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:24.199 This is spread. I've been on the phone since earlier this morning with Brandon. 31 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:30.360 He was a caretaker at a lodge for almost ten years. The first 32 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.919 eight years not a problem. I loved his job. Stayed in a remote 33 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.520 cabin, was a fishing lodge. They had generators, they had showers, 34 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.280 they had all these things that he would need and it was a good way 35 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:49.000 for him to save money. He would commercial salmon fish in Bristol Bay, 36 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.520 take those proceeds, dash him away and make some money over the winter. 37 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:58.039 And he was doing that for, like I said, almost a decade here 38 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.879 before last winter before last he no longer has that job. He'd been at 39 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:07.840 the same place for damn near a decade, no issues whatsoever. Loved it. 40 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.680 Part of this little area where he was at, there's a generator shed 41 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.719 and there's a pump house that they used to pump water from a creek about 42 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.719 quarter mile away something like that. He said. In the winter time, 43 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.919 in order to get water, fresh water, they would cut a hole and 44 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.879 they would pull the pump when it froze up, so they could just drop 45 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:31.120 the pump in the hole and get water. Right. He would fill up 46 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.639 that I think he said it was a five hundred gallon reserve tank. He 47 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.560 would just pump it to was full, pull the pump and be done with 48 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:42.439 it. Have water for months. As he's refilling this thing, he noticed 49 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.000 it looked like strange tracks off in the distance because where it drops down in 50 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.080 the creek, there is like an eddy area, and then it continues on 51 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.120 down, almost like a beaver had started to dam it up a little bit, 52 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.639 something like that. Something didn't go right with the beaver. I'm taking 53 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.719 it. So he sees these strange tracks and he could didn't quite make it 54 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:02.840 out because he was almost on the same plane as the tracks, but he 55 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.159 could just see the holes in the snow. He was like, huh, 56 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:11.039 that's weird. He could tell it was bipedal, so he figured it must 57 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.759 have been a trapper or something to notice the lodge of Oh okay, I'm 58 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.240 in someone else's area, and moved on. None of it. Went on 59 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.800 about his day the next morning after that, there was two little cabins to 60 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:27.000 the back side of this place, little reserve cabins for couples who want privacy 61 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.079 outside of the main lodge. Typically he would stay in one of the smaller 62 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:34.120 places because he didn't want to clean the place from messing it up, honestly, 63 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:40.399 So he tells me the first time in eight years, he decided he's 64 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:45.079 going to sleep in the main lodge. He wakes up in the morning feeling 65 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.120 like someone was standing over no that's not a good feeling to wake up to. 66 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.000 But he jumps up, looks around. There's nothing there. Then he 67 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:58.120 looks over to where the balcony door is and this thing's going like this, 68 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:02.720 swaying back and forth, and he immediately was like, what the hell, 69 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.079 and he jumps out of bed and he doesn't know what to do. He's 70 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:09.959 just standing or stuck like in a fighting stance. What do you do with 71 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.920 that? He said. When he stood up and he was staring at it, 72 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.680 they maintained eye contact. Weatherson going like this back and forth, and 73 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.199 it starts doing this weird in a circle thing, and then it leaps off 74 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.360 the balcony, just gone. And so he was sitting there, standing there, 75 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.560 and he's like trying to absorb what he just saw. He said, 76 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.600 He's never felt like that before in his life. Now he's freaking remote, 77 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.560 all alone, ain't no one coming for months. He has a sat phone, 78 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.279 the battery's dead. He can't even call out if he had a medical 79 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.720 emergency. It was a mistake he had made, so he knew he had 80 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.680 to fire up the generators and get this satphone charged, right, But now 81 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.720 he just seen this thing on the balcony, he doesn't want to freaking go 82 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.680 outside. So down in the main room of this lodge, the guy has 83 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.680 his gun cabinet and he has two rifles in there around a shot and I 84 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.439 think he said the other one was Winchester thirty thirty eleve action. So he 85 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.839 was, okay, I know there's guns down there, and he goes down, 86 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:13.000 opens the case, grabs a shot gun and all he could find was 87 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.160 like a number four bird shot, something real light. He said they would 88 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.920 use that in the fall. He would use it to get spruce chickens, 89 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:23.560 so he didn't have any knockdown power. It was basically bird shot, but 90 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.639 it would make noise. So he loaded up a couple of rounds into it, 91 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.480 opened up the back door after checking really well, because you know, 92 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.720 he just woke up that morning to this scene watching him. So he popped 93 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.399 two shots off in the air, shuts the door, locks it, and 94 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.000 going around looking out all the windows. I would too, I do not 95 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:48.439 blame him. Now. This happened roughly midway through his winter shift. He 96 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.519 still has six weeks left to go on this contract before he sees it, 97 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.759 so he really wants to charge up that SAT phone and make some communication. 98 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.600 No sound, no movement. He called down, He drinks coffee, he 99 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:05.240 wakes up, He goes out and he's armed with that shotgun and he goes 100 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:10.199 over to the generator shed and he fires up a generator. He plugs and 101 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.879 everything he needs to, goes back to the lodge, gets his sat phone 102 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:17.000 charging. Now, that time of year where he was at, it doesn't 103 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:23.120 stay daylight out very long at all. It's like a long morning for the 104 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.879 sun to rise, and then we have about three four hours of actual sunlight 105 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.920 on the horizon and then the sun's down that kind of light to the air. 106 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.040 So he was sitting there and it was starting to get dark again. 107 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:39.399 As he's charging his phone, and he's got the place lockdown. He moved 108 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.759 the couch over by. It had a couple double doors and there was a 109 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.279 lot of glass. He was petrified, but he didn't want to go into 110 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:50.160 one of the smaller ones because he was afraid it would be easier to get 111 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.399 him. And I asked him, I was like, it looked at you 112 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.120 and ran off. What made you think it was there to hurt you? 113 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.800 What gives you that impression? Because I was curious, You're sure it wasn't 114 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:05.360 curious? Because it'd be nice to hear something other than predatory behavior. This 115 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.800 poor guy, he wasn't prepared for that shock because he would fish and then 116 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.439 he would come up in the fall after his fishing thing and it was just 117 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.920 him. I think for two years he had brought a dog. But how 118 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.800 do you reason that out. He's sitting there by himself, trying to figure 119 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.240 out what the hell's going on with this. As he's sitting there and it's 120 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:30.439 getting darker, he notices across the river he sees something black move across in 121 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.600 the tree line, and he goes, that's moving really fast. I wonder 122 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.360 if that's like a moose running from something, because he said it was large, 123 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.720 but it was just dark enough he couldn't make out exactly what it was. 124 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.840 It took forever to charge his SAT phone. The generator was pulsating or 125 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:46.039 doing something, and so it would start charging and it stopped, and it 126 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:50.879 was basically a trickle charge. And he wasn't about to go figure out why 127 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.120 the generator was straining. He didn't want to be outside when it was getting 128 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.440 dark, and I understand it. He just let the generator run out of 129 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.279 gas that night, and the phone he got into about thirty percent, and 130 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.200 he figured, okay, it's too late. I'll wait and in the morning 131 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.960 I'll call and just give a check up. He wasn't sure he was going 132 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.039 to tell anyone about it, because Harryman, he doesn't want to sound like 133 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.320 a lunatic. Understandable. He takes the sap one up to this loft area 134 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.519 where there's a huge California king bed for the main whoever's sleeping area or whatever 135 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:30.200 for the guests. Whoever pays the highest dollar gets this loft basically or outlook 136 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.360 in these windows, and the balcony is over off to the right hand side. 137 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.120 So he's up in that portion of the lodge and he's calmed down. 138 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.679 He's doing a little sipping, drinking little wine. He has to smoke, 139 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.159 and he smokes out on that same balcony. So after Jones and for a 140 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.240 smoke for a while, and it had gone on in the darkness, he 141 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.799 figured, okay, not a sound. I'm gonna go out on the balcony, 142 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.679 get me a cigarette. So he gets out there and he's sipping on 143 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.960 his wine, smoking a cigarette, and way off in the distance, he 144 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.000 hears what sounds like a wolf owl. He's like I never heard a wolf 145 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.840 sound like that, he said. It sound like a woman being murdered with 146 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.080 some kind of strange growl mixed with it. I've heard it many times, 147 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:15.759 so it worried him. So he finished his cigarette real quick. Now, 148 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:20.360 typically he has a butt can that he puts all his cigarette butts in, 149 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.519 puts the lid on at the end of the season, takes the trash out 150 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.399 so none of the clients or whatever sees any of his cigarette butts. That 151 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.320 coffee can that he kept his butts in was gone, so he's like looking 152 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.200 around for it, like, where in the hell is this? He noticed 153 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:41.000 that off the balcony tracks from where this thing had leapt. He never looked 154 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.919 from the balcony, but he could see where it had landed when it jumped 155 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.200 off, and basically the direction it ran off once it jumped off the porch. 156 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.879 So he kind of got hypnotized thinking about that. And then he gets 157 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.879 the chills, like, why am I standing outside contemplating this. I'll deal 158 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.039 with the coffee can thing later. So he tucks back inside, shuts locks 159 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.240 the door, slid it this little dresser over in front of it. It's 160 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.679 one of these doors which is basically almost all glass with just trimmers and styles 161 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:11.000 at top and bottom. Right beautiful, especially in the summertime he get a 162 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.600 lot of light in, but in this situation, he was very scared about 163 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.360 the thing coming back and rightfully slides over the little dresser, and then he 164 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.960 said he went and sat on the bed and he'll drink some more wine. 165 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.399 And he felt himself trembling inside. He was trying to rationalize what had been 166 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:30.600 going on. He wakes up feeling eerie, and there's something looking at him 167 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.240 and it's big and it runs off. Now he's hearing the screams. It's 168 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.759 trying to make sense of all of it. He knows he's got limited power 169 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.600 on the SAT phone. So his game plan and before he was going to 170 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.039 bed, was first thing in the morning, I'll make sure it's clear. 171 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.440 I'll get more gas in the generator and get some more charge on this have 172 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.360 it charging while I try and make some calls to touch base with people. 173 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.200 That's his game plan. Before he goes bad. He goes down and they 174 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.600 have a little compostable toilet downstairs that's usually not used in the wintertime. But 175 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.679 he wasn't going out to the freaking out house. He just wasn't going to 176 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.639 He would rather clean up before clients showed up in the spring or whatever than 177 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:09.440 to go outside. I don't blame him. I would have used the sink 178 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.039 screw that. I wouldn't go outside either. So he goes down and he 179 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.320 handles his business and he comes back up. He wasn't dwelling on it. 180 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.840 It was just a note of concern at this point, right. So he 181 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.440 comes back up the stairs and he says, the way they go around, 182 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.320 they cut up and then they cut up. So with his back facing this 183 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.679 way, going behind him would be the upper loft and that balcony way. 184 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.879 So as he's coming up the stairs, he doesn't see the balcony hits behind 185 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.200 him. He comes wraps around and once he gets to the top of the 186 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.840 landing to turn towards the little sleeping area, whereas the open loft. He 187 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:50.080 turns and looks, and there it is again doing this number. It's squatted 188 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.679 down to be able to see through the doorway because it's so tall, So 189 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.720 it's sitting there looking at him, doing the same thing again, going like 190 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.480 this back and forth, and then this time it comes in closer to the 191 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:03.360 window and doing this kind of number, kind of really getting in on him, 192 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.080 not literally, but in on the window to get a better look at 193 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.720 the guy. So Brandon's well, the shotgun's downstairs, laying on the table, 194 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.799 so he immediately tucks, runs, grabs the shotgun, comes back up, 195 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.720 and this thing shows him his teeth and jumps off again. Because he's 196 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:20.720 standing trembling with the shotgun yelling at it, I'm gonna shoot you, I'm 197 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:26.200 gonna shoot you, it takes off. So now he's super spooked. He 198 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.240 was about to be going to bed and this thing is in the window doing 199 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.360 this stuff. Now the generator had shut off. He has lanterns going on 200 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:39.399 inside there. Part of what this thing was doing had a slight mirror effect 201 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.120 to it. There was just enough shadow he could see it coming in and 202 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.039 doing his thing. So he didn't have the most clear, crystal clear description 203 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.480 he could give to me. He said it was human like, but real 204 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:56.399 broad thick jaw, and something not right with the eyes. He couldn't pinpoint 205 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:03.080 it. He said there was a slight bit of like eyeshine, but proportionate 206 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.759 to the amount of light coming from inside the cabin. He's tuned up. 207 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.720 He is not going to fall asleep. He's wide awake. The slight buzz 208 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:15.039 he had from his wine is gone, and he's in freakout mode. He's 209 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.200 like a little ten soldier man. He's walking through this lodge, up and 210 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.840 down, back and forth for hours, he said, with this shotgun, 211 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:28.240 anticipating something bad. Said he felt when he looked at it, like it 212 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.159 was trying to size him up. Is he really a threat to me? 213 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.759 Or can I just snatch him? Those were his words, not mine. 214 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.799 He's in freakout mode. He's lost his buzz. He's over working here. 215 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.720 He's been there almost a decade. He told me. He goes man, 216 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.679 I quit that night. They just didn't know it yet, and I said, 217 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.519 okay, yeah, I'm with you. But now he's in a situation. 218 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.519 He's stuck there. He hasn't been able to call anyone yet. So 219 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.600 he was doing the math, and where the owners of the lodge live was 220 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.080 roughly a four hour difference from where he was, so he knew in less 221 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.080 than two hours he can make a sack call without waking anyone up, because 222 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.799 again, he doesn't want to sound like a friggin lunatic. So many people 223 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.399 get treated like dirt because they can't help what they saw growing up. When 224 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:15.840 I was a kid, I didn't ask to see these things. I didn't 225 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.480 ask for this thing to come and try to attack me. I didn't ask 226 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.440 for none of that shit. Now, so I feel where this guy's coming 227 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:22.879 from. You don't want to be judged, but you know, at the 228 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.519 end of the day, these things are out there and it's just the reality. 229 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.080 So he's got his game plan. Now, just a couple more hours, 230 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.960 he's gonna make this sack call. He's only got thirty percent, but 231 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.320 all he needs to do is just say I'm not feeling right. Can you 232 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.879 send someone to get me? Just leave it at that. He doesn't have 233 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.639 cis medical emergency. He doesn't have to get an epurb and have the Coastguard 234 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.679 come get them. But he was going to make it urgent that he needed 235 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.840 to go see a doctor. That's his game plan. So he goes, 236 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.279 Okay, I'm good, I'm going to drink a little more wine, calm 237 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.799 down. Instead of going to the wine, he goes to blueberry brandy, 238 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.120 I think he said, because the wine was getting low or something. So 239 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.200 he went to this blueberry brandy and start basically chugging blueberry brandy to self medicate 240 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.440 because he thought he was losing his mind. A couple hours past, he 241 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.960 tries one sack call. It kept dropping. It wasn't going through, so 242 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:14.320 he's getting worried. SAT phone ain't working. Not uncommon, hum. He 243 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.279 paid a lot of money for that service. I tell you, just for 244 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.440 a hit and miss bullshit. He's gonna give it a few and try again. 245 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:25.720 As he's trying, he's going to different places within this lodge. Now 246 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.480 he knows it works out on the deck, but it's still dark out, 247 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.919 so he's going to kill time until he can go out on deck and use 248 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.440 the satphone. This poor guy, he didn't ask for none of this. 249 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.240 He's just stuck in a situation where he didn't even like it. He drinks 250 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:47.120 his brandy and he's calming down again. He's counting, he's got about four 251 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.759 hours to it even resembles light outside. He can already start trying to communicate. 252 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:53.519 But he knows it works for sure right out on that deck. So 253 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:57.120 I fod he gets enough liquid courage and he's got the shotgun and he grabs 254 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.840 one of the lanyards and the satphone and he going to go out on this 255 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.279 deck. And make his call. So he does that. He gets out 256 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.400 there, he lights a cigarette. I'm over this, I'm gonna make my 257 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.119 call, and everything's going to be just fine. He opens the door, 258 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.640 and I laughed, because of course it has to happen this way. But 259 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.000 he opens the door and he starts going out there, and he said it 260 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.839 had to have been about less than one hundred feet away. Off to his 261 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:26.880 right hand side. The loudest scream focused right at him. He had ever 262 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:33.839 felt, all his bravery, everything went right out. The window door shut. 263 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.160 He moved a little couch that was down there in front of these It's 264 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.880 mainly glass in the front of this place, mainly glass, and this guy 265 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.559 is dealing with this shit. So he slides over this little couch in front 266 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.920 of the door for whatever good that would do. And he's back upstairs, 267 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.559 and now he's trying to find every lantern. He's putting white gas and all 268 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.680 the ones he can. He's getting every light he could to light this place 269 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:59.480 up because now he has shook, he's panic ridden. He doesn't know what 270 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:04.720 to do. So nothing else happens outside of that scream. He's tucked upstairs. 271 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:10.400 Nothing else happens on the balcony. Eventually he falls asleep and wakes up 272 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:14.640 at the brightest part of the day, which that time of year is probably 273 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:21.880 right around between one and three somewhere in there, so it was roughly noon 274 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.720 when he woke up. Because he crashed hard, just from the stress and 275 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.440 all that, he crashed hard. So he wakes up and oh, hey, 276 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.039 okay, it's light out. I'm gonna take a look around, make 277 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:34.079 sure nothing broke in or anything. Everything's clear. He grabs sap phone, 278 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.359 looks, runs out, makes his call. He gets hold of the guy 279 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.079 no problem from that spot on the deck, just like he knew it. 280 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.279 And he tells the guy, Hey, I haven't been feeling good for quite 281 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.200 a few days now. I think I should at least get checked out. 282 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:51.440 Can you send whoever to come snatch me and then I'll get cleared and then 283 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.640 I'll come back. Guys like, yeah, definitely. It may take a 284 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.640 day or so to get someone out there. But if I can't communicate with 285 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.400 you, if you can't get through, no that someone will be coming, 286 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.359 and just keep your ear out. He's like, okay, because typically if 287 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.680 need be, plane will fly in on skis Land on the snow on the 288 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.519 river or whatever, as long as there's no overflow and get him out of 289 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.920 there. So he's okay, great, I appreciate it. I'll be ready 290 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.200 to go. I'll be on standby. The guy goes, okay, yeah, 291 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.359 you're not feeling good. Don't worry about your standard stuff. Making sure 292 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.839 all that kind of stuff. You'll come back and you could take care of 293 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.319 it. He is, okay, yeah, sure he wasn't coming back. 294 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.400 He went, made sure the generator shack was locked up, everything was unplugged. 295 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:40.119 He took the time quickly to deal with the composting toilet and made sure 296 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:41.960 the pump house and all the other stuff was cleared up. He had all 297 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:47.119 his gear, which at this point he had trimmed down to a little load 298 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:48.759 of stuff because he realized what he needed. What he did, and over 299 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.839 the years, right plane makes it in the next day. Nothing happens since 300 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:57.319 the screen. This poor guy drags his stuff over and it's helping the pilot 301 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.079 load it up. Small bush pilots, it got a lot it themselves because 302 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.279 of weight, and they know how they want it situated. They'll lift weight, 303 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.000 okay, out put this here there. Because a small bush plane weight 304 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.160 is an issue. So as the pilot's loading this stuff up, pilot turns 305 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.920 and looks at him and he goes, have any visitors, and then laughs 306 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.119 at him, and he goes, what is that supposed to me? And 307 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:21.359 he goes, man, I'm surprised you've been a caretaker here this long. 308 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:26.559 They went through several one year one time because of the hairyman, and he's 309 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.000 the hairyman, and he goes, oh, just some mythological thing. The 310 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.119 pilot never seen it. The pilot was just ribbing him and giving him shit 311 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.960 because of the history of people telling him, Hey, there's a freaking hairyman 312 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:41.640 over here. The pilot was just basically mocking it. He didn't think it 313 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.599 was funny, but he let it go and sure flea out of there with 314 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:48.880 his stuff. He didn't specify whether he ever talked to the owner. I 315 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.680 think he talked to him briefly, but he's never been back up here, 316 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:59.119 not even to commercial salmon fish last year or none of it. He's done 317 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.799 with Alaska for now, brand and I hope you make it back. Alaska 318 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:06.480 is great. It doesn't happen all the time. I'm sorry it happened like 319 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:10.759 that to you, but jeez, can you imagine being there, feeling that 320 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:15.480 isolated halting. He use a satphone to call for help. He's lucky it 321 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.640 didn't get ugly. Me personally, I wouldn't sign up for that kind of 322 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.640 job, not up here. I don't care what they're paying I When it 323 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.440 gets to a certain point, the cost doesn't freaking matter. Once these things 324 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.319 put that fear in you, that primal fear that you can't shake. You 325 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.400 can't figure it out. You don't want nothing to do with them. It's 326 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.519 not like you're going to go and seek them out. Most people don't. 327 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.680 But anyway, that's what Brandon shared. Great guy, Hey Brandon, I 328 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.279 glazed over some stuff, buddy. Otherwise I'd be on here for an hour, 329 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.759 but I think I got to just what happened now. Thanks for listening, 330 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:52.200 Brandon, Thanks for sharing that, and beware the woods. Stay tuned 331 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.599 for more Sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back after these messages. 332 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.839 Thanks for joining me. What I want to share with you today was not 333 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.119 fun for these people, Jennis and Scott. They were in southeast Alaska. 334 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.759 They were on a private charter. They're fishing away and all that. Having 335 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:18.119 a great time down southeast charter had three or four kayaks strapped to the top 336 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.319 of their boat. Nice little boat, thirty two footer, Nice amenities for 337 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.960 what it was. So they were on a three day trip and they were 338 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:32.519 east of Cordova kinda I guess it would be northeast of Henchinbrook Island. Some 339 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:36.640 are up in the Wrango Saint Elias area. So they were anchored out and 340 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.240 they decided the fishing wasn't really popping right then, and they didn't really want 341 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:42.599 to motor anywhere else because they were just in a beautiful spot and it was 342 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:47.680 this picturesque so they wanted to stay. So Scott says, we can kayak. 343 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.000 Why don't we kayak and check the coves out and everything, And the 344 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.160 charter guy was a, yeah, I'd be careful of the tide switch because 345 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.000 the currents will change and you could potentially be pulled off one way or another. 346 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:03.240 So he hands Scott handheld rover radio VHF. Not the little garment ones, 347 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.359 not those little RinkyDink. This is a legit handheld like the cops have 348 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.200 on their utility belt with little mic on their shoulder, but without the mic 349 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.759 on the shoulder, hands it to Scott he puts it in a waterproofcase, 350 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.400 and him and Janie take off on their kayaking and they just head straight into 351 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.839 shore from the boat and then start heading south along the coastline, just checking 352 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.920 out, looking at the sea otters playing in the seaweed and all that kind 353 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.200 of stuff. Just gorgeous times. We're looking at the sea lions. I 354 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.640 mean, they were having a great day. As they're going along, they 355 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.559 see this little inlet, and this inlet looks like it has a landing way 356 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.920 in the back, and they wanted to check out the area because from their 357 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.680 vantage point when they were going in this inlet, it looked like one big 358 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.519 waterfall was coming down. But it was an optical illusion because once they got 359 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:53.279 there and they docked their little kayaks and it was all craggly rock and stuff. 360 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.279 So they found a spot to tie off, got all their stuff out, 361 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.759 their cameras and stuff. They were shocked, but there was a very 362 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.759 well worn path, almost like it came right up to the water's edge, 363 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.319 like someone every day was coming down to the water's edge right there. And 364 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.720 they were perplexed because it's so remote. They ain't seen anyone else around. 365 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.559 They'd already been there a couple of days out on the boat doing the fishing 366 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.319 thing and saw no other traffic. They saw it further out in the water 367 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.279 heading south, but it was commercial boats in a ferry. They were just 368 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.200 listed. Hopefully it's not so must private cabin back in there, and we, 369 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.519 you know, we don't want to get shot at by some old hermit 370 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.640 and fair enough this Alaska. Beware them hills and stay off your neighbor's grass, 371 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:36.640 you know what I mean. You don't want to go out like that 372 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:40.240 man. Yeah, stand your ground law a castle doctor and they don't play. 373 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:42.720 So they're a little nervous, but it's such a well worn path. 374 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:47.039 They figured we'll just check it out because they wanted to get a better bend 375 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.119 point at this waterfall, which they're finding as they move along on this trail 376 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:56.440 that is actually three different ones and they're on totally different pieces of rock. 377 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.440 But the way they first saw it, they all rind up to look like 378 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:03.359 a tear kind of fall, which would be awesome if that was the case. 379 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:07.519 It wasn't though. They were just three individual ones in perspective through it 380 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.640 all, they get around this bend. Now on their right hand side is 381 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.599 sheer cliff going up probably sixty eighty feet, and then there was some kind 382 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.000 of ledge he couldn't make out because he didn't have the perspective. And on 383 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.359 to the right there was a little shrubbery on the other side of this creek 384 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:30.559 which ran down to the inlet, so left sheer wall, creek shrubs, 385 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:33.880 and another sheerwall going up on the right. As they come through this canyon 386 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:38.200 and it opens up in the meadow back there a lot of old growth timber 387 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.279 off in the distance, a place that hadn't been logged, or if it 388 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.480 hadn't been in a long time. And so once they got back around this 389 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.599 little bit of a corner, that creek kind of got shallower and got a 390 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.960 little wider. It sourced from three different places, so they were just oh 391 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.160 wow, cool, Look this one's coming from over here. It's feeding in 392 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.720 there. And they're just checking out the scenery to send their click taking pictures. 393 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:03.119 While as they're off in the distance, he goes, oh, I 394 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.119 want to get a picture. He gets the camera from Janice, and Scott's 395 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.480 sitting there trying to focus in because he sees this tree that's leaning and the 396 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.640 camera. They had a record option, but for some reason it wasn't operating 397 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:19.160 correctly, so he's I'm just going to get a picture, you know, 398 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.039 have a hey, this is the tree that was doing this, because it 399 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.680 was the only one moving. It was just slowly going back and forth like 400 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.599 some unseen force was rocking it. And this confused him, but he was 401 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.720 also curious, Wow, I wonder if this is an Alaskan thing, or 402 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.440 maybe the tree is about to die and the roots are giving it up. 403 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.839 He was making assumptions, so he tries to zoom in as best he could, 404 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:44.240 and he finally zooms in on the tree in the camera that they were 405 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:48.039 using wouldn't take the picture that it ended up dying as he's trying to do 406 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.960 the focus, so he's what the hell they know? They put in fresh 407 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.240 batteries before they left the boat. They swapped out the batteries they had some 408 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.920 in the pack that they brought with them, turned it back on and made 409 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.519 the thing blinked out. Now they're not focused on that tree right now, 410 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.480 there's nothing to give them the feeling of dread, the feeling to be scared. 411 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.599 They're trying to figure out the camera because it's ruining some beautiful pictures. 412 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:14.440 You know they're in one of the most picturesque places in the world, and 413 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:18.079 now their camera's giving it up. So as they're doing that, Scott noticed 414 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.200 this movement out of his right eye in that same direction at that tree was 415 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.279 rocking, And immediately he didn't see anything but a little movement. But when 416 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:33.079 that movement hit, he said, something within him turned on. The sense 417 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.519 of danger kicked up to unreal proportions, considering there was not intangible to be 418 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.039 scared of. It's not like a bear was five feet away or something. 419 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.000 So he hands the camera and he's gets in this feeling that he's being watched. 420 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.880 So he hands the camera to Janice for her to fiddle with, and 421 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:52.359 he turns around to look in the tree line off in the distance. Now 422 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:56.680 these trees over to their right. The sheer cliff continues, but as it 423 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.559 opens up into this meadow, the shrub rush and everything gets bigger and bigger, 424 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:04.839 and then it fades into taller old growth that kind of wraps around semicircle 425 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:11.079 and then cuts back into this valley and off to their further left, the 426 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.079 scrub brush around that kind of tapers off into nothing, and then the rock 427 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.400 from the mountain just sheers off right down at the base of the meadow that 428 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:21.640 they were in, and the tree line continues back out out of sight. 429 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.960 As he's scanning the area because he's really feeling watched, he's looking high to 430 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.039 see if someone was up on a cliff, and as he's doing that, 431 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:33.960 he notices movement down low in the trees. So he immediately he looks at 432 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.599 it like anyone would, and what he sees is something very big just inside 433 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:41.960 the tree line that he can't make out, but it's humanoid shaped and is 434 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:47.599 very big, and it just starts getting behind this tree and then slowly rocking 435 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.480 out, looking their direction and then rocking behind. And so he's what am 436 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:56.000 I seeing? He said, look dark brown, almost black. It was 437 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.759 massive, but it would it would lean out and then lean back. It 438 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:04.960 made no aggressive gestures, nothing like that. All they had on them was 439 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.839 a flare gun and some bare spray. They were on a boat. They 440 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:11.559 were on a fishing trip, so they weren't planning the kayak trip, so 441 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:15.400 being armed. It wasn't even in their wheelhouse, you know, when they 442 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.200 left the boat, because they were just going to kayak. It just so 443 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:22.440 happened they chose to beach, the kayaks and you know, go for a 444 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.720 little walk. Well, as she's assessing what is going on with this thing 445 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.240 off in the tree line, Janis noticed what's going on, and she says, 446 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.200 hey, the camera powered up, and he goes right over, there's 447 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:40.000 movement. Something is peeking back and forth from out behind the trees. Come 448 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.000 over my shoulder with the telephoto lens and zoom in on that area while I 449 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.200 keep an eye on it. So she does. She gets in there and 450 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.680 she goes, hey, I can't focus on it. And then she goes, 451 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.519 oh, I can focus on it, and the camera died again. 452 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:56.200 Now they had changed the batteries twice, had new ones in it when they 453 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.200 had started. Immediately, She's frustrated because she doesn't realize there was a danger, 454 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.200 and he really doesn't either. He's still trying to assess what the hell 455 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:07.519 is this. Then it screams at him. Now, this thing is approximately 456 00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:11.440 sixty seventy yards away at his rough estimation. We got to take that into 457 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.640 consideration, so he said. Once it screamed, and it wasn't very long, 458 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:21.640 but it was very loud. And how the train was set up with 459 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:26.599 all the sheer cliffs and the rocks and stuff. It just reverberated real loud 460 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.559 on their side because it just all the sound kay men basically in full stereo. 461 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.319 He said it had never been so scared in his life. Janets dropped 462 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:40.440 the camera over sixteen hundred dollars for the lens along just the lenses on this 463 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:45.519 camera dropped, probably broke right there on the spot because the surface of the 464 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.000 ground at that point was a little bit of dirt over sheer rock, the 465 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:56.880 water table was surface. Southeast Alaska's like a primeval brainforest, totally beautiful place. 466 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:02.839 Scream immediately cameras dropped and they we gotta go. Screw the camera. 467 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.079 Jannis takes off back down the trail. Scott's right behind her, and as 468 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.559 he's running, he hears and starts to feel in the ground. This think 469 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:18.720 catching up running behind them very quickly. It is closing the gap real fast, 470 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:21.960 and so he said he was so scared. He was like half step 471 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:25.400 in and stumbling. Janispelled once because she felt the same thing. So he's 472 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.720 picking her up. She cut her knee on some of the jagged rock that's 473 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.400 protruding through the dirt, and so she's not moving as fast as she could 474 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:36.880 but she's adrenalized, so she's doing the half hop run and he's staying behind 475 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.240 her to keep her protected from what was going on behind him. The whole 476 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.240 time, they hear this sink closing the distance. Say, they hear it 477 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.559 making more noises. He said, it was making like a almost like a 478 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.640 laughing hyena kind of noise, but it was off. He couldn't compare it 479 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.680 to anything. He said, the closest would be a laughing hyena, but 480 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:01.359 it was much deeper and at a different tempo. So just as they were 481 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:05.079 getting to it where the trail kind of curved and they could get back to 482 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.759 their kayaks, back through this little not quite a canyon, but there's some 483 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:12.279 sheer faces on either side. They're just getting around in the bend and all 484 00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.359 of a sudden, he feels like it's right on him, just breathing on 485 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.160 him. They had that pepper spray, so he finds a little key ring 486 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.200 thing with the pepper spray as he's running along, and he pops a little 487 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.039 safety off and he stops and turns around to confront this, saying nothing there. 488 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.720 He's looking around. He's really confused because it should be on him. 489 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:35.400 He should be able to see it right in front of him, but he 490 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.119 doesn't, and he's trying to like, what the hell, trying to come 491 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:40.480 to grips with what's going on. Then all of a sudden, he hears 492 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.200 rocks clicking and clacking down the face off to his right from that sheer cliff 493 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.680 that goes up approximately sixty feet. As he looks up, he looks up 494 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.200 just in time to see this thing letting a rock go bombing him with a 495 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:58.440 rock, and so he immediately jumps out of the way and it hits right 496 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.759 where he was standing and it screens again. Then it starts chucking rocks at 497 00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:07.799 them. It's intentionally barely missing them, but he said it could have hit 498 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:12.480 him, And so they they're hollassing. This thing is bombing them with rocks 499 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.839 off this cliff. They get over the kayaks. Janis falls into the water. 500 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:19.880 Not laughing at you, Janice, I just I'm picturing you taking a 501 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.759 header into the water trying to get into your kayak. But she was a 502 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.039 trooper. She popped right out like a duck and was in that kayak, 503 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:29.680 and he got in his and as they were paddling away like bats out of 504 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.200 hell, he turned to look back at the cliff. There is nothing on 505 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.160 the cliff. Now, this is all happening real fast, So there's nothing 506 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.640 on the cliff anymore. But right where they just left, twenty five feet 507 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:44.319 behind him on the shore, this thing stands up from around the back side 508 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:46.720 of the rocks just out of you, and walks out into the open and 509 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:52.480 has a rock in each hand and chucks one just past Janice to where just 510 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:54.640 barely missed her, plopped on the other side of her into the water, 511 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:59.680 and did the same thing to Scott. Now, that is not a kayak 512 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.880 trip. I want you just never know. And they weren't expecting that. 513 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.759 He said he would come back to Alaska at some point. This happened two 514 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:12.519 years ago, very recent past. Scott, janis sorry that trip went that 515 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:16.239 way for you, and sorry about that camera loss. They say you don't 516 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:28.840 gotta go home, but you can't stay. I don't want to be We're 517 00:34:29.199 --> 00:35:04.519 oppen jop this job Chid everything joy from me. Joy still right, you 518 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:42.719 come in right away side steps still still stays standing inside step still stay still 519 00:35:52.280 --> 00:36:17.679 costs pays bass in state pays uses in state assist USS insist