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Today. 17 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.560 Hey everybody, this is Left Striving Yes, yes I know aka Survivor 18 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:37.400 Man, and you're listening to Brian on sasquatch otis he dinner? Welcome back 19 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.680 to sasquatch Pots. Thank you so much for clicking play. It is Wednesday. 20 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.239 I hope you're having it over. We have an amazing show lined up 21 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.959 for you. But as always, I want to start by inviting you. 22 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.519 If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot 23 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.280 me an email. You can get me a Brian at Paranormal World Productions dot 24 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.840 com. Get head over to the website check it out, but come on 25 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.920 remember there and help support the show. We are back with the third and 26 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:07.120 final installment of Thomas's story from up in Alaska. We've got Fred back to 27 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.240 tell us the end of this amazing saga that we've been going through. The 28 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.039 story picks up in the winner of nineteen seventy one, where Thomas and his 29 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:20.479 niece and her daughters are up in a remote area of Alaska. I'll let 30 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.840 Fred tell you all about that in just a second. We end this episode 31 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.759 with Fred telling you about three ladies who are out looking for mushrooms and they 32 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.919 encounter a sasquatch and get way too close for comfort. I know you're ready 33 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:32.960 to get into it. Fred's on the line, He's ready to go. 34 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.120 So all that's left for you to do is sit back, relax, and 35 00:02:37.280 --> 00:03:04.159 enjoy the show. He's spread in Alaska here to finish out to Thomas's story, 36 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.080 I talked to him again about twenty minutes ago. He had an important 37 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.280 message stat I feel as valid I want to share before I get started. 38 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:15.520 He wanted me to convey that everyone should love their people. And he's not 39 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.879 speaking tribal he's speaking that as well. But the people in your life that 40 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.919 we all end up taking for granted, every single one of us. You 41 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.840 know exactly what I'm talking about. There's people that aggravates yet, but you 42 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.280 love them. There's people that really piss you off, but you love them. 43 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:37.919 Life is short. Love your people. Don't take them for granted anymore, 44 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.360 because tomorrow's not promised. He wanted me to convey that. I concur 45 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.080 the continuation of what was going on with Thomas sixty one. They had the 46 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:52.599 incident in the Tongus sixty five, they had the incident in the Copper River. 47 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:58.599 Now in nineteen seventy seventy one winter, he was with his niece. 48 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:03.120 She lived in caltag She was recently widowed. The year before her husband was 49 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:08.319 killed in a fishing accident. So him, loving his niece, he went 50 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:14.280 to Caltaggan helped her wish something that was going on with her house or whatever. 51 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.680 She needed a guy's help with some experience in carpentry or whatever. There 52 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.920 were some issues. He loved his niece and he went to help. His 53 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:24.680 niece had two kids. He had been there about a month and a half. 54 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.800 It was slow going with what he was doing because of the winter conditions 55 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.480 right off the Yukon River, brutal. He's doing these projects with her, 56 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.480 and every day in the afternoon, with the low light, he would always 57 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:39.079 go off into the trees and look for signs. He was hyper vigilant. 58 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.160 He had heard some weird noises but couldn't make much of it. Now they 59 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.360 had some kind of old snow machines. It was garbage, but it was 60 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.519 a trooper. He couldn't remember offhand exactly what brand. It's irrelevant. He 61 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.959 fueled up and took this trail and it was a dog mushing trail. So 62 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:02.279 he took off and if you a Google map between Shaktulik and cow Tag, 63 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.040 there's just a washboard of different mountains through there. It's just so beautiful, 64 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.600 unreal, just unreal. So he's going through there and he would peek into 65 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.399 these little valleys off the main trail, just not very far, but just 66 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:20.680 looking for any kind of sign. And he'd been doing this for them near 67 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:26.079 the whole winter because of that one particular noise he heard it really stood out 68 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:31.160 with him. It was a garbled kind of owl hoot that was far too 69 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:36.600 non owl like to be believed to be an owl, And so he went 70 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.040 with his intuition. And it was about the third valley back that he took 71 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.839 a little peek in, and it was the last one he was going to 72 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.439 look in because he was just had enough fuel to get back with a little 73 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.399 reserve. And as he was circling back around in this little valley and coming 74 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:53.879 back out, he saw a movement off to his left, and this hairy 75 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:59.120 man ran up the side of this little mountain and broke off into the trees. 76 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.240 Immediately stopped. He had his magnum with them. He gets off and 77 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:08.120 he hikes over there and follows the tracks up. He comes up onto this 78 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.600 cave. It wasn't very big, but he could tell something had recently scurried 79 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.240 in there, so he wasn't about to crawl in after it. So he 80 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.480 goes back down the snow machine gets back to the cabin. Now this is 81 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:23.199 many miles away from where his niece is and where the kids are, but 82 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.120 he has a sense of how these things move and what they do. So 83 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.800 he gets back and for the next couple of days he's hyper vigilant. Hey 84 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.879 keep those kids close to the house. And as he's going through all these 85 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:39.839 things without telling his niece why he was so animant about keeping those kids where 86 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.639 they can be safe, she was just like, don't beat their kids. 87 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.680 They're going to play. Don't worry about him. There's no bears this time 88 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:47.120 of year. They'd want to play in the snow. He said, I 89 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.480 understand that, but understand there's things out in the woods that aren't bears, 90 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.959 that don't hibernate. So she asked him to elaborate, and he wouldn't, 91 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:57.040 so she blew him off. Okay, you don't want to tell me then 92 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.079 the kids are going to play fair enough. He didn't feel like putting it 93 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.439 out there like that. He was still struggling with what he had dealt with 94 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:08.319 seeing the job blown apart, a multitude of things that he had been struggling 95 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.120 with because he had lost contact with that buddy after the burn pile incident. 96 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.079 So after this went on for a while, he stopped making his checks out. 97 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.319 So he did it a couple more times just to see, but he 98 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:25.439 didn't notice anything. He always kept it on his mind. Now, from 99 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.079 the point he first saw this thing run up into the cave to when things 100 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.839 started going ugly was at least a month and a half two months of vigilance 101 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.519 and arguing with his niece. She was getting to the point to where she 102 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.600 was asking him to think about moving on to leave the area because he was 103 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.319 stressing her out. She just lost her husband like the year before or something 104 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.879 like that, and he didn't want to be a burden tour, but he 105 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:51.360 knew the danger, so he kept trying to convey without really saying and it's 106 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:57.680 something he regrets not coming right out and telling her. So all these background 107 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.959 stresses are going on, He's still doing his thing. He fixed, whatever 108 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.399 issue was done with the house and whatnot, and he hadn't originally planned on 109 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.240 leaving until later on in the spring. Now it was getting to the point 110 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.439 where things were starting to warm up, not melting, but warm up was 111 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:18.079 compared to twenty thirty below depending on time of day. So he goes out 112 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.000 one morning and he was checking the oil drum and he was just banging with 113 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.160 a stick, and then he goes up and he puts a dipstick in it 114 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.160 to check the actual level because he was going to run down and get another 115 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.080 drum of fuel and pump it in. And as he's testing it, he's 116 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:35.000 up on the drum and he notices off in the tree lined the kids were 117 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.639 just right around the corner of the house playing. He could see their shadows 118 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.080 playing, and off in the tree line, about one hundred yards away, 119 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.120 he notices a peaking movement like this, and at first it caught his eye 120 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.799 because it was movement. Nothing else was moving. It was a crisp, 121 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:56.559 clear winter day and he sees this thing peaking, So he immediately his heart 122 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.080 sank because it looked to him that it was looking at kids, and he 123 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.960 started feeling bad. Within himself like he brought it back, you know, 124 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.840 because he went out to the cave a few times, didn't go up to 125 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.279 it, but went to the area and was looking, and he felt that 126 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.679 maybe he'd drawn it back by doing that. Maybe it was watching him from 127 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.639 a different place he was unaware of as he was going around, but he 128 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.840 always felt watched, he said when he went out there, so immediately he's 129 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.039 off the drum. He dropped the dipstick in there, didn't even close the 130 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:30.159 lid on it, and got in the house and grabbed the gun. When 131 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.519 he comes back out, the kids were laughing, and they were half the 132 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:35.879 distance between where the house is and where that tree line is, and they're 133 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.399 laughing and they're trotting that way, and he calls him, hey, get 134 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.279 over here. You don't go running off in the trees. He said, 135 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.600 no, my friend's laughing over there. He goes, that's not your friend 136 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.000 over there laughing. She goes, no, it's my friend whoever, I 137 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.720 know her, laugh she's over there playing with her friends. I just know 138 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.960 we're going to go and see him. He goes, no, you're not. 139 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.639 You get your little butts in the house now. And they were like, 140 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.200 my mom said, we can't. Your mom's wrong, get it the 141 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.759 house. So they go in the house crying of mom. Mom gets pissed 142 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.919 at him. Understandably, she didn't know the situation. No ill will towards 143 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.240 her whatsoever. Something's only mimicking the laughing over there. That's not their friends. 144 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.879 I saw it. It's not their friends. It's a hairy man. 145 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.840 And she just we've been living here for years. No one's even seen one 146 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.399 quit drinking. And he wasn't a drinker, and he is. No, 147 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.200 I'm sober. Look, you don't have to accept it. It's what's going 148 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.320 on, and I'm going to go take care of it. And she goes, 149 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.039 you don't need to be running around with the gun being paranoid. But 150 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.559 you spent too much time wherever on some old family stuff she brought up and 151 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.320 threw in his face. And there's a little bit of an argument. So 152 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.960 during this time of the argument, a scream happens about it sounded like about 153 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.279 a mile away, and he suspected it was the same one saw him come 154 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.440 out and took off and then got it with distance away and screamed, and 155 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.600 then she went, what the hell was that? And he goes, I 156 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.240 told you it wasn't their friends. I'm going to go take a look. 157 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.919 And she immediately was like, no, that's unnatural. You don't go chasing 158 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.360 after that, and he goes not. He goes, I already know it 159 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.639 was watching the kids. What are you going to do when it snatches one 160 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.440 of them? Then what do we do? Then she had nothing to say 161 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.120 about that and just took the kids inside. So he made a plan. 162 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.200 He went to one of the neighbors and asked them, Hey, would you 163 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.039 mind going on a quick snow machine ride with me? I'm going to check 164 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.360 some things out. He wasn't specific, but he was like, I mean 165 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.559 he needs someone to be there with me. And the guy he asked was 166 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.320 like, nah, I ain't going out in this. The track's messed up 167 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.519 or something along those lines. So he goes, okay, thanks. Anyway, 168 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.200 he goes back over fuels up has on out that trail. Now, 169 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.039 as he's going out that trail, there's a bunch of little side trails that 170 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.279 split off and going to different places when circles around this lagoon type of area 171 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.600 and goes back up to more houses up river a little ways, and some 172 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.320 lead off the trapping cabins and what have you. So he was just weaving 173 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.120 through looking for sign of what direction to sing was moving, because he had 174 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.279 started initially in the direction he heard the scream. And as he's we even 175 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.759 through all these little trails and stuff, he had stopped periodically and turn off 176 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.600 the snow machine and just listen, look up in the trees. And as 177 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:13.000 he was doing this, it was about oh five six miles away from his 178 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.639 niece's house, away from all the other structures and stuff, he notices the 179 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.759 first little valley there in between the first little valley and the second one, 180 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:28.080 that he saw this thing going up the side of one, and if it 181 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.279 crested that little mountain, it would be on the side where the cave is, 182 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.039 on the opposite side of the other valley. And so he goes, 183 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.840 Okay, it's moving fast. I can maybe catch it before it gets into 184 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.120 that cave. He goes as fast as he can in that old sled, 185 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.759 and I've been on those old sleds. He hauls, but as fast as 186 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.799 he can as he gets to that valley where this cave is, he hooks 187 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:54.039 and stops. He stops in snow and gets the snow machine stuck so he 188 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.399 has to jump off, and he's not worried about getting it unstuck at that 189 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.919 moment. He runs a little further to clear the trees, and just as 190 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.240 he does, he notices it in the open jetting across that valley. So 191 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.840 he takes his time and catches his breath, and with the snag, he 192 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.679 gets a beat on it and put around in its back. The direction that 193 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:15.960 was running was almost straight ahead of him, so he didn't have to lead 194 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.240 it much, you know what I mean. It was basically a pretty clean 195 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.000 straight on shot, no wind, no nothing, And he saw it lurched 196 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.799 forward and then run faster, and then it dropped down on all fours and 197 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.600 went up into the trees going up towards that cave. So he slung the 198 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.559 rifle, went over, got the snow machine unstuck, restarted it, got 199 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.759 back onto the pack trail, and ripped up to where he had made this 200 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.399 little turnaround that was now packed. He got there and he started walking up 201 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.679 the hill and as he's walking up the hill, he hears cracking through the 202 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.720 timbers and a big rock comes cracking through and almost hit him. So he's 203 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.879 okay, it's up there, and he ducks around, and he's trying to 204 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.320 go from tree to get a bead up the hill at this thing, and 205 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.840 it seemed every time he was getting to a spot where he would be able 206 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:03.080 to he had another rock came banging through, so he'd have to duck, 207 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.320 and then when he would get sight again, it was gone. That kind 208 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.360 of went on for almost two hours. The rock would be thrown and he 209 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.000 was focused. He had already shot it. He felt that if he didn't 210 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.720 finish the job, this thing was going to be vengeful and come back and 211 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:24.720 potentially hurt his niece. Are her little ones Now he wasn't able to get 212 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.840 a clear shot. It just went on and on, and he knew it 213 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.879 was getting dark and this thing would have the advantage because he just went with 214 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:33.519 the rifle. He had no flashlight. There was a little light on the 215 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.639 snow machine, but it was a joke. It ran on a magneto. 216 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.360 It wasn't getting very bright, so he'd cut his losses. He jumped on 217 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.120 the snow machine, heads back as quick as he can, and when he 218 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:52.000 gets there, his niece, not understanding fully what was going on, told 219 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.279 him that tomorrow morning you need to leave. There's stuff going on that wasn't 220 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.799 going on before you got here. There's this crazy screaming. You said, 221 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.840 you saw the hairy man. You did your work, and I thank you, 222 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.480 but tomorrow I think is best. Maybe you should leave. He goes, 223 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.840 okay, understand, I saw the hairy man and I shot it in 224 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.879 his back, and I've been gone for hours now trying to finish that job, 225 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.039 so you're not in danger. And she just was like, you're not 226 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.080 going to use that as an excuse to have a place to flop. And 227 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.399 he was like, I volunteered to come here to help you. She wasn't 228 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.039 fully understanding, and he wasn't really giving enough, but when he did give 229 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.080 enough, she just didn't seem to want to accept what he was talking about. 230 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.039 And so he goes, okay, give me two days. She said, 231 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.000 yeah, that's fine, but let's just before it gets bad and we 232 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.679 don't talk anymore. You can go on your way. He agreed. It 233 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:45.639 broke his heart, but he understood at the same time because it was a 234 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:50.600 bad look and he's claiming he sees a hairy man. So that night he 235 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.720 was always sleeping out on the couch because it was just two rooms. The 236 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.240 room for the kids and room for mom. He didn't want to disturb that. 237 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.000 In the middle of night, he hears giggling, so he stands up 238 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.320 and he's listening, and the door for the kids's room was just a curtain 239 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.240 hanging. Those remote village there wasn't no home and garden, and they weren't 240 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:14.519 in architect digestives. A simple home, very simple, nothing spectacular whatsoever. 241 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.559 So he's listening at the curtain and he hears the youngest girl saying, it 242 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.159 keeps peaking in the window. And then they would laugh again and say, 243 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.159 see, I saw it peaking in the window. So he continues to listen. 244 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.600 He slips across the way to his niece's room and whispers in there, 245 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:37.039 it's peaking in the girls' room. And she was startled up, like was 246 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.000 loud, What the hell are you talking? What? And he goes, 247 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:42.679 it's peaking in their window right now. Listen and it went quiet, and 248 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:47.600 they listened, and the girls giggled again, See it keeps looking it's right 249 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.480 outside there. Mom hears that and she goes, what did you bring to 250 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.559 my house? And I understand her view on it, but he told her, 251 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:57.759 look, I didn't bring anything. It showed up. I told you 252 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.960 you didn't believe me. I went thing, you didn't believe me. Here 253 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.759 we are, and she goes, it still may not be that, he 254 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.319 goes, it is. Now they're talking and whispered tones, trying to half 255 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:14.480 listen to the girls, and then they hear the oldest girl go, oh, 256 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.960 no, that's so, and oh, she wants us to come outside 257 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:22.839 and play. Don't you hear her talking? And they could hear childlike talk, 258 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.880 but nothing they could make out. So this thing was outside the window, 259 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:32.519 mimicking another child in the area. Now, he said, they couldn't 260 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.119 make out English words, but there was tones that made it sound like a 261 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:38.759 little girl, but in a language they couldn't even It made no sense. 262 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:44.079 It was like gibberish. And so immediately the mom was up in that room, 263 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.680 getting the girls into her room, and he grabbed the gun and went 264 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:55.240 outside. Now when he went outside, they had antiquated flashlight technology back then, 265 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:59.680 those big six bolts incandescent light on it. It was a yellowish like 266 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:03.599 being real kind of dirty light, so to speak. It didn't put out 267 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.880 and project much, but it was all he had. So he grabs a 268 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:08.920 rifle and he's out there, and just as you go out the door, 269 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:15.279 the kid's bedroom was immediately there to the left, fifteen feet maybe. So 270 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.759 he goes out and he's ready and there was nothing there. He kind of 271 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.480 turns back and forth, and when he turns to his right, he notices 272 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.759 out of the right corner of his eye in his peripheral dissing duck behind the 273 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:29.000 corner on this side of the house. So he goes, okay, he 274 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:30.839 yells in the door, I'm gonna go around. I'm gonna check their window, 275 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.279 and I'll be back. And what he does is he goes down the 276 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.720 little steps and goes towards the girls's room around the corner. Because he knew 277 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.839 it was behind him over on that corner. He was trying to get it 278 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.759 to come out and follow behind him, and it did. He gets around 279 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.720 that corner and he's standing leaning back on the knut position with the rifle pointing 280 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.200 up a little higher, and he saw there was an old light up on 281 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.640 a post at the far end of the yard that puts some light into the 282 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.759 area, but not much, but he could see the little bit of a 283 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.960 shadow coming to peek around. As soon as he saw something dark come around 284 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.480 the corner. He shot at it bow big scream. This thing. It 285 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.759 shot blood on him on the side of the house, and it ran into 286 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.839 the trees as he got jammed up trying to work the bolt action and get 287 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.839 another round in, so it slipped into the trees. Once he clears it, 288 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.839 he starts tracking because blood was all over the snow. He said nothing 289 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.200 to his knees. He needed to stay focused on getting after it. So 290 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:36.599 he chomps through the trees and he's trying his best to folk because in the 291 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.720 snow he could see the blood row bright. In the snow in wintertime in 292 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:44.799 Alaska, it gets pitched black, but if there's enough ambient light around, 293 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.960 it'll reflect off the snow and give the illusion a better night vision. So 294 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.319 he's falling the blood stains and he noticed it stops by some bigger trees, 295 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.880 so he figured, okay, it's up in the trees. I've seen this 296 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.599 game before, so immediately he starts looking for dark movement in the trees, 297 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.119 and sure, this one tree. It was obviously not big enough to support 298 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.200 this thing because it was slowly doing this number and it started making a cracking 299 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:12.279 sound. It claps down under the thing's weight he saw it struggling to get 300 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.559 up, and he put another round. He couldn't tell if it was facing 301 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.839 him or facing away because it was just a very dimly lit silhouette and he 302 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.440 was shooting for a dark mass. So he've hit it again, let out 303 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:27.079 a scream, and it started staggering and running through trees as he puts in 304 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:32.519 another round, and now he had he has two rounds left, one in 305 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:37.079 the chamber, one stealing in the maguell. So he knew he had to 306 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.119 finish this, and he hoped there wasn't other ones. He had only seen 307 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.559 this one, and so he was hoping it was just the one. He 308 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.839 knew he had to finish this. So as he's cutting behind trees and watching 309 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:51.400 this thing, it's standing up and it's staggering around, and it finally stopped 310 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.119 against a black spruce tree and was leaning there, and it looked like it 311 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.079 was having labored breathing, he said, because it was undulating back and forth 312 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:02.599 like it was just trying to breathe but couldn't. And as it was doing 313 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.559 that, he aimed for what he thought would be the head and he did 314 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.480 a little whistle, and when it turned profile he had a wider target, 315 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.559 and he squeezed and popped it right in the ear and it dropped, went 316 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.240 down hard. They immediately started crying. He had a flashback of what had 317 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.720 happened before it, and when I was asking him, I was like, 318 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.559 man, what do you think perpetuates this being marked thing? Because I've been 319 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:30.920 told that shit and I don't care to indulge it any but if there's a 320 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.279 grain of truth to it, I want to know as much as I can 321 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.839 before I'm out in those woods. He told me that it has to do 322 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.200 with something about when you see one, when you shoot one, when there's 323 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:47.480 any kind of close interaction, they know you. It's a universal knowledge between 324 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:52.920 them that once they know you're a bad guy to them, then other ones 325 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.200 will know and they will sense that on you. He said. It has 326 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.319 to do with the fear they invoke in us, leaves a certain smell on 327 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.440 us, and once they pick up that smell, the other ones in a 328 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.960 different area they sense that smell, that oh, he's a bad guy to 329 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.759 us type thing. Not I'm just going by what he said, just purely 330 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.880 what he said. I don't know that for sure. As he goes over 331 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.559 to the body, those kind of things way heavy on me, especially since 332 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.319 someone had been gone deep in the woods. Real soon he gets up on 333 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.759 it and it's obviously dead. There's a mist of blood all over the snow 334 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:32.839 from when he hit it in the ear. He wasn't maybe one hundred and 335 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:37.599 fifty yards from his niece's house into the tree line going away from the Yukon 336 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.599 River. He assesses the situation. He puts his last round into the rifle 337 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.960 and kind of nudges it to make sure it wasn't playing possum. He knew 338 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.960 it was dead, but he wanted to make doubly sure, so he makes 339 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:55.200 sure. He backtracks and gets to the house and his nieces up smoking a 340 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.720 cigarette on the couch, has the girls locked in her room under the bed, 341 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:03.440 and she's going off. She had a stash of some whiskey and she 342 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.480 was drinking it to calm her nerves and cussing him out for bringing this thing 343 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.720 around. It really hurt him that he was unable to convey at that time. 344 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.119 He was doing it out of love. He wasn't doing it to bring 345 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.400 any trouble on her. He was doing it as a form of protection. 346 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.880 But she was obviously emotional and wasn't going to hear it. I can't judge 347 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.480 that she's going on limited knowledge and this shit's happening and her kids are in 348 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.559 danger. So I get it, and so did Thomas. He held no 349 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:40.960 ill will. He went back over the next day and went to go look 350 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:42.680 for the body. Found it. It was still right where it was, 351 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.279 no other sign of another one coming to try to pull the body away. 352 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.400 So he goes to the guy down the ways and asks him, Hey, 353 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:55.799 I need your help getting rid of something. The guy goes, I don't 354 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.799 even want to know. I can help you with whatever you may need, 355 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:02.960 but I don't want to know, and I don't want to go. He 356 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.160 goes, okay, I need some rope, and the guy goes, keep 357 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.960 the rope. I don't want to know nothing, shut the door. So 358 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:14.319 he takes a small spool of rope. He goes back across the way, 359 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.759 makes it back up to his niece's house, gets out the chainsaw, hooks 360 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.519 up the sled to the little snow machine. It was partially frozen and riga 361 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.559 mortis. He hacked it up into pieces that could more easily be moved through 362 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:32.559 it In the sled. He started with the legs ran way offs back up 363 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:37.680 to where the cave was, through the legs into the cave opening, went 364 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.680 back, hacked off the arms and the head, went right back to the 365 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.599 cave and threw him in the cave. Came back really struggled to get the 366 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.759 torso into the sled because there's so much mass and weight to it. He 367 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:55.279 said that the torso alone felt like it was at least five hundred pounds without 368 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:57.119 the legs, arms and head. He said, that's what it felt like. 369 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:02.839 And God, the stuff he has to just what's no different than cornering 370 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:06.440 up a moose. And once you get past that harry Man there, and 371 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:08.319 once you get past that part, I guess it's it's just all downhill. 372 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.720 So he gets it loaded, and he knew he wasn't gonna be able to 373 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:17.200 drag this torso all the way up to that cave. He just wasn't built 374 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.279 that way. He wasn't strong enough and didn't have a pulley to come along 375 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:23.160 or nutting. So he gets into that valley and cuts way to the back 376 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.599 of it, and just as he's almost getting stuck, he circles around a 377 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:32.319 couple of times to pack the trail stops and just tips the sled over and 378 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:37.680 lets the torso roll out, rights the sled ripped on out of there. 379 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:44.440 He said he went back to that cave in the mid eighties to check it 380 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.920 out. His niece unfortunately succumb to a self inflicted wound. The kids were 381 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:55.240 taken by the state. He was really broken up about that, still is. 382 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:57.559 He was crying about it this morning. I'm trying not to dwell on 383 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:03.480 it too much because it makes me want to cry. He sacrificed his relationship. 384 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:10.359 He knowingly sacrificed his relationship with his niece to protect his niece, but 385 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:14.839 she didn't see that, at least to his knowledge, before she passed away 386 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:19.599 of a self inflicted injury. So that's where he wanted me to compy to 387 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:23.400 you. Guys, love your people, Explain to them why you're upset. 388 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.480 Don't hold it in, get it out. Don't end up like he did 389 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:32.519 with a lot of regrets with loved ones that he did not make amends with 390 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.279 before they're passing. Thomas, I thank you for sharing. If I missed 391 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:41.480 anything, brother, just call me. I don't think I did. That's 392 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:47.200 into that. Stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see we'll be right back 393 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:53.519 after these messages. Good morning, it's frighten Alaska today. I want to 394 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:57.680 share something with you that was shared with me not quite a week ago. 395 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:03.279 Cheryl was part of a mushroom picking group. She's retired and two of her 396 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.400 retired friends were up near the Alaska Speedway. Now that's just north of Willow, 397 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.480 Alaska, due north. They were back in there now. They're retired. 398 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:17.559 They don't move fast. They're very nice. I talked to her personally. 399 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:21.359 She's just the sweetest lady. Damn near gave them all a heart attack. 400 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.759 What ended up happening is where they were picking mushrooms, they were at 401 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:29.160 a burnout spot from an old wildfire from a few years back. This happened 402 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.000 roughly almost a year ago. As you're coming along the highway up Highway one, 403 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.960 you'll see the science says Alaska Speedway. So they pulled off the side 404 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.839 of the road. They searched the one side. Nothing there. So they 405 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.720 went up, turned around and pull out for the Alaska Speedway, turned around, 406 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.839 came back down a little bit. There's four wheelw trails on each side 407 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.480 of the road. It's Alaska. We don't give a shit. They come 408 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.599 down the park. They're cutting along this hill, and this hill has got 409 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:57.359 a pretty steep grade, but it's south basin. There's fresh burned. They 410 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:03.200 were looking for these mushrooms right now everywhere through this particular spot, because I've 411 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.000 been through that area just falling tree. Right back here, there's a bunch 412 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:10.880 of those, but they're burnouts, bigger, smaller, different size, and 413 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.759 they're like pickup sticks. They're stacked all over each other. You got tree 414 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.880 stumps sticking up root balls from the trees that tipped over from the fire. 415 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.839 It's a mangled mess in through there. All these things are pretty much interconnected, 416 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.799 so they took their time. They're retired. They didn't just come from 417 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.920 NFL training camp and running those tires or whatever. So they were taking their 418 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.200 time. And all the sticks in their trees, they vary in height off 419 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.480 the ground the way they're laying, so it's just a mess. But they 420 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.039 were led to believe that there'd be some good morale harvesting in there, so 421 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.240 them being retired, they're all for it. Hey, get out and get 422 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.559 your mushrooms. I guess they took their time going back in there. The 423 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.279 birds were chirping. It was a beautiful daylight. No, not a car 424 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:55.480 in the world, just three retired ladies having a great time, laughing, 425 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.079 enjoining each other's company. Been going along for a little while, and when 426 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:03.160 I was reaching about mid day, the grade on this hill is roughly damn 427 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.920 near a forty five degree. With the pickup sticks in through and the new 428 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:11.200 girls coming up through, it's a jumbled mess. When I went through there, 429 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.160 I'm spry and athletic, if you want to call it that. It 430 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.000 was a pain in the butt for me to do, so I can imagine 431 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.000 what they were going through. I recorded footage from there to share. They 432 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:25.920 get back in there and at about midday they had brought a thermostful of hot 433 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:30.279 water to have some tea, and they were eating some of their crackers and 434 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.480 sipentee, just enjoying themselves thoroughly. They found a single mushroom, but they're 435 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:38.480 enjoying themselves, And they were sitting on a big log that was sun bleached 436 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.799 and had been obviously burned out, but it was sun bleached and there wasn't 437 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.640 a bunch of charred stuff to get them even more dirty than they were, 438 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.599 so they chose that to sit on. Now as they're sitting there. Anytime 439 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.160 any of them moves, the thing jiggles a little bit, and as they're 440 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.319 sitting there, she was like, who keeps moving? They kept feeling the 441 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.559 whole pile of sticks moving. It was just every once in a while they'd 442 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:02.920 be a little shit gifting a jiggle. They just figured it was their own 443 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:07.400 movements or something down the way because all these sticks are damn near interconnected like 444 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.000 a spiderweb. So as they're sitting there and there enjoying their tea, they 445 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:17.319 heard off behind a larger pile of sticks that they couldn't really see through. 446 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:21.000 There was gaps in between there, but it wasn't a good visual eyesight into 447 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.400 that. There was also a root ball, and at the end of that 448 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.680 root ball, she noticed some movement, but they were enjoying their tea, 449 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.880 and she figured it was just the breeze that was going through. But she 450 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.079 also noticed at the same time that all the birds stopped chirping. There was 451 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:38.640 not a natural sound going on. It all went dead quiet. Her friends 452 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.119 were unaware, but she noticed it and she mentioned it. She goes, 453 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.599 there's no more bird sounds. The birds were just chirping away, so they 454 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.759 thought none of it. And continued now a low, barely audible. She 455 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.720 said, it sounded like an elephant's seal kind of what kind of sound. 456 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.640 And they're trying to figure out if it was something to do with an engine 457 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.839 at the raceway, because some people were running their rigs at the time. 458 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:07.000 They chucked it up to an engine bogging down in the distance kind of thing. 459 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.400 Now they went on about their way, just sitting there enjoying each other's 460 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.839 company. They're halfway up this hill going down, so they have the same 461 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.400 distance down as they do up. They came on this little shelf that turned 462 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.839 into the side hill. From where the shelf ends and starts to be mainly 463 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.920 hill is where all these sticks are intertwined. Someone had come through with the 464 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.559 chainsaw and cut most of them up on that shelf mid height through the hill 465 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.680 just off the south side of the Alaska Highway one just to buck up for 466 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.160 firewood, because there were stacks of it as they came in, she said. 467 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.200 But it got to a point where they stopped and it was just all 468 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.720 this inner mesh. So they had about a good one hundred one hundred and 469 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:55.519 fifty yards of distance between where they're sitting and where it's open area back to 470 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:59.480 the highway. So as they're sitting there enjoying each other and trying to figure 471 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:04.920 out this sound because it was barely audible, the jigglins started more violently, 472 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.839 and they're thinking, oh shit, earthquake. So they're looking around to make 473 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.079 sure there ain't gonna be any of the other trees falling on them. They 474 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:16.240 hurt a loud grunt. The grunt was, according to her, demonic, 475 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:22.519 every panic button in their bodies just started going off. Red flags are going 476 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:29.000 They assumed a bear, which is a fair assessment. So they start talking 477 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.319 to each other about let's make our way out of here. It something ain't 478 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:37.160 right, So they got their stuff. Her two companions were a little older 479 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.720 and a little less spry than she was, and she wasn't spry at all, 480 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.200 so she was getting them going now. All they had with them was 481 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.079 a canister at bear spray, which works great close quarters with the bear. 482 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.480 It shoots out this huge cloud and the bear usually comes into it, gets 483 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.160 a whiff of it, and the bear is gone. Unless the bear likes 484 00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:00.319 typhood, then you're getting een, and maybe he likes it spicy. She 485 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:05.400 pulled a pin on her bear spray a little safety pin, and she kept 486 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.359 her finger on top of the little safety lever. You got to pop up 487 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:12.440 a safety lever to hit the fogger, so she had a finger on top 488 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.759 of that. But she was nervous. She said, she had a death 489 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:21.319 grip on it because they heard that demonic sound. But simultaneously there was a 490 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:24.720 whoa whoo sound going as well. It was very low, very hard to 491 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.960 hear, but she said, at one point you could almost feel it in 492 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.519 the logs. The logs were jettison around like the whoa whooh with it. 493 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.039 So they get up and her friends she's letting get ahead, you know, 494 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.279 get a jump start. So she gets about twenty feet from where they were, 495 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:47.799 remember pickup sticks. They're going along. She hears a solid grunt behind 496 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.599 her and it sounded just like a brown bear grunt, just this kind of 497 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.400 sound. So she turned around expecting to see a bear. So she's already 498 00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.000 got her finger underneath that little safety lever, ready to fall, and she 499 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:05.799 said, behind the tallest jumble about twenty feet away, so it was about 500 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.199 thirty feet away. She's seen this thing stand up, and at first she 501 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:14.159 couldn't wrap her mind around what she was seeing versus what she thought it was. 502 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.719 It wasn't jiving in her mind. So she was stuck staring at this 503 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.039 thing and it started swaying back and forth, and it put its hands up 504 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.119 on the fallen trees. Now, when they were sitting in that spot, 505 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:30.360 she guesstimated the way the trees felt. She estimated that log was at least 506 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:35.320 ten feet off the ground, So this thing had to have been taller than 507 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.920 ten feet according to her guestimate. Now this is a rough estimate. She 508 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.400 wasn't out there, sands, stand still, let me measure you, none 509 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.639 of that shit. So she immediately fogged. She bursts in the air with 510 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:52.039 that bare spray. Now, only problem is she created a huge cloud of 511 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.960 pepper spray in the air, too far of a distance to really affect the 512 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:01.119 hairy man, but close enough to With wind drifted, they were getting particles 513 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:05.679 of it back. So now they got this thing standing behind the logs over 514 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:09.320 there that just grunted at her. She tried to spray, it didn't work 515 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:15.320 so well, and now they're being affected by the pepper spray. Her friends 516 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.719 had stopped and turned round at that grunt. They were like shell shock, 517 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:23.119 frozen she told them get moving. She turns around and joins them. They're 518 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:28.400 cruising along as fast as they can. This particular log had broken pieces of 519 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.239 branches off of it. It looked like one of those sticks you'd see swing 520 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:35.920 in a jungle movie where the log had big spikes on it or whatever. 521 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:38.119 It had that kind of look to it. As she was stepping over it, 522 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:42.880 she tripped up and one of the sticks stuck into her pant leg, 523 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.199 and when she fell over, it twisted and it didn't hurt her, but 524 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:51.119 it caught her pants up, so she's ass over tea kettle upside down on 525 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:52.559 the ground. She wasn't hurt from the fall, it was more of a 526 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.920 ginger flip over, but her leg was up in the air twisted up. 527 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.639 Her pant leg was twisted up in the stick, so immediately she's trying to 528 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:07.920 fight free. So Cheryl comes over and is helping her get the pentle gun 529 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.239 stuck because now their borderline panic mode. She said, this is where they 530 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.840 almost three had a heart attack, because directly behind them she heard the snort 531 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:20.719 again, so she turned around with her bear spray, but there was nothing 532 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.360 there but off to her left hand side. About twelve feet away. But 533 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:28.920 this thing was so stealthy. It came up and it was standing behind a 534 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:31.760 tree similar to this birch right here. It was behind a tree similar to 535 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:37.000 this, and they barely notice it because it blended in seamlessly. It wasn't 536 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.880 cloaking, It just blended in, is what she said. So when they 537 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:45.559 turned and noticed it, because it led out like a nostril like snort, 538 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.119 she said, when they turned and looked, all three of them almost lost 539 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:53.119 full use of their legs. Her friend, of course, was just freed 540 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:58.360 from this optacle. She fell over and she hasn't even got up off the 541 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:02.599 ground yet. The height this thing, she said, was massive, But 542 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:07.639 she didn't understand how it camuso stealthily. It seemed like it projected its snort 543 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:13.599 to directly behind him. No, it could be the effect of echoing off 544 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.639 the hill right next to them. There could be variables, but she said 545 00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.760 it seemed like some kind of ventriloquism or something to have it sound like it 546 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.920 was immediately behind him. As she's helping her friend up off the ground with 547 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:29.639 one hand, she's got that bear spray and now it's only about twelve feet 548 00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.440 away. Twelve feet ach shit, twelve feet away? Is that falling stick 549 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.280 right over here? That ain't far, not even close to far enough for 550 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.760 this kind of situation. She hits it again, but this time it's it 551 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:45.239 within range. She clouds it real good, she said, she almost emptied 552 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:49.079 the whole cannon. Things just wheeled back like this and shook his head and 553 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.880 said it lifted its hands, but his hands looked like they were permanently cupped. 554 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:55.800 She said, that's just what it looked like. She said, it 555 00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:59.800 looked like mitten's at first, from all the hair on the back of the 556 00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:01.679 hand hands, and it was going like this, and then it spread its 557 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:07.119 fingers and she could see the five fingers on each hand, massive big hands. 558 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:10.119 It was wiping, and then just made this god awful snot blown out 559 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:15.119 its face hacking sound, and then let out this scream that ripped through all 560 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.360 of them. Her friend that just got off the ground was right back on 561 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.719 the ground, just in fright. They were all clutching their chest because they 562 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.519 thought they were going to have an aneurysm or a heart attack or something. 563 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:30.719 And it turned and just took off in the other direction, screaming. It 564 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:32.800 plowed through a bunch of the trees like it was'n up and just made 565 00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:37.480 a huge racket. She's standing there, stuck, still holding the can, 566 00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:43.519 looking in the direction it ran off, and is looking around what just happened? 567 00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:49.480 What is going on here? Her friends had already started continuing on to 568 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:52.960 get the hell out of Dodge, and she didn't even hear the ruckus they 569 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:58.239 were making because they were motivated. So they make it out to the clearing 570 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.000 and her friends were cheering, yeah, you got it, and then the 571 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.760 debate started. What they saw was a very similar description that her hair quite 572 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.400 often really big in the jaw, no hair around from just above the brow 573 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.840 came up like this, another nose, So this whole area through here, 574 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:20.519 and the nose was without hair. It was like a bearded look here, 575 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.559 mustache across here, real thick. But the eyes were sunk back in the 576 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:29.840 head, really defined brow, native American looking in the face, but the 577 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:32.760 flat nose obscured that look. She said, it was the scariest shit they 578 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.719 ever dealt with. She hasn't been back out to harvest mushrooms. She can 579 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:44.039 barely bring herself to go out to her mailbox and check mail. Being retired. 580 00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:49.119 A lot of people like for guys. A lot of dudes die within 581 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.079 five years of retirement because they feel they don't have a use any longer. 582 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:57.960 Something happens, they just go down into the drink, so to speak. 583 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:05.159 So this instance happening has ruined her and her two friends from their beloved actdoor 584 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:09.679 activity. It's really sad, honestly, because now the things they look forward 585 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:15.599 to, they dread, all their socializing has ceased. To me, it's 586 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.280 sad. Had they had previous knowledge of the hairy Man, would they have 587 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.920 still gone? Probably? Would it have made a difference in how things went 588 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:28.480 after that. I don't know when it happened. It's hard to put, 589 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:31.840 you know, any kind of I don't know. It's all speculation. But 590 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.800 real name's not Cheryl. She's local, and they were part of a club 591 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.960 that they no longer participate in because of what happened. Argument could be made 592 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.320 that it was being curious and checking them out. To me, if they 593 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:49.320 are going through the trouble to make themselves aware, they're not being curious. 594 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.599 To me. Something curious is just something you notice off in the distance and 595 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:57.119 then it disappeared. Something that's within twelve feet a year. I don't know, 596 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.519 just another one of those things like why, what's the intent here? 597 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.400 Like my elder cousin who had one mimicking a baby to lure it out, 598 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:09.920 the ones that made our little shock Creek to lure us out. There's something 599 00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.719 above and beyond our understanding that's happening. And it's sad for a lot of 600 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.679 people because it ruins them. It really does. But again, thanks for 601 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:23.480 joining me. Check out the website interactive map of Alaska. One word Subarctic 602 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:29.000 Alaska Sasquatch dot com. Check it out. Thanks for joining me. Today 603 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:35.800 in Alaska they say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay. 604 00:41:43.880 --> 00:42:10.559 We're out there, child, this child, that child everything. Can you 605 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:19.679 ride back right back for joy, for me, joy staying right? You 606 00:42:19.920 --> 00:43:32.760 can it right away? Step step steps the donnock, don't tossssstssssst. Used these noses