WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:08.359 Welcome to the Big for Society and this special members only episode, I talked 2 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.000 to Dan about his encounter that happened in the Panhandle region of Idaho. It's 3 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:19.039 a very intense encounter for a few different reasons, and one that will not 4 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:24.640 leave my mind for an extremely long time. Again, thank you for your 5 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.879 support and being part of the Big For Society members. I hope you enjoy 6 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:41.119 this special members only episode. What follows is a ten minute teaser clip. 7 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:48.399 If you'd like to hear the whole seventy minute episode, please become a Patreon 8 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.759 supporter over at patreon dot com forward slash the Big for Society, or become 9 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:59.600 a YouTube channel member by clicking the join button, and again, enjoy this 10 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:03.320 tees. It's a good one. There's a break in the tree, so 11 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.319 I could see these grassy areas and they kind of went in steps, and 12 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.400 I just made a note to myself, Hey, I'll come back tomorrow. 13 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.560 Hit it early, get down there and see, you know, get down 14 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:19.560 there before even daylight and you know, lay up somewhere. But I decided 15 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.359 today I'm gonna follow this game trail. And I turned had only gone a 16 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:30.519 few steps, and I hear these five distinct knocks, and the best way 17 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.879 I could describe them, it's like if you spelled it out in a comic 18 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:45.040 book, thok fuck, just five evenly spaced fuck fuck. And it was 19 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:51.400 coming directly from one of those. What I could tell at first probably the 20 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:59.319 furthest clearing somewhere down there. And I remember stopping and looking and going, 21 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.879 what someone doing down there? Beating on a tree? There's no people up 22 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.199 here. This is horrible terrain that we haven't seen anybody in a couple of 23 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.840 days. And I just thought, okay, yeah, whatever, that's weird. 24 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:16.840 I don't know sound carries, but sure, you know, sounds like 25 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:22.759 it was about two hundred and fifty three hundred yards downslope, and I thought, 26 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.879 I don't know what to do, but you know, times daylight's burning, 27 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.199 I'm gonna leave. And so I was. I was just gonna keep 28 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.159 falling the trail, and then I hear two more fuck fuck, and they're 29 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:40.199 from the same relative position. So I was like, okay, you know 30 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.560 what, I haven't seen anything. This sounds weird. Let's go see what's 31 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:51.520 going on. And at this point I kind of I was just thinking that 32 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.439 if these are people, what would they be doing down there. This doesn't 33 00:02:54.639 --> 00:03:00.159 sound like someone cutting wood. It just sounds like someone taking a big, 34 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.800 you know, a big chunk of wood and just whacking it on a tree. 35 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.280 I'm like, this is this doesn't make any sense, but all right, 36 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.159 let's go find out what it is. I bored, so I start 37 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:15.680 going down the slope and like I said, it would go in steps, 38 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.879 so slope down and then hit a little bit of grass. In that first 39 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:23.000 little patch, I actually saw elk sign. It was a little bit old, 40 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:30.000 but it was there, and I stopped because I'm trying to listen for 41 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:38.599 additional sounds. I'm looking down there to see if there's movement, and it's 42 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:44.400 just still absolutely still calm day the only day up there that was even remotely 43 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:50.319 like that. Hardly even a blade of grass was moving. And I went 44 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.639 through that same thought process, like what the heck is this? You know, 45 00:03:54.240 --> 00:04:00.439 I should probably just turn around and go back up slope. So probably 46 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.080 five minutes went by because I'm looking and listening, you know, and then 47 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.800 whack I hear it again. So now I'm like, okay, now I 48 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:15.360 have to go figure out what's doing this. So my brain switched from this 49 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.680 might be a person down there doing who knows what to I don't know what 50 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.600 type of animal. You know, I've hunted in the Pacific Northwest my whole 51 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:29.360 life. What animal could do that? But I thought, that's the only 52 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:33.160 thing that makes sense at this point. I can't imagine a person somehow getting 53 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:39.759 up on this mountain not being visible to us on the only road, which 54 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.879 we were at the terminal point of that road, And what would they be 55 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.639 doing down there doing something like that. This didn't make sense. So I'm 56 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:53.000 going through animals. Maybe a bear's messing with a log, maybe something's kicking 57 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.319 a tree. Whatever, I'm gonna find out. So I start walking down 58 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:02.720 again, and I'm stopping frequently. I had kind of gone into stalking modes. 59 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:09.680 So I'm walking very quietly, you know, try not to even break 60 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.639 the crust on the snow, that little skiff of snow too much, and 61 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.600 listening, listening, I hear nothing. The wind's not blowing. I started 62 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:23.279 thinking, maybe it's a tree that's bumping into another tree. But I would 63 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.959 stop and look, and a slight breeze, maybe five mile an hour breeze 64 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.720 would come up, but hardly enough to even wiggle, like I said, 65 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:38.560 grass, So Okay, that's weird, that's not it. But I'm not 66 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.040 hearing anything. So I'm like I, once again, maybe I should just 67 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:46.879 turn around forget this happened, and you know, come back tomorrow. And 68 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.839 then I get another single knock, So okay, well, whatever it is, 69 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:55.399 it's still down there doing whatever it's doing. I'm gonna keep going. 70 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:03.759 And this repeats itself again, and I get a third knock, and I'm 71 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:13.040 repeating the same process. I started moving so quietly and slowly because I wanted 72 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.879 I started getting this weird feeling that these knocks were only coming when I was 73 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:24.240 stopped, and that didn't make any sense. But I wasn't hearing them while 74 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:28.639 I was walking. And once again, this whole distance was about two hundred 75 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:33.079 and fifty maybe three hundred yards, And this whole time me closing on where 76 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:38.160 I thought the sound was coming from ended up being about fifty minutes. So 77 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:44.120 you can see that I wasn't rushing and bashing through trees and obscuring any sound. 78 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:49.680 I'm listening and I never got I'd never heard that sound until I had 79 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:56.680 been stopped for minutes. And then I would get a single sound and that 80 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:04.639 would keep me going and by the time I had gotten the fourth knock, 81 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:11.040 and it once again disrepeated itself like that whole pattern. I was now getting 82 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:16.240 down off the slope and into level ground towards that grassy area. And now 83 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:24.399 you know, I'm probably fifty fifty sixty yards out from this grassy area, 84 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:29.839 and at the end of it was basically a wall of young trees of different 85 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:38.439 height. And as I got I heard that last single fourth knock, it 86 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:44.160 really sounded to me like it was coming from somewhere behind that screen of trees. 87 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.839 So, okay, well, it's totally obscured for me. I mean, 88 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.800 what's behind there's obscured. So I'm like, oka, right, well, 89 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.959 I guess I'm gonna have to go right up to it and figure out 90 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:03.480 what this is somehow. So I'm I'm level, I'm walking, and to 91 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:11.759 my right there's this little I describe it as a long halfpipe in the ground. 92 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.000 It's just it if it was runoff. Boy, it cut a nice 93 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:22.759 smooth little gulch there. But I knew that in order to get into this 94 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.079 clearing, I'd have to cross that. And once I crossed that, all 95 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.600 the trees that I thought I was using as cover there was intermittent trees that 96 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:37.200 I was trying to move behind a little bit because my thinking is, oh, 97 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.320 I'm gonna sneak up on some animal doing something weird, so let's be 98 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:46.080 quiet and see what it's doing and how it's making that sound. And so 99 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.600 I'm getting closer, and when I reached the edge of that little dip in 100 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.440 the ground, I stop and go, Okay, once you cross this, 101 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.159 you are now in the clear and you're out in the wide open, so 102 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:09.039 if something's back there, it can possibly see you. So I'm I'm just 103 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.360 kind of like, okay, getting ready. You know. I had my 104 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:18.159 rifle to my not up, but it all low ready, so but stuck 105 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:24.679 in my shoulder, muzzle down towards the ground, and I take a deep 106 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.159 breath. I'm like, all right, here we go. And right as 107 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.080 I'm about to do that comes I can only describe it like a slow rate 108 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.320 of fire machine gun, but it's the the deep wood knocks just boom is 109 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:46.600 fast, I mean, like a machine gun, and but loud, deep, 110 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.000 not like a stick cracking against a tree, but the same deep, 111 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:58.039 thick sounding knocks, but just like rapid fire. And I just was like, 112 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.159 what the kids going on here, and I'm like, okay, well, 113 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.759 and I remember saying this in my head. I'm like, well, 114 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:13.759 it's definitely behind those trees, because that's where that sound came from. And 115 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.480 so I'm like, all right, oh boy. And now I'm getting a 116 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:22.080 little nervous because I'm like, I can't see into those trees. So maybe 117 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:26.000 I should kind of skirt out into this clearing and work my way around the 118 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.759 trees. Kind of went in a imagine a capital J and I was below 119 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:37.159 the foot of the jay, and the trees kind of arcd around, and 120 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:43.120 I thought, okay, I'll loop around so and just keep some distance from 121 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.720 these trees in case some animal comes barreling out at me. So take a 122 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.799 deep breath, get the rifle steady, you know, once to get knock 123 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:56.399 pointing it. You know those rules of gun safety. I've been handling guns 124 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:00.320 since I was four. I didn't have a target, I didn't know what 125 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:05.080 was back there. I'm not going to point my firearm at anything. Take 126 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.960 a deep breath, and I step out in the open. And it was 127 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:18.559 like I made it maybe two three steps, and this thing. I tried 128 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:24.240 describing it to someone else. It was like having a bomb go off right 129 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:31.159 in front of me. This thing. I don't I don't know what the 130 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.080 hell it was swinging, but it must have been picked up a small tree, 131 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:43.360 and just the force and violence behind this was just a kaboom. I 132 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:48.759 mean it just smashed into I don't know, it floored me. I mean 133 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:54.039 I literally, if someone could have caught me on video, I just stumbled 134 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.960 backwards, almost tripped and fell over. I've got all my gear on my 135 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:03.159 back, my rifle slung in, and I just staggered back in shock. 136 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:18.039 And I look up and it well, you know, all I could see 137 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.960 was the chest up. Just wanted to take a few minutes to say thank 138 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.200 you to you all my listeners for listening to the podcast. Please take a 139 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:33.399 minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit 140 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.879 the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube 141 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.480 with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, 142 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.279 thank you so much. 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