WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.640 And I want one. You're putting. I got a string going on here. 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.360 Something Just give my dog. Something killed your dog? My dog? 3 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.119 We're flying through the or over the tree. I don't know how it did 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.439 it, Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw is my 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.920 dog coming over the fence and he was dead. And once he hit the 6 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.679 ground. I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:43.000 over the fence. What are you putting? We got someone or something crawling 8 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:52.079 around out here? Did you see what it was? It was? It 9 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.119 was staying enough. I'm out here looking through the window now and I don't 10 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:59.399 see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Christ, you're better. 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.040 Hello, get the buddy out here. What's going on out there? 12 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.719 Let's got off a bit of about second nine. I don't know easy am 13 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.200 out there? Yeah, I'm right, oh. Readings from Alaska's Fred Roll, 14 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.560 career and tribal council member from Dillingham, Alaska. I was talking to 15 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.400 a relative of mine last night on the phone. We're talking about the harry 16 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.760 Man. Because I've been reaching out to as many people as I can just 17 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.519 to get the personations perspective on their experiences because, like I said, what 18 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.959 I dealt with over my lifetime is not unique. It really isn't. And 19 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.400 I'm sure for a lot of people they're just like, gosh, this guy. 20 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.920 There's a whole lot going on. The reality of it is, I 21 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:47.079 have no need to embellish or make up anything. This stuff is going on, 22 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:52.760 especially up on the New yea Kuk River. Just talking to nikolay unbetounced 23 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.719 to me I brought up to harry Man Tom. I've known him since we 24 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.079 were knee high I'm forty six, since we were little kids. And on 25 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.359 top of that, he's a real So when he called to tell me he 26 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.359 was coming into town and wanted to meet up for lunch or whatever, just 27 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.039 out of the blue, I was like, hey, you got any good 28 00:02:07.039 --> 00:02:12.360 Harryman stories? And the first two he had to share was on the New 29 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.919 Year cook and they weren't good shots fired type thing. The whole thing I'm 30 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.319 getting at is a lot of us First Nation. We're deep in the woods. 31 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.199 We're hunter gatherers, we're out berry picking, we're out subsistence hunting, 32 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:29.960 we're out trapping, we're out doing all sorts of things. Always in remote 33 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.520 alasket. That's where we live. We live remote. It's not like we're 34 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.759 sasquatch whisperers or anything like that. It's they are there. It's not like 35 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:43.000 we have to seek them out. Going to film this documentary is going to 36 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.840 be different for me because we typically don't. We don't seek him out. 37 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:52.240 It was never even a thought until just recent history, past couple of years, 38 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.639 been thinking about getting out and doing that. What I wanted to share 39 00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:02.280 today was a couple different examples of how things transpire usually, and it happens 40 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.280 like that. You're just out doing something. We don't leave the house every 41 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.439 time we leave. We're not worried about the Harryman. It's just one of 42 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:14.240 those things. We don't worry about bear or moose or anything. But you 43 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.599 always stay prepared one way or another. But it's not, oh gosh, 44 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:21.280 we can't go very picking because of a harry Man. We find out when 45 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.800 we get there. If it doesn't want us to ruin, then guess what 46 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.479 you just skid at all wants to start shaking a tree or screaming. Area 47 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.159 where this happened, it wasn't up on the New York cook It was just 48 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:36.919 a random thing. There was a hunter, a guide, I was a 49 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:40.360 backup gunner for him, and I won't name him, but we flew down 50 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:45.520 the non of Varchik, which is just outside of Togak between Dillingham and actually 51 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:50.159 it's between Cape Constantine and Togya. We could see around islands just off the 52 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.800 coast where all the walrus are. So I'm a backup gunner for this bear 53 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.439 hunt. Right, we're going out in the super cubs. I want the 54 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:00.120 first trip with the pilot guns, a bunch of gear. The hunter was 55 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:04.120 coming on the next flight, and then the guide that I'm working for would 56 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:08.080 come on the last flight with some more provisions, and we're going to be 57 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:14.599 there for seven days give or take. Our Nunavarctic Beach it's desolate, it's 58 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.720 wind swept and all that, but this valley cuts back and it hooks back 59 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.240 off to the right and you can't see the whole valley from where you're sitting 60 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.399 on the beach and where we're at in Nunavartic Beach, it's a half moon 61 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.959 cove. You got pinnacle Rock out on your right and always have sea lions 62 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.600 out there. The first morning I woke up, I woke up to sea 63 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:41.560 lion grunts that I thought were the fricking bear right outside our camp, so 64 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.519 very wild, pristine area. It was a spring hunt, so everything was 65 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.160 brown, everything was still dead, not then grown up through yet. So 66 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.560 it's basically about this time of year. It was the end of April. 67 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.839 I know that I forget when the bear hunt end of that year, the 68 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.800 spring hunt. So anyway, getting them fresh out of the den before they 69 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.680 have whoever's been hunting, they know what I'm talking about. So we get 70 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.680 all our logistics done. Everyone's there, me, the guide and the hunter, 71 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:11.600 and I'm a backup gunner and I, you know, keep camp gone, 72 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.040 whatever, cook whatever. It was lucrative, so I didn't mind cooking, 73 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.120 not don't let pride getting away money. So we're sitting there and we're 74 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:26.959 discussing the hype back because we're talking, gosh, a good five six miles, 75 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.319 which isn't bad, but it's up and down. It's backed up on 76 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.560 these draws and then back up the mountain a little ways and back down these 77 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:42.040 draws. It is brutal. So that six miles straight stretch as the crow 78 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.120 flies, turns into a dozen when you got all the back at force right 79 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.600 first day, it was like our second day in because the first day it 80 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.439 was just rainy and windy. The morning we woke up after the day we 81 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.759 got there, I was woken up to the sea lion grunts and all that 82 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.759 stuff. So I went down to the beach initially, and we're socked in 83 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:01.439 with the weather, so I knew it wasn't going to be a good hiking 84 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:06.240 day. So we sat around camp and we were discussing the game plan. 85 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.839 Basically, yeah, we'll go up this draw, we'll check here, and 86 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.360 the guide had spots on dens and stuff like that. So I'm just playing 87 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:19.000 the background. The hunter. He was from Colorado, and this guy just 88 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:23.639 out of the blue. I'm just sitting there talking. The guy was actually 89 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:27.720 a white guy, but he lived locally in the Bristol Bay area. The 90 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.639 guy asked him, he goes, hey, your native, aren't you. 91 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.759 Yeah. The guy was like, no, I'm married to a Native woman. 92 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.199 What's this about. He goes, I've been wanting to talk to a 93 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.519 Native person about Bigfoot. So that spucked my attention. I was like, 94 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.319 what do you got. You show me yours, I'll show you mine kind 95 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.160 of thing. Tell me what you're working with. He comvinces, tell me 96 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.759 a story about the last time he went on a bear hunt in Alaska four 97 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:54.079 years prior, and this guy he was up in the Brooks Range area. 98 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.759 He was inland grizzly. He had drawn a tag or something like that. 99 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.319 When I asked this guy, hey, like, seriously, I take it 100 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:05.519 serious because I've dealt with this kind of stuff in the past. What makes 101 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:11.839 you think it was a Harryman? He said, it flipped his tin with 102 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.959 him in it, and when he scrambled out, he saw it, grabbed 103 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.240 the other tent in the group and was going to fling it when he yelled 104 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:23.600 and it half flung it, waking up everyone else that was in that tent. 105 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:28.399 He had some previous experience with the Harryman, but this was up in 106 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.600 the Brooks Range, which was drastically different terrain than where we were at the 107 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:35.759 time. At the time, we're a coastal down by Togiak. He tells 108 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.439 me about it, and I give him a few examples of what we dealt 109 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.240 with in the area, buried Patt, screaming, just basic stuff. It's 110 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.759 not our cultures share everything. At least I wasn't going to at that time. 111 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.319 He started talking about the last time he had come to that area where 112 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:56.439 we were taking him eight years prior something like that. He said he was 113 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.560 screamed at back in one of those draws where we were getting ready to go 114 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.560 the next day. So we're like, hey, we'll be ready for it. 115 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.639 We're not going to not hunt for a potential Maybe there might be a 116 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.759 hairryman beer. He convinceists telling me that if he sees one, he wants 117 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.720 to shoot it. He wants to bag it and bring it in, and 118 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.560 I laughed. I was like, yeah, okay, if that's what you 119 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.879 want to do, we'll pop it and then we'll see if we can get 120 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.240 it out of here without the Feds taking it. That's what you want to 121 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.680 do. He thought about it for a minute. He goes, what if 122 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.000 it attacks us? I said, then we're all shooting the damn thing. 123 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:35.320 But we're here to hunt bear. You know, let's not worried, because 124 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.679 if we're worried about the hairy man, we're not going to be looking for 125 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.799 bears down task because at that time, I had never been attacked by one 126 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.600 of these things. They've just screamed, shook the trees, throw rocks, 127 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.159 this type of stuff. They screamed at a close distance, but not to 128 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.720 where I felt life threatened. It was shocking, but shocked to the system, 129 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:56.519 but I didn't feel like my life was threatened at all until certain things 130 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.799 happening. We get a game plan. The guy tells us we're not going 131 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.799 to go across the right side of the valley. We're going to hook around 132 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.000 towards the left side of the valley where we got across a bunch of marsh, 133 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.720 to get over to the opposite side of the valley and then start petting 134 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:13.799 up, because his game plan was to spot across the valley from the left 135 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.000 hand side of it and check all the draws as we go, because on 136 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.639 the right hand side there was a bunch of draws that cut up and from 137 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.399 experience, we knew that the bears usually would work those draws for any carrying 138 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.279 any dead mountain sheep that may have fallen down in the crevasses or whatever, 139 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.440 which is a good game plan. Now, when I say it sucked ass 140 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.759 to hike back there, it sucked ass. I had on hip waiters and 141 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.879 we were sinking into marsh and the muskeg. It wasn't very well thought out, 142 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.080 but we made it across. We found a path a game trail, 143 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.120 ended up losing a guide stick it. It pushed through and I tripped forward 144 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.879 and it went through the tun anyway. So we get across and we're hiking 145 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.639 around and we get up on this little knoll, this little plateau, and 146 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.519 we're glassing and I noticed out of the corner of my eye, way off 147 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.159 in the distance, something moving fast and it just hit the valley floor, 148 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.360 coming off of a little bit of a hill, and it's moving from our 149 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.200 left and it's just a black dot. We don't have spot and scopeside or 150 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.080 none of that shit at the time, and so I pointed out, hey, 151 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.840 there's something look over there running and they're looking just immediately down. I 152 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.960 said, no, over there. I got them to train a site on 153 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.600 where I was pointing, and there's just a black dot right it, and 154 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.399 that's all we could make out. They were scrambling to get the spots. 155 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:31.519 Keep an eye on it. We're going to get sco bellt we'll see what 156 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.240 kind of bid looks like a black bear. Because it was a black dot 157 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.639 at this point, this thing is just scurry gone. It hit the alder 158 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.320 brush and all that kind of stuff and just disappeared. We knew the general 159 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.559 area was at We're up on the knoll looking down into a valley, so 160 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.840 we had the high ground. We got a good line of sight on the 161 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.440 whole area because where we finally made it to we saw where it rounded around 162 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:58.159 to the right and where it tapered off into a bowl back in the back 163 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:03.000 side of the valley, and it's a great spot for spotting whatever. Right, 164 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.519 So they're getting up spotting stropes and they're asking what clump of brush, 165 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.000 what alders and what those was it in? And so I pointed it out. 166 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.360 It was over there, and they're scoping. I noticed a black dot 167 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.120 almost straight out in front of us, same black dot. I was like, 168 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.759 oh, there it is. Now grat you, this is a valley. 169 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.759 This thing went within two minutes and these guys are scrambling and get spot 170 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.840 scoped out. I mean they were moving. This thing had gone from one 171 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.759 side all the way to the other side, which had to have been three 172 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:39.639 miles or roughly give or take three miles in two minutes moving and the direction 173 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.000 it was going was back towards where we were camped on Univarcic Beach. So 174 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.399 I pointed out, hey, it's moving fast, and they're spotting on and 175 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:50.039 they're like, that's not a bear. And the guy from Colorado starts hitting 176 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.600 me hey, and I was like, hey, but can hit me dude? 177 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.639 You know he's packing. He's like, that's a harry man, that's 178 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.759 area. That's a hairy man you're talking about. I said, are you 179 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.399 sure it's not a bear? Because sometimes a younger bear will get star from 180 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.120 a big board, the boar chases it off and it'll run for miles just 181 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.480 to get the hell away from the big bear. I didn't have a spotting 182 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.159 scope. I was just using my naked eye and it's basically a black dot 183 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.320 morbid. So it really didn't mean nothing to me. I assumed him as 184 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:18.759 a bear. This guy, he gets a little butt hurt that I'm not 185 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.639 just jumping right in on the hairy mat. Not that I didn't believe him, 186 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.159 it's just, you know, we're there for bear. My mind wasn't 187 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.919 on it like that. So he sits there and he starts telling me we 188 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.519 need to leave, we need to leave, and we're like, dude, 189 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.159 this guy paid a lot of money to be there, and now he's talking 190 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.799 about we gotta leave. And I asked what do you mean leave? He 191 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.960 goes. I was like, get back to camp, dude, you realize 192 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.320 how much work we did just to get here. And he got upset. 193 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.039 He was like, I can't be here. I can't be here. I'm 194 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.279 not going to have my tent flipped. I'm not going to have my tent 195 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.240 flip. We're like, dude, no one's flipping your tent. It's a 196 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.000 black dot. Calm down, We're okay, we're safe. We all three 197 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.480 had a very high power rifle. I had a three thirty eight, The 198 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:11.679 Guide had a forty five seventy bush gun, and the hunter had some outrageous 199 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:15.679 I think it was a three hundred ultramag. Firepower was at plenty. I 200 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.399 wasn't worried about whatever it may have been. This guy was adamant. He 201 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:24.639 would not drop it. He stopped being quiet. He was almost dancing around 202 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.440 like he had already put his spot and scope away, cand all this stuff 203 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.759 packed back up, and he was like, I can't be here. I 204 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.919 can't be here. I'm not going to be flipped. So what had happened 205 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.919 to him four years before in the Brooks Range? It traumatized this guy. 206 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:46.679 He wanted no parts of even a potential running with the Harryman. It got 207 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.799 to a certain point where the guide was like, hey man, I'm not 208 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.480 going to lose money because you're scared of something that hasn't happened. The guy 209 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.440 said, f the money, I need to go. Let's get back to 210 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.240 can't use the radio, get me out of here. You guys can stay 211 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.120 all you want. I gotta go, and the guy just like, we'll 212 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.039 have to put that in writing. I'm not gonna get sued because you chose 213 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.960 to get scared and leave, and then I have to be out all this 214 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.519 money for logistics and all that, which I understood. So as we're making 215 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.679 our way back to camp, they didn't even properly spot this thing. Come 216 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.919 to find out, the guy when he got the scope near on it and 217 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.879 saw a black movie, he just kind of messed him up. The guide 218 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.240 wanted to get back to camp because it was I'm telling you, it was 219 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.720 a brutal swamp. Everything is mushy, you're falling through it. It was 220 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.080 this horrible We get back to camp and I'm talking to the guy down at 221 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.480 the beach. We're down there smoking a cigarette because the guy was like, 222 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.120 can you smoke away from me, I'm a nile smoker. Hey, it's 223 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:46.080 your money. So we're down on the beach talking and we're not making fun 224 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.000 of the guy. Okay, don't misunderstand me. We're trying to understand why 225 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.519 is he so freaked out because we lost sight of the black dot. We 226 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.360 don't know where it went. Our camp was a two by two constructed with 227 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.879 clear visc queen over it, so we could see if bears come around, 228 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.200 there's basically just a little dry in the little platform. It may even still 229 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.759 be sitting there on Univarctic Beach, just past the high tide mark and above 230 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.799 the bluff. We're there and we can see very clearly at three hundred and 231 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.919 sixty degrees around us the visc queen. We could even see Pinnacle Rock, 232 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.440 and not in great detail, but we can make stuff out right. So 233 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.039 we smoke our cigares, we discussed. He was like, I'm gonna get 234 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.519 on the radio and see about getting them a flight. And by this time, 235 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.399 by time we got back to camp, it wasn't no, I'm going 236 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.320 to fucking fly in from Dillingham at that time of day. He I don't, 237 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.480 no, no, tomorrow morning whatever. So he got it arranged. 238 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.000 He was off on the radio and I'm talking to the guy, the Hunter. 239 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.120 I'm right, hey, bro, there's a lot of money to just 240 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.879 kick aside. Nothing's happened. We saw a black dout running. I understand 241 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.320 your concerns. I'm not trying to take away from that, but why not 242 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.120 give it a few days. Let's wait till something actually happens. And so 243 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.559 he was like, yeah, I understand what you're saying, but you weren't 244 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.519 flipped in a tent. I was like, okay, fair enough, it 245 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.919 goes. Do you not believe me? I said no, I do believe 246 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.320 you one hundred percent. Dude. You're lucky you got off like that. 247 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.679 You're lucky that wasn't just a sack watch you didn't throw over his shoulder and 248 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.039 take off with you. I'm not mocking yet. I believe you. I'm 249 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.240 just trying to get you to calm down and not throw away just a lot 250 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.240 of money. Just look it up on the internet guided brown Bearry Hunt. 251 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:27.080 He's calmed down a little bit, and I'm trying to reason with the guy, 252 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:33.840 even though he was so adamant that I was getting scared. I was 253 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.480 like Jesus at this point, it was all shake a tree one here, 254 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.960 maybe there was one back behind you at the same time type stuff. There 255 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.759 was never that close contact that kind of what ended up happening in oh six. 256 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.879 But after talking to him a little bit, he calmed down, and 257 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.000 when the guy came back in and said, hey, we'll have a flight 258 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:59.480 here. I have a small window in the morning to cancel this flight because 259 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.200 if I don't, I don't castle the flight by eleven am. He's going 260 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.920 to be here by two o'clock and no refunds. And the guy looked at 261 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.880 him. He goes, why ain't he here tonight? He was a guy 262 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:17.559 where he's not going to fly out this time of night because that's IFR And 263 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:22.400 he's a VFI pilot instrument versus visual, just a difference in bush pilots. 264 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.599 Whatever they're rating. The guy accepts it and he goes, who's taking first 265 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.279 watch? I laughed. I was like, we all have guns, we're 266 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.440 all on watch. We got a clear vis queen tail here. We can't 267 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.240 see perfectly, but we could see movement. If something's moving around us, 268 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.519 we'll be all right. We're in the middle of a plot of grass that 269 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.759 goes one hundred yards every direction except in front of us, where it's the 270 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.480 beachline, where we have a small little drop, it's probably about a four 271 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.799 foot drop where the grass hangs over where it's eroded along the beach, and 272 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.920 then you got the gravel and the sand and all that it wraps around. 273 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:02.160 And of course freaking loud seed Linn is out in the water. So I 274 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.759 reassure him, hey, I'll take first watch. You know, I'll step 275 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.839 up as long as I can. Then I'll wake you up directly so you 276 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.319 can have your own eyes on stuff. And I promise you I will watch 277 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.440 out. I'll even go and start a bonfire and keep it going as best 278 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.599 I can with the limited wood we had. I scored and found some good 279 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.720 driftwood about a quarter mile down the beach. So I get this good bonfire 280 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:27.599 going and the guy starts drinking whiskey. I didn't know he had already started 281 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:32.400 drinking whiskey when we first got back to camp. At first, I was 282 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.880 like, why didn't you share? But anyway, unbeknounce me. He's getting 283 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.680 liquored up in the tent while I'm doing all this bonfire shit. The guide 284 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:41.799 comes out and he goes, hey, Fred kmere and then I go over 285 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.279 and he goes, dude, do you got any marijuana? And I was 286 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.240 like no. You know, he goes the guy wants some pot. He's 287 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.440 still freaking out, and I was like, I don't know what to tell 288 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:55.440 you. It doesn't grow here. And so he goes, okay, yeah, 289 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.200 I just thought I would ask her. I was like okay. So 290 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.880 he goes back, and I'm getting this going. And the fire ring that 291 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:06.400 I made was just up from the bluff blocked by this little bit of a 292 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:10.200 burn, like four foot little bank or whatever, to where it doesn't just 293 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.680 blow embers back into the dry grass kind of thing. It was a little 294 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:17.599 bit of a depression where I got it going. And so I'm basically sitting 295 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:22.119 on a log with my back towards the tent and looking out at Nunavarcic Bay, 296 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.640 just admiring the natural beauty. And he got off the sheer clips going 297 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.759 up the side. Then you got pinnacle Rock, and then you got round 298 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.599 island almost straight out from you, where you can hear the wall wrists making 299 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.720 their bellows in the distance. It's just a beautiful scene. And I'm just 300 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.839 sitting there admiring there. Way back in the valley. I hear this long, 301 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:49.079 droning moan type scream that ends in a very high are kind of pitch, 302 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.200 and I was like, shit, I know exactly what that was. 303 00:19:53.880 --> 00:20:00.039 Before I could even tand up from that log, the Hunter was down on 304 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.359 the beach ran past me as I'm standing up to turn. He's already leaping 305 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.240 off the onto the beach on the open. He's got a gun. He's 306 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:14.640 freaking out. I'm like, dude, stay tuned for more sasquatch out to 307 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:21.640 see. We'll be right back after these messages. Put the gun down, 308 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.880 put the gun down, Calm down, and we'll all take points and we'll 309 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:32.119 make sure we're okay. Nothing came in on us. It was just that 310 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.039 scream and the black dot. That's all that happened on this treadon. But 311 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.240 this guy, and I get it. I'm not mocking the guy. If 312 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.720 you happen to see this dude, his name was Craig. Hey man, 313 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.000 I'm not mocking you. I feel you. But you were out there in 314 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.759 that moment. He was hot muzzling me and the hunter and shit. Plus 315 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.599 he had been drinking. Never some people when they get to a certain level 316 00:20:53.599 --> 00:21:00.000 of drinking you can't reason with them. This guy fortunately wasn't at that point, 317 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.480 so I was able to talk him just calm down, and I started 318 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.839 bullshitting him. I was like, hey, Mary, I've shot these things 319 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.680 in the eye before and they dropped dead. We're good, We'll be okay. 320 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.240 I was blown, smoke up his ass. He calms down and I 321 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.759 said, what we'll do is we'll keep our backs to the beach. I'm 322 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.839 move this log to this side of the fire, and we'll keep an eye 323 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.880 out. So what I mean by that is we kept the fire quasi beside 324 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:30.000 us because you wanted to keep your night vision. So he agrees and we 325 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.960 sit down han his log. Now, I had him take the round out 326 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.960 of the chamber. I showed him, Hey, you've been drinking. I 327 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.960 haven't. I have around in the chamber. I'll have time to fire and 328 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.160 you can chamber around and back me up if something happens. Right, Yeah, 329 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.279 that's a good idea. And it's getting to this point of drunk like, 330 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.200 hey, I'm not going to be thrown I'm not going to be thrown 331 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.440 in the tent again. And the guide has had it like, is you 332 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.519 know what, man, we understand you're freaked out. Darrow, you're leaving 333 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.079 tomorrow, he goes. Even if you get up in the morning and you 334 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.119 change your mind, dude, you're leaving tomorrow, You're gone. No refunds. 335 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.640 We were here to do this and this is unacceptable, and rightfully the 336 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.519 guy is messing with his money, even though I think he gave him a 337 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.920 half partial return or something, just because he's a good guy. But he 338 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.599 was pissed in the Mongler. I literally sat there, not for everyone once 339 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.160 in to morrow listening to this guy. It wouldn't even share his whiskey. 340 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.799 Asshole. He's sitting there and he's not drowning in sorrows, but he's self 341 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.240 medicating, is what this guy is doing. So what had happened to him 342 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:40.799 four years prior up in the Brooks Range really affected him hard, like really 343 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:45.480 hard. So things like that happen to people, and a lot of them 344 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.160 don't share it because at the time I glad to kill them a little bit 345 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.960 myself, even though I've seen them. I know they're out there looking back 346 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:56.559 on that. I feel bad because me doing that and the hunter doing that, 347 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.519 may it cause him to never share that open lee and get it off 348 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:06.200 his chest because obviously he was traumatized enough four years later to start hitting the 349 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:11.039 bottle really hard just at the thought of it. Just something to think about. 350 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:17.359 There's people that have these things happen, and in certain areas, I 351 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.960 know, places down lower forty eight. Buddy Scott sent me some photos and 352 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:23.920 then they appeared to be pretty thick down there too. Thankfully, they're not 353 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:30.119 aggressive like up here. Something that I wanted to say as well is these 354 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.200 things are not unique to me. So if you hear these experiences in these 355 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.519 encounters, be like, man, there's no way wait till you hear others. 356 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.480 I got other people that are going to be sharing their experiences, and 357 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.960 it's eye opening. We have so many encounters of First Nations that we don't 358 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.480 share. We just don't. Every once in a while you hear a couple 359 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.839 of people from Alaska and other channels, but as a majority, you don't 360 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:59.519 hear it on enough of a basis. And that's another reason for this channel 361 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.000 is to get my fellow Alaskans or First Nations to share. You don't have 362 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.440 to leave your name or any of that crap. You can remain anonymous. 363 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:10.480 It's not a big deal. Just share the experience. And where it happened, 364 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.720 and the nature of the experience aggressive, curious, just saw it in 365 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.960 the distance running by. Whatever it may be, it doesn't matter. It 366 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.680 doesn't have to be an experienced where it's a holy shit moment. Just seeing 367 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.240 one of these things is a holy shit moment. That's enough, you know 368 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:32.119 what I mean? Because even though when I was little and I knew I 369 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.720 seen them at a distance, but until they started throwing rocks at the boat 370 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.839 in nineteen eighty three, they weren't real. They were real, but there 371 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:44.599 was no context to it, so to speak. And I just want to 372 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:48.279 encourage those who have had any experiences. I got a backlog of people that 373 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.359 have shared. I'm trying to work some of that into the documentary because some 374 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:57.000 of a good portion of them are First Nations and so I want the documentary 375 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:02.279 I'm doing is the first part of it are going to be strictly First Nations 376 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:06.720 from Alaska perspective, and then it's going to expand from there. And it's 377 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.960 nothing against anyone else, it's just there's a huge lack of through and through 378 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:18.880 First Nations type documentary on the Hairy mat. It's a large unspoken part of 379 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.240 our culture. You can have an encounter with your cousin when you get back 380 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.880 to the village. Just guess what you ain't talking about it. Look at 381 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.279 those guys in Klaganick. It happens all the time. They don't talk about 382 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.480 it. New Studio hawk happens all the time. They don't talk about it. 383 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:38.279 They get back and it's daily life. It's daily life, and it's 384 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:44.920 accepted. There's no guessing. Last time I was in Klaganick, an elder 385 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.920 told me to pick up a gun. You need to be armed, you 386 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.039 know. Anyway. Some of these things may seem out landish. It may 387 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.720 seem geez, what's going on with this guy? Gosh, is he making 388 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.680 something up enough? I don't have to doesn't matter of facts. Some of 389 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.599 the stuff I don't even share because it sounds so crazy. I just don't 390 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:07.960 want to be the mouthpiece for everyone. I want them to speak for themselves. 391 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:15.119 Anyone seeking these things, careful what you wish for. I know of 392 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:19.039 three places that I could probably go right now if I had the resources to 393 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:23.920 get there, and within forty eight hours, some scary, hairy shit's gonna 394 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:30.240 have And I say that with confidence because of the times I've been there and 395 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:36.599 hearing from others that have been there. Same shit, same shit. Right 396 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:40.160 after dark. They come in, they circle, they sniff, they try 397 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:42.480 to break in. Okay, let me give you an example. Newyacok River 398 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:47.319 on the New Yorkuk River, when it branches off from the New Shigak River, 399 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:49.400 they have salmon counting towers. And at one of these towers is where 400 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.759 I had my experience in six but we were up by New Yakuk Falls. 401 00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:59.480 The first salmon counting tower that's on the New Year Cuck is like a bunk 402 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.279 house. Do It's much bigger than the one we were at. There's a 403 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:08.440 shed there, an actual shed where they would keep generators, so are light 404 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:12.160 our equipment for the counting tower. That type of shit, right, that 405 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:18.680 particular one people use quite often because it's just not even a quarter mile up 406 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:23.119 to the New Yorkuk up where it branches from the Newsigak and that's just south 407 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:27.200 of Harris Creek on Theiak. This group of guys, I know them all 408 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:32.799 very well, grew up with. This happened three years ago. Okay. 409 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.720 They were up at that particular Saturn counting tower and when they got there the 410 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.160 bunk house, someone was already camped out in it. A group of moose 411 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:47.079 hunters trophy moose up there, and that's typically as far as most hunters go 412 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:49.039 up to niw Yakuk. I don't know of any at least locals, and 413 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.400 I don't even know of any outfits that take people up there. I know 414 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:56.079 now there's a new Yakuk River fishing line, but that's like flying shit. 415 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.799 Anyways, they get up there and they can't sleep in the main bunk area 416 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:06.200 because it's full five six people or whatever. And there was three of them, 417 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.720 four of them in their party. So this little shock that they went 418 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:14.480 and sat in. It had a three hinge door and it wasn't chintzy, 419 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:18.039 but it was basically strong enough for snowload and that was about it. And 420 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.960 so as they're in there, they were just starting to doze off. But 421 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.440 they kept their firearms because they saw a lot of bear sign when they got 422 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.680 there, right, so they had their firearms near them, loaded safeties on, 423 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.680 of course, because they're not ignorant guys. Halfway through the night, 424 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.839 they get woken up from the guys in the bomb that where they couldn't stay 425 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:42.599 right, so they get woken up. The guys are like Hey, we're 426 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:47.599 heading out. We're not efing staying in this damn place. Screw this place. 427 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.319 They didn't. They're just okay. And when they woke them up, 428 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:53.880 they had already packed all their shit out of that little bunk house and got 429 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:59.000 it in their skiff and they drifted away. It was still dark out. 430 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:00.440 These guys, they they got out of there, they're like, hey, 431 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.000 listen, I sleep in the damn shed. There's bunks in there. Let's 432 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.279 go. As they were gathering up, they're packs and their guns and stuff 433 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:12.200 to go into the main little counting tower, the counting tower shack or whatever. 434 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.200 The second skiff that was part of that group was just get ready to 435 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:19.559 leave, and one of the guys said, make sure you lock that door. 436 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.720 And that's all they said, and they drip away their spotlighting. They're 437 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:26.279 looking for rocks and stuff. Because the new he cuts the Shell river, 438 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.720 you got another channel. They move all their stuff middle all of the night 439 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.680 over into the other bunk They light a lantern in the back bunking area, 440 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.200 which is roughly twice the size of the one I was in. And so 441 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:44.400 they're all on these bumps. Now there's a door that separates the bunk part 442 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:48.880 from the kitchen living area just on adjacent to it. It's all attached, 443 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:53.839 but there's an inner doorway and outer door. They didn't lock it right. 444 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.680 So they're sitting there and the door to the bunk area where they're at is 445 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.599 just slight red yar just slightly. As they're sitting there talking the lanterns in 446 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.200 the back of the rope, their shadows are cast towards this doorway, right, 447 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.359 but they're talking. There's there's two on the bunk across from one guy 448 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:17.599 and this guy that this particular happened to all of them. I'll get to 449 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.240 it. So there's one guy in the lower bunk and two on the other 450 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:23.119 one, and it was just three of them. I apologize if I said 451 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:26.480 for it, but no, there was just three of them. And the 452 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.920 guy on the top bunk on the opposite side kept hearing something. He goes, 453 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:34.599 did you lock that door? It sounded like someone stepped in. He 454 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.880 was like, for what, Bears can't open doors. They weren't thinking about 455 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.400 the Harryman. This time goes on. They're discussing because now they're wide awake. 456 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.480 They had bized off a little bit and were woken up to the guys 457 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:51.720 leaving right, they hear the outside door. Someone was messing with the door, 458 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:53.720 and every wonder if they forgot something. The guy on the lower box 459 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.480 grabs splash light, swings open the door, turns on the light. Because 460 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:03.599 there was no white out in the area between the bunk area and the outside 461 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:07.480 door, it was dark, so he beams a light and the door's wide 462 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.200 open. He walks over and he shuts it. He didn't lock it, 463 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.960 he just shut it. What wasn't going to fiddle with it, wasn't really 464 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.079 worried about it. Just didn't want the door banging right, So he shuts 465 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.200 it. It, walks back in and sits down. And as soon as 466 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.359 he sits down and he kind of claws, he shuts the door and leaves 467 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:27.799 a little bit of a gap so he can see out where his position is 468 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:33.200 on the bunk. That outside door opens again, and they hear three steps. 469 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.839 Now it's it's like a good fifteen foot distance between that outer door and 470 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.680 that inner door to the bunk area, and this thing took three steps. 471 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.440 This harry Man pushes the door open, has his hand on top of the 472 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:51.319 door and leans in and leans his head up because the threshold of the door 473 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.440 was behind his neck at this point, and it looks at all of the 474 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.400 looks down at the guy on the lower buck, and then looks at the 475 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.359 one on the bigger bunk and smiles at it dude on the upper bunk. 476 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.480 But they were all in shock. But he had to president enough to grab 477 00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.480 the rifle and click the safety. And when he clicked the safety, this 478 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.519 thing disappeared very quickly. But as it was going out the door, it 479 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:17.160 tried to grab the guy that was on the lower bunk that had just shut 480 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:22.119 that outside door, grabbed a hold of his jacket and tore part of his 481 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.400 goose down jacket off of him, and he pushed the door to keep himself 482 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.480 in the room as this thing ripped the jacket off of them, and they 483 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:35.279 heard it run out. Those types of things happened on the New Yekuk River. 484 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.640 It is a no joke place. I'm not just saying that facetiously. 485 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.039 I'm not just trying to oh, I know this spot. No, that's 486 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:46.480 a spot where they will come to you if you're in one of those counting 487 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:52.880 tower shacks. It's just a matter of turning before one or more is there. 488 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:57.920 That's just a fact. Logistically, getting there is a serious bitch, 489 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.599 though, because if way up river flying is expensive, floatplanes can't land in 490 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:07.240 that particular part because it's too shallow. So it's happening far more regularly than 491 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:12.640 people realize because no one talks about it. They say, you don't gotta 492 00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:21.519 go home, but you can't stay. No, I don't want to be 493 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:53.559 we're all out it chid this job that chid everything right back. Joy for 494 00:33:53.799 --> 00:34:29.760 me, the joy, stay right away, sidings side still stay, says 495 00:34:30.840 --> 00:35:10.880 side stay, State still sus inst stay place and PSI statis and ensis used pssst