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Now one of your pudding. I
got a string going on here, something

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just because my dog. Something killed
your dog. My dog. We're flying

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through the air over the tree.
I don't know how it did it,

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Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming

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over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,

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I didn't see any cars. All
I saw was my dog coming over

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the fence. Sat what are you
putting? We got some wonder or something

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crawling around out here? Did you
see what it was? Or was it

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was? Standing enough? I'm out
here looking through the window now and I

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don't see anything. I don't want
to go outside. Jesus Quice, you

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better hello, hit somebody out here? What quent on out there? I

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thought of a bit just about text
fort nine. I don't know easy him

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out there? Yeah righty oh reading
he's just spread in Alaska. Thanks for

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joining me. What I wanted to
share with you today, what we'll call

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this pilot buck Buck sent me an
email approximately three months ago from bear hunt

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in the spring. He had two
out of state hunters that he flew out

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east of Saltcha, dropped them off
at their camp, and he wasn't going

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to stay at the camp. He
was going to fly back, tend to

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some other things at home. He's
from Alaska. Leave it at that.

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It took three months to hear back
from him from his initial email, just

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being busy in summertime and all that, but he finally got back the hold

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of me. Initially he only got
one portion of the story to me.

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I had to wait and finally heard
back from him and got the whole thing

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down, So I have to talk
to him. He dropped the hunters off.

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They were out of state. They
were excited they were getting the rown

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bear hunting. So he got them
dropped off with the guides and he was

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just the pilot. He takes off
and he decides he's gonna someone else pay

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for his fuel. He had about
an hour's worth of free time, so

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to speak. So he decided he's
going to go north of where he dropped

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these people off. Flew over some
mountains and where he landed to just landed

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on the tundra, had sparse trees
off to his left, bigger timber off

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to his right, all within five
hundred yards. So he landed. He

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kind of taxi turned around into the
wind, got out, and he decided,

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I'm gonna grab my day bag and
I'm going to walk over to those

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trees over there and just check it
out, because he said it was more

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silent that he's been to some quiet
places, just quiet in general, but

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he said it was very quiet when
he got out of the plane, which

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he found odd. He thought maybe
his ears needed to pop, so he

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decided he grabs his day bag.
He had a four to fifty four casole

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on a chest holster. He had
a larger seven millimere rifle in the airplane,

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but a four fifty four had extra
ammo. So he decided he's going

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to hike off approximately close to five
hundred yards off to his right from where

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he had parked the plane. As
he's going across the tundra, as he's

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getting closer to this tree line,
he notices that there's movement way way back

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in the tree line, just broken
you through trees and whatnot, kind of

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like behind me. If something was
to move back over there or whatever.

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It was just dark, so he
assumed a moose. Ah, that's cool.

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He had a digital camera. He
stopped. He got his digital camera

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out of his pack, put it
around his neck, made sure everything was

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good, put his pack back on, and continue walking straight. And as

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he's getting close to this tree line, he starts getting a feeling of being

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watched. So he's just looking all
around trying to figure out why am I

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feeling this? No one is there. He knows no one is there because

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he flew over the place. There
was no one there that he saw.

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No other planes, no tents,
no hikers, no hunters, none of

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that. Eh, you're just alone. You're just a little spooked. You're

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okay. So Buck continues on up
to the trees, and it's black spruce.

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I've showed examples of that, like
when I was remote the remote af

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video or whatever. I was showing
the tundra how it meets the black spruce

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and the berry patches and stuff.
So he's basically walking to a berry patch.

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There was no berries at the time, but he's just looking around because

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it was a new area to him. He had puddle jumped to ponds and

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stuff when he was on floats and
checked out some places. But he was

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excited, so he wanted to explore. As Buck gets up to the tree

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line, he decides he's going to
squat down and listen for that moose.

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He starts doing a female moose call, just to see if he could bring

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it out. He's got that digital
camera. He wants to get a picture,

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some wildlife photography. He's photographed polar
bears and various other animals in Alaska,

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so he was stoked to be in
a position to hopefully get a good

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picture of a big bull moose.
You know which, You know, I

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understand, I'm not a photographer per
se, but I get why people like

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to take photographs like that. So
as he's sitting there and he's making this

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female grunt trying to draw in this
bull moose, he notices something landing on

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the tundra. He just kept hearing
a little, just little disturbances in the

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tundra around him, and out of
the corner of his eye, he notices

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one lands really close to him and
it's a tiny rock, and he's trying

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to figure out where in the hell
are these rocks. Then he starts paying

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attention and notices all the other little
rocks. So this has got to be

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a hunter. How did I miss
him flying over? Maybe he's a lone

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hunter, got dropped off doing his
own thing. So he calls out,

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hey, I'm over here. I
got a digital camera. I thought you

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were a moose. What have you? No response, still dead quiet,

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he said when he called out.
As soon as he was done calling out,

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something came over him, a feeling
of dread that he said he never

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felt before, even being in the
presence of polar bears, charged by brown

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bears, charged by moose, he
never had that kind of uncomfortable fear.

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He said. He felt uncomfortable in
his skin. Like every like I've stated

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before every party, he wants to
run and you don't know why. So

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he stands up and he's calling out
again. He goes, hey, I'm

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armed over here, don't shoot.
I blew my plane in over here.

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And he's pointing back at his plane
and everything. And as this is going

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on, rocks keep falling around in
periodically. So against his better judgment,

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he decides he's going to go further
in because at this point he's just at

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the edge of the black spruce.
As I've shown videos before, it gets

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thick real fast. So he starts
making his way through there. As he's

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looking, he keeps hearing a guttural
grunt. Once he gets about twenty yards

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in, it starts and then it's
just almost a continuous and he's trying to

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figure out why how was a bear
making a continuous growl without a huff and

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catching his breath or whatever. He
said, it lasted. It seemed like

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almost a solid minute, and that
stopped him. Now he's roughly twenty yards

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in, he said, and he
decides, I'm gonna instead of penetrating in,

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I'm gonna go laterally. I'm just
gonna parallel and stay the same distance

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and see if I can get eyes
on it. He had his pistol,

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he had his camera ready. So
as he's walking along, he's literally holding

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his digital camera and he's looking down
to make sure that it's on, and

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it was on, and he's sidestepping, and so as he sidestepping, he

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bumps into small brush. He stops, eren squat's down. He's listening.

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He hears brush moving about. He
said, roughly about thirty yards in front

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of him at the most. And
that was a rough guess because of how

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close the trees where. It was
hard to gauge how far away the sound

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was originating. So he's looking in
the direction. He thinks, this moose,

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bear, whatever it is moving,
but he hears the movement in front

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of him, so he trades his
focus there. Now, just as he's

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getting ready, he's got the camera
up, he's looking, he's making sure

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he's got a good focus in it's
autofocusing properly, and as he's doing his

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adjustments, the camera goes out,
just dead dead as a door nill,

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and he's shocked by this. It
took his attention away from his surroundings.

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So he's looking trying to figure out
getting the power back by his damn So

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he takes his pack off. He's
got spare batteries, so he's in the

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middle of changing out these batteries.
He's not He fully admitted he felt stupid

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because he was not on his game. He was not paying attention to the

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surroundings around him. He got focused
tunnel vision on getting these batteries changed out

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in his camera. So as he's
doing it, just as he's removing the

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old ones, he had a little
poll tap to release the batteries. So

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he's doing that and he hears a
scream. He said the scream that he

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heard felt like it was going to
shatter his ear drums and he felt it

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in his chest. So he literally
drops his camera and he's holding his ears

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in this scream. He said it
sounded like it was standing over and whatever

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was screaming was over him. Is
a feeling, So immediately he drops the

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camera. He's scrambling back. He's
got his pack off to his right side,

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camera's right in front of him,
and he's drawing his pistol. He

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doesn't know what the hell this sound
is. Never heard anything like it.

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Been flying for forty plus years,
never had anything like that happen. He

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scrambles backwards. He's got the pistol
out now, and he's still trying to

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shield his ears because the scream,
he said, lasted. It seemed like

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forever, but he said, realistically, probably just shy of a minute.

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And he said it was loud the
whole time, and it only whined down

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towards the end, like an old
air raid siren. So as soon as

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it's winding down in that it's no
longer piercing. He's immediately got that hammer

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cocked on that four fifty four and
he's on point. He's freaked out.

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He leans forty, grabs his camera, he stuffs it in his bag.

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He's literally trying to do everything one
handed. He was shaking like a leaf

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in the wind. He could not
control the shaking that was going on.

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He gets his pack, he slings
it over his shoulder. It wasn't even

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zip closed all the way. He
said he lost some survival equipment out of

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it or way, but he didn't
care. He wanted to get to his

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plane and get the hell out of
Dodge. So he stands up and he

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makes his way back, going parallel
to the tree line, back to where

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he came into the trees. And
as he's backing out, he said he's

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kept seeing movement, but the trees
were so close he would only catch just

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shades of black, shades of brown, like a reddish brown, moving around,

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and he never got a full site
picture to whatever was going back and

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forth. He said he had no
clue at the time. As he backs

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out and he clears the tree line
where he was initially kneeling, he had

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taken off a baklava or something like
that and left it on the trund.

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He noticed it as he was backing
out. He bent down, he grabbed

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it, stuffed it in his pocket, and as he did, right in

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front of him, he said,
about less than fifty feet away, this

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thing stepped out and showed itself to
him. Now the shock of it,

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he dropped his pistol. The backpack
slid off his shoulder, and he basically

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melt it down to his knees in
shock. He said it was approximately ten

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foot tall, really dark colored skin. He said it was like a very

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dark buck hyde color. He said
around the face it was bare from hair,

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but the hair that was right wrapped
around was like a blonde straw color

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that faded into kind of a grizzled
couldn't see the ears because of the hair,

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had no neck, shoulders weren't all
that wide. He said. It

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was fairly narrow for its height.
So chewback up but bigger. He gathers

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himself after seeing this, grabs a
pistol, shoots in the air, thing

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doesn't move, grabs his pack,
stands up, drops the pack, turns

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around and starts high tailing it back
towards the plane. Now, he said,

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every third to fourth step he was
looking back over his shoulder and he

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was fumbling with the gun. He
said he never felt like such a rookie

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in his life. The way he
was handling his firearm. He said,

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he felt like a dumb kid that
didn't know what he was doing. He

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was so shook up. And as
he was taking these steps and then looking

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back, every time he looked back, this thing seemed to be the identical

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distance It had come out of the
tree line as he moved. So every

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third fourth step he's looking back,
this sing was keeping the same distance,

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but pacing him back to his plane. Now he estimated five hundred yards.

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So he shot once in the air. He still has I believe. He

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said it was a five shot.
He saw it four in the cylinder,

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and he didn't want to shoot.
He didn't know what this thing was.

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He said it looked human, real
broad nose, latch of the face,

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classic description, black eyes, blacker
than black was his description. He said

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that when he would look back,
it almost had a look of pleasure on

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its face, he said, And
I asked him if he could elaborate,

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and he goes he it was smiling, and I was like, was it

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showing its teeth? He said,
no, it was smiling, just a

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big smile. And that freaked him
out even more. So. You got

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to imagine he's running through tundra moss. Okay, it's not easy to run

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through. It's spongy. It gives
it can be bouncy. They trip you

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up real easy. So he was
running, tripping fall, jumping up,

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running every few steps, looking back, and this scene was keeping the distance.

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Now, he said, what really
freaked him out, like above all

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of that, was when he got
to the plane and threw open the door

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on his piper cub when he looked
back, because he was ready at that

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point, I'm going to shoot when
I turn around. When he turned around,

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he had just looked over his shoulder
three to four steps before that.

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It was still there. When he
got to the plane, threw open his

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door and turned around gone. He
said, it had to have moved fast

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to get back to the trees,
because when he's looking around, he looked

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around the plane. He ducked down
and looked under to see if it possibly

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jumped over him, went around the
plane when he wasn't looking to make sure

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he wasn't being ambushed. So he's
freaking out looking around. He sees it

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at the tree line when he looks
back in that direction, and when he

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looks back in that direction, he
sees that it is moving his pack with

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its foot. He jumped in the
plane, he fired up and flew out

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of there. When he was explaining, I asked him to explain the fear,

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what did it feel like? And
he honestly he didn't have a description.

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So I didn't push because this happened
just a handful of months ago and

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he hasn't stopped doing his work,
but he has a hard time now going

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back to places like that, which
totally understandable. Hey Buck, if you're

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watching this, thanks for sharing with
everyone. During our conversation, it was

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very clear and evident that what he
was experiencing was very traumatic, because there

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was a few times when he was
talking about the guy had to pause to

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check himself from breaking down a little
bit when he was self blaming, feeling

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like a coward, and I was
like, hey man, don't feel like

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a coward. Bro that trusts me. Anyone else in your shoes, they

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would have been doing the same thing, if not worse. I told him,

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I've seen hardened woodsman who wet themselves, so don't be too hard on

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yourself. I want to thank him
for sharing. He mentioned that he's going

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to get hold of another buddy that
had told him of an experience he had

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out flying bush plane, and he
never believed his friend for five ten years.

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However long his friend experience happened before
that, he just chalked it up

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to he's just giving me grief.
He didn't see nothing, and then this

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thing happened to him. So now
he has a better respect for what his

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friend went through. So hopefully his
friend will get in touch and I'll be

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able to share that as well.
Reading is this fread in Alaska? Another

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beautiful Alaskan day. I'm going to
share with you today an instance that happened

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two years ago just outside of Platinum
at the Platinum Mines southwest Alaska Bearing Coast,

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just north of Togiak. It would
be south southeast of the village of

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Platinum. Guys, they were spotting
herring down Togiak and they had some days

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off, so they decided they're going
to go check out the platinum mine.

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Now, it's wind swept coast up
there, so there's virtually no trees.

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It's just a tundra like material like
I've shown you guys, maybe scrubbrush,

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that's it, and a bunch of
jagged cliffs. Beautiful. They're back up

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in there, and it's federally protected. They shouldn't have been there. They

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just happened to pass on through there
and didn't realize. As they were on

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the ground looking around and checking things
out, a couple kids from the village

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were on their four wheeler. They
come ripping by and circled back and asked

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them if they were the FEDS,
and they're like no. They said,

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we better get out of here before
the FEDS come and harass us about people

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being up here. So they took
it serious and they was like, okay,

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not a problem. So they get
back into their plane and they taxi

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and they just taxi over this little
sloping hill and they had big tun of

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tires on, so it wasn't a
big deal. But they taxi on over

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and go down into a meadow that
drops back off when you're going away from

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the coast. There. They killed
it because they saw the signs behind him

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that said federal property or whatever protected. They were just outside of that boundary.

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So they jumped back out of the
plane and they want to look for

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deceased walrus or whatever. They just
basically scavenge hunt see what they could find.

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They start walking and they start getting
into the deeper scrub brush that's off

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from the coast a little ways because
it gets the winds there get treacherous,

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just treacherous coastal winds. It's beautiful
but miserable. So they get back up

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in about a mile and a half
from the plane. Neither one of them

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are armed, neither one of them
had even bear spray. They just landed

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and went. The pilot was talking
to a spotter and asking him do you

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smell that? And the guy that
was spotting for him said, no,

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I don't smell anything outside of the
coastal breeze. Then he instantly caught a

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whiff of it and it was very
strong. He said it was like a

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musty urine, dead dog, dead
something mixture all rolled up into one.

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He said it wasn't one distinct more
than the whether. It was just a

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goulash. So they continued. Now
the path they were on it just neanders

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down on through all these little small
shrubs. It's nothing. It's pretty much

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straight, but it has a slight
bit of a curve to it. But

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as they start into that brush,
they saw a couple of spots from higher

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up on the rise. There are
some depressions down in there, and potentially

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they thought it was a dead walrus. Maybe they could harvest some ivory,

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so they're going on back there.
There was no dead walrus. There was

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nothing in these places they cut back
through. One was about thirty feet off

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that game trail, and the other
one was on the opposite side about the

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same distance. But the one off
to the left was a little smaller versus

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the one off to the right,
So they figured they'd try out the one

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on the right first. Because the
shrubs are tall enough they can't see,

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and it's dense enough they can't see
through there to see what it is and

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not waste their time, so they
have to physically go in there and stay

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tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back after the east

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messages. So as they come back
into that clearing, they noticed that smell

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real bad, and they assumed maybe
it was a dead walrus, but it

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wasn't. There was nothing there but
a big swath that had just been packed

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down like something just walked in a
circle on it over and over again.

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He said, the vegetation was so
compacted it was embedded into the ground.

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That takes quite a bit, especially
walking over it and over it again.

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And so they were dumbfounded looking at
this whatever it was, and trying to

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figure out, what the hell are
we dealing with. So they decided they

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didn't want to deal with it,
and they went back out the way they

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came. Now, when they get
to the opening on the game trail,

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they noticed in front of them,
because these two spots are almost identically apart

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from each other, mirroring each other
on either side of the trail, they

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noticed dark movement swaying back and forth. They couldn't quite make out what it

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was. It was roughly thirty feet
away, but it was almost like it

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was peeking up and then lowering down. And then they started hearing this gruff,

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this quickening pant and as that's happening, they get a very uneasy feeling.

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And then he said it sounded like
a air siren, air raid siren

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going off. It had the volume
of an air raid siren, but different

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octaves all at once, and the
lowest part of that they were feeling in

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their chest, and he said he
could feel his cheeks jiggling. That's an

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impact, especially from that kind of
a scream that close. He said,

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it felt like it was going to
blow their ear drums. And they immediately,

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not even thinking about it, they
were both pauling ass. Now they're

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roughly a mile and a half and
they're booking it. And as they're running,

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they cleared the shrub brush and they're
out into the open tundra, just

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running on along this game trail,
and I could see the plane off in

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the distance. Because this is a
gradual, slow rise. It's just rolling

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kind of hills. It looks almost
like a manicured rolling hills in Ireland or

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Scotland or something, but it's actually
vegetation, just real small, short sized

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stuff and a seat of it.
So it gives the illusion of one smooth

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contour, but in actuality was full
of little divots and what have you.

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So they're running back and they stop
a little ways to catch their breath because

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they don't hear nothing. When they
turn around to look back, this thing

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was on all fours, approximately twenty
five feet behind them, sniffing their tracks.

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Wasn't actively being aggressive at that point, sniffing their tracks. Mann.

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It's one thing to be startled,
but can you imagine running thinking you're clear,

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you hear nothing, You turn around, it's just right there and it's

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sniffing the ground like getting your scent. So immediately they freak out again,

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instantly turn around, and they were
re energized to freaking run as they continue

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on. The spotter, which is
basically not a co pilot. He buys

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backstick. He wasn't the pilot.
It was the pilot's assistant, we'll call

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him. He was in behind,
and he had a knee injury from years

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before. He wasn't trying to be
behind. He couldn't help it. He

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had a physic limitation. The pilot
told me that he looked like a goldfish

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in a bowl trying to escape the
bowl, eyes bulging, panic stricken,

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trying to keep up with him.
So he intentionally slowed down and would look

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back for them to avoid his bad
legs or whatever, his hips or whatever

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it happened to be, to hinder
them and stop him, make them fall,

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or any of that. So he
took it upon himself to look back.

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But this thing virtually stayed twenty to
twenty five feet behind them at all

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times, at the same pace,
all except when they were getting up closer

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to the plane. There was a
couple little divots in the path, and

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once they got past that point,
it seemed like this thing stayed there,

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swaying back and forth, kind of
on all four squatting and was half standing

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up, sitting down, swaying back
and forth. He said, it was

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an oddest thing. It was like
it had ran into an invisible barrier and

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wanted to come forward, but just
couldn't seem to get past that barrier.

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And he said, that's just what
it looked like. Tangible to prove that,

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but just something to think about.
So it literally seemed like it came

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to a barrier, and they,
of course hop in the plane trying to

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catch their breath. He was panic
stricken trying to prime and get the engine

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fired up now as they were sitting
there, and he got it fired up.

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This thing was just right, just
at that same spot, swaying back

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and forth, looking at him.
He said, it was very dark,

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complexed, the flat nose wide couldn't
tell because of the complexion of the skin.

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It was hard to see where the
hair ended, but he knew around

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at least around the eyes it was
hairless, and they saw the lips real

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easy. He said that the eyes
were just jet black, like lifeless shark

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eyes or something. There was no
whites of the eyes or any of that.

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He said. The thing that was
just that blew them away. Was

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this was out in the open.
This is an open tundra with virtually no

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shrubs or anything. And from a
moment of looking down and adjusting something and

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telling his co pilot to, you
know, get buckled in because he was

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going to take off. He didn't
care about the bumps. He was going

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to get the hell out of there. What they ended up doing when they

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turned around, he spun around,
turned around one more time just to see

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if it was following, and it
was there was nowhere to be seen.

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This thing was just gone. He
didn't understand it. So he goes,

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you know what, we'll take off
and get a look for it. So

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they taxi on down, They take
off, they circle around, they're gaining

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out. As he got up to
about seven hundred and fifty feet, he

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leveled out and started flying over the
landing area where they walked, basically retracing

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their steps from the air in the
direction they went and all that and they

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saw virtually nothing. They got out
of the area, and he's still spots

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hearing. He still does that every
year. He no longer goes exploring like

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he once did, just care free. He takes all sorts of precautions He's

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got a five hundred magnum Smith and
Wesson handgun bear spray. He's got survival

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gear that keeps in a hipsack on
him all times now in case he gets

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separated from his plane, he has
survival gear. I have a bunch of

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these experiences I'm working through to get
out to you guys. There's background stuff

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going on right now about a short
excursion either North Fork of the Gulcana or

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Skilac Lake. It hasn't been nailed
down yet, but it will be soon.

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Another thing I wanted to share is
there was a situation that happened about

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it's probably been about ten years ago
now, a guy named Walt, just

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down the road here. He actually
lives in Talketona now. At the time

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this happened, it happened at Willow. He was going out to a steam

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bath out back of his house,
which is basically a sauna. Wood stove

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rocks on it, splash water.
He gets the picture, so he's you

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know, he's back there and he
takes a steam bath, and it's in

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the wintertime and he keeps hearing what
sounds like the snow sliding off the roof.

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Thought nothing of it. The heat
he figured, yeah, it's melting

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this stuff away. Cool. It
got concerning when he's started hearing a slapping

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sound up on this metal roof he
had on it, and so this is

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just weird. There was no trees
close enough to be a branch blown in

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the wind slapping this thing or what
have you. So he steps out in

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his towel to investigate. And he
basically stepped out. It wasn't an ambush,

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but it was standing about three feet
He could almost touch it with his

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right hand at a forty five degree
angle away from him, the direction he

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was standing when he went straight out
the door, it was just right there.

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He said. It was about six
and a half feet tall, real

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slender looking, didn't act outwardly aggressive. Said it did a short little rock

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back and forth, and he started
seeing some prayers or something along those lines,

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the Lord's Prayer maybe, or sawma
David saw twenty three although I walked

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through the Valley of the Shadow of
Death. So he starts reciting that in

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his mind, and then he slowly
starts verbalizing it out loud, and this

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thing just takes off gone, and
he said he hasn't seen anything since then.

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So what he does now According to
him, he goes outside and he

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says a prayer every morning over his
property. And he said, ever since

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then he hasn't seen it or heard
it. There's been no mischief or anything.

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But prior to the actual visual,
there was all sorts of things happening

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with just strangeness around his house.
Things being moved, a drip drum from

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rain water. A fifty five gallon
drum of rainwater was picked up and moved

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like thirty feet full. Nothing dropped, nothing apparently spilled out of it.

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Those things are heavy, full eight
pounds per gallon. Times that by fifty

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it adds up quick. Just a
bunch of things stopped happening once he was

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praying over his property. I found
that interesting. They say, you don't

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gotta go home, but you can't
stay steps, steps chart, this child,

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that child. Everything come right back, pride back, joy for me,

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joy staying right. You come in
right away, still still stays s

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