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Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going on here.
Something just kid with my dog, something to kill your dog? My dog.
We're flying through there over the tree. I don't know how it did
it? Okay, damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my
dog coming over the fence and they would dead once you hit the grill.
I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over the
fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got some wonder or something
crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? It was enough
out here looking them do the one down now and I don't need anything.
I don't want to go outside. Hello, hit the Boddy out here,
quin On out there. I've thought of a bit about text nine. I
don't know easy amount. Yeah, I'm right head. Oh he didn't.
Thanks so much for joining me for the show. I decided to bring you
three more amazing encounter stories from Fred in Alaska, but I wanted to pop
in here for just a second and say this. I've gotten a couple of
negative comments on reviews on Apple Podcast about Fred and the stories that he shares
and I've got a couple of those privately. But many of you guys have
emailed in because Wayne and I have talked about Fred several times over on that
Bigfoot podcast and Buying Large. The overwhelming amount of you who have written in
via email have said that you guys are enjoying these stories from Fred. Some
people have a problem with them because they think they're a little too out there.
They think they're fantastic and for whatever reason you think Fred's making up these
stories, I personally think these stories are very important for people to hear because
they come from the Native American perspective and most of these cases, Fred is
hearing these stories from Native Americans and First Nations people up in Alaska that we
probably wouldn't get otherwise because he is a council member up there, and these
people share these encounters that we probably would never hear if it weren't for Fred.
So i'd like your feedback. If you're enjoying these, please let me
know. You can send me an email Brian at Paranormalworldproductions dot com. You
can always send me a voicemail. It's right here in the show notes.
All you have to do is click that button, talk right into your phone
or your computer, hit send, and it comes directly to me. You're
going to hear about fifteen minutes into this, during one of the first stories
that Fred is sharing with you, there was a guy up in Alaska metal
detecting, and I've actually linked to this video over on the blog. So
if you want to check out the Sasquatch out to see blog, head over
to Paranormal World Productions dot com. You could see this video in its entirety.
But a few minutes into this video, this guy's out metal detecting in
the middle of nowhere in Alaska and you hear what sounds like a sasquatch screaming,
and then something starts to throw rocks at him. I've included that audio
from the video here. About fifteen minutes into this, I think you're going
to find it really really compelling. With all that out of the way,
all that's left for you to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy
the show. Greeting is this friend in Alaska. Thanks for joining me.
What I want to share with you today is something that happened to a former
campground host. People will volunteer for parks up here, whether it be a
river park or a national park or whatever. They usually volunteer and park their
RV and keep an eye on the grounds and stuff. A lot of retirees
do it, and it's actually a really fulfilling job for someone who's retired to
spend their summer in Alaska being part of the scene, telling people, giving
them guidance on what trails good and what's not, and what have you.
This happened to coast that used to host a park roughly about twenty years ago.
What ended up happening to this retired couple they no longer host. They
still come up, they still spend time in their RV, but now they
don't feel comfortable staying in one place longer than a night or two, which
is hyper vigilance or paranoia, whatever you want to call it. It still
affects people. So what happened with them is it was their fifth year hosting
in the same place. They had went on a hike with a small group
of people that asked for some assistance, something about a certain trailhead. I'm
being very vague on purpose. It was asked of me to be because as
far as park hosts go, it's a relatively small community. I told her
I'd be as vague as possible, so forgive that. It's not to keep
anything from you guys. So they do this hike and they show these people
what they wanted to know and what they wanted to find out. As her
and her husband are taking their time because the party continued on. They only
went for about a mile or so and gave them some directions in a spot
that could be a little confusing because there's three different trails. On their way
back, they kept hearing a grunting and a huffing, which for them was
nothing new. They've dealt with bears in an area and they were not unaware
of the bear, so they figured, okay, we're being paced by this
bear. It'll lose interest. We don't have any food items on us,
were brightly dressed, they had some bear spray. They really weren't concerned doing
it for a long time in their eyes, and they understood the park the
area that they were hosting pretty well. So they continue on and nothing happens,
but they continually hear this huffing every now and then it kind of tapers
off the closer they get back to the trail head where they have their RV
station and all that. So they go in and it's about midday and they're
doing their lunch thing. As she's working in a little sink. Looking out
the window of this RV, she notices something dark in the woods. Just
move said, it looked just like a shadow. Just movet nothing of it
now. Her husband was outside on that same of the RV. What he
saw was the hairy man looking at them and then moving away once he made
eye contact with it. His view of it was that of a caveman with
lots of hair. That's fairly similar to along the same lines of the description
I get from a lot of different places. So he's immediately freaked out.
He comes back into the RV and he sits down. He's pale white.
His wife asked him, Hey, what's going on with you? Do you
need a doctor, immediately concerned about his health. He explains to her what
he saw, so it confirmed what she saw. She just didn't see all
of it. She just saw the movement moving away. He said he didn't
know what to do with that. He didn't know what to make of it,
what to feel about it, because they'd never had anything like that happen.
So they just start discussing and debating whether or not the grunts they heard
was this thing following them. So they came to the conclusion that yeah,
that's what was falling behind him or paralleling them, or following them out,
whatever you want to call it. Now, as a debated, this way
off, it sounded like miles and miles away they heard a scream. Their
concern was is the scream came from the direction they left the people on the
trail. So immediately they're concerned about other people's safety and they don't know what
to do. They're the camp post. They feel an obligation and a moral
duty to speak out, reach out and inform people. But how hi,
I am your campost. Hey watch out for the bigfoot. It's such a
taboo subject for a lot of people. The acceptance part of it is just
a lot of people just laugh at them, and they realized it. So
what they did was is they went and talked to a park ranger. When
they approached the ranger, they asked them, what's with the screaming? What's
with this thing? We saw blunt straightforward, Hey, we saw harry Man.
What the hell is going on here? Why weren't we informed sooner?
I could have had a heart attack, it could have been ugly. And
the park ranger just looked at him and said, I can't report that.
I can't report it. All I could report is you saw a bear moving
in the woods. It wasn't a bear, it was a bigfoot, It
was a sasquatch. It was moving in the woods. It was looking at
me. I know what I saw. I can't put that on paper.
I can put down you saw a bear in this area and will put up
bear warning signs. So that's inevitably what happens a couple nights later of just
quiet, no screaming, no sighting of anything. They're hyper vigilant. Her
husband, in the meantime, went to a local store and purchased a high
caliber, very powerful. He wanted to have protection other than bear spray because
he felt it was not enough to just have bear spray. They were committed
for the summer and they wanted to fulfill their commitment and not leave on bad
terms. But it's not like the Fish and Wildlife trooper didn't believe them,
or the park ranger didn't believe them. It's the fact that they could not
themselves report it. Now, that's very frustrating for people who have witnessed things,
because, for one, it makes the person who's seen it look like
a kook. And if anyone goes to check out a report on it,
it's going to say a bear sighting. You're getting it from all directions.
You're not getting what would be the proper way to put it, the truth,
and the information is not being processed to the people in a direct manner.
It's being filtered through the lens of It was a bear, it was
an unknown bear, it was a large bear, and things of this nature
and not it was a hairy man. It screamed at us, it ran
away, or it through rocksiz none of that stuff. It just doesn't get
reported. After a few nights of nothing, they've calmed down from the incident
and they start laughing about, Wow, we saw sasquatch. Holy shit.
The whole time, they never had an interest, not once. These were
retired academics, you know what I mean. They were retired from the East
Coast what I would call ivy leaguers' your run of the mill community college professor
with some weird outlooks. These were professional people. Their whole lives. They're
all about their academics. So their worldview changed drastically after that. As time
goes on during their visit, they decide, we're not going to stay cooped
up. The husband didn't feel comfortable packing that large caliber rifle with them when
they went to hike, but they decided they weren't gonna let it ruin their
stay there. So they go out, and they go out the same childhead
and they go out to the same area. They're retired, they're not feeble,
but they have their limits. They knew their limits well. So they
got to the same area where they showed the group what direction togo, and
they decided to hang out there and just look around. He brought his camera,
she had the bear spray and a walking stick. So they're sitting there
and he's just taken random pictures of the wildlife, the fawn of the forest,
all all that stuff. And as they're going along on their way back,
they hear the huffing again. They hear it again in the near distance.
The husband, in a fit of anger of being run off from something
he felt he was being run off from and that he loved, he wasn't
gonna stand for it, gets the bear spray from his wife and walks off
the trail a little bit, and she's freaking out, don't you go in
those woods. You stayed the hell out here. You saw it. We're
not messing with it. He said, I wanted to leave us alone.
She talks him out of going into the woods with the bare spray. They
continue back to their RV in a quickened pace, and he's pissed. He's
very upset. So he decides, you know what, we're going to go
post up. If it follows us back, I'm going to shoot it so
it doesn't follow us. And she's saying, you've lost your mind. You
don't shoot this thing. If it follows us back, we will get hold
of the proper authorities for them to come and deal with it. He points
out, look at how we retreated when we brought up our incident of basically
a screen and this thing off in the distance and it left. What are
they going to do with that? So they debate that on our walk back
and they get there. They decide, you know what, we're just gonna
have to go and report it again. Because as they continued on the same
thing happened huffing at him at a little bit of a distance in the trees
and paralleling them on their way out. So they get back and they jump
into their little runabout car and they go over to the ranger's office. When
they get to the rangers office, the park ranger, he had four other
people there and they were all drilling this guy about, Hey, why weren't
we being told about this? Why aren't we being told? So they come
up and they listen. These four separate individuals are in front of this guy
saying, hey, we saw a bigfoot, we saw a sasquatch. What
do we do? The guy goes, I can't take that report. However,
I could tell you at x Y and Z Ridge and x Y and
Z lookout, there's been a lot of reported activity that we can either confirm
or deny or do anything with. In essence, their hands are tied no
matter what you go and tell them. To a certain level, they may
believe you personally, but professionally they cannot act on that. They cannot push
that paperwork forward. It will make it to a certain distance and then it'll
be non existent. So again, they felt disheartened that basically they're going to
have to do it and do it alone. So they go back and the
husband's fuming. He's really feeling insulted, insulted with his integrity as a former
academic, that his whole existence would be questioned, even though they didn't question
him. I understand what he means, because to be dismissed is a form
of disrespect. So when they're being dismissed, he took it very personally.
So they get back and they're hanging out and he's really fuming, discussing with
his wife what they want to do. She says she wants to know part
of it, and that maybe they should stop their volunteer contract and leave the
area. They agreed to, and they agreed that at the end of the
week, they give him a couple of days to get a replacement in and
they would go on about their way over the course of the next two nights.
They went right back after they decided that caught the ranger let him know,
Hey, we're no longer going to be chaperoning or hosting the spot.
We'll be leaving in two days. Okay, I understand, I'm sorry,
I can't do more, and that since they're ready to roll, they just
have to close some cupboards and do whatever with the awning on their RV.
So they get all that squared away ready to go, and they stayed real
close to their RV during the course of the next couple days. The two
nights before they left, they each woke up individually of each other. Each
night. They usually have a fold up blinder that sits in front of the
front window so people can't just see in as they're walking by to the trail.
They parked RV's right in the parking area, so whoever's coming in,
they see whoever's coming in, and whoever's going didn't put it up because a
group of younger people had left and they were keeping an eye out the window
for any illegal drinking and illegal activities that kind of thing. Individually, each
one of them at a point in time had woken up to this thing staring
in the front and were locked up with fear and just basically cover their heads
and sucked it up. Same thing with the wife. She seemed the same
thing. And it was a couple of times each night they woke up to
this thing just standing there staring at them. They got out of there,
no incidents, just outside of the staring and the screams and whatnot. There's
a lot of people out there that are dismissed. They're discredited, they're basically
just disrespected merely for mentioning, Hey, there's something going on that we don't
know, take a look at it to the authorities, and they just,
you know, then down do nothing. I haven't seen them do anything.
Who knows what they're doing in the background. I talk to people a lot.
There's people that no longer go in the woods and hunt. There's mothers
concerned about their sons, and their sons just holding it in and shutting down
at the thought of the topic because of the experience they had from going in
the woods. These weird behaviors, it's like a stalker that feeds on your
fear almost. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that even though they can end
you, they don't. It's like they try to draw every ounce of fear
they can out of you, which is in it of itself very odd.
There's so much more going on we don't understand now. Up here in Alaska.
I have a few of their behaviors I feel are pretty concrete as far
as when they see you, they want you to see you. If they
are nearby, they will make it clear to you and come in on you.
I expressed everyone again. Go watch that. Keith the sixty six is
metal Detecting Channel out of Fairbanks, Alaska. He's a dentist. He has
a bigfoot little video up. It's about ten minutes long. It's roughly five
minutes in house, scream in the distance. Moments later it's closer. It's
throwing things. Then it gets even closer with this god awful screen. Go
check it out. That is a perfect example of what I'm talking about when
it comes to what I feel is classic behavior up here in Alaska. It's
getting dark on me down to my last target. Looks like a little wooden
or what's that? Whoa did you guys? Did you guys hear that?
Sounds like something howling? Still hear it? Sweet little box boy? That
freaked me out. All right, So I'm working my way back. WHOA
did you hear that? Oh? Man, something, just do something in
the water right beside me. Oh she's all right, guys, let's get
out of here. I just do something else in the water just now.
All right, I'm finally getting close to the road. That's scared to crap
out of me. Let's get back to the house and get ready for the
ROUNDA. Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see will be right back.
After these messages, they will make themselves known. Problem is, when they
make themselves known, there's more of them around. There have been a couple
of reports I have that it seemed that they were a solo. I wasn't
there. I don't sit there and go to every site of whatever happens and
try to investigate and prove disproved. I already know they exist. I've known
since I was a little kid, same with everyone else I grew up with.
There's not a question for us. I'm not out to seek evidence when
I go film the documentary. Trust me, if there's evidentiary footage to be
had, I'm going to get it. If I come across tracks, I'm
going to record them. The upside down trees, I'm going to record that,
But I'm not going to research. I'm actually going to attempt to get
some compelling footage. Honestly, the Niu Yakuk River. I'm strongly confident in
the fact that there will definitely be a lot of evidence right there in about
eighty five percent of the encounters I hear about the nu Yakuk, they all
happen within twenty four hours of being on that river. Our incident was less
than a handful of hours of getting there. We were there a couple hours
before dark and then the shit went down. My cousin Nickola Chris, same
thing. They were there a couple hours shit was going down. I don't
know, it's different. I'm hoping that with the interactive map at the website,
you can zoom in and see areas coming to life as far as how
much activity is going on in those areas and the approximate date time type of
thing. But there's just a large portion in the Brisko Bay Watershed, and
I'm looking forward to getting to that documentary. Things are in the works.
No offense to anybody. They asked certain questions about whatever I'm doing, as
far as how I make my videos, how I present them, or whatever
I do me. I'm not going to change anything. No offense by that.
I didn't start this to please people. I started it to inform people.
Take no offense to that. It's just if there's certain quirks I have
that you may not care for don't know what to tell you. I wanted
to share some tidbits from my night on the Nuyakuk. The things that bother
me is after I shot through the wall, the place shifted and the scream
happened, and I was sitting there for hours. There could have been moments
they were looking in the window at me. I don't know. I was
zoned out on the floor, contemplating, with no one communicating with me.
It was really lonely. When you're resigning yourself to death, when you're literally
say okay, I know I'm not gonna make it out of this, and
know that you're just not, it's a different thing. It's really hard to
put into words. It's freeing in a way. Because I wasn't trembling hard
anymore. It allowed me to focus more. I got more angry, I
got more in the mindset of Okay, if you're gonna get me, you're
gonna get me, and I'm gonna do my damn just to to get one
of you. But in those moments, a lot of people they don't do
as well on the other side as I have. I'm not special. I
just knew. Had I not went back out in the woods. I never
would. I'd be somewhere in the concrete jungle right now. I can be
hyper vigilant, but in Alaska you got to be vigilant period. There's a
couple resident black bears that go between Hatcher's passed behind us here are well behind
your field of view. Actually where I'm sitting, I've seen the same bear
about four times over the last ten years. Not often that you see it,
but enough to know that it's around and you may come across it.
I don't show cwsticks mass accelerators, so to speak, on here, nor
will I. But understand I'm not out here in naked trust that some of
these things I contemplate. I don't know if you guys will find it interesting
or not. I usually don't share because it's something I dwell on, and
therefore I don't know if it has any value to others as far as what
they may think or if they even want to hear it. But I just
want to share these things. I'm backed up on sharing encounters or whatever.
I have a bunch more of those coming. But the whole point of this
channel is not just to share with you guys these encounters. It's the getting
out and talking to the people. I already have a few of the interviews
filmed for the documentary, excellent interviews. I have my cousin lining up some
other ones from elders from different incorporated areas or different Native corporation areas. I'm
trying to line out not just views from the Bristol Bay area, but elders
from other portions of the state as well, because we all, regardless white,
Native, irrelevant if you live in Alaska, we all share this whether
we want to or not. It doesn't matter what you believe, It just
doesn't matter. These things happen. So I'm having a hard time dwelling on
what I originally wanted to share, So I'll share with you an experience from
winter ninety four. In ninety five Mannakotak Trail snow machine trail. There was
a group about ten of us all ripping around on brand new player of snow
machines. I had the buddies with the four forty super Sports little trail rippers,
and then you had the rmks of course got to have the arm case,
and one of my buddies had the Indie Storm nine hundred CC players just
came out of there it was a monster, lots of fun hauled ass.
Well, we're all ripping. I was on a four to forty supersport little
Indie, just a little lightweight sled, real fun for playing around. So
we're on our way back from Mannakotak. This certain portion of the trail splits
off. We usually just ride the open Muskeg tundra and rip around. There
was this huge hill. It was all covered with trees, and I knew
there was a shortcut trail because some of the stronger sleds were up ahead of
me, and I knew if I took this trail I could probably at least
catch up for a little bit. No one wanted to be left behind,
not in the dark, in the winter, way out in the middle of
nowhere. Trust me, wolves and shit, there's all sorts of dangers.
Harryman was not even a thought at that point. It is, but not,
oh my god, I might see a harry Man if I go in
the woods. It's not that kind of mentality. So cruising along, I'm
hitting these ripples in the trail. It's just like a washboard. I didn't
realize it as I was bumping along, but I hit the kill switch on
the handlebars and the machine died. Man, So I'm sitting there just yanking
on this thing. I felt so dumb. But during this time I was
yanking on the court, I could hear off in the distance all my buddies
Mam just tearing on out of there. I figured at some point they would
realize, hey, you know right in in the group, let's double back,
posse up, see where he's at. I knew they would eventually do
that, But as I was sitting there cranking, trying to figure it out,
I was digging my flashlight out of the little bel crow backstrap on the
seat where low tool kit and shits kept. Get the flash light out,
and I'm looking under the cowling and I'm not noticing anything, but off in
the distance, I hear a wolf howl, very loud, wolf out,
natural wolf howl. I knew there were wolves in the area. They had
been eating people's animals out by Connectingneck road going towards the hospital from Dillingham,
so I knew they were in the area. I was armed. I had
one of those inner tech nine nine millimeter machine pistols. Got it from a
friend who knows people. At the time they were really hard to come by,
and I had to sing in remote Alaska getting strange looks, trust me,
but I had that with me. As I'm sitting there trying to figure
this thing out, the wolf howls are getting closer as far as being around
me and what have you. I let off a couple shots. I had
a thirty two round stick mag and he just a couple of rounds didn't stop
the howling from getting closer. Seemed like it encouraged them to come and check
me out. So as I'm sitting I'm trying to flashlight around me and I'm
trying to figure out what's going on. I shut the cowling. I sit
down and I light a cigarette and I'm smoking this cigarette and I'm contemplating,
I don't have to shoot wolves out here, and I can't hear my friends
coming back yet. So as I'm sitting there contemplating, you know what I'm
going to do next, I happened to glance at that little starter kill button
and I felt so now I might pop it up one pull I was fired
back up. I was like yeah. So I sit there and I finished
my cigarette real quick, calming down because my nerves were a little rattle,
like you know, I thought I was gonna have to walk out in the
dark, you know, with the batteries dying in my flashlight, wolves howling
around me. It's not a good feeling. I was scared about it,
but it was like, I'm you know, I'll shoot them first anyway,
So I take my time after the cigarette getting out of this trail, and
as the snow machines running, they're not quiet as a little four to forty
super Sport had some kind of tune can in it, but it was real
peppy wing, you know, that kind of sound. As I'm going along,
I could hear the wolves still howling in the distance. Now what bothered
me about this and why I'm sharing it. It's not about the wolves or
the snow machine dying. As this trail is coming out of the tree line,
it snakes back and forth left and right, not quite like switchbacks,
but what someone had carved out, and people just followed it as the path
the least resistance because it was densely forested, and anyone who goes snow machining
knows you got to know how to maneuver a sled in order to get through
some shit. It was an intermediate course let's call it for snow machining,
and it had a slightly downgrade going back down towards the tundra. It was
approximately three hundred yards of this shit. So as I'm boondocking back and forth
gently slowly, I was moving, so I wasn't concerned about the wolves as
much. They never left my mind, but I wasn't scared. Now as
I'm coming down, it turns into a straight stretch that just shoots out onto
the flats the tundra. As I'm coming down, that just at the very
edge of my beams, big black shadow, and I got real low because
I was worried about whatever it was going to closeline me off or snatch me
off as I went by. So I got as small as I could and
just went white open, hit the tundra, spit out, went about two
three hundred yards, just hauling ass. I didn't want to look back,
Honestly, I didn't want to look back. But then I hit a huge
turnaround bank came right back the same direction. I was brazen by having thirty
rounds in that stick bag. And as I'm slowly turning the machine to use
the high beam to light up the trees. I saw the eye shine probably
about thirty yards up into the trees and obscured. I could see one eye,
and then both, and then one eye and then none, then two
eyes, that kind of thing. And as I'm doing this, I would
circle around big to keep distance between me and that tree line. It was
a nine milimeter I knew it would make a lot of noise, but I
was curious. I was trying to see what I was actually seeing, because
all I saw was a dark figure and that eye shine. There was tree
shaking that came as I'm doing my thing, circling around trying to get a
better view of it. My buddies are making their way back. I can
hear them coming. Now. I'm sitting in an open spot of tundra.
I have this wooded hill in front of me, which is basically this huge
butte covered in trees. It's like an island in the middle of the tundra.
And off to my right, on the opposite side of the flats the
tundra, there's another hill that goes up with very similar but it has a
continuous tree line that goes back off in a different direction. My buddies are
coming from behind me from around the front end of the stand of trees off
to my right across the flats. Now, as I'm listening to them coming,
I circled around again because I could tell they were getting closer, but
there's still a distance away. Now as they circle around and I'm coming back
to be lined up with that trail that goes back to the switchbacks that came
out of middle of the trail, it was squatted down. It was squatted
down and doing a very weird kind of back and forth sway thing like it
was contemplating what it was going to do. I would circle around because I
didn't want anything coming up from behind me. I was out in the open
tundra, but still they moved fast. With the sound of the snow machine,
something could come up behind me without me even realizing it. So I
circle around again. As I'm circling around and come back and the beams going
towards it, it's standing up now and moving off to my left, to
the left of the trail. Just then my buddies come around the corner screaming
towards me. They come flying past, circling around. Hey, what happened?
You got to go? I told him. There's a Harry Man.
They all laugh. I'm like, you can laugh if you want. It's
right up there. It just walk to the left of the trail. So
one of the guys with us circles around and goes, whoop rips right up
in that trail. No sooner than he hit up into that trail, the
trees off to our left just erupted with this scream, went into the trees,
up into the trail all of a sudden, was popping out on not
a trail, he made his own trail, because I guess what he told
us. When he was going up in the trail, he saw it run
out of his peripheral and the headlight lamp lit enough of it running away.
He started turning, and then that's when shit, he repted. He could
hear it over his snow machine when he was holding that pig wide open.
So he popped out and we got the hell out of there. These things
happen randomly. It's not like they're behind every tree and every time you go
out you're going to have something happen. Man, I wish I had more
answers, but hopefully we understand something by the end of this. Right this
being Hatcher Pass where I'm standing. In the wintertime, there's a lot of
snow and all these trees will be pushed down with all that snow. We
had come up here when the kids were little, and we would sled down
to the road down below and then curry the kids back up. A couple
of reports from this area. The ones that stand out are there's the I
think it's gold Mint trailhead down the way here a little lower in the past.
What was shared with me was this guy had taken his twelve year old
son to kind of learn the basics of hiking. He got his son lined
out with a backpack and some hiking boots and stuff. The trailhead actually cuts
back into that valley right back in there. I'm not hiking that today.
He gets his boy and they're out. They make it back about three miles
and as you can see the train, it slopes up steeply on each side,
so you can easily see how it's just beautiful back in there. So
he's pointing out certain things for his boy, kind of giving him the heads
up on bear tracks and whatever else, and for the most part they're having
a great time. You can see the brush here, it's even heavier down
over there. All this stuff's it looks really kind of smooth, but all
that brush is taller than me easily, I mean, all through here.
He was pointing out these variations and how to read where the creeks feeding into
the other creek, and just a little simple stuff. And as they're doing
that, in one of these small little gullies here, they heard us scream.
He said, it sounded like a woman being murdered. So him being
armed in him with this boy, he was leary, but he wanted to
help. So he's like, come on, son, we're going to go
make sure this person's okay. They back down the trail a little ways and
find a little offshoot trail and figure that was the one. They start back
up in that thing, and he immediately within one hundred feet he realized he
shouldn't be there. It was not where he wanted to be. So he
decides, once he gets up in there a little ways that he's not going
to continue. He just felt something right. So they back out of that
little trail and they get back onto the main trail, and he was talking
to his son about, hey, we're going to have to cut it short
and go get some help for this lady. Now, what he didn't realize
at the time was it wasn't a lady. It was approximately ten and a
half feet tall, and it came barreling down that trail they were just on.
When it came running down the trail, he froze up. He put
his boy behind him, and it ran past them. It runs past in
the trail, coming down the trail. As it runs past there, about
ten fifteen feet away, it clears the trail and starts heading back up this
other side of the gully over there, and they hear it thrashing through the
trees and everything. And the whole time, he's got his gun out and
he's trying to explain to his son, be quiet, stay low, be
quiet. His boy is just hunkered down. He's got tears streaming. All
this happens in seconds. All they saw was a blur of an upright being
and that scream. Now being fifteen twenty feet away, I'm just walked a
short distance. But if I continue, you can see how it gets thick
here. All this stuff is way taller than me. So they're in a
similar situation. They got all this dense stuff around them. They're up in
a little valley and this thing is tearing up to their right, going uphill,
going through stuff just like this material across the way there. So as
he's sitting there trying to calm a sundown, keep himself calm and listen back
up the trail behind him about he guestimated about one hundred feet just out of
sight, there was movement and it was big, heavy movement. Now heading
back out because he had to go past the area this thing just ran by.
When he got past that point where it ran by, he said he
could see a trail through the brush cutting up. He said, nothing was
broken, but you could tell it was hearted. It had been just parted
out of the way. Now he gets his boy past that point and he
makes it back down to the trailhead. There's another group of people coming up,
and he warned him and told him what was going on. So he
was openly mocked by this older guy who said, I've been here for however
many years, been coming up here, blah blah blah, telling him he
was full of shit. Well, you know when things like this happen,
which they happened, man, I've been getting emails like crazy It's aggravating because
so quick to dismiss anything that happens and they call it a farser bullshit or
whatever. But damn fortunate to live in Alaska, that's for sure. Something
I wanted to touch on is all these people that mock and scoff at people
who have had these encounters inciting No if there wasn't such a stigma or oh
that guy's a weirdo or crazy man or whatever, and it was just open,
just think of all the knowledge we would gain from people coming forward with
whatever they've dealt with. I mean, man, I got relatives that I
know have been through far worse scary shit than I have ever been through,
and they just won't talk about it. They won't come forward, even if
within a family that knows of their existence. Multiple accounts throughout history of encounters.
Just I don't know why this particular topic makes people shut down like that.
It's just mind boggling. You would dank they would be chopping at the
bit to tell somebody to share what the hell's going on. It just makes
no sense to me. So to touch on Eric taking his son. When
they got back to that parking area, he was still holding his firearm,
and he was getting mocked for that too. When something like that happens and
you get freaked out, you're not necessarily thinking the clearest. So if you
got something in your hand, it's in your hand. That's all there is
to it. You're not even consciously thinking about it, which with the firearm,
that does make it dangerous. However, the guy that was giving him
grief wasn't there when that thing screamed, and then they heard it run down
the trail and run past and go off the other way. It's a pretty
kind of a benign encounter, but it just goes to show you never know.
You know that Oldzheimer was telling him, you know, oh, I've
been out here for a bajillion years. It ain't not never happened. Blah
blah blah. He got these clowns that had never dealt with anything in their
life, passing judgment on people. You guys on the next one, thanks
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