WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.960 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here, something 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.919 just because my dog. Something killed your dog. My dog. We're flying 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160 through the air over the tree. I don't know how it did it, 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.960 Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.239 over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like, 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.879 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over 7 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:41.320 the fence. Sat what are you putting? We got some wonder or something 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.039 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? Or was it 9 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.799 was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and I 10 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:59.079 don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Quice, you 11 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:06.400 better hello, hit somebody out here? Went on out there? It's got 12 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.120 a bit of about sixty nine. I don't know easy him out there? 13 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:15.079 Yeah right, Oh, greetings spread from Dillehaim, Alaska. I'm gonna do 14 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.680 these in a series because I have a whole bunch of encounters from a bush 15 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:25.159 pilot. This guy's been fighting charters for himself for almost forty years now. 16 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.719 This particular situation happened in a place called Mama Bear Papa Bear. Anyone who's 17 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.640 been up here fishing has probably been there as far as flying guides go. 18 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.200 He picked a good day. Salmon happened to be starting their run real soon, 19 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.719 and he was flying a couple of clients in there. So he flies 20 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.120 by, checking the windows and all that to make sure he was good to 21 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.719 land on this particular river. It was, and so I turned around. 22 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.640 He went back in the lands and instead of going to his normal spot where 23 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.120 he would tie off and get his clients out, there were some trees that 24 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.680 had broken and were blocking away. He just went over to the other side 25 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.159 of the river and used a buddy of his tie downs, right, and 26 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:05.959 so they get out. He ties off the plank so it doesn't go down 27 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.960 the river or whatever. So they get all the gear out. He goes 28 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.240 it's a better fishing bank on that side, but we'll be fine from this 29 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.280 side. No worries, right. His clients are all exciting that the first 30 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.800 trip to Alaska, it just so happened. One of these particular clients worked 31 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.800 for a different guide service from another state, a hunting guy, not a 32 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.280 fishing guy. They were well versed in the wilderness, they really were. 33 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.280 And of course the bush pilot never went anywhere on ar, so he knows 34 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:36.800 the business. They weren't concerned whatsoever the other guy, the client was an 35 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.639 experienced outdoorsman that his own guide in service or whatever, and it was his 36 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.439 wife, the guy being not a green horne to the wilderness, and the 37 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.280 bush pilot wasn't concerned about this client. He said, Hey, anything happens, 38 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.120 you know. There were three shots in the air, or I haarshy, 39 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.520 I'll come or whatever. There's no reason to be right up on top 40 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.919 of each other to do the fishing. There is bears in the area, 41 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.360 mistaken there's plenty of coastal brownies around. But if the bears are more worried 42 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.159 about the fish and not the people. There's video out there of bears just 43 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.560 coming up sitting next to a dude like, hey, yeah, it's a 44 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.080 nice view, is myth, and going on about its way. I wouldn't 45 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.960 want to go through that, but that kind of stuff happens. There's a 46 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.280 level of complacency, for sure. For sure. The client leaves with the 47 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.159 wife going upup the river, and the bush pilot just stand around the plane. 48 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:29.759 He's contemplating putting on his chest waiters and going to a shallower spot going 49 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.639 across and clearing the the bree that's blocking his normal tie down, just because 50 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.000 he doesn't know if anyone else will be coming in that day because things are 51 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.120 picking up. He wanted to be respectful, so he's got a pistol. 52 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.840 But he gets his shotgun and flings it over his shoulder and he leaves his 53 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.280 fishing rob and stuff, and he grabs his hatchet, and he had a 54 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.879 battery powered chainsaw, a little mini one just for such occasions. Because it's 55 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.719 not the first time of Debrie's falling in his way, he's well versed. 56 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.719 He finds the spot that he knew would be shallowing up that he wouldn't get 57 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.080 washed away, and he makes his way across and comes backed up the river. 58 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:09.120 Now they had these little walkie talkies five mile range to communicate with each 59 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.919 other without screaming into the woods. So as he gets across the river and 60 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.120 he starts heading back up towards the debris blockage, his little radio comes to 61 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.000 life and it's his client saying, Hey, the fishing's great up Herede. 62 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.079 You got to get up here. It is awesome, and he relays what 63 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.279 he's doing, copy that, Yeah, we'll be here. You you'll hear 64 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.800 a screaming with pleasure. This is great because they're slaying into him. They're 65 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.680 able to pick and choose what they want to keep. So he goes on 66 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.120 and he gets up to the debris. The debris was actually two tops of 67 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:42.319 two cottonwoods that were crossed over each other, and they were fairly big around, 68 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.439 and there was so much foliage and stuff. He couldn't really make it 69 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.439 out. It just looked like a bunch of smaller stuff, but it was 70 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:51.680 actually the top of these cottonwoods, right, And these cottonwoods, he said, 71 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.000 were eighty ninety foot tall. They were some of the older growth ones 72 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.480 that they just shoot straight up, you know. So he commences the cutting 73 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.519 the branches back and just all he needs to do is clear his path, 74 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.279 his landing area, and his tight downs. That's all he needs. He's 75 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.319 not worried about bucking up all these big but frigging trees and all that. 76 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.079 No, that's nature's business, that'll handle itself. He was just clearing what 77 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.279 he needed to. He gets to work, is running his little saw. 78 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.519 His radio comes to life again and his client is like, hey, we 79 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.360 saw something dark and brown out of the corner of our eye heading your direction 80 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.000 on the opposit side of the river, so it's on your side of the 81 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:30.879 river. Just be aware and so okay, he on shoulders his shotgun and 82 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.000 leans it against this. It was like a group of little poplars or something 83 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.439 right next to the trail, and he leans it in between where these two 84 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.560 cross. So the barrels leaned against there. So being grabbed easy, right, 85 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.279 So he goes back to the way he's doing. He figures his little 86 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:45.720 saw at his hacking this, bears can hear him and just go around it. 87 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.399 It's not uncommon bears will circle around people continue on off the trail, 88 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.879 and that's what he was anticipating. Another thing told him anything was wrong. 89 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.920 So his head's down. He's not worried about to bear. He's just not 90 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.879 complacency right. So as he's doing this taking care of his chore, here's 91 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.680 things hitting the leaves. It sounds like a little rocks. So he's looking 92 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.319 to see if anything's falling from the sky, if there's debris or twigs and 93 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:13.160 branches falling off another tree. And he couldn't make it out, so he 94 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.279 discontinues on. He just thought it was weird because it caught his attention because 95 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.040 one fell right in front of him right. So as he's going along he 96 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:24.399 realizes it's continuing. There's more and more little rocks coming in a quicker succession. 97 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.959 He's no, someone's messing with me. He's been on the ways a 98 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.800 long time. He's flying all over the state seeing everything under the sun. 99 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.160 Dealt with the harry Man before. He had an inkling that it may be 100 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.959 the harry Man, but he was used to them staying at a distance and 101 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.920 just like me, shaking, screaming and doing something like that, and they 102 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.959 usually part ways. This continued. He wasn't concerned at first, but then 103 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:53.920 he got uh inter feeling of dread. He said, unnatural dread. And 104 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:59.839 he said this was actually the first experience that he's ever had that type of 105 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.439 thing. Dread overcoming and grip him immediately. He stops what he's doing, 106 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.079 and he drops his little saw, and he's paying more attention to the groundcover 107 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:13.879 and how all the foliage is about him. He makes himself more aware of 108 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:16.560 his surroundings. He knows the area. He has his own tightdowns now that 109 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.240 he set up himself over the years, so he knows the area. He 110 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:23.639 knows all the little trails. He's checked him all out, so he knows 111 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:27.879 there's a trail a little further off from where he is, to his right, 112 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.079 up this little bit of a bank from the river's edge, there's another 113 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.600 trail, and it's probably some one of his buddies, probably came in early 114 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:38.959 to let it further down, was hiking through, saw him and decided to 115 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:42.480 tease him. This is what he's telling himself. And so he's okay, 116 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.319 and he figures this guy that he knew very well was right up the hill. 117 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:51.920 So he grabs a shotgun and he's just he's playing along in his mind 118 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.160 right the bush pilot is so he's gone shot, and he goes, whatever 119 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.560 the hell's up this hill. I'm gonna I've been shoot yet, so you 120 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:01.759 better be ready because when I get to up here, I'm gonna f it. 121 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.079 Shoot Yet he makes his way through. There was some devil club he 122 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.839 was. He was determined he's gonna get his buddy for messle with him. 123 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.800 He's gonna mess with him back and make him think he's gonna shoot him or 124 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.439 something. Not really pointed guns he had. He had this little snarrow worked 125 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.319 out in his mind. He was gonna startle his buddy for picking on him 126 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.199 with the rocks. He makes his way up and it's a good twenty five 127 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.680 yards to this little trail that he knows is up there, so he makes 128 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.439 his way up to it, and hey, list, there's nothing around the 129 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.080 shit. He looks up the trail because it kind of goes on a little 130 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.480 bit of rise and then drops back down going down river, and the river 131 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.600 where he's facing is off to his right now and just below him he can 132 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.159 see his little work area, so he turns around him still facing up. 133 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.320 He'll to fix down with his back to where he was just working, looking 134 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.399 down this way doing a three sixty. Sweet see if the guy's hiding the 135 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.279 peak behind a tree, you can laugh at him or something. Nothing, 136 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.320 And he noticed that it's dead quiet. He can't hear the birds that were 137 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.279 just chirping off long ago. The birds were still going when he was running 138 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.600 his little saw. When he stopped, he would hear chirping in the backgrounds 139 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.759 Immediately he's peaked, so he shoulders the shotgun at low ready and he starts 140 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:15.639 looking around. He notices out of the court of his left die movement down 141 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.960 where he was just cutting, so it looks over and it looked like he 142 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.399 thought it was a humongous black bear. Now he thought it was maybe colored 143 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.799 based because they had a cinnamon e kind of color, but it wasn't quite 144 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.879 from his vantage point big enough to be a coastal brownie that he's a customer 145 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.679 seeing in the area. He's aware of some resident bears that he's had not 146 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:41.600 conflict but encounters with before in the past, so it's not one of those, 147 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:46.360 and he's doing his best to not get over anxious. He's well versed. 148 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.039 He doesn't ratily easily, and he yells down, hey bear, hey 149 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.480 bear. This thing turn stands up and looks at him. It's not a 150 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.360 bear, it's a harry man. He said that the way it looked when 151 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.480 he saw it, it looked a lot smaller, and Lenina had stood up 152 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:03.679 and turned towards him because what it di ended up happening is where it had 153 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.159 squatted down was looking is where he had dropped his saw. His saw went 154 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.120 in between some branches, so this thing had foliage around it, so when 155 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.480 it leaned down, it blocked the pilot's view of exactly how big it was 156 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.759 when he started yelling it, so once it stood up, it came into 157 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:24.960 full view that it was much much bigger, and he immediately he's got the 158 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.159 shotgun. He points the shotgun down at it and says, hey. He 159 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.639 didn't know what else to do. He just yelled, hey. He had 160 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.320 no intention of shooting it. He didn't even have his finger on the trigger. 161 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:39.279 But this thing looks at him let out this short little scream bark, 162 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.240 as he called it, and it took the off back up river. He 163 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:48.200 heard it thrashing as it was it was running. The trail runs along and 164 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.879 the river itself kind of hooks around to the left, and his clients are 165 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.120 on the opposite side of the river, just up around that bend, in 166 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.480 this little honey hole they were fishing. So this particular trail raps around tight. 167 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:05.120 But there's also another trail that goes up and starts going up the embankment. 168 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.480 This same took off and took that trail up the embankment. But then 169 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.879 book a heart ninety and it was running just in the treeline where the river 170 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:18.000 curves. When it took off, it was still undercover and not in view 171 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.159 of the clients. Right, the singing was very aware of who was around, 172 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.159 and it was staying in cover for the most part, because once it 173 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.039 took off running, it didn't stop, he said it. But it was 174 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.360 real vast and you could tell there was a lot of activity going on with 175 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.519 the trees shaking, all this other crazy. Just a couple of weird barks 176 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.559 that were similar to the oney that was given to him before it took off. 177 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.600 So his whoa, radios, Hey, be aware, there's something big 178 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.000 running over that way, and the client radio's back. Dude, dude, 179 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.240 what the F is that? And he goes, oh, it was just 180 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.200 that bar He goes, no, I'm looking at it's looking at us. 181 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.480 What the f is that? Is at f and bigfoot? I'm looking at 182 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.480 an And so the guy is on the radio, I'm looking at an F 183 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.440 and bigfoot. Man, it's over here. It's over here, and it's 184 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.759 staring at him and it's not continuing to run. So he runs down this 185 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.320 particular cherry he was on because it eventually meets up next to the river, 186 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.919 and so he'll be on the path between his client and this thing and this 187 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.360 thing will be it's still on his side of the river. So he gets 188 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.399 down there. He's running around and his client's coming to view across the river. 189 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.399 It's not very wide, but it's pretty deep. It's got a really 190 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.120 deep channel crystal clear to the bomb forge's place. So he runs along and 191 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.639 the clients are yelling at that pointing, hey, just a little further up, 192 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.639 be careful, you're getting closer, getting close, and they're pointing the 193 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.600 way the brush was. He comes past his particular alders that were obscuring his 194 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.000 view, and once he got past that point, it opened up more because 195 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.799 the hill went up at a higher grade. So he gets around the bushes 196 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.559 and looks up and this thing was there between a couple of the birch trees, 197 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.639 had a one head on each side and was looking through the gap in 198 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.559 the middle and was sweat at the outside the middle and go like that. 199 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.919 And he was just mesmerized. As he's standing there holding his shotgun in kind 200 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:11.799 of a ready position. They're all just trying to fixed on the same doing 201 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.879 this number right, and so they're trying to make out is it trying to 202 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.720 fight the eight. He didn't know what to do, so yell. He 203 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.159 started talking to hey, you can't be here, We're not here and hurts 204 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.120 you. We're not here to hurt you. And he shows his gun that 205 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.799 it's not pointing at him. We're not here to hurt you. In his 206 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.919 mind, it was worth to try. When he went like this with the 207 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.559 shotgun and then started bringing it back towards himself, they took off running again, 208 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.399 just gone. They heard it sound like the bulldozer going through. He 209 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.759 looks back across as his clients. The client's wife was trying to turn on 210 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:48.240 her digital camera. It wouldn't turn on. The battery was dead. She 211 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.360 was it won't turn on, it won't turn on, And the guys don't 212 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.759 worry about the f and camera, and he's yelling across and they could hear 213 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:56.919 each other all right. But then he realized I got the radio, so 214 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.320 he radioes, hey, head back towards the plane. I'm coming back around. 215 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.519 And they were like, we don't have to leave, and he goes, 216 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.120 no, what I know of another spot. We'll come back to this 217 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.879 spot before your your whole excursion. Hens. We're just leaving here now. 218 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.519 He gets back go over, makes his way back across with the hip boots, 219 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.279 collectsus here as he does, it doesn't finish clearing the debris. He 220 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.960 was only about halfway through with that task. He wasn't going to stick around. 221 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.919 They wanted to leave for a while. He makes his way back across, 222 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.559 gets over there, and just as he gets back up to his clients, 223 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:31.159 and now he's facing back up river, the river's on his right hand 224 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.720 side and the plane is right there. As a matter of fact, the 225 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.159 client's right at the edge of the wing. And they were like, they 226 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.279 weren't scared. They were just like, wow, did you see that that 227 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.720 thing was huge? They're telling, they're telling, they're telling each other what 228 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.960 they had just seen and stuff. And meanwhile the pilots keeps checking, the 229 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.679 six keeps checking around. Now this bushplane, you got to understand, it's 230 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:00.200 fabric over a lunino. You don't want anything throwing anything at it. You 231 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.360 don't and that's your way out of there. You don't want that shit. 232 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:05.120 They're all excited talking to each other. He's well, how he was trying 233 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.519 to explain to him the few times he had a crossing with the Harryman over 234 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.360 his time was just a couple. But they would shake stuff, throw stuff, 235 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.440 and leave. And as he's explaining throwing stuff, coincidentally, he starts 236 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.879 hearing the little pebbles chopping again. Like he heard across the river and it 237 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.919 downs on him. Cloth. We got to get out of here, he 238 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.320 says, Hey, let's load it up. That's throwing pebbles again. I 239 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.080 don't want it to tear the wing. They immediately understood, and they got 240 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.919 in there and untied, and they did their day. They got out of 241 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.919 there. Keep in mind a whole lot of these encounters I've shared with you. 242 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.840 There's been ten twenty plus years with not a thing, and then all 243 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.120 of a sudden something changes, and for the most part so far, these 244 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.759 people no longer live in the state. When these encounters happen to people, 245 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:58.080 it can either be like motivating to learn more or motivating to never go on 246 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.039 the damn woods again. Fortunately, this particular situation no harm, no foul. 247 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.639 But a lot of encounters happened in very familiar places, especially up here 248 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.039 that you've been gone to five, ten, fifteen, twenty plus years, 249 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.879 never had an issue, and then next thing you know, poor rebels getting 250 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.480 slammed against the tree. You know what I mean. Something to keep in 251 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.879 mind. Let me share with you this will be a bush pilot known this 252 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.600 guy a while now when he picks up clients, and he will fly him 253 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.759 remote for bear hunts and what have you. This was back when he was 254 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.600 still guiding. This was in nineteen ninety seven. He picked up a client 255 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:40.480 that landed in Iliamna and he had been running fuel to remote spots to have 256 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.960 fuel staged for this trip so he could be out in the field and not 257 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.039 have to fly all the way back to civilization to have some fuel. So 258 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.919 he was doing his thing and he goes and picks up his client. Now 259 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.039 his client knew just enough to be dangerous. The guy didn't have a whole 260 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.360 lot of outdoor experience except maybe a week or two a year, and that 261 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.840 was usually guided and not of his own knowledge, so to speak. He 262 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.559 knew enough to be dangerous, is what it was. He knew just enough 263 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.640 to be dangerous. So he picks up his client and they're flying due west, 264 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:18.000 heading to the Baring Coast from Ilamna, just due west, and as 265 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.880 they were getting ready to clear all little valleys and little mountains in that area, 266 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.079 leaving Iliamna to the west, they come across this lake. And this 267 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:27.799 guy had been up in the area before, and he goes, oh, 268 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.160 that's Beaver Lake. There's big moose there. Let's go down there. Let's 269 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.440 check it out. There's always big moose there. My buddy, the pilot, 270 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.920 was like, yeah, we'll check it out. This guy was paying 271 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.799 a lot of money, and we'll leave it at that. Any guide you're 272 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.519 paying a simple brown bear hunt, you're looking at sixteen grand or better. 273 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:49.680 And I'm quoting prices from ten years ago, so extrapolate that. So he 274 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:56.119 acknowledges the guy's request, he circles down, they land, and where he 275 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.480 landed, he parked up where it was obviously a slip right there where beaver 276 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.759 comes out of the lake or into the little pond or whatever, and had 277 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.000 a little trail back into the trees where he gnawed down his trees and add 278 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.480 to its dam and its house and all that shit. So he parked right 279 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:15.160 there, and he split the trail with his pontoons, and he had two 280 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.480 stakes. There were just basically stakes you would use for form making for concrete, 281 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.440 just a simple round steak, so he would pound him into the ground 282 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.240 and use it to tie off his pontoons so the wind wouldn't jag his plane 283 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.599 to the other side of the lake. Now, the guy who was with 284 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.039 he told him, look, we flew today we can't hunt today. Leave 285 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.200 your rifle. I'll bring mind for protection, bring a sidearm. We're only 286 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.880 looking. Guy was like, okay, we're only looking. He wasn't gonna 287 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.920 argue with the guide because the guy would just take him out of there. 288 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.519 That's what I would do. He's not going to risk his plane, his 289 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.119 license and all that shit, because they'll confiscate everything. You go hunting illegal 290 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.400 in Alaska. You'll find out man, you'll lose your truck, four wheel 291 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.319 or anything you use to transport that meat. Forget it. You gone state 292 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.640 owns it. You'll see a trooper driving your shit using your boat to go 293 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.039 and arrest some other idiot. So don't do it. That being said, 294 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.920 they get out and they're going up this little trail. Now, this is 295 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.640 a real and narrow trail that a beaver made, obviously, and it's muddy 296 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.039 and stuff. So they're just walking off the side of it. Now the 297 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.240 way it looks where they anchored up or where they tied off at Going straight 298 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.160 ahead, that little beaver trail goes straight and then the kind of jay hooks 299 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.720 to the left and it's like a reverse question mark that goes up this ridge. 300 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.200 But between that as a jay hooks to the left, there's a stand 301 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:38.400 of trees black spruce, alders, birch, some cottonwood, and willows, 302 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:42.799 all interspersed, very similar to what we have here behind me, but denser, 303 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:47.160 thicker. I've cleared some of this out. This is my property here. 304 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:49.400 I got cottonwoods down back over there for the moose that I've been talking 305 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:53.079 about and all that. So as they're going up this trail stand of trees 306 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:56.480 is they're real thick. And as they're going up and about to hit that 307 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.279 jayhook, there's movement off to the right. Now the jay hook, it's 308 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.759 open metal that kind of arcs in a wide arc to the right, and 309 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:08.119 it's just tree line that arcs around back over the lake and then cuts back 310 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.480 down back towards It would be the east, because where he ended up parking, 311 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:18.920 they were pretty much facing due north. So stay tuned for more sasquatch 312 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:25.680 out to see. We'll be right back after the east messages. They get 313 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.960 to that point and they hear noise off to the right just a little ways 314 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.880 and they see trees moving, so they get excited. They're thinking, oh, 315 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.839 bull moose is rubbing its antlers. This guy he brought with them. 316 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:41.720 His client had some whack ass elk bugle right unbeknounced to the pilot. Unbeknownst 317 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.720 to the guide had no clue what this guy was doing. So they make 318 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.599 the hook and he's excited. Maybe they're onto something. Maybe they could spike 319 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:52.519 camp and then get this bowl. In the morning. They're going up on 320 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.599 that reverse question mark kind of loop going up the ridge, and as they're 321 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.319 getting higher, they're getting to be able to see more vantage point and getting 322 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.240 more little clear spots to see through the trees. They get up to the 323 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:06.400 apex of it before it starts dropping back down, and then it gets into 324 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:08.400 a bunch of willows and alders and whatnot, and it gets pretty thick in 325 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.920 there. As he got up there, the guy with them stop and then 326 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.240 he continues to go a little ways and then looks over the edge and starts 327 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.759 looking down into this stand of trees and is looking for any sign of that 328 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:23.039 moose. This guy, unannounced to him, gets out this whack ass elk 329 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:27.240 bugle that he didn't know how to use and made this god awful call with 330 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:30.039 it. He said it scared the shit out of him because it was so 331 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.440 it was it sounded like something being murdered, and it just it was totally 332 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.200 alien to the environment, had nothing to do with the moose call. Any 333 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.799 call, not even an elk, would have responded to this thing. Right. 334 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:45.599 He immediately laughs at the guy and says, knock that shit off, 335 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.319 dude, you're gonna scare everything away. What are you doing? So the 336 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.559 guy, look, it's really new. It's what's pet and dude technology and 337 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.720 he goes patting that shit back in your backpack, man, And so the 338 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.200 guy it worked like a practice with it, and he goes, dude, 339 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:00.680 we are hunting, they're paying a lot of money. Now is not the 340 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:06.000 time for trial and error. We'll use tried and true cow call and get 341 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:08.759 the moose's attention. You may have scared everything away for miles with that bullshit. 342 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:14.119 So they're having this little discussion, right, and the pilot guide is 343 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:18.440 really he's seeing what this guy is all about, and he's contemplating the money 344 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.920 because he's only a couple hours invested into this. He can easily take this 345 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:26.880 jackass back to Iliamna. I tell him bye bye, refund his money. 346 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.640 As they're discussing, and he's given him the rundown. Hey, you're obviously 347 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.240 you don't know as much as you think you do, and just calm down 348 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.319 and let's see if there's a viable bull. Otherwise we'll call it quits. 349 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.359 And the guy he relented and said, okay, he chilled out with his 350 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:45.480 attitude. So as they're discussing what exactly he was going to do, they 351 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:49.920 noticed the movement continued because it had gone dead quiet. And then the movement 352 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:53.319 stopped, so they noticed that the trees were moving again a little bit, 353 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.000 but they were moving away back towards that metal that arked around to their right. 354 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:00.119 As they were coming up the path, they're looking back down. They 355 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.799 could see the plane straight in front of them, stand of trees just below 356 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:07.960 them, and they can see part of the jay hook trail, the reverse 357 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.599 question mark back down and then the straight shot back to the plane now off 358 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.680 to their right. Once that that trail hooks around, there's a tree line 359 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:19.839 that wraps the lake around from that side. And it was a lot dinner 360 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.640 and less. It was more sparsely covered with trees. As they were doing 361 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:27.000 that and discussing it, and there was the movement, there was a very 362 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.799 low gurgling. He said, it was more like a groan like a death 363 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.079 grown from a bear, and so he was contemplated, was like, man, 364 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:37.920 all right, did we by happenstance just come along and land at a 365 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.079 lake where a bear is dying off here in the in the trees. So 366 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:45.359 he was trying to contemplate do I want to go and check? Do I 367 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:47.920 want to go and check and see if that's a bear or not? And 368 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.880 as he's contemplating it, the guy he was guiding for said, hey, 369 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:53.519 I'm gonna I'm going to head back down to the plane. I don't feel 370 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:57.119 comfortable without my rifle. And the guy was like, no, well, 371 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.240 I don't want you to have a rifle out here. We might not even 372 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.640 be staying. So just hold on and he makes a little cow call, 373 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.640 and once he does, the trees move. Now they're just lined up to 374 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:12.200 where he can't get a totally good view. So he's a little flustered, 375 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.240 but he knows, okay, if I can get this jackass to stay here, 376 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.359 he knew he could slip down there, get a little closer and have 377 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:22.599 some trees for cover and hide from the bull moose if they tried to charge 378 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.880 him, because of course musa antlers and trees will stop that and he can 379 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:27.799 get away. He decides to do that, and he goes down over the 380 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:33.240 little ridge and he's going through the willows and he didn't realize how tall they 381 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:34.960 were, but they were over his head. So he took this little game 382 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.480 show that cut through. When he comes through the opening, he's leading with 383 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.440 his rifle right. He has open sights on it for good reason, because 384 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.119 close quarter you don't want to try to be putting something in a scope. 385 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.680 You want to put a beat on it and drop it. He comes through, 386 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.480 he shakes three of the brush and the little game show splits into a 387 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.720 y. So he takes the why to the left because that would take him 388 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.319 almost directly to where this noise is being made. So he's going along slow 389 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.079 and periodically he would look back to make sure the idiot was up on the 390 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.839 hill. Just class, and he told him, you just class. Anything 391 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.240 bad happens, then you can go to the plane and get the ripe. 392 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.640 Guy was chomping at the bit to have a gun, and I understand he's 393 00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:15.960 in remote alask if there's huge bears out there. Going along and he starts 394 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.400 getting a funny feeling that he's being watched and he just chucked it up to 395 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:23.920 that guy glassing him from behind. He noticed his movement about fifty feet in 396 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.839 front of him, just out of you. Every time he was coming, 397 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.680 it would just be out of view. Then all of a sudden, yahoo 398 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:36.559 on the ridge. Inexperienced guy leton. I'm gonna call him a yahoo. 399 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:42.200 He's just inexperience and easily excited. He's up on the ridge doing jumping jack, 400 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.400 screaming, and he turns around. He's yelling, I'm hey, cut 401 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.559 it out, and the guy is going frantic, just ape shit, trying 402 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:53.519 to get his attention, just throwing rocks and saying bron And so he's turned 403 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.000 around, he's looking, He's what what am I running for? There's nothing, 404 00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.400 no immediate danger. So he realized that he must be he had something 405 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.880 I don't, and he happened to be far enough away he couldn't make out 406 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.160 what that guy was saying. And so immediately he figures, I better reevaluate. 407 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.119 Let me get out of here. So he starts backtracking, and as 408 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:17.319 he's backtracking, he realizes that movement he was noticing was actually circling, doing 409 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.359 a little half circle to come around, and just as he got back to 410 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:23.279 where that little split was the why there was a hairy man standing there. 411 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.440 As he was backtracking, he would turn and as he got to that why 412 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.079 split, he happened to turn to the right, and as he was swinging 413 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.119 back left, he noticed it right off to his left, basically in the 414 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.359 middle of the split, about twenty five feet back in the trees. He 415 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.880 said, the look on his face, he told me that the look on 416 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:44.200 this thing's face is what gave him a gray streak of hair. That's what 417 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:45.599 he told me. I ticked that with a grain of salt, but he 418 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.640 seemed pretty convinced of it. He said it shook him to his core. 419 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:52.559 It let out a scream, and he didn't realize he was on his knees 420 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:57.200 from the fear. He was trying to run, but his legs weren't under 421 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:02.079 him, so he couldn't. And there was a disconnect within him what was 422 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:06.759 going on versus attack or retreat. Now, this dude's been out in the 423 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.680 woods for quite some time by this point, very experienced seeing it all. 424 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.000 Kind of pilot crashed a couple times. That kind of guy not doing dumb 425 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:19.160 shit, just whether circumstances got caught in a box canyon, all this type 426 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:22.559 of shit. It wasn't his lack of knowledge. It was circumstances that he 427 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.799 had been in some crashes and all that. But he knew something was terribly 428 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:32.039 wrong because he kept trying to coordinate his legs and he said he felt like 429 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.480 he had extra weight on him and he had chucked that up to the fear 430 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:40.480 he was dealing with. And the guy up on the hill, his client 431 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.359 had a side arm on his hip, and he knew he did. He 432 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:48.279 had some kind of nineteen eleven forty five or something like that. He yelled 433 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.559 back up to hill, shoot it, shoot it. He was getting the 434 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:56.759 impression that he was being held somehow by this thing. Now I've never personally 435 00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.920 heard that. I've heard being frozen into tracks. I don't know. He 436 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.960 never elaborated on what made him feel like this particular thing was doing it, 437 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.720 which is creepy on a whole different level. I tell you that much guy 438 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.599 listens and the guy isn't shooting it. He's shooting in the air that forty 439 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.559 five on a hand, a seven round mag and the guy just mag dumped 440 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.559 the thing, right, didn't have any other bullets for it, just mag 441 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:26.279 dump boom shot him off, and the hairy man just walked away, walked 442 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.519 away to his left, out of sight. And the whole time he's holding 443 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.400 the gun, but he couldn't pull it together to function to put a shot 444 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.119 on it. He felt that had that guy not started popping shots, he 445 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.960 may not have been there. And he said he wasn't confident it was the 446 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:47.240 gunshots that caused it to walk off to the left, because it was not 447 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.599 intimidated, it was not scared, It wasn't for it didn't even flinch when 448 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.960 the pop when the shots were popping, so he was able to scramble to 449 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.759 his feet. He turns around and he's right at the wy so all he's 450 00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:59.559 got to do is turn around and cut up through the brush, and that's 451 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:02.240 exactly what he did. He gets up to the top of that little ridge 452 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:07.200 that particular why he was at. Had he ran to the right, that 453 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:12.440 little path would have cut right through to almost the apex of that half reverse 454 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:17.119 question mark. He didn't know that, he found out later on a different 455 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:18.200 trip. So he gets up to the top of the ridge again and the 456 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.960 guy's empty, and he goes, you got any bullets, And he goes, 457 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:23.599 yeah, I don't have any Let's go. It's not time to talk. 458 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.359 Let's go. They got to walk all the way back around. Now, 459 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.799 this thing walked off to his left, but it was still well within 460 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.839 real quick access to them from where it went. It didn't go far. 461 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.880 I just walked off to where it wasn't as easily seen, but it stopped 462 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.319 and it was right over there, you know. So they come back down 463 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.119 around and there almost is that little jay hook that shoots the straight shot back 464 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.160 to the plane. When it comes to that point, he's shaking really hard, 465 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:52.440 and he's got that rifle trained in that direction. He's got his client 466 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.440 in front of him, and the guy is actually he's getting out of dodge, 467 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.359 and as he comes to that little apex of a turn on that final 468 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.839 little jay hook to the straight stretch, he stops and he pans, and 469 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.720 he sees movement and it's going to his right and at the same spot where 470 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.680 that tree line curves kind of like in a half moon shape back around to 471 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:14.720 the lake, and so he's watching it. He's got a beat on it 472 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:18.359 as it's running just inside the tree line. And he wasn't trying to shoot 473 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:19.359 it. He just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to come out. 474 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:26.000 Well, he didn't know that this thing was distracting him because behind him, 475 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.279 as he's following this thing, his client had came back. He wasn't even 476 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.960 pay attention. He was so focused on this thing running. It wasn't running 477 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.240 as fast as it could. It was just making noise as it was going 478 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.599 through, but had a pretty quick clip. So he's following and all of 479 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.559 a sudden, the guy's behind him and says hey, and it startles a 480 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.839 shit out of him, right because he was so focused and so wigged out 481 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.400 by the whole situation. The guy coming back up behind him scared him, 482 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:53.119 so he turns around. He's like, what the what are you doing? 483 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:57.480 You're supposed to be at that plane. The guy was like, look over 484 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.000 my shoulder. The guy was freaking out. He had tears coming down his 485 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.599 face and goes look over my shoulder. He turns and looks over the guy's 486 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.240 shoulder and doesn't see nothing. Leans a little bit. Then he's seen it. 487 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:14.240 There was another one ten fifteen feet away, just crouched down, real 488 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:19.480 low, same thing, black translucent eyes with just this deadly gaze of I'm 489 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:26.160 going to kill you. Look immediately the guy, the client had tears running 490 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:27.559 down his eyes, and he goes, we have to go. And this 491 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.519 idiot, all of a sudden that he perceived as an idiot, had moments 492 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.480 of clarity where he was like, look at me and follow him. I'm 493 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:37.880 going to turn and we're going to talk to each other, and I'm going 494 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.759 to walk backwards. You just be aware of that. And so the guy's 495 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:41.599 trying to coach him through it, and he was like, no, we 496 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.799 got to turn around and run. The guy turns around, takes off running 497 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.599 and he makes eye contact with it again and as he does, it stands 498 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.759 up. And he said, when it stood up, it was over ten 499 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:57.880 feet tall, and it was showing his teeth, big block, yellowy kind 500 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.799 of teeth. The it were a little bigger than ours, but it was 501 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:07.359 all in proportion, really broad jaw native looking around the around the eyes Native 502 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:12.480 American, heavy deep wrinkles all through and through flatin noose, almost very similar 503 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.000 to the description I have of him. And he said, it stood there 504 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.920 and it was making a kind of noise and it was progressively getting louder, 505 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.319 and he's trying to walk, but he sidestepping down this little he's in this 506 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.000 little groove that the beaver would walk down, so he's tripping into that every 507 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.880 once in a while, trying to not lose sight of this thing but make 508 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:37.960 a distance between them. Now, when he was telling me this was shaking 509 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.799 his leg really hard when it was explaining it to me. When we're talking 510 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:45.200 about it. This was in ninety seven, so it's still it stuck with 511 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.319 him, very hard, very heavy. He said that it was the look 512 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:52.400 of death, and he for some reason he couldn't take his eyes off that 513 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.200 look of death in its eyes, that it was going to kill him. 514 00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.839 He never once pointed the gun at that one he had close to his chest. 515 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:02.599 He had it up right, you know, he wasn't waving it at 516 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.680 it. He felt that it wasn't enough gun and that if he had tried 517 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:13.079 to shoot it, there was one somewhere he lost track of that was gaining 518 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.720 his attention, you know, going around that meadow. So he felt like 519 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:21.480 he was trapped, but with an exit. So he backtracks. Now, 520 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.440 his client untied the pontoons, put the ropes in, put the stakes in, 521 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.720 as he slowly tried to mind himself out of this this situation because he 522 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.799 felt he said, it felt so surreal that he would pinch his forearm every 523 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.720 once in a while as he was backing up slowly, he would just reach 524 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.200 pinch the forearm, do anything to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He never 525 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.200 once pointed the gun at it. He made it back. He didn't even 526 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.599 realize he was at the plane until he bumped into his own prop. That's 527 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:52.200 how focused this thing was. Now. It stayed where it was, but 528 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.440 it just came out parallel to him, but made sure that eye contact didn't 529 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.559 break. So once he felt the prop, he slung the rifle kind of 530 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:06.160 walked back, felt stepped up on the pontoon the supercup door. The upper 531 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.840 one clicks up in the place and the lower one drops down. He slides 532 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:14.199 as he slide in the rifle in between the seats towards the back for the 533 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.639 guy to take and put on the back or whatever. This thing is still 534 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:22.800 doing this, and it's progressively getting louder. It seemed like the more he 535 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.199 was closer to leaving, the louder this was getting all of a sudden. 536 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:29.360 As he's just stepping up to get in there to fire up the magnetos and 537 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:34.599 kick up the prop. The loudest scream he ever heard came from immediately to 538 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.480 his left. He was distracted by the one over there making eye contact. 539 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:42.079 There was one immediately to his left, about twenty feet away, just off 540 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.480 the side of the bank of the lake. He didn't even see. He 541 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.199 said, it blended in seamlessly. He didn't notice until it screamed at him 542 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.039 and got his attention, and he looked, and it had been there the 543 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.679 whole time. He don't know why he didn't see it, but it just 544 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.880 blended in seamlessly immediately he's in there. He didn't even shut the door. 545 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.920 He fired up the prop and he had to jump back out and push the 546 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.880 plane away because there's no reverse in a plane. He didn't have some turble 547 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.559 otter where he can just adjust the tilt of the prop and back it up 548 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:14.440 himself, so he had to jump back out. He wet himself. It 549 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.880 was involuntary. He didn't even realize, but he had jumped in the lake 550 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.519 to push off. So as they were floating planes running. It's loud as 551 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.719 shit, but the plane has to drift back a little bit to where he 552 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.000 has enough room to power and turn away from the bank without grounding out. 553 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.559 Now as this is going on, this thing is still screaming one long breath, 554 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:40.400 and it's paralleling them on the shore of this pond. It's letting them 555 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:44.800 know the whole time. And he said it was a female. When I 556 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.119 asked, how do you know it was a female, he goes that hairy, 557 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:50.920 perky breast, and I was like, how big was it? He 558 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.679 said it was about seven to seven and a half foot tall, a lot 559 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:59.920 more petite, real broaden the hips, very grizzled in hair. Color look 560 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:05.519 to more he said, like caveman like Neanderthal type, because the brow on 561 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:09.559 the female it seemed more pronounced for its size than that bigger one. So 562 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.199 he's trying to put it all together because up until he had to taxi down 563 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.119 at the other end of the lake to turn around and power up to take 564 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:23.320 off into the wind. Now, the whole time he is he's trying to 565 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.519 he's stroggling up to keep moving pretty quick, and he's trying to keep enough 566 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:34.840 disonance off shore to make sure he can't get got. He gets down to 567 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:38.440 the turnaround point and just as he does, the thing takes off running hits 568 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:44.079 the tree line and they were all gone. He powered up, flew out 569 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.039 of there. He flew all the way back to Iliamna with his door open, 570 00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.920 and it meant nothing to him. He was just it was stuck on 571 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.920 a stick and working his alerons and doing all this in the super Cup. 572 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:59.000 That particular guy he took guiding is actually now his best friend. And he 573 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:00.400 told me that at the end the story, like I'm telling you now, 574 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:02.719 and I thought it was funny. I was like, why are you still 575 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.719 why do you still label the guy an idiot? And all this other stuff 576 00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.559 He goes because I love him. It's a guy thing. It's a guy 577 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:13.440 thing. But he laced him up on proper Alaskan hunting. Yeah. When 578 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:19.159 I talked to Thomas this morning, he's almost ninety. His daughter does his 579 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.679 running for him or whatever. If I can make it to where he lives, 580 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.719 hopefully sometime in the near future, he wants to share with you guys 581 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:31.760 on camera his whole experience and some other experiences. So I'm hoping that everything 582 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.599 goes well to where I can facilitate that happening. But see on the next 583 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:42.920 one, they say, you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay 584 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:19.159 in science steps step trying this Joy, that chart everything. Call me ride 585 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:27.840 back, Riding back Joy from me, Joy staying right, call it right 586 00:38:27.960 --> 00:39:40.000 away. Still still stay fast, not do not doubtssstssssssssss