WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 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 cause my dog. Something killed your dog, my dog. We're flying 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160 through the or 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 --> 00:00:18.160 over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground, 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.640 like, I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:40.799 over the fence. Sat, what are you putting? We got some wonder 8 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:51.960 or something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was or was 9 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.759 it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and 10 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.920 I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Quice, 11 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.560 you better New York, Hello, get somebody out here. What went on 12 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.840 out there? I've thought of a bitch of about sixty nine. I don't 13 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:14.079 know easy them out there? Yeah righty oh. Greetings from Alaska everyone. 14 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.000 I wanted to share what you can't experience a me and a buddy Brian had 15 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.280 back in nineteen ninety eight. We had gone up to Third Lake, which 16 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.079 is in the wood Tickschik State Park that you go up like neget up the 17 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.840 Aglowalk River to Lake Nerica, and then you wrap around Lake Nurka to Beverley, 18 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.040 and there's a smaller river that leads up to the third one on the 19 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.560 map. They may have flipped it. We always called it third Late regardless, 20 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.680 I believe it's Beverly or Nirka. We were towed up there by my 21 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:47.120 cousin Spencer. Brian was an import. He worked in downtown doing jam at 22 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:49.040 one of the stores, doing shipping or something like that. At the time, 23 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.760 it was our great idea, We're going to get dropped off with a 24 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:59.239 canoe and we're going to paddle our butts all the way back. They're just 25 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.319 lakes. It's Alaska, and we were prepared, but we didn't anticipate how 26 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.159 much work it was going to be paddling that freaking canoe across huge lakes. 27 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:12.039 We were young. It was nineteen ninety eight, so we get towed all 28 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.000 the way up there. My cousin, Spencer, stayed the night with us. 29 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.639 The first night, right on the beach, we whooped it up. 30 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:22.680 We're a young party. Nothing happened that night. Hangover the next day was 31 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:28.840 terrific. So we're rehydrating. We start our mission. Spencer takes off. 32 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.479 He agrees to tow us across to the other side before he went up the 33 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:36.520 lake and then cut down the river. We were in no condition to be 34 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.199 doing paddling at that time anyway, so it gave us a little respite to 35 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.400 rehydrate and get to feeling better. Pops, it might be profn kind of 36 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.800 thing, maybe a little hair of the dog. So we get across there, 37 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:51.719 he takes off and we canoe and we get to the mouth of where 38 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:57.240 the river feeds down into Lake Nurca. And as we're going along, we 39 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.520 kept peering blink, blink, and we just assumed it was a little fish 40 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:05.960 jumping, no biggie. But we're about she's four hours into our paddling and 41 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.400 we're just got to the mouth of the river that's going to lead us down 42 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:14.719 to second Lake Narka, and we're pondering because we feel like utter crap pulling 43 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:19.080 out there, just making a go of it before getting into any kind of 44 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:22.439 fast water and all that kind of stuff. We wanted to be one hundred 45 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.159 percent because it was just us two in a canoe. We didn't have no 46 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.199 sat fallen or eat urb or any of that crap. We were young and 47 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.919 dumb and we're going to make a go of it. So as we're contemplating 48 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.520 this, we kept hearing this plunk, and we assumed it was little minnows 49 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.319 or small fish jumping in the water, and we're in Alaska, that's what 50 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.240 they do. And so we're discussing a good spot. It was pretty thick 51 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.400 and brushy, so we decided, with the current of this little river, 52 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:57.159 we'll just go down and we'll camp on Lake Narka. Because we were about 53 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:01.039 two hours paddling time with the current of that little so we decided to go 54 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.080 that route. We hop in we're paddling away. We get some movement going 55 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:10.960 so we could stop paddling because we were whooped dogs. We whooped it up. 56 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.159 We were just it was a miserable first part of the trip. Didn't 57 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.959 get much better, but it was miserable. We make our way through. 58 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:23.319 And what's weird about going down this little river. It's just a couple miles 59 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.160 long, a mile and a half something like, not very much at all. 60 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.199 What ends up happening is the whole way down this little river, we 61 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:34.680 kept hearing louder and louder bunks. Ever every so often. It was very 62 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:41.439 random. There wasn't any kind of cycle to it. That changed once we 63 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:46.360 got down to Lake Nerca and we drug up on shore. We're setting up 64 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:51.959 camp for about forty five minutes and setting up camp and we hear something terrific 65 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:58.279 straight across the lake. It wasn't a scream, it wasn't a growl. 66 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:02.639 It was a sound the best I can express it. It didn't have a 67 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.360 tone to it that I could say, Oh, that was an alimentation, 68 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:11.560 or that was a fox imitation, nothing like that. It sounded animalistic, 69 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.920 but I couldn't pinpoint what kind of animal at that point, So we were 70 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.399 discussing it. We were well armed, at least for what we had at 71 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:23.959 the time. We were good when we discussed what could be making that sound. 72 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.399 Now we got all our stuff sprawled out, we're camping, we're not 73 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.319 going anywhere. This sound came from the other side of the lake. We'll 74 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.399 be good. There's some dead drift wood and we had some other provisions. 75 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:38.360 We'd get a good fire going, we'll be all right. So we dismissed 76 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.879 the sound. It was on the other side of the lake anyway, and 77 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.759 we'll go through the narrows before we get to the Agoula Walk River. Anyway, 78 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.800 and we'll bypass that area. We'll canoe down this side of the lake 79 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:54.000 and then cut across. Problem solved. We go on with our afternoon. 80 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.720 This is land of the midnight Sun. So ten pm we still had daylight. 81 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.720 He still had the sun on horizon. It was just starting to get 82 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:10.120 behind some of the wood river mountains. Beautiful, so gorgeous. Slight breeze 83 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:14.279 keeping the mosquitoes off. Yea, yeah, pristine water, crystal clear. 84 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:20.000 I can't even it was great. So we forget about the noise. We're 85 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:24.839 just chilling. We're getting ready to eat. Being the land of the midnight 86 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:29.639 sun, it was like eleven thirty twelve going into one before it really even 87 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.600 got dusk, like it never fully got dark that time of year. So 88 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:39.879 as we get into bed early, sleeping off the rest of the hangover, 89 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.000 and getting moving the next day. He had worked the day after the next 90 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.160 and I had something else going on that I had to tend to. So 91 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.079 we decide, yeah, we'll call it a night early. We do. 92 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.240 This guy snored like no one's business. I thought the night before was just 93 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.279 because he was drunk. I don't know how he sleeps. It kept me 94 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.279 up all night I went at least a good hundred yards up the beach and 95 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.279 tucked up under some grass that laid down just to get away from the snoring. 96 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.839 I didn't get much sleep. I remember about three thirty four in the 97 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.839 morning, from the same spot across the lake, I heard a very low 98 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:21.800 toned, nothing high pitch about just a kind of a moaning, kind of 99 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:28.600 sounded like a oh real, weird, almost like a moose call, but 100 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:35.279 a very prolonged drug out and held at that note and volume, it seemed 101 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:41.399 like good twenty five seconds, and I was like, that's definitely not good. 102 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.800 As I'm laying there, I get out of my sleeping bag. I 103 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:46.319 pulled a rifle out that I was carrying with me that I had in the 104 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.839 sleeping bag. I'd drag it back over to our campsite. The whole time 105 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:58.040 I'm contemplating. You know, this was before any outright attack where I had 106 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.759 to put shots on one of these things. So at that point they would 107 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:07.600 just usually make noise, run off to distract us, or they're maybe movement 108 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.839 around us. But usually when you start leaving and get out of there, 109 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.000 all that stuff stops and you can go about your business. So I wake 110 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:18.680 up, Brian, and I'm like, hey, dude, there's a noise. 111 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.279 It's the hairy Man. He laughs. He is over the hairy Man. 112 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.199 You've been drinking again. I was like, no, dude, listen, 113 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.519 we gotta get up, we gotta go. It was plenty of light 114 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.200 enough, jeez, the mosquitoes were already out. The sound was out anyway. 115 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.320 So as he's getting up the moving it makes a noise again, this 116 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:45.000 time a full on three octave scream from a low grumbling growl mixed with a 117 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:50.840 normal sound woman scream to the highest pitch squeal. It just the whole scale. 118 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.679 We were across a lake. Lake had to been half a mile wide 119 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.320 at that point, roughly give or take. I never measured it or looked 120 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.480 into it, but I would assume it was about a half mile. We 121 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:09.000 didn't feel it in our chest, but it was in surround by a sound. 122 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.840 It echoed through that whole valley in between those mountains. If you ever 123 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.799 been back up in there, you know they're just like fjords in certain places. 124 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.679 It just gorgeous, a lot of sheer rock and stuff like this. 125 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:28.559 So it echoed around like amphitheater. Immediately We're like Yeah, we'll go. 126 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.759 We'll definitely go. Now. Brian's eyes at this point are shehun mongous? 127 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.360 Hey, how do we do with these? What do we do in this 128 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.200 situation? I said, what we're doing now, we're packing up, getting 129 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.360 hell out of here. Uh, why do you think? I said, 130 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.720 back it up, that's protocol, want and let's go. We have the 131 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.600 canoe right there. I was trying to call him down because he was really 132 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:52.039 starting to freak out, understandably, so it's jarring. It's really not the 133 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:58.919 position you want to be in. He's trying to carry this gun and load 134 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.600 stuff up in the canoe. I laughed because this twenty twenty hindsight laugh or 135 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.679 cry. But the image I wish I had that on camera. It was 136 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.440 like a comedy of errors. He was dropping the rifle, he was getting 137 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.480 sand all over it. He at one point I had to swow him down, 138 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:18.879 go sit down, empty that rifle and clean it. He had dropped 139 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.200 it in this gravelly sand stuff on that beach three times at this point within 140 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:30.039 ten minutes. Nervous. Now, after that long scream, there was a 141 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:35.879 succession of other screams further back to our east, like it would be going 142 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.919 towards the Nushgak River from where we were, but the nus Goat's way way 143 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:43.399 away from us at this point. I'm just giving a general direction east. 144 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.759 So this little sounding off happens there just like a chain reaction down this valley, 145 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.639 and it was really creepy because anyone that was there in ninety eight, 146 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.840 if you're watching this and you were in that area, they'll know exactly what 147 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.639 I'm talking about. It just seemed like it was a continuing echo, but 148 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.480 it was a different scream. So there was about four or five of them 149 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.279 that were heard in just a brief time, and then it came back up 150 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:20.039 the valley and stopped after the original screamer across the lake screamed another time. 151 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:26.080 This time it was a very short like a barqueecut. Uh. I can't. 152 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.639 I don't do it any justice, so don't take that example. Panic 153 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.279 level for him goes way up, and I'm trying to calm him down, 154 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.080 like, hey, dude, I know you've only been in Alaska for a 155 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.039 short while. You need to calm down because you need to have your head 156 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.600 about you. We're about to be in cold water. You can't be freaking 157 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.639 out like that. One. We're in the canoe. We're safe. Calm 158 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.759 down. It's like, okay, it's just he was like, you heard 159 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.000 it, you heard it. I was like, yeah, I'm right here, 160 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.639 man, Let's just calm down. Let's do it right. We don't 161 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.879 want stuff that we're okay. It was across the lake and al ways and 162 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.519 we're going the opposite way anyway. Hey, no, bigy, no, 163 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.440 biggie dude, calm down. I don't know how he even lived in Alaska 164 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.679 that long. In all fairness to Brian, I think the reality of what 165 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:20.200 was going on was sinking in as he was packing and getting stuff ready, 166 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:26.159 and I think it can be really overwhelming. The thing that really stands out 167 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.440 is what appears to be an organization going on with these things that we're totally 168 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:37.039 unaware of. To a lot of people is just repetitive. Who knows what 169 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:43.200 they're actually saying to each other. Let me finish this experience me and Brian 170 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.080 had, and maybe it'll better explain, because it was almost like a coordination 171 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:54.320 of things going on. So we get everything packed up. We ended up 172 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.279 he had one of these little roll up looked like a yoga mat, but 173 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.360 put him under your seat. Bag. He had one of those. He 174 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.240 was done with it. I don't want to pack that. It didn't help 175 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.720 something along those lines. I think he still had a really bad hangover and 176 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:09.799 was just like, screw it, I don't want that. And I was 177 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.279 like, look, we packed it in, we're freaking packing it out, 178 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.720 dude, this is a native line. You're not just going to leave bullshit 179 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.840 laying on a beach. Roll it up. He had actually started vomiting, 180 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.399 and so I went over. I rolled up to little Matt and I used 181 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:30.240 it to sit on because those we had a Calman canoe sixteen foot marine version, 182 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.679 hard ass seats. I had patting. He calms down, he drinks 183 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.399 some. I think we had gatorade or something like that, something with some 184 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.240 electrolytes. And we're still right there on the beach. We're fully loaded. 185 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:46.080 But he wasn't in no condition to paddle yet. He wasn't hyperventilating, but 186 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.080 his whole mood changed, and I was trying to cheer him up. I 187 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.480 was like, hey, look, and if it makes you feel any better, 188 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.000 they come running and I'll shoot you in the lake first. And it 189 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.360 didn't like that, but I was trying to get his mind just to break 190 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.960 loose. Don't get that tunnel vision and freak out. Those screams are jarring. 191 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:11.759 That was loudest shit the way it sounded through. Now at this point, 192 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.480 I'm thinking they had been building. I don't know if it was a 193 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.440 lodge or someone's cabin on the Agoglawalk River. I know since top of the 194 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.080 Agoglewalk lodge has opened up, but I don't remember exactly how long they've been 195 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:30.799 in service as a lodge, bianch fishing, all that kind of stuff. 196 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.679 Great great place, don't get me wrong, but in my mind, I'm 197 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.440 thinking that's the closest place where potential other people are. In the back of 198 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.960 our mind, I got that. We decide now's a good time to go 199 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.759 because there was some kind of movement up on the mountain behind us. It 200 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.480 was this movement of something. It could have been a rock tumbling down. 201 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:56.320 It could have been just some old growth. Irrelevant. We're having none of 202 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:01.840 it. It was time to go, and so we get the paddling and 203 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.720 we're about fifty feet off shore for the first little ways. He was sweating 204 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.600 like a pig. I was sweating too, but just not quite that bad. 205 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.960 Just getting all the alcohol out of the system. We're about two hours 206 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.799 into this paddling and we're not making much headway. At least it doesn't seem 207 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.320 because we still got a good ways to go and still cross the lake. 208 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.919 I'm talking him, cheering him on. He's drinking his gatorade. Every so 209 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:31.240 often he gets the bright idea he wants to drink fresh lake water, and 210 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.879 I'm like, nah, dude, you'll get that beaver fever and you're screwed. 211 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.399 You'll be all right for a day or two, but if we get 212 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.080 stuck out here, you don't want that. So he hears better of it. 213 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.879 And we had this gallon jug of water, but it had been sitting 214 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.519 out in the sunlight so it was warm. So I tried off a little 215 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.120 string to it and let it hang in the lake as we paddled along. 216 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.399 Chill it out real quay. So we do that, and we're talking and 217 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.039 I'm trying to get him to eat something. We had these little Nature Valley 218 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.279 granola bars and I'm like, hey, eat some of these. Get your 219 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:06.159 energy up because we may have to fight this canoe. Going down the Goola 220 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.279 Walk, it's pretty fast moving in spots. It's got a lot of rocks. 221 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:15.360 I wanted him in the best condition, and so as he turns around 222 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.399 in his face. By this point we're in the middle of the lake and 223 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.440 it is beautiful, not a cloud in the sky. You can hear the 224 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.399 birds off on both sides of the leg make a noise, chirp, and 225 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.759 just such a beautiful scene. We calm back down from the morning's activities of 226 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.799 the hooton and all the howling. So as he's telling me something about his 227 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:41.840 shipping job, Northern Air cargo deliveries or some crap. It was mundane, 228 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.639 just small talk. He was like, we should have some shots, and 229 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.399 I was like, no, we're not, dude. No, why did 230 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:53.320 we leave where we were? We needed to and drinking is not something we 231 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.919 need to be doing right now. Let's get somewhere. There's the a frame 232 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.000 on the Googla Walk. It's a cabin. We can do it there. 233 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:06.160 He agrees. We start paddling again, and as we're reaching the I guess 234 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:10.240 they call it Nunavarchic Bay, but it's just basically a wider part of the 235 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:14.920 mouth of the river that goes in between two mountains. It's actually really beautiful. 236 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.279 I'm not trying to dismiss it. It's absolutely stunningly beautiful, but it 237 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.920 kind of tapers down into the mouth of the Agula Walk. So as we 238 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.440 come around the bend from Lake Beverly or Nurka, I have to look at 239 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.640 the map. We call it Second Lake. So coming down around Second Lake 240 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:38.359 there we decide that he needs to use the bushes. So he couldn't wait 241 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.839 for because of some of the effects of the drink in the night before, 242 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.400 he had to vacate in different ways. So I find a good stretch of 243 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:52.799 beach open and some brush where he can go handle lose business. Now on 244 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:57.359 either side of the lake. It's not vertical, but it's deep. The 245 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.119 train gets deep real fast. Not a lot of big trees in through there, 246 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.359 just a lot of scrub alders and the willows things of this nature. 247 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:10.039 A few like black spruce, but not much as far as vegetation, just 248 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.319 mainly bushes. He goes and he's doing his thing, and I'm looking across 249 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.960 where the sunlight was hitting the mountain on the other side. It's just so 250 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.880 stunningly beautiful, and I'm looking for game. I'm looking for any critters, 251 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.519 caribou, woodland, cariboo, whatever, just checking out the scene. Hear 252 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.240 him yelling something and he's a little bit of ways. He's a good forty 253 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.759 yards away in some brush and he y else, knock it off. I 254 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.480 screamed out who you talk to? He was like, get over here, 255 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.200 and I was like, it seems hear so I was like, hey, 256 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:41.440 I was decing him. I said, hey, I ain't going to help 257 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.200 you wipe. You got to handle your own business. You're a big boy. 258 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.240 Are you messing with me? And I was like, I'm over here 259 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:53.200 checking out looking for game? Why on He said, did you just throw 260 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.880 a stick at me? I said, dude, the last thing I would 261 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.640 do to hitty Man is throw a stick at him when I crapping in the 262 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.079 woods. It's just not going to happen. And he had this real concern 263 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.440 look on his face, and I told him, hey, where did it 264 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.319 come from? He pointed up the mountain and I'm like, there's no way 265 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:17.599 it came from there. There's nowhere to hide. He said, it seemed 266 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:21.279 like it came from up there. I said, okay, I think it 267 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:25.079 was arch higher from a different position. But anyway, so I said, 268 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.599 you know what, it could just be a simple that was stuck in this 269 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:33.440 bush here and it fell down. He was, Okay, yeah, that's 270 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.200 probably what it was, and he was saying that to appease me, but 271 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.079 I could tell he was really unsure about it. The poor guy was crapping 272 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.880 and had this thing throw him at him. Anyway, So I go back 273 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.279 down to the canoe and I get the binoculars and I start glassing that whole 274 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.519 area and then back down the tree line in the shoreline. I'm just curious. 275 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.599 I honestly, I know we were hyped up on paranoia because of the 276 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:02.519 howls up on the upper lake, but I was more like looking for game 277 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.839 at that time, stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see we'll be right 278 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:14.240 back after these messages. And I honestly thought it had been stuck in that 279 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.920 bush and fell from there. I figured we had far out paced anything going 280 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.039 on from those howls and those SCRAMs. We had outpaced it. I thought, 281 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:27.319 I'm glassing around and I couldn't make out anything, and I've glassed my 282 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.599 whole life. I'm forty six. I know what I'm doing when it comes 283 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.880 to hunting. Something I bought in stock. I don't just sit in one 284 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:38.880 place and glass all day. I get out on the game trails, I 285 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.920 go hunting, I go signed it. But that's just what I'm used to. 286 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.880 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with sitting spot in stock that kind of 287 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:52.160 glassing for the brown bear, But sitting there it's rare. You're gonna easily 288 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:55.680 pick out a cariboo walking. So I know what to look for. I 289 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:00.559 know all the movements, so I see nothing. And this is a little 290 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.160 past midday. I didn't wear a watch at the time, and there was 291 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.279 no cell phones. This is ninety eight. Brian finishes doing whatever he was 292 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.759 doing off in the bush because he moved, because I guess he was just 293 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.200 getting ready to do his business when the stick thing happened. So he moves 294 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.200 and he's in a different part of the little bushes to handle his business. 295 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.359 So I take the binoculars away from my face while I'm glassing, and as 296 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.839 I'm facing this mountain in front of me to my immediate left, the bank 297 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:36.119 of the lake kind of hooks around to the right. If I was to 298 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.799 turn that way, it hooks around going towards going the direction off to the 299 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.039 left side of the mountain. The way I was facing it, and at 300 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.720 the bottom of that slope is where trees start, and running back along that 301 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:52.359 upper part of the lake, we were coming down into this little narrows area 302 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.079 with the mountains on either side with very little vegetation where that vegetation tapered off 303 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:03.759 and ended coming around that corner. As I pulled the binoculars down, I 304 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.759 see this stick code flying and immediately I knew something was wrong with it. 305 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:14.000 But in my mind, I'm like, it wasn't a very big stick, 306 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.279 So to be flying with that much force and distance you could hear it. 307 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:22.480 It had to be a throne hard harder than I could have thrown it. 308 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:27.400 And I'm not a weak guy. So I laughed because it's really not funny, 309 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:34.920 but it's funny. This stick lands right at Brian's feet, second time 310 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:41.039 in a row or in moments he's trying to crap in the woods and something 311 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.480 to a stick at him. Yeah, he's another one that thinks we're crazy. 312 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.480 He comes out of there, and luckily he hurried up and did his 313 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.920 thing. He was motivated to get out of there anyway, So I guess 314 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:57.079 the stick landed from what he said right as he finished tending his business. 315 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:03.440 And he's running from behind these bushes. Because I'm going over to grab a 316 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.519 rifle out of the canoe. Something was off. I wanted to have a 317 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.799 firearm nearby, but he's running around these bushes trying to pull up his parents 318 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.680 instead of it. At the same time, it was that poor guy. 319 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:19.799 He was not having a good time of it. So I grabbed the rifle 320 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:25.119 and I'm trying to look back up from where that stick was thrown to see 321 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:29.640 if I could see any movement. I was a nervous jumble myself. I 322 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.039 was putting the binoculars up to my eyes and then grabbing the rifle scope, 323 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.039 and I just didn't like the feeling. I was real uneasy. So I 324 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.279 tell Brian, hey, dude, let's just load up. I saw that 325 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:45.279 stick fly from over there towards you, and he goes, yeah, I 326 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.920 watched it, because I guess from his angle he heard it before he saw 327 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.839 it, and it came and landed right in front of him. So yeah, 328 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.400 he's motivated. He can paddle now. I'm telling you that boy he 329 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:03.039 was digging. We're paddling towards where this thing funnels down into the Agulawawk River 330 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.079 to go down the Lake Eleectnigig and Sunshine Valley and Bear Bay and stuff where 331 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.079 we were going to hinder our trip and get picked up from there. As 332 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:15.480 we're paddling along, there was a spot where there's some logs cleared where they 333 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.400 were going to build this lodge or add on to something. There was a 334 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:23.319 partial structure there of something I don't remember exactly what. We're coming along that 335 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:29.240 and things are narrowing down, but there's again there's no trees. The trees 336 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:33.480 start again up in front of us where the melted the Agulawak River starts, 337 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:40.359 but it was fairly shrub free at the time, some small willows so we 338 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.240 could see very easily. So in that wooded area where they just cleared it, 339 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.680 it looked like three stumps, taller stumps were there. And as we're 340 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:53.279 paddling, Brian starts screaming back at me, hey, look over there in 341 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:59.000 that clearing, and I look, and I just glanced Aaron. I'm looking 342 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:03.119 and it looked like legit tree stops and he was like, hand me the 343 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:04.920 binoculars, hand me the binoculars. I'm all right, here you go. 344 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.720 He looks, and he immediately one he dropped the damn binoculars into freaking lake. 345 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.920 Brian, if you watch this, you owe me some freaking binoculars. 346 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:21.359 Dude. Anyway, he drops my binoculars in the lake and is scrambling to 347 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:23.400 grab a gun. I'm like, whoa, Calm down, Calm down, 348 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:27.279 He's gonna tip us in this fricking canoe. What's all the gear we got? 349 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.359 I yell at him, calm the hell down, you're gonna tip us. 350 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.279 And he's trying to get this gun. He can't even get the words 351 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:37.319 out. He just keeps gesturing back towards that clearing. And I look over 352 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.839 and one of the tree stomps moves, and I'm like, oh shit. 353 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:48.960 It struggled me because anyone, even with wilderness experience, you glance over tree 354 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.440 stop. Yeah, there's other ones that It just looked like a small little 355 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:57.079 someone cleared a small spot. It piqued my interest, so I grabbed the 356 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.599 rifle. I had a scope three by nine, acted it out, and 357 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:06.400 I started looking over that way, and sure enough, this thing had a 358 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:11.319 grizzled coat to it, real weird gate to its walk. It was going 359 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.640 over terrain and stepping over things as it was moving, but it looked right 360 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.559 back at me like it was looking right down that scope into my eye, 361 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:26.000 had a very sharp, intense look to its eye. And I'll never forget 362 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.839 because at that distance with the three by nine, it would be the equivalent 363 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.119 of a little bigger than what you had watched paddy walk across the creek there 364 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:40.640 on that run footage, just for reference as far as distance through that nine 365 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.920 power, I could tell us looking right back at me, and it gets 366 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:49.559 into the trees and disappears, and I turned to scaning back to the other 367 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:55.000 two stumps, I saw there was no stumps. As a matter of fact, 368 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.599 been to that same area a couple of years later and there has never 369 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.119 been a tree in that spot, So these things are gone. Now we're 370 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:08.599 getting on into it's not going to get fully dark, not that time of 371 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:14.960 year, but in the shade of the trees, it gets pretty freaking dark, 372 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:19.119 and we had no flashlights. We didn't anticipate needing them round of the 373 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.000 midnight sun. So we get to the mouth of the Agogla Walk and we're 374 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:27.559 discussing what was going on with the movement, and Brian's very intense at this 375 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:33.799 point with genuine concern. Were not stopping until we get to alecning. I 376 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.240 said, calm down, I'm with you. We're not going to camp right 377 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:41.359 here. We'll continue. He was like, dude, I can't I can't 378 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:47.119 sleep knowing these things are around. I said, look, I'm with you. 379 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:49.720 I understand you one hundred percent. And we were young, but he 380 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:53.559 was a grown man of age. I should at least say, it's hard 381 00:27:53.640 --> 00:28:02.799 seeing young men are any man like really low that state of alpha. I 382 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.240 don't know, it's hard to explain. It's not like it broke Brian or 383 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:11.519 anything like that. It's just he was so scared it was muddling his thought 384 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:17.440 process, That's what it is. He couldn't focus on protecting himself from that 385 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:19.319 danger. So I told him, hey, look, it's going to be 386 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.960 all right. We're armed, it's not going to get completely dark, and 387 00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:27.640 the google walks fast moving and we'll focus on that. We'll get out of 388 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:33.559 here. Is that all right? And I could tell he wasn't really chilling 389 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:40.319 it. So we get going on down the river and he's motivated paddling, 390 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:44.880 and I'm with him. However, he was in the lead and I was 391 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:47.279 supposed to be steering in the back, but it was been a little too 392 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:48.599 aggressive with it, so I had to calm him down a little more. 393 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.440 Hey, we're in the current, we're good, we have arms. Were 394 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.319 okay. They weren't chasing us. They just went off into the tree somewhere. 395 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:02.240 There was no noises, no aggression from them. They went on their 396 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.200 way. Calm down, and plus we're getting awate from them now we're moving. 397 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.920 So he calms down and he allows me to steer the canoe properly, 398 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.920 and it's turning into a nice, peaceful kind of thing. Sometime is passing 399 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.160 and we can hear the sound of an outboard coming up river. A lot 400 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:23.079 of people use their jet motors because it's a shallow river with a lot of 401 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:27.559 rocks in certain spots. It's one of these rivers that changes it's channel a 402 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:32.359 little by a little each year when everything freezes up and then tholls and then 403 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:36.359 ice moves out. It digs different dredges in the bottom of the river. 404 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.839 So it's one of those. So we hear it coming, and we can 405 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.519 hear it for quite some time before we see it. And this thing comes 406 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.559 around one of the bends and it's rooster tearing a thing. It was a 407 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:51.640 thunder jet or something like that, and they cruise right on past us like 408 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:55.000 we were waving trying to get their attention. Just give them the heads up, 409 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:56.839 hey and believe us or not. But there was some screamings, some 410 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.559 crazy stuff going on and up there be aware they just ripped past us. 411 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.640 So we couldn't warn nothing. This guy, he's a great guy, Brian. 412 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.920 He immediately gets concerned. Is there someone we can contact and warn everyone 413 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:11.920 out here? So I was like, yeah, let's when we get to 414 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.359 a likening gig, we'll run and tell someone. Okay, we'll see how 415 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:19.680 that he goes, and he saw my point. He's okay, I said, 416 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.920 the best thing to do is just calm down and we'll tell those that 417 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.759 we know. Just calm down. Of course we're going to tell someone, 418 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.440 but going to the authorities, we're going to get leaped out of the building. 419 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:36.319 If not, ain't go being a cup. So we continue paddling and 420 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.880 there was no ominous feeling. There was no feelings of anxiety. I wasn't 421 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:47.680 on a heightened level of feeling insecure, being nervous, and essentially I didn't 422 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.759 have any of those jitters. He was calming down because sometime it passed. 423 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.079 We're it's a fast moving river, but we're off to the one side and 424 00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:59.920 we're trying to maintain a certain level of control while we're going down this river. 425 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.119 We're coming down. We're just past the halfway point, I would say, 426 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.480 and we hear the jet boat again. Gosh, I don't know how 427 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.559 far I could have made in that time. Honestly, I wasn't paying attention, 428 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.680 but it sounded like the same jet boat. We heard it fire up. 429 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.799 We thought it was coming back towards us, and then we heard it 430 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:22.160 going away from us again, and then we heard it coming back down river 431 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.759 again, but it was still well wait, out of sight. We could 432 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.319 just hear this happening in the distance. We both are dragging our oars slowing 433 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:33.200 down to listen. What's that. I was like, hey man, let's 434 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.359 get on shore because I don't know if these fuckers are drunk and I'm gonna 435 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.480 potentially hit us. Coming back down river. It was a green canoe. 436 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.759 I'm in camel. You're in camel, dude. Let's see we're not sticking 437 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.440 out here. Let's get off this river for a minute. We'll chill out, 438 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.720 have sip on a little something, calm down, Let's get off this 439 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.440 river. So we come up to this little band perfect spot. It had 440 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.880 a little eddy we could pull off without a strong current and have to fight 441 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.319 any current, and that's the last thing you want to do on a tippe 442 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.720 canal. So we get out and we're still hearing this jet boat. It's 443 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.359 ripping and then it'll you could hear it turn around, Yeah, a power 444 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:20.000 down. It's making a shit ton of noise up river. We're sitting there 445 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.880 for about twenty twenty five minutes, and I know we're probably a good hour 446 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.279 from the A frame on the Agulawak River. So I tell him, Hey, 447 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:32.440 if they're not going to come down the river, let's just take this 448 00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.319 opportunity and we'll get back on the water and we'll get down to the A 449 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:40.839 frame, start a nice fire there and have a place to tuck into and 450 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:45.559 just chill. Grant you, he's still nursing a hangover pretty hard, and 451 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:51.359 I was still feeling a little eh but nothing major, sweating like a pig. 452 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:54.519 Though. We continue on the whole time, you can hear this jetboat 453 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.640 ripping back and forth, and then as we get back on the water and 454 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.720 start journey again, jet boats shut off. We don't hear it anymore. 455 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:07.480 And we didn't hear it go out of the distance of sound range or any 456 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.519 of that stuff. It just stopped running. So we float on down. 457 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.200 Uneventful, beautiful, didn't hear the jet boat at all, none of that 458 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:20.640 stuff. They're just beautiful Alaska nature saw a couple bears, a couple of 459 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.359 nice coastal brownies, one soal. And then I'd say about a four year 460 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:30.319 old male. Beautiful strawberry, blonde looking coats, no red marks, Oh, 461 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:34.799 would have been beautiful. Rugs. We pull out at the A frame. 462 00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.519 Anyone who's been to the A frame of the Agogle Walk, it's literally 463 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:40.400 an A frame cabin with a little loft in there. It's not very big. 464 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.720 It's a state cabin. You gotta have reservations for it. It's right 465 00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:49.759 on this little spit just basically on the main first bend of the Agogle Walk 466 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.279 before you get to Electing Gig beautiful, just gorgeous. When the red salmon 467 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:59.240 run, they just swiming right out there off the bank in that little eddy. 468 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.559 It just looks like blood red water from all the red salmon's gorgeous. 469 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.319 It wasn't that time of year yet, but it wouldn't have been long anyway. 470 00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:10.760 It just beautiful natural Alaska. And that's where our mindset went back to 471 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:15.440 because the strangeness of the creatures in the distance, the howling and all that. 472 00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:19.719 And by the time we got there and got everything unloaded, it had 473 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.360 been a long day. I wouldn't say it wasn't in our mind, but 474 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.519 we weren't holding on to it. We were starting loosen up, have a 475 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.920 couple of drinks or whatever. I'll never forget. We hear the jetboat fire 476 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.320 up. This is about an hour after we've been at the hay frame, 477 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.480 so it was a good couple hours since we had heard it last fire up. 478 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:40.840 And it's a little further away because we had been traveling away from that 479 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.000 area. But we heard a fire up, power up, go back and 480 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:51.000 forth a couple times, and then we heard it coming back down river. 481 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:55.920 Now at that distance, it sounded like a very low drone. But when 482 00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:59.519 you've been out in those elements and you've heard it enough times, you know 483 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.360 what you're hair. You're hearing the boat go back and forth, So I 484 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:07.159 don't know what was going on. But again it started that same thing going 485 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.519 back and forth, and this time it was like it was doing it back 486 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:14.360 in one step forward, two back, one step forward, two back, 487 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.000 coming down the river. So it sparked ourk curiosity, so we'd build up 488 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.840 the bonfire. We're expecting company. At some point, stop and say hi, 489 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:24.760 maybe something along those lines. We're out there, we're having a good 490 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:29.320 time. We have firearms out and it's a clearing. They keep it cut 491 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:31.679 back, usually a good distance from the bank there, just around that cab, 492 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.360 and just for bear protection. You got to be able to see. 493 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:39.039 However, we're sitting there and it's darker now, and it's dark in the 494 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:45.920 trees, but we could see very easily our open area around us. We 495 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.280 didn't need spotlights or anything like that. It just wasn't very great visibility. 496 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:53.639 So in the trees, Brian says, oh, I've seen something moving over 497 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:57.840 there upriver, up on our side of the bank. I saw something moving. 498 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:00.960 I was like, calm down, don't start panicking about something moving in 499 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.480 the trees. This whole time, this boat's making us way down the river. 500 00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:08.679 And finally it just continues coming down. It sounds like it's lying. 501 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:14.440 It sounded like it was wide open. We hear them and as they come 502 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.239 into view. We had to go out on the spit to look up river 503 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.800 and a slight hook and then it hooks back off to our right. They 504 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.760 come around that they're sliding sideways to jet boat, and then they straighten out 505 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:30.519 and they're coming straight down the middle and they notice us and they're flying, 506 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:36.119 so they power down immediately, whoa, they start slowing down and they pass 507 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:39.079 us, and then he circles and then powers up, comes back up and 508 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:44.119 around into that little eddy area where our canoe is tied off. Three dudes 509 00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:49.119 on there. One of them was I think he was actually with the Nushigak 510 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:53.280 Lodge. He had just taken the wood river on up to Electnagik and then 511 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:59.079 went up to your gulla walk make your money. But they throw a line 512 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:01.280 to me and I tie them all off. They jump out of that boat 513 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:06.840 freaking out. The one guy stayed on the back of the boat and he's 514 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:09.599 looking and he's got this spotlight and it's not doing much, it's really not, 515 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.599 but he's shining back up the river and he goes, the damn thing 516 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:17.519 jumped in the water. It jumped in the water after us man, And 517 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:22.880 immediately my mind goes, we just saw those things earlier today. So I 518 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:24.880 was like, what's jumping at you? Guys? You see those two bears 519 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:29.239 and they're like, f the bears. Man, he's eating no f from 520 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:34.320 bears. I was like, what happened? Bryan's immediately just spilling the beans. 521 00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.320 Oh, we saw that. We saw them over there. They were 522 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.519 at the mouth of the google walk before we came down. I wasn't trying 523 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.199 to share at that point. I didn't know these guys. And let's hear 524 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.960 what they gotta say first. Anyway, he shows our hand or whatever however 525 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.280 you want to say it, and they just look at us and they're like, 526 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.719 is that why you were waving at us when we were going by? 527 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.559 And I was like, if you saw us waving at you, why not 528 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.199 find out? He goes, dude, I climb man. I was like, 529 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:05.840 fair knofe man, fair enough, just you know, hey, we 530 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.880 saw three got their tree stops owing the whole thing. And he said we 531 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:15.920 were following it back and forth, and then it all made sense. The 532 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:20.880 turning around in the jet boat. He said he burned almost all their reserve 533 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.679 fuel going back and forth because these things were running in the tree. He's 534 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:29.320 along the shoreline back and forth screaming at him. I didn't hear any screaming. 535 00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:34.360 That jetboat was loud as shit, but they were freaked out. Shared 536 00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.920 a little alcohol with them, and there was no further activity, not even 537 00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:42.880 an aaron alboot or none of that. So these guys saw what we saw 538 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:45.320 and they tried to chase him back and forth. They didn't even have a 539 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.000 gun with them, they didn't have a bear gun. I was like, 540 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.559 man, you guys are slipping. This is Alaska. It's not a joke. 541 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:57.599 Ars will eat you. Harry went aside, but I could understand the 542 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.360 curiosity. But after a couple of times of them running back and forth and 543 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.639 they still ain't like, run away, what are you inviting? At that 544 00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:08.400 point, the one guy was like it jumped in the water. You only 545 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:13.920 get so many warnings with these things, so just be aware in the woods. 546 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.360 Some may think this sounds outlandish. Is just stuff that happens out in 547 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.719 the deep woods. It's some crazy stuff, and a lot of people they 548 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.400 want to dismiss it as like some kind of make believe thing. There's nothing 549 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:34.800 make believe about any of these creatures out here. Nothing, And I understand 550 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.320 skepticism. That's a very good thing to have. But for me, when 551 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:43.039 I go filming my documentaries, I'm not worried about evidence per se. I'm 552 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.079 going to look for stuff. Of course, that's the whole point. What 553 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:49.480 I'm getting at for me personally is I don't need to see more. I 554 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.639 don't feel they're our shreds, not up here in Alaska. And I'm only 555 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:57.400 speaking for what I know of in Alaska. I know nothing about the lower 556 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:02.440 forty eight. So anyone that may have progress in that department, he bless 557 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.280 you. I haven't seen it here in Alaska. It's only been very cunning, 558 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:14.599 predatory type behaviors, even the most mundane of encounters. There's something not 559 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.239 right about it. But yeah, just be careful in the woods, be 560 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:21.119 wearing the woods. Even if you don't believe my story, I don't care. 561 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:24.239 Just hear what I said, take it with a grain of salt. 562 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:29.199 If you want. Always move away from these things. If you hear some 563 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.760 strange screams, don't test it. Typically when you see one, it once, 564 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.039 you're to see it. And it's not the only one. We were 565 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:43.800 watching the one move by the mouth of the Igola Walk and had no idea 566 00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:50.679 the other two moved perfect example or distraction, while others do some mindy p's 567 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:55.719 and q's just be safe. They say, you don't got a goal, 568 00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:24.960 but you can't stay and I don't want to feel a world happen. Sissie. 569 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:37.119 Trying this chart, that chart, everything came right back, right back, 570 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:44.719 joy for me, joy staying right there, come in right away. 571 00:41:52.800 --> 00:42:57.440 Still start st st st st st still stas still stasssssssssss