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I got a screen going on here. 18 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.040 Something just kid with my dog, something to kill your dog? My dog. 19 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.519 We're flying through there, over the tree. I don't know how it 20 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:21.959 did it? Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was 21 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.799 my dog coming over the fence and name was dead once you hit the grill. 22 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:26.560 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over 23 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:47.640 the fence. Sat, what are you reporting? We got some wonder or 24 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:57.640 something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? It was 25 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.359 enough out here looking them new to window now and I don't see anything. 26 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:09.560 I don't want to go outside this point, New York. Hello, hit 27 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:13.719 the boddy out here? What one on the outa's thought of a bitch of 28 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.199 about sixty ft nine? I don't know? Easy and the outre. Yeah, 29 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:21.280 I'm walking right head. Oh. Greetings is Fred and Alaska. Thanks 30 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.520 for joining me today. I wanted to share with you an email I got 31 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:30.919 a while back. This person is a retired to fishing game biologist. Approximately 32 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.439 ten years ago, they were up by the Mulchatta River. They were doing 33 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.000 some small samples which they go up into these lagoons and take sapples of the 34 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:42.360 little salmon fry and studium. They were on their way up to do that, 35 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.400 up towards the headwaters of New Shigak River, and as they were coming 36 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:51.000 up on the Mulchattna River, which is a branch that goes off to the 37 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:55.240 east from the New Shigak River. It's almost perfectly parallel with the nw Yeakuk 38 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.000 as well, just north of Koliganik east northeast. So as they were skiffing 39 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:07.120 along, they see this what they thought was a person come out of the 40 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.240 river and run into the trees, and they thought, oh shit, let's 41 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.000 go help this person. They just fell in some cold ass water. They're 42 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.319 going to need some help before they get hypothermic. So they go barreling in 43 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.120 there. They beach going in there, hollering, pay where you're to help, 44 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.080 you know, come out, We've got some blankets, we'll get you 45 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.039 warm. Nothing dead quiet. So they're kind of confused. They're like, 46 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.039 well, maybe this person is in shock. Being trained in their field and 47 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.639 whatnot. The most of them that were in the party of four had some 48 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:43.000 kind of EMT training. Now as they were following the trail, the water 49 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.280 trail from the riverbank. Because this is all happening like really fast, they 50 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.879 see this person come out of the river. They go to help. I 51 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:57.599 mean it's immediately they're right on its heels to get this person help. As 52 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:02.479 they're following this dribbled water track into the trees, about twenty yards away, 53 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.520 they hear some trees break and they start yelling out, hey, hey, 54 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.599 we're over here. We're here to help. Dead silence, no bird's tripping 55 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.199 on nothing, middle of the day, and they all at the same time 56 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.920 look at each other and go, we shouldn't be here. So they start 57 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.399 backing up and they're yelling, hey, hey, we're heres, come on 58 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:27.519 out. There's not a sound. So they retreat to the skiff and they 59 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.800 back off, and they circle around a couple times, and the second time 60 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.600 they're circling around, all of a sudden, a big piece of tree comes 61 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:40.240 flying and damn near hits them in the boat. So immediately they're spooped. 62 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.399 They go out into the main channel. They circle around to get a little 63 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.000 further away when this being comes out and it comes out and it is estimated 64 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:55.120 over ten foot tall, acting very aggressively, real big heaving breaths and just 65 00:04:55.240 --> 00:05:00.160 making these weird sounds, kind of like an imitation of a squirrel and an 66 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.959 owl. At the same time, they said it was bewildering how intense the 67 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.439 sound was because they didn't see a lot of movement from its mouth. So 68 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.879 as they were kind of pondering what they're going to do, because none of 69 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.120 them at that particular instance was really scared. They were more in awe because 70 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:19.920 they were in a safe place. A skiffs circling around. Well, they 71 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.000 kick it down the idol just to stay with the current and look at this 72 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:28.399 thing, and as it's heaving these big breasts, it runs back into the 73 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.800 trees and they all just look at each other, like, what the hell, 74 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.120 what do we do with this shit? So they go on about their 75 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.639 way. They continue up river, they do their thing. On their way 76 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:43.519 back, they came across another crew that was going up to check the weird 77 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.519 counting station. The wear counter is just light art. They rolled these tracks 78 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.079 out on the bottom of the river and it counts salmon for them instead of 79 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:55.199 someone physically standing up on a tower like they used to do and counting salmon. 80 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.199 So they run across them, and they tell them what happened, and 81 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.480 the people that they came across. It was just above the Mulchatta up just 82 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:08.399 up above Harris Creek. Plenty of encounter from this area. So as they're 83 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:13.959 talking to these observers, they're warning them, hey, we saw a sasquatch 84 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.800 just over here on the Malchatna. Be aware, keep your wits about you. 85 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:24.160 Shit's real. The observers thought these biologists were playing a prank. They 86 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.480 did not believe them one bit. They're like, yeah, yeah, we're 87 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.680 not falling for that shit. They said, hey, just be aware. 88 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.079 We got better things to do than blow smoke up your ass. We're in 89 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.000 the middle of nowhere here, open your eyes, open your ears, and 90 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:41.000 be aware. They figured they're being shined on, so they went on their 91 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:46.040 way. Well, approximately three days later they were at the Wood River Landing 92 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.079 in Dillingham gearing up to go run up towards I don't remember exactly. They 93 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:54.879 were doing the same thing though. They're basically looking for smolts and checking the 94 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:59.240 growth of the salmon and whatever they were doing in the study. Now at 95 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:04.319 the landing, those observers were coming back now coming down the new shigak. 96 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.560 They have to come back up the Wood River a little waste to get to 97 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.959 the Wood River landing, so they opted for the Wood River landing. So 98 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.000 as the original biologists are loading up their stuff getting ready to launch their skiff, 99 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.920 here comes those observers. They are hissed, you know. They thought 100 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:28.560 the biologists had some guy in a Philly suit pranking them. They were like, 101 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.759 no one's pranking you man. The observers are like, well, what 102 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.240 do we do? Who do we report it to? And the biologit just 103 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:39.120 said, no one's going to take you seriously. So they have a debate 104 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:44.199 on who do they talk to. Because the observers had something very similar happened 105 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.160 to them when they went up. They were just going to the first salmon 106 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:53.279 counting little bunk house area to get the equipment rolled out. They weren't there 107 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.240 to hang out or anything. It was strictly get the equipment set up, 108 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.800 get it lined out. And I guess when they were pulling equipment from the 109 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.920 skiff up onto the river bank, something very similar happened outside of coming out 110 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.439 of the water, but it came out of the trees and was heaven real 111 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:15.759 big, making these weird noises, so they didn't even get the equipment set 112 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.360 up. They retreated back to the skiff, pulled away from the bank, 113 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.399 and then came back a few minutes later after the thing went away. So 114 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.720 they do their thing and nothing else happens at that moment. And as they're 115 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.199 leaving after setting up, so they got to roll out the light art. 116 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:35.120 They got all this shit to do. Well, they were setting up the 117 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.360 receiver or something like that. They just get done and they get down the 118 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.919 tower and they're coming back to the skiff and as they get loaded into the 119 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.039 skiff, there's a scream that happens. Now, the scream happens and they 120 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.080 immediately push off. They were all loaded, so they pushed off. They 121 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.080 were backing away from the river bank. Because it's an elevated river bank, 122 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.759 they couldn't see past a certain area. So when they got away from the 123 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.759 river bank, they could see further back and at the tree line there's this 124 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:07.879 thing again heaving, this big heaving, and it started doing this melodic scream. 125 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:15.519 It was like a just constant, repetitive whooping kind of scream. They 126 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.279 didn't know what the hell to do, so they kind of all stuck looking 127 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.679 and according to this person, there's footage of this somewhere. They had a 128 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.840 flip phone with the some kind of camera on it and they recorded part of 129 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.039 it. These people retreated out of there after trying to film it or whatever. 130 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.360 So as they're talking about what happened to them at the Wood River landing, 131 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.879 one of the fishing game troopers showed up, who was going along with 132 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:46.879 the biologists or whoever else on this whatever study they were doing. The fishing 133 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.240 game trooper that showed up, they immediately accost him and say, hey, 134 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.039 look, you know, we saw a sasquatch, we saw the hairy man. 135 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.600 This is what happened. And the fishing game trooper just looked at him 136 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.679 and was like they were really confused at the nonchalant d What do you do 137 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.120 with that? You know, because no one's going to report this shit. 138 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:09.000 That's so aggravating. I mean, even professional biologists in the field observers. 139 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:13.960 All these people that go out here and experience this shit, who do they 140 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.759 talk to? Who do they report it to? No one is taking them 141 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.720 and if someone is taking a report, it's their own personal little report in 142 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.000 their head. Okay, you saw one over here, Okay, I saw 143 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.279 one over there that type of shit. No one is actively sharing this information 144 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.960 as it happens. This shit happened ten years ago, you know, and 145 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.480 the person that shared it with me is still leary. You know, didn't 146 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.120 really want me to state their job, but it's like, I mean, 147 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.559 they agreed. I'm not just putting them out on blast. I wouldn't do 148 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.759 that to someone they no longer work in the field or whatever. But still, 149 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.360 how many professionals out there today are dealing with this shit and got no 150 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.639 one to tell about it? No one, no one to tell you know, 151 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.879 even as I sit here, I'm not super remote, but I'm remote 152 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.080 enough. I got you know, flower patches behind me, you know Berry 153 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.840 Bush's tundra trees. Who knows what's over this hill? Point being is there's 154 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:16.759 nowhere to really confide and report these things with the legitimate authoritative entity of any 155 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:22.039 kind. You know. Essentially it breaks down to eventually they share with someone 156 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.840 like me or their friends and family. But what do you do with this 157 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:30.919 shit? You know, there's going to come a tipping point where the avalanche 158 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.519 of evidence is going to be so overwhelming. What do you do with that? 159 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.159 I mean, you have a group of four that are in the biology 160 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.200 field, like legit. And then you got the observers who are you know, 161 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.480 a subset of these observers who are putting out the equipment that they check 162 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:50.240 their data on, but they're dismissed. The fishing game trooper that they tried 163 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.679 to confide in, he wasn't dismissive, but he had nowhere to take it. 164 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.320 He had nowhere to take the information. He had nothing that he was 165 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.320 going to be able to do on paper. Nothing. And that happens for 166 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.480 so many people. I wonder how many people out there have an experience as 167 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.759 simple as I mean nothing. You know, how many people are seeing something 168 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:15.080 in the distance and it takes off, you know, probably more than we 169 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.519 can even count. How many people have had these things scream at them in 170 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.679 the deep woods and ain't going to tell nobody. They ain't going to tell 171 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.519 nobody because no one's gonna believe them, you know. And until a lot 172 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.720 of people, you know, they want the physical evidence, Oh I need, 173 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.440 I need to see something tangible. And you know, you gotta be 174 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.440 careful what you wish for. You go out looking for this shit, you 175 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.360 just may find it aggravating aggravating stuff anyway, I shared that with you to 176 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.240 share the main experience I wanted to share with you. There's this story of 177 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.759 eons ago, twenty plus years ago, of the Moultchattny Screamer. Now, 178 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.480 what was told to me by an elder is it was for a total of 179 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:03.399 about three to four years in this particular area on the Mulchatna River, just 180 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.879 above the mouth of it as it starts getting narrow before it goes back into 181 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.639 the Mulchattena Hills. As it was told to me, there was this guy, 182 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:16.399 his name was Albert. He went up the Mulchattena in hopes of gold 183 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.039 panning. So he got himself a little camp set up. His little camp 184 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:26.759 set up was strictly business. He was there to sluice pan and leave. 185 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.000 He wasn't there for wildlife photography, none of that. And he had been 186 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:39.799 led to believe that the Mulchattana Hills have some ancient riverbed areas and creek areas 187 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.399 that are rich in gold. So, going on this information, Albert sets 188 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.120 up his camp. He's got his little wire mesh for his homemade sluice box 189 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.639 all lined out in camp. He's literally taking the small tin pail back and 190 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:58.399 forth to the Mulchatta Hills getting coarse samples of dirt. He's piling it up 191 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.519 in a good sized pile next to his sluicing area right and so he's got 192 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.200 this pile, according to what was told to me, it was a good 193 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.039 four foot tall, eight foot round dirt pile to where he had material to 194 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.879 work. He had a whole bunch of paider right next to his station. 195 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.080 So he was going back for a couple more pails and was going to start 196 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.399 as sluicing and then take what he got and move on. So he's gone 197 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:30.480 a couple hours getting his material. He comes back. Now, the Moltana 198 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.559 Hills aren't very big. They're kind of rolling hills, but there's a group 199 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.480 of them. It's kind of hard to explain. You have to look at 200 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:41.039 the topographical but Moultana River is like one hundred and forty six miles long or 201 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.679 something like that, but it's not very deep. It's not very wide once 202 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.799 you get up in there. So where he was getting his material was in 203 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.240 a narrower part. His skiff had been drug up as far as he could 204 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.080 with the motor tipped up because it was so shallow. He had it anchored 205 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.519 not too far from his spot. So his trail was to go up into 206 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:05.159 the Mulchattana Hills, approximately a mile and a half away, where he was 207 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.720 getting this pay dirt and bringing it back. The reason I bring it up 208 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:13.320 is the trail cuts right along that creek, oh well river, but you 209 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:16.639 know it's at the headwaters of it, and so you have all these other 210 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.840 streams and creeks feeding into it. So he had to cross a bunch of 211 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:24.200 these. And as he's crossing back, he's coming back to his sluice area 212 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:30.639 with his last couple buckets, he notices fresh wet tracks. He wasn't overly 213 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.679 paying attention, but he was aware of bear, so he had his pistolanous 214 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.240 hip at all times, and he had a rifle that he left at his 215 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:41.320 camp. As he's going along, he figures, oh, okay, a 216 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.639 bear came through here and is heading towards my camp. But my food's all 217 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.120 put up. I'm good, just keeping an eye out for this bear. 218 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.480 He comes back and gets to camp and his four foot by eight foot pile 219 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:58.919 of pay dirt spread everywhere. His sluice was all knocked over, the sluice 220 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.279 damaged, and the pile of dirt was spread. Nothing else appeared to be 221 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.799 touched. He's looking around, like why would a bear do this? And 222 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.600 then he saw the tracks in the dirt. There's fresh human, huge tracks. 223 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.600 According to what I was told, they were over twenty inches in length, 224 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:21.080 these human looking tracks, very wide. Heel, you know the routine. 225 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:26.279 They went off in the direction of where his skiff was. Now he 226 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.039 could almost see where his skiff is from where he was standing when he noticed 227 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.279 the tracks. So he runs a few yards, has his gun out and 228 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.799 is looking for his skiff and doesn't see it. So he's panicking. He 229 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:42.039 runs down the river along the bank and he sees his skiff just kind of 230 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:47.639 getting pushed gently. Something had broken the rope and it was just kind of 231 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.320 slowly drifting away, but it wasn't like detrimental. So he runs down there, 232 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.279 grabs it by the broken piece of rope, drags it back, pulls 233 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.039 out another line, anchors it to the bank, starts looking around, goes 234 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.440 back up, follows those tracks. Those tracks lead directly away from his camp 235 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:10.759 into a scrub of trees, like an island of black spruce and some willows. 236 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:15.160 He's looking at this little island of trees in the tundra just back from 237 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.480 his camp. So he comes around the tree line where his camp is muskeg 238 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:23.799 for about almost one hundred yards and then this other standard trees. Now how 239 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:30.160 it was explained to me is he had retrieved his rifle when he came out 240 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.200 to follow these tracks. And there was big, deep impressions in the mossy 241 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.400 stuff where he could see the impressions in this mossy material. And there's just 242 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.119 a bee line straight to the standard trees. So he's got his rifles pistol. 243 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:47.319 He automatically when he saw the tracks bigfoot. Albert is not an ignorant 244 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:52.720 guy from what I was told, but a little too adventurous, a little 245 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:59.440 too curious. So he gets about half the distance, so he's about fifty 246 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.799 yards from the stand of trees. Now he sees movement in behind the trees, 247 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:06.440 but he can't make it out. So he starts yelling, hey, 248 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.440 hey, you know, I'm Albert so and so let's talk. What did 249 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.559 you do this for? Nothing? Not a sound? So he squats down. 250 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.160 He's trying to contemplate, man, do I go closer or do I 251 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.160 leave? His curiosity had the best of him. He decides he's going to 252 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.519 go closer, so as soon as he stands up, he slings the rifle 253 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:27.759 over his shoulder and takes two steps, and all of a sudden, the 254 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:32.480 screaming starts. Starts in front of him from the stand of trees, and 255 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:37.160 from behind him another scream. According to what was said to me, a 256 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:45.599 smaller scream, meaning something smaller screamed in return. So immediately he's walking parallel 257 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.160 in between both these screams. To circle back around to his camp, he 258 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.400 takes a long way around to his camp, which took him approximately almost an 259 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:57.559 hour, because he did not want any close contact because of the nature of 260 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:03.359 the scream didn't sit right with him, not at all, so he takes 261 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.559 this hour long detour. Comes back to his camp. There's new tracks in 262 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.799 that dirt that was spread of varying sizes. He felt that there was a 263 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:18.160 total of four different size tracks. He wanted no part of it, so 264 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.240 he has his outside of his food, which was in a small drum with 265 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.720 a screw tight lid of some kind. Disbear proof that he had hanging in 266 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.160 a tree was no longer there. When he came back, the rope had 267 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:36.759 been torn. He's basically gathering up some stuff. Right now. As he's 268 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.319 gathering stuff, it dawned on him. Oh, my skiff is further down 269 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:45.640 now because one of these things broke the line. So he's got this going 270 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.079 on in the back of his mind. There's active screaming going on from that 271 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:55.200 island of trees. It didn't ever really stop. One scream, short pause, 272 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.960 another scream, short pause, a smaller scream from inside the tree line 273 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.039 by his camp. Ah, geez, I'm trying to put myself in his 274 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.880 shoes to imagine what it's like to have this going on while you're trying to 275 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.559 collect your shit and leave. So he feels like every scream is more and 276 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.720 more directed at him. He's yelling back out, Hey, I'm leaving. 277 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.680 I'm leaving, you know, leave me alone. I'm leaving. I want 278 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.759 nothing to do with it. Just leave me alone, you know. He 279 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.839 kept just yelling at So he's gathering up his stuff and he's going down to 280 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:29.720 the bank, and the dawns on him. The skiff is further down the 281 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:34.279 river. Something ripped the line again, and his skiff was just banking along 282 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:38.319 and not tied to the shore anymok. So immediately he grabs his backpack with 283 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.960 his most important shit, slings a rifle, and grabs his emergency bag with 284 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.240 flares and some other shit in it, runs for the skiff. As he's 285 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:51.599 running to the skiff, he hears screaming going on behind him, and it 286 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.400 sounds like he's barreling down on him. So he turns around, swings his 287 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.759 rifle in that direction. There's nothing off to his left at the tree line, 288 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.640 stopping and breaking of shit, and he could barely see movement in between 289 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.599 these trees, and he's like, man, leave me alone. He's trembling, 290 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.920 and he fires a shot off in that direction, boom, just making 291 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:17.319 noise. Basically. As he continues along, the screaming starts again. Now 292 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:22.119 he's not far from his skiff, but he's so mentally wrapped up in what's 293 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.279 behind him that he's having hard time focusing on getting to the skiff. He 294 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.119 keeps stutter stepping. He fell down a few times, and there's only game 295 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.119 trails that kind of weave in and out from the river bank. There's no 296 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.720 concise line right on that river bank edge, you know, for him to 297 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:41.319 so he's running around all this shit. He finally gets just below his skiff, 298 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.400 catches his breath a little bit, steps down the river bank and stops 299 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:49.200 his skiff from continuing on, pulls it over, pulls it up on shore 300 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.200 a little better. He's only in a little eighteen foot lund, which you 301 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.640 know by yourself, can be a pain to manage, but it's not impossible. 302 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.000 It's like a v hole in the front and goes to a flat bottom 303 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.880 in the back. So he pulls it up and he's loading his stuff up 304 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.440 and a scream happens again right behind him. Now terrified, this guy Albert 305 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:12.119 swings around and starts just shooting because he felt he was in imminent danger. 306 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:17.839 So he turns around. He just starts unloading his rifle just randomly, which 307 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:19.839 is not a smart thing to do, but the guy was panicked, so 308 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:25.400 he empties his rifle, re slings it over his shoulder and is yelling, 309 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:27.039 you know, explicit, I stcket out of here. You know, I'm 310 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.640 leaving, I'm leaving. So he gets the skiff, he maneuvers it, 311 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:36.400 swings it around basically because of the shallow depth of where he's at. Because 312 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:41.480 he's way up there, he has to use oars to push himself along because 313 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.440 it's too shallow to drop the outboard and rip out of there. So as 314 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.240 he's pushing along with the oars, he's got his pistol and rifle right on 315 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:55.759 the bench seat at his feet. He's pushing along continually looking around him. 316 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.920 Now he only gets about fifty sixty yards into this whole endeavor and the scream 317 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.799 happens again. Just so happens where he's at. There's a little bit of 318 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:10.559 the bank lowers down and there's a feeder creek that comes in at that point. 319 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.960 When he drifts down to that point, he can see up that little 320 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:18.039 creek a little ways and he sees two of them jump across and into the 321 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.920 tree line in front of him, off to his right. As he's contemplating, 322 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.240 well, shit, they're following me. He immediately became very emotional and 323 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:32.960 was sobbing and was crying and almost kind of gave up. He stopped pushing 324 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:37.279 along with the ore, dropped the ore into the skiff and sat on the 325 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:41.920 bench and was holding his rifle and had the pistol on his lap. As 326 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.720 this poor guy is contemplating where do I go? He knows he has quite 327 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.720 a bit of distance, for it's deep enough to drop that kicker down and 328 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.599 really make movement. So he decides, well, I'm gonna let the river 329 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.240 bring me down, and once it gets deep enough, I'll drop that out 330 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:02.799 board and just sit here and watch and wait and see and kind of steer 331 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:06.000 the skiff's best I can when I need to. As he's doing this, 332 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:11.279 he hears the screaming again. It's below him and above him and almost right 333 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.400 next to him. He's hearing these Okay, screaming is kind of a it's 334 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:21.240 kind of like a howl, a growl howl kind of thing that ends in 335 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:26.400 a high pitched kind of thing. It's really weird. That Dennis video I've 336 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.160 been pointing out to people. That's a very good example of what I'm talking 337 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.240 about. But you don't get the full spectrum of sound with the microphones. 338 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.359 So as he's sitting there contemplating on what do I do with this shit, 339 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:42.160 he kept hearing stuff falling, stuff falling around, clumps of grass and dirt, 340 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:48.079 sometimes rocks, sometimes branches will go whibbing by over his head, and 341 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.359 he felt like he was being toyed with, so periodically he would just stand 342 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.079 up from his seated position on a little bench seat and fire shots into the 343 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:00.799 trees just randomly, which not a good idea, but it just freaked out. 344 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:04.160 This goes on for a while and he eventually he gets into deeper water 345 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:08.319 where he can drop the kicker and he fires it up and stay tuned for 346 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:15.640 more sasquatch out to see. Well right back after these messages. Now, 347 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.319 right as he fires it up and he's starting to putter and get up on 348 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:26.440 step in the channel, big tree from he doesn't even know where comes flying 349 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.799 out into the water, kind of lands in and it has his water weight 350 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:36.200 partially blocked. So he veers off to the left and tries to skiff around, 351 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:41.880 almost loses the outboard because outboard hits and clips this tree. Now he 352 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.759 had to stick his hand back to keep the outboard from flipping up over into 353 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.880 the boat. That's how hard he hit. So he stops that from happening. 354 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:55.039 His transom's bent and the motor stalls out. Worried that he broke the 355 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:59.839 shaft for the outboard. So he's got all this shit going on, this 356 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:06.519 weird screaming happening periodically, and finally he's able to write the outboard, He 357 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:08.759 repumps it, restarts it, it fires up it has a little bit of 358 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.720 a wobble because the prop was bent, but it was moving, it was 359 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:17.720 running, and he was out of there. So that's what happened to Albert. 360 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.559 He got out of there after that incident and everything screaming, being accosted, 361 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.200 camp being torn up, food being stolen, and being run out. 362 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:32.960 Now, these things probably could have had him easily. And that's another thing. 363 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.200 Who knows boggling shit though, because most people get everything they say about 364 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.519 it dismissed by those who are smart or no better. You can't learn shit 365 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.119 in a book. You can read a book about the outdoors all you want, 366 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.799 front to back. You can memorize that shit. But until you put 367 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.119 your foot out in those lids, man, you don't know dick. So 368 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.839 just keep that in mind. No one's an expert. Tell the next one 369 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.920 greeting is this is Fred and Laska. Today I want to share with you 370 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:04.960 an occurrence that happened to a guy named Caleb. He was up in Electing 371 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.319 Gig. This is back in nineteen eighty eight. He was taken to Rainbow 372 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.000 Valley, which is in the area just a little bit north of Electing Gig. 373 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.960 As they were going back in there the guy that took him or was 374 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.519 a very good friend of his that he had fished on the guy's fishing boat 375 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.240 with him. So his buddy that he had partnered with was, you know, 376 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:29.519 regaling him with stories of the Harryman or whatever, and he thought nothing 377 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.400 of it, dismissed it, you know, like, okay, yeah, 378 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:34.640 my native captive. He wants to just tease me about this stuff, you 379 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:38.200 know, get the dumb white guy to buy into some some bullshit. He 380 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.920 agrees to go. He went with the total mindset of I'm being pranked. 381 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.079 Someone's going to be hiding the bush, try to scare me. So they 382 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.119 went. They were camped out, they're having a good time. So the 383 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.359 guy says, why don't you let me camp here overnight since you're so confident 384 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.839 on doing a Harryman. His buddy was like, no, dude, I 385 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.880 don't care what you believe, you know, which I understand. I wouldn't 386 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.559 allow someone's ignorance to something to be their downfall, especially if I could change 387 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.759 it and do something. So Caleb agrees, says, Okay, we'll stay 388 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.000 here together or whatever. But I'm not feeling what you're feeling. There's nothing 389 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.880 going on here. And he was like, not at the moment, you 390 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.480 know, but let's just hang out. Let's see what's going on. So 391 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.240 there there approximately two nights. As time goes on, Caleb's just giving him 392 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:23.839 more and more shit, like, dude, you're full of it. You 393 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:26.759 know, you may have seen something, maybe it was a crippled bear or 394 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.599 something, and you're just tripping. So the morning of the third day, 395 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:36.160 Caleb wakes up early. He decides he's going to rup some coffee and he 396 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:37.960 had been looking at this mountain off in the distance. It was one of 397 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.759 the Wood River mountains. He said, I'm going to go and hike that 398 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.880 today by myself. So he's up and prepping. He gets out of his 399 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.920 tent. He's pouring water into the little percolator pot to make some cowboy coffee 400 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:53.279 over the fire. As he's stoking the fire, he realizes there's something moving 401 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:57.799 around behind him, and he doesn't know exactly what that is. So he's 402 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:02.519 slowly kind of turning because he was thinking bar and as he turned around, 403 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.160 this thing was down on all fours and looking him right in the eyes, 404 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.359 about twenty five feet behind him. He couldn't put what he was seeing into 405 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:17.160 the reality of where he was standing. So he starts laughing. And as 406 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:22.279 he's laughing, because he can't believe what he's seeing, he laughs out of 407 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.799 nervousness, and this thing mocked his laugh back to him, and that mocking 408 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.279 laugh was a lot louder and deeper, and it woke up his partner, 409 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.319 the local. He did not hesitate. He came out of the tent with 410 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:41.720 his firearm and commenced to shooting in the air to scare it off, scare 411 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:44.480 the shit out of Caleb, because he was facing this thing laughing, and 412 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:45.640 then all of a sudden, gunshots are going off over his head, you 413 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:49.920 know, not directly, but behind him. This thing stands up and runs 414 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.559 about fifty seventy five yards, hits this initial little tree line, and then 415 00:29:55.599 --> 00:30:00.200 stops and then takes one and uproots it, drops it into place, and 416 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.759 runs off. And they're like, Caleb was trying to ask his friend, 417 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.759 this is really happening, and wake me up, wake me up, and 418 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:08.799 guys like, it's really happening. There's nothing to wake you up from. 419 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:12.640 But his partner was saying, it really confused him about the tree thing just 420 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:17.640 leaving it on the ground. It really confused him. But Caleb was freaked 421 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.960 out, no longer wanted to be camping there. Well, his buddy that 422 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.880 was the captain of the fishing boat and a local I know the guy. 423 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:29.240 I'm not going to say his name. I haven't talked to him about this 424 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:34.440 particular situation. He walks back to that tree line and he's armed. But 425 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.480 you know, the only reason he was confident in walking over there is they 426 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.960 heard it and then saw it up above the tree line on the mountain there, 427 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.359 and then they saw it go up over it, so he was confident 428 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.160 it was far enough away. He goes over and checks out the tree that 429 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:53.599 was pulled up and flopped down. What it had was a bunch of pike 430 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.039 that it had caught with his hand or something laid there, and instead of 431 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:03.160 losing it, stat I should ripped that tree out and dropped it on top 432 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.960 of it to cover its pike. I found that interesting because that's the first 433 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.839 I've heard of those types of connections. It consciously hit its pike catch. 434 00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:18.240 He leaves the pike alone and comes back over. Now when he was coming 435 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.759 back over, unbeknownst to him, because his buddy was out of yelling range 436 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.559 and wasn't paying attention. He was packing up because he was ready to go. 437 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.599 Caleb said, when he heard him coming in the distance, he whistled 438 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.319 for him. He thought what it was when he turned around is up above 439 00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:38.200 the tree line that he saw what was in front of him just a little 440 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:42.839 while ago, and it was making the whistle sound. So his partner that 441 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.359 was coming back that just saw the pike on as a branch. He was 442 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.680 hearing it but ignoring it. He didn't want to make any contact with it. 443 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.160 He wanted to just keep going and he could tell it was far enough 444 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.920 away where he wasn't in any real danger. When he makes it back over 445 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:01.240 to where Caleb is, Caleb had watch this thing come down in the trees. 446 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:06.359 He saw the trees moving, the shit coming on down to where the 447 00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:10.160 pike were left, watched it fling the tree out of the way, grabbed 448 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:15.039 the pike, smashed them all up into one hand, and then went right 449 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:20.480 back same direction, all in the amount of time it took for his partner 450 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:23.799 to walk maybe seventy five yards the rest of the distance. When he saw 451 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:29.319 it initially start, the thing was moving fast. That to me is really 452 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.599 compelling, because that wasn't any sign of aggression. To me, that's more 453 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.920 curiosity and that's good to hear. So nothing else happened. They got the 454 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:42.000 hell out of dodge, but Caleb believes and actually he was asking me if 455 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.400 he could go along on the documentary. I was like, I don't know, 456 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.880 man, I don't know about that, but he really wants to go 457 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:52.160 back and revisit that area himself without that stress. And I was like, 458 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:57.119 you realize that stress is going to be there. I said, have you 459 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.400 gone in the woods since without any stress? He was like no. I 460 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:01.359 was like, well, it's not going to change in that spot. I 461 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:05.079 could promise you that it may bring you a little bit of peace in the 462 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.640 long run, but it's not going to change nothing. You know. I 463 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.680 want to share with you in experience that happened to Michelle and her husband and 464 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:17.200 son. They were on a fishing trip up the Nushagak River. I won't 465 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:23.160 name the lodge, but her husband happened to had worked there years past when 466 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:27.279 the lodge first opened up, so he was trusted by the owners because he 467 00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.160 had his current six pack license. They allowed him to take the skiff with 468 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.839 just him and his wife and son. A six pack license is basically a 469 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.640 coastguard, certified captain of a skiff with the proper training, what have you. 470 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.759 So they went ripping around, you know, they went up above Henry 471 00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.519 Salute. They were basically all over the lower part of the Nushghak below Ekwalk 472 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.599 though they went by a place Sophie's Landing that's where they killed the kicker and 473 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.200 would drift and just gone down towards Black Point. So on their drift they 474 00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:00.920 were just having a good time. And further downriver as they were casting and 475 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.799 doing their thing, there was a very very loud whistle, like someone putting 476 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.000 two fingers in their mouth and just whistling really loud and sharp, and they 477 00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:10.599 thought, oh, you know, just down the bend there there must be 478 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.800 some other people whooping it up, someone whistling for someone having a fish on. 479 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.320 So as they continued, they're just drifting away, not thinking nothing of 480 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.519 it. They're not drifting overly fast. They weren't in the swiftest current. 481 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:29.320 It's something this guy, her husband had done a million times before when he 482 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.760 worked for the lodge. So nothing out of the ordinary, nothing they get 483 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:37.880 overly concerned about. So as they're discussing what they're going to do once they 484 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.079 catch their first king, whether they're going to go on shore and just on 485 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:45.119 the beach there or whatever. They heard the whistle again, but this time 486 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.719 when they heard the whistle, it was much closer and parallel to them on 487 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:53.400 the shore. And after the whistle, they kept hearing a weird chatter sound, 488 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:59.280 noises and voices. They could not pinpoint a language to it. They 489 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:02.320 could tell they're there was something going on there, but they couldn't hear enough. 490 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:07.679 It was just at a hearing range where they couldn't make out what was 491 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:12.840 going on. Now. Her husband had heard this stuff before, but he 492 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.000 was never able to figure out where the noise was coming from. Because it 493 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:22.280 sounded distant and non aggressive. There was never any reason to worry. He 494 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.000 never associated that sound with anything detrimental to his health fair enough, you know 495 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.480 a lot of people don't. So they decide they're going to pull up over 496 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.960 there towards short towards the direction of that noise. It had been something that 497 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.440 Michelle's husband, it said, always bothered him, so he wanted to figure 498 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:44.320 it out. And they had a bear gun, they had a shotgun. 499 00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.199 You know. They get over, they bank up and he goes by himself. 500 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.000 Their son at the time was about thirteen fourteen, but not well versed 501 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.000 in the woods. He would only be in the woods long enough to cast 502 00:35:54.000 --> 00:36:00.599 a line really in being a lodge around the campfire. But never know Hansel 503 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:04.440 and greteline it in the woods or none of that shit. So he goes 504 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:07.760 the shore along with the shotgun, and he takes a game trail that leaves 505 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.039 from the edge of the Niushagak River. And he was heading due east on 506 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.639 this whole trail and as it cuts back, it goes and hits a stand 507 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:20.280 of trees, and it cuts through the trees. Isn't anticipating seeing shit. 508 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.280 He just was really curious about this noise because he had heard it periodically, 509 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:29.280 not every year he was up here, but often enough where it always stuck 510 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.920 in the back of his mind, that noise. So as he's tredging along, 511 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:37.719 he's got about sixty yards to the edge of the tree line where he'd 512 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.519 planned on stopping. Michelle was watching from the skiff intently, very intently. 513 00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:45.679 Her son's next to her. You think a bear's going to get him, 514 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.039 and she's like, shush, you know, don't say that, And God 515 00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:51.400 forbid, you know, don't want to bear to get him. As her 516 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:54.519 and her son are talking, they noticed her husband is getting closer to the 517 00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:59.199 tree line there. They were on a straight part of the river. There 518 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.039 was no curve, no bend in the river at that point. There's a 519 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:06.719 small stand of trees where they banked up and he tied off the bow, 520 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.800 and from that small stand it was kind of open grassy terrain about forty fifty 521 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:16.559 sixty yards back to the tree line that ran, and it basically skirted the 522 00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:21.960 edge of the river about that distance from it, and there's various game trails 523 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.480 all throughout there. He was watching the trail in front of him and kind 524 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.360 of listening now as he's focused over here to his left, his wife and 525 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.519 son are watching from the skiff something big and dark moving in the woods from 526 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.440 the right, but it was moving slowly and methodically, like it was going 527 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:45.360 from tree to tree. Now, it's midday and the sunlight was actually illuminating 528 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.840 very similar to how it is to me now. The sun was kind of 529 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.800 in their face. So they were seeing the silhouetted figure in between the trees 530 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.119 moving periodically. So they start yelling, hey, hey, to your right, 531 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.000 to your right, there's someone over there to your right. He turned 532 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:02.360 and he's like, you know, quiet down, quiet down, because he 533 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.679 was starting to hear this mumbling sound and he was trying to pinpoint it. 534 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.679 He thought they were trying to tell him, hey, we hear it too, 535 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.119 So there was a miscommunication. He was assuming one thing, they were 536 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.199 assuming another. It was just one of those situations. As he's sitting there 537 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:23.000 listening keenly to what's that noise, it dawns on him it's not coming from 538 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:28.360 in front of him. The noise is kind of skirting around the tree line, 539 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.800 but it's coming from behind him, so he turns to his right. 540 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.119 That's when Michelle and her son are jumping up and down on the bow. 541 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:37.239 So he turns and looks at him. Get back here, get back. 542 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.000 There's something right over there. He gets the shotgun hole name. He's not 543 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:45.199 scared. There's nothing tangible to be scared of. So he's looking and he 544 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.199 can hear this garbled sound getting louder, but still can't make it out. 545 00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.880 When she expressed it to me, he had said it didn't sound like the 546 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.360 samurai chatter, but it sounded like gibberish, like a pig Latin of some 547 00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:59.639 kind. He couldn't make it out. It was just a garble of everyone's 548 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:02.559 while he like a vowel like sound, but it was more like grunts and 549 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:07.320 chirps. He couldn't put together what it was. So as he's looking, 550 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:14.239 this thing had slipped around from the direction it just was unseen, even with 551 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:19.239 being silhouetted by the sunlight, skirted around and was on the trail in front 552 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.639 of him, inside the trees, maybe thirty five forty feet before that trail 553 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.039 hooked off to his right. So he's still focused over here to his far 554 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.519 right, and this thing is off to his left. Now standing in the 555 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:35.840 trail, Michelle and her son can see it again. They can't see any 556 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.960 facial features. It's silhouetted out, but it's big and it's on two legs. 557 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:45.280 And finally they get his attention because that garbled sound is still going on, 558 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.599 but it sounds like it's in the direction to his right. He catches 559 00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:52.880 when what they're saying and turns and looks dropped the shotgun. He was so 560 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:58.880 shocked he'd dropped that shotgun, backed up a couple feet, kind of had 561 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.280 his hands up like he was gonna be robbed. By time he does that 562 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:06.960 short little motion, the thing was gone, not a sound. So he's 563 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.039 backing up. You know, he's he's making sure he's got around in it. 564 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:12.440 You know, he slightly pumps it a little bit to make sure that 565 00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:16.039 the round was in there. He backtracks, walking slowly back to the skiff. 566 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.800 When he gets back to the skiff, Michelle's chewing him out for not 567 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.920 listening to them, and he was trying to explain, Look, I was 568 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:27.599 hearing one thing. I couldn't make out what you guys were saying because of 569 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.280 the noise coming from this direction. You guys's noise from this direction. It 570 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.079 was all kind of intermingling, and I was trying to get a better sense 571 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.559 of what was being said. Now, as they're sitting there at the bank 572 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.559 and he's untying, he handed the shotgun to Michelle and said, keep an 573 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:44.519 eye. If it comes running up behind me, shoot it. I got 574 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:46.280 on tie us. It's only twenty feet a line over to the little scrub 575 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:50.559 brush. So he tells her, you know, if it rushes up behind 576 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.960 me, shoot it. She was like, oh, dear guy, I 577 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.559 don't want to have to shoot anything. He goes, if it's coming to 578 00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.320 get me shoot it, so he goes in unties. He gets back to 579 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.599 the skiff, she hands him the shotgun back. He has them scoop back 580 00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.280 and get in their seats. He has his son fire up the outboard because 581 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.400 he taught him how to fire it up. So son happily, very happily, 582 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:15.039 went over and fired it up. He pushes off from the bank, 583 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.000 climbs in and goes to the back and takes control of the outboard, and 584 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.719 he starts backing away from the river bank, and as he's in deep enough 585 00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:28.039 water, he engages it and forward and hooks back up to go back upriver 586 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:30.320 to their left. When they're facing the bank, he backed up and then 587 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.400 to the left to go further up river, and as they get about a 588 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.960 quarter mile from where they were, it starts to get into these bins. 589 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.639 He stopped and killed the motor again. She asked him, why in the 590 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:46.760 hell with this thing over there, did you take us up here just to 591 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:50.840 kill the motor? What are we going to do? Fish? Are you 592 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.000 crazy? Let's get out of here. He goes, No, it came 593 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.639 this direction. I just know it. I'm going to try to get a 594 00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:02.039 picture of it. She tells him let's go now. He wasn't going to 595 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:07.559 hear that. He was determined to get him a picture of a Harryman because 596 00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:10.280 the shock of initially seeing it and dropping the gun and then grabbing it again, 597 00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:14.519 he had made up his mind. It's here. Now, I'm here. 598 00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:16.400 Now I have a camera in the boat. I'm going to get a 599 00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:21.559 picture of this thing. She warns him, No, don't bank up on 600 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:23.559 shore again. If we see it from the boat, get your picture. 601 00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:28.079 If not, we need to go. He explains to her that he felt 602 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.719 it went that direction, and he thinks it's going to be coming out of 603 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.480 the tree line at some point, or watching them from somewhere at some point. 604 00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.719 So what he wanted to do was slowly drift back down, ready with 605 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:44.440 the camera and get a picture. Now. Great idea, very good idea. 606 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:46.960 As they're drifting and he's standing there like a tourist, just waiting his 607 00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:52.400 turn for this thing to step out. Be there something crickets, not thing's 608 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:54.960 going on. They make it back down to the point where he had beached 609 00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.039 and went up. Nothing. Not a thing. So finally he fires up 610 00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.760 the outboard hits it in reverse to pull himself away from the bank, get 611 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.639 back into the deeper water, and just as they click it in the forward, 612 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.639 after he'd set the camera down, they heard a scream and the thing 613 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.639 was standing right back over on the trail where he had saw it and dropped 614 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.360 his gun. Standing there clear as day out in the sunlight. He was 615 00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:22.119 already in geared moving that he just shook his head and just opened up and 616 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:27.119 got up on step got them out of there. There's so many of these 617 00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:30.639 encounters. I don't want to make it seem like there's a hairy man behind 618 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.199 every tree, because there's not. However, if they're around, they won't 619 00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:39.400 make themselves known one way or another. You may not even realize it's them. 620 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:46.559 They can imitate things to a t, but it changes during the course 621 00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:51.079 of them imitating something. Like with the imitating an owl, for example, 622 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:57.400 I've noticed is that the first hoot or two will be so natural you would 623 00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:01.800 think nothing of it, but the ones that fall much louder and unnatural. 624 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.760 Same with squirrel, chirps, bear grunts, you name it. Whatever they 625 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:12.639 imitate, coyote, how wolf, howl. So just be aware when you're 626 00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.760 out there in the woods, no matter where you are. From my understanding, 627 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.599 this is kind of one of the universal things that universal behavior grant you, 628 00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:24.519 its speculation and anecdotal. However, you hear it enough times, you 629 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:29.519 got to start taking part of it serious. Imitating animals is kind of their 630 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:34.280 thing. So if you're ever out in the woods and you start hearing imitations 631 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:38.639 of things, and you could tell someone imitating it sounds like it's eight hundred 632 00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:44.119 pound gorilla trying to imitate. AWL wanted to reevaluate sitting there, waiting there 633 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.039 and trying to figure it out, bad stuff could happen. Check out the 634 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:53.440 interactive map Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch all one word dot com. Just click on the 635 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.960 map. You can zoom in. You'll see little pin markers of encounters and 636 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:04.840 experiences. The map has marker pince and those marker pins you touch it, 637 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:08.039 it'll bring up a video of an encounter that I've shared with you guys from 638 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.199 that area, so you can put what I'm telling you in the context of 639 00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.960 the position on the state of the map. Anyway, thanks for joining me, 640 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:21.920 and we'll catch you on the next one. They say you don't gotta 641 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:32.199 go home, but you can't stay. I don't want to feel we're all 642 00:45:32.440 --> 00:46:00.960 out. It job, this job, job, everything you can right, 643 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:08.199 looking back for joy, for me, joy, staying right. You come 644 00:46:08.280 --> 00:47:09.880 in right away, steps still, stop step step step step still us STISTI 645 00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:22.880 in state, passes states and fast used inssiness