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 --> 00:00:18.239 over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like, 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.879 I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over 7 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:41.320 the fence. Sat what are you putting? We got some wonder or something 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.039 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? Or was it 9 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.799 was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and I 10 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:59.359 don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus Quice you better 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.400 hello, hit somebody out here? What quent on out there? I've thought 12 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.680 of a bit of about sixty forty nine. I don't know. Easy him 13 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.519 out there? Yeah, I'm right. Oh. Greetings from Alaska. This 14 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.879 is Fred Ruhle, curent On Travel Council member from Dongham, Alaska. What 15 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:19.680 I want to share with you today is an email. I got it just 16 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.120 last week. What I tried to do, just so everyone's aware, I 17 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:29.560 read your emails repetitively because I've been through some things I relived in my mind 18 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.280 the person's experience, so I could better explain it to you, guys. 19 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.959 It's just how my mind works. I look at things from all sides, 20 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.719 kind of down. I don't know. Maybe it's OCD and I don't know 21 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.599 it. Now. This happened on the Yetna River, which is just north 22 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:47.560 of Little Ways going towards Fairbanks, the exact place down the Jetna. I 23 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:49.760 was asked to leave that part out of it. We'll say the Jetna River. 24 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:56.879 Okay, Now where this particular incident occurred. It was approximately three years 25 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:00.000 ago. It was at the end of caribou hunting. They were back up 26 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.079 in there doing trout fishing. They had a canoe, but most of the 27 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.719 time it was at a narrow part of the river. They would drag it. 28 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:13.879 Right now, it wasn't the main Yetna let me specify. It was 29 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:20.000 a glorified river creek that fed into the Jetna. It was fairly shallow, 30 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.240 fairly narrow, and the trout were in some deep pockets and that's where they 31 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:28.560 were going for them. They ended up parking their boat, their canoe. 32 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.759 They get out and they walk along the grassy edge on either side of this 33 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:37.000 creek. Now when they get to the point to start fishing. Initially, 34 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.759 there's two of them as the day goes on, because they were there for 35 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:45.599 three days before this incident occurred. So they were basically repeating the same thing 36 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.639 they had been doing for a couple of days, going to this little honey 37 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.919 hole for pan frying trout and loving it. Right. They're having a great 38 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.080 time. They had a successful hunt, and that's living the dream. You 39 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.639 got your caribou meat for the winter to go man Land is some trout, 40 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.960 cook them over and open ah. It doesn't get much better. So they're 41 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.919 doing their thing. They got a little rhythm down with their movements and stuff. 42 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.439 Their third buddy shows up. He was in hip waiters and he had 43 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.840 just sloshed on through the water and took his time hiking around on some of 44 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.000 the game shows to get back to where they were. They were very comfortable 45 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:22.840 where they were at. There had been nothing out of the ordinary, not 46 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.599 during the caribou hunt, none of it. They were just having a great, 47 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:29.599 old lasting experience. They're all local. That's to leave that out, 48 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.680 because where they happened to live is a very small place. Respect that. 49 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.840 Now, as they were talking across this little creek. It's not very wide. 50 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.280 There was this one particular honey hole where there was some old either alders 51 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.960 or willows that had been broken and it kind of hung down by this little 52 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.120 creek. Now right off the side of this little glorified river creek. It 53 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.240 was about ten twelve feet to where the alders and the willows got thick. 54 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:58.919 So you had tall grass on either side at some scrub brush and some berry 55 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.560 bushes and stuff. At this particular spot there was these willows or alders they 56 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:09.520 popular or something. They didn't go and inspect. It was about thirty feet 57 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.000 from them where these branches and stuff were going off into the water and just 58 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.160 towards them from that little blockage or hanging over the water, it created a 59 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:23.319 shadow in the water and the trout would pock it up in there in the 60 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.000 relative safety. They're doing the fly fishing thing. Instead of just walking up 61 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.319 the creek and scooping them out with a gnat. They were fishing. So 62 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.920 they're doing their thing. He's working this fly rod and as he's working at 63 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.759 his buddy on the opposite side is trying to time here, you know, 64 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.079 his while his fly lands and then he's pulling it back. The other guy's 65 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.800 trying to land his fly, pull it back. They're just dicking around. 66 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.199 They're just being guys, just doing stupid shit. They're having phone sitting. 67 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.839 They're laughing because eventually they started laughing at each other because it was going really 68 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.319 well. And then all of a sudden they got tired up and the you 69 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.439 know, they reeled in so they're closer together and they can unlash the lion. 70 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.279 Now they're on opposites eyes of this not very wide creek. It was 71 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.000 about three times as wide as a canoe, so you're looking at six hundred 72 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.120 feet wide, not very wide at all. They're reaching out, flinging their 73 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.759 lions. Done tag. They got boots on, but they're just they were 74 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.959 young, early twins. Third guy who had on chest waiters goes around. 75 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.399 We'll call him guy number one. Okay, let's call him Chris. The 76 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:26.279 guy across the creek, we'll call him Doug. And we'll call the guy 77 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.800 in the hip or chess waters, we'll call him Fred. Okay, just 78 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.959 keep it simple. Chris jugging. Fred Craig goes around him and is going 79 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.879 up to check out that blockage and him he's laughing. He goes, I'm 80 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.480 gonna see if I could massage one's belly and fling it out of the creek. 81 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:43.120 He was gonna check his skills out see if he could do it. 82 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.639 And so he goes over it. He starts moving the brush that was stuck 83 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.680 in there, and he was like, is there beavers around here? And 84 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:53.560 he holds up one of the branches and his freight and broke it. It 85 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.759 wasn't chewed off like a beaver. Anyone ever see a beaver chew if you 86 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.600 haven't googled it, it's very distinct. He can't mistake it anything else. 87 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.199 There was no beaver shoe mark. So they're like what He's like, Look, 88 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:08.399 that's weird. It's so someone must have did this on purpose to make 89 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.839 a little shadow area for the fish. Right he goes, okay, I 90 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.240 get it. So he stopped destroying it. He respects the fact that, 91 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.160 oh, someone intentionally did this, and that's why we're able to fish for 92 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:21.759 these trout right here, because it's given them a sense of safety in the 93 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:27.920 shade and the shadow from hawks and whatever. So he's okay, he fixes 94 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.519 it and he backs out. He gets out of the creek and he goes 95 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:35.399 okay, he recognizes he was about to destroy something that worked for somebody that 96 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:40.279 could be potentially feeding him or whatever. So he backs up on the bank 97 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:44.560 and they got their lines untied and stuff, and as they're discussing what they're 98 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.439 going to do, they hear something hit the water and they're like, ohl 99 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.120 Offs is nearby. Because where they were staying, you have to follow this 100 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:55.839 river back down to where it meets the Yentna, and then you got to 101 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.800 go back up river to where they were camping, where the cabin was. 102 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.040 Where they were at right, so they're a little ways away from the cabin, 103 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.439 and so as they're sitting there discussing who could possibly be throwing rocks in 104 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.279 the creek and that type of thing, who would want to do that? 105 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:14.199 One of them was armed. Only one of them had a twenty two pistol. 106 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.360 Versus bruce grouse or a small game. Bears weren't on their radar. 107 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.680 It just didn't feel like a threatening environment. Nothing had happened, so they 108 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.519 felt, we don't need a gun. Nothing big. We got a twenty 109 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.879 two. We'll make noise, it'll run whatever it is. Periodically, rocks 110 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.240 drop and it's starting to get to the point where they're looking because they're figuring 111 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:36.000 they would see the rocks goinging in like this, but these things were coming 112 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.800 almost straight down, so I whoever was throwing them real high so they'd come 113 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.720 straight down into the water. So they catch on to this and they start 114 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.160 looking in what they thought, would you know, be the direction they were 115 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:53.199 coming, trying to figure out. Well, as they're doing this, Fred 116 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.879 and the chest Waiters, he gets hit with one of these rocks and he 117 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:01.600 gets hit in the back of his chest. Waiters heard it hit didn't really 118 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.680 feel it too much because they were really baggy. They blown out on and 119 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.639 with the straps, so he didn't really feel the impact. But he heard 120 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.879 the bulko against the knapried and he was like, hey something, one of 121 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.079 those whoever it has just hit me in the back with it. So they 122 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.279 all turn around to look the direction that he got hit in the back. 123 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:22.439 Front. Now, as they're doing this, behind them, they hear that 124 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:28.959 canoe rip out of the water, just if you can imagine that, just 125 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.159 a canoe leaving the water really fast, and they all whip around to see 126 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:39.559 what the hell is this. All they catch is a dark big year halfway 127 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.799 into the tree lined, and the canoe just boom, impacting into the brush. 128 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.360 Now, this all happened very fast, a woosh sound. They whip 129 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.720 around things already halfway in the trees, canoes landing right just like that. 130 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:58.240 And they're immediately like, what the hell is this? Because all the shit 131 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.279 that was in that canoe, no raining down and decorate in the opposite side 132 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.039 of the creek where their canoe is now got a new home resting in the 133 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.639 alders. They didn't know what the hell to do. They were stuck, 134 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:16.159 and they were trying to make out what did we see cut into those trees? 135 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.679 The what was that bigfoot? Harry Man? None of that was even 136 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.440 on their radar. They never entertained the thought ever. And I asked him 137 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.759 when I was talking to him about his experience, I said, what was 138 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.519 your knowledge of the Harry matter big foot before this? He was like, 139 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:35.879 you'd hear stuff. But he is like, I never looked at that crid 140 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.879 That was garbage. There's no way I was going to rop my mind with 141 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.919 that. He called it hillbilly bullshit, and I was like, oh, 142 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.399 okay, continue on. No prayer experience with these kind of things. They're 143 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.200 stuck they're looking at each other, but none of them have the words. 144 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.039 None of them have the words to get out and express how they're feeling. 145 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:00.759 It wasn't like PTSD traumatizing, but they were in a certain lene of shock. 146 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.039 I can imagine You're in the middle of nowhere, don't believe in this 147 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.759 thing. All of a sudden, coooo, your canoe goes flying and you 148 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.919 see a dark bie here going to the trees. Canoes are not light. 149 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.919 This was a sixteen foot marine grade canoe of cole mean, those things weigh 150 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.279 g's almost two hundred pounds just in of themselves, plus it was loaded with 151 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.600 cooler gear, all this stuff. This was their little base camp when they 152 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.679 got away from the main camp, because they would spike camp along the river 153 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.039 and stuff, so they had some stuff in there. It wasn't just some 154 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.440 empty, lightweight thing. This thing was long, a good thirty feet, 155 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.639 So they finally start figuring out stuff. So these guys are obviously creaked. 156 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:46.120 Their canoe went for freaking ride. They're stuck on stupid on the opposite side 157 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.240 of this creek because once this stuff went down, the rocks were being thrown 158 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.200 dug on the opposite side of the creek from Chris and Fred got on the 159 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:58.279 other side of the creek during the rock throwing before you got hit in the 160 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.399 back in the went for a ride. So then being on the same side, 161 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.960 they all look at each other. Doug is the one that had the 162 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.600 little twenty two pistol for the shrub grouse or whatever the spruce chickens, and 163 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.919 they immediately recognized, we need to freaking go. They were not going to 164 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:18.159 go and retrieve that canoe because it was in the direction of that big whatever 165 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.360 and the hell that just was and they weren't having none of that. So 166 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.799 they start backing out. They're just real paranoid, understandably that all their funny 167 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:30.519 games just went out the freaking door on a canoe ride into the shrubs. 168 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:35.039 Right. They immediately recognized the threat. The way Chris had explained it to 169 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.840 me was it was a very unspoken threat. I asked him, this seemed 170 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.679 like it was in the air, and he said that was the closest kind 171 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.919 of analogy he could come up with. Two they start backing out of there. 172 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.679 They're going back down this little river creek whatever to get to the na 173 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.480 and then hike back up to the cabin. And they were motivated. They 174 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.759 were trying not to pettic because they didn't want to spark any kind of predator 175 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:03.279 flight chase kind of thing. So they get down to the Vietna and just 176 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.519 as they meet where this glorified river connects with the Vietna, they're cut up 177 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.080 because the trail kind of cuts off the point and then drops down onto the 178 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.960 bank of the river, and it cuts up onto the bank and then back 179 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.679 down as you're going back up the river, just because brush will hang out 180 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.799 too far, and then you go around it and it just over time becomes 181 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:26.360 a game trail or whatever. So they're doing this number and just as they 182 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.519 get around on the Jetna and they're starting down the bank a little bit, 183 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.639 trying to discuss a little more because they're snapping out of their shock of what 184 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.720 the hell through a canoe like that, And they're talking about it couldn't have 185 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.200 been a bear? Could a bear do that? They were debating the bear 186 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:43.000 thing, right, It's understandable they had no other reference, right, So 187 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.759 as they're starting to get up on the bank to go around this bundle of 188 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.120 shrubs to get onto the other side of the bank and continue going towards the 189 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.480 cabin, they heard a series of grunts and screams. He said he couldn't 190 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.279 even put it into words, but a woman being murdered is a close sound 191 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.960 and like a lion roar type deal, but same time. And so they're 192 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:11.440 immediately even more motivated now because after the scream sounds, they hear something paralleling 193 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.600 of just behind them in the tree line. But it's catching up fast, 194 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.799 right, big impacts on the ground, thump, and they're like, oh, 195 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:20.879 so Doug with the twenty two shoots two times in the air just to 196 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.639 make noise, bang bang. Once he did that, the movement came even 197 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.879 faster and it passed them out of just out of you. They're seeing trees 198 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.759 and stuff shake. So they're they're on the river bank. I get. 199 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.879 I can imagine that just crashed through there, And they said it sounded like 200 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.799 a bulldozer going eighty miles an hour through the trees, because it sounded like 201 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.360 it was the biggest thing around and it was making a large show of whatever 202 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.200 the hell it was doing. And as it got a little bit of ways 203 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:58.320 away, they heard the crashing circling back a little further distance away, So 204 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.480 they snap out of it, and they say, okay, we need to 205 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.120 get moving. Since this moving back this way, let's go that way and 206 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.559 get to the cabin. So they're doing their thing. They're doing this little 207 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.320 jump up the bank, follow the trail, get down on the river bank 208 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.440 again there, because that's how it is. You got shrubs hanging over, 209 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.600 you're not going to take a swim. And so they're doing what they have 210 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.000 to do to get the hell out of dodge. Doug's in the rear with 211 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.879 this twenty two, and he had no confidence in it. After hearing that 212 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.720 whatever it was crashing and banging through the woods, he knew that he'd be 213 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.559 better off shooting Chris or Fred and the knee to get away. So they 214 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.039 get to a point to where the trail cuts up onto the bank and then 215 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:43.000 it goes up this rise past some tundra and some muskeg and some black spruce, 216 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.360 and then comes back the trail cuts back down to the river, and 217 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.279 there's four large rocks or something like that, kind of offset of each other. 218 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.559 How to get back across the yetna at that point to get to their 219 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.840 cabin about another a mile or so up the river, right, So they 220 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.960 go up the rise. They get to the point to where the tundra and 221 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.399 the black spruce meet the muskeg or whatever. They get to that point and 222 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:07.759 they decide they're going to look back because the whole time there was noise going 223 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.159 on, but it stayed in that general area when it circled back and they 224 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.240 made their move. So they're trying to they're at a higher raised area and 225 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.759 they're trying to get a vantage point to make out what is doing this because 226 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.279 they felt they were at a safe distance. So as they're standing up there, 227 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.960 they get the idea. Because once they got and actually trying to start 228 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.759 looking in that direction, all that show or whatever was going on stop dead 229 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.440 silence. Doug It again said I'll shoot one more time in the air. 230 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.200 He had reloaded at this time, he'd took an out the two dead ones, 231 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.440 put in two fresh ones. It's just a little six shots, single 232 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:48.399 six little ruger, single action. Any hunter out there knows exactly what I'm 233 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.200 talking about. So he goes, I'm going to put one in the air 234 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:52.559 and see if we can get a reaction out of it and get a look 235 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.559 at this thing, because this was a good At this point, they're looking 236 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.759 down into the trees, and it's a good one hundred and fifty yards away, 237 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.600 and they felt very confident that they could just get out of there and 238 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.360 have enough room to move anyway and make them move or defend themselves whatever. 239 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.080 Okay, yeah, do it. We'll keep an eye out. So they're 240 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.279 looking. Bang, they're shoot in the air right the direction they have to 241 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:19.320 go, because they came up a trail with the tree line on the left. 242 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.559 They come up the rise, the tree line still on the left, 243 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.200 it curves around and goes back down to the jenna. Now the ruckus is 244 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:32.960 coming down where the trail meets the river where they got to go in the 245 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.320 trees just basically behind them when they shot. So they're looking over here. 246 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:44.159 Bang, where's it at? Oh, it's down here behind us doing the 247 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.840 same shit now. So they don't know what the hell to do. I 248 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.080 wouldn't either. So they went off road, and so to speak, they 249 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:55.960 started b learning across the tundra to the next little black spruce across the way, 250 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.919 and what their plan was to get the frick out of there. Gets 251 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.559 some clear tundra between them so they can see where it's moving, because they 252 00:17:03.599 --> 00:17:07.880 didn't see it moving. The trees to get back behind him. Basically, 253 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.920 now I wasn't directly behind him, was kind of offset back to their right, 254 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.799 but it's still behind them and they didn't hear it. They get across 255 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.359 the way there, and from what he was telling me, when they got 256 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:21.880 across there, he was having a panic attack. He had dealt with childhood 257 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.279 asthma and this like a very bad asthma attack. So he had to meditate 258 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.759 because he hadn't used Halo in years. So he's trying to calm himself down. 259 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.559 He's on his knees breading the chest waiters. He now has the twenty 260 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.519 two pistol. Doug is relieving himself in the trees. So they have no 261 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:42.759 game plan. They just let their game plan follow the trail get back to 262 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:47.319 the cabin across the vienna. They weren't having a good time at this point. 263 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:49.799 Doug finishes his business, comes back out. He wants the pistol back, 264 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.079 and Fred said no, he goes, I got it. Don't worry 265 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.799 that way. You don't have to be the one in the rear. I'm 266 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.480 a little bigger than you. You could lead the group. We'll keep Crispy 267 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.559 twin us and Will Will make our go. So they come up with the 268 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.319 game plan, we'll follow this tree line down because they're like a V shaped 269 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:14.160 wedge to their left. Down in that tree line over there, about sixty 270 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.000 yards or so, was where the ruck has happened behind them when they shot 271 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.279 at the top of the rites. Now they're going down to their right, 272 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.759 so it's a wedge shape, so noise over here. They're over here. 273 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:27.799 They want to get down here and look for another way to cross further up 274 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.039 the river. They want to continue to the cabin, So they work their 275 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.400 way down, just edging the tree line. As they're going along the high 276 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:38.160 bush. Cranberries happen to be in season, and they had this weird odor 277 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.079 too. If you've ever been out in the bush Alaska, you know what 278 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.960 I'm talking about. Not a musty, but it doesn't smell appealing, we'll 279 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.799 put it that way. And so they're catching this whift of bit right, 280 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.759 and they're about half the distance they have to cover to make it down to 281 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:59.160 the end because they're not moving fast. They're moving stopping and listening. Now 282 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.119 Fred having the gun, he's a little bolder. Don't know why. It's 283 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.359 only twenty two, but because he had the gun. It was an mental 284 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.880 thing far so he's a little bit further away from that tree line as they're 285 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.319 paralleling each other going down. He's about ten feet away, and he's stepping 286 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.640 in the thunder and the marsh and stuff. They're making their way down. 287 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.039 What Chris and Doug didn't know was Fred wanted to try to shoot it. 288 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:26.480 That's what he learned later. So he's sinking he's gonna get him a wild 289 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:29.799 man dragging in make money or something. He found this out once they made 290 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.400 to the cabin. Anyway, So they're doing their thing, and this guy's 291 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.279 bold with the twenty two for no reason, and he doesn't realize the danger 292 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.599 he's putting everyone in with this garbage. So they make their way down. 293 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.160 They get down to the Vietna. Now they were looking and paranoid and saw 294 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.279 nothing move right. However, at that particular side of the Yetna River, 295 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.720 it was about a three foot river bank that you can see down to the 296 00:19:55.799 --> 00:20:00.599 edge. But you can't see that three foot if it'd shielded. Stay tuned 297 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.039 for more sasquatch out to sea. We'll be right back after these messages. 298 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.720 Unbeknounst to them, this thing had dropped down to the river and crawled and 299 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.640 was now in the trees over parallel. You know, just as they were 300 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.599 getting down to the Utna River. This thing didn't give a shit about the 301 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:27.319 gunshot, actively intimidating them and following them. Okay, not a good combination. 302 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:33.920 Doesn't stir happiness, enjoyed friendship to me. So the realization of what 303 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:38.079 the hell's going on came when now remember threads to the outside of them, 304 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.880 you got Chris and then Doug, so they make like a triangle shape if 305 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.400 you were to look down, if you're looking down at it, we got 306 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.119 the tree line, Doug, Chris, Fred. Once they hear the noise 307 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.119 and the grunt, they all turned to their right into the tree line. 308 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.319 And now on this tree line it's more broken and open, so you have 309 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.279 a stunned growth black spruce, and then you some willows next to it, 310 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:06.799 a little more sporadic growth versus the denser on the opposite side, where they 311 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:11.160 just let their trail when they recognize that danger because they were just getting down 312 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.519 to the river. This tree line the way as it comes down the river. 313 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.240 Understand, there's a distance of about fifteen twenty feet between the river bay 314 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.359 and where the tree line starts again. But you have all these little scrub 315 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:27.960 alders and willows that line both sides of everything around, and so they're oriented 316 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.880 where off their right shoulder, like at the apex of where they got to 317 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.359 turn and start back up and find another way across. But now this thing 318 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.680 is pretty much in front of them, and it starts doing the pacing thing 319 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.400 again. They turn around and take the river bank back to cross those four 320 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.480 rocks to get across the river. So they're able to do that. He 321 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.279 said, everything was a blur because I asked them, Okay, you're telling 322 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.000 me that it was off following you, paralleling you, but yet you were 323 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.440 at the apex of the turn, and then it started moving. He goes, 324 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.599 I realized when we were coming down it actually paralleled us because if we 325 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.240 kept hearing stuff, and then it came to a head when they got down 326 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.640 to that trimming point. So I was like, okay, that makes more 327 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:12.680 sense. Now they backtracked and they get across the rock. Now they still 328 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:17.880 hear the movement right over there. Now when they get across these rocks and 329 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:19.359 they get up on the other side, they're feeling a sense of relief. 330 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.680 Now they got a natural barrier a little wider than that little creek, and 331 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:26.480 they know they're on the right side of the river to get to the cabin, 332 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.799 and that was their motivation. So now Fred with the pistol, he's 333 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:36.680 standing on a river bank and he had a false sense of security with this 334 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:42.400 river dividing him. So this yahoo puts around into the trees. He shot 335 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:47.039 high, but from what Chris said, he had a look of, yeah, 336 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:48.599 I'm gonna draw it out kind of thing. He shoots high into the 337 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:55.640 trees. That wasn't smart. Scream, loud scream, and in view from 338 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:57.680 where they came across the tundra a little further up the rizon and then came 339 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.559 down this way and then came back and then across the creek, they had 340 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:04.880 an open view of that little wedge shape. They first shot over to their 341 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.640 right and it was down here behind them. They ran across the tunder this 342 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:12.000 way and came down the left side, so they had a view of this 343 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:18.480 like wedd shaped alleyway going up the rise. This thing scream broke some trees 344 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.359 and stuff on its way out of that tree line and ran across in front 345 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.319 of them, going towards where the whole shebang started further down river. This 346 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:33.640 thing was actually leaving the area. Smart Fred starts trying to pop shots at 347 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.079 it as it's running because he just sees it freaks up, it starts feathering 348 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.799 it, right, dumb thing to do. This thing immediately hits the tree 349 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.319 line that it was right too, because it was moving fast. Hits the 350 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.400 tree line, you hear a bunch of breaking and stuff, and they could 351 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.480 see the tops of the black spruce and some of the birch just just whipping 352 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:55.200 down hard. So this thing was smashing the shit down to the ground and 353 00:23:55.319 --> 00:24:00.160 they immediately turned to start running. Now as they're running, they're yelling that 354 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.640 you dumb ass. They're cursing Fred out because Fred just start winging shots at 355 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:07.200 this scene. It wasn't necessary. They were in survival mode. List get 356 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.119 out of here. After winging the shots, they're running and they start hearing 357 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:18.519 splashing in the river. Now Bred just emptied the six rounds. Doug is 358 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.079 in the lead, a good distance ahead of Fred because he was an idiot 359 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.079 and stood behind. He has a twenty two animal, so he's got an 360 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:29.200 empty gun. He's got a paperweight right, and he's the last one in 361 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:32.279 line, and he was the one winging shots at this. Now they're hall 362 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:36.200 ass and this particular part of the trail was pretty well worn, and they 363 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:37.960 knew it well. They've been going back. They've been going on it forever, 364 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:42.079 so they knew their way, and they were hauling ask and they hear 365 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:47.759 it paralleling them in the river. Now where the cabin is on a bit 366 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.519 of a rise. It's a single room cabin. He said. It's approximately 367 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.920 twelve by twenty on the dimensions of this cabin, seven foot walls, cathedral 368 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.839 like ceiling, just a shell basically was so two by four in plywood box 369 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.920 with little rollout mats on it. Just a glorified shack for sleeping to go 370 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.200 hunting. Nothing more. You don't need more. They're all gassing to get 371 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.920 here. Meanwhile, they're getting paralleled bred is one in the rear and this 372 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:17.759 thing is the splashing is passing down the water at this particular part of the 373 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:19.599 river, he said, was at least three to four feet deep, and 374 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:26.279 this thing was splashing through it like it was a puddle. They're shook. 375 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.559 They are shook, and they're motivated with their running. They all make it 376 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.519 back to that cabin. So as they get in the door and shut the 377 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.839 door. Bred in the rear has a severe leg cramp. It's so cramped 378 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.799 that Doug and Chris have to grab him by the ankle and help his leg 379 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.160 because it was trying to bend up and lock up on him. That kind 380 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.400 of cramp that would just suck. So that they're tending to Fred, they 381 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.599 hear splashing out in the river, and then a moment later they hear something 382 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.839 wap hit the door of this cabin. And when this thing hit the door, 383 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:02.519 dawned on them. This isn't a very very safe place right Immediately they 384 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:04.359 let go of Bred's lag. He's on his own with his cramp. Let's 385 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:07.839 asshole his wingshots at this and that's why we're here. They look out the 386 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:14.400 window to see what the hell just hit the cabin, and what it ended 387 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.880 up being was this huge clump of grass that was eroded overhang, and it 388 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.359 was basically have you ever worked with sod? It was similar to sod, 389 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.319 but a big chunk with more dirt and rocks stuck to the bottom and then 390 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.279 the grass out the top. So this huge thing had hit the door very 391 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.880 hard. It must have weighed sixty pounds this big chunk of earth that was 392 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.920 chucked out the cabin, So now they're looking for it. Now inside the 393 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:44.839 cabin, they have a shotgun and they have a couple other big boar rifles. 394 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.160 Immediately they're getting the big boy guns out. No More twenty two is 395 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.759 for Fred, and so he gets this cramp porked out and they're all looking 396 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:55.759 out the windows. Now it's not dark yet, but they know darkness is 397 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:57.839 coming. I'm not trying to draw this out. I'm trying to be thorough 398 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.480 and get all these little nuances in time goes by, and they're getting very 399 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:10.599 uneasy because it's dead quiet, dead quiet, and they don't want to stay. 400 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:12.960 Now they have a little bit of a ways to go before the trail 401 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:17.759 that will lead a few miles to where they had parked their rid to get 402 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:19.440 out of there. If you got something that big chasing you, you don't 403 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.559 want to be on that kind of journey. You don't even want to be 404 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.920 on a ten foot journey, let alone a couple miles through the Alaskan wilderness 405 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.480 with this thing pissed off. So they're looking at their options. We got 406 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.559 food, we got sheltered, we got ammo. Here were good. We'll 407 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:40.160 hold out. If it keeps us in here, someone will eventually come, 408 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.799 but we can defend this place. There was three windows into place, one 409 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:47.440 on each of the walls, and then there was a narrow window next to 410 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:51.359 the doorway, and it was a solid steel door, and they had some 411 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.720 kind of beardatory nail boards and stuff that they would put over the windows and 412 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.720 on the door to keep bears from breaking in and get tearing up their shit. 413 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.799 They had all all that bareboard stuff stacked in a neat way right outside 414 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:10.079 the door against part of the windbreak of the porch, and right where it 415 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:14.119 particularly had to be was the stairway down to the ground, and so when 416 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.519 you went out you had to step around all these bare boards. They decided, 417 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.680 we got these guns, screw the sing let's kill it. That's what 418 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:25.160 they think. We're gonna kill it and get the hell out of here, 419 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:27.160 and then we'll get help and then come back. Because it was big when 420 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.839 they saw it moving, He said he didn't want to guess the size, 421 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:36.680 but he said it was massive, massively tall. He guestimated because he only 422 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:40.720 saw it in the water really well, when it was standing in the river 423 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.880 and the water was just above its knees, and he thinks that particular spot 424 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.440 was at least four to five feet deep where it was standing, and it 425 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.440 was barely up just past its knees of this creature at this particular point. 426 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.440 It went from it through the clupp of grass. They freak all that, 427 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.000 they check it out. They're all armed up. Moments later during their discussion, 428 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.559 it was Doug looking out the narrow window out the front door that looks 429 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.200 down to the river when they saw it standing in the water, and that's 430 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.680 when they all went over and played and took a look out the window. 431 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.559 They saws up what they're dealing with. They said, we're gonna kill it. 432 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:15.680 They go out and I'll bring up the bare boards because it comes into 433 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.759 play in just a moment. They go out and there's a good gap in 434 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.559 between these bare boards and the stairway because it's thirty six inch wide stairway. 435 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:29.119 They easily get by it. And as they're sitting there going down discussing, 436 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.039 well which direction it go because it was no longer standing in the river. 437 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.640 It was nowhere in sight. It was just gone. So they're standing out 438 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.799 there a moment. Now at this point, it is starting to get to 439 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.960 dusk and in the trees it's just really dark shadows. But there's still plenty 440 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.480 of daylight up in the sky and you know, in the grass and stuff, 441 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.759 but anything in the tree line is damn near pitch black. So they 442 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.359 figure out, okay, it must have ran over the trees. Doug with 443 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:57.359 the shotguns, wing some rounds over to those trees. Let' see if we 444 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:02.240 can get it to move and be sure we don't shoot accidentally shoot each other. 445 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:04.799 So they're standing shoulder to the shoulders so they don't swing into each other's 446 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:08.680 fire. Great plan, right, He lets a couple shots off across the 447 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:14.279 river. Boom, boom, not a sound, not a sound, not 448 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.039 a sent They hear nothing. So they decide maybe what we'll use one of 449 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.400 the big boar rifles and wing a shot a little further down the trees that 450 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.400 way. Let's see if we can coax it out. It came before we've 451 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.400 gun shots. Let' see if we'll do it again. Boom, shoots a 452 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:34.920 round off. They hear something behind them, something coming from behind the cabin. 453 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.839 So they turn around immediately and they're looking because the cabin's elevated, it's 454 00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:44.039 about a foot half in the front elevated and it drops off a little bit, 455 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:45.640 so it's up to about two and a half three foot on the pilots 456 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.759 of the back. So they could bed down and look underneath the whole place. 457 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.640 And they do that and they see nothing. They see nothing that would 458 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.799 have made the noise that smacked or hit the cabin. So they figure, 459 00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:02.519 oh, it's throwing stuff like it at the creek. It threw something and 460 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:04.319 it landed on the cabin, and that's what got our attention. Okay, 461 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.599 okay, this thing's soret So they, you know, they think they got 462 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.079 to figure it out. It turned around. They're looking for the direction this 463 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.400 thing whatever was thrown, and they hear that noise again. It they ignore 464 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.480 it because they think they're being tricked. They think they're being tricked, that 465 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:23.559 something's making that noise intentionally to distract their attention that way while it does something 466 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.720 in front of them. So they want to be ready. They're not falling 467 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.599 for it. They're not dumb, so you know, they're doing their thing. 468 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:34.359 They hear a screen across the river, just like they thought, right, 469 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:38.000 oh yeah, yeah, okay, it's right over there. Well, 470 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:42.839 try to pinpoint it. Put another big caliber rock around straight that direction, 471 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.759 you're not gonna hit. It's going to hit a tree, but should it 472 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:51.960 that direction? Let them know we mean business. Right wings the shot they 473 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.920 hear another noise behind them at the cab. They're ignoring that noise at the 474 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:00.319 cabin, ignoring it. We're not followed for that crap. We know it's 475 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:05.440 over here. Doug, who operated the shotgun, had read a couple more 476 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.960 rounds. Put back in that bad boy. He decides, I'm done with 477 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:14.200 this the shotguns short range. I'll go in sideway. He turns around to 478 00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:19.400 go just short distance to the stairs. Up the walkway. The bare boards 479 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:25.799 were all turned nails facing out, leaned up and stepped up in front of 480 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:31.519 the door. This saying distracted them because they were smart, went and turned 481 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:37.039 the bare boards around, nail sticking out to stop them from getting back into 482 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:42.359 that freaking cabin. So when they saw that, the realization was we're being 483 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.960 fricking played. Guess what. They didn't go back in the cab. They 484 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.519 took their happy asses with the AMMO they had and the guns they had going 485 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:54.119 in the dark, and three soldiers hiped out of there. They said they 486 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:59.000 thought they sounded like they're being paralleled. A couple different times they would fire 487 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:02.720 affle Vali as shot. Now they're doing this. It's going in the darkness. 488 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.119 They got no gear other than their guns and a bunch of animal they 489 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.640 do in their pockets to accost this thing. And they're getting the hell out 490 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:15.599 of dodge. It's accumulated about three and a half miles to go from where 491 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:19.920 this particular cabin was, through the muskeg in the trails the black spruce, 492 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.000 on into higher ground, then lower ground, then higher ground up into where 493 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:28.079 they parked the truck troopers. They did it, they stomped out. The 494 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.319 main reason I'm going to share that with you is one, it's holy crap. 495 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:37.400 The cunning turning the bear boards around, dude, that's genius. Keep 496 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:40.559 them from being able to run back in easily. Wow, just wow, 497 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:45.759 What are you doing in the situation like that? What can we make of 498 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:52.480 that? That's just on some other level. That's like imitating the baby crying 499 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.119 l'aring my cousin Elizabeth. Though they're going to prey on a woman's instinct and 500 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.400 nature to lure them out. Dude, there's more going on with these things. 501 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.960 We know they're smart, we know they're very smart. But I think 502 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.440 they're smarter and just as cunning as we are. They just go about it 503 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:13.599 in a different way because we live in a different world. Not have they 504 00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:16.599 come out of a portal, no, the woods being the different world they're 505 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.039 they're twenty four to seven. I'm sure they've been around, who knows how 506 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:23.719 long they live, what they've seen? This thing new enough. I'm assuming 507 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.639 it was one distracted by one another one did something. I don't know. 508 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.519 They didn't see it, but they heard the noises and they ignored it. 509 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:37.360 I tell you what, Chris, Doug and Fred they will never ignore ay 510 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.880 noise behind them again. And I'm not trying to make light of it. 511 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.400 I'm just like, can you imagine your escape is right there, you feel 512 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.639 your safeties right there, and lo and behold, it's turned on you. 513 00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:53.119 You got this this man made porcupine and facing you to get in the door. 514 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:59.559 Oh jeez, man, Well they still go there. This was just 515 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.199 two three years ago, I think he said, not very long ago. 516 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.239 Be safe when you go, bro and keep the bear boards somewhere else to 517 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.880 where you don't get porcupined out of your own dam of cabin. When you 518 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.920 got one of these things ticked off at you because your buddy wants to wing 519 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.079 shots at it. I'm not making a light of it. What do you 520 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:21.079 do with that? I'm sure these guys will never look at bear boards the 521 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.760 same again. Anyway, Thanks for listening. To be safe out there, 522 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:30.079 guys. We'll talk to you later. They say you don't gotta go home, 523 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:39.920 but you can't stay. I don't want to be. We're all out. 524 00:35:40.039 --> 00:36:08.480 Be ste joy this job, that chime. Everything came right by prying 525 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:16.480 back. Joy for me, Joy staying right. You come in right away, 526 00:36:24.519 --> 00:37:17.239 still step step step steps, do knocking, do do do doss still 527 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:29.840 state pass stasst us THESS